There's a thing the market does every day at 3 PM that I've become a little obsessed with.
It's a data feed the NYSE Arca exchange starts publishing live at exactly 3:00 pm every trading day, and for the next 50 minutes it shows where the biggest money in the market is positioning into the close.
Most of Wall Street sees this same information at 3:50 pm. Mark and I see it at 3:00.
Here's the thing about me. I'm a chaotic wildfire as a trader, which is exactly why I'm obsessed with rules.
Give me a signal that fires at the same time every day on the same ticker and I will run it into the ground.
Mark Sebastian feels the same way. We've been reading this feed together every trading day for months and built one of the cleanest little trade structures I've ever put on.
One ticker, one trade, one time of day.
A $100 account works, it takes me about 60 seconds to execute, and I'm out before the close with no overnight risk.
I'm not giving the whole thing away in an email.
The way we read the feed is the part that actually matters, and that's what Mark and I are walking through live this Wednesday at 4 Pm ET.
Click below, I explain what the feed tells us. Then come watch us run the strategy live on Wednesday.
Okay so, that data feed I mentioned in the above. Here's what it actually is and why it matters.
To understand why it matters, you have to understand something about how the trading day actually ends.
The final price you see on your screen at 4 pm is not the result of normal continuous trading.
It's set by a special process called the closing auction, where every order that wants to execute at the closing price gets pooled together and matched at a single price.
The closing auction is the single largest liquidity event of the trading day. More than $50 billion in notional volume clears in those final seconds on a typical day, accounting for roughly 7% of total daily volume, up from about 3% just over a decade ago.
This is where institutional money, index funds, ETFs, and pension rebalancers all get their official end-of-day fills.
Here's where it gets interesting.
The orders that are going to clear that auction start building up well before 4 pm, and the exchanges actually publish data about those building orders.
For most NYSE-listed stocks, that data goes public at 3:50 PM, ten minutes before the close. But for ETFs traded on NYSE Arca, including SPY, the data starts publishing at exactly 3:00 PM and updates every single second for the next 60 minutes.
That's a 50-minute window where the developing institutional flow into the close is visible in real time on the Arca feed, before the same information becomes public on the NYSE feed.
This isn't hidden.
It's published by the NYSE in their official documentation, and brokers like Interactive Brokers and TradeStation let you subscribe to the feed.
What's specific is knowing where to find it, what you're looking at when you do, and which minutes of the feed carry signal versus which are just noise, which is the part that takes time to learn.
That's the window Mark Sebastian and I have built a strategy around.
One ticker, one trade, one time of day. In and out before the close, no overnight risk, no weekend risk, no holding through earnings or Fed days or anything else.
The ticker is something every trader already knows. The trade structure is something a $100 account can put on. The execution is the same routine, every single day.
For traders who have run this with us, the results have looked like this:
- May 5: $100 turned into $204
- May 4: $100 turned into $112
- May 1: $100 turned into $120
- April 22: $100 turned into $180
- April 15: $100 turned into $122
- April 9: $100 turned into $152
The win rate has been 8 out of 10 trades.
The average winner has been about $57 on a $100 trade.
If you take a setup every trading day for a year at those numbers, you compound to roughly $5,544 in annual profit on a single $100 stake.
I'm not asking you to take my word for any of this. I'm asking you to come to a free live training and watch the strategy work in real time.
This Wednesday, May 13 at 4:00 PM ET. Mark and I are walking through:
The exact 15-minute window inside the Arca imbalance feed where the signal lives.
- Why one ticker is the only ticker that matters for this trade.
- What the developing imbalance tells us before the official NYSE imbalance hits the tape at 3:50.
- How a $100 trade structure gives you the same upside as a much larger position with a fraction of the risk.
- How to execute the trade in under 60 seconds, every day, with no chart-watching required.
This is one of the simplest strategies Mark and I have built.
The brilliance is that there's nothing else to do, which means there's nothing else to mess up.
Click below to register for free if you haven’t already done so.
See you Wednesday.
Rock on,
Voz