The Day Trading Strategy Behind Trick Trades: 3 Pillars
In under an hour, you will learn the three time tested and proven day trading strategy that professional Day Trader & Coach, Pat "Trick" Mitchell, uses to pull millions from the market every year. This is a "nothing held back" masterclass that you do not want to miss.
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These three pillars work together as one system — not three separate ideas to mix and match. If you're ready to see how they combine into a complete, repeatable strategy, explore Size UP membership or start with the fundamentals in Day Trading Bootcamp.
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A real day trading strategy isn't a single setup — it's a complete system covering three things: how you enter, how you manage risk, and how you size your position. This masterclass breaks down the three-pillar framework behind Trick Trades: Entry Strategy, Risk Strategy, and Sizing Strategy — the same system used every trading day, not a one-off pattern.
1. Pillar One — Entry Strategy
A strategy has to be traded the same way every time, regardless of what a chart "feels" like in the moment — the instant you start second-guessing entries based on gut feeling, that's bias, not strategy. The core entry approach is built around "first directional pick": at the market open, price tends to move toward the nearest technical level first. If it dips, you're watching for a long into support. If it pushes, you're watching for a short into resistance. Simple in concept — the discipline is in executing it the same way every session, not just when it feels right.
2. Pillar Two — Risk Strategy
Most traders think they have a stop-loss strategy, but what they actually have is an emotional reaction to a broken level. A real risk strategy is data-backed and consistent — a defined distance from your entry, tested over years of chart history, that gives a trade enough room to work without exposing you to unlimited downside. The second layer is technical risk: when a level breaks, the instinct is to exit immediately, but the more reliable approach is waiting for genuine confirmation — the next candle closing in a way that actually confirms the breakdown — rather than reacting to the first wick through a level.
3. Pillar Three — Sizing Strategy
Sizing is where most traders sabotage themselves — not through bad entries, but through emotional, inconsistent position sizing. The fix is treating size the same way you'd treat leveling up in a structured system: start small, prove consistency at that size, and only then scale up deliberately in stages. Jumping from one contract to two isn't a small step — it's a 100% increase in risk. Respecting that scale, rather than sizing up because a day "feels good," is what separates consistent traders from the ones who blow up an account on their best-looking setup.
Frequently Asked Questions
Entry Strategy (first directional pick into support or resistance), Risk Strategy (a data-backed, consistent stop distance plus confirmation-based technical stops), and Sizing Strategy (deliberately scaling position size in stages rather than sizing up emotionally).
The tendency for price to move toward the nearest technical level first at the market open — the foundation the entry strategy is built around.
Usually because they're reacting emotionally to a level breaking instead of following a pre-defined, tested risk strategy that gives the trade room to work.
Start small and scale up in deliberate stages as consistency is proven — treating size increases as a real escalation in risk, not just "more contracts."
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