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Keeping It Simple
Keeping It Simple Published on: March 09, 2021 It's quite easy to say "Just keep it simple" about any task but that means picking some things and discarding others - but which ones? Now, I will say that this is a long video. It's group therapy, it's not scripted and...
How to Supplement Retirement Income with Order Flow Trading
How to Supplement Retirement Income with Order Flow Trading Published on: February 05, 2021 At Jigsaw, we get people from all walks of life joining our community of traders. For some reason. there's two groups we attract in far greater number than any others. These...
Which Trading Education is Best For Me?
Which Trading Education is Best For Me? Published on: February 18, 2020 At Jigsaw, we pride ourselves in offering a range of education options along with our software, something to suit every trader. From the free training you get with daytradr Independent to our...
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Improve Your Win-Rate and PnL in 2 Simple Steps
Improve Your Win-Rate and PnL in 2 Simple Steps Published on: April 21, 2025 In this article, we are going to address the same problem of getting hit on your stoploss for trades that never go your way. The Market Should Earn Your Stop - It's Not A Participation...
Trojans & Security
Trojans & Security Published on: April 15, 2025 We recently posted about new security features in version 5.0.0.4 of daytradr. These changes were made in response to security threats mainly from China but also the Middle East. Some of these changes have started to...
Jigsaw daytradr 5004 – Security, Fixes. Trade Copier Discussion.
Jigsaw daytradr 5004 - Security, Fixes. Trade Copier Discussion. Published on: March 13, 2025 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw daytradr 5004. The software can be downloaded here. We have fixes (in release notes) and also - this is the first time we've...
Idiots Guide To Market Relationships
Idiots Guide To Market Relationships Published on: March 11, 2025 It’s likely you’ve been told not to trade when an economic announcement is made - and for 15 minutes afterwards. It’s also likely that you look at an economic calendar to figure out when to NOT trade...
AI and Trading: What It Can and Can’t Do
AI and Trading: What It Can and Can't Do Published on: March 04, 2025 We first had “them”, then we had “HFTs” and now it’s “AI” - the most recent in a long history of developments in technology that threaten to destroy your ability to trade (if you are a pessimist)...
Some People Just Need a Hug (or a History Lesson)
Some People Just Need a Hug (or a History Lesson) Published on: February 11, 2025 I once read that dentists were more prone to suicide. It's since been debunked - but since hearing it - I've been extra nice to my dentist. In fact, when I had check-ups, my daughter...
The Myth of Market Efficiency: Why Events Matter More Than Theories
The Myth of Market Efficiency: Why Events Matter More Than Theories Published on: January 21, 2025 The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is a cornerstone of mainstream financial theory, asserting that prices always reflect all available information instantly and...
Trading Edge 101: Stop Obsessing Over Entries
Trading Edge 101: Stop Obsessing Over Entries Published on: January 14, 2025 When traders think about developing a system with an edge, the conversation almost always revolves around the entry point. It’s natural, really—where you “get in” feels like the moment that...
Riding into the New Year: Breaking Resolutions Before They Break You
Riding into the New Year: Breaking Resolutions Before They Break You Published on: December 24, 2024 It’s that time of year again. For many - the Christmas decorations are up - for all, year’s last trading days are winding down, and the familiar pressure of New...
Trading Clarity: The Rebel’s Guide to Seeing Beyond the Noise
Trading Clarity: The Rebel’s Guide to Seeing Beyond the Noise Published on: December 17, 2024 Clarity in trading—it’s the elusive holy grail for traders of every level. You know - cutting through the "noise". Traditionally, “noise” has always referred to the seemingly...
Reckless or Relentless? How to Trade Smart Without Riding Blind
Reckless or Relentless? How to Trade Smart Without Riding Blind Published on: December 10, 2024 Reckless or relentless? Which describes you as a trader? Chances are you are one of them. But which? No doubt every aspiring trader sees themselves as relentless. Working...
Penultimate daytradr 5 Beta Update
Penultimate daytradr 5 Beta Update Published on: November 25, 2024 We will soon have a final release for daytradr. We do have a small number of fixes remaining but mostly, we are holding out for some cool improvements in strategy management for the final drop. NOTE -...
6 Misconceptions That Blind Traders —And How to Overcome Them
6 Misconceptions That Blind Traders —And How to Overcome Them Published on: November 22, 2024 If you’ve been trading for a while, you’ve probably felt stuck. Spinning your wheels, trying harder, and not getting anywhere is frustrating, right? Maybe you’ve convinced...
Your Trading Roadmap: Cutting Through the Noise
Your Trading Roadmap: Cutting Through the Noise Published on: November 18, 2024 A while ago—years really—I decided we’d put enough information out there on how to trade. Our Group Therapy sessions tailed off as I felt we’d said all we could or should say. On the one...
Is it Time to Tame Your inner monkey?
Is it Time to Tame Your inner monkey? Published on: October 30, 2024 I had an interesting chat with a trader today. He has what it takes to make it, he's just a bit stuck. From where I sit - it seems that if he could just iron out his "off plan" game, he'd be...
daytradr 5 Beta Update
daytradr 5 Beta Update Published on: October 27, 2024 Just a quick note about the daytradr 5 Beta. Normally, during a beta, we release updates every couple of days. As of writing, it's been more than 4 weeks since the last beta.So what gives? In version 5, we moved a...
Workshop recording – Trading Strategies for Major Market Events: Lessons from the Iran Missile Crisis
Workshop recording - Trading Strategies for Major Market Events: Lessons from the Iran Missile Crisis Published on: October 17, 2024 In a recent webinar hosted by Axia Futures, Richard Bailey, head of training, provided a deep dive into how professional traders...
Join Our Team: Junior Support Agent Position Open
Join Our Team: Junior Support Agent Position Open Published on: October 14, 2024 We're excited to announce an opening for a Junior Support Agent to join our dynamic team! If you have a passion for providing top-notch technical support, excellent communication...
FREE Workshop: How AXIA Traders Score Big During Major Events like the recent Iran Missile Threats
FREE Workshop: How AXIA Traders Score Big During Major Events like the recent Iran Missile Threats Published on: October 07, 2024 We’re excited to announce a NEW event that will give you insider access to professional trading strategies for handling major...
Ooops – There go the Treasuries!
Ooops - There go the Treasuries! Published on: September 30, 2024 We've had a lot of calls at support in the past week about US Interest rate products no longer appearing in the Jigsaw platform. It turns out that it's not the platform but that some of the electronic...
Jigsaw daytradr 5.0 Beta Update: Important Fixes and Moving Forward
Jigsaw daytradr 5.0 Beta Update: Important Fixes and Moving Forward Published on: September 24, 2024 We apologize for the issues that arose with the initial release of daytradr 5.0 Beta. We understand the impact these problems had on your trading operations and want...
Jigsaw daytradr 5.0 Beta: The Wait is Over, and It Was Worth It
Jigsaw daytradr 5.0 Beta: The Wait is Over, and It Was Worth It Published on: September 19, 2024 Turns out, Friday the 13th wasn't just a superstition - it actually threw us a curveball. But hey, in trading as in software development, sometimes you need to adjust...
daytradr 5.0 beta: Key Levels Automatically on Your DOM
daytradr 5.0 beta: Key Levels Automatically on Your DOM Published on: September 09, 2024 Traders, we've got a time-saving upgrade for you. Our latest feature in Jigsaw daytradr 5.0 Beta automatically sets key levels on your DOM, eliminating the need for manual...
daytradr 5 Beta: Yesterday’s Volume Profile: A New Tool in Your DOM
daytradr 5 Beta: Yesterday's Volume Profile: A New Tool in Your DOM Published on: September 06, 2024 We're introducing a new feature to daytradr 5.0 Beta: Yesterday's Volume Profile in your DOM. This tool provides additional market context by displaying the previous...
daytradr 5 Beta: Experience Market Movements at 250-Millisecond Intervals
daytradr 5 Beta: Experience Market Movements at 250-Millisecond Intervals Published on: September 04, 2024 At Jigsaw, we certainly believe in constant innovation, even when it comes to our most celebrated features. The Auction Vista Heatmap has long been the gold...
daytradr 5 Beta: Trade Markers & Order Management on Your Chart
daytradr 5 Beta: Trade Markers & Order Management on Your Chart Published on: September 03, 2024 As we continue our "Features Week" for daytradr 5.0 Beta, we're excited to showcase another important addition to Jigsaw daytradr. Today, we're introducing a feature...
daytradr 5.0 beta: Trade Faster, Smarter, and More Efficiently Than Ever Before (Coming Soon)
daytradr 5.0 beta: Trade Faster, Smarter, and More Efficiently Than Ever Before (Coming Soon) Published on: September 02, 2024 See What Makes daytradr 5.0 the Go-To Platform for Pro Traders We've got some exciting news that's been brewing in the Jigsaw workshop. ...
Workshop recording: Mastering the Metrics that Matter in Trading
Workshop recording: Mastering the Metrics that Matter in Trading Published on: August 28, 2024 Are you tired of focusing on the wrong metrics in your trading journey? Do you wonder how professional traders consistently outperform the market despite seemingly low win...
Maximize Your Trades: The Power of Statistics in High-Opportunity Markets
Maximize Your Trades: The Power of Statistics in High-Opportunity Markets Published on: August 19, 2024 Are you frustrated with your trading performance? Do you feel lost in a sea of metrics, unsure which numbers really matter? You're not alone. Many traders...
Trading The Crash
Trading The Crash Published on: August 05, 2024 As of writing, it's the afternoon in Asia and early morning US. All markets are continuing to sink, following the drop on Thursday and Friday. The Nikkei is down 12% on the day and the Kospi (Korea) is down almost...
Celebrate Freedom: Jigsaw Trading’s 4th of July Sale!
Celebrate Freedom: Jigsaw Trading's 4th of July Sale! Published on: July 02, 2024 Jigsaw’s 4th of July Sale Is ON Get All The Tools And Education You’ll Need To Trade Like a Pro (Save Over $250) (Only 50 coupons are available, and the offer expires at...
Daytrading – Markets, Charts and Timeframes
Daytrading - Markets, Charts and Timeframes Published on: June 11, 2024 Lots of struggling traders email us, looking for answers. I thought in this case, I'd share the answer as I think it will benefit others. The email: "I carefully watched and read all the info you...
Jigsaw daytradr “Refresh Rate” – Faster than the human eye?
Jigsaw daytradr "Refresh Rate" - Faster than the human eye? Published on: May 28, 2024 In this article, we'll discuss the way Jigsaw daytradr gets information in front of your eyeballs as quickly as possible whilst avoiding performance issues when the market "speeds...
Market Profile simplified with Jigsaw daytradr
Market Profile simplified with Jigsaw daytradr Published on: May 17, 2024 Despite 44 years have passed since the birth of Market Profile charts, they continue to play an important role in today's market analysis. We're not here to debate whether market profile is...
From Data to Wisdom: Leveraging Trade Insights for Success
From Data to Wisdom: Leveraging Trade Insights for Success Published on: May 07, 2024 Axia Futures held an exclusive workshop on May 2nd to unveil how their traders utilize Jigsaw's Journalytix platform for performance analysis. During the workshop, Alex made an...
FREE Trading Workshop – Learn from the Pros
FREE Trading Workshop - Learn from the Pros Published on: April 19, 2024 We all know that mastering the markets takes more than just guts. You need the right tools, honed skills, and maybe even a peek behind the curtain of ELITE traders. That's where our friends...
John Grady Reveals Institutional Order Flow Secrets
John Grady Reveals Institutional Order Flow Secrets Published on: April 18, 2024 John Grady was recently interviewed by Aaron Korbs on his podcast, and it's an interview you cannot miss. During the interview, John provides exclusive, behind-the-scenes insights into...
Our Survey Giveaway Winners Are Here!
Our Survey Giveaway Winners Are Here! Published on: April 04, 2024 Alright, alright, we might be a little late with this announcement (we originally said April 2nd). But hey, better late than never, right? Now, the moment you've all been waiting for... the winners...
Calling All Traders: Your Insights Could Win You $1,000 in Our Jigsaw Trading Survey Giveaway!
Calling All Traders: Your Insights Could Win You $1,000 in Our Jigsaw Trading Survey Giveaway! Published on: March 21, 2024 Let's cut the crap: we know you're here for the cash prizes. As traders ourselves, we get it. Time is money, so why waste time on some...
You are now authorized to highlight at will
You are now authorized to highlight at will Published on: March 14, 2024 James Bond had a license to kill. YOU, on the other hand, have a license to... highlight! Jigsaw daytradr 4.0.2.2 maintenance release, is out! Here is one of the new features: The Alert column...
Getting the most from Volume Profile with Jigsaw daytradr
Getting the most from Volume Profile with Jigsaw daytradr Published on: February 13, 2024 In contrast to conventional volume indicators plotted against the time axis, the volume profile indicator provides a distinctive viewpoint by plotting volume data along the...
How many charts and DOMs do I need for trading? – Optimize your Trading Workspace
How many charts and DOMs do I need for trading? - Optimize your Trading Workspace Published on: January 16, 2024 We naturally feel attracted by blinking lights and numbers. They provide stimulation. One of the reasons casinos use vibrant lights and colors in their...
Jigsaw’s New Year Sale – The Perfect Opportunity To Start 2024 Off Right!
Jigsaw's New Year Sale - The Perfect Opportunity To Start 2024 Off Right! Published on: December 28, 2023 Jigsaw’s New Year Sale Is ON The Holidays Are Almost Over - Time For A Fresh Start In The New Year! Get All The Tools And Education You’ll Need To Trade Like...
Eight Reasons to Celebrate: A Closer Look at Version 4.0.2.1’s New Features
Eight Reasons to Celebrate: A Closer Look at Version 4.0.2.1's New Features Published on: December 15, 2023 We are super excited to introduce 8 new features that will enhance your trading journey. I'll admit when I initially reviewed the development sheet for some...
Jigsaw’s Black Friday – Unleashing the Best Prices of the Year!
Jigsaw's Black Friday - Unleashing the Best Prices of the Year! Published on: November 21, 2023 Jigsaw’s Black Friday Sale Is Still ON Get All The Tools And Education You’ll Need To Trade Like a Pro (Save Over $250) (Only 20 coupons have been added, and the...
Volatility Scalping Workshop – recording
Volatility Scalping Workshop - recording Published on: November 07, 2023 Outstanding workshop! I might be a bit biased, but I must say this workshop was truly remarkable. And just to add another adjective to the mix, it was brilliant! Here's an overview of the key...
See Pro Traders Reveal Their Secrets LIVE – Nov 2nd, 1pm ET
See Pro Traders Reveal Their Secrets LIVE - Nov 2nd, 1pm ET Published on: October 27, 2023 We're doing something unprecedented...This coming Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 1PM ET, We are hosting Richard Bailey from Axia Futures to deliver a FREE Workshop on: How to...
Reversal Footprint charts – The best of 2 worlds
Reversal Footprint charts - The best of 2 worlds Published on: September 29, 2023 By combining the benefits of Point and Figure charts with the Footprint charts, we are transforming the way we analyze price action and identify trend directions. This powerful tool...
Cross Instrument Trading – Trade the kid by watching the parent
Cross Instrument Trading - Trade the kid by watching the parent Published on: September 28, 2023 Are you tired from constantly juggling the depth and sales of the micro contract you're trading alongside the depth and sales of its underlying market? Well, say goodbye...
Jigsaw Trading Review – The Trade Window
Jigsaw Trading Review - The Trade Window Published on: September 22, 2023 Did you ever wonder what some buttons do on your trade window? You might try them out, but not really get what they are for, so you just ignore them and move on. And then, maybe weeks or...
daytradr connectivity explained
daytradr connectivity explained Published on: July 28, 2023 Do you wish you could use a different data feed for your broker account? With daytradr, you can do that and more. You can manage multiple broker accounts and data feed connections with ease. For instance,...
Release 4.0.1.9 – Mandatory for Rithmic Users, Break Even Stops
Release 4.0.1.9 - Mandatory for Rithmic Users, Break Even Stops Published on: July 25, 2023 We are happy to announce the release of daytradr 4.0.1.9. This release is mandatory for Rithmic users following a new restriction on the Rithmic side of 2000 calls to their...
Break-even strategies: Protect your position, cover your costs and optimize your profits!
Break-even strategies: Protect your position, cover your costs and optimize your profits! Published on: July 25, 2023 After receiving numerous requests from our valued traders, we are thrilled to announce that break-even options have now been incorporated into our...
Choosing The Right Market For YOU To Trade
Choosing The Right Market For YOU To Trade Published on: July 17, 2023 Many traders gravitate towards the S&P500 Futures as their go-to-market, as it's the single most "advertised" market in the futures arena. It effectively acts as the 'default' market to trade....
Jigsaw’s Independence Day Sale
Jigsaw's Independence Day Sale Published on: July 04, 2023 To celebrate Independence Day, we have decided to run a quick sale. With some special deals for both new customers and existing ones. If you are on the sidelines, now is the time to jump in at the best prices...
Overtrading? Taking ‘a breather’ between trades
Overtrading? Taking 'a breather' between trades Published on: May 23, 2023 One of the most common issues that traders face at some point in their careers is going completely off-plan and putting in a succession of off-plan trades, with disastrous results to their...
Jigsaw Trading Review – Using the Flip Indicator In Your Trading
Jigsaw Trading Review - Using the Flip Indicator In Your Trading Published on: April 26, 2023 In today's video, we will talk about the Flip indicator. It gives us a visual representation of the pulling and stacking activity and how it can influence price movement....
Jigsaw’s 12th Birthday Discount Bonanza
Jigsaw's 12th Birthday Discount Bonanza Published on: April 11, 2023 It's now 12 years ago since Jigsaw Trading was launched. A big thank you to all of our customers and partners that made this journey possible. 12 is a good age for Scotch and a good time to throw out...
Jigsaw Release 4.0.1.8 – Fixes, IB, Tradovate and Ninja
Jigsaw Release 4.0.1.8 - Fixes, IB, Tradovate and Ninja Published on: April 03, 2023 We are happy to announce the release of daytradr 4.0.1.8. The major changes in this maintenance release: Improved integration with Tradovate and better disconnect handling...
Earn2Trade 50% Recurring Discount
Earn2Trade 50% Recurring Discount Published on: April 03, 2023 Join Earn2Trade in celebrating the April Holidays with an amazing 50% discount on all subscriptions from April 3rd to April 16th until midnight CST. Whether it’s the Trader Career Path or the Gauntlet...
Jigsaw Trading Review – Alternate Dimensions of Trade Info
Jigsaw Trading Review - Alternate Dimensions of Trade Info Published on: March 14, 2023 Indicators, can they really help with your trading? Or are they just a nuisance, one more thing for you to look at and probably making you always second guess your initial...
Feature in Focus – Reading Market Intent with Auction Vista
Feature in Focus - Reading Market Intent with Auction Vista Published on: February 02, 2023 Many traders believe they can fully assess price movement by looking only at a basic bar chart. To some extent, this is true, I’m certain that the majority of you are able to...
Feature in Focus – Profit Seeker
Feature in Focus - Profit Seeker Published on: January 04, 2023 When you are trading, have you ever had a "déjà vu" sensation? That feeling that you already lived that same situation before, especially during or after a losing trade, but you just can't place it when...
Feature in Focus – Footprint Charts
Feature in Focus - Footprint Charts Published on: December 22, 2022 Have you ever looked at a Footprint Chart and wondered what all those numbers mean and how to take advantage of them? In this video, we will take a look at how Footprints Charts can help you with your...
Christmas at Earn2Trade
Christmas at Earn2Trade Published on: December 20, 2022 Santa knows what’s on your wishlist, so this holiday season he’s bringing back Earn2Trade’s best deal! Right now, they’re offering a 50% discount on the Trader Career Path or the Gauntlet Mini™. Which one did...
Feature in Focus – Real Time News and Economic Releases Widgets
Feature in Focus - Real Time News and Economic Releases Widgets Published on: November 25, 2022 Have you ever placed an order seconds before an economic release that you knew nothing about? Your order is executed, and the market jumps literally 10 ticks against your...
Black Friday at Earn2Trade
Black Friday at Earn2Trade Published on: November 24, 2022 We've been working with Earn2Trade for a few years and they certainly excel in trader support and education, with rules very much in line with what you'd find at a "Regular" Bricks and mortar prop firm. You...
Trader Funding Firms – Our Top 5 – With Discount Coupons
Trader Funding Firms - Our Top 5 - With Discount Coupons Published on: November 22, 2022 The online Trader Funding Industry was undoubtedly pioneered by Topstep. It's been over a decade since they started, and now there's a multitude of providers to choose from. For...
Exchange Code Changes at Interactive Brokers
Exchange Code Changes at Interactive Brokers Published on: November 15, 2022 This weekend, Interactive Brokers made some changes to their exchange codes. This caused many symbols to not be recognized through daytradr. This has been fixed in daytradr 4.0.1.3 but there...
Jigsaw’s Early Black Friday Sale – 100 coupons – Best Prices Ever
Jigsaw's Early Black Friday Sale - 100 coupons - Best Prices Ever Published on: November 14, 2022 Welcome to Jigsaw's Early Black Friday sale with record-low prices on the institutional packages and great discounts all over. If you are on the sidelines, now is the...
Feature in Focus – Trade Management
Feature in Focus - Trade Management Published on: November 07, 2022 Hi, In this video, we will talk about trade management. If you are day-trading, holding positions for a couple of hours, or scalping, holding positions for a couple of seconds, trade management is...
Jigsaw Trading Review – V4.0.1.0 Beta – Taming The Volatility Tiger
Jigsaw Trading Review - V4.0.1.0 Beta - Taming The Volatility Tiger Published on: November 02, 2022 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw daytradr V4.0.1.0 Beta. The release includes some very exciting new features, which we'll detail here. Note, we have...
Learn To Daytrade For Less With Our New Institutional Pricing
Learn To Daytrade For Less With Our New Institutional Pricing Published on: October 14, 2022 We are happy to announce that we are making the Institutional package more affordable starting today. As you may know, this package includes THE best price ladder education...
Trading Group Therapy – Goals That Bite
Trading Group Therapy - Goals That Bite Published on: October 13, 2022 In this group therapy, we focused on goal setting and how goal setting can actually cause you to fail. But it's a catch-22 situation. You can't have NO goals - but you also can't let the Goals be...
Introducing Jigsaw Hub
Introducing Jigsaw Hub Published on: October 11, 2022 Dear friend, We're excited to tell you about some changes we've recently made to improve the way you interact with your Jigsaw assets and resources. We are happy to announce the introduction of the Jigsaw Hub,...
Jigsaw Trading Group Therapy – Redefining Group Therapy – Oct 12th 12pm EST
Jigsaw Trading Group Therapy - Redefining Group Therapy - Oct 12th 12pm EST Published on: October 04, 2022 All It's Jigsaw group therapy time again. As we've mentioned before, over time, there has become less of a need for Jigsaw group therapy. OR to put it another...
Market Mechanics – Understanding How Prices Move in The Markets
Market Mechanics – Understanding How Prices Move in The Markets Published on: September 30, 2022 “Why does price move?” is an interesting question that traders spend very little time contemplating. Traders tend to accept that price moves around in a semi-orderly...
The Path to Becoming a Professional Trader by Chris Gray
The Path to Becoming a Professional Trader by Chris Gray Published on: September 22, 2022 Today we are happy to be posting the recording from yesterday's event with Chris Gray. It was refreshing to hear about the "intangibles" a trader faces in his journey, such as...
How to Daytrade, How NOT to Daytrade…
How to Daytrade, How NOT to Daytrade... Published on: September 21, 2022 I consistently get 5-10 emails per week from people saying 'I am lost in my trading, can you help?'. Mostly these are from prospective customers but about 30% are from existing customers. The...
Innovative Jigsaw User – Constant Trade – Video Library
Innovative Jigsaw User - Constant Trade - Video Library Published on: September 14, 2022 In our last major survey, 23% of Jigsaw users were trading full-time. Many of these now have their own YouTube channels as they pay it forwards to other users on the same journey...
“Trading Season” – What to look out for in the coming months
"Trading Season" - What to look out for in the coming months Published on: September 06, 2022 Now we are past Labour Day, we normally give to the week after the holidays and consider that a "full house of Global traders". In other words, people are back from holiday...
Jigsaw’s Labor Day Sale! Up to $350 off! 100 coupons only.
Jigsaw's Labor Day Sale! Up to $350 off! 100 coupons only. Published on: September 04, 2022 It seems like every year, we get a new request for a sale we didn't run before. This time we are getting requests for a "labor day sale". To be fair though - this one makes...
Coffee With Chris: His Path to Becoming a Pro Trader 21st Sept, Noon.
Coffee With Chris: His Path to Becoming a Pro Trader 21st Sept, Noon. Published on: August 25, 2022 We are happy to announce that on the 21st of September at noon EST, we'll be hosting Christopher Gray, who will be taking us through his path to becoming a...
Learn to Trade Futures in 5 Simple Steps
Learn to Trade Futures in 5 Simple Steps Published on: August 19, 2022 In this article, we are talking to the new futures traders or those that are now banging their heads against a wall trying to figure out how to trade futures or any other financial market. Step 1...
Trade Exit Automation Pt 2 – Einstein Edition. Advanced Features.
Trade Exit Automation Pt 2 - Einstein Edition. Advanced Features. Published on: August 11, 2022 In this video, we continue to discuss the benefits of Automated Trade Exit Management Strategies. We show more complex strategies, such as having multiple targets and...
Understanding the Flat & Cancel Processes
Understanding the Flat & Cancel Processes Published on: August 08, 2022 With markets experiencing extremely high volatility, we feel it necessary to explain the process of Flattening a position or Cancelling all Orders. Or both! First, let's consider a simple...
Can’t capture profits fast enough? Automate Your Exits.
Can't capture profits fast enough? Automate Your Exits. Published on: August 04, 2022 This week the Feature in Focus is the Automated Trade Exit Management Strategies. Having automatic, defined exit prices on the DOM when trading fast markets, can help better manage...
Better Trading Decisions With The Unique Circles in Auction Vista
Better Trading Decisions With The Unique Circles in Auction Vista Published on: July 15, 2022 If you ask traders what the most important information is when making a trading decision, most will say “price”. Some will say “volume” and the more enlightened may say...
The Training Dilemma – What to Really Look for in Trading Education
The Training Dilemma – What to Really Look for in Trading Education Published on: July 06, 2022 Learning to trade can be an expensive and frustrating endeavor. Many retail traders end up buying (and discarding) numerous training courses in the process of learning how...
My $6,000 mistake – avoiding the 6 most costly errors with trade rooms
My $6,000 mistake – avoiding the 6 most costly errors with trade rooms Published on: June 21, 2022 Trade rooms, where subscribers pay to watch somebody trade live online, seem like the perfect education tool. I speak to a lot of traders looking for mentors who say,...
Random Entry Trading
Random Entry Trading Published on: June 01, 2022 There is a famous trading book that ‘proves’ you can enter the market with a random entry and still make money. Or did it prove that? There are some important lessons to be learnt when we take a deeper look. The trading...
Master Trade Management using Order Flow
Master Trade Management using Order Flow Published on: May 24, 2022 Trade Management is very much an overlooked aspect in the art of trading. Many retail traders are so focused on getting the trade entry right that they pay little attention to making sure they get the...
Anatomy of a Reversal
Anatomy of a Reversal Published on: May 17, 2022 A huge proportion of traders are focused on trading reversals. Usually, there is some method of setting levels at which a reversal may occur; Support & Resistance, value areas, volume profile, pivot points,...
Trading Therapy Group recording – The Man With 3 Brains
Trading Therapy Group recording - The Man With 3 Brains Published on: May 13, 2022 On May 11th, we had a great therapy group session where we looked at examples of personality extremes, such as ADHD and Dyslexia, and how people suffering from these disorders,...
Feature in Focus: Momentum Tails – Less Effort and Better Trading Decisions
Feature in Focus: Momentum Tails - Less Effort and Better Trading Decisions Published on: May 10, 2022 In this second video, we continue to look at the momentum tails and how they can help us make better trading decisions or rather, how it takes less focus to make...
Day Trading Support/Resistance Levels
Day Trading Support/Resistance Levels Published on: May 03, 2022 The most commonly played areas to trade-off also tend to be those that are the most visually appealing. It should therefore come as no great surprise that the most visually appealing “Support and...
The Man With 3 Brains. Matching Your Mind With Your Market
The Man With 3 Brains. Matching Your Mind With Your Market Published on: April 27, 2022 On May 11th at 12 pm EST, we'll be holding our next (and overdue) Group Therapy session titled "The Man With 3 Brains. Matching You With Your Market". As usual, this is a more...
Jigsaw’s Inflation Busting Sale! Up to $350 off!
Jigsaw's Inflation Busting Sale! Up to $350 off! Published on: April 25, 2022 Like a lot of you - I am currently enjoying a flood of self-pitying emails from companies, telling me how hard their life is right now because of inflation. We've all had them - "Inflation...
Strength in Numbers
Strength in Numbers Published on: April 21, 2022 The ability to gauge the genuine strength of a move in a market has a number of implications. We can assess the strength of a move in one direction against the strength of the last move to decide if a market is...
Trading advice – A traders’ dilemma – true story
Trading advice - A traders’ dilemma – true story Published on: April 19, 2022 I often have traders call me to discuss their trading issues. Today I heard from a trader whose problem was a common one. It just wasn’t the problem he thought he had. For the purposes of...
