{"id":28,"date":"2025-11-17T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:10:44","slug":"2025-11-17-sunday-to-monday-ote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/17\/2025-11-17-sunday-to-monday-ote\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-11-17 – Sunday to Monday & OTE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Weekends and crypto out of the way – let’s do some analysis from Sunday into Monday – the first session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally for me, it’s best to wait until the first 8 hours of the day have formed. This gives the market time to “calm down” and actually show where it’s headed. Yes – I took stuff beforehand, but that’s because of my own risk appetite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So we can see that the pair was in a down trend. Market opened with a push upwards, but it’s still trending down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After drawing our trend lines and watching for movement – trades were taken from the QT zone to the MA initially – counter to the trend – then from the MA down – following the trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First was a buy – to the zone above – towards the trend line. This was in an up trend on the M1 but a down trend on the higher timeframes. This was off the bounce of the QT zone and then to the zone on the higher TF – or the resistance zone on the M1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Second was a sell – taken in the direction of the higher TF trend, but waited on alignment on the lower TF. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This puts us ahead for today and this week so far. Some accounts cannot trade crypto as I said before. We’ll get into the OTE now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is something you’ll hear about sometimes. The “Optimal Trade Entry” – abbreviated as OTE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While in this example we got the right setup for the OTE – there’s no telling WHEN it will actually setup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m simply looking for areas where the longer TF aligns with the lower – or counter trend trading during retracement\/pull-back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that even with counter-trend trading, you have to wait on some confluence. So – the H1 and H4 may be saying down – but the M5 and M1 may be saying up. If the QT zone and\/or resistance zone aligns – I’ll take the position and get out at the next zone or MA bounce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the direction is right or the setup is there – I will take it. It makes little sense waiting on the OTE all the time. While you’ll have better quality trades, you’ll have to wait for the setups. Lots of waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If trading was my full-time job and I could monitor all the pairs that I trade – maybe I’d wait on the OTE more often. For now – I’m going for quick entry\/exit. The account is currently too small to handle the drawdown (DD) that would take place – even at 0.01. If you check the image again you’ll see that it eventually went down – but it may have blown that account before doing so – or caused “margin call” to be activated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully this gives some context. Will continue again when I have the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weekends and crypto out of the way – let’s do some analysis from Sunday into Monday – the first session. Normally for me, it’s best to wait until the first 8 hours of the day have formed. This gives the market time to “calm down” and actually show where it’s headed. Yes – I took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/876forex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}