Live Futures Trading with Tanja Trades

Watch a live futures trading session on Nasdaq with Tanja Trades. This video showcases price action methodology in a live trading environment.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: educational
  • Markets: Nasdaq

Source video

Decoded from: Live Futures Trading with Tanja Trades | 100 Points Nasdaq by NinjaTrader — watch the original

Strategy overview

Price action trading reads the market directly from bars, levels and the behaviour of order flow rather than from indicators layered on top — and that one sentence is where the concept ends and the format takes over. This entry is not a tutorial that states a method and then illustrates it; it is a live futures session, NinjaTrader's channel hosting Tanja Trades working Nasdaq futures in real time. The distinction matters more than it first appears: a taught strategy is a specification you can hold still and inspect, while a live session is a record of execution, where the reasoning arrives already attached to whatever the tape happened to do that particular morning.

That also frames how to read the "100 Points Nasdaq" in the video title. It is a figure from one session — a single observation with no denominator attached, no record of the sessions that did not become titles, and no way to tell from the broadcast alone which part came from the read and which from the day. Live formats are inherently a sample of one per video, and the ones that get headlined are self-selected. Treating the number as a description of what happened that day, rather than as evidence about the method, is the accurate reading.

What stays examinable is the setting rather than the setup: this sits on a platform vendor's channel, so execution mechanics — order entry, bracket handling, how quickly a decision becomes a working order — are part of what is being demonstrated alongside the trader's read. No rule set was extracted for this entry, and the timeframe and indicator fields are empty, which is consistent rather than missing for a discretionary live read of price. The session carries no chapter markers either, so anyone wanting to reuse what Tanja Trades does here has to watch it through and reconstruct the decision points themselves.

Topics

price action · trading strategy · nasdaq strategy · futures trading · live trading · educational video · pine script · tradingview strategy · swing trading

Frequently asked questions

What is a live trading session video, and how is it different from a strategy tutorial?

A tutorial states a method first and then shows examples chosen to fit it. A live session reverses that: the trader takes whatever the market offers in real time and narrates the decisions as they happen. It shows how a read is applied under time pressure, but it does not produce a rule set you can write down and test directly.

What does "100 Points Nasdaq" in the title refer to?

It refers to that session's headline figure on Nasdaq futures. It describes one day's outcome, not a distribution — a single live session carries no sample size, no record of comparable sessions, and no separation between the trader's read and the day's conditions.

Why are no timeframe or indicators listed for this entry?

The entry is filed under price action, which by definition works from raw price rather than indicators, and a discretionary live session does not commit to a fixed chart resolution the way a mechanical setup does. No rule set was extracted for this video, so no parameters are listed either.

Can a live discretionary session be turned into a testable strategy?

Only partially, and only by the viewer. You would need to watch the session, isolate the recurring decision criteria from the one-off judgments, write them as explicit conditions, and then backtest that reconstruction — which is your interpretation, not the trader's stated method. Strategy Decoder catalogues video sources like this one so you can see what structure, if any, was recovered before you invest that effort.

About this strategy page

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