ā” **"PRE-FOMC IS TRASH." "FOMC IS GAMBLING." .... WELL, WE CAUGHT 120 POINTS ANYWAY.** ā”
That is what the rest of this industry told you this morning. Don't trade the release, it's a coin flip, see you tomorrow.
Here is what we did instead.
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š„ **BEFORE THE BELL**
I called a trade soon after the COMEX gold open. Banger. **Full TP, and my day closed green** before most traders had decided whether today was even worth showing up for.
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š§ **NEW YORK AM ā WE BUILT SOMETHING INSTEAD OF WAITING**
There was nothing amazing on offer in the morning session, so we did something better with the time. Instead of avoiding FOMC like everyone else, we sat down and actually studied it ā live, on stream. We back tested basically this whole year of them and built a plan on exactly what we expected price to do and exactly what we would do about it.
That plan was written in front of the room, hours before the release.
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ā” **POST-FOMC STREAM ā THE PLAN GOT DEPLOYED**
We came back after the announcement and ran a second stream, and **FRASER deployed the exact plan on MNQ.** No chasing, no FOMO, no improvising in the chaos. The same plan we formulated hours earlier in AM, executed as written.
**120 points.** Absolute bag.
Best part: **it did exactly what we predicted** ā a plan built live, in front of everybody, hours before the release. It was also the first FOMC FRASER has ever traded in his life.
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š§ **AND HERE IS THE PART NOBODY ELSE WILL POST**
I didn't take it.
I am only trading **MGC** right now. That is my rule. So I watched our own plan play out on a ticker I have taken off my list, and I did not click. No FOMO, no "just this once."
Read that again, because it is the whole business in one afternoon. **One mentor executed a brand-new plan for a banger. The other skipped a winner that wasn't his to take** ā and I can't complain, my day still ends green off the gold trade.
Both of those are the job. Most rooms can only ever show you the first one.
**We nailed it today.** šŖ
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š„ **WE HAVE THE CRAZIEST SET OF MENTORS IN THIS SPACE**
š£ **RACHAEL** ā 100 points on MNQ yesterday. That's snack size for her.
š£ **BLASKEY** ā calling literal bottom ticks and top ticks, daily.
š£ **FRASER** ā first FOMC of his life today, caught 120 points. Gracefully.
š£ **BRANDON** ā well, I'm the Professor. You know what I do. I do the best I can. š
Different mentors, different strengths, one room. Nobody here pretends to trade everything, so on any given day one of us is pressing and another is sitting still ā and you watch both at the same time, side by side, and work out which trader you actually are.
That is what you are buying here. Not a signal that tells you when to click. A group of traders who build plans, follow rules, and let you watch the days they stand down as well as the days they get paid.
Name another room that gives you that. š¤·
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š„ļø **WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FROM THE INSIDE**
**Three mentors, three screens, every New York AM.** All of us live at once. You pick who to follow, or you watch all three.
**We manage our positions on screen.** Entry, the ugly middle, the exit. Nothing posted after the fact.
**Two sessions a day**, New York AM at 9:25 AM EST and Asia at 7:50 PM EST ā plus extra streams like today's whenever the day deserves one.
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This village doesn't sit out days. We study them.
š£ **THE CONFLUENCE CODE**
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