Zonetta Trading · published from Connecticut, United States
Adriano Ferreira — trader, Connecticut
I trade Nasdaq-100 and gold futures — on MetaTrader 5, Tradovate, NinjaTrader or TradeStation, with the chart on TradingView; the method does not change with the platform — and I have studied supply and demand since 2013. This site publishes the work I already do every morning.
01 / The short version
Who is writing this
My name is Adriano Ferreira. I live and work in Westport, Connecticut, on New York hours. Over the years I have traded stocks, options, spot forex and crypto; today I trade futures — mainly the Nasdaq-100 contracts and gold — and that is where I am at my best. I am not a fund manager, not a broker and not a licensed adviser. I am a working trader who writes down what he does.
I have studied supply and demand since 2013 — the framework that came off the CME floor and was taught for years as a set of factors you grade a zone against before you risk anything on it. Everything here comes out of that tradition and out of the years I have spent studying it.
- Based
- Westport, Connecticut, United States. New York trading hours.
- Instruments
- Futures first: Nasdaq-100 and gold. Stocks, options, spot foreign exchange and crypto over the years, because the same zone rules transfer even though the units do not.
- Platforms
- MetaTrader 5, Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TradeStation for execution; TradingView for analysis. The method does not change with the platform.
- Studying supply and demand since
- 2013
- Publishes
- The free candlestick course, and live chart sessions where the zones get drawn and graded on a real chart.
02 / Lineage
What I was taught, and what I changed
What I was taught
A zone is not a line you draw after the fact to explain a move you already missed. It is the place a move began: marked before price gets back there, with a near edge and a far edge, and the decision already made about what happens if it arrives. The teaching I came up in treats that as an engineering problem rather than a feeling, and it asks one question I have never been able to put down — not is this a zone, but is this zone worth the risk.
What I kept
Structurally, almost all of it. Zones are drawn at the origin of a move. The level is decided before the market gets there, never while it is moving. Most days the honest answer is that nothing on the screen deserves any money, and the discipline is in accepting that.
What I changed
Two things, and both came from trading futures rather than reading about trading.
The first is calibration. Nearly all supply and demand material in circulation was written for spot foreign exchange, and the distances quoted in it mean nothing on a futures contract. Nasdaq-100 futures move in ticks of 0.25 index points; gold futures in ticks of 0.10. A distance is only a real statement once it names the instrument and its tick size, so on this site it always does — you will never find a bare number here, and you will never find the loose slang the retail forex world uses for a minimum price increment.
The second is that I grade a zone before I take it instead of judging it by feel. Every zone I publish carries a score out of seven, and what goes on the page is the output and the outcome — never the arithmetic behind it.
03 / A morning
How I actually work
08:00 ET
daily
Before the New York open I do the same three things, in the same order, whether or not I end up trading.
First, the levels. I pull the option-positioning levels for Nasdaq-100 and gold and mark the handful that matter — the places where dealer hedging tends to hold price still, and the place beyond which it stops doing that. Those are context, not entries.
Second, the zones. Supply and demand marked on the higher timeframe, then carried down to the timeframe I actually execute on, so that a zone is never invented at the moment I want to trade it.
Third, the grade, and the decision that follows from it. On most mornings that decision is to do nothing, which is not a failure of the process but the process working.
Schematic · supply and demand · not a recorded session
Diagram only · no instrument, no price, no outcome claimed
04 / Why this exists
I built the tools for myself first
Everything on this site started as something I needed and could not buy. The zone tooling exists because marking zones by hand across two platforms and several instruments every morning is tedious and I kept making the same three mistakes. The grading exists because I wanted the decision written down before the candle formed, not rationalised afterwards. The morning levels exist because I was already computing them for myself at eight o’clock.
None of it was built to be sold. Some of it may be sold eventually; when that happens it will have its own page, with a price that matches a real checkout, and not before. Until then, the shelf says what each thing does and what state it is genuinely in.
05 / The output
What the score is, and what it is not
Every zone I publish carries a grade out of seven. The meter below is how it is shown, on the site, in the videos and on the end card — filled segments, an unfilled remainder, and a number.
5 / 7
Example output
What the meter shows is an output and nothing else. It is not a prediction, it is not a signal, and a high grade is not a promise that anything will happen — a well-graded zone can fail, and when one of mine does I publish that too.
The scorecard itself — the sheet I fill in to arrive at the number — is not printed on this site. It goes out as a two-page checklist you can hold next to your own chart, free, and you can grade your own zones with it in about ten seconds.
The checklist is the sheet. The course where this is taught end to end is the reasoning behind every line on it, and that one is paid.
06 / A promise, not a disclaimer
What I will never do here
- No signals. I will never tell you to buy or sell anything, on any instrument, at any time.
- No returns, no win rates, no account curves, no backtest figures. Not on this site, not in a video, not on a thumbnail.
- No “proven system” language, and no suggestion that anything published here will make you money.
- No bare numbers. Every distance names its instrument and its tick size, because a number without those is not information.
- No faked liveness. A chart here is either dated and recorded, or it is labelled a schematic. Nothing on this site pretends to be moving.
- No zone without its outcome, including the ones that did not hold. Publishing only the ones that worked would make everything else here worthless.
- No tracking. This site loads no analytics, no advertising, no third-party script, no font from any server but this one, and no chat widget. There is nothing here to consent to, which is why you were not asked.
One place holds a record I do not control: a virtual account running these rules, traded by my own automation, has been tracked by Darwinex Zero since June 2026. No figure from it appears on this site — read the record there. Charts open on desktop only.
The disclaimer says all of the above in the language a lawyer would want. This section says it in mine.
07 / Elsewhere
Where else you can find me
Same name, same handle, same person, everywhere. If an account carrying this brand is not on this list, it is not mine.
- YouTube
- youtube.com/@zonettatrading — the free candlestick course and live chart sessions.
- instagram.com/zonettatrading
- TikTok
- tiktok.com/@zonettatrading
- info@zonettatrading.com — read and answered by me. Questions about the method are welcome; requests for a trade to take are not, and I will say so.