Trading Clichés – Fact or Fantasy?
Trading Clichés – Fact or Fantasy? Published on: April 12, 2022 One of the joys of learning to trade is wading through so many diverse opinions about the markets, how they work and how you can trade them. In this article, we’ll look at 5 common trading clichés and try...
daytradr 3.2.2.0, Jigsaw 2022 Product & Group Therapy Plans
daytradr 3.2.2.0, Jigsaw 2022 Product & Group Therapy Plans Published on: March 30, 2022 Today I am writing to you from a little detox resort in Samui where fat people go to be reborn into skinnies again. Like many, I experienced a little 'depression' of sorts during...
Time Travel Day Trading – Shortening your trading horizon
Time Travel Day Trading – Shortening your trading horizon Published on: March 29, 2022 Few traders consider the impact of trading horizon on the amount of elapsed time it’ll take them to get to profit. A time travel machine would be very useful in day trading....
Volatility and Its Role In Your Downfall
Volatility and Its Role In Your Downfall Published on: March 21, 2022 Volatility can make or break you as a trader. For many traders, it is causing unnecessarily high rates of losing trades. To understand the role of volatility, we’ll take a look at a couple of...
Trading on the Side of Strength
Trading on the Side of Strength Published on: March 18, 2022 It’s natural to approach the markets with a “them vs. me” mentality; to see the market as one thing and yourself as another. The reality is that a “me vs. me” scenario is closer to the truth; The markets...
Trade Journaling: When Will You Need It?
Trade Journaling: When Will You Need It? Published on: March 14, 2022 If there's one thing that almost all traders fail to take care of in their journey it's... themselves! It's really up to you if you want trading to be a series of failures, on the path to profit. Or...
Feature in Focus: Improve your order flow reading with Momentum Tails
Feature in Focus: Improve your order flow reading with Momentum Tails Published on: March 11, 2022 In this video we take a look at momentum tails. For many, this tool is the "trainer wheels" for reading momentum, they use it at first and let go of it later. Others...
Front Running or Fading Absorption ? Dom Trading Setup That Works
Front Running or Fading Absorption ? Dom Trading Setup That Works Published on: March 07, 2022 A long time ago (OK, 2010), the DOM and Order Flow were barely discussed in trading. Most platforms had a DOM, but they were featureless skeletal creatures with very little...
Surviving Day Trading In These Wild Markets
Surviving Day Trading In These Wild Markets Published on: March 03, 2022 We are living in interesting times and the market has responded to the current war in Ukraine with a huge dose of volatility. In this article, we'll look at how you can adjust to this. Without...
It’s time to talk about the ES/S&P500 Futures and Sucking
It's time to talk about the ES/S&P500 Futures and Sucking Published on: January 26, 2022 This has been a recurring question of late. Newer traders asking "Is the ES always like this?" and it's time to discuss openly. The S&P500 Futures suck right now. There - I...
How to Become a Full-Time Day Trader
How to Become a Full-Time Day Trader Published on: January 24, 2022 This topic always reminds me of a trip I took to a prop firm in London. It was my first time meeting their CEO - we had a quick chat then off for lunch. As we got to the lift there was a shout of...
What Is Ladder Trading and Is It A Useful Trading Strategy?
What Is Ladder Trading and Is It A Useful Trading Strategy? Published on: January 24, 2022 In this article, we’ll discuss the rationale behind using the Price Ladder in trading. We’ll look at what it is, typical misconceptions and why it might be useful in your...
Big End of Year Discounts! 100 Coupons Ends 3rd Jan.
Big End of Year Discounts! 100 Coupons Ends 3rd Jan. Published on: December 30, 2021 It's the end of the year and just like Black Friday, the bargain hunters are out in force again. This time looking for a January sale. So here we go - these are our best deals ever...
Our New Year Gift – The All New Order Flow Foundation Course
Our New Year Gift - The All New Order Flow Foundation Course Published on: December 30, 2021 Our New Year Gift to Jigsaw customers is now ready to be opened. It's something we've had in the making since the start of 2021. A completely new, vastly improved "Order Flow...
daytradr 3.2.0.2 & 2022 Plans
daytradr 3.2.0.2 & 2022 Plans Published on: December 30, 2021 We are happy to announce the release of Jigaw daytradr 3.2.0.2. This release is mandatory for Tradovate users. It includes "OAuth" support for Tradovate, which provides an additional layer of security on...
Futures Trading Strategies Professional Day Traders Use.
Futures Trading Strategies Professional Day Traders Use. Published on: December 21, 2021 This article will go over the main strategies day traders use that I’ve been exposed to. Each strategy or style has pros and cons. What I’ll leave out are strategies you couldn’t...
Taming The Risk (& Reward) Tiger – Recording.
Taming The Risk (& Reward) Tiger - Recording. Published on: December 10, 2021 In this session, we looked at 3 scenarios traders commonly face where the outcome is usually the worst possible one. This is sort of understandable when the risk or reward component of a...
Trading Group Therapy, Yellow Belt Session
Trading Group Therapy, Yellow Belt Session Published on: December 09, 2021 We had another great session with Sune on Dec 1st. In this session, we had a look at where he was now, for a trading plan, and then figure out how to move forward. The key here was not getting...
Building Trading Muscles You Didn’t Know You Needed Yet! (Thu 12pm)
Building Trading Muscles You Didn't Know You Needed Yet! (Thu 12pm) Published on: December 06, 2021 Introducing or increasing risk to your trading usually has a number of unforeseen effects that appear to come out of the blue. Many traders think this is unique to them...
Trading Group Therapy, White Belt Session
Trading Group Therapy, White Belt Session Published on: November 26, 2021 We had a great session last week with Sune - who is new to Order Flow and comes to us as more of an "open book" than many of the people we talk to in Group Therapy. For those earlier in the...
Don’t Miss Out! Jigsaw Black Friday Sale.
Don't Miss Out! Jigsaw Black Friday Sale. Published on: November 22, 2021 Bigger Discounts. More Products. Just like a new trader changing from a 50 to a 49 moving average to get an edge over the competition. Everyone and their dog is doing Black Friday sales 2 weeks...
Trading Group Therapy, White Belt – Fingers Saved! 18th Nov, 12:30pm EST.
Trading Group Therapy, White Belt - Fingers Saved! 18th Nov, 12:30pm EST. Published on: November 17, 2021 This Thursday (18th November, 2021), we are holding an impromptu Group Therapy. For a change, the topics will be somewhat of a mystery - well, they will to me....
Jigsaw Advisory Panel/Inner Circle – Kick Off
Jigsaw Advisory Panel/Inner Circle - Kick Off Published on: October 04, 2021 With the launch of the latest version of daytradr with Discord Integration - we are ready to kick-off activities for the Jigsaw Advisory Panel. From this point on, we'll refer to is as he...
Jigsaw Affiliate & Refer-a-Friend Programs
Jigsaw Affiliate & Refer-a-Friend Programs Published on: October 01, 2021 We recently hired a new Marketing Manager (Jay) and as part of his review of our processes, he took a look at the Affiliate program and the "refer-a-friend" scheme. Both programs help you earn a...
Jigsaw daytradr 3.2.0.0
Jigsaw daytradr 3.2.0.0 Published on: September 23, 2021 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw daytradr 3.2.0.0 - with Discord Integration. Partly this release is to make way for some other things (like synthetic order types) that are almost complete but need...
Jigsaw Discord Community
Jigsaw Discord Community Published on: September 23, 2021 An overhaul to the way we bring Jigsaw users together is long overdue and with the release of daytradr 3.2.0.0, we now have our own Discord Server. There's a few benefits we were aiming for with this. First of...
Can you really improve your trading by doing less?
Can you really improve your trading by doing less? Published on: September 05, 2021 Yesterday, we spent an hour in a group therapy session with Marcos, a trader that recently overcame one of the most common problems in trading - sticking to the plan. In his case, the...
Jigsaw Support Changes
Jigsaw Support Changes Published on: September 05, 2021 I'd like to let you all know about changes we are making to the Jigsaw Product Support Processes. Partly this is to keep you in the loop on the things we are doing right now but also we'll be referring to this...
Group Therapy – Marcos – Sticking To The Plan. How He Cracked It – 2nd Sept, 4:30PM EST
Group Therapy - Marcos - Sticking To The Plan. How He Cracked It - 2nd Sept, 4:30PM EST Published on: August 29, 2021 In our next group therapy session, we'll hear from Marcos - an aspiring trader just like you. He's currently working and taking time around work to...
Market Making Manual – Update
Market Making Manual - Update Published on: August 18, 2021 A quick update on Gary Norden’s Market Maker Manual and related live webinar sessions.We have had numerous inquiries about the availability of the manual for new customers. Gary has decided to stop selling...
Trading Group Therapy – The 11 Year Glitch
Trading Group Therapy - The 11 Year Glitch Published on: August 13, 2021 Imagine selling your business to trade and sitting there 11 years later, still not profitable. There are a few questions that come to mind when you hear this. Some assumptions you might make too....
SIM Trading or Bleeding Money? Experience Capped Risk
SIM Trading or Bleeding Money? Experience Capped Risk Published on: August 05, 2021 I'd like to go over what I consider a big value to traders in services like Topstep Trader that isn't discussed much but for many, is a way to get out of the destructive SIM reset...
Join The “Jigsaw Advisory Panel” – Shaping Jigsaw Together
Join The "Jigsaw Advisory Panel" - Shaping Jigsaw Together Published on: July 29, 2021 As Jigsaw continues to grow, we feel it's time to get more engaged with the user base as we roll out new products and want to validate "off the wall ideas". In our view - the best...
Trading Group Therapy – Chuck Berry – Thu, 12PM EST
Trading Group Therapy - Chuck Berry - Thu, 12PM EST Published on: July 26, 2021 It's time for us to move into the next phase of group therapy - where we will look at specific trader's issues. If you remember, earlier this year we said that we don't want to be a part...
The Trading Education Paradox
The Trading Education Paradox Published on: July 06, 2021 If there's one topic that’s guaranteed to cause a heated debate in the trading world, it’s Trading Education. Usually, the discussion revolves not so much about which education products are best but about the...
Trend vs Chop
Trend vs Chop Published on: June 30, 2021 We've had a slight change of heart about the Group Therapy recording for Part 2 of the "Keeping It Simple" special. We have decided to make it public. Admittedly, this is partly because Camtasia kept crashing my PC as I tried...
Webinar: Using Market Shape To Find Bigger Trades. Register To Win $1,500 Cash.
Webinar: Using Market Shape To Find Bigger Trades. Register To Win $1,500 Cash. Published on: June 30, 2021 We are excited to announce we've been invited to present at July's Wealth365 Summit. This time, we'll be discussing the use of "Market Shape" to identify day...
Well – that escalated quickly!
Well - that escalated quickly! Published on: June 25, 2021 It seems we've generated some disappointment with some of our valued customers due to the event at LKS yesterday. The gist is they feel that LKS are not an honest operator and that we are a dying company that...
daytradr 3.1.1.4 – Out Today
daytradr 3.1.1.4 - Out Today Published on: June 14, 2021 Today we are releasing version 3.1.1.4 of daytradr, the manual for charting is now complete. This will be the last release before charts are "officially launched" over the next week or two. The team is already...
Flash Sale – Up to $200 off! 50 people only – ends Monday
Flash Sale - Up to $200 off! 50 people only - ends Monday Published on: May 21, 2021 We did say that we'd reduce the number of "Flash Sales" - but it's now been almost 6 months - and this time, we are giving a massive $200 discount on the Institutional packages. You...
Wanted – Jigsaw Marketing Lead/Community Manager
Wanted - Jigsaw Marketing Lead/Community Manager Published on: May 16, 2021 Jigsaw is hiring again. This time. it's to help us with marketing and customer outreach. The ideal target will be English speaking and in Asia or Europe. Europe would be most convenient from a...
Retail vs Pro Day Trading 1 – Tunnel Vision
Retail vs Pro Day Trading 1 - Tunnel Vision Published on: May 12, 2021 In this series, we'll take a look at the differences between retail and professional trading. In each post, we'll focus on one aspect where we see a major difference between the two groups. In this...
daytradr 3.1.1.3, Last Weekend for $1000 Cash Prize
daytradr 3.1.1.3, Last Weekend for $1000 Cash Prize Published on: April 30, 2021 Today we are releasing version 3.1.1.3 of daytradr, we've gotten to the end of the issue list (from our perspective). We are of course ready for any more issues but we think we reached...
NEW Eurex Micros. Win $1000 Cash Survey Prize. daytradr 3.1.1.1
NEW Eurex Micros. Win $1000 Cash Survey Prize. daytradr 3.1.1.1 Published on: April 20, 2021 If you are just here for the $1000 - go to the end. For the rest.... Yesterday, Eurex launched 2 new Micro Contracts - presumably this means a "micro war" between the...
Trading Support at Jigsaw
Trading Support at Jigsaw Published on: April 15, 2021 At Jigsaw, we are somewhat unusual in that we don't just offer support for our tools - but we are here to help with trading issues too. We don't charge for this and so far, the volume has been very manageable and...
News: Happiness is a Decision
News: Happiness is a Decision Published on: April 14, 2021 CEO Peter Davies was recently quoted in an article on investing, order flow trading, and the volatility of the stock market and economy in general. “If you are averaging into a position monthly, I’d have to be...
daytradr Charting Beta Ending. $1000 Survey Prize
daytradr Charting Beta Ending. $1000 Survey Prize Published on: April 12, 2021 We are happy to announce what we hope is the final or penultimate beta release for charting. Since the last release, we have focused on fixing reported beta issues and releasing interim...
News: Investing During The Pandemic
News: Investing During The Pandemic Published on: April 07, 2021 CEO Peter Davies was recently quoted in an article on investing during the pandemic; what should I do with my money considering all of the volatility and uncertainty today. “Don’t worry about the things...
News: Market Volatility vs Market Rotation
News: Market Volatility vs Market Rotation Published on: March 31, 2021 CEO Peter Davies was recently quoted in an article on the difference between market volatility and market rotation; “Many newer investors have never seen stocks go down,” says Peter Davies, CEO of...
News: Trading Futures
News: Trading Futures Published on: March 24, 2021 CEO Peter Davies was recently quoted in U.S. News & World Report on trading futures; "The best example of why these contracts exist is illustrated by a farmer selling corn and Kellogg Co. (ticker: K) making Corn...
Beat the Price Increase – Save $678. Inertia Wins, So 2 More Days
Beat the Price Increase - Save $678. Inertia Wins, So 2 More Days Published on: March 10, 2021 I recently sent out a blog post about the upcoming price increase of the Axia Price Ladder Course at Jigsaw. The increase was to be in place on 5th March but I got...
Keeping It Simple
Keeping It Simple Published on: March 09, 2021 It's quite easy to say "Just keep it simple" about any task but that means picking some things and discarding others - but which ones? Now, I will say that this is a long video. It's group therapy, it's not scripted and...
Beat the Price Increase – Price Ladder Education (Save $678)
Beat the Price Increase - Price Ladder Education (Save $678) Published on: February 22, 2021 It's been brought to our attention that we 'missed' the recent price increase on the Axia Price Ladder course - one of the key components of our Institutional package. The...
Group Therapy – Complexity vs Simplicity – Part 1
Group Therapy - Complexity vs Simplicity - Part 1 Published on: February 22, 2021 We now have dates for the first 2 group therapy sessions for 2021. Session 1 will be on 26th Feb at 11am EST. Click here to sign up. The other session will be a week later, links for...
How to Supplement Retirement Income with Order Flow Trading
How to Supplement Retirement Income with Order Flow Trading Published on: February 05, 2021 At Jigsaw, we get people from all walks of life joining our community of traders. For some reason. there's two groups we attract in far greater number than any others. These...
Short Sellers – Evil or Not?
Short Sellers - Evil or Not? Published on: January 29, 2021 Like many, I've been watching the shenanigans over trading in the stocks of GameStop with interest. I'd meant to pen an article on short selling for a while - but what better time than now? For those unaware...
2020 Trading Group Therapy Plans
2020 Trading Group Therapy Plans Published on: January 24, 2021 We are planning to do something different for our Group Therapy sessions in 2020. . One of the reasons for this is that there's only so much to be said about trading, we'll start to get repetitive if we...
Success Factors & Side Gigs
Success Factors & Side Gigs Published on: January 15, 2021 Here's the recording of Decembers group therapy session. In this event, we went over my own story and then took a look at how much was luck and how much was good judgement. This is done in order for us all to...
Chop & Trend – Spot Changing States Early to Maximize Returns
Chop & Trend - Spot Changing States Early to Maximize Returns Published on: January 07, 2021 We are excited to announce a new webinar we'll be showing at the upcoming Wealth365 "Best of the Best" January 2021 Summit. We'll be presenting on 21st Jan at 10am . Click...
Jigsaw New Year’s Sale – Up to $150 off! 50 people only – ends Jan. 5, 2021.
Jigsaw New Year's Sale - Up to $150 off! 50 people only - ends Jan. 5, 2021. Published on: December 30, 2020 Our Black Friday Sale was so popular, we are doing it again for the New Year! You can receive a $100 discount off ANY Jigsaw product and $150 off the...
Group Therapy – Success Factors & Side Gigs – 22nd Dec, 12:00PM EST
Group Therapy - Success Factors & Side Gigs - 22nd Dec, 12:00PM EST Published on: December 18, 2020 We are going to re-run the event we did a few Sundays ago in Hong Kong as it was an odd time for those in the US. We will do it as a group therapy session, so it'll be...
Which DOM Trading Setups Actually Work?
Which DOM Trading Setups Actually Work? Published on: December 03, 2020 For those that don't know what the DOM is - it's the Depth of Market. Before we proceed, it's important to point out that not all DOM's are equal. Some are too basic to be of any practical use and...
Jigsaw Black Friday Sale – Up to $150 off! 50 people only – ends Sunday.
Jigsaw Black Friday Sale - Up to $150 off! 50 people only - ends Sunday. Published on: November 27, 2020 To celebrate Thanksgiving, we are giving away some fantastic discounts to 50 lucky customers. The rules are simple - it's a $100 discount off ANY Jigsaw product...
Is Order Flow Trading Overrated?
Is Order Flow Trading Overrated? Published on: November 20, 2020 This question was posed to me yesterday by a customer. Rather than answer his question directly, I thought I'd put out a blog post. The short answer is: Yes and No. Order Flow itself is simply...
Jigsaw daytradr – FootPrints, Cumulative Delta – Out Now!
Jigsaw daytradr - FootPrints, Cumulative Delta - Out Now! Published on: November 02, 2020 Jigsaw daytradr Charts Beta 7 is out now. Included in this are FootPrint Charts (chart), Cumulative Delta (Study) and FootPrint Stats (Study) The video below shows you how to...
daytradr Charts Beta 7 – FootPrints
daytradr Charts Beta 7 - FootPrints Published on: October 27, 2020 We are happy to announce that FootPrint charts are now ready in Beta 7 of daytradr charting. We did plan a presentation on it today but we've spent the day ironing out the remaining issues. So the...
Order Flow First Steps – Follow Up Session Recording
Order Flow First Steps - Follow Up Session Recording Published on: October 26, 2020 This webinar was another interactive session. It was following up on the meeting we had on Monday which was basically telling people the first steps they should take with order...
Order Flow – First Steps
Order Flow - First Steps Published on: October 21, 2020 We recently did a webinar at Wealth365, where we discussed FootPrint charts - the pro's and cons. For those that wanted to take that further, we started a 7-week course. Week 1 is the primer. There is no point...
Pro Trader Gary Norden Interview – English/Portuguese subtitles
Pro Trader Gary Norden Interview - English/Portuguese subtitles Published on: October 16, 2020 I have to give Kudos to Rafael at DayTrader Pro for this interview with Gary Norden - mostly because I've never seen anyone squeeze so much information from Gary in one...
Pro Trader Gary Norden Interview – English/Portuguese subtitles
Pro Trader Gary Norden Interview - English/Portuguese subtitles Published on: October 16, 2020 I have to give Kudos to Rafael at DayTrader Pro for this interview with Gary Norden - mostly because I've never seen anyone squeeze so much information from Gary in one...
Trading Group Therapy – Trading Backwards – 23 Oct 12pm EST
Trading Group Therapy - Trading Backwards - 23 Oct 12pm EST Published on: October 07, 2020 Jigsaw Group Therapy Sessions have taken a backseat to the charting project over the past 6 months but it's time to get started again. Next session is 23rd October 12pm EST....
daytradr Charts – Approach & Philosophy
daytradr Charts - Approach & Philosophy Published on: September 29, 2020 In this article, we'll take a look at how Jigsaw charting is put together and our philosophy when it comes to charting. Where we will go and where we won't. How we'll be different. What you can...
daytradr Charts Beta 6
daytradr Charts Beta 6 Published on: September 25, 2020 We now have Beta 6 of daytradr charts released. In this release we have fixes for the following issues: CQG based charts using extremely high CPU Rithmic appearing to disconnect and reset profile in Depth &...
How Trading Targets Can Prevent You From Maximizing Your Profits (15th Oct)
How Trading Targets Can Prevent You From Maximizing Your Profits (15th Oct) Published on: September 21, 2020 We are happy to have been invited once again to present at the next Wealth365 Summit. The summit will be held on 12th - 17th October. It's sponsored by some...
daytradr Charts Beta 4 – CSI, Memory Improvements
daytradr Charts Beta 4 - CSI, Memory Improvements Published on: September 16, 2020 All, it's time for another release of the charts. In this version we have CSI that we first introduced as an indicator for NinjaTrader 7 way back in 2015. This is being released as a...
Jigsaw is Hiring!
Jigsaw is Hiring! Published on: September 09, 2020 Hi All Just a short note to let you know we are hiring for both developer roles and customer support roles. The Job Descriptions are below: 1-2 x C#/Winforms Developer -...
Trading Data Delays – What To Do?
Trading Data Delays - What To Do? Published on: September 05, 2020 There's been lot's of reports of massive data lags this week and we thought we'd take some time to explain why this is and what to do when you see future lags. The lags this week were seen with CQG,...
daytradr Charts Beta 3 – Volume Profiles, Info Windows, Zoom Improvements
daytradr Charts Beta 3 - Volume Profiles, Info Windows, Zoom Improvements Published on: August 27, 2020 Today, we are releasing daytradr charts Beta 2. If this is the first you heard about the beta - please read this post first. In this release, we are including the...
daytradr Charts Beta 2 – Market Profile, Rithmic Support
daytradr Charts Beta 2 - Market Profile, Rithmic Support Published on: August 13, 2020 Today, we are releasing daytradr charts Beta 2. If this is the first you heard about the beta - please read this post first. In this beta, we are adding charts for Rithmic Feed as...
daytradr Charts Beta 1
daytradr Charts Beta 1 Published on: July 31, 2020 Today, we are releasing daytradr charts Beta 1. The purpose of a Beta trial is to have the software running on a wider range of machines, configurations and usage patterns than our QA can replicate. The aim is to find...
Jigsaw Charts & NT8/MT5
Jigsaw Charts & NT8/MT5 Published on: July 27, 2020 We announced the charting beta last week and got lots of replies about our support for NinjaTrader 8 and MT5. Our initial thoughts on this were that when you bridge to another charting platform, you wouldn't need...
Prize Winners Announced!
Prize Winners Announced! Published on: July 22, 2020 In the past month we had 2 opportunities for people in the Jigsaw Community to win some amazing prizes. We've now pulled the names out of a hat and here's the results. Survey Prize This price was for people that...
Jigsaw Charting Beta
Jigsaw Charting Beta Published on: July 22, 2020 Next week, we plan to release the first beta of the Jigsaw Charting Module. It's built into the existing application and for existing users, there's no additional charge to use these charts. We are doing this as many of...
Where are my Orders (PC or Exchange?)
Where are my Orders (PC or Exchange?) Published on: July 21, 2020 Two of the most common questions that come up with trading platform users are: "where do my orders sit? My PC or the exchange?" "will my orders be executed if the internet connection is lost?" It...
Independence Day Sale – Up to $100-$150 off everything! 50 coupons only!
Independence Day Sale - Up to $100-$150 off everything! 50 coupons only! Published on: July 06, 2020 Lot's of people have emailed asking for an Independence Day discount. Many of them that aren't even from the US.... We have decided to give away some fantastic...
Icebergs, Stop Runs & Balance of Outright Traders
Icebergs, Stop Runs & Balance of Outright Traders Published on: July 02, 2020 In this months group therapy, we took a look at icebergs, stop runs and the balance of outright traders. The latter being important as many traders presume that all of the activity we are...
Jigsaw Swing Charts Webinar with a $500 cash prize!
Jigsaw Swing Charts Webinar with a $500 cash prize! Published on: June 30, 2020 We've always been a fan of Swing charts as they provide a unique insight into market activity. Interestingly, it's not because they show more information but because they filter out a lot...
Improved Support System at Jigsaw
Improved Support System at Jigsaw Published on: June 23, 2020 This is a quick video to show you around the new support system at Jigsaw. We've implemented this new system so we can better support you and in many cases, get you an instant response from our growing...
Dinosaurs & Market Bubbles for Day Traders
Dinosaurs & Market Bubbles for Day Traders Published on: June 17, 2020 No doubt most of our readers will have heard of the "Hubble Space Telescope", it orbits the earth taking breathtaking pictures from space. Fewer people know about the sister project "Bubble Space...
Webinar – Situational Awareness – May 21st, 4:30pm EST
Webinar - Situational Awareness - May 21st, 4:30pm EST Published on: May 20, 2020 Many traders start out looking for a technique that they can use in all markets on all timeframes. Often the technique will work for a while then stop working. It’ll work on one day but...
Jigsaw Support of New GAIN/OEC API
Jigsaw Support of New GAIN/OEC API Published on: May 18, 2020 GAIN Capital (aka OEC) have implemented a new API that will replace their existing API next month. We are supporting this in Jigsaw daytradr V 2.1.0.5 out today. Your user id/password will be the same for...
Discretionary Trading Rules
Discretionary Trading Rules Published on: May 12, 2020 In this month's group therapy session, we discussed discretionary trading rules. The recording of the event is below: Most traders split trading into 2 categories - mechanical and discretionary. Mechanical trading...
Trading Group Therapy – Discretionary Trading Rules – 11th May, 12pm EST
Trading Group Therapy - Discretionary Trading Rules - 11th May, 12pm EST Published on: May 11, 2020 In this month's group therapy session, we'll discuss discretionary trading rules. Most traders split trading into 2 categories - mechanical and discretionary....
MBO – The new Holy Grail or A Gimmick for Retail Traders?
MBO - The new Holy Grail or A Gimmick for Retail Traders? Published on: April 30, 2020 There's building chatter and excitement in the retail trading world about "MBO". or "Market By Order". In this article, we'll take a look at what MBO is and the potential...
Jigsaw daytradr 2.1.0.4
Jigsaw daytradr 2.1.0.4 Published on: April 28, 2020 Today we are releasing daytradr 2.1.0.4. This is a maintenance release of fixes. GAIN (OEC) have released a new API and our next task is to QA the changes for that release. We decided to push out these fixes before...
Interactive Brokers Data for US Stocks
Interactive Brokers Data for US Stocks Published on: April 28, 2020 Many customers have asked which market data subscriptions they need for trading US stocks. It's not 100% clear and the stock feeds are quite different from Futures. After all, Futures all trade on a...
Jigsaw Pricing Explained
Jigsaw Pricing Explained Published on: April 25, 2020 In this article, we'll explain the Jigsaw Pricing Model - how it works & why we feel it presents exceptional value. As you read this, bear in mind that 23% of our users trade full time. It'll be clear why...
Understanding Jigsaw daytradr Connectivity & US Futures Data Fees
Understanding Jigsaw daytradr Connectivity & US Futures Data Fees Published on: April 14, 2020 Update: CME Reached out to us, asking us to make a correction to this article: "I am reaching out in regards to this post around non-professional data fees. There seems to...
Trading Group Therapy – Discretionary Trading Rules – 30th April
Trading Group Therapy - Discretionary Trading Rules - 30th April Published on: April 07, 2020 In April's group therapy session, we'll discuss discretionary trading rules. It's on 30th April as 12:00pm EST. Most traders split trading into 2 categories - mechanical and...
Jigsaw daytradr 2.1.0.3 – 64 Bit
Jigsaw daytradr 2.1.0.3 - 64 Bit Published on: March 31, 2020 Today we are releasing daytradr 2.1.0.3. It will be released in 64 bit version only. We'd been releasing 32 bit because one of the APIs we support was only available in 32 bit (XTrader API). It's been...
Rithmic Data Usage Warnings
Rithmic Data Usage Warnings Published on: March 20, 2020 A number of users have contacted us about data usage warnings from Rithmic. Here's an example: "Rithmic's history plant guardian has observed that your user id, xxxx@hotmail.com, has requested historical market...
The Jigsaw Guide To The End Of The World
The Jigsaw Guide To The End Of The World Published on: March 16, 2020 Following on from our recent article "The Eternal Quest For The Market Bottom!", we see that pundits are still hard at work predicting the end of the move. In this gloriously silly article from...
Developing a Game Plan by John Grady
Developing a Game Plan by John Grady Published on: March 06, 2020 Earlier this week, we were luck to have Tradovate sponsor a with John Grady as speaker. If you don't know John he is the founder of No BS Day Trading. John is an ex-proprietary trader who now trades his...
The Eternal Quest For The Market Bottom!
