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At a glance

Name
Alex2Tick
On X
@Alex2Tick, since September 2023
Role
Futures trader
Focus
Gap plays, volatility tails and structured trade plans, with defined risk
Markets
Futures, commodities, bonds, crypto and equities. Scalping, intraday and swing.
Approach
Auction market theory, order flow, volatility regime and cross-asset confirmation. COT positioning as a filter, never a signal.
Platforms
Sierra Chart and NinjaTrader
Based in
Stockholm, Sweden
Experience
Six-plus years, four of them in shorter-term trading
Builds
Custom order-flow, framing and volatility tooling, in C++ (ACSIL) and Python
Research and tools
Jovian Markets (@JovianMarkets on X)
In development
Jovian Markets: advanced tools and research for Sierra Chart and NinjaTrader. Proptrading.se: prop firm education for Swedish and Scandinavian traders.
Live
Co-host of NinjaTrader LIVE: The Breakout, in the NinjaTrader Discord, Mondays 12–2 PM ET. A paid role, for Traders Wealth Lounge.
Analyst
Traders Wealth Lounge (@LoungeWealth on X)
Previously
Co-host of Wolf EU, a European segment under Wolf Financial (@WOLF_Financial on X)

Bios

One line

Futures trader focused on gap plays, volatility tails, and structured trade plans. Publishes as Alex2Tick.

Short

Futures trader based in Stockholm, focused on gap plays, volatility tails and structured trade plans with defined risk. Analyzes order flow live, and builds his own order-flow and volatility tooling in C++ and Python. Publishes as Alex2Tick, with research and tools under Jovian Markets.

Long

Alex2Tick is a futures trader based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has traded for more than six years, four of them focused on shorter-term trading, across futures, commodities, bonds, crypto and equities. His work centers on gap plays, volatility tails and structured trade plans, always with defined risk. He reads markets through auction market theory, order flow, volatility regime and cross-asset confirmation, and uses COT positioning as a filter, never as a signal. He trades on Sierra Chart and NinjaTrader.

He builds his own tools: custom order-flow, framing and volatility studies in C++ for Sierra Chart, and quantitative research in Python. His research and tools are published under Jovian Markets. He is also building Proptrading.se, education on prop firm trading for Swedish and Scandinavian traders, including how payouts are taxed in Sweden.

Every Monday from 12 to 2 PM ET, he co-hosts NinjaTrader LIVE: The Breakout, a live futures-trading segment in the NinjaTrader Discord. He hosts it for Traders Wealth Lounge, which runs the segment for NinjaTrader, and is paid for the role. He is also an analyst at Traders Wealth Lounge, a futures trading community. Previously, he co-hosted Wolf EU, a European segment under Wolf Financial. He publishes on X as @Alex2Tick.

The name

  • Alex2Tick: a capital A, the numeral 2, a capital T. One word, no space, no hyphen. On X: @Alex2Tick.
  • Never in capitals in running text, and never Alex2tick, alex2tick or Alex 2 Tick.
  • Lowercase only in the address alex2tick.com.
  • Jovian Markets: two words, capitalized, @JovianMarkets on X. His research house, separate from Alex2Tick, and never home to an affiliate offer.
  • Traders Wealth Lounge: in full, @LoungeWealth on X. Not “TWL”.
  • NinjaTrader LIVE: The Breakout: as on the show’s poster. NinjaTrader is one word; “LIVE” is part of the title.
  • Tickers and platforms: ES, NQ, YM, Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, IBKR, ACSIL, C++, Python.
Writing about him
  • Third person: “Alex2Tick” first, then “he”. US spelling. Times in ET.
  • Brand names only. No legal or personal name, and never shorten Alex2Tick.
  • Say what he trades and what he builds. Leave the adjectives out: never “professional”, “elite”, “expert” or “top”.
  • No framework labels without asking him first. Never ICT or SMT.
  • No market views on his behalf, and no “signals” or “trade calls”. Quote only positions he has stated himself.
  • NinjaTrader LIVE: The Breakout is a Traders Wealth Lounge segment that he co-hosts for a fee. It is not an Alex2Tick or Jovian Markets show. Disclose the paid role wherever the show appears, and never state the fee.
  • His platforms are Sierra Chart and NinjaTrader.
  • Label any affiliate link as one, right beside it.
  • Keep Alex2Tick and Jovian Markets apart. No affiliate offer is ever attached to Jovian Markets.
  • Describe his tools as “custom order-flow, framing and volatility tooling”. Name a specific tool only after checking its status with him.
  • Leave out anything personal or private he has not published himself.

