TopStep Trader Combine Qualifier Talks About His Trading Experience

We want to share trading experiences from retail traders with the goal of making the OFA community stronger, and we want to help address the challenges you face as a retail trader. From time to time we’ll post an experience we hope will provide support for your financial trading goals, objectives and practices. We do this because we are traders. We face the same fight in the market that each of you encounter.

With that in mind, take a look at what Bhupinder S. said about his trading career and how he got involved with Order Flow Analytics.

 

“I got into trading in 2008. I was introduced by a friend to the futures market, and started learning technical analysis. My biggest fear was the fear of missing out on a good trade, and I didn’t pay much attention to risk. After taking losses in trading, I struggled with managing risk. Fear of loss kept me from entering good trades.

Prior to adopting order flow analysis, I focused mostly on candlesticks, RSI and MACD. But they were not working well enough, so I began searching for a tool to reduce my risk and [identify precise entry/exit points.

Using the OFA volume cluster, I was able to identify strength and weakness in the print. OFA just clicked for me at that point. I took the next step and joined Chip Cole’s bond futures training and trading room. I found out that bonds have a certain flow to them. Chip’s method shows how to get in tune with the flow. Now, I also follow his method trading the FESX and FGBL during European hours, in conjunction with market profiling.

Thanks to the success with Chip’s direction, I qualified for the TopStep Trader Combine® after only 60 days! The two trading lessons I took away from Chip are to look for the ebb and flow of the bond markets and to trade with patience and discipline.

What would be my advice to other traders? Identify a trading system and tools (OFA) that work. Back test and replay the system [you choose] to gain confidence and execute without hesitation.”