The Eternal Quest For The Market Bottom! Published on: March 03, 2020 It goes without saying that as of writing, the markets are extremely volatile. The long-term picture is one of moving upwards for years with just a couple of significant pullbacks. Now we can see...
Group Therapy – Market Correlations – Recording
Group Therapy - Market Correlations - Recording Published on: February 24, 2020 Last week, we held our monthly group therapy session and this time the focus was Market Correlations. The recording for the webinar has now been uploaded and can be seen below. In this...
Which Trading Education is Best For Me?
Which Trading Education is Best For Me? Published on: February 18, 2020 At Jigsaw, we pride ourselves in offering a range of education options along with our software, something to suit every trader. From the free training you get with daytradr Independent to our...
daytradr Widgets – Real Time News, Economic Releases
daytradr Widgets - Real Time News, Economic Releases Published on: February 11, 2020 We are really happy to release daytradr 2.1.0.2 today. In this release we are introducing "Widgets". Widgets are cloud based features that run on our servers. They are cloud-based...
Jigsaw Customer Video – Steve Leigh – The Road To Profit
Jigsaw Customer Video - Steve Leigh - The Road To Profit Published on: January 30, 2020 On 29th January at 12pm EST, we had very special guest to come along and talk about his trading journey. Many of you will know Steve from the Jigsaw chat room and will have seen...
Jigsaw daytradr – Keeping your data fees low!
Jigsaw daytradr - Keeping your data fees low! Published on: January 23, 2020 You've probably seen now that the CME data fees will go up in February, so this video covers a number of important aspects of keeping your fees to a minimum. 1 - Why you only need data for...
January Group Therapy – Special Guest – Steve Leigh – The Road To Profit
January Group Therapy - Special Guest - Steve Leigh - The Road To Profit Published on: January 22, 2020 On 29th January at 12pm EST, we have a very special guest to come along and talk about his trading journey. Many of you will know Steve from the Jigsaw chat room...
daytradr & Journalytix Interactive Brokers TWS Integration (and more)
daytradr & Journalytix Interactive Brokers TWS Integration (and more) Published on: January 09, 2020 We are really happy to announce the release of Jigsaw Trading Version 2.1.0.0 - which now integrates to Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation (version 978.1g or...
Trading in 2020 – The Plan & The Perils
Trading in 2020 - The Plan & The Perils Published on: January 07, 2020 First of all - Happy New Year. I don't consider it New Year for trading till well into week 2 as it's often low on volume (and I also like an excuse to extend the vacation). January is typically a...
UK Election – Traders Guide
UK Election - Traders Guide Published on: December 11, 2019 Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know it's the UK election tomorrow. An interesting election at that which is going to have some huge ramifications depending on who wins. Now, when I say 'huge...
daytradr R26 – Momentum Tails, LTQ Column, Tradovate Pause & New Chat
daytradr R26 - Momentum Tails, LTQ Column, Tradovate Pause & New Chat Published on: December 02, 2019 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw daytradr R26 with a number of cool, new features. Note that this is our last release before IB Beta and the...
Order Flow Boot Camp – Webinar Recording
Order Flow Boot Camp - Webinar Recording Published on: November 21, 2019 This is a recording of our recent Order Flow Bootcamp, where we gave you an introduction to the art of Order Flow - the single most important set of data used by professional day traders. As so...
Making Improvements In All The Right Places
Making Improvements In All The Right Places Published on: November 11, 2019 There's an interesting couple of lessons I'd like to share from Nathan, a trade mentorship student. About where he found the answers to really improving. Like a lot of traders, Nathan was...
Do futures traders do better than currency traders?
Do futures traders do better than currency traders? Published on: October 28, 2019 Over the years, we've answered thousands of traders' questions. We've decided to make the answers public, so that everyone can benefit from them. This question is from someone...
Seven Most Effective Trading Setups
Seven Most Effective Trading Setups Published on: October 14, 2019 We are happy to announce that we'll be presenting a webinar "The Seven Most Effective Trading Setups" at 4:30pm EST on Thursday 17th October. In this session we’ll take a look at what makes a good...
Learn to Trade with Situational Awareness
Learn to Trade with Situational Awareness Published on: October 04, 2019 Developing situational awareness is a key discipline for professional traders as they learn to trade. But is it something that you at home should concern yourself with? Let's consider 2 extreme...
Trading Group Therapy – Situational Awareness – 3 Oct, 11am EST
Trading Group Therapy - Situational Awareness - 3 Oct, 11am EST Published on: September 27, 2019 On 3rd October, 11am EST, we'll be presenting a group-therapy webinar entitled "Situational Awareness". Hosted by Jigsaw (not a 3rd party event). Click here to sign up for...
Trading Bigger and Better – 81 Live Trade Videos. £500,000 trading day. Trading Firm Tour.
Trading Bigger and Better - 81 Live Trade Videos. £500,000 trading day. Trading Firm Tour. Published on: September 24, 2019 Over the past 2 years, one young trader has been making his way from trading just a handful of contracts to trading 80 contract positions in the...
The Headfake & the ‘News Addicted’ Market – Trade Entry
The Headfake & the 'News Addicted' Market - Trade Entry Published on: September 18, 2019 There's been a lot of focus in the press/blogs recently about increased volatility in the markets. Trump Tweets, China Trade, Interest Rate speculation, Brexit and just a few...
On Demand Market Replay in Jigsaw 2.0.0.20
On Demand Market Replay in Jigsaw 2.0.0.20 Published on: September 04, 2019 In this video, I'll show you how to use Tradovate Market Replay with Jigsaw daytradr. This is available in daytradr version 2.0.0.20. Note that with the market replay, there is no data to...
Profiting from Increased Market Volatility, Post Labor-Day Expectations
Profiting from Increased Market Volatility, Post Labor-Day Expectations Published on: September 04, 2019 Increased market volatility should lead to increased profits from larger moves in the market. For most traders though, the opposite is true and it leads to...
Summer Market Survival Kit!
Summer Market Survival Kit! Published on: June 18, 2019 It's summer time again and that means ice cream, sun burn and awful summer market trading conditions. Many of you will be experiencing your first exposure to summer market dynamics this year. In this article,...
Video – When a Breakout Trade Fails (swimming with the sharks)
Video - When a Breakout Trade Fails (swimming with the sharks) Published on: June 14, 2019 The Breakout trade is one of the most popular setups around. For that, and a number of other reasons, this also makes it an area where large players can nudge the market...
When Technicals say Yes, but Order Flow says No! by Axia Futures
When Technicals say Yes, but Order Flow says No! by Axia Futures Published on: June 10, 2019 One of the most beneficial uses of Order Flow is using for trade confirmation and often that means to not get into the market. Of course, lot's of traders are so focused on...
Effective Trader Education. When Markets go ‘vague’, Scaling into Trades & Trading when Employed
Effective Trader Education. When Markets go 'vague', Scaling into Trades & Trading when Employed Published on: May 27, 2019 As part of our ongoing commitment to Effective Trader Education, we had 2 great webinars last week and as requested, here are including the...
CME Micro Futures Contracts – Upsides, Downsides & Trade Entry Signals
CME Micro Futures Contracts - Upsides, Downsides & Trade Entry Signals Published on: May 22, 2019 Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand the past few weeks, you’ll know the CME recently launched 4 new Micro Futures markets for traders. In this article we take...
Group Therapy – Trading The Idiot Zone & Scaling Into Trades
Group Therapy - Trading The Idiot Zone & Scaling Into Trades Published on: May 20, 2019 In this months trader group therapy, we are going to look into 2 timely issues impacting traders right now. We'll be meeting at May 23rd, 12pm Eastern Time. Click here to register...
Three Great Price Ladder Trades – Passive Entries, FOMO Trades, Trading Risk Events
Three Great Price Ladder Trades - Passive Entries, FOMO Trades, Trading Risk Events Published on: May 17, 2019 In this post, we have 3 amazing trade videos from our partner Axia Futures. If you are interested in learning more about this style of trading, check out our...
“May Madness 50” – Flash Sale at Jigsaw & Journalytix!
"May Madness 50" - Flash Sale at Jigsaw & Journalytix! Published on: May 06, 2019 It's been a busy year so far at Jigsaw and we've not run a sale since Christmas. So, as it's almost the start of summer (except in the UK, where Summer is cancelled this year), we have...
The Run & Jump Trade. Plus – Trading Increased Market Sensitivity to Data
The Run & Jump Trade. Plus - Trading Increased Market Sensitivity to Data Published on: April 30, 2019 Two videos in this post - both from Axia Futures Both highlighting the effectiveness of the Jigsaw platform & the trading styles we teach on the Jigsaw...
Jigsaw daytradr 2.0.0.14 – Ready to trade micro contracts?
Jigsaw daytradr 2.0.0.14 - Ready to trade micro contracts? Published on: April 29, 2019 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw daytradr 2.0.0.14. In this release, we've added support for the CME Micro products. These are: MES - Micro ES - $1.25 a tick MNQ -...
Trading Index Future Divergences (DAX & STOXX) – Video
Trading Index Future Divergences (DAX & STOXX) - Video Published on: April 23, 2019 As anyone that's been following Jigsaw for a while will tell you - we love correlations. Correlations exist in markets because of arbitrage trading that simultaneously buys and sells...
Trading Crude – How to Trade Absorption Off A Step in the Volume Profile
Trading Crude - How to Trade Absorption Off A Step in the Volume Profile Published on: March 31, 2019 In this video, from Axia Futures, Richard leads this price ladder trading session with a replay of how a volume ledge got created which effectively acted as a key...
Strong vs Weak Action on a Breakout
Strong vs Weak Action on a Breakout Published on: March 26, 2019 In this video from Axia Futures, Richard leads discusses the two potential breakouts. The first was a failure to the downside after breaking the 28 level in the German Bund, the second was a successful...
Good Action vs Bad Action by John Grady
Good Action vs Bad Action by John Grady Published on: March 19, 2019 This month, we had a special guest along for our monthly group therapy session. In this session, professional trader John Grady discusses "Good Action vs Bad Action" - or how to spot if your market...
Front Running a Larger Order by Axia Futures
Front Running a Larger Order by Axia Futures Published on: March 19, 2019 In this video, Richard from Axia Futures walks us through the process of Front Running a large order on Crude Oil Futures. In the first part of the video, we get an explanation of the trade...
eMini S&P500 – State of Play – February 2019
eMini S&P500 - State of Play - February 2019 Published on: February 07, 2019 The crazy volatility we saw at the end of 2018 in the US Index Futures appears to be behind us. The China Trade War drums aren't beating so hard and we've become (almost) immune to the daily...
January Group Therapy Recording – Confidence & Confirmation in Trading
January Group Therapy Recording - Confidence & Confirmation in Trading Published on: January 30, 2019 Many traders struggle with indecision immediately after entering a trade. Getting shaken out of good trades and staying in bad trades. They know their setup well but...
Jigsaw Price Ladder Trading Course – Improved & Updated
Jigsaw Price Ladder Trading Course - Improved & Updated Published on: January 27, 2019 We are happy to announce that the Jigsaw Price Ladder Training & Order Flow Strategies course has been radically updated. As you know, the course was created by our Education...
January Group Therapy – Confidence & Confirmation in Trading – Jan 29, 12PM Central
January Group Therapy - Confidence & Confirmation in Trading - Jan 29, 12PM Central Published on: January 23, 2019 Many traders struggle with indecision immediately after entering a trade. Getting shaken out of good trades and staying in bad trades. They know their...
Great New Features in Jigsaw daytradr V2.0.0.11
Great New Features in Jigsaw daytradr V2.0.0.11 Published on: January 08, 2019 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw daytradr V 2.0.0.11. We have a number of quality improvements as well as some great new features. In this release, we have the following new...
Trading 2019 – Market Conditions & Go-Forward Plan
Trading 2019 - Market Conditions & Go-Forward Plan Published on: January 02, 2019 Before I start - this article is not about making New Years resolutions. I only break those anyway and after you break one? Back to normal, isn't it? What this is - is a consideration...
“December 50” – Big End of Year Discounts at Jigsaw & Journalytix!
"December 50" - Big End of Year Discounts at Jigsaw & Journalytix! Published on: December 19, 2018 To celebrate the end of the year, we are giving away some fantastic discounts to 50 lucky customers. The rules are simple - it's a $100 discount off ANY Jigsaw product....
Stormy December – Navigating These Treacherous Markets – Podcast
Stormy December - Navigating These Treacherous Markets - Podcast Published on: December 12, 2018 There's a link below to our recent podcast at TopstepTrader. Before we look at that, I'd like to quickly go over a screen shot, sent by a customer, that really highlights...
Big Black Friday Discounts at Jigsaw! First 50 people only – ends Sunday.
Big Black Friday Discounts at Jigsaw! First 50 people only - ends Sunday. Published on: November 22, 2018 To celebrate Thanksgiving, we are giving away some fantastic discounts to 50 lucky customers. The rules are simple - it's a $100 discount off ANY Jigsaw product....
7 Live Trade Videos, $50k, $70, $80k Profits Recorded Live
7 Live Trade Videos, $50k, $70, $80k Profits Recorded Live Published on: November 16, 2018 Last week we sent out an email about some amazing live trade videos being put together by our prop firm partner, AXIA Futures. There's just 2 ways you can get hold of these...
Pro Trader Merritt Black – Essential Skills of Great Traders – Recording
Pro Trader Merritt Black - Essential Skills of Great Traders - Recording Published on: November 12, 2018 Here's the recording of our recent event with Merritt Black from SMB Futures. Merritt is head of trading at SMB Futures, a prop firm based out of New York. Merritt...
Mid-Term Election Week – What Traders Need to Know
Mid-Term Election Week - What Traders Need to Know Published on: November 05, 2018 This week, we have a major market impacting news event - the US Mid-Term elections. That means it's time to consider the potential impact as traders. I think it would be a mistake to...
Who said price ladder was just for scalpers? $100,000 Live Trade Video
Who said price ladder was just for scalpers? $100,000 Live Trade Video Published on: November 02, 2018 One of the most enduring myths about order flow trading is that it's just for short term traders - "The price ladder - that's just for scalpers!" is what a lot of...
Group Therapy – Pushing a Setup to the Max, High Volatility Order Flow (live demo)
Group Therapy - Pushing a Setup to the Max, High Volatility Order Flow (live demo) Published on: October 31, 2018 Thanks to all those that attended yesterdays Group Therapy Session. Due to the high volatility, we covered 2 topics yesterday. Part 1 - Pushing your edge...
Volatility – Moving Your Stops is Not Always The Answer
Volatility - Moving Your Stops is Not Always The Answer Published on: October 25, 2018 It’s time to discuss the volatility... Lot’s of traders are suffering at the moment and it is NOT just retail traders. There’s quite a few professional traders licking their wounds...
Adapting to differences in price action. High probability or coin flip? by John Grady
Adapting to differences in price action. High probability or coin flip? by John Grady Published on: September 27, 2018 Here's the recording from Wednesday's webinar from John Gradry. It's a great presentation and very much along the lines of the discussions we...
Utilizing Correlated Markets (Bund/Euro)
Utilizing Correlated Markets (Bund/Euro) Published on: August 23, 2018 The use of related markets in trading is one of the most valuable skills to apply in trading and fortunately one of the easiest to learn. The only reason it's not more popular is that a lot of the...
Jigsaw Leaderboard June and July Results – A superscalper in our midst?
Jigsaw Leaderboard June and July Results - A superscalper in our midst? Published on: August 15, 2018 The leaderboard contest rates traders based on our proprietary trading algorithm. Today, we'll take a look at our outstanding performers for June and July. Typically...
Jigsaw Leaderboard June & July Winners
Jigsaw Leaderboard June & July Winners Published on: August 10,...
Special Free Live Training Offer! This week only
Special Free Live Training Offer! This week only Published on: August 06, 2018 It's August time and a slow time for trading, which means we have more time on our hands to help those of you new to Order Flow. So we have an amazing offer for you for this week only. For...
It’s back – Jigsaw Leaderboard & May Results
It's back - Jigsaw Leaderboard & May Results Published on: August 06, 2018 It's been a while since we announced Jigsaw leaderboard results. We noticed in May that a number of traders had tried to 'game' the system. They did this by getting into positions and not...
Pro Trader Talk – Open discussion with 2 industry veterans – Recording
Pro Trader Talk - Open discussion with 2 industry veterans - Recording Published on: August 02, 2018 What does it really take to become a successful trader? Well, most have tried the shortcuts, the free trials, the learn to trader $1 links, the emails suggesting 95%...
Order Flow Absorption & Market Reversals by Axia Futures
Order Flow Absorption & Market Reversals by Axia Futures Published on: August 01, 2018 The most basic 'tell' in trading order flow is the Order Flow Absorption signal. It's the one that's probably easiest to read and the one that traders like to adopt early on in...
Pro Trader Darren Reed – Trading as a Business, 14th August 4:30PM EST
Pro Trader Darren Reed - Trading as a Business, 14th August 4:30PM EST Published on: August 01, 2018 We are happy to announce that Jigsaw is sponsoring a webinar over at Futures.io titled "The Business of Trading". In the webinar, Professional Trader, Darren Reed of...
Reactive Trading – Mastering Summer 2018 Trading Conditions + Live Order Flow Analysis
Reactive Trading - Mastering Summer 2018 Trading Conditions + Live Order Flow Analysis Published on: August 01, 2018 One of the challenges this summer is that volatility is changing day to day. That's catching out a lot of traders that attempt to follow the same...
Battlestations! Win a prize for a pic of your trading desk.
Battlestations! Win a prize for a pic of your trading desk. Published on: August 01, 2018 We are happy to announce that we will be sponsoring the "BattleStations" contest over at futures.io. So close that questionable browser content and send a picture of your trading...
July 2018 – Trader Group Therapy – Getting through this ‘strange’ summer…. 26th July, 12pm EST
July 2018 - Trader Group Therapy - Getting through this 'strange' summer.... 26th July, 12pm EST Published on: July 22, 2018 It's summer time again and time for another group therapy session. The market is pretty much forcing the topic this month - the odd...
Pro Trader Talk – Open discussion with 2 industry veterans…
Pro Trader Talk - Open discussion with 2 industry veterans... Published on: July 22, 2018 Have you ever wanted to eavesdrop on a conversation between industry professionals? Well you can do just that on Friday 27th. Click here to register. Rob from DTG is an industry...
Recording – Pro Trader Merritt Black/SMB Futures- “Context + Order Flow = Success”
Recording - Pro Trader Merritt Black/SMB Futures- "Context + Order Flow = Success" Published on: July 22, 2018 Here at Jigsaw, we think it's important that traders are exposed to different perspectives on trading. Obviously - as long as those perspectives come from...
Trading a Breakout From the Lows & Staying in the Trade
Trading a Breakout From the Lows & Staying in the Trade Published on: July 19, 2018 Markets are slowing down as it's Summer Time, so it's a great time to start looking at new techniques you can refine on a slower market and then employ them as the markets speed up in...
Professional Trader Alex Haywood – Stop Giving Money Back to the Market!
Professional Trader Alex Haywood - Stop Giving Money Back to the Market! Published on: June 29, 2018 On 28th June, 2018, we had Alex Haywood present our monthly "Group Therapy" session. For those that don't know Alex, he's the CEO of Axia Futures, a bricks and mortar...
Jigsaw Group Therapy – 7th June, 2018
Jigsaw Group Therapy - 7th June, 2018 Published on: June 13, 2018 Here's a recording of the group therapy session held on 7th June, 2018. In this session, we take a look at the progress of the 2 traders we've been discussing for a couple of months and we look at the...
Jigsaw Group Therapy – 7th June! Live Webinar Recording.
Jigsaw Group Therapy - 7th June! Live Webinar Recording. Published on: June 13, 2018 Scalping has always been a controversial topic in the retail trading world. Look at any online forum topic about scalping and you'll see that people can barely agree on what it is,...
Professional Trader Alex Haywood Joins our Monthly Group Trading Therapy Session – Jun 7 1:30PM EST
Professional Trader Alex Haywood Joins our Monthly Group Trading Therapy Session - Jun 7 1:30PM EST Published on: May 31, 2018 I'm happy to announce a really special guest for this month's Trading Group Therapy meeting: Alex Haywood, CEO of the London based Prop firm...
Multi-Leg Exit Strategies now Supported in daytradr
Multi-Leg Exit Strategies now Supported in daytradr Published on: May 25, 2018 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw 2.0.0.1. In this release, we are introducing Multi-Leg exit strategies. There's no limit to the number of exit legs and all stop types -...
Why some traders struggle – even with a great setup! How to break the cycle.
Why some traders struggle - even with a great setup! How to break the cycle. Published on: May 23, 2018 When we started Jigsaw back in 2011, our presumption was that traders needed techniques and tools. This is still very much the case but it's become clear that many...
All new Market Balance Gauge
All new Market Balance Gauge Published on: May 11, 2018 In this video, we'll look at the new market balance indicator on the pace of tape gauge. The pace of tape gauge us a very easy way to view the pace of trade across a number of markets. At the bottom we can see...
Jigsaw Leaderboard – New Kid On The Block! Focus, focus, focus…
Jigsaw Leaderboard - New Kid On The Block! Focus, focus, focus... Published on: May 10, 2018 It's time to review the leaderboard results again. In fact - it's a month late! So here's the breakdown of how traders fared in March and April. Well done again to MrGekko for...
Become a better trader – in 2 weeks.
Become a better trader - in 2 weeks. Published on: May 10, 2018 We are please to announce a webinar on futures.io on Thursday, May 17th at 4:30pm EST. Click here to register for the webinar. Over the past 10 years, the pendulum in the trading world has swung from...
Becoming a better trader in 2-weeks time
Becoming a better trader in 2-weeks time Published on: May 10,...
Trading Group Therapy Recording – Real Traders, Real Problems, Real Solutions
Trading Group Therapy Recording - Real Traders, Real Problems, Real Solutions Published on: May 01, 2018 Here's a recording of the 2nd group therapy session in April, 2018. In last month's session, we focused on one Trader and the 'go-forward' plan we helped him...
Jigsaw is 7 Years Old Today!
Jigsaw is 7 Years Old Today! Published on: April 26, 2018 It's our 7th Birthday and it's time to celebrate with a big discount for customers and non-customers alike. The discount is simple – it’s a $100 discount off ANY Jigsaw product. Only 1 discount per customer...
Low cost, high volatility Futures Trading in the US evenings.
Low cost, high volatility Futures Trading in the US evenings. Published on: April 23, 2018 A while ago we put out a video showing the Honk Kong futures markets or HKEX. I'm happy to say that one US brokerage is now providing access to these markets and we now have...
Trailing Limit & Stop Orders – Jigsaw daytradr™
Trailing Limit & Stop Orders - Jigsaw daytradr™ Published on: April 20, 2018 We are happy to announce that Jigsaw daytradr™ now supports both Trailing Stop and Trailing Limit orders. It's all very simple to use, just take a look at the video below to see how. Note...
Jigsaw Group Therapy Recording – April 2018
Jigsaw Group Therapy Recording - April 2018 Published on: April 11, 2018 Here's a recording of the April Group Therapy webinar. In this session, we looked at 2 things. 1 - A review of a retail trader that's trying to put all the pieces together. A very nice guy and a...
Pace of Tape Gauge Excess at End of a Move
Pace of Tape Gauge Excess at End of a Move Published on: April 09, 2018 In this video, we take a look at some interesting action we are seeing now in the equities markets which are really volatile with the whole "US vs China" trade war in the news. The index futures...
Axia’s Alex Haywood – The process of becoming a Professional Trader – Video
Axia's Alex Haywood - The process of becoming a Professional Trader - Video Published on: April 06, 2018 We recently hosted Alex Haywood, Co-Founder and Head of Strategy at Axia Futures (a London based proprietary trading firm), who presented a new webinar: "Trader...
Jigsaw Trade Simulator – Refine your Edge with Accurate Fill and Slippage Simulation
Jigsaw Trade Simulator - Refine your Edge with Accurate Fill and Slippage Simulation Published on: April 02, 2018 We are happy to announce the release of the Jigsaw Trade Simulator. A trading simulator built into the Jigsaw daytrader™ platform with realistic fills on...
Jigsaw SmartGauge™ – Pace of Tape
Jigsaw SmartGauge™ - Pace of Tape Published on: March 26, 2018 We are happy to announce the release of 2.0.0.0 J of Jigsaw daytradr™ with the new Pace of Tape Smart Gauge™. Pace of tape is an integral component of reading Order Flow. In a recent video from Alex...
Powerful Techniques for Changing Your Trading Psychology by Dr Brett Steenbarger
Powerful Techniques for Changing Your Trading Psychology by Dr Brett Steenbarger Published on: March 13, 2018 I have seen many trading webinars in my time and this one from Dr Brett Steenbarger, is definitely in my top 3. Of course, I do admit to being a huge fan of...
Gekko is back! February Leaderboard – close finish, 50% of traders in the black!
Gekko is back! February Leaderboard - close finish, 50% of traders in the black! Published on: March 06, 2018 The February leaderboard results were always going to be interesting. We had a huge spike in volatility at the start of the month and the markets were erratic...
Keep moving your stops? Trade Management Improvement…
Keep moving your stops? Trade Management Improvement... Published on: March 06, 2018 Every now and again a trader will email me about their Trade Management issues, saying something along these lines.... "Is there any drill or exercise to cure my deadly hang-up of not...
They’re Back… Short Term Speculators That is!
They're Back... Short Term Speculators That is! Published on: February 27, 2018 You know the market is returning to normal when traders start complaining about how slow it is.... In yesterdays blog post, we discussed getting ready for the same 'plays' or behaviors in...
S&P500 Volatility – The Return to Normality?
S&P500 Volatility - The Return to Normality? Published on: February 26, 2018 As we head into a new week, it's worth taking pause to consider how the markets may behave in over the next few days. On the 5th Feb, the markets took a huge dive, and since that time have...
Trading now Supported via MT5 with Jigsaw daytradr™
Trading now Supported via MT5 with Jigsaw daytradr™ Published on: February 20, 2018 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw version 2.0.0.0G - with support for trading with the MT5 platform. In a previous release, we introduced data sharing with the MT5...
Price Ladder Trading & Trading Psychology – Bund ECB Sources
Price Ladder Trading & Trading Psychology - Bund ECB Sources Published on: February 16, 2018 As well as the mechanics of the Price Ladder, a major part of learning to trade is understanding trading psychology – peoples’ motivation behind a trade, what their...
$30k profit (DAX/ES), 30% Profitable Traders – January Leaderboard Results
$30k profit (DAX/ES), 30% Profitable Traders - January Leaderboard Results Published on: February 16, 2018 Congratulations to Vaidas for winning the Jigsaw leaderboard contest for a second month running. The leaderboard ranks traders by a proprietary consistency...
Follow the Depth – Trading Drill
Follow the Depth - Trading Drill Published on: February 11, 2018 In the video below, we introduce the "Follow the Depth" trading drill. A drill that is performed on a live market with a demo/sim trading account.There's 2 goals of this drill... Get a real appreciation...
“NIFTY30” Flash Sale at Jigsaw Trading!
"NIFTY30" Flash Sale at Jigsaw Trading! Published on: February 09, 2018 We've had a lot of requests to run our December special again. Mostly from traders that didn't want to spend money ahead of Christmas. I guess people are too shy to say they want to buy it as a...
Great news for US/Asian Traders – HKEX now supported on daytradr™
Great news for US/Asian Traders - HKEX now supported on daytradr™ Published on: February 08, 2018 At Jigsaw, we are always looking for ways that beginner traders can help develop their edge. One of the biggest issues for those in the US, is that there's not much to...
How to trade these volatile markets
How to trade these volatile markets Published on: February 08, 2018 It's been an interesting few days in the financial press. No-one's able to predict anything there but they sure do like to point out the 'causes after the fact. On one outlets, in one day after the...
$1,000 in cash prizes with the Jigsaw Trading Survey
$1,000 in cash prizes with the Jigsaw Trading Survey Published on: January 30, 2018 At Jigsaw, we aren't afraid of giving away cash prizes. In fact, as all of our customers are traders, it's the best way to get their attention. After all - what kind of trader would...
Jigsaw daytradr Platform Bridge™ with MetaTrader5
Jigsaw daytradr Platform Bridge™ with MetaTrader5 Published on: January 18, 2018 We have great news for MetaTrader 5 users today. Today we are releasing the Jigsaw Platform Bridge™ to the MetaTrader 5 platform The bridge allows you to seamlessly link 2 trading...
Price Ladder Trading – Different Ways to Trade a Breakout (Bund)
Price Ladder Trading - Different Ways to Trade a Breakout (Bund) Published on: January 11, 2018 In this video (from Proprietary Trading Firm AXIA Futures), we can see a breakout on the Bund. First we take a look at which area we are looking to breakout from, and...
Prizes for performance – Jigsaw December Leaderboard Winners!
Prizes for performance - Jigsaw December Leaderboard Winners! Published on: January 10, 2018 Once again, it's time to review the winners of the monthly Jigsaw leaderboard contest. This time for December 2017. So who wins the $500 cash prize? December is an interesting...
Volume Spikes – Understanding & Exploiting them – 9th Jan, 4:30pm EST
Volume Spikes – Understanding & Exploiting them - 9th Jan, 4:30pm EST Published on: January 04, 2018 On Tuesday, 9th January at 4:30PM EST, we'll be presenting a webinar entitled "Volume Spikes: Understanding & Exploiting Them" over at futures.io. Click here to...
