Smart Money on Russian stocks
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Short version for experts: tables, lists and screenshots only.
Words in this lesson (9)
Gap — A jump in price: today trading opened noticeably higher or lower than it closed yesterday. Closed at 100 yesterday, opened at 108 today — an 8% gap up.
Short — Selling in the hope that the price will fall: you sell something borrowed, then buy it back cheaper. You make money when the price drops.
Stop — A price chosen in advance at which the trade is closed at a loss, so the loss doesn't grow bigger.
Level — A price where the market has already turned before. Support is below the price, resistance is above it.
Setup — A ready trading rule: under what condition to enter, in which direction, where the stop and the target are.
Screener — A filtering program: it scans hundreds of stocks or coins and shows only those that match the given criteria.
Liquidity — How easy it is to buy or sell the size you need without moving the price. Little liquidity — hard to get in and out.
Dividend — A part of the company's profit that it pays out to shareholders.
Record date — The date on which you need to own the stock to receive the dividend. The next day the stock gets cheaper by roughly the size of the dividend.
Same strategy, different market
The idea is the same as in crypto: MAMAY marks up liquidity, imbalance and structure, and the screener shows where they have lined up. What Smart Money is in plain words — in the lesson linked below. Here's what's special about Russian stocks.
Which stocks
The Smart Money Moex screener watches the most liquid shares in the main trading mode; how many to take is set in the settings.
How the Moscow Exchange differs from crypto
- Liquidity is uneven. In the blue chips the crowd's stops are as visible as in crypto. In second-tier names a single big order moves the price — a "sweep" there can be just a random trade. Start with the most liquid shares.
- Sessions. The morning and evening sessions are thinner than the main one: a sweep there carries less weight. The cleanest setups come in the main session.
- The opening gap. Price can open straight past a level with no wick — that's not a sweep. First check how the open relates to the level.
- News and dividends. A dividend cut-off gaps the price down by the dividend — that's not a structure break. Dates are in "MOEX Dividends".
- Shorting — only in shares your broker allows to sell short, and with a fee for carrying the position.
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