Freddy Sarmiento, a 20-year market maker, shares a strategy that tracks institutional order flow to find one or two high-probability trades daily. He claims a 75% win rate using ten NQ futures contracts to make around $6,000 per move, entering when large institutions like Goldman Sachs hedge massive positions.
This is the weapon.
This is how institutions trade.
When I teach this to people, they say you're crazy. This strategy has 75% winning rate.
And with this strategy, how frequent would you say trade opportunities come?
This one has 1 or 2 trading opportunities in the day. That's why it's so important to understand what happens there.
Why? Because— Are you ready to take a step beyond order flow into institutional order flow and options flow? Well, no one better than Freddy Sarmiento, a 20-year market maker. I use this strategy to pass funded accounts.
I can put 10 NQ contracts, so I can make $6,000 in one move. I truly believe every retail trader, whichever strategy they have, they should know about this. You don't necessarily need to change your strategy, but it will help you to increase your winning rate. It's kind of the base of everything.
In this episode, he holds nothing back as he breaks down exactly how to use options flow as a retail trader, and more specifically, even as a prop firm trader.
I realized my edge is to enter the market when the big guys enter the market. That Hedging $1.5 yards. What does that equate to? $1.5 billion. Wow. With that big amount of money, I moved the market. I moved it a lot. I sold another million dollars and Goldman Sachs was there. If Goldman Sachs is there, I'm gonna reverse all my position because—
Over 2 hours of institutional insights from a true institutional trader. Have your notepads ready for this very special episode on Chart Fanatics.
We are just starting to get this knowledge that institutions had and they don't share, obviously. One Italian guy, he told me, Freddy, that looks illegal.
And I said, well—