Iceberg Orders by Axia Futures
Iceberg Orders by Axia Futures Published on: December 22, 2017 If there's one topic that comes up again and again in customer emails/discussions - it's Iceberg Orders. In fact, it came up in yesterdays December Open House session. There are different types of iceberg...
December Open House – Q&A Session
December Open House - Q&A Session Published on: December 22, 2017 Yesterday, we held an "open house" session. This is an open format Q&A Session. Prior to the session, we ask people to send in questions and then we cover those first. Lot's of great topics covered...
daytradr V2 – Jigsaw Platform Bridge™ with NinjaTrader
daytradr V2 - Jigsaw Platform Bridge™ with NinjaTrader Published on: December 21, 2017 We have great news for NinjaTrader users today. We are officially launching V2.0 of daytradr, which includes the Jigsaw Platform Bridge™ The bridge allows us to seamlessly link 2...
“December 50” – Discounts Back by Popular Demand!
"December 50" - Discounts Back by Popular Demand! Published on: December 19, 2017 Last week we announced the "December 50", a big discount for 50 people that we thought would last to the end of the year. Well - it seems like a lot more people read our blog that we...
Jigsaw Trading “Open House” Webinar – Gear up to a profitable 2018
Jigsaw Trading "Open House" Webinar - Gear up to a profitable 2018 Published on: December 18, 2017 As the year is coming to a close and many will be making their trade plans for the New Year. How is your New Year looking? Is it more of the same or do you have a solid...
Jigsaw & TopstepTrader – Identifying a Profitable Trading Strategy
Jigsaw & TopstepTrader - Identifying a Profitable Trading Strategy Published on: December 15, 2017 In the most recent episode of Limit Up! over at TopstepTrader, host Eddie Horn and Peter Davies hone in on the one thing that matters most to traders: finding and...
“December 50” – Big End of Year Discounts at Jigsaw!
"December 50" - Big End of Year Discounts at Jigsaw! Published on: December 11, 2017 To celebrate the end of the year, we are giving away some fantastic discounts to 50 lucky customers. The rules are simple - it's a $100 discount off ANY Jigsaw product. Only 1...
Bitcoin Futures Now Supported on Jigsaw daytradr™
Bitcoin Futures Now Supported on Jigsaw daytradr™ Published on: December 11, 2017 We are happy to announce that Bitcoin futures are now supported on the Jigsaw daytradr™ platform. Bitcoin Futures with symbol "XBT" on CBOE are now live and will be followed on the 18th...
November Leaderboard Results – Mr Gekko wins $500, Maru02 most improved!
November Leaderboard Results - Mr Gekko wins $500, Maru02 most improved! Published on: December 08, 2017 The November leaderboard results are in and the competition is hotting up. Mr Gekko took the top spot again, this time with a consistency rating of 59 and PnL of...
daytradr™ for GAIN Capital (OEC) Data Feed now in Beta
daytradr™ for GAIN Capital (OEC) Data Feed now in Beta Published on: December 05, 2017 Today we are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw daytradr™ 1.1.0.8 with support for the GAIN Capital (OEC) data feed. This gives you all the daytradr™ functionality, including...
Jigsaw Analytics™ P&L Calendar
Jigsaw Analytics™ P&L Calendar Published on: December 03, 2017 We are happy to announce the addition of a P&L Calendar to the Jigsaw Analytics™ web site. The calendar gives you a way to scroll through months of trading history in seconds, looking for patterns in...
OCE Beta Release
OCE Beta Release Published on: December 03, 2017 Today we are announcing the launch of the Beta Trial for Jigsaw daytradr for the Gain Capital (OEC) Feed. This is the feed used by a number of white labeled platforms including: ALPHA TRADER, APEX TRADER, ATC TRADER,...
daytrader 1.1.0.6 – Stock Support & Flip Charts/Imbalance Charts
daytrader 1.1.0.6 - Stock Support & Flip Charts/Imbalance Charts Published on: November 22, 2017 We are rolling out version 1.0.0.6 of daytradr today. A video explaining the changes is below.We've made some fantastic improvements with adding support for stocks as well...
Using Order Flow for Reversals and Breakout Trades
Using Order Flow for Reversals and Breakout Trades Published on: November 22, 2017 In this video, we take a look at a reversal trade and a breakout trade. Not only that but the 2 setups are triggered at the same price – just at different times of the day. This is a...
Well done Mr Gekko! Consistency Pays – $500 for Winning the October Trader Leaderboard Contest
Well done Mr Gekko! Consistency Pays - $500 for Winning the October Trader Leaderboard Contest Published on: November 05, 2017 At the start of October we launched the first of our Monthly trader leaderboard contests. The winner is Laszlo from Hungary AKA Mr...
Trading all conditions? Money Maker or Account Taker?
Trading all conditions? Money Maker or Account Taker? Published on: November 05, 2017 Is trading all conditions a realistic goal? It's certainly an idea that is planted in the heads of many aspiring traders. You've probably seen it, those "magic beans" systems for...
Order Flow Crude Reversal/Breakout Using Momentum
Order Flow Crude Reversal/Breakout Using Momentum Published on: October 25, 2017 I had two customers in the past few days ask me related questions. Although they are different questions, the answer is similar, I decided to highlight this with the Order Flow Crude Oil...
Mr Topstep Open House – $9 for a full week of training!
Mr Topstep Open House - $9 for a full week of training! Published on: October 23, 2017 Jigsaw have been invited to present at Mr Topsteps October Open House. This is a week long session where you get access to Mr Topsteps IM Pro Trading room (a forum for traders to...
Jigsaw daytradr now supported at TopstepTrader – 30% off to celebrate!
Jigsaw daytradr now supported at TopstepTrader - 30% off to celebrate! Published on: October 20, 2017 We are happy to announce that Jigsaw daytradr is now a supported platform at TopstepTrader. We've had a close relationship with TopstepTrader for a number of years...
Turning Japanese…
Turning Japanese... Published on: October 13, 2017 I had a few customers contact me earlier this week about the new Japanese markets AMP is supporting. We already have people trading the Mini-Nikkei and now we have the full size Nikkei and 4 other markets on line. The...
Jigsaw Leaderboard off to a Flying Start – Well done Mr Gekko
Jigsaw Leaderboard off to a Flying Start - Well done Mr Gekko Published on: October 11, 2017 The Jigsaw Leaderboard competition officially started on October 1st. All traders are eligible and the winner gets a $500 cash prize at the end of the month. Traders are rated...
Jigsaw Leaderboard Competition – October Week 1
Jigsaw Leaderboard Competition - October Week 1 Published on: October 11, 2017 We started the leaderboard competition on 1st October and we are now well into...
daytrader 1.0.0.3 Release
daytrader 1.0.0.3 Release Published on: October 10, 2017 We are rolling out version 1.0.0.3 of daytradr today. A video explaining the changes is below.We've made some huge improvements to memory utilization. You'll see around a 80-90% reduction in memory usage for the...
daytradr: A look inside – 4:30pm October 19th
daytradr: A look inside - 4:30pm October 19th Published on: October 05, 2017 On October 19th at 4:30, we'll be presenting a webinar "daytradr. A look inside". We'll be taking a look at the various components of the daytradr platform - what they do, whey they exist,...
Current lack of volatility in the markets – What to do!
Current lack of volatility in the markets - What to do! Published on: October 05, 2017 Since we came out of the traditional Summer Slowdown in the markets (which ends after the US Labor Day holidays), the markets have been acting unusually. Unusually slow and choppy...
October Leaderboard Prize – $500 in cash
October Leaderboard Prize - $500 in cash Published on: September 18, 2017 Those of you keeping up with the news at Jigsaw will know that we've promised monthly prizes for leaderboard winners. We are starting that in October with a $500 cash prize. Not a coupon, not a...
Jigsaw Trader Dashboard
Jigsaw Trader Dashboard Published on: September 15, 2017 Collecting trade data is a pain and crunching that date into meaningful statistics would be a nightmare. Most trading platforms pay just a little attention to presenting trade statistics. At Jigsaw, we think...
Self-Sabotage in Trading. What Exactly is it? How do we Overcome it?
Self-Sabotage in Trading. What Exactly is it? How do we Overcome it? Published on: September 15, 2017 As most traders quickly learn, trading is guaranteed to connect you with all of those ‘emotional skeletons’ residing deep in the depths of your unconscious mind...
Turning Knowledge to Skill and Skill to Action
Turning Knowledge to Skill and Skill to Action Published on: September 04, 2017 On Thursday, 7th September at 1pm Eastern Time, we'll be presenting a webinar entitled "Jigsaw Live Q&A - Transform knowledge to skill and skill to profit". In this session, we'll take...
The Path to Trading Consistency…
The Path to Trading Consistency... Published on: August 31, 2017 It goes without saying that trading consistency is the key to longevity as a trader. What exactly does 'trading consistency' mean? How can you tell month after month that you are becoming more consistent...
Summer Time Trading Opportunities – why and how.
Summer Time Trading Opportunities - why and how. Published on: July 26, 2017 Summertime trading time again! For many newer traders, that means huge losses as they try to trade the same system in different market conditions. There's no doubt that traders need to change...
Using Order Flow for Trading Success
Using Order Flow for Trading Success Published on: July 23, 2017 Peter Davies of Jigsaw Trading was recently interviewed by Les Meehan at Right Mind Trader in an interview entitled "Using order flow for trading success". The interview focuses very much on the mental...
Sharks vs Sharks: Banks, funds, market makers, prop trading
Sharks vs Sharks: Banks, funds, market makers, prop trading Published on: July 16, 2017 Interested in prop trading and other institutional trading? On Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 at 4:30pm EDT. John Grady of NO BS DayTrading will be presenting a webinar entitled "Sharks...
The all new Jigsaw Trading Chat Room – with video!
The all new Jigsaw Trading Chat Room - with video! Published on: June 08, 2017 The Jigsaw Trading Chat room has been an integral feature for many years at Jigsaw. It's a great place for like minded traders to meet and chat about what they are seeing in the market....
Professional Trader Alex Haywood Diving into Order Flow – Thursday, 4:30PM EST
Professional Trader Alex Haywood Diving into Order Flow - Thursday, 4:30PM EST Published on: June 05, 2017 This Friday at 4:30PM EST, Jigsaw Trading will be sponsoring a webinar on the futures.io forum. The webinar is titled "Determining your optimum order flow...
Professional Trader Q&A Session – Gary Norden
Professional Trader Q&A Session - Gary Norden Published on: June 05, 2017 It's rare for retail traders to get access to a professional trader, let alone get the chance to ask them questions. On Wednesday, 24th May, we gave you the opportunity to do just that, with...
Learn to Trade. Profits – Now, or Never???
Learn to Trade. Profits - Now, or Never??? Published on: May 07, 2017 Imagine trying to learn to trade for 20 years but still not getting it right. At that point do you carry on or quit? I think we can all agree what you'd need to do something different. But that...
Adrienne Toghraie – Evolution of a Master Trader (Webinar Recording)
Adrienne Toghraie - Evolution of a Master Trader (Webinar Recording) Published on: April 19, 2017 In this webinar Adrienne from Trading on Target discussed each trader category & what is necessary to face the challenges towards becoming a Master Trader. You will...
Market Dynamics – Trade Location in all the Right Places
Market Dynamics - Trade Location in all the Right Places Published on: April 10, 2017 This Tuesday, April 11th at 4:30pm EDT, Peter Davies of Jigsaw Trading will be presenting a webinar entitled "Market Dynamics – Trade Location in All the Right Places". The webinar...
Futures io (aka Big Mike Trading Forum) review
Futures io (aka Big Mike Trading Forum) review Published on: March 20, 2017 Trading forums tend to be a bit of a mixed-bag in terms of quality, although I think the futures io forum deserves a little credit for pushing that side of the industry in a new direction. In...
Spotting reversals with high volume nodes (Crude)
Spotting reversals with high volume nodes (Crude) Published on: March 08, 2017 High volume nodes (also know as volume clusters) are the key to catching market reversals early. Not all reversals are identified by high volume nodes but a high percentage of them are. If...
‘One Tick’ Trading Drills
'One Tick' Trading Drills Published on: March 02, 2017 In a previous post, we took a look at trading drills to accelerate your progress as a trader. In the earlier article, we looked at the “Cut and Reverse” Drill. In this video below we look at how to take your...
Análise de Fluxo de Ordens com Jigsaw Auction Vista Heatmap
Análise de Fluxo de Ordens com Jigsaw Auction Vista Heatmap Published on: February 18, 2017 A equipe da academia Day Trader Pro, pioneira na divulgaçao de moderna analise de fluxo de ordens no Brasil, preparou uma aula especial dando uma visao geral das principais...
Jigsaw Trading wins awards at “futures.io” and “Trader Planet”
Jigsaw Trading wins awards at "futures.io" and "Trader Planet" Published on: February 12, 2017 In a great start to the New Year, Jigsaw Trading has won awards at 2 industry leading Trading sites. On the Futures.io "True Edge Awards" Jigsaw came first in the "Trading...
Looking beyond price – Finding ‘reaction points’ with Order Flow
Looking beyond price – Finding ‘reaction points’ with Order Flow Published on: February 08, 2017 When a market is moving sideways, it’s often better to just quit trading for the day. Markets will typically have high activity at their ‘open’ time where institutional...
Make Trading 2017 a Positive Experience – starting the trading year right
Make Trading 2017 a Positive Experience - starting the trading year right Published on: January 01, 2017 As we head into a New Year, we all have plans and aspirations as to how we see that year playing out. Some traders will be fine tuning their plan and others will...
Cut and Reverse Drill (Crude – with video)
Cut and Reverse Drill (Crude - with video) Published on: December 07, 2016 The Cut and Reverse drill is used in proprietary trading firms as part of their training program for new traders. It has one purpose and one purpose only – to make better traders. It’s...
Jigsaw Tools Star Award Nomination – Vote for a chance to win $1000 cash!
Jigsaw Tools Star Award Nomination - Vote for a chance to win $1000 cash! Published on: December 02, 2016 We are happy to announce that the Jigsaw Tools have been nominated for a Trader Planet Star Award in the "Trading Software: Forex/Futures" category. Not only can...
Optimize Trading Tactics To Make Them More Effective
Optimize Trading Tactics To Make Them More Effective Published on: November 19, 2016 At the end of this post is a recording of the webinar John Slazas presented on 14th November. Every trader has certain trading tactics they have acquired over the years that provide...
Hedging an Outright Futures Position with Options
Hedging an Outright Futures Position with Options Published on: November 11, 2016 As part of our effort to give traders as wide a knowledge of professional trading as possible, On Wednesday, 9th November at 4:30 PM Eastern, we'll be hosted a webinar "Hedging Futures...
Day Trading – Macro & Micro – Webinar Recordings
Day Trading – Macro & Micro - Webinar Recordings Published on: October 31, 2016 Over the past months; Kam Dhadwar at “The Trading Framework” and Peter Davies at “Jigsaw Trading” presented a series of webinars entitled "Day Trading - Macro to Micro" In webinar 1, we...
Jigsaw daytradr Trading Platform Now Available
Jigsaw daytradr Trading Platform Now Available Published on: September 30, 2016 In this presentation, hosted on the futures.io forum we took a look at the Jigsaw Tools in a stand alone environment. A new trading platform that we are calling RapidTraderPro. This is the...
Getting Started In Scalping/Ultra Short Term Trading
Getting Started In Scalping/Ultra Short Term Trading Published on: September 29, 2016 On 28th September, 2016, Jigsaw Trading presented a 1 hour webinar on scalping. Discussing a number of scalping setups on volatile and slow markets. Originally, scalping was a...
Pre-breakout & Pullback Trades
Pre-breakout & Pullback Trades Published on: June 15, 2016 Here's a trade video showing 2 trades on the eMini S&P500. This is after a short period of increased volatility and the first trade reflects adjusting to an expectation of higher volatility. Trade 1 - Pre...
Choppy Market Trade – Using High Volume Nodes
Choppy Market Trade - Using High Volume Nodes Published on: June 08, 2016 Here's a trade video that shows a play off a high volume node that developed in a low volume, high liquidity, choppy market. Look out for this sort of action as we move into the summer...
Relative Volume & Average Tick
Relative Volume & Average Tick Published on: June 06, 2016 I've been getting a lot of requests about how I set up 2 of the charts I show in Jigsaw Webinars. CSI (Cumulative Sheep Index) aka Relative Volume This shows volume at the time of day relative to the prior n...
Components of a Trade Plan, Trade Education, Q&A
Components of a Trade Plan, Trade Education, Q&A Published on: May 27, 2016 This Thursday (26th May) at 12:30pm EST, we will held a live Q&A Session webinar. The purpose of this session was partly to answer any questions people had about the Jigsaw tools and how...
Open Trade on the S&P500 Futures
Open Trade on the S&P500 Futures Published on: May 17, 2016 A customer asked a couple of days ago if we had any sample videos of the pullback trades we discuss in our webinars. I was pretty sure there were some on the site but when I looked, the cupboard was bare!...
Swing Charts, Cumulative Delta & Footprint charts on MultiCharts.NET
Swing Charts, Cumulative Delta & Footprint charts on MultiCharts.NET Published on: May 16, 2016 Here's a quick video showing how to set up swing charts, cumulative delta and footprint charts on Multicharts.NET platform. Note - this shows the MultiCharts.NET Special...
Trading the Nikkei 225 – Trading US Evenings!
Trading the Nikkei 225 - Trading US Evenings! Published on: April 28, 2016 This video takes a look at the eMini Nikkei 225 trading on Osaka Securities Exchange. One of the things that makes this an interesting market is that there's a lot of US traders that have full...
Alert Settings for Jigsaw Tools
Alert Settings for Jigsaw Tools Published on: April 12, 2016 All I get asked many times what the best settings are for the various alerts in the Jigsaw Tools. Here's the best way to set them: Summary Tape Divergence - Take the average depth & multiply by 2. So if...
Jigsaw Tools 5.3 Beta 5
Jigsaw Tools 5.3 Beta 5 Published on: April 10, 2016 This video is to show the features of the fifth beta release of Jigsaw Tools with auction vista. This version will be released on Monday, 11th April First let's look at the visual differences. We have changed the...
20/20 Market Vision – Staying on the right side of the market
20/20 Market Vision - Staying on the right side of the market Published on: April 02, 2016 On 1st April, 2016 we be presented a webinar entitled "20/20 Market Vision - Staying on the right side of the market". The webinar was hosted on the TopstepTrader Squawk Radio...
Jigsaw Q&A Session 1 – March 23rd, 2016
Jigsaw Q&A Session 1 - March 23rd, 2016 Published on: March 24, 2016 Hi In this first Q&A session, we look at the question that came in the most "just tell me where to get in and get out". In addition, we also look at: If you entered a trade and it goes in your...
Auction Vista and Crude Oil Futures
Auction Vista and Crude Oil Futures Published on: February 01, 2016 In this video, I’m going to take a look at using the Jigsaw tools on thinner markets like Crude Oil, Gold and DAX futures. As many of you know, I personally prefer to trade more liquid markets like...
Day Trading the Open – Video
Day Trading the Open - Video Published on: January 25, 2016 In this video we discuss day trading the open. Not the opening range but the open itself. Not the first 90 minutes but the first few minutes. In some cases, taking trades within the first couple of minutes of...
Auction Vista Cheat Sheet
Auction Vista Cheat Sheet Published on: January 04, 2016 Here's the "cheat sheet" for Auction Vista. More coming soon. Click on the image for full...
Auction Vista – One customer’s experience – with results!
Auction Vista - One customer's experience - with results! Published on: January 04, 2016 I got an email a few days ago from a Jigsaw customer that has been with us since March 2015. He's a big fan of Order Flow but never found much benefit in the Market Depth for Day...
The Institutional Trading Day
The Institutional Trading Day Published on: January 04, 2016 Have you ever wondered how Institutional Traders organize their day? After all, many people consider Institutional Traders to be "the opposition", whilst others claim to be following in their footsteps. Yet...
Jigsaw Tools 5.3 Beta with “Auction Vista”
Jigsaw Tools 5.3 Beta with "Auction Vista" Published on: January 04, 2016 I'm happy to announce the release of Jigsaw 5.3 with "Auction Vista" Historical Order Flow Heatmap. This additional functionality is available completely free of charge to existing customers. As...
All Bets Are Off!
All Bets Are Off! Published on: December 15, 2015 We got hit with some major volatility yesterday with a 19.5 point move up in 2 minutes (but only 53k contracts traded) and then a 1 minute 16 point drop, again with just 26k contracts traded. Big swings with relatively...
Man Versus Machine: Algorithmic High Frequency Trading And You
Man Versus Machine: Algorithmic High Frequency Trading And You Published on: December 09, 2015 This is just a quick note to tell you about that our new article "Man Versus Machine: Algorithmic High Frequency Trading And You" has been published on the Trader Planet...
Trading OPM (Other People’s Money)…
Trading OPM (Other People's Money)... Published on: October 22, 2015 We are always happy to hear when one of our customers gets funded at TopstepTrader. So congratulations Matt on getting a Funded account there. For those that don't know TopstepTrader, they have a...
Licensing Update – 15th October
Licensing Update - 15th October Published on: October 15, 2015 All This is the final update on the licensing issues for this week. Some customers reported a connection issue (with second connections) on We received a second update from the licensing company and tested...
Jigsaw License Issue Update
Jigsaw License Issue Update Published on: October 14, 2015 All As you know, we have received a new licensing module from our licensing provider. Unfortunately it appears the new module has a glitch that will impact some customers. The issue is as follows: 1 - open...
Jigsaw Licensing Mandatory Upgrade
Jigsaw Licensing Mandatory Upgrade Published on: October 13, 2015 On Friday, 9th October the licensing server we use to validate your access to Jigsaw went down. Or rather, the issue was that a very specific URL was used to validate the license and the hosting company...
Jigsaw at Futex
Jigsaw at Futex Published on: October 10, 2015 Always nice to see Jigsaw Tools being used in a professional trading environment! Good luck...
Order Flow on a Thinner ES – Review of a Reversal
Order Flow on a Thinner ES - Review of a Reversal Published on: September 30, 2015 This video was sent to me by a customer that is new to the tools. It shows some of the action from the 25th September. At this point the eMini S&P500 Futures has been extremely thin...
Persistent Trading Mistakes – How To Stop Repeating The Same Expensive Errors
Persistent Trading Mistakes - How To Stop Repeating The Same Expensive Errors Published on: September 23, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, a customer asked me what seemed to be a fairly simple question. "I keep moving my stops out of the way when I know I shouldn't. It's...
Order Flow – Keeping it Simple, Practical & Effective
Order Flow - Keeping it Simple, Practical & Effective Published on: September 17, 2015 In this video, we discuss some of the benefits of using order flow in trading and what I look for personally when trading with the Jigsaw tools. I’ll try to keep this light on...
Extreme Volatility and Your Trading
Extreme Volatility and Your Trading Published on: September 02, 2015 Well - here we are again almost two weeks into another major shift in volatility, both in Crude Oil and in the US Indices. For those of you new to trading, you may well be wondering how long it will...
Reset Volume Profile on the Open
Reset Volume Profile on the Open Published on: August 26, 2015 I've had a lot of requests on how to reset the volume profile at the market open. MultiCharts Create a "split session template" that looks like this: MultiCharts Split Session Use that session profile on...
Live Trade Room Video – 28th July, Crude & ES Trades
Live Trade Room Video - 28th July, Crude & ES Trades Published on: August 07, 2015 This recording is from 28th July and shows 4 trades: 1 - Scalp Long Trade Crude - Bill was looking for a reaction at 47.12 a and after an initial bounce there (order flow confirming the...
Live Trade Room Trades – July 27th
Live Trade Room Trades - July 27th Published on: August 07, 2015 This short video is a preview of the Jigsaw Live Trade Room with Bill Wood AKA Barnacle Bill the trader. Bill trades both Crude and emini S&P500 futures in the room which is open from 8:45 to 11:30am...
Using Order Flow to Exploit Weaker Traders
Using Order Flow to Exploit Weaker Traders Published on: July 22,...
Trader Interview – Peter Davies on 52Traders.com
Trader Interview - Peter Davies on 52Traders.com Published on: July 22, 2015 A month or so ago, I spent some time chatting to Cam Hawkins from 52 Traders.com. Cam is going through the process of interviewing 52 well known traders and asking them about how they came...
Introdução ao Tape Reading – Parte 01
Introdução ao Tape Reading - Parte 01 Published on: July 14, 2015 Aqui está um vídeo do "Day Trader Pro" Channel YouTube. É o nosso "Introdução à Ordem Flow" de vídeo, mas com legendas em português. Basta reproduzir o vídeo. Clique em "CC" para ver o texto em...
Summertime Slowdown
Summertime Slowdown Published on: June 26, 2015 Well, it's that time of year again, when the markets start to slow down and we get a lot of trading ranges to trade. So let's take a look at how to trade that sort of action again. In this video, we take a look at...
La verdadera razón de porque el Precio se mueve.
La verdadera razón de porque el Precio se mueve. Published on: June 12, 2015 "¿Por qué se mueven los precios?" Es una pregunta interesante que los Traders pasan muy poco tiempo contemplando. Los operadores tienden a aceptar que el precio se mueve de una manera...
Developing Your Own Trading Style
Developing Your Own Trading Style Published on: June 11, 2015 On Tuesday, 9th June, Jigsaw Trading presented a webinar entitled "Developing Your Own Trading Style" Click Here to watch the recording of this webinar Most aspiring traders start out by wanting to know how...
Live Day Trade on the 6E Euro Using Traded Volume
Live Day Trade on the 6E Euro Using Traded Volume Published on: May 08, 2015 Here's a video from Jason at The Blue Collar Trader. This is a great video, the focus isn't so much on the entry but on managing the trade based on the Order Flow after entry. Any other...
Crude Scalper & Jigsaw user funded at TopstepTrader.
Crude Scalper & Jigsaw user funded at TopstepTrader. Published on: March 23, 2015 We often get asked "Does Order Flow apply to thin markets like Crude or is it just for thick instruments?". To answer, here is a great story from "CSSTrader" (his pseudonym on...
Customer Trade Videos – ZB & ES
Customer Trade Videos - ZB & ES Published on: March 09, 2015 I met Arthur a couple of weeks ago in Bangkok where 'meet for lunch' turned into ten people for dinner, covering 3 generations... Based on how well they got along, I think my daughter will be marrying his...
How far can you go in Order Flow Analysis after just 6 hours?
How far can you go in Order Flow Analysis after just 6 hours? Published on: March 04, 2015 I have a standing offer that customers who use the Jigsaw tools can send me their observations IF they follow the instructions in our "New to Jigsaw Tools" Video...
A Refreshing Change – A Trading Educator Taking a TopstepTrader Combine
A Refreshing Change - A Trading Educator Taking a TopstepTrader Combine Published on: March 03, 2015 It's always good to see educators in the trading industry that are open and transparent. So it was refreshing to hear that one of them is currently doing a combine...
Swing Charts – Trading On The Side of Strength
Swing Charts - Trading On The Side of Strength Published on: February 13, 2015 Swing Charts are seldom discussed in trading but are a powerful tool in assessing both the state of the market (trending vs ranging), the strength of a trend and the likely turn around...
Anatomy of a Reversal
Anatomy of a Reversal Published on: February 08, 2015 This is a recording of a webinar on the TopstepTrader Squawk Radio Show on 6th February. There’s a school of thought that says those that got into the market at the high or the low of the day are the best of...
Order Flow – Inside & Outside The Box – The Recording
Order Flow - Inside & Outside The Box - The Recording Published on: January 23, 2015 At 1pm EasternTime on 22nd January, Peter Davies from Jigsaw Trading was guest on Stage 5 Trading's regular "Convergence Tuesday" event. This was an open discussion, chaired by...
Trading the market or trading the volatility?
Trading the market or trading the volatility? Published on: January 07, 2015 This has so far, been an unusual week in the markets. Typically, the first 2 weeks of the year are poor to trade. Volumes are normally to the low side and it can be fairly tight. What we...
Order Flow/Scalping a thinner eMini S&P500 Market (live trades)
Order Flow/Scalping a thinner eMini S&P500 Market (live trades) Published on: December 12, 2014 This video is targeted at those who may be new to reading order flow as well as those that are struggling when the liquidity drops on the ES and we just have a few hundred...
Swing Charts With Cumulative Delta for NinjaTrader
Swing Charts With Cumulative Delta for NinjaTrader Published on: December 11, 2014 There have been many requests from people asking how I set up my charts. They look like this: In the upper area there are lines for open, Globex high/low and yesterday's high/low. There...
Live Market Analysis – eMini S&P500 Futures – a pause at the top
Live Market Analysis - eMini S&P500 Futures - a pause at the top Published on: December 03, 2014 Every Tuesday and Thursday, Peter Davies from Jigsaw Trading joins Eddie at TopstepTrader to discuss the action on the US Indices and specifically the eMini S&P500...
Spotting absorption & the reduced liquidity market
Spotting absorption & the reduced liquidity market Published on: October 31, 2014 I recently got an email from a new Jigsaw user asking if there was a video specifically showing how to spot absorption on the Jigsaw tools. This is on a number of our videos but there's...
Stephen Kelly Trial Week Webinar Recordings
Stephen Kelly Trial Week Webinar Recordings Published on: October 16, 2014 We recently ran a free week in the Jigsaw Live Trade room and we had many requests to share recordings of the Thursday and Friday sessions. In the first Video Stephen talks extensively about...
