The 60 most dangerous minutes

Most retail traders are inside the two most dangerous hours every day.

The first 30 minutes after the bell rings is the most violent window of the entire trading day. 

The last 30 minutes before the close is the second most violent. 

Between those two windows, the market actually calms down. The four hours in the middle are statistically the smoothest stretch of the session.

This isn't a trader's hunch. 

The pattern has a name. Academics call it the U-shape, and they've been measuring it for decades on S&P 500 data.

Most retail traders only trade the bookends. They sit down at 9:30, watch the bell ring, hit the buy or sell button. 

That single move puts them up against algorithms that have been positioning since 4 am, in the most violent 30 minutes of the day. They lose money, they wait, they revenge-trade into the close, and they end the day right back inside the second most violent window.

That's not a system, it’s a guarantee.

Blake Young built a complete system designed around the calmer window the rest of the retail world is ignoring. 

The trade is set the night before. Blake doesn't sit down until 9:45. The first 30 minutes of carnage happens without him in it.

It's why he's averaged close to 25 percent a month for 11 straight months while the rest of the retail trading universe was getting chopped up at the open.

Don’t believe my word, click here to see it for yourself. 

To your success,

Don Kaufman