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Top Trading Tips for 2025
A review of what I've learned and shared so far this year
Mo Wright
September 07, 2025
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Introduction
Welcome back. First, I’d like to thank you all for subscribing. The mailing list has been nearly doubling month-over-month, which is great. But, that means a lot of the newest subscribers have missed some fundamental information about this year’s learnings. So, in this article, we’ll do a quick review of the first part of the year before going into the latest weekly picks.
Year in Review
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Great and horrible advice, at the same time. Buying low means defining a “zone” or indicator that marks a low point in a pattern. Like hitting a moving average, the bottom of a parallel channel, a support or supply level, a round number, a VWAP or AVWAP line, an order block, or anything that fits into a proven strategy or common indicator.
A Magic Order Block [MW] acting as resistance
Selling high means exiting at an amount that A) gives you a return that’s higher than the amount you were willing to risk on the trade, B) reaches a pre-determined target area, or C) begins to reverse when conditions change in a noticeable way. Fortunately, I’ve build free TradingView indicators to visualize each of these scenarios. Just for you.
Also, a common thread throughout my earlier posts was the staggered pattern between the Dow Jones Transportation Average Index ($DJT), The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF ($XHB), and the S&P 500 ($SPY), which helped me create some pretty accurate price target videos early in the year - including SPY to $585? EOY Price Target.
Transportation led Homebuilders, which led and .
$DJT, $XHB, and $SPY Daily Charts
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Stocks that make abnormally large moves pre-market can provide outsized returns. I use mid-cap stocks where the pre-market volume is greater than the average volume over 90 days, and the average true range (ATR) over 14 days is between 0 and 20%.
$SCAG with high pre-market volume on 9/5/2025
I actually made a video on this phenomenon. You can view it at 1 Day Rockets - Using The TradingView Screener to Find Moonshot Stocks.
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Order blocks are formed when price does a BIG reversal. For example, a green candle followed by 5 consecutive red candles could form a bearish order block over the range of the last green candle. This means that if price gets back to that range, then there is the potential that something similar will happen.
Formation of a bearish order block, and bouncing from a bullish order block
I built a TradingView indicator called Magic Order Blocks [MW], and since I built it, I NEVER trade without having this as a reference point. I also made a video called Magic Order Blocks [MW] describing exactly how to use it.
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An “R” is a “risk unit”. For every trade, you should know how much you’re willing to risk. That absolute “R” value (or a multiple of it) can then become a target for your take profit level. So, if you want to risk $10, $100, or $1000 on a trade, then R is $10, $100, or $1000. These should be the amounts that you should have as your target profit amount, at the very least.
http://positionsizecalculator.net
I made a couple of tools to help you calculate that amount quickly for every trade - a position size calculator at http://positionsizecalculator.net, and a corresponding spreadsheet that you can buy at http://spreadsheet.positionsizecalculator.net .
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I did a partial book review of the book, “Best Loser Wins”, by Tom Hougaard. Two of the biggest takeaways were that traders are hopeful when their positions are down, and fearful when their positions are up, when it should be the opposite - according to the author. Second, most traders are highly intelligent people that are capable of winning most of their trades, yet still coming out as net losers.
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Bravos Research and Carmine Rosato are my two favorites. The Bravos Research Youtube Channel is constantly showing new, unique points of view with amazing graphics. Rosato, has some of the most useful and transparent trading videos (live and instructional) of all.
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Also, I occasionally gave updates on my garden.
Landscaped and planted - sunflowers, strawberries, jasmine, blackberries, tomatoes - April, 22, 2025
Refinished bench with marigolds - April 28, 2025
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Fibonacci levels seem to magically mark reversals and targets in every asset class and on every timeframe. I speculated that because Fibonacci multipliers exist everywhere in the natural world, and provided examples and diagrams. Among those natural ratios, I presented the conclusion that when a Fibonacci ratio of participants recognize a move, a collective adjustment to that move is made.
Fibonacci levels acting as support and resistance
Additionally, I created two TradingView indicators with corresponding instructional Youtube videos: Magic Linear Regression Channel [MW] (▶ play video), and the ATR Bands (Keltner Channel), Wick and SRSI Signals [MW] (▶ play video) that leverage Fibonacci levels.
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The first strawberry I ever grew is pictured below. I’ve always lived in a city, and grew up living in apartments, or with roommates, so this was new to me. What else was new was that a squirrel ate it the day after I took the picture. From that I learned that nature is bountiful, and fair. A stray cat showed up, and now keeps the rodents from eating all of the strawberries. They still get to have some, but now, there are enough to go around.
First strawberry - Eaten by a squirrel the day after this photo was taken - May 27, 2025
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Probably the most significant article of the year … so far. I distilled my learnings from the book “100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 And How To Find Them”, by Christopher Mayer into a TradingView screener that I would base the nearly every swing trade on going forward. I posted the screened stocks on my X.com account (and still do), then put them in a spreadsheet and measured their performance. In aggregate they tended to outperform the S&P 500.
100 Bagger Performance Spreadsheet
The findings would serve as the foundation of a future article that would go on to win a TradingView Editors’ Pick award. Here is a link to a public version of the spreadsheet. The worksheets with the word “Final” in the title show the actual results from the day the article was posted.
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What’s Next?
Glad you asked. In the next article I’ll wrap up the review with a look back at the rest of the newsletter articles, as well as the the two TradingView Editors’ Pick awarded content, and talk about my most visited Reddit posts (50,000 views plus).
Each of these stocks, at the very least, fulfilled my initial 100 Baggers screener criteria
Performance 10Y > Performance 5Y - No long term dips in performance
Performance 5Y > Performance 1Y - No short term dips in performance
SMA(300) < Price - Price above moving average
SMA(200) < Price - Price above moving average
Avg Volume 10D > 100K - No lightly traded stocks. Liquidity needed
SMA(200) >= SMA(300) - Stacked long-term simple moving averages
SMA(50) >= SMA(200) - Stacked mid-term simple moving averages
ROE, Trailing 12 Months > 0% - Improving ROE (Return on Equity)
But, with this list I’ve added the addition visual filtering of earnings per share (EPS) in a solid increasing trend or, at least has increased in the previous quarter. I personally have positions in $GOOGL, $HWM, $MCRI, and $IIIN, and maybe adding (or in some cases re-adding) positions in the other equities as well.
$PRDO and $VBTX also fit the criteria, but are approaching Magic Order Block [MW] resistance as well as being at the top of their 2 year channels, so those may not be ready for entry just yet.
With August and September typically being low periods in the market, there is a potentially large upside through at least the next few months if not the rest of the year.
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The End
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