A blog where Moazzam … rambles

  • Opening Range Breakout

    This trade is executed right at market open. We wait for the 9:30am candle to close and buy it’s high. For this to have a high change of working out the stock has to be in play and relative volume more than 2 Entry Stop Loss Reasons2sell

  • G-Man Pullback

    This will be (hopefully) the first of many strategy posts I write. My primary motivation for this is to keep track of strategies I know and/or thinking of executing trades on. The reason I call this the G-Man pullback is because I read it in “The Playbook” and GMan (Gilbert Mendez) teaches this strategy to…

  • ORB on UPWK

    In “Day Trading for a Living”, Andrew Aziz talks about trading opening range breakouts (ORB) on 5 minutes, preferably 15 mins but not on 1 minute as it might be too volatile. Explaining the strategy is out of the scope of this article. You should be able to find a general ORB strategy online somewhere.…

  • SMMT Flat Bottom Wedge

    SMMT started forming a bull flag after a curl up. I thought the 1 minute would break out when it started going green after a red candle but alas, this was a minute setup. The first red candle appeared on 5 min. Usually there’s 3 red candles (or 1 depending on the strength of the…

  • ABCD pattern

    The chart on the left is 1 min and right is 5 min . On 1 min, there is a flat-top wedge forming. which is generally a continuation pattern (from what I have read) but there was a HUGE red candle and

  • Why everyone is afraid of oil paints

    When I started painting, I worked with acrylics for quite some time before I gathered the courage to try out oils. This is true for a lot of people I know. The stories of how a lot of professional artists got cancer from oil paints certainly doesn’t help. My first mentor (who is a professional…

  • Misadventures with varnish

    I like experimenting. It keeps life interesting. You discover something new and get excited. It advances the world, ushers in a new era of new found knowledge expanding the horizon of human understanding. It does not come without a cost though. Sometimes the cost is too much to bear. You start questioning your life decisions…

  • Missing package errors after upgrading Go

    Very recently, I upgraded Go from 1.11 to 1.12 and all hell broke lose. I kept getting errors of missing packages in golang.org/x/tools , etc . The solution was to re-install Go. This can be done easily on OSX with

  • My experience with PHP/Zend certification

    This post has been sitting in my drafts since 2013. I figured it was time to finish and publish it. I passed PHP Certification exam. It felt nice. I had read about how people failed more than once so it was cool that I passed it on my first try. Registering for the test I’m…

  • Oaths in Islam – Part 2

    Since I posted an article on “Oaths in Islam”, I have gotten quite a few questions from readers (most of which I have not published) asking me to clarify if an oath they took is valid or something else related to oaths they took. I figured I would write another article providing examples to help…

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