Why You Should Avoid This Time To Trade

Most retail traders are losing money at 9:30 am.

And they don't even realize it.

Here's what's happening. 

The bell rings, overnight orders flood in, and algorithms start fighting for position. 

Stop runs trigger constantly. Gaps fill or fail in seconds. By 10:00 AM, 20 to 30 percent of the entire day's volume has hit the tape.

That chaos is information.

But most retail traders treat it like a starting gun. 

They see the volatility, decide it's opportunity, and jump in with both feet right as the institutions on the other side are running stops and shaking out the weak hands.

Schwab even warns about this in their own educational material. Patient traders watch the open and wait. 

The first 15 to 30 minutes is statistically the most volatile and least reliable window of the entire trading day.

I've been live at 9:30 every morning for 25 years. 

And I can tell you with certainty that the smartest thing most retail traders could do is learn the difference between watching the open and trading the open.

Blake Young built an entire system around that distinction.

Blake uses the 6 PM information from the night before, combined with the 9:30 information from the morning, to set up trades that execute at 10:00 AM after the chaos clears. 

By that point the overnight noise has burned off and real liquidity has shown up. The institutions have finished positioning, which means the trade setups are cleaner.

Here's what that structure produces.

Blake's track record over the last 11 months is 435 winning trades and 434 losing trades. Nearly 50/50. But he turned $5,000 into $13,667 in those 11 months.

Those stats do not resemble a coin flip. It’s risk management running at a level you almost never see in retail trading.

The system is engineered so the wins are bigger than the losses, which means Blake doesn't need to be right most of the time. 

He just needs his winners to outpace his losers, and they do by a significant margin. That's exactly the structure professional traders run, and almost no retail trader ever gets it right.

Blake recorded a full presentation walking through how he uses the 9:30 data to set up trades that fire after the noise clears. He breaks down the math, the track record, and the exact process behind the system.

If you want to see what convinced me to endorse this after 25 years of saying no to every other trading system, the link is below.

Click here to watch Blake's full Beacon presentation.

To your success,

Don Kaufman