Data lags in high volume markets
Data lags in high volume markets Published on: October 16, 2014 I've had lots of emails/calls lately about the following phenomenon: As you can see, the price that current trades are printing at is very far from the inside bid/offer is on the depth. This looks very...
Webinar – Trader Follow-Up Q&A: Stephen Kelly
Webinar - Trader Follow-Up Q&A: Stephen Kelly Published on: September 23, 2014 On Tuesday 16th September, Stephen Kelly was a guest on FT71's "Convergence Tuesday" webinar. This webinar followed Stephens earlier webinar there in which Stephen discussed his journey as...
Обзор профессионального рыночного стакана Jigsaw
Обзор профессионального рыночного стакана Jigsaw Published on: September 12, 2014 В сравнении с Jigsaw, обычный рыночный стакан NinjaTrader 7 обладает скудным функционалом. В Jigsaw я использую для анализа все колонки, начиная от профайла. Разделенные накопленные и...
Back to the Futures (Возвращение к трейдингу фьючерсами на CME)
Back to the Futures (Возвращение к трейдингу фьючерсами на CME) Published on: September 12, 2014 This video is from a Jigsaw customer who is returning to Futures a few months ago. The video is in Russian but the story is worthy of a Translation.... This is a new video...
Trade Video – Using Order Flow to Manage Trades on Thin Markets
Trade Video - Using Order Flow to Manage Trades on Thin Markets Published on: September 09, 2014 All Today, Jason at Oil Trading Group sent me the video below. It shows a breakout trade being entered based on price action and then managed using order flow. The trade...
Trading Choppy Markets
Trading Choppy Markets Published on: August 22, 2014 On 22nd August, 2014 we presented a Webinar on the Topstep Trader Squawk Radio Broadcast entited "Trading The Summertime Chop" In this webinar, we took a look at how the market changes in the US Summer Time. The...
Stephen Kelly’s Setup
Stephen Kelly's Setup Published on: August 18, 2014 All I've had a number of emails asking to share Stephen Kelly's Depth & Sales setup. The template is used by Stephen every day in the Jigsaw Live Trade room. His setup is a bit more "subtle" than mine and looks...
Recording: Trading the Summer Time Chop
Recording: Trading the Summer Time Chop Published on: July 18, 2014 As many of you will have experienced, volatility and volume takes a dive during the US Summer Time. For those in your first year of trading, you may not even know what is about to happen but the sort...
Recording: Convergence Tuesday Event – July 15, 2014 – Trader Spotlight: Stephen Kelly
Recording: Convergence Tuesday Event – July 15, 2014 – Trader Spotlight: Stephen Kelly Published on: July 18, 2014 On the 15th July, Stephen Kelly was interviewed by Morad Askar AKA FT71 of Stage 5 Trading. In the interview, they discussed: Stephen's journey as a...
Anatomy of a Sell Off – July 26th, 2014
Anatomy of a Sell Off - July 26th, 2014 Published on: July 07, 2014 All This video takes a look at the initial move on the 26th July where the ES sold off over 10 points from the open. The original video was posted on the Jigsaw "Ask Me Anything" thread on the...
Introducción al “Order Flow” en Español. (y un video extra)
Introducción al "Order Flow" en Español. (y un video extra) Published on: June 20, 2014 This first video is an English/Spanish version of our "Introduction to OrderFlow" Presentation. Many thanks to Cande at Trading With Traders for hosting this. El primer video es...
Guy Bower’s Trading with DOM – Free eBook
Guy Bower's Trading with DOM - Free eBook Published on: May 26, 2014 Hi All A while ago, we blogged about the Guy Bowers YouTube page Guy's videos mostly center around his work at Aussie prop shop Propex where he's been teaching their intern traders how to trade off...
Jigsaw Live Trade Room – Free Trade Video & Results Now Online
Jigsaw Live Trade Room - Free Trade Video & Results Now Online Published on: May 22, 2014 Many people asked if we could put up some trade videos to show how Stephen trades in the Live Trade Room. The first of these is on line and more will be added in the coming...
Jigsaw Trading Overview – Española & Français
Jigsaw Trading Overview - Española & Français Published on: May 19, 2014 Many thanks to both Cande from Spain and Dom from France for helping us get the message across in Spanish and French. Aperçu vidéo français de Dom est ci-dessous. Il dispose d'une bibliothèque de...
Live Crude Trade with an Obvious Stall – Using Jigsaw to Trade Thinner Markets
Live Crude Trade with an Obvious Stall - Using Jigsaw to Trade Thinner Markets Published on: May 12, 2014 Here is an excellent video from Chris, a Jigsaw customer. He discusses what he looks for when trading Crude and he then takes a live trade. What is cool about...
A traders journey to profitability. How a retail trader made it.
A traders journey to profitability. How a retail trader made it. Published on: April 22, 2014 When we recently sent out emails about our Live Trade Room, the number one question back was "Stephen Kelly - who's that?". Apparently the answer "just some guy" was not...
Kill it or Keep it Trade Management – 2014 Edition
Kill it or Keep it Trade Management - 2014 Edition Published on: April 06, 2014 Thanks again to TopstepTrader for hosting another Jigsaw Webinar. In this webinar "Kill it or Keep it", we take a look at post-entry position analysis. Or to put it another way "is this...
Live Order Flow Analysis – 27th March 2014
Live Order Flow Analysis - 27th March 2014 Published on: March 27, 2014 Here's another of our Live "Order Flow Outlook" interviews that we give on a Tuesday and Thursday morning at 10:30am EST. In this session, what is interesting is that one of the trade locations...
Introducing Order Flow to Your Trading – Recording
Introducing Order Flow to Your Trading - Recording Published on: March 24, 2014 All On Friday, we presented our "Introducing Order Flow to Your Trading" webinar. This rounds off our "Order Flow Foundation" Course which is on our "Learn to Trade Page" From now on, we...
ES Live Trade Video 16th March – stop, head fake, re-entry and trade management
ES Live Trade Video 16th March - stop, head fake, re-entry and trade management Published on: March 20, 2014 This video is from Jason on the Blue Collar Trader YouTube channel. This is an interesting video as you can see the order flow go against Jason and stop him...
Live Day Trading Market Analysis – 18th March 10:30am
Live Day Trading Market Analysis - 18th March 10:30am Published on: March 18, 2014 It's an unintentionally well kept secret that each Tuesday and Thursday Jigsaw Trading do a segment on the TopstepTrader Squawk Radio Show This is a live, unscripted segment where we...
Practical Application of Order Flow – 2014 Edition – Part 2
Practical Application of Order Flow - 2014 Edition - Part 2 Published on: March 10, 2014 On Friday 7th March, we presented part 2 of our "Practical Application of Order Flow" webinar. In this webinar we'll focused on reading the Order Book. This was an intensive look...
Practical Application of Order Flow – 2014 Edition – Part 1
Practical Application of Order Flow - 2014 Edition - Part 1 Published on: March 03, 2014 We first presented the "Practical Application of Order Flow" with Topstep Trader in early 2013. This year we have split the webinar into 2 parts. Part 1 deals with 2 major topics....
Customer Video – DayTrading Headfake on the ES.
Customer Video - DayTrading Headfake on the ES. Published on: February 28, 2014 Here is a video from a new customer YouTube channel. The customer is using a combination of Price Action and Order Flow. Start - we can see that the market has moved down to around 1837...
Introduction to Order Flow – 2014 Edition
Introduction to Order Flow - 2014 Edition Published on: February 27, 2014 Last week TopstepTrader hosted a webinar which was effectively a repeat of our "Introduction to Order Flow" webinar we did there in early 2013. We did add some new stuff this time. Some new...
Eurex Order Flow – IQFeed vs S5 Trader (OEC Trader)
Eurex Order Flow - IQFeed vs S5 Trader (OEC Trader) Published on: January 23, 2014 I got a message from Danny yesterday that IQFeed was printing trades on the wrong side. Of course, I didn't believe him but then I asked if it was Eurex specific 'cause things are...
Well done RazrTrader! Another trader live with TopstepTrader
Well done RazrTrader! Another trader live with TopstepTrader Published on: January 23, 2014 It's always nice to hear when someone gets through the TopstepTrader combine and progresses to getting a live account funded with them. Of course, we get even more of a kick...
Customer Trade – Day Trading Without Charts
Customer Trade - Day Trading Without Charts Published on: January 18, 2014 All I just got the following message on email and I thought I'd reply to it here I learn mostly by doing. I tought buyers will defend the 1835.00 level, as we had 21k trades there. i took the...
Treasuries are like peas in a pod!
Treasuries are like peas in a pod! Published on: January 18, 2014 Here's a customer video showing some interesting action at the highs. I won't comment on it too much as there is a full audio commentary. What is remarkable about this video is that this person became a...
Video – Day Trading Without Charts – Part 2
Video – Day Trading Without Charts – Part 2 Published on: January 17, 2014 Here's the second part of the Day Trading Without Charts webinar. We didn't have time to cover all the material in a one hour session, so here's the rest of it. As usual change to Full HD,...
Video – Day Trading Without Charts – Part 1
Video - Day Trading Without Charts - Part 1 Published on: January 16, 2014 Here's a recording of our 15th January Webinar - Day Trading Without Charts. In this video we look at how to use the intraday volume profile to determing trade entry and exit points as well as...
Day Trading without charts? Intraday Volume Profile Analysis Webinar
Day Trading without charts? Intraday Volume Profile Analysis Webinar Published on: January 09, 2014 Day Trading Without Charts is discussed quite often on Trading Forums. Most of the discussions are based around whether day trading without charts is even possible....
Day Trading in December – is it me or is it the market?
Day Trading in December - is it me or is it the market? Published on: December 19, 2013 Over the past few months I've been getting to know RG from Discovery Trading group. I was introduced to them by Anthony at Stage 5 Trading, he said we'd probably get along and...
Learn to trade order flow with Jigsaw Tools – Beginners guide
Learn to trade order flow with Jigsaw Tools - Beginners guide Published on: December 06, 2013 In this video, I’d like to talk about getting started with Jigsaw Tools. Part of the focus will be on traders that do not currently use order flow at all. Those that are...
Learn to trade Order Flow with Jigsaw Tools – First Steps
Learn to trade Order Flow with Jigsaw Tools - First Steps Published on: December 06, 2013 In this video, I’d like to talk about getting started with Jigsaw Tools. Part of the focus will be on traders that do not currently use order flow at all. Those that are looking...
Trading without charts? Live volume profile analysis.
Trading without charts? Live volume profile analysis. Published on: December 05, 2013 There's often talk on trading forums about day trading without charts. The volume profile shows you where traders are positioned as well as which prices traded. A lot of information...
Day Trading for Dummies? Suggestions for aspiring day traders
Day Trading for Dummies? Suggestions for aspiring day traders Published on: December 04, 2013 This video is for people new to trading and those that just aren't getting anywhere. What is day trading anyway? What is it you have committed to learning and hope to make...
Confirming Day Trading Levels with Order Flow – Webinar Recording
Confirming Day Trading Levels with Order Flow - Webinar Recording Published on: November 28, 2013 Last week I was asked by JP at JPJ Trading to do a webinar to the members of his trading room. I've known JP for a couple of years now and he is responsible for teaching...
Jigsaw Trading V5.2 – Order Flow Software Powers Ahead
Jigsaw Trading V5.2 - Order Flow Software Powers Ahead Published on: November 11, 2013 We are happy to announce that today we have released V5.2 of the Jigsaw Tools. In this release we have an exciting new set of features we are calling the "Power Meters". Rather than...
ES Trade with a Shake-Out!
ES Trade with a Shake-Out! Published on: October 29, 2013 I got emailed the link to a new YouTube channel last week whilst I was on vacation and I took a look around today. You can see the channel here - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfTf7NJsGKh8U-4svZfz1zA/videos -...
FESX Breakdown trade.
FESX Breakdown trade. Published on: October 24, 2013 Here is a customer video from Vaidas... I'm not a huge fan of breakout/breakdown trades but the exception is where there is a clear case for people getting stopped out and some size on your side going into the...
Kill it or Keep it – the recording…
Kill it or Keep it - the recording... Published on: October 17, 2013 Here is the recording of our October 17th Webinar "Kill it or Keep it". In this webinar, we discussed a number of items that could be used to help determine if a trade is working out or not. We then...
Jakobs Ladder
Jakobs Ladder Published on: October 11, 2013 I first met Jakob a few months ago, he Skyped me and we had a chat about trading. He'd been struggling with trying to get something out of technical analysis before he came across Jigsaw Trading and No BS DayTrading. We...
Introduction to Order Flow – Webinar – October 9th, 8PM EDT
Introduction to Order Flow - Webinar - October 9th, 8PM EDT Published on: October 08, 2013 All For the third time, we'll be giving our "Introduction to Order Flow" webinar. This time we got an invite from Kai, a Jigsaw customer and also one of the principals at...
Kill It Or Keep It? Post entry analysis
Kill It Or Keep It? Post entry analysis Published on: October 08, 2013 We have a webinar coming up next week with the title "Kill It Or Keep It? Drastically Reduce Losing Daytrades". The idea is to focus on trade management right after you put on a day trade. For me,...
Give me strength! Live ES Trade
Give me strength! Live ES Trade Published on: October 05, 2013 We've gotten into the habit of giving sneak previews of new features to members of our Skype room. This helps us refine new features before they go out to all users. In this case, we gave Welly a...
Buying on the bid.
Buying on the bid. Published on: September 19, 2013 I got the following through on an email today and I figured the reply might benefit a few people: I have three questions. 1-I put a buy order on the Bid. I get filled and the market didn't move from the Bid....
Trader Interview with FT71 and Peter Davies – Recording
Trader Interview with FT71 and Peter Davies - Recording Published on: September 13, 2013 All Here is the recording of the Trader interview with FT71 we did on the 12th September, 2013...
Trader Interview with FT71 and Peter Davies – September 12th, 12PM Chicago
Trader Interview with FT71 and Peter Davies - September 12th, 12PM Chicago Published on: September 11, 2013 Please join us on Thursday, September 12Th @ 12:00 PM Chicago Time for a trader to trader interview with FT71 ( http://www.futurestrader71.com/) and Peter...
No BS DayTrading – Is scalping legit?
No BS DayTrading - Is scalping legit? Published on: September 09, 2013 Here's a great video from John Grady at No BS DayTrading about scalping and the successful traders that do it. If you are wondering if scalping is legit, if scalping is still relevant nowadays or...
If at first, you don’t succeed…
If at first, you don't succeed... Published on: September 06, 2013 We recently blogged about a trader "profiletrader7" who managed to pass the TopstepTrader Trading Combine after many attempts. That blog post is here ProfileTrader7 is now a funded trader over at...
Customer Video – Trade Confirmation with Reconstructed Tape and the Strength Meter
Customer Video - Trade Confirmation with Reconstructed Tape and the Strength Meter Published on: August 30, 2013 I was chatting with a customer on Skype today and he sent me a link to the YouTube video below. I was looking for a long at that area and instead the recon...
NinjaTrader & Jigsaw Webinar – Depth of Market Manipulation
NinjaTrader & Jigsaw Webinar - Depth of Market Manipulation Published on: August 30, 2013 On the 28th August, NinjaTrader hosted a webinar where we discussed how many traders believe the depth of market is useless because it is full of fake orders, which is true;...
Congratulations “profiletrader7”
Congratulations "profiletrader7" Published on: August 21, 2013 I'm really happy to hear that yet another Jigsaw Customer has passed the Topstep trading Combine and is on his way to being a funded trader there. I got this email from "Profiletrader7" a couple of days...
Explosive DAX Breakout Trade
Explosive DAX Breakout Trade Published on: August 19, 2013 Here's another customer trade video. This time of an explosive DAX breakout trade. There's no sound but there is cool music and subtitles explaining what is going on and why the trade was taken. As usual, go...
Jigsaw Tools for S5 Trader/OEC Trader (Open eCry)
Jigsaw Tools for S5 Trader/OEC Trader (Open eCry) Published on: July 11, 2013 Hi all Today we are releasing the beta version of the Jigsaw Tools for the S5 Trader/OEC Trader platform. We envisage a short beta for this as it's not really implementing new functionality,...
Live Trader Interview
Live Trader Interview Published on: July 04, 2013 A little over a month ago, we posted a video on Order Flow Analysis on Thinner Markets. At the time, the trader that made the video was going through the Topstep trader combine process. He passed the combine and the...
The Best Part
The Best Part Published on: June 07, 2013 One of the most rewarding things about being involved with Jigsaw is when a customer takes the time to get in touch and share their results. I can't really put into words how I feel when I get these emails. I guess it brings...
Order Flow Analysis on Thinner Markets
Order Flow Analysis on Thinner Markets Published on: May 22, 2013 Hi All Those of you on the Jigsaw mailing list will know that I've been keen to find other traders that are willing to take a little time to show their perspective on order flow. A few weeks ago, I met...
May 13th – ES Short Trade
May 13th - ES Short Trade Published on: May 13, 2013 A Short Trade just after the open on a fairly slow moving day. We had a push up and then someone stepped in and absorbed the buying which was my cue to enter. After that it was a bit of a grind. The exit was on a...
Cut & Reverse Drill
Cut & Reverse Drill Published on: May 08, 2013 I stumbled upon this youtube video today. It's from Guy Bowers Youtube page which is associated with the Aussie prop firm Propex. I met a few Propex traders who worked at their office in Singapore, so I can assure you...
May 6th – Long Trade with Commentary
May 6th - Long Trade with Commentary Published on: May 06, 2013 I did commit to putting more trade videos out there. We start out just after the market open and I talk through what I see on the order flow and the reasons for entering a trade. You can see that I...
A Lovely Trap
A Lovely Trap Published on: May 06, 2013 Here's a video of traders getting themselves trapped from the mysterious Akira Kobayashi... The guy is working the buyers, feeding them all the way up (asks are pulled, and he hits the bids when they are going the next price....
Analyst or Trader?
Analyst or Trader? Published on: May 06, 2013 I came across some real pearls of wisdom on the internet today. I believe there are two type of people in markets: analysts and traders. First group is much more populous. Most people with technical degree and analytical...
Customer Question – How to tell a pullback is ending
Customer Question - How to tell a pullback is ending Published on: April 24, 2013 I got this question via email today and I thought I'd reply to it here.... I wanted to ask you a question about what you find to be the best clues on the depth and sales that a pullback...
Finessing An Entry
Finessing An Entry Published on: April 24, 2013 I thought I’d put some notes together on entries. Not so much on where to enter but rather on how to finesse your way into a position so that more often than not, you are a tick up pretty much straight away. In some...
Стакан заявок на фьючерсы: базы трейдинга
Стакан заявок на фьючерсы: базы трейдинга Published on: April 12, 2013 No - I didn't just learn Russian but one of our Russian customers put this together to give Russian speakers an overview of the Depth & Sales. As usual to get the most from it, change to full...
Follow that Blog!
Follow that Blog! Published on: April 10, 2013 Hi All Here's another two order flow blogs I found out about today. http://scalpersanonymous.blogspot.com.au/ - you might want to mute this one - crazy music on the youtube videos! http://bt1929.blogspot.com/ As always -...
Jigsaw Tools Version 4.1
Jigsaw Tools Version 4.1 Published on: April 02, 2013 We are about to release version 4.1 of the Jigsaw Tools. The new features we are adding are: Depth & Sales - Synched inside depth & current trades to refresh @ the same interval - Added...
Customer Video Review #2
Customer Video Review #2 Published on: March 27, 2013 All This is another customer video that I was asked to look at. The trader in question was already short the 6E at this point and was looking for information on what information he'd get from the order flow to...
Those slow, churny, narrow range days
Those slow, churny, narrow range days Published on: March 21, 2013 I recently added a new chapter to the "The ES - When To Enter" course. The title was "High Liquididy '2 sided' Days/Summetime Chop". I added this course after a discussion in the Jigsaw Skype group. I...
Customer Video Review
Customer Video Review Published on: March 17, 2013 One of the Jigsaw customers asked if I could review a video of some action on the 6E. The video is pretty simple - I play the video and comment on what I can see. As usual, put in full screen mode and select "HD" in...
John Grady trade video & why he moved from XTrader to Jigsaw
John Grady trade video & why he moved from XTrader to Jigsaw Published on: March 12, 2013 The title is fairly self explanatory. John goes over two topics in this video. 1 - Why he made the move from XTrader to Jigsaw2 - A walkthrough of a scalp trade on the ES For...
11th March, 2013 Short ES Trade
11th March, 2013 Short ES Trade Published on: March 11, 2013 I did promise various people I'd start posting trade videos once I wasn't so busy with the V4.0 release. This won't be daily but I will try to do one a week. Today's was a short on the ES with a fairly...
Beginning of a Range?
Beginning of a Range? Published on: February 21, 2013 First - I'd like to give credit where it's due. The person that opened my eyes to something that was right in front of them all the time was Kam Dadwhar at L2ST who, over the course of what seemed like a very long...
When Markets Get Too Thick
When Markets Get Too Thick Published on: February 14, 2013 In the past few weeks, the ES has been in a really narrow range. It did show signs yesterday of behaving a little better and I expect it to be "business as usual" over the next few weeks. I understand from...
Nice review
Nice review Published on: January 29, 2013 I stumbled across a nice review of Jigsaw today. It's always nice to hear something nice. http://www.thedaytradingroom.com/cutting-cost/ Many thanks...
Friday 25th January Webinar. Introducing Order Flow Analysis to your trading (Topstep Trader)
Friday 25th January Webinar. Introducing Order Flow Analysis to your trading (Topstep Trader) Published on: January 26, 2013 This is the third of three webinars hosted by Topstep Trader. In this webinar, we look specifically at how you can start to apply Order Flow...
Friday 18th January Webinar – Practical Application of Order Flow (Topstep Trader)
Friday 18th January Webinar - Practical Application of Order Flow (Topstep Trader) Published on: January 20, 2013 This is the second of three webinars hosted by Topstep Trader. In this webinar, we will look at the different ways in which Order Flow information is most...
Friday 11th January Webinar – Introduction to Order Flow (Topstep Trader)
Friday 11th January Webinar - Introduction to Order Flow (Topstep Trader) Published on: January 14, 2013 Many thanks to Topstep Trader for hosting the webinar on Friday 11th January, 2013. For those that missed this first of 3 webinars, you can find a recording of the...
New Web Site
New Web Site Published on: January 14, 2013 Hi All Welcome to the new Jigsaw Trading Web Site. A big Thank You to Andrew Apanov at Dotted Music who came up with the new design based on my very vague description of "make it look nice" Fantastic service Andrew! Cheers...
6 Misconceptions That Blind Traders —And How to Overcome Them
6 Misconceptions That Blind Traders —And How to Overcome Them Published on: November 22, 2024 If you’ve been trading for a while, you’ve probably felt stuck. Spinning your wheels, trying harder, and not getting anywhere is frustrating, right? Maybe you’ve convinced...
Workshop recording – Trading Strategies for Major Market Events: Lessons from the Iran Missile Crisis
Workshop recording - Trading Strategies for Major Market Events: Lessons from the Iran Missile Crisis Published on: October 17, 2024 In a recent webinar hosted by Axia Futures, Richard Bailey, head of training, provided a deep dive into how professional traders...
FREE Workshop: How AXIA Traders Score Big During Major Events like the recent Iran Missile Threats
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Daytrading – Markets, Charts and Timeframes
Daytrading - Markets, Charts and Timeframes Published on: June 11, 2024 Lots of struggling traders email us, looking for answers. I thought in this case, I'd share the answer as I think it will benefit others. The email: "I carefully watched and read all the info you...
From Data to Wisdom: Leveraging Trade Insights for Success
From Data to Wisdom: Leveraging Trade Insights for Success Published on: May 07, 2024 Axia Futures held an exclusive workshop on May 2nd to unveil how their traders utilize Jigsaw's Journalytix platform for performance analysis. During the workshop, Alex made an...
FREE Trading Workshop – Learn from the Pros
FREE Trading Workshop - Learn from the Pros Published on: April 19, 2024 We all know that mastering the markets takes more than just guts. You need the right tools, honed skills, and maybe even a peek behind the curtain of ELITE traders. That's where our friends...
John Grady Reveals Institutional Order Flow Secrets
John Grady Reveals Institutional Order Flow Secrets Published on: April 18, 2024 John Grady was recently interviewed by Aaron Korbs on his podcast, and it's an interview you cannot miss. During the interview, John provides exclusive, behind-the-scenes insights into...
Volatility Scalping Workshop – recording
Volatility Scalping Workshop - recording Published on: November 07, 2023 Outstanding workshop! I might be a bit biased, but I must say this workshop was truly remarkable. And just to add another adjective to the mix, it was brilliant! Here's an overview of the key...
Break-even strategies: Protect your position, cover your costs and optimize your profits!
Break-even strategies: Protect your position, cover your costs and optimize your profits! Published on: July 25, 2023 After receiving numerous requests from our valued traders, we are thrilled to announce that break-even options have now been incorporated into our...
Feature in Focus – Footprint Charts
Feature in Focus - Footprint Charts Published on: December 22, 2022 Have you ever looked at a Footprint Chart and wondered what all those numbers mean and how to take advantage of them? In this video, we will take a look at how Footprints Charts can help you with your...
Market Mechanics – Understanding How Prices Move in The Markets
Market Mechanics – Understanding How Prices Move in The Markets Published on: September 30, 2022 “Why does price move?” is an interesting question that traders spend very little time contemplating. Traders tend to accept that price moves around in a semi-orderly...
The Path to Becoming a Professional Trader by Chris Gray
The Path to Becoming a Professional Trader by Chris Gray Published on: September 22, 2022 Today we are happy to be posting the recording from yesterday's event with Chris Gray. It was refreshing to hear about the "intangibles" a trader faces in his journey, such as...
Innovative Jigsaw User – Constant Trade – Video Library
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Coffee With Chris: His Path to Becoming a Pro Trader 21st Sept, Noon.
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Learn to Trade Futures in 5 Simple Steps
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My $6,000 mistake – avoiding the 6 most costly errors with trade rooms
My $6,000 mistake – avoiding the 6 most costly errors with trade rooms Published on: June 21, 2022 Trade rooms, where subscribers pay to watch somebody trade live online, seem like the perfect education tool. I speak to a lot of traders looking for mentors who say,...
Master Trade Management using Order Flow
Master Trade Management using Order Flow Published on: May 24, 2022 Trade Management is very much an overlooked aspect in the art of trading. Many retail traders are so focused on getting the trade entry right that they pay little attention to making sure they get the...
Anatomy of a Reversal
Anatomy of a Reversal Published on: May 17, 2022 A huge proportion of traders are focused on trading reversals. Usually, there is some method of setting levels at which a reversal may occur; Support & Resistance, value areas, volume profile, pivot points,...
Day Trading Support/Resistance Levels
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Feature in Focus: Improve your order flow reading with Momentum Tails
Feature in Focus: Improve your order flow reading with Momentum Tails Published on: March 11, 2022 In this video we take a look at momentum tails. For many, this tool is the "trainer wheels" for reading momentum, they use it at first and let go of it later. Others...
Summer Market Survival Kit!
Summer Market Survival Kit! Published on: June 18, 2019 It's summer time again and that means ice cream, sun burn and awful summer market trading conditions. Many of you will be experiencing your first exposure to summer market dynamics this year. In this article,...
When Technicals say Yes, but Order Flow says No! by Axia Futures
When Technicals say Yes, but Order Flow says No! by Axia Futures Published on: June 10, 2019 One of the most beneficial uses of Order Flow is using for trade confirmation and often that means to not get into the market. Of course, lot's of traders are so focused on...
CME Micro Futures Contracts – Upsides, Downsides & Trade Entry Signals
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The Run & Jump Trade. Plus – Trading Increased Market Sensitivity to Data
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Trading Index Future Divergences (DAX & STOXX) – Video
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Strong vs Weak Action on a Breakout
Strong vs Weak Action on a Breakout Published on: March 26, 2019 In this video from Axia Futures, Richard leads discusses the two potential breakouts. The first was a failure to the downside after breaking the 28 level in the German Bund, the second was a successful...
January Group Therapy Recording – Confidence & Confirmation in Trading
January Group Therapy Recording - Confidence & Confirmation in Trading Published on: January 30, 2019 Many traders struggle with indecision immediately after entering a trade. Getting shaken out of good trades and staying in bad trades. They know their setup well but...
Jigsaw Price Ladder Trading Course – Improved & Updated
Jigsaw Price Ladder Trading Course - Improved & Updated Published on: January 27, 2019 We are happy to announce that the Jigsaw Price Ladder Training & Order Flow Strategies course has been radically updated. As you know, the course was created by our Education...
Stormy December – Navigating These Treacherous Markets – Podcast
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7 Live Trade Videos, $50k, $70, $80k Profits Recorded Live
7 Live Trade Videos, $50k, $70, $80k Profits Recorded Live Published on: November 16, 2018 Last week we sent out an email about some amazing live trade videos being put together by our prop firm partner, AXIA Futures. There's just 2 ways you can get hold of these...
Volatility – Moving Your Stops is Not Always The Answer
Volatility - Moving Your Stops is Not Always The Answer Published on: October 25, 2018 It’s time to discuss the volatility... Lot’s of traders are suffering at the moment and it is NOT just retail traders. There’s quite a few professional traders licking their wounds...
