Josh Smith (AK47)
Small cap to large cap. No bias, looking
for the right setup to go long or short.
Years of experience: 8
Go-to strategy: Josh loves bounce plays, dip buys, and shorting small cap reversals.
Journey:
A former broadcast journalism major affiliated with ESPN, he transitioned to full‑time trading in 2018, slowly growing a small account into over $100K. Now, he streams live daily and teaches others on their investing journey.
Trading
philosophy
Life is short, invest early.
JOSH'S trading setup
JOSH'S TRADING STRATEGY
Parabolic Trendline Crack
Target the collapse of overextended vertical moves by identifying a decisive breach of a steep intraday trendline after a parabolic price advance.
Execution focuses on shorting the initial break of support with a stop-loss set just above the final peak, scaling out the position as the price reverts toward key structural levels like the VWAP or primary moving averages.
VWAP & Structural Bounce
High-probability long entries by identifying confluence points where a trending stock pulls back to key support levels like the VWAP or previous resistance-turned-support.
Execution focuses on buying the "exhaustion" of the pullback as volume dries up at these levels, with the goal of capturing the next leg of the trend toward previous intraday highs or upper volatility extensions.
Sammich Mean Reversion
High conviction intraday scalps by identifying the "filling zone" between upper and lower volatility bands after a major price expansion.
Execution focuses on buying the lower band and selling the upper band while price is "sandwiched" in a range, capitalizing on the temporary equilibrium before the next directional break occurs.