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Max Pain in Options: The Strike Where Buyers Lose Most, and Why Price Drifts There

  • Max Pain in Options: The Strike Where Buyers Lose Most, and Why Price Drifts There

    20 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    Max pain is the settlement price that minimises the total intrinsic value of all open options for one expiry. At that price the writers of those contracts owe the least. Buyers as a group collect the least too, which is where the name comes from. The theory attached to it says price tends to drift […]

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Iceberg Orders: How Institutions Hide Large Orders, and How to Spot Them

  • Iceberg Orders: How Institutions Hide Large Orders, and How to Spot Them

    20 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    An iceberg order is a large limit order that displays only a small slice of its true size. The rest stays hidden, and refreshes automatically as each visible slice fills. The name is literal: the market sees the tip, and the mass sits below the surface. Exchanges also call it a reserve order, and the […]

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Maintenance Margin: The Minimum Equity to Keep a Trade Open, and How to Avoid a Margin Call

  • Maintenance Margin: The Minimum Equity to Keep a Trade Open, and How to Avoid a Margin Call

    18 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    Maintenance margin is the minimum equity your account must hold to keep a leveraged position open. If losses pull equity below that floor, the broker issues a margin call, and continued decline brings forced liquidation. The requirement protects both sides of the account: it stops your losses growing beyond the deposit, and it spares the […]

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The Schaff Trend Cycle (STC): A Faster MACD, Its Settings, Signals, and Limits

  • The Schaff Trend Cycle (STC): A Faster MACD, Its Settings, Signals, and Limits

    18 September 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The Schaff Trend Cycle (STC) is a momentum oscillator developed by currency trader Doug Schaff that combines the MACD with a stochastic calculation. It oscillates between 0 and 100 and is designed to identify trend direction and turning points faster than the MACD alone. In practice it behaves like a quicker, cycle-aware upgrade of a […]

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The Best Forex Pairs to Trade During the Asian Session: A Complete Guide

  • The Best Forex Pairs to Trade During the Asian Session: A Complete Guide

    30 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The best forex pairs to trade during the Asian session are the ones whose home markets are actually open: USD/JPY, AUD/USD and NZD/USD first, then the yen crosses AUD/JPY, EUR/JPY and GBP/JPY, with USD/CNH for traders who want direct exposure to Chinese flow. Everything else tends to drift sideways on thin volume until Europe arrives. […]

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The Best RSI Settings for 1-Minute Chart Scalping: A Complete Strategy Guide

  • The Best RSI Settings for 1-Minute Chart Scalping: A Complete Strategy Guide

    30 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The most widely used RSI settings for 1-minute scalping are a period of 5 to 9 with the levels moved out to 80 and 20, filtered by a 20 period EMA so that only signals in the direction of the prevailing trend are taken. That combination exists because the default configuration, period 14 with 70 […]

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The Ultimate Guide to the TTM Squeeze Indicator: Setup, Rules, and Strategy

  • The Ultimate Guide to the TTM Squeeze Indicator: Setup, Rules, and Strategy

    29 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The TTM Squeeze indicator identifies periods of unusually low volatility that often come before large directional moves. It does this by comparing two familiar tools: when the Bollinger Bands contract entirely inside the Keltner Channels, the market is compressed and the indicator marks a squeeze. When the bands expand back outside the channels, the squeeze […]

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The Nadaraya-Watson Envelope: Kernel Regression, Settings, Repainting, and Honest Use

  • The Nadaraya-Watson Envelope: Kernel Regression, Settings, Repainting, and Honest Use

    29 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The Nadaraya-Watson envelope is a technical indicator that draws a smooth line through price using kernel regression, then places an upper and a lower band around it to form an envelope. Traders use the centreline to read the trend and the bands to spot stretched prices, treating a touch of either edge as a possible […]

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Opening Range Breakout (ORB): Rules, Timeframes, and How to Trade It in Forex

  • Opening Range Breakout (ORB): Rules, Timeframes, and How to Trade It in Forex

    27 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The opening range breakout (ORB) is a day trading strategy that marks the high and low of a session’s first minutes, then trades the break of those levels. A move above the range high is a long signal, and a move below the range low is a short signal. The logic is simple: the opening […]

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The Quarterly Theory: Time Cycles, the AMD-X Phases, True Opens, and How to Trade Them

  • The Quarterly Theory: Time Cycles, the AMD-X Phases, True Opens, and How to Trade Them

    27 August 2026 , Abe Cofnas

    The Quarterly Theory is a time-based trading framework that divides every cycle into four quarters and expects each cycle to run through the same four phases: accumulation, manipulation, distribution, then continuation or reversal. Traders shorten that sequence to AMD-X. The claim is not that price must obey a clock, but that market delivery is organised […]

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