Topics

  1. Auction market theory and order flow, across futures, commodities, bonds, crypto and equities.
  2. Gap plays, volatility tails and structured trade plans, with defined risk.
  3. Volatility regime and cross-asset confirmation in index futures.
  4. COT positioning as a filter, not a signal: the weekly change in commercial and non-reportable positions and open interest, read top-down.
  5. Building your own tools: ACSIL studies in C++ for Sierra Chart, and quantitative research in Python.
  6. Research built to be disproved: stating ideas as tests, and recording the ones that fail.
  7. Reading order flow live, on voice. When his live roles come up, name both, and say that the co-host role is paid.

Logo and files

Images

Posters, banners, campaign work and research visuals, each the final version, with what it is and when. Rendered portraits are marked as rendered.

All images · zip16.1 MB

Posters and banners

The show, the headers and the brands he works under.

  • Poster for NinjaTrader LIVE, The Breakout: live futures trading. Catch us live in the NinjaTrader Discord every Monday, 12–2 PM ET, exclusively on Discord at discord.gg/ntlive. @iamJMinx × @Alex2Tick × @TradeyBrady × @Rizzo_Trades. Live futures trading. Real-time analysis. See you Monday. Portraits of the four hosts and the Traders Wealth Lounge seal.
    NinjaTrader LIVE: The BreakoutThe show's poster: live in the NinjaTrader Discord every Monday, 12–2 PM ET. Alex2Tick co-hosts it for Traders Wealth Lounge and is paid for hosting. Shows the four co-hosts.
    png · 1672 × 941 · 1.7 MB
  • The Alex2Tick banner on X: Alex2Tick, Jovian Markets. NinjaTrader LIVE. Futures trading. Every Monday, 12–2 p.m. ET. Live in the Discord. Come trade with us · link in bio. A portrait of Alex2Tick on the right.
    NinjaTrader LIVE header, XHis X header for the show, September 2026: NinjaTrader LIVE, futures trading, every Monday, 12–2 p.m. ET, live in the Discord. The portrait is rendered.
    png · 3000 × 1000 · 1.6 MB
  • Dark sapphire banner: a small engraved classical head in profile above a gold rule, the name Alex2Tick in large ivory serif, and the labels futures trading | jovian markets | private network, the last in madder on an ivory block. Behind it, faded, a Jovian Markets research chart headed S&P 500 — Cost Basis with the caption positioning context, not prediction.
    Alex2Tick headerThe Alex2Tick header banner, made for X in September 2026: the name in EB Garamond with the site's classical figure, over a faded Jovian Markets research chart.
    png · 3000 × 1000 · 343 KB
  • Traders Wealth Lounge banner: Live VC, Analysis, Market Talk. 7 analysts. One lounge. Your edge. Portraits of the seven analysts, each captioned with a first name. 7 top analysts, live VC sessions, real-time analysis, market talk and insights, your trading community.
    Traders Wealth LoungeTraders Wealth Lounge's own banner. Alex2Tick is one of its analysts. Shows the analysts' portraits.
    png · 2107 × 746 · 1016 KB
  • A dark navy banner. On the left: The major futures markets, the wordmark JOVIAN MARKETS, the line Expansion, by design. and Cycle forecasts · Research · Instruments · The Room. On the right: a parchment medallion with an embossed laurel-crowned classical head in profile.
    Jovian MarketsThe Jovian Markets share banner: the research and tools brand Alex2Tick publishes under.
    png · 1200 × 630 · 415 KB

Portraits

Rendered portraits.

Campaign work

Creatives from paid partner campaigns, each with the disclosure built into its design and labelled with its campaign date. Offers end and terms change; none shows current terms.

  • Navy poster with gold hairline boxes. Header: the BluSky Trading Company logo and Hosted by @ALEX2TICK. Large ivory serif text: Giveaway, 3 free 50K Launch Plan evaluations, with chips for when it opened, closed (Friday 4 Sept, 11:28 AM ET) and when winners were announced. A box shows 48,000 in red: the trailing floor only rises; close below it and the run is over. A rendered portrait of a man in a dark blazer before blue-lit stairs rising to a glowing doorway. How to enter: follow @Alex2Tick, follow @BluSkyTrading, like and repost, comment TICK. Why BluSky: daily payouts, automated strategies allowed, free coaching, real human support. Footer: Paid partnership · 18+ · one entry per person · simulated product · futures involve risk · not financial advice.
    BluSky giveaway posterThe giveaway Alex2Tick hosted for BluSky Trading Company: three 50K Launch Plan evaluations, closed 4 September 2026. A paid partnership, disclosed in the design; the portrait is rendered.
    png · 1080 × 1350 · 1.6 MB
  • Dark poster. Header: IQ Capital. and partner offer. Large ivory serif text: Trade DAX futures. A label reads Europe Stays Open. Mono text: When the U.S. is on holiday, the DAX can still offer real opportunity. Then IQ Capital, Your European Edge, institutional conditions for traders who want to stay active when Europe is moving. Use code TICK at checkout. A rendered portrait of a man in a dark blazer before a stone building marked DAX with an EU flag. Footer: Stay sharp. Stay selective. Stay in session. Alex2Tick.
    IQ Capital: DAX futuresA partner creative for IQ Capital on trading DAX futures while U.S. markets are closed, with Alex2Tick's code. October 2026; an affiliate post. The portrait is rendered.
    jpg · 1055 × 1491 · 217 KB
  • Dark poster with gold hairline frame. Header: the Vest Markets mark, Vest Markets, Alex2Tick field note 01; up to $25K funded, up to 95 profit split, Jane Street, Amber Group, Coinbase Ventures. Large ivory serif text: Not just another prop firm, the last line in mint. Exchange plus market maker plus prop program. No trailing drawdown. No consistency rule; yes news trading; yes overnight holds; $1+ profit withdrawals. The trade-offs: Vest contracts, not CME; payouts in USDC. Start small. Take payouts often. next.vestmarkets.com/r/tick. Footer: terms apply; affiliate post, I may earn a commission, trading involves risk, not financial advice. A rendered portrait of a man in a dark blazer on the right.
    Vest Markets: field noteAn affiliate breakdown of Vest Markets' prop program, with the trade-offs printed beside the pitch. September 2026; terms as shown then. The portrait is rendered.
    png · 2160 × 2700 · 1.9 MB

