Weekly Trading Insights

Long-form weekly posts breaking down the concepts, setups, and indicators that matter most to active traders. Each piece rotates through indicator deep-dives, market structure breakdowns, setup walkthroughs, risk and psychology, and macro themes. Built to sharpen your edge one week at a time — the kind of content you'd want before Monday's open.

Divergence Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does

Bear divergences on /ES 5m carry +5.9pt edge across 180 days. Bull divergences carry -7.1pt. Same 6-method ensemble, same gates, opposite outcomes.

mcdon030

21 hours ago2 min read

The Opening Range Breakout, Decoded — Why a 30-Year-Old Setup Still Pays the Rent

There are a lot of newer, sexier setups in the trading world. ORB isn't one of them. The Opening Range Breakout is older than most of the people trading it, and it still works on instruments that didn't exist when it was first written about. That's not an accident. If you've ever drawn a box around the first 30 minutes of the day on SPY and waited for price to leave it, you've traded ORB. This week we're going to do something most retail traders skip — actually understand why

mcdon030

1 day ago4 min read

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Divergence Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does

The Opening Range Breakout, Decoded — Why a 30-Year-Old Setup Still Pays the Rent