Adapting to differences in price action. High probability or coin flip? by John Grady
Adapting to differences in price action. High probability or coin flip? by John Grady Published on: September 27, 2018 Here's the recording from Wednesday's webinar from John Gradry. It's a great presentation and very much along the lines of the discussions we...
Special Free Live Training Offer! This week only
Special Free Live Training Offer! This week only Published on: August 06, 2018 It's August time and a slow time for trading, which means we have more time on our hands to help those of you new to Order Flow. So we have an amazing offer for you for this week only. For...
Pro Trader Talk – Open discussion with 2 industry veterans – Recording
Pro Trader Talk - Open discussion with 2 industry veterans - Recording Published on: August 02, 2018 What does it really take to become a successful trader? Well, most have tried the shortcuts, the free trials, the learn to trader $1 links, the emails suggesting 95%...
Order Flow Absorption & Market Reversals by Axia Futures
Order Flow Absorption & Market Reversals by Axia Futures Published on: August 01, 2018 The most basic 'tell' in trading order flow is the Order Flow Absorption signal. It's the one that's probably easiest to read and the one that traders like to adopt early on in...
Recording – Pro Trader Merritt Black/SMB Futures- “Context + Order Flow = Success”
Recording - Pro Trader Merritt Black/SMB Futures- "Context + Order Flow = Success" Published on: July 22, 2018 Here at Jigsaw, we think it's important that traders are exposed to different perspectives on trading. Obviously - as long as those perspectives come from...
Trading a Breakout From the Lows & Staying in the Trade
Trading a Breakout From the Lows & Staying in the Trade Published on: July 19, 2018 Markets are slowing down as it's Summer Time, so it's a great time to start looking at new techniques you can refine on a slower market and then employ them as the markets speed up in...
Jigsaw Group Therapy – 7th June! Live Webinar Recording.
Jigsaw Group Therapy - 7th June! Live Webinar Recording. Published on: June 13, 2018 Scalping has always been a controversial topic in the retail trading world. Look at any online forum topic about scalping and you'll see that people can barely agree on what it is,...
All new Market Balance Gauge
All new Market Balance Gauge Published on: May 11, 2018 In this video, we'll look at the new market balance indicator on the pace of tape gauge. The pace of tape gauge us a very easy way to view the pace of trade across a number of markets. At the bottom we can see...
Price Ladder Trading & Trading Psychology – Bund ECB Sources
Price Ladder Trading & Trading Psychology - Bund ECB Sources Published on: February 16, 2018 As well as the mechanics of the Price Ladder, a major part of learning to trade is understanding trading psychology – peoples’ motivation behind a trade, what their...
Bitcoin Futures Now Supported on Jigsaw daytradr™
Bitcoin Futures Now Supported on Jigsaw daytradr™ Published on: December 11, 2017 We are happy to announce that Bitcoin futures are now supported on the Jigsaw daytradr™ platform. Bitcoin Futures with symbol "XBT" on CBOE are now live and will be followed on the 18th...
Using Order Flow for Reversals and Breakout Trades
Using Order Flow for Reversals and Breakout Trades Published on: November 22, 2017 In this video, we take a look at a reversal trade and a breakout trade. Not only that but the 2 setups are triggered at the same price – just at different times of the day. This is a...
Order Flow Crude Reversal/Breakout Using Momentum
Order Flow Crude Reversal/Breakout Using Momentum Published on: October 25, 2017 I had two customers in the past few days ask me related questions. Although they are different questions, the answer is similar, I decided to highlight this with the Order Flow Crude Oil...
Mr Topstep Open House – $9 for a full week of training!
Mr Topstep Open House - $9 for a full week of training! Published on: October 23, 2017 Jigsaw have been invited to present at Mr Topsteps October Open House. This is a week long session where you get access to Mr Topsteps IM Pro Trading room (a forum for traders to...
Current lack of volatility in the markets – What to do!
Current lack of volatility in the markets - What to do! Published on: October 05, 2017 Since we came out of the traditional Summer Slowdown in the markets (which ends after the US Labor Day holidays), the markets have been acting unusually. Unusually slow and choppy...
Jigsaw Trader Dashboard
Jigsaw Trader Dashboard Published on: September 15, 2017 Collecting trade data is a pain and crunching that date into meaningful statistics would be a nightmare. Most trading platforms pay just a little attention to presenting trade statistics. At Jigsaw, we think...
Self-Sabotage in Trading. What Exactly is it? How do we Overcome it?
Self-Sabotage in Trading. What Exactly is it? How do we Overcome it? Published on: September 15, 2017 As most traders quickly learn, trading is guaranteed to connect you with all of those ‘emotional skeletons’ residing deep in the depths of your unconscious mind...
Spotting reversals with high volume nodes (Crude)
Spotting reversals with high volume nodes (Crude) Published on: March 08, 2017 High volume nodes (also know as volume clusters) are the key to catching market reversals early. Not all reversals are identified by high volume nodes but a high percentage of them are. If...
‘One Tick’ Trading Drills
'One Tick' Trading Drills Published on: March 02, 2017 In a previous post, we took a look at trading drills to accelerate your progress as a trader. In the earlier article, we looked at the “Cut and Reverse” Drill. In this video below we look at how to take your...
Looking beyond price – Finding ‘reaction points’ with Order Flow
Looking beyond price – Finding ‘reaction points’ with Order Flow Published on: February 08, 2017 When a market is moving sideways, it’s often better to just quit trading for the day. Markets will typically have high activity at their ‘open’ time where institutional...
“Trading Season” – What to look out for in the coming months
"Trading Season" - What to look out for in the coming months Published on: September 06, 2022 Now we are past Labour Day, we normally give to the week after the holidays and consider that a "full house of Global traders". In other words, people are back from holiday...
Understanding the Flat & Cancel Processes
Understanding the Flat & Cancel Processes Published on: August 08, 2022 With markets experiencing extremely high volatility, we feel it necessary to explain the process of Flattening a position or Cancelling all Orders. Or both! First, let's consider a simple...
Trade Journaling: When Will You Need It?
Trade Journaling: When Will You Need It? Published on: March 14, 2022 If there's one thing that almost all traders fail to take care of in their journey it's... themselves! It's really up to you if you want trading to be a series of failures, on the path to profit. Or...
Front Running or Fading Absorption ? Dom Trading Setup That Works
Front Running or Fading Absorption ? Dom Trading Setup That Works Published on: March 07, 2022 A long time ago (OK, 2010), the DOM and Order Flow were barely discussed in trading. Most platforms had a DOM, but they were featureless skeletal creatures with very little...
Surviving Day Trading In These Wild Markets
Surviving Day Trading In These Wild Markets Published on: March 03, 2022 We are living in interesting times and the market has responded to the current war in Ukraine with a huge dose of volatility. In this article, we'll look at how you can adjust to this. Without...
It’s time to talk about the ES/S&P500 Futures and Sucking
It's time to talk about the ES/S&P500 Futures and Sucking Published on: January 26, 2022 This has been a recurring question of late. Newer traders asking "Is the ES always like this?" and it's time to discuss openly. The S&P500 Futures suck right now. There - I...
Our New Year Gift – The All New Order Flow Foundation Course
Our New Year Gift - The All New Order Flow Foundation Course Published on: December 30, 2021 Our New Year Gift to Jigsaw customers is now ready to be opened. It's something we've had in the making since the start of 2021. A completely new, vastly improved "Order Flow...
SIM Trading or Bleeding Money? Experience Capped Risk
SIM Trading or Bleeding Money? Experience Capped Risk Published on: August 05, 2021 I'd like to go over what I consider a big value to traders in services like Topstep Trader that isn't discussed much but for many, is a way to get out of the destructive SIM reset...
Trading Group Therapy – Chuck Berry – Thu, 12PM EST
Trading Group Therapy - Chuck Berry - Thu, 12PM EST Published on: July 26, 2021 It's time for us to move into the next phase of group therapy - where we will look at specific trader's issues. If you remember, earlier this year we said that we don't want to be a part...
The Trading Education Paradox
The Trading Education Paradox Published on: July 06, 2021 If there's one topic that’s guaranteed to cause a heated debate in the trading world, it’s Trading Education. Usually, the discussion revolves not so much about which education products are best but about the...
Trend vs Chop
Trend vs Chop Published on: June 30, 2021 We've had a slight change of heart about the Group Therapy recording for Part 2 of the "Keeping It Simple" special. We have decided to make it public. Admittedly, this is partly because Camtasia kept crashing my PC as I tried...
Keeping It Simple
Keeping It Simple Published on: March 09, 2021 It's quite easy to say "Just keep it simple" about any task but that means picking some things and discarding others - but which ones? Now, I will say that this is a long video. It's group therapy, it's not scripted and...
How to Supplement Retirement Income with Order Flow Trading
How to Supplement Retirement Income with Order Flow Trading Published on: February 05, 2021 At Jigsaw, we get people from all walks of life joining our community of traders. For some reason. there's two groups we attract in far greater number than any others. These...
Which DOM Trading Setups Actually Work?
Which DOM Trading Setups Actually Work? Published on: December 03, 2020 For those that don't know what the DOM is - it's the Depth of Market. Before we proceed, it's important to point out that not all DOM's are equal. Some are too basic to be of any practical use and...
Is Order Flow Trading Overrated?
Is Order Flow Trading Overrated? Published on: November 20, 2020 This question was posed to me yesterday by a customer. Rather than answer his question directly, I thought I'd put out a blog post. The short answer is: Yes and No. Order Flow itself is simply...
Order Flow First Steps – Follow Up Session Recording
Order Flow First Steps - Follow Up Session Recording Published on: October 26, 2020 This webinar was another interactive session. It was following up on the meeting we had on Monday which was basically telling people the first steps they should take with order...
Order Flow – First Steps
Order Flow - First Steps Published on: October 21, 2020 We recently did a webinar at Wealth365, where we discussed FootPrint charts - the pro's and cons. For those that wanted to take that further, we started a 7-week course. Week 1 is the primer. There is no point...
Trading Data Delays – What To Do?
Trading Data Delays - What To Do? Published on: September 05, 2020 There's been lot's of reports of massive data lags this week and we thought we'd take some time to explain why this is and what to do when you see future lags. The lags this week were seen with CQG,...
Icebergs, Stop Runs & Balance of Outright Traders
Icebergs, Stop Runs & Balance of Outright Traders Published on: July 02, 2020 In this months group therapy, we took a look at icebergs, stop runs and the balance of outright traders. The latter being important as many traders presume that all of the activity we are...
Jigsaw Swing Charts Webinar with a $500 cash prize!
Jigsaw Swing Charts Webinar with a $500 cash prize! Published on: June 30, 2020 We've always been a fan of Swing charts as they provide a unique insight into market activity. Interestingly, it's not because they show more information but because they filter out a lot...
Dinosaurs & Market Bubbles for Day Traders
Dinosaurs & Market Bubbles for Day Traders Published on: June 17, 2020 No doubt most of our readers will have heard of the "Hubble Space Telescope", it orbits the earth taking breathtaking pictures from space. Fewer people know about the sister project "Bubble Space...
Webinar – Situational Awareness – May 21st, 4:30pm EST
Webinar - Situational Awareness - May 21st, 4:30pm EST Published on: May 20, 2020 Many traders start out looking for a technique that they can use in all markets on all timeframes. Often the technique will work for a while then stop working. It’ll work on one day but...
Discretionary Trading Rules
Discretionary Trading Rules Published on: May 12, 2020 In this month's group therapy session, we discussed discretionary trading rules. The recording of the event is below: Most traders split trading into 2 categories - mechanical and discretionary. Mechanical trading...
Trading Group Therapy – Discretionary Trading Rules – 11th May, 12pm EST
Trading Group Therapy - Discretionary Trading Rules - 11th May, 12pm EST Published on: May 11, 2020 In this month's group therapy session, we'll discuss discretionary trading rules. Most traders split trading into 2 categories - mechanical and discretionary....
MBO – The new Holy Grail or A Gimmick for Retail Traders?
MBO - The new Holy Grail or A Gimmick for Retail Traders? Published on: April 30, 2020 There's building chatter and excitement in the retail trading world about "MBO". or "Market By Order". In this article, we'll take a look at what MBO is and the potential...
Interactive Brokers Data for US Stocks
Interactive Brokers Data for US Stocks Published on: April 28, 2020 Many customers have asked which market data subscriptions they need for trading US stocks. It's not 100% clear and the stock feeds are quite different from Futures. After all, Futures all trade on a...
Jigsaw Pricing Explained
Jigsaw Pricing Explained Published on: April 25, 2020 In this article, we'll explain the Jigsaw Pricing Model - how it works & why we feel it presents exceptional value. As you read this, bear in mind that 23% of our users trade full time. It'll be clear why...
The Jigsaw Guide To The End Of The World
The Jigsaw Guide To The End Of The World Published on: March 16, 2020 Following on from our recent article "The Eternal Quest For The Market Bottom!", we see that pundits are still hard at work predicting the end of the move. In this gloriously silly article from...
Developing a Game Plan by John Grady
Developing a Game Plan by John Grady Published on: March 06, 2020 Earlier this week, we were luck to have Tradovate sponsor a with John Grady as speaker. If you don't know John he is the founder of No BS Day Trading. John is an ex-proprietary trader who now trades his...
The Eternal Quest For The Market Bottom!
The Eternal Quest For The Market Bottom! Published on: March 03, 2020 It goes without saying that as of writing, the markets are extremely volatile. The long-term picture is one of moving upwards for years with just a couple of significant pullbacks. Now we can see...
Group Therapy – Market Correlations – Recording
Group Therapy - Market Correlations - Recording Published on: February 24, 2020 Last week, we held our monthly group therapy session and this time the focus was Market Correlations. The recording for the webinar has now been uploaded and can be seen below. In this...
Which Trading Education is Best For Me?
Which Trading Education is Best For Me? Published on: February 18, 2020 At Jigsaw, we pride ourselves in offering a range of education options along with our software, something to suit every trader. From the free training you get with daytradr Independent to our...
Jigsaw Customer Video – Steve Leigh – The Road To Profit
Jigsaw Customer Video - Steve Leigh - The Road To Profit Published on: January 30, 2020 On 29th January at 12pm EST, we had very special guest to come along and talk about his trading journey. Many of you will know Steve from the Jigsaw chat room and will have seen...
Jigsaw daytradr – Keeping your data fees low!
Jigsaw daytradr - Keeping your data fees low! Published on: January 23, 2020 You've probably seen now that the CME data fees will go up in February, so this video covers a number of important aspects of keeping your fees to a minimum. 1 - Why you only need data for...
January Group Therapy – Special Guest – Steve Leigh – The Road To Profit
January Group Therapy - Special Guest - Steve Leigh - The Road To Profit Published on: January 22, 2020 On 29th January at 12pm EST, we have a very special guest to come along and talk about his trading journey. Many of you will know Steve from the Jigsaw chat room...
daytradr & Journalytix Interactive Brokers TWS Integration (and more)
daytradr & Journalytix Interactive Brokers TWS Integration (and more) Published on: January 09, 2020 We are really happy to announce the release of Jigsaw Trading Version 2.1.0.0 - which now integrates to Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation (version 978.1g or...
Trading in 2020 – The Plan & The Perils
Trading in 2020 - The Plan & The Perils Published on: January 07, 2020 First of all - Happy New Year. I don't consider it New Year for trading till well into week 2 as it's often low on volume (and I also like an excuse to extend the vacation). January is typically a...
UK Election – Traders Guide
UK Election - Traders Guide Published on: December 11, 2019 Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know it's the UK election tomorrow. An interesting election at that which is going to have some huge ramifications depending on who wins. Now, when I say 'huge...
daytradr R26 – Momentum Tails, LTQ Column, Tradovate Pause & New Chat
daytradr R26 - Momentum Tails, LTQ Column, Tradovate Pause & New Chat Published on: December 02, 2019 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw daytradr R26 with a number of cool, new features. Note that this is our last release before IB Beta and the...
Making Improvements In All The Right Places
Making Improvements In All The Right Places Published on: November 11, 2019 There's an interesting couple of lessons I'd like to share from Nathan, a trade mentorship student. About where he found the answers to really improving. Like a lot of traders, Nathan was...
Seven Most Effective Trading Setups
Seven Most Effective Trading Setups Published on: October 14, 2019 We are happy to announce that we'll be presenting a webinar "The Seven Most Effective Trading Setups" at 4:30pm EST on Thursday 17th October. In this session we’ll take a look at what makes a good...
Learn to Trade with Situational Awareness
Learn to Trade with Situational Awareness Published on: October 04, 2019 Developing situational awareness is a key discipline for professional traders as they learn to trade. But is it something that you at home should concern yourself with? Let's consider 2 extreme...
Trading Group Therapy – Situational Awareness – 3 Oct, 11am EST
Trading Group Therapy - Situational Awareness - 3 Oct, 11am EST Published on: September 27, 2019 On 3rd October, 11am EST, we'll be presenting a group-therapy webinar entitled "Situational Awareness". Hosted by Jigsaw (not a 3rd party event). Click here to sign up for...
Trading Bigger and Better – 81 Live Trade Videos. £500,000 trading day. Trading Firm Tour.
Trading Bigger and Better - 81 Live Trade Videos. £500,000 trading day. Trading Firm Tour. Published on: September 24, 2019 Over the past 2 years, one young trader has been making his way from trading just a handful of contracts to trading 80 contract positions in the...
The Headfake & the ‘News Addicted’ Market – Trade Entry
The Headfake & the 'News Addicted' Market - Trade Entry Published on: September 18, 2019 There's been a lot of focus in the press/blogs recently about increased volatility in the markets. Trump Tweets, China Trade, Interest Rate speculation, Brexit and just a few...
Profiting from Increased Market Volatility, Post Labor-Day Expectations
Profiting from Increased Market Volatility, Post Labor-Day Expectations Published on: September 04, 2019 Increased market volatility should lead to increased profits from larger moves in the market. For most traders though, the opposite is true and it leads to...
Summer Market Survival Kit!
Summer Market Survival Kit! Published on: June 18, 2019 It's summer time again and that means ice cream, sun burn and awful summer market trading conditions. Many of you will be experiencing your first exposure to summer market dynamics this year. In this article,...
Video – When a Breakout Trade Fails (swimming with the sharks)
Video - When a Breakout Trade Fails (swimming with the sharks) Published on: June 14, 2019 The Breakout trade is one of the most popular setups around. For that, and a number of other reasons, this also makes it an area where large players can nudge the market...
When Technicals say Yes, but Order Flow says No! by Axia Futures
When Technicals say Yes, but Order Flow says No! by Axia Futures Published on: June 10, 2019 One of the most beneficial uses of Order Flow is using for trade confirmation and often that means to not get into the market. Of course, lot's of traders are so focused on...
Effective Trader Education. When Markets go ‘vague’, Scaling into Trades & Trading when Employed
Effective Trader Education. When Markets go 'vague', Scaling into Trades & Trading when Employed Published on: May 27, 2019 As part of our ongoing commitment to Effective Trader Education, we had 2 great webinars last week and as requested, here are including the...
CME Micro Futures Contracts – Upsides, Downsides & Trade Entry Signals
CME Micro Futures Contracts - Upsides, Downsides & Trade Entry Signals Published on: May 22, 2019 Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand the past few weeks, you’ll know the CME recently launched 4 new Micro Futures markets for traders. In this article we take...
Group Therapy – Trading The Idiot Zone & Scaling Into Trades
Group Therapy - Trading The Idiot Zone & Scaling Into Trades Published on: May 20, 2019 In this months trader group therapy, we are going to look into 2 timely issues impacting traders right now. We'll be meeting at May 23rd, 12pm Eastern Time. Click here to register...
Three Great Price Ladder Trades – Passive Entries, FOMO Trades, Trading Risk Events
Three Great Price Ladder Trades - Passive Entries, FOMO Trades, Trading Risk Events Published on: May 17, 2019 In this post, we have 3 amazing trade videos from our partner Axia Futures. If you are interested in learning more about this style of trading, check out our...
The Run & Jump Trade. Plus – Trading Increased Market Sensitivity to Data
The Run & Jump Trade. Plus - Trading Increased Market Sensitivity to Data Published on: April 30, 2019 Two videos in this post - both from Axia Futures Both highlighting the effectiveness of the Jigsaw platform & the trading styles we teach on the Jigsaw...
Trading Index Future Divergences (DAX & STOXX) – Video
Trading Index Future Divergences (DAX & STOXX) - Video Published on: April 23, 2019 As anyone that's been following Jigsaw for a while will tell you - we love correlations. Correlations exist in markets because of arbitrage trading that simultaneously buys and sells...
Trading Crude – How to Trade Absorption Off A Step in the Volume Profile
Trading Crude - How to Trade Absorption Off A Step in the Volume Profile Published on: March 31, 2019 In this video, from Axia Futures, Richard leads this price ladder trading session with a replay of how a volume ledge got created which effectively acted as a key...
Strong vs Weak Action on a Breakout
Strong vs Weak Action on a Breakout Published on: March 26, 2019 In this video from Axia Futures, Richard leads discusses the two potential breakouts. The first was a failure to the downside after breaking the 28 level in the German Bund, the second was a successful...
Good Action vs Bad Action by John Grady
Good Action vs Bad Action by John Grady Published on: March 19, 2019 This month, we had a special guest along for our monthly group therapy session. In this session, professional trader John Grady discusses "Good Action vs Bad Action" - or how to spot if your market...
Front Running a Larger Order by Axia Futures
Front Running a Larger Order by Axia Futures Published on: March 19, 2019 In this video, Richard from Axia Futures walks us through the process of Front Running a large order on Crude Oil Futures. In the first part of the video, we get an explanation of the trade...
eMini S&P500 – State of Play – February 2019
eMini S&P500 - State of Play - February 2019 Published on: February 07, 2019 The crazy volatility we saw at the end of 2018 in the US Index Futures appears to be behind us. The China Trade War drums aren't beating so hard and we've become (almost) immune to the daily...
January Group Therapy Recording – Confidence & Confirmation in Trading
January Group Therapy Recording - Confidence & Confirmation in Trading Published on: January 30, 2019 Many traders struggle with indecision immediately after entering a trade. Getting shaken out of good trades and staying in bad trades. They know their setup well but...
Jigsaw Price Ladder Trading Course – Improved & Updated
Jigsaw Price Ladder Trading Course - Improved & Updated Published on: January 27, 2019 We are happy to announce that the Jigsaw Price Ladder Training & Order Flow Strategies course has been radically updated. As you know, the course was created by our Education...
January Group Therapy – Confidence & Confirmation in Trading – Jan 29, 12PM Central
January Group Therapy - Confidence & Confirmation in Trading - Jan 29, 12PM Central Published on: January 23, 2019 Many traders struggle with indecision immediately after entering a trade. Getting shaken out of good trades and staying in bad trades. They know their...
Trading 2019 – Market Conditions & Go-Forward Plan
Trading 2019 - Market Conditions & Go-Forward Plan Published on: January 02, 2019 Before I start - this article is not about making New Years resolutions. I only break those anyway and after you break one? Back to normal, isn't it? What this is - is a consideration...
Stormy December – Navigating These Treacherous Markets – Podcast
Stormy December - Navigating These Treacherous Markets - Podcast Published on: December 12, 2018 There's a link below to our recent podcast at TopstepTrader. Before we look at that, I'd like to quickly go over a screen shot, sent by a customer, that really highlights...
7 Live Trade Videos, $50k, $70, $80k Profits Recorded Live
7 Live Trade Videos, $50k, $70, $80k Profits Recorded Live Published on: November 16, 2018 Last week we sent out an email about some amazing live trade videos being put together by our prop firm partner, AXIA Futures. There's just 2 ways you can get hold of these...
Pro Trader Merritt Black – Essential Skills of Great Traders – Recording
Pro Trader Merritt Black - Essential Skills of Great Traders - Recording Published on: November 12, 2018 Here's the recording of our recent event with Merritt Black from SMB Futures. Merritt is head of trading at SMB Futures, a prop firm based out of New York. Merritt...
Mid-Term Election Week – What Traders Need to Know
Mid-Term Election Week - What Traders Need to Know Published on: November 05, 2018 This week, we have a major market impacting news event - the US Mid-Term elections. That means it's time to consider the potential impact as traders. I think it would be a mistake to...
Who said price ladder was just for scalpers? $100,000 Live Trade Video
Who said price ladder was just for scalpers? $100,000 Live Trade Video Published on: November 02, 2018 One of the most enduring myths about order flow trading is that it's just for short term traders - "The price ladder - that's just for scalpers!" is what a lot of...
Group Therapy – Pushing a Setup to the Max, High Volatility Order Flow (live demo)
Group Therapy - Pushing a Setup to the Max, High Volatility Order Flow (live demo) Published on: October 31, 2018 Thanks to all those that attended yesterdays Group Therapy Session. Due to the high volatility, we covered 2 topics yesterday. Part 1 - Pushing your edge...
Volatility – Moving Your Stops is Not Always The Answer
Volatility - Moving Your Stops is Not Always The Answer Published on: October 25, 2018 It’s time to discuss the volatility... Lot’s of traders are suffering at the moment and it is NOT just retail traders. There’s quite a few professional traders licking their wounds...
Adapting to differences in price action. High probability or coin flip? by John Grady
Adapting to differences in price action. High probability or coin flip? by John Grady Published on: September 27, 2018 Here's the recording from Wednesday's webinar from John Gradry. It's a great presentation and very much along the lines of the discussions we...
Utilizing Correlated Markets (Bund/Euro)
Utilizing Correlated Markets (Bund/Euro) Published on: August 23, 2018 The use of related markets in trading is one of the most valuable skills to apply in trading and fortunately one of the easiest to learn. The only reason it's not more popular is that a lot of the...
Special Free Live Training Offer! This week only
Special Free Live Training Offer! This week only Published on: August 06, 2018 It's August time and a slow time for trading, which means we have more time on our hands to help those of you new to Order Flow. So we have an amazing offer for you for this week only. For...
It’s back – Jigsaw Leaderboard & May Results
It's back - Jigsaw Leaderboard & May Results Published on: August 06, 2018 It's been a while since we announced Jigsaw leaderboard results. We noticed in May that a number of traders had tried to 'game' the system. They did this by getting into positions and not...
Pro Trader Talk – Open discussion with 2 industry veterans – Recording
Pro Trader Talk - Open discussion with 2 industry veterans - Recording Published on: August 02, 2018 What does it really take to become a successful trader? Well, most have tried the shortcuts, the free trials, the learn to trader $1 links, the emails suggesting 95%...
Order Flow Absorption & Market Reversals by Axia Futures
Order Flow Absorption & Market Reversals by Axia Futures Published on: August 01, 2018 The most basic 'tell' in trading order flow is the Order Flow Absorption signal. It's the one that's probably easiest to read and the one that traders like to adopt early on in...
Pro Trader Darren Reed – Trading as a Business, 14th August 4:30PM EST
Pro Trader Darren Reed - Trading as a Business, 14th August 4:30PM EST Published on: August 01, 2018 We are happy to announce that Jigsaw is sponsoring a webinar over at Futures.io titled "The Business of Trading". In the webinar, Professional Trader, Darren Reed of...
Reactive Trading – Mastering Summer 2018 Trading Conditions + Live Order Flow Analysis
Reactive Trading - Mastering Summer 2018 Trading Conditions + Live Order Flow Analysis Published on: August 01, 2018 One of the challenges this summer is that volatility is changing day to day. That's catching out a lot of traders that attempt to follow the same...
July 2018 – Trader Group Therapy – Getting through this ‘strange’ summer…. 26th July, 12pm EST
July 2018 - Trader Group Therapy - Getting through this 'strange' summer.... 26th July, 12pm EST Published on: July 22, 2018 It's summer time again and time for another group therapy session. The market is pretty much forcing the topic this month - the odd...
Pro Trader Talk – Open discussion with 2 industry veterans…
Pro Trader Talk - Open discussion with 2 industry veterans... Published on: July 22, 2018 Have you ever wanted to eavesdrop on a conversation between industry professionals? Well you can do just that on Friday 27th. Click here to register. Rob from DTG is an industry...
Recording – Pro Trader Merritt Black/SMB Futures- “Context + Order Flow = Success”
Recording - Pro Trader Merritt Black/SMB Futures- "Context + Order Flow = Success" Published on: July 22, 2018 Here at Jigsaw, we think it's important that traders are exposed to different perspectives on trading. Obviously - as long as those perspectives come from...
Trading a Breakout From the Lows & Staying in the Trade
Trading a Breakout From the Lows & Staying in the Trade Published on: July 19, 2018 Markets are slowing down as it's Summer Time, so it's a great time to start looking at new techniques you can refine on a slower market and then employ them as the markets speed up in...
Professional Trader Alex Haywood – Stop Giving Money Back to the Market!
Professional Trader Alex Haywood - Stop Giving Money Back to the Market! Published on: June 29, 2018 On 28th June, 2018, we had Alex Haywood present our monthly "Group Therapy" session. For those that don't know Alex, he's the CEO of Axia Futures, a bricks and mortar...
Jigsaw Group Therapy – 7th June, 2018
Jigsaw Group Therapy - 7th June, 2018 Published on: June 13, 2018 Here's a recording of the group therapy session held on 7th June, 2018. In this session, we take a look at the progress of the 2 traders we've been discussing for a couple of months and we look at the...
Jigsaw Group Therapy – 7th June! Live Webinar Recording.