Research

Jovian Markets research and tools — positioning and history, never a call. Each chart carries its data date.

  • Two-panel chart titled Gold: Cost Basis. Top: the gold price from 2006 to 2026 above a blue line and shaded band for Managed Money average long entry and a dashed line for Producer average short entry. Bottom: blue and gold lines for the share of each book in profit. The Jovian oak crest at top left.
    Gold: cost basis, 2006 to 2026The gold price against the modeled average entry of Managed Money longs and Producer shorts, rebuilt from the CFTC disaggregated report since 2006, with the share of each book above water. Data to the 2026-08-25 report. Positioning context, not prediction.
    png · 1950 × 1260 · 464 KB
  • Two-panel chart titled S&P 500 — Cost Basis, three-year view, 2023-08-25 to 2026-08-25, with the Jovian oak crest at top left. Top: the S&P 500 daily close with the large speculators' average long entry, its middle-half band, and the commercials' dashed average short entry. Bottom: the share of large-spec longs and commercial shorts in profit, 0 to 100. Footer: entry prices estimated from weekly changes in gross positions; positioning context, not prediction.
    S&P 500: cost basis, three yearsThe S&P 500 against the estimated average entry of large-speculator longs and commercial shorts, 25 August 2023 to 25 August 2026, with the share of each book in profit. Positioning context, not prediction.
    png · 1950 × 1260 · 334 KB
  • Horizontal bar chart titled Cost Basis: The Waterline. Thirty-nine futures tickers from HG at the top to ZB at the bottom, each with a blue bar for large-speculator longs in profit and a gold bar for commercial shorts in profit, on a 0 to 100 scale with a dotted line at 50. The Jovian oak crest at top left.
    The waterline, 39 futures marketsFor 39 CFTC-reported futures markets at the 2026-08-25 report: the share of each crowd's estimated position sitting above its modeled entry. Blue is large-speculator longs, gold is commercial shorts. Positioning context, not prediction.
    png · 1650 × 2028 · 141 KB
  • Histogram titled Gold: Entry Distributions. Blue bars rise above a zero line and ochre bars hang below it across estimated entry prices from about 1,700 to 5,200 dollars an ounce; a dashed vertical line marks the waterline at 4,615. The Jovian oak crest at top left.
    Gold: entry distributionsWhere the open gold books were estimated to have entered, at the 2026-08-25 report: Managed Money long entries above the line, Producer short entries below, the current mark dashed. Positioning context, not prediction.
    png · 1800 × 840 · 147 KB
  • Dark research chart titled Bitcoin — Cost Basis under the Jovian Markets crest: blue long-entry and ochre short-entry histograms around a gold waterline, a white spot-price beam, a price scale, and a lower panel tracking the share of each book in profit.
    Bitcoin: cost basisA Jovian Markets research still: where the crowd's long and short entries sit, estimated from weekly CFTC positions, data as of 2026-08-25. Context, not prediction.
    jpg · 1400 × 788 · 108 KB
Colour and type

  • Sapphire

    #090C14

    the ground

  • Ivory

    #F5F1E6

    the name, headings

  • Parchment

    #CFC7B8

    prose

  • Steel-light

    #94A5BC

    data, labels

  • Gold

    #C8A24B

    value, used sparingly

  • Madder

    #8B2E3C

    restricted, on ivory only

  • EB Garamondthe name, headings
  • IBM Plex Sanstext and interface
  • IBM Plex Monodata

Press, partnerships and appearances.

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