Blake Young, Author at TheoTrade

3 Lessons From an Extremely Volatile Week

June 13, 2026

Hey trader, This week the tape whipped in both directions. It never settled into a trend. Five sessions brought sharp reversals and a wild Tuesday open. A surprise tweet even flipped a live position in seconds. Traders who tried to predict every turn paid for it. The 10% Club still closed the week green at +$195.25. That result had little to do with calling direction. It came from three habits that protect capital when volatility takes over. Here is how each one played out in real trades. Lesson 1: In a trendless tape, small losses win the week Monday handed us one beacon signal across every tracked market. We took the MES short. Price stopped us out for 4 points. The loss was $20. Then price ran 25 points higher to the beacon anchor. A stop left fixed in place would have turned a $20 scratch into real damage. We

How I Turned a Stalled Trade into a +$118 Profit

June 11, 2026

Hey trader, You can do everything right on a trade and still give the win back… The entry is clean…the target is in sight…then price stalls…doubt creeps in…except for me. When you have numbers drawn before the bell and a methodology like the one I teach in 10% club behind you, decisions become mechanical. Sounds too good to be true? Well, the euro did exactly that today. It paused two ticks from my target and sat there for more than twenty minutes. Holding for that last sliver risks a reversal that erases the gain. Bailing too early means leaving money I had already earned. Without a plan, a moment like that is pure guessing. With a plan, I locked in $118.75 before lunch. All it took was one level – one level that made my exit obvious. Let’s walk through the trade step by step so you learn exactly how

How I Kept Hitting Targets to the Tick on Tuesday’s Crash Tape

June 9, 2026

Hey trader, Tuesday was a mess. The VIX ripped to 20. The indices knifed through May’s lows. On a tape like that, the levels you drew at the open are already junk. Price runs right through them. It grabs your stop a tick early, then turns and leaves without you. One read held up anyway. I look for the spot where one side got run over on the chart. Whoever got steamrolled left orders sitting there. Price comes back for them almost every time. That spot becomes my next target. I called it on the NASDAQ, the ES, and crude Tuesday, and price walked right into the levels. So let me hand you the whole thing: How to mark those spots. How to trade into them. Where to tuck your stop so the crowd gets swept and you don’t. A Violent Tape Is Where This Earns Its Keep On a

Why Some Traders Refuse Winning Trades

June 8, 2026

A winning trade on paper isn’t enough. You still won’t take it. Not because you won’t understand it. The math is simple, and I’ll walk you through every step. You won’t take it because of what it asks you to feel, and that turns out to be the hardest thing in this business. Here’s a trade I worked through this morning in the TheoTrade Chat. I risk 6 points to make 16.5. That’s the whole shape of it: a small, defined loss if I’m wrong, a move about 2.5x bigger if I’m right. Now the only question that matters. How often do I have to be right for that to make money? Add them. 6 plus 16.5 is 22.5. Divide the risk by the total — 6 into 22.5 — and you get just under 27%. So I need to be right barely more than 1 time in 4. I

Everything is a Pairs Trade

June 6, 2026

Hey trader, As many of you know, I’ve been trading for 26 years and teaching for most of that time. Countless times, on days that saw huge moves in the U.S. dollar, I’d get the question: “How do I sell (or buy) the dollar?” To help the questioner think it through, I’d respond, “What do you want to own?” There are two concepts here that tie into one idea. Money in the markets is like matter. It is neither created nor destroyed, only changing state. There is no such thing as a standalone transaction. You can’t buy something without selling something else. You can’t sell something without buying something. You will always be long one instrument and short another. These two thoughts tie into one idea: everything is a pairs trade, expressed as Base/Quote. If you are buying, or long, the base, you are selling, or short, the quote. The

How a Six-Pip Squeeze Gave Me the Only Clean Trade of the Day

June 4, 2026

Hey trader, A dead tape is where accounts quietly bleed out. The screen looks full of setups. Every one of them takes a few dollars and hands you nothing back. Thursday morning was exactly that. Gold stopped me out. Crude chopped sideways. The indexes ran higher without me on board. One chart was doing something different. The euro had wound itself into the tightest range on my screen. Six pips, top to bottom. That squeeze was the only real signal of the morning. It paid $87.50 on a single contract while everything else gave money back. Here’s how I read the coil and traded the break on the 6E. The Tape Going In The morning opened slow and stayed slow. Gold gave me a beacon breakout, ran a little, then reversed the whole move and tagged my stop before I could adjust a thing. Crude kept poking at its level

How I Sized Every Trade on the Deadest Tape of the Year

June 3, 2026

Hey trader, The fastest way to wreck a small account has nothing to do with picking the wrong direction. It comes from trading the right idea in the wrong size. You can be dead right on the chart and still give back a month of gains on a single oversized loss. Wednesday’s tape was as flat as it gets. That made it the perfect classroom for the one habit that keeps an account alive when nothing is moving. Here is the exact math I used to size every trade off my stop. I will also give you the simple framework you can run on your own account before your next click. Being Right Is Only Half the Job Plenty of traders pick their contract count by feel. A green streak makes them add. A red day makes them either freeze or double up to win it back. The position size

How I Turned Gold Into a Risk-Free Trade

May 30, 2026

Hey trader, I was in a gold trade for about ten minutes this morning. By the time it tagged my target and paid me, I had zero dollars left at risk on it. It started out as a $122 risk. I shaved that number down the whole way up the chart until there was nothing left to lose. That part is the piece nobody really shows you. You probably set your stop once when you click in. Then you watch your open profit come and go for the rest of the trade. Or you grab that stop and drag it around every time a red candle spooks you. Then the market knocks you out a tick before the thing finally runs. I want to walk you through the version where you do neither. This gold long is about the cleanest example I have got. I will give you the entry,

Home Builders Could Drop 15%

May 28, 2026

https://youtu.be/EjXlHjio3Nw The S&P 500 just printed new highs on an Iran ceasefire headline. Blake Young is not buying it. He sees home builders set up to fall 15%. One stock already shows the damage. The Rate Trap Tightening On Housing Blake started with the bond market. Prices gapped down, tested the lows, then failed to hold a new high. That failure points the 10 year Treasury yield back toward its annual highs. Higher rates land hardest on one group. Home builders live on borrowing. Every buyer trying to finance a house feels it too. Blake flagged a number most traders are ignoring. Consumers are defaulting on credit cards and unsecured loans at a multi decade high. Higher rates pile onto an already stretched consumer. That pressure flows straight into housing demand. Toll Brothers Is Showing The Damage Blake went straight to Toll Brothers because the financials show the story clearly.

How I Made $225 on the Only Trade Worth Taking All Morning

May 28, 2026

Hey trader, Wednesday’s session handed most traders a slow bleed. Charts that looked like setups, fills that turned into stop-outs, and a tape that punished anyone trying to force volume. I closed the morning with one winner. Eighteen pips on the euro, $225 on a single eMini. That was it, and that was enough. The reason it worked when six other charts looked just as good is the part most traders skip. Two of my three primary signals fired on the same candle, the close confirmed it, and the macro story backed the direction. When those three stack, you click. When any one is missing, you wait. Here is exactly how that played out on the 6E. The Tape Going In The session was flat. Painfully flat. Gold was the only thing moving with conviction, ripping from beacon to beacon as the dollar bled out. The ES sat on fair

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