Jigsaw Group Therapy - 7th June! Live Webinar Recording. Published on: June 13, 2018 Scalping has always been a controversial topic in the retail trading world. Look at any online forum topic about scalping and you'll see that people can barely agree on what it is,...
Professional Trader Alex Haywood Joins our Monthly Group Trading Therapy Session – Jun 7 1:30PM EST
Professional Trader Alex Haywood Joins our Monthly Group Trading Therapy Session - Jun 7 1:30PM EST Published on: May 31, 2018 I'm happy to announce a really special guest for this month's Trading Group Therapy meeting: Alex Haywood, CEO of the London based Prop firm...
Why some traders struggle – even with a great setup! How to break the cycle.
Why some traders struggle - even with a great setup! How to break the cycle. Published on: May 23, 2018 When we started Jigsaw back in 2011, our presumption was that traders needed techniques and tools. This is still very much the case but it's become clear that many...
Jigsaw Leaderboard – New Kid On The Block! Focus, focus, focus…
Jigsaw Leaderboard - New Kid On The Block! Focus, focus, focus... Published on: May 10, 2018 It's time to review the leaderboard results again. In fact - it's a month late! So here's the breakdown of how traders fared in March and April. Well done again to MrGekko for...
Become a better trader – in 2 weeks.
Become a better trader - in 2 weeks. Published on: May 10, 2018 We are please to announce a webinar on futures.io on Thursday, May 17th at 4:30pm EST. Click here to register for the webinar. Over the past 10 years, the pendulum in the trading world has swung from...
Trading Group Therapy Recording – Real Traders, Real Problems, Real Solutions
Trading Group Therapy Recording - Real Traders, Real Problems, Real Solutions Published on: May 01, 2018 Here's a recording of the 2nd group therapy session in April, 2018. In last month's session, we focused on one Trader and the 'go-forward' plan we helped him...
Trailing Limit & Stop Orders – Jigsaw daytradr™
Trailing Limit & Stop Orders - Jigsaw daytradr™ Published on: April 20, 2018 We are happy to announce that Jigsaw daytradr™ now supports both Trailing Stop and Trailing Limit orders. It's all very simple to use, just take a look at the video below to see how. Note...
Jigsaw Group Therapy Recording – April 2018
Jigsaw Group Therapy Recording - April 2018 Published on: April 11, 2018 Here's a recording of the April Group Therapy webinar. In this session, we looked at 2 things. 1 - A review of a retail trader that's trying to put all the pieces together. A very nice guy and a...
Pace of Tape Gauge Excess at End of a Move
Pace of Tape Gauge Excess at End of a Move Published on: April 09, 2018 In this video, we take a look at some interesting action we are seeing now in the equities markets which are really volatile with the whole "US vs China" trade war in the news. The index futures...
Axia’s Alex Haywood – The process of becoming a Professional Trader – Video
Axia's Alex Haywood - The process of becoming a Professional Trader - Video Published on: April 06, 2018 We recently hosted Alex Haywood, Co-Founder and Head of Strategy at Axia Futures (a London based proprietary trading firm), who presented a new webinar: "Trader...
Jigsaw Trade Simulator – Refine your Edge with Accurate Fill and Slippage Simulation
Jigsaw Trade Simulator - Refine your Edge with Accurate Fill and Slippage Simulation Published on: April 02, 2018 We are happy to announce the release of the Jigsaw Trade Simulator. A trading simulator built into the Jigsaw daytrader™ platform with realistic fills on...
Powerful Techniques for Changing Your Trading Psychology by Dr Brett Steenbarger
Powerful Techniques for Changing Your Trading Psychology by Dr Brett Steenbarger Published on: March 13, 2018 I have seen many trading webinars in my time and this one from Dr Brett Steenbarger, is definitely in my top 3. Of course, I do admit to being a huge fan of...
Keep moving your stops? Trade Management Improvement…
Keep moving your stops? Trade Management Improvement... Published on: March 06, 2018 Every now and again a trader will email me about their Trade Management issues, saying something along these lines.... "Is there any drill or exercise to cure my deadly hang-up of not...
They’re Back… Short Term Speculators That is!
They're Back... Short Term Speculators That is! Published on: February 27, 2018 You know the market is returning to normal when traders start complaining about how slow it is.... In yesterdays blog post, we discussed getting ready for the same 'plays' or behaviors in...
S&P500 Volatility – The Return to Normality?
S&P500 Volatility - The Return to Normality? Published on: February 26, 2018 As we head into a new week, it's worth taking pause to consider how the markets may behave in over the next few days. On the 5th Feb, the markets took a huge dive, and since that time have...
Trading now Supported via MT5 with Jigsaw daytradr™
Trading now Supported via MT5 with Jigsaw daytradr™ Published on: February 20, 2018 We are happy to announce the release of Jigsaw version 2.0.0.0G - with support for trading with the MT5 platform. In a previous release, we introduced data sharing with the MT5...
Price Ladder Trading & Trading Psychology – Bund ECB Sources
Price Ladder Trading & Trading Psychology - Bund ECB Sources Published on: February 16, 2018 As well as the mechanics of the Price Ladder, a major part of learning to trade is understanding trading psychology – peoples’ motivation behind a trade, what their...
$30k profit (DAX/ES), 30% Profitable Traders – January Leaderboard Results
$30k profit (DAX/ES), 30% Profitable Traders - January Leaderboard Results Published on: February 16, 2018 Congratulations to Vaidas for winning the Jigsaw leaderboard contest for a second month running. The leaderboard ranks traders by a proprietary consistency...
Follow the Depth – Trading Drill
Follow the Depth - Trading Drill Published on: February 11, 2018 In the video below, we introduce the "Follow the Depth" trading drill. A drill that is performed on a live market with a demo/sim trading account.There's 2 goals of this drill... Get a real appreciation...
Great news for US/Asian Traders – HKEX now supported on daytradr™
Great news for US/Asian Traders - HKEX now supported on daytradr™ Published on: February 08, 2018 At Jigsaw, we are always looking for ways that beginner traders can help develop their edge. One of the biggest issues for those in the US, is that there's not much to...
How to trade these volatile markets
How to trade these volatile markets Published on: February 08, 2018 It's been an interesting few days in the financial press. No-one's able to predict anything there but they sure do like to point out the 'causes after the fact. On one outlets, in one day after the...
Price Ladder Trading – Different Ways to Trade a Breakout (Bund)
Price Ladder Trading - Different Ways to Trade a Breakout (Bund) Published on: January 11, 2018 In this video (from Proprietary Trading Firm AXIA Futures), we can see a breakout on the Bund. First we take a look at which area we are looking to breakout from, and...
Prizes for performance – Jigsaw December Leaderboard Winners!
Prizes for performance - Jigsaw December Leaderboard Winners! Published on: January 10, 2018 Once again, it's time to review the winners of the monthly Jigsaw leaderboard contest. This time for December 2017. So who wins the $500 cash prize? December is an interesting...
Iceberg Orders by Axia Futures
Iceberg Orders by Axia Futures Published on: December 22, 2017 If there's one topic that comes up again and again in customer emails/discussions - it's Iceberg Orders. In fact, it came up in yesterdays December Open House session. There are different types of iceberg...
December Open House – Q&A Session
December Open House - Q&A Session Published on: December 22, 2017 Yesterday, we held an "open house" session. This is an open format Q&A Session. Prior to the session, we ask people to send in questions and then we cover those first. Lot's of great topics covered...
Jigsaw Trading “Open House” Webinar – Gear up to a profitable 2018
Jigsaw Trading "Open House" Webinar - Gear up to a profitable 2018 Published on: December 18, 2017 As the year is coming to a close and many will be making their trade plans for the New Year. How is your New Year looking? Is it more of the same or do you have a solid...
Jigsaw & TopstepTrader – Identifying a Profitable Trading Strategy
Jigsaw & TopstepTrader - Identifying a Profitable Trading Strategy Published on: December 15, 2017 In the most recent episode of Limit Up! over at TopstepTrader, host Eddie Horn and Peter Davies hone in on the one thing that matters most to traders: finding and...
November Leaderboard Results – Mr Gekko wins $500, Maru02 most improved!
November Leaderboard Results - Mr Gekko wins $500, Maru02 most improved! Published on: December 08, 2017 The November leaderboard results are in and the competition is hotting up. Mr Gekko took the top spot again, this time with a consistency rating of 59 and PnL of...
Using Order Flow for Reversals and Breakout Trades
Using Order Flow for Reversals and Breakout Trades Published on: November 22, 2017 In this video, we take a look at a reversal trade and a breakout trade. Not only that but the 2 setups are triggered at the same price – just at different times of the day. This is a...
Well done Mr Gekko! Consistency Pays – $500 for Winning the October Trader Leaderboard Contest
Well done Mr Gekko! Consistency Pays - $500 for Winning the October Trader Leaderboard Contest Published on: November 05, 2017 At the start of October we launched the first of our Monthly trader leaderboard contests. The winner is Laszlo from Hungary AKA Mr...
Trading all conditions? Money Maker or Account Taker?
Trading all conditions? Money Maker or Account Taker? Published on: November 05, 2017 Is trading all conditions a realistic goal? It's certainly an idea that is planted in the heads of many aspiring traders. You've probably seen it, those "magic beans" systems for...
Order Flow Crude Reversal/Breakout Using Momentum
Order Flow Crude Reversal/Breakout Using Momentum Published on: October 25, 2017 I had two customers in the past few days ask me related questions. Although they are different questions, the answer is similar, I decided to highlight this with the Order Flow Crude Oil...
Mr Topstep Open House – $9 for a full week of training!
Mr Topstep Open House - $9 for a full week of training! Published on: October 23, 2017 Jigsaw have been invited to present at Mr Topsteps October Open House. This is a week long session where you get access to Mr Topsteps IM Pro Trading room (a forum for traders to...
Turning Japanese…
Turning Japanese... Published on: October 13, 2017 I had a few customers contact me earlier this week about the new Japanese markets AMP is supporting. We already have people trading the Mini-Nikkei and now we have the full size Nikkei and 4 other markets on line. The...
daytradr: A look inside – 4:30pm October 19th
daytradr: A look inside - 4:30pm October 19th Published on: October 05, 2017 On October 19th at 4:30, we'll be presenting a webinar "daytradr. A look inside". We'll be taking a look at the various components of the daytradr platform - what they do, whey they exist,...
Current lack of volatility in the markets – What to do!
Current lack of volatility in the markets - What to do! Published on: October 05, 2017 Since we came out of the traditional Summer Slowdown in the markets (which ends after the US Labor Day holidays), the markets have been acting unusually. Unusually slow and choppy...
Jigsaw Trader Dashboard
Jigsaw Trader Dashboard Published on: September 15, 2017 Collecting trade data is a pain and crunching that date into meaningful statistics would be a nightmare. Most trading platforms pay just a little attention to presenting trade statistics. At Jigsaw, we think...
Self-Sabotage in Trading. What Exactly is it? How do we Overcome it?
Self-Sabotage in Trading. What Exactly is it? How do we Overcome it? Published on: September 15, 2017 As most traders quickly learn, trading is guaranteed to connect you with all of those ‘emotional skeletons’ residing deep in the depths of your unconscious mind...
The Path to Trading Consistency…
The Path to Trading Consistency... Published on: August 31, 2017 It goes without saying that trading consistency is the key to longevity as a trader. What exactly does 'trading consistency' mean? How can you tell month after month that you are becoming more consistent...
Summer Time Trading Opportunities – why and how.
Summer Time Trading Opportunities - why and how. Published on: July 26, 2017 Summertime trading time again! For many newer traders, that means huge losses as they try to trade the same system in different market conditions. There's no doubt that traders need to change...
Using Order Flow for Trading Success
Using Order Flow for Trading Success Published on: July 23, 2017 Peter Davies of Jigsaw Trading was recently interviewed by Les Meehan at Right Mind Trader in an interview entitled "Using order flow for trading success". The interview focuses very much on the mental...
Sharks vs Sharks: Banks, funds, market makers, prop trading
Sharks vs Sharks: Banks, funds, market makers, prop trading Published on: July 16, 2017 Interested in prop trading and other institutional trading? On Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 at 4:30pm EDT. John Grady of NO BS DayTrading will be presenting a webinar entitled "Sharks...
Professional Trader Alex Haywood Diving into Order Flow – Thursday, 4:30PM EST
Professional Trader Alex Haywood Diving into Order Flow - Thursday, 4:30PM EST Published on: June 05, 2017 This Friday at 4:30PM EST, Jigsaw Trading will be sponsoring a webinar on the futures.io forum. The webinar is titled "Determining your optimum order flow...
Adrienne Toghraie – Evolution of a Master Trader (Webinar Recording)
Adrienne Toghraie - Evolution of a Master Trader (Webinar Recording) Published on: April 19, 2017 In this webinar Adrienne from Trading on Target discussed each trader category & what is necessary to face the challenges towards becoming a Master Trader. You will...
Market Dynamics – Trade Location in all the Right Places
Market Dynamics - Trade Location in all the Right Places Published on: April 10, 2017 This Tuesday, April 11th at 4:30pm EDT, Peter Davies of Jigsaw Trading will be presenting a webinar entitled "Market Dynamics – Trade Location in All the Right Places". The webinar...
‘One Tick’ Trading Drills
'One Tick' Trading Drills Published on: March 02, 2017 In a previous post, we took a look at trading drills to accelerate your progress as a trader. In the earlier article, we looked at the “Cut and Reverse” Drill. In this video below we look at how to take your...
Análise de Fluxo de Ordens com Jigsaw Auction Vista Heatmap
Análise de Fluxo de Ordens com Jigsaw Auction Vista Heatmap Published on: February 18, 2017 A equipe da academia Day Trader Pro, pioneira na divulgaçao de moderna analise de fluxo de ordens no Brasil, preparou uma aula especial dando uma visao geral das principais...
Make Trading 2017 a Positive Experience – starting the trading year right
Make Trading 2017 a Positive Experience - starting the trading year right Published on: January 01, 2017 As we head into a New Year, we all have plans and aspirations as to how we see that year playing out. Some traders will be fine tuning their plan and others will...
Cut and Reverse Drill (Crude – with video)
Cut and Reverse Drill (Crude - with video) Published on: December 07, 2016 The Cut and Reverse drill is used in proprietary trading firms as part of their training program for new traders. It has one purpose and one purpose only – to make better traders. It’s...
Optimize Trading Tactics To Make Them More Effective
Optimize Trading Tactics To Make Them More Effective Published on: November 19, 2016 At the end of this post is a recording of the webinar John Slazas presented on 14th November. Every trader has certain trading tactics they have acquired over the years that provide...
Hedging an Outright Futures Position with Options
Hedging an Outright Futures Position with Options Published on: November 11, 2016 As part of our effort to give traders as wide a knowledge of professional trading as possible, On Wednesday, 9th November at 4:30 PM Eastern, we'll be hosted a webinar "Hedging Futures...
Day Trading – Macro & Micro – Webinar Recordings
Day Trading – Macro & Micro - Webinar Recordings Published on: October 31, 2016 Over the past months; Kam Dhadwar at “The Trading Framework” and Peter Davies at “Jigsaw Trading” presented a series of webinars entitled "Day Trading - Macro to Micro" In webinar 1, we...
Getting Started In Scalping/Ultra Short Term Trading
Getting Started In Scalping/Ultra Short Term Trading Published on: September 29, 2016 On 28th September, 2016, Jigsaw Trading presented a 1 hour webinar on scalping. Discussing a number of scalping setups on volatile and slow markets. Originally, scalping was a...
Pre-breakout & Pullback Trades
Pre-breakout & Pullback Trades Published on: June 15, 2016 Here's a trade video showing 2 trades on the eMini S&P500. This is after a short period of increased volatility and the first trade reflects adjusting to an expectation of higher volatility. Trade 1 - Pre...
Relative Volume & Average Tick
Relative Volume & Average Tick Published on: June 06, 2016 I've been getting a lot of requests about how I set up 2 of the charts I show in Jigsaw Webinars. CSI (Cumulative Sheep Index) aka Relative Volume This shows volume at the time of day relative to the prior n...
Components of a Trade Plan, Trade Education, Q&A
Components of a Trade Plan, Trade Education, Q&A Published on: May 27, 2016 This Thursday (26th May) at 12:30pm EST, we will held a live Q&A Session webinar. The purpose of this session was partly to answer any questions people had about the Jigsaw tools and how...
Open Trade on the S&P500 Futures
Open Trade on the S&P500 Futures Published on: May 17, 2016 A customer asked a couple of days ago if we had any sample videos of the pullback trades we discuss in our webinars. I was pretty sure there were some on the site but when I looked, the cupboard was bare!...
Swing Charts, Cumulative Delta & Footprint charts on MultiCharts.NET
Swing Charts, Cumulative Delta & Footprint charts on MultiCharts.NET Published on: May 16, 2016 Here's a quick video showing how to set up swing charts, cumulative delta and footprint charts on Multicharts.NET platform. Note - this shows the MultiCharts.NET Special...
Trading the Nikkei 225 – Trading US Evenings!
Trading the Nikkei 225 - Trading US Evenings! Published on: April 28, 2016 This video takes a look at the eMini Nikkei 225 trading on Osaka Securities Exchange. One of the things that makes this an interesting market is that there's a lot of US traders that have full...
Alert Settings for Jigsaw Tools
Alert Settings for Jigsaw Tools Published on: April 12, 2016 All I get asked many times what the best settings are for the various alerts in the Jigsaw Tools. Here's the best way to set them: Summary Tape Divergence - Take the average depth & multiply by 2. So if...
20/20 Market Vision – Staying on the right side of the market
20/20 Market Vision - Staying on the right side of the market Published on: April 02, 2016 On 1st April, 2016 we be presented a webinar entitled "20/20 Market Vision - Staying on the right side of the market". The webinar was hosted on the TopstepTrader Squawk Radio...
Jigsaw Q&A Session 1 – March 23rd, 2016
Jigsaw Q&A Session 1 - March 23rd, 2016 Published on: March 24, 2016 Hi In this first Q&A session, we look at the question that came in the most "just tell me where to get in and get out". In addition, we also look at: If you entered a trade and it goes in your...
Auction Vista and Crude Oil Futures
Auction Vista and Crude Oil Futures Published on: February 01, 2016 In this video, I’m going to take a look at using the Jigsaw tools on thinner markets like Crude Oil, Gold and DAX futures. As many of you know, I personally prefer to trade more liquid markets like...
Day Trading the Open – Video
Day Trading the Open - Video Published on: January 25, 2016 In this video we discuss day trading the open. Not the opening range but the open itself. Not the first 90 minutes but the first few minutes. In some cases, taking trades within the first couple of minutes of...
Auction Vista – One customer’s experience – with results!
Auction Vista - One customer's experience - with results! Published on: January 04, 2016 I got an email a few days ago from a Jigsaw customer that has been with us since March 2015. He's a big fan of Order Flow but never found much benefit in the Market Depth for Day...
The Institutional Trading Day
The Institutional Trading Day Published on: January 04, 2016 Have you ever wondered how Institutional Traders organize their day? After all, many people consider Institutional Traders to be "the opposition", whilst others claim to be following in their footsteps. Yet...
All Bets Are Off!
All Bets Are Off! Published on: December 15, 2015 We got hit with some major volatility yesterday with a 19.5 point move up in 2 minutes (but only 53k contracts traded) and then a 1 minute 16 point drop, again with just 26k contracts traded. Big swings with relatively...
Man Versus Machine: Algorithmic High Frequency Trading And You
Man Versus Machine: Algorithmic High Frequency Trading And You Published on: December 09, 2015 This is just a quick note to tell you about that our new article "Man Versus Machine: Algorithmic High Frequency Trading And You" has been published on the Trader Planet...
Trading OPM (Other People’s Money)…
Trading OPM (Other People's Money)... Published on: October 22, 2015 We are always happy to hear when one of our customers gets funded at TopstepTrader. So congratulations Matt on getting a Funded account there. For those that don't know TopstepTrader, they have a...
Jigsaw at Futex
Jigsaw at Futex Published on: October 10, 2015 Always nice to see Jigsaw Tools being used in a professional trading environment! Good luck...
Order Flow on a Thinner ES – Review of a Reversal
Order Flow on a Thinner ES - Review of a Reversal Published on: September 30, 2015 This video was sent to me by a customer that is new to the tools. It shows some of the action from the 25th September. At this point the eMini S&P500 Futures has been extremely thin...
Persistent Trading Mistakes – How To Stop Repeating The Same Expensive Errors
Persistent Trading Mistakes - How To Stop Repeating The Same Expensive Errors Published on: September 23, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, a customer asked me what seemed to be a fairly simple question. "I keep moving my stops out of the way when I know I shouldn't. It's...
Order Flow – Keeping it Simple, Practical & Effective
Order Flow - Keeping it Simple, Practical & Effective Published on: September 17, 2015 In this video, we discuss some of the benefits of using order flow in trading and what I look for personally when trading with the Jigsaw tools. I’ll try to keep this light on...
Extreme Volatility and Your Trading
Extreme Volatility and Your Trading Published on: September 02, 2015 Well - here we are again almost two weeks into another major shift in volatility, both in Crude Oil and in the US Indices. For those of you new to trading, you may well be wondering how long it will...
Reset Volume Profile on the Open
Reset Volume Profile on the Open Published on: August 26, 2015 I've had a lot of requests on how to reset the volume profile at the market open. MultiCharts Create a "split session template" that looks like this: MultiCharts Split Session Use that session profile on...
Live Trade Room Video – 28th July, Crude & ES Trades
Live Trade Room Video - 28th July, Crude & ES Trades Published on: August 07, 2015 This recording is from 28th July and shows 4 trades: 1 - Scalp Long Trade Crude - Bill was looking for a reaction at 47.12 a and after an initial bounce there (order flow confirming the...
Live Trade Room Trades – July 27th
Live Trade Room Trades - July 27th Published on: August 07, 2015 This short video is a preview of the Jigsaw Live Trade Room with Bill Wood AKA Barnacle Bill the trader. Bill trades both Crude and emini S&P500 futures in the room which is open from 8:45 to 11:30am...
Introdução ao Tape Reading – Parte 01
Introdução ao Tape Reading - Parte 01 Published on: July 14, 2015 Aqui está um vídeo do "Day Trader Pro" Channel YouTube. É o nosso "Introdução à Ordem Flow" de vídeo, mas com legendas em português. Basta reproduzir o vídeo. Clique em "CC" para ver o texto em...
La verdadera razón de porque el Precio se mueve.
La verdadera razón de porque el Precio se mueve. Published on: June 12, 2015 "¿Por qué se mueven los precios?" Es una pregunta interesante que los Traders pasan muy poco tiempo contemplando. Los operadores tienden a aceptar que el precio se mueve de una manera...
Developing Your Own Trading Style
Developing Your Own Trading Style Published on: June 11, 2015 On Tuesday, 9th June, Jigsaw Trading presented a webinar entitled "Developing Your Own Trading Style" Click Here to watch the recording of this webinar Most aspiring traders start out by wanting to know how...
Live Day Trade on the 6E Euro Using Traded Volume
Live Day Trade on the 6E Euro Using Traded Volume Published on: May 08, 2015 Here's a video from Jason at The Blue Collar Trader. This is a great video, the focus isn't so much on the entry but on managing the trade based on the Order Flow after entry. Any other...
Crude Scalper & Jigsaw user funded at TopstepTrader.
Crude Scalper & Jigsaw user funded at TopstepTrader. Published on: March 23, 2015 We often get asked "Does Order Flow apply to thin markets like Crude or is it just for thick instruments?". To answer, here is a great story from "CSSTrader" (his pseudonym on...
Customer Trade Videos – ZB & ES
Customer Trade Videos - ZB & ES Published on: March 09, 2015 I met Arthur a couple of weeks ago in Bangkok where 'meet for lunch' turned into ten people for dinner, covering 3 generations... Based on how well they got along, I think my daughter will be marrying his...
How far can you go in Order Flow Analysis after just 6 hours?
How far can you go in Order Flow Analysis after just 6 hours? Published on: March 04, 2015 I have a standing offer that customers who use the Jigsaw tools can send me their observations IF they follow the instructions in our "New to Jigsaw Tools" Video...
Swing Charts – Trading On The Side of Strength
Swing Charts - Trading On The Side of Strength Published on: February 13, 2015 Swing Charts are seldom discussed in trading but are a powerful tool in assessing both the state of the market (trending vs ranging), the strength of a trend and the likely turn around...
Anatomy of a Reversal
Anatomy of a Reversal Published on: February 08, 2015 This is a recording of a webinar on the TopstepTrader Squawk Radio Show on 6th February. There’s a school of thought that says those that got into the market at the high or the low of the day are the best of...
Order Flow – Inside & Outside The Box – The Recording
Order Flow - Inside & Outside The Box - The Recording Published on: January 23, 2015 At 1pm EasternTime on 22nd January, Peter Davies from Jigsaw Trading was guest on Stage 5 Trading's regular "Convergence Tuesday" event. This was an open discussion, chaired by...
Trading the market or trading the volatility?
Trading the market or trading the volatility? Published on: January 07, 2015 This has so far, been an unusual week in the markets. Typically, the first 2 weeks of the year are poor to trade. Volumes are normally to the low side and it can be fairly tight. What we...
Order Flow/Scalping a thinner eMini S&P500 Market (live trades)
Order Flow/Scalping a thinner eMini S&P500 Market (live trades) Published on: December 12, 2014 This video is targeted at those who may be new to reading order flow as well as those that are struggling when the liquidity drops on the ES and we just have a few hundred...
Swing Charts With Cumulative Delta for NinjaTrader
Swing Charts With Cumulative Delta for NinjaTrader Published on: December 11, 2014 There have been many requests from people asking how I set up my charts. They look like this: In the upper area there are lines for open, Globex high/low and yesterday's high/low. There...
Live Market Analysis – eMini S&P500 Futures – a pause at the top
Live Market Analysis - eMini S&P500 Futures - a pause at the top Published on: December 03, 2014 Every Tuesday and Thursday, Peter Davies from Jigsaw Trading joins Eddie at TopstepTrader to discuss the action on the US Indices and specifically the eMini S&P500...
Spotting absorption & the reduced liquidity market
Spotting absorption & the reduced liquidity market Published on: October 31, 2014 I recently got an email from a new Jigsaw user asking if there was a video specifically showing how to spot absorption on the Jigsaw tools. This is on a number of our videos but there's...
Stephen Kelly Trial Week Webinar Recordings
Stephen Kelly Trial Week Webinar Recordings Published on: October 16, 2014 We recently ran a free week in the Jigsaw Live Trade room and we had many requests to share recordings of the Thursday and Friday sessions. In the first Video Stephen talks extensively about...
Data lags in high volume markets
Data lags in high volume markets Published on: October 16, 2014 I've had lots of emails/calls lately about the following phenomenon: As you can see, the price that current trades are printing at is very far from the inside bid/offer is on the depth. This looks very...
Webinar – Trader Follow-Up Q&A: Stephen Kelly
Webinar - Trader Follow-Up Q&A: Stephen Kelly Published on: September 23, 2014 On Tuesday 16th September, Stephen Kelly was a guest on FT71's "Convergence Tuesday" webinar. This webinar followed Stephens earlier webinar there in which Stephen discussed his journey as...
Обзор профессионального рыночного стакана Jigsaw
Обзор профессионального рыночного стакана Jigsaw Published on: September 12, 2014 В сравнении с Jigsaw, обычный рыночный стакан NinjaTrader 7 обладает скудным функционалом. В Jigsaw я использую для анализа все колонки, начиная от профайла. Разделенные накопленные и...
Back to the Futures (Возвращение к трейдингу фьючерсами на CME)
Back to the Futures (Возвращение к трейдингу фьючерсами на CME) Published on: September 12, 2014 This video is from a Jigsaw customer who is returning to Futures a few months ago. The video is in Russian but the story is worthy of a Translation.... This is a new video...
Trade Video – Using Order Flow to Manage Trades on Thin Markets
Trade Video - Using Order Flow to Manage Trades on Thin Markets Published on: September 09, 2014 All Today, Jason at Oil Trading Group sent me the video below. It shows a breakout trade being entered based on price action and then managed using order flow. The trade...
Trading Choppy Markets
Trading Choppy Markets Published on: August 22, 2014 On 22nd August, 2014 we presented a Webinar on the Topstep Trader Squawk Radio Broadcast entited "Trading The Summertime Chop" In this webinar, we took a look at how the market changes in the US Summer Time. The...
Recording: Trading the Summer Time Chop
Recording: Trading the Summer Time Chop Published on: July 18, 2014 As many of you will have experienced, volatility and volume takes a dive during the US Summer Time. For those in your first year of trading, you may not even know what is about to happen but the sort...
Recording: Convergence Tuesday Event – July 15, 2014 – Trader Spotlight: Stephen Kelly
Recording: Convergence Tuesday Event – July 15, 2014 – Trader Spotlight: Stephen Kelly Published on: July 18, 2014 On the 15th July, Stephen Kelly was interviewed by Morad Askar AKA FT71 of Stage 5 Trading. In the interview, they discussed: Stephen's journey as a...
Anatomy of a Sell Off – July 26th, 2014
Anatomy of a Sell Off - July 26th, 2014 Published on: July 07, 2014 All This video takes a look at the initial move on the 26th July where the ES sold off over 10 points from the open. The original video was posted on the Jigsaw "Ask Me Anything" thread on the...
Introducción al “Order Flow” en Español. (y un video extra)
Introducción al "Order Flow" en Español. (y un video extra) Published on: June 20, 2014 This first video is an English/Spanish version of our "Introduction to OrderFlow" Presentation. Many thanks to Cande at Trading With Traders for hosting this. El primer video es...
Guy Bower’s Trading with DOM – Free eBook
Guy Bower's Trading with DOM - Free eBook Published on: May 26, 2014 Hi All A while ago, we blogged about the Guy Bowers YouTube page Guy's videos mostly center around his work at Aussie prop shop Propex where he's been teaching their intern traders how to trade off...
Jigsaw Trading Overview – Española & Français
Jigsaw Trading Overview - Española & Français Published on: May 19, 2014 Many thanks to both Cande from Spain and Dom from France for helping us get the message across in Spanish and French. Aperçu vidéo français de Dom est ci-dessous. Il dispose d'une bibliothèque de...
Live Crude Trade with an Obvious Stall – Using Jigsaw to Trade Thinner Markets
Live Crude Trade with an Obvious Stall - Using Jigsaw to Trade Thinner Markets Published on: May 12, 2014 Here is an excellent video from Chris, a Jigsaw customer. He discusses what he looks for when trading Crude and he then takes a live trade. What is cool about...
Kill it or Keep it Trade Management – 2014 Edition
Kill it or Keep it Trade Management - 2014 Edition Published on: April 06, 2014 Thanks again to TopstepTrader for hosting another Jigsaw Webinar. In this webinar "Kill it or Keep it", we take a look at post-entry position analysis. Or to put it another way "is this...
Live Order Flow Analysis – 27th March 2014
Live Order Flow Analysis - 27th March 2014 Published on: March 27, 2014 Here's another of our Live "Order Flow Outlook" interviews that we give on a Tuesday and Thursday morning at 10:30am EST. In this session, what is interesting is that one of the trade locations...
ES Live Trade Video 16th March – stop, head fake, re-entry and trade management
ES Live Trade Video 16th March - stop, head fake, re-entry and trade management Published on: March 20, 2014 This video is from Jason on the Blue Collar Trader YouTube channel. This is an interesting video as you can see the order flow go against Jason and stop him...
Live Day Trading Market Analysis – 18th March 10:30am
Live Day Trading Market Analysis - 18th March 10:30am Published on: March 18, 2014 It's an unintentionally well kept secret that each Tuesday and Thursday Jigsaw Trading do a segment on the TopstepTrader Squawk Radio Show This is a live, unscripted segment where we...
Practical Application of Order Flow – 2014 Edition – Part 1
Practical Application of Order Flow - 2014 Edition - Part 1 Published on: March 03, 2014 We first presented the "Practical Application of Order Flow" with Topstep Trader in early 2013. This year we have split the webinar into 2 parts. Part 1 deals with 2 major topics....
Customer Video – DayTrading Headfake on the ES.
Customer Video - DayTrading Headfake on the ES. Published on: February 28, 2014 Here is a video from a new customer YouTube channel. The customer is using a combination of Price Action and Order Flow. Start - we can see that the market has moved down to around 1837...
Well done RazrTrader! Another trader live with TopstepTrader
Well done RazrTrader! Another trader live with TopstepTrader Published on: January 23, 2014 It's always nice to hear when someone gets through the TopstepTrader combine and progresses to getting a live account funded with them. Of course, we get even more of a kick...
Customer Trade – Day Trading Without Charts
Customer Trade - Day Trading Without Charts Published on: January 18, 2014 All I just got the following message on email and I thought I'd reply to it here I learn mostly by doing. I tought buyers will defend the 1835.00 level, as we had 21k trades there. i took the...
Treasuries are like peas in a pod!
Treasuries are like peas in a pod! Published on: January 18, 2014 Here's a customer video showing some interesting action at the highs. I won't comment on it too much as there is a full audio commentary. What is remarkable about this video is that this person became a...
Video – Day Trading Without Charts – Part 2
Video – Day Trading Without Charts – Part 2 Published on: January 17, 2014 Here's the second part of the Day Trading Without Charts webinar. We didn't have time to cover all the material in a one hour session, so here's the rest of it. As usual change to Full HD,...
Video – Day Trading Without Charts – Part 1
Video - Day Trading Without Charts - Part 1 Published on: January 16, 2014 Here's a recording of our 15th January Webinar - Day Trading Without Charts. In this video we look at how to use the intraday volume profile to determing trade entry and exit points as well as...
Day Trading in December – is it me or is it the market?
Day Trading in December - is it me or is it the market? Published on: December 19, 2013 Over the past few months I've been getting to know RG from Discovery Trading group. I was introduced to them by Anthony at Stage 5 Trading, he said we'd probably get along and...
Trading without charts? Live volume profile analysis.
Trading without charts? Live volume profile analysis. Published on: December 05, 2013 There's often talk on trading forums about day trading without charts. The volume profile shows you where traders are positioned as well as which prices traded. A lot of information...
Day Trading for Dummies? Suggestions for aspiring day traders
Day Trading for Dummies? Suggestions for aspiring day traders Published on: December 04, 2013 This video is for people new to trading and those that just aren't getting anywhere. What is day trading anyway? What is it you have committed to learning and hope to make...
Confirming Day Trading Levels with Order Flow – Webinar Recording
Confirming Day Trading Levels with Order Flow - Webinar Recording Published on: November 28, 2013 Last week I was asked by JP at JPJ Trading to do a webinar to the members of his trading room. I've known JP for a couple of years now and he is responsible for teaching...
Kill it or Keep it – the recording…
Kill it or Keep it - the recording... Published on: October 17, 2013 Here is the recording of our October 17th Webinar "Kill it or Keep it". In this webinar, we discussed a number of items that could be used to help determine if a trade is working out or not. We then...
Introduction to Order Flow – Webinar – October 9th, 8PM EDT
Introduction to Order Flow - Webinar - October 9th, 8PM EDT Published on: October 08, 2013 All For the third time, we'll be giving our "Introduction to Order Flow" webinar. This time we got an invite from Kai, a Jigsaw customer and also one of the principals at...
Kill It Or Keep It? Post entry analysis
Kill It Or Keep It? Post entry analysis Published on: October 08, 2013 We have a webinar coming up next week with the title "Kill It Or Keep It? Drastically Reduce Losing Daytrades". The idea is to focus on trade management right after you put on a day trade. For me,...
Buying on the bid.
Buying on the bid. Published on: September 19, 2013 I got the following through on an email today and I figured the reply might benefit a few people: I have three questions. 1-I put a buy order on the Bid. I get filled and the market didn't move from the Bid....
Trader Interview with FT71 and Peter Davies – Recording
Trader Interview with FT71 and Peter Davies - Recording Published on: September 13, 2013 All Here is the recording of the Trader interview with FT71 we did on the 12th September, 2013...
Trader Interview with FT71 and Peter Davies – September 12th, 12PM Chicago
Trader Interview with FT71 and Peter Davies - September 12th, 12PM Chicago Published on: September 11, 2013 Please join us on Thursday, September 12Th @ 12:00 PM Chicago Time for a trader to trader interview with FT71 ( http://www.futurestrader71.com/) and Peter...
No BS DayTrading – Is scalping legit?
No BS DayTrading - Is scalping legit? Published on: September 09, 2013 Here's a great video from John Grady at No BS DayTrading about scalping and the successful traders that do it. If you are wondering if scalping is legit, if scalping is still relevant nowadays or...
NinjaTrader & Jigsaw Webinar – Depth of Market Manipulation
NinjaTrader & Jigsaw Webinar - Depth of Market Manipulation Published on: August 30, 2013 On the 28th August, NinjaTrader hosted a webinar where we discussed how many traders believe the depth of market is useless because it is full of fake orders, which is true;...
Live Trader Interview
Live Trader Interview Published on: July 04, 2013 A little over a month ago, we posted a video on Order Flow Analysis on Thinner Markets. At the time, the trader that made the video was going through the Topstep trader combine process. He passed the combine and the...
Order Flow Analysis on Thinner Markets
Order Flow Analysis on Thinner Markets Published on: May 22, 2013 Hi All Those of you on the Jigsaw mailing list will know that I've been keen to find other traders that are willing to take a little time to show their perspective on order flow. A few weeks ago, I met...
Cut & Reverse Drill
Cut & Reverse Drill Published on: May 08, 2013 I stumbled upon this youtube video today. It's from Guy Bowers Youtube page which is associated with the Aussie prop firm Propex. I met a few Propex traders who worked at their office in Singapore, so I can assure you...
Customer Question – How to tell a pullback is ending
Customer Question - How to tell a pullback is ending Published on: April 24, 2013 I got this question via email today and I thought I'd reply to it here.... I wanted to ask you a question about what you find to be the best clues on the depth and sales that a pullback...
Finessing An Entry
Finessing An Entry Published on: April 24, 2013 I thought I’d put some notes together on entries. Not so much on where to enter but rather on how to finesse your way into a position so that more often than not, you are a tick up pretty much straight away. In some...
Стакан заявок на фьючерсы: базы трейдинга
Стакан заявок на фьючерсы: базы трейдинга Published on: April 12, 2013 No - I didn't just learn Russian but one of our Russian customers put this together to give Russian speakers an overview of the Depth & Sales. As usual to get the most from it, change to full...
Customer Video Review #2
Customer Video Review #2 Published on: March 27, 2013 All This is another customer video that I was asked to look at. The trader in question was already short the 6E at this point and was looking for information on what information he'd get from the order flow to...
Those slow, churny, narrow range days
Those slow, churny, narrow range days Published on: March 21, 2013 I recently added a new chapter to the "The ES - When To Enter" course. The title was "High Liquididy '2 sided' Days/Summetime Chop". I added this course after a discussion in the Jigsaw Skype group. I...
Customer Video Review
Customer Video Review Published on: March 17, 2013 One of the Jigsaw customers asked if I could review a video of some action on the 6E. The video is pretty simple - I play the video and comment on what I can see. As usual, put in full screen mode and select "HD" in...
John Grady trade video & why he moved from XTrader to Jigsaw
John Grady trade video & why he moved from XTrader to Jigsaw Published on: March 12, 2013 The title is fairly self explanatory. John goes over two topics in this video. 1 - Why he made the move from XTrader to Jigsaw2 - A walkthrough of a scalp trade on the ES For...
Beginning of a Range?
Beginning of a Range? Published on: February 21, 2013 First - I'd like to give credit where it's due. The person that opened my eyes to something that was right in front of them all the time was Kam Dadwhar at L2ST who, over the course of what seemed like a very long...
When Markets Get Too Thick
When Markets Get Too Thick Published on: February 14, 2013 In the past few weeks, the ES has been in a really narrow range. It did show signs yesterday of behaving a little better and I expect it to be "business as usual" over the next few weeks. I understand from...
Friday 25th January Webinar. Introducing Order Flow Analysis to your trading (Topstep Trader)
Friday 25th January Webinar. Introducing Order Flow Analysis to your trading (Topstep Trader) Published on: January 26, 2013 This is the third of three webinars hosted by Topstep Trader. In this webinar, we look specifically at how you can start to apply Order Flow...
Friday 18th January Webinar – Practical Application of Order Flow (Topstep Trader)
Friday 18th January Webinar - Practical Application of Order Flow (Topstep Trader) Published on: January 20, 2013 This is the second of three webinars hosted by Topstep Trader. In this webinar, we will look at the different ways in which Order Flow information is most...
Friday 11th January Webinar – Introduction to Order Flow (Topstep Trader)
Friday 11th January Webinar - Introduction to Order Flow (Topstep Trader) Published on: January 14, 2013 Many thanks to Topstep Trader for hosting the webinar on Friday 11th January, 2013. For those that missed this first of 3 webinars, you can find a recording of the...
How to Daytrade, How NOT to Daytrade…
How to Daytrade, How NOT to Daytrade... Published on: September 21, 2022 I consistently get 5-10 emails per week from people saying 'I am lost in my trading, can you help?'. Mostly these are from prospective customers but about 30% are from existing customers. The...
Day Trading Support/Resistance Levels
Day Trading Support/Resistance Levels Published on: May 03, 2022 The most commonly played areas to trade-off also tend to be those that are the most visually appealing. It should therefore come as no great surprise that the most visually appealing “Support and...
Time Travel Day Trading – Shortening your trading horizon
Time Travel Day Trading – Shortening your trading horizon Published on: March 29, 2022 Few traders consider the impact of trading horizon on the amount of elapsed time it’ll take them to get to profit. A time travel machine would be very useful in day trading....
Effective Trader Education. When Markets go ‘vague’, Scaling into Trades & Trading when Employed
Effective Trader Education. When Markets go 'vague', Scaling into Trades & Trading when Employed Published on: May 27, 2019 As part of our ongoing commitment to Effective Trader Education, we had 2 great webinars last week and as requested, here are including the...
Group Therapy – Trading The Idiot Zone & Scaling Into Trades
Group Therapy - Trading The Idiot Zone & Scaling Into Trades Published on: May 20, 2019 In this months trader group therapy, we are going to look into 2 timely issues impacting traders right now. We'll be meeting at May 23rd, 12pm Eastern Time. Click here to register...
Three Great Price Ladder Trades – Passive Entries, FOMO Trades, Trading Risk Events
Three Great Price Ladder Trades - Passive Entries, FOMO Trades, Trading Risk Events Published on: May 17, 2019 In this post, we have 3 amazing trade videos from our partner Axia Futures. If you are interested in learning more about this style of trading, check out our...
Trading Index Future Divergences (DAX & STOXX) – Video
Trading Index Future Divergences (DAX & STOXX) - Video Published on: April 23, 2019 As anyone that's been following Jigsaw for a while will tell you - we love correlations. Correlations exist in markets because of arbitrage trading that simultaneously buys and sells...
Strong vs Weak Action on a Breakout
Strong vs Weak Action on a Breakout Published on: March 26, 2019 In this video from Axia Futures, Richard leads discusses the two potential breakouts. The first was a failure to the downside after breaking the 28 level in the German Bund, the second was a successful...
Good Action vs Bad Action by John Grady
Good Action vs Bad Action by John Grady Published on: March 19, 2019 This month, we had a special guest along for our monthly group therapy session. In this session, professional trader John Grady discusses "Good Action vs Bad Action" - or how to spot if your market...
eMini S&P500 – State of Play – February 2019
eMini S&P500 - State of Play - February 2019 Published on: February 07, 2019 The crazy volatility we saw at the end of 2018 in the US Index Futures appears to be behind us. The China Trade War drums aren't beating so hard and we've become (almost) immune to the daily...
January Group Therapy Recording – Confidence & Confirmation in Trading
January Group Therapy Recording - Confidence & Confirmation in Trading Published on: January 30, 2019 Many traders struggle with indecision immediately after entering a trade. Getting shaken out of good trades and staying in bad trades. They know their setup well but...
January Group Therapy – Confidence & Confirmation in Trading – Jan 29, 12PM Central
January Group Therapy - Confidence & Confirmation in Trading - Jan 29, 12PM Central Published on: January 23, 2019 Many traders struggle with indecision immediately after entering a trade. Getting shaken out of good trades and staying in bad trades. They know their...
Who said price ladder was just for scalpers? $100,000 Live Trade Video
Who said price ladder was just for scalpers? $100,000 Live Trade Video Published on: November 02, 2018 One of the most enduring myths about order flow trading is that it's just for short term traders - "The price ladder - that's just for scalpers!" is what a lot of...
Group Therapy – Pushing a Setup to the Max, High Volatility Order Flow (live demo)
Group Therapy - Pushing a Setup to the Max, High Volatility Order Flow (live demo) Published on: October 31, 2018 Thanks to all those that attended yesterdays Group Therapy Session. Due to the high volatility, we covered 2 topics yesterday. Part 1 - Pushing your edge...
Utilizing Correlated Markets (Bund/Euro)
Utilizing Correlated Markets (Bund/Euro) Published on: August 23, 2018 The use of related markets in trading is one of the most valuable skills to apply in trading and fortunately one of the easiest to learn. The only reason it's not more popular is that a lot of the...
Jigsaw Leaderboard June and July Results – A superscalper in our midst?
Jigsaw Leaderboard June and July Results - A superscalper in our midst? Published on: August 15, 2018 The leaderboard contest rates traders based on our proprietary trading algorithm. Today, we'll take a look at our outstanding performers for June and July. Typically...
It’s back – Jigsaw Leaderboard & May Results
It's back - Jigsaw Leaderboard & May Results Published on: August 06, 2018 It's been a while since we announced Jigsaw leaderboard results. We noticed in May that a number of traders had tried to 'game' the system. They did this by getting into positions and not...
Order Flow Absorption & Market Reversals by Axia Futures
Order Flow Absorption & Market Reversals by Axia Futures Published on: August 01, 2018 The most basic 'tell' in trading order flow is the Order Flow Absorption signal. It's the one that's probably easiest to read and the one that traders like to adopt early on in...
Reactive Trading – Mastering Summer 2018 Trading Conditions + Live Order Flow Analysis
Reactive Trading - Mastering Summer 2018 Trading Conditions + Live Order Flow Analysis Published on: August 01, 2018 One of the challenges this summer is that volatility is changing day to day. That's catching out a lot of traders that attempt to follow the same...
July 2018 – Trader Group Therapy – Getting through this ‘strange’ summer…. 26th July, 12pm EST
July 2018 - Trader Group Therapy - Getting through this 'strange' summer.... 26th July, 12pm EST Published on: July 22, 2018 It's summer time again and time for another group therapy session. The market is pretty much forcing the topic this month - the odd...
Professional Trader Alex Haywood – Stop Giving Money Back to the Market!
Professional Trader Alex Haywood - Stop Giving Money Back to the Market! Published on: June 29, 2018 On 28th June, 2018, we had Alex Haywood present our monthly "Group Therapy" session. For those that don't know Alex, he's the CEO of Axia Futures, a bricks and mortar...
Jigsaw Group Therapy – 7th June! Live Webinar Recording.
Jigsaw Group Therapy - 7th June! Live Webinar Recording. Published on: June 13, 2018 Scalping has always been a controversial topic in the retail trading world. Look at any online forum topic about scalping and you'll see that people can barely agree on what it is,...
All new Market Balance Gauge
All new Market Balance Gauge Published on: May 11, 2018 In this video, we'll look at the new market balance indicator on the pace of tape gauge. The pace of tape gauge us a very easy way to view the pace of trade across a number of markets. At the bottom we can see...
Become a better trader – in 2 weeks.
Become a better trader - in 2 weeks. Published on: May 10, 2018 We are please to announce a webinar on futures.io on Thursday, May 17th at 4:30pm EST. Click here to register for the webinar. Over the past 10 years, the pendulum in the trading world has swung from...
Trading Group Therapy Recording – Real Traders, Real Problems, Real Solutions
Trading Group Therapy Recording - Real Traders, Real Problems, Real Solutions Published on: May 01, 2018 Here's a recording of the 2nd group therapy session in April, 2018. In last month's session, we focused on one Trader and the 'go-forward' plan we helped him...
Trailing Limit & Stop Orders – Jigsaw daytradr™
Trailing Limit & Stop Orders - Jigsaw daytradr™ Published on: April 20, 2018 We are happy to announce that Jigsaw daytradr™ now supports both Trailing Stop and Trailing Limit orders. It's all very simple to use, just take a look at the video below to see how. Note...
Jigsaw Group Therapy Recording – April 2018
Jigsaw Group Therapy Recording - April 2018 Published on: April 11, 2018 Here's a recording of the April Group Therapy webinar. In this session, we looked at 2 things. 1 - A review of a retail trader that's trying to put all the pieces together. A very nice guy and a...
Jigsaw Trade Simulator – Refine your Edge with Accurate Fill and Slippage Simulation
Jigsaw Trade Simulator - Refine your Edge with Accurate Fill and Slippage Simulation Published on: April 02, 2018 We are happy to announce the release of the Jigsaw Trade Simulator. A trading simulator built into the Jigsaw daytrader™ platform with realistic fills on...
Jigsaw SmartGauge™ – Pace of Tape
Jigsaw SmartGauge™ - Pace of Tape Published on: March 26, 2018 We are happy to announce the release of 2.0.0.0 J of Jigsaw daytradr™ with the new Pace of Tape Smart Gauge™. Pace of tape is an integral component of reading Order Flow. In a recent video from Alex...
Powerful Techniques for Changing Your Trading Psychology by Dr Brett Steenbarger
Powerful Techniques for Changing Your Trading Psychology by Dr Brett Steenbarger Published on: March 13, 2018 I have seen many trading webinars in my time and this one from Dr Brett Steenbarger, is definitely in my top 3. Of course, I do admit to being a huge fan of...
Gekko is back! February Leaderboard – close finish, 50% of traders in the black!
Gekko is back! February Leaderboard - close finish, 50% of traders in the black! Published on: March 06, 2018 The February leaderboard results were always going to be interesting. We had a huge spike in volatility at the start of the month and the markets were erratic...
Keep moving your stops? Trade Management Improvement…
Keep moving your stops? Trade Management Improvement... Published on: March 06, 2018 Every now and again a trader will email me about their Trade Management issues, saying something along these lines.... "Is there any drill or exercise to cure my deadly hang-up of not...
S&P500 Volatility – The Return to Normality?
S&P500 Volatility - The Return to Normality? Published on: February 26, 2018 As we head into a new week, it's worth taking pause to consider how the markets may behave in over the next few days. On the 5th Feb, the markets took a huge dive, and since that time have...
Price Ladder Trading & Trading Psychology – Bund ECB Sources
Price Ladder Trading & Trading Psychology - Bund ECB Sources Published on: February 16, 2018 As well as the mechanics of the Price Ladder, a major part of learning to trade is understanding trading psychology – peoples’ motivation behind a trade, what their...
$30k profit (DAX/ES), 30% Profitable Traders – January Leaderboard Results
$30k profit (DAX/ES), 30% Profitable Traders - January Leaderboard Results Published on: February 16, 2018 Congratulations to Vaidas for winning the Jigsaw leaderboard contest for a second month running. The leaderboard ranks traders by a proprietary consistency...
Price Ladder Trading – Different Ways to Trade a Breakout (Bund)
Price Ladder Trading - Different Ways to Trade a Breakout (Bund) Published on: January 11, 2018 In this video (from Proprietary Trading Firm AXIA Futures), we can see a breakout on the Bund. First we take a look at which area we are looking to breakout from, and...
Jigsaw & TopstepTrader – Identifying a Profitable Trading Strategy
Jigsaw & TopstepTrader - Identifying a Profitable Trading Strategy Published on: December 15, 2017 In the most recent episode of Limit Up! over at TopstepTrader, host Eddie Horn and Peter Davies hone in on the one thing that matters most to traders: finding and...
Bitcoin Futures Now Supported on Jigsaw daytradr™
Bitcoin Futures Now Supported on Jigsaw daytradr™ Published on: December 11, 2017 We are happy to announce that Bitcoin futures are now supported on the Jigsaw daytradr™ platform. Bitcoin Futures with symbol "XBT" on CBOE are now live and will be followed on the 18th...
Jigsaw Analytics™ P&L Calendar
Jigsaw Analytics™ P&L Calendar Published on: December 03, 2017 We are happy to announce the addition of a P&L Calendar to the Jigsaw Analytics™ web site. The calendar gives you a way to scroll through months of trading history in seconds, looking for patterns in...
Using Order Flow for Reversals and Breakout Trades
Using Order Flow for Reversals and Breakout Trades Published on: November 22, 2017 In this video, we take a look at a reversal trade and a breakout trade. Not only that but the 2 setups are triggered at the same price – just at different times of the day. This is a...
Well done Mr Gekko! Consistency Pays – $500 for Winning the October Trader Leaderboard Contest
Well done Mr Gekko! Consistency Pays - $500 for Winning the October Trader Leaderboard Contest Published on: November 05, 2017 At the start of October we launched the first of our Monthly trader leaderboard contests. The winner is Laszlo from Hungary AKA Mr...
Trading all conditions? Money Maker or Account Taker?
Trading all conditions? Money Maker or Account Taker? Published on: November 05, 2017 Is trading all conditions a realistic goal? It's certainly an idea that is planted in the heads of many aspiring traders. You've probably seen it, those "magic beans" systems for...
Order Flow Crude Reversal/Breakout Using Momentum
Order Flow Crude Reversal/Breakout Using Momentum Published on: October 25, 2017 I had two customers in the past few days ask me related questions. Although they are different questions, the answer is similar, I decided to highlight this with the Order Flow Crude Oil...
Mr Topstep Open House – $9 for a full week of training!
Mr Topstep Open House - $9 for a full week of training! Published on: October 23, 2017 Jigsaw have been invited to present at Mr Topsteps October Open House. This is a week long session where you get access to Mr Topsteps IM Pro Trading room (a forum for traders to...
Turning Japanese…
Turning Japanese... Published on: October 13, 2017 I had a few customers contact me earlier this week about the new Japanese markets AMP is supporting. We already have people trading the Mini-Nikkei and now we have the full size Nikkei and 4 other markets on line. The...
Current lack of volatility in the markets – What to do!
Current lack of volatility in the markets - What to do! Published on: October 05, 2017 Since we came out of the traditional Summer Slowdown in the markets (which ends after the US Labor Day holidays), the markets have been acting unusually. Unusually slow and choppy...
October Leaderboard Prize – $500 in cash
October Leaderboard Prize - $500 in cash Published on: September 18, 2017 Those of you keeping up with the news at Jigsaw will know that we've promised monthly prizes for leaderboard winners. We are starting that in October with a $500 cash prize. Not a coupon, not a...
Jigsaw Trader Dashboard
Jigsaw Trader Dashboard Published on: September 15, 2017 Collecting trade data is a pain and crunching that date into meaningful statistics would be a nightmare. Most trading platforms pay just a little attention to presenting trade statistics. At Jigsaw, we think...
Self-Sabotage in Trading. What Exactly is it? How do we Overcome it?
Self-Sabotage in Trading. What Exactly is it? How do we Overcome it? Published on: September 15, 2017 As most traders quickly learn, trading is guaranteed to connect you with all of those ‘emotional skeletons’ residing deep in the depths of your unconscious mind...
The Path to Trading Consistency…
The Path to Trading Consistency... Published on: August 31, 2017 It goes without saying that trading consistency is the key to longevity as a trader. What exactly does 'trading consistency' mean? How can you tell month after month that you are becoming more consistent...
Summer Time Trading Opportunities – why and how.
Summer Time Trading Opportunities - why and how. Published on: July 26, 2017 Summertime trading time again! For many newer traders, that means huge losses as they try to trade the same system in different market conditions. There's no doubt that traders need to change...
Using Order Flow for Trading Success
Using Order Flow for Trading Success Published on: July 23, 2017 Peter Davies of Jigsaw Trading was recently interviewed by Les Meehan at Right Mind Trader in an interview entitled "Using order flow for trading success". The interview focuses very much on the mental...
Sharks vs Sharks: Banks, funds, market makers, prop trading
Sharks vs Sharks: Banks, funds, market makers, prop trading Published on: July 16, 2017 Interested in prop trading and other institutional trading? On Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 at 4:30pm EDT. John Grady of NO BS DayTrading will be presenting a webinar entitled "Sharks...
The all new Jigsaw Trading Chat Room – with video!
The all new Jigsaw Trading Chat Room - with video! Published on: June 08, 2017 The Jigsaw Trading Chat room has been an integral feature for many years at Jigsaw. It's a great place for like minded traders to meet and chat about what they are seeing in the market....
Adrienne Toghraie – Evolution of a Master Trader (Webinar Recording)
Adrienne Toghraie - Evolution of a Master Trader (Webinar Recording) Published on: April 19, 2017 In this webinar Adrienne from Trading on Target discussed each trader category & what is necessary to face the challenges towards becoming a Master Trader. You will...
Market Dynamics – Trade Location in all the Right Places
Market Dynamics - Trade Location in all the Right Places Published on: April 10, 2017 This Tuesday, April 11th at 4:30pm EDT, Peter Davies of Jigsaw Trading will be presenting a webinar entitled "Market Dynamics – Trade Location in All the Right Places". The webinar...
Spotting reversals with high volume nodes (Crude)
Spotting reversals with high volume nodes (Crude) Published on: March 08, 2017 High volume nodes (also know as volume clusters) are the key to catching market reversals early. Not all reversals are identified by high volume nodes but a high percentage of them are. If...
‘One Tick’ Trading Drills
'One Tick' Trading Drills Published on: March 02, 2017 In a previous post, we took a look at trading drills to accelerate your progress as a trader. In the earlier article, we looked at the “Cut and Reverse” Drill. In this video below we look at how to take your...
Looking beyond price – Finding ‘reaction points’ with Order Flow
Looking beyond price – Finding ‘reaction points’ with Order Flow Published on: February 08, 2017 When a market is moving sideways, it’s often better to just quit trading for the day. Markets will typically have high activity at their ‘open’ time where institutional...
Jigsaw daytradr Trading Platform Now Available
Jigsaw daytradr Trading Platform Now Available Published on: September 30, 2016 In this presentation, hosted on the futures.io forum we took a look at the Jigsaw Tools in a stand alone environment. A new trading platform that we are calling RapidTraderPro. This is the...
Getting Started In Scalping/Ultra Short Term Trading
Getting Started In Scalping/Ultra Short Term Trading Published on: September 29, 2016 On 28th September, 2016, Jigsaw Trading presented a 1 hour webinar on scalping. Discussing a number of scalping setups on volatile and slow markets. Originally, scalping was a...
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