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0:32All right.
1:32All right, let's take a look at what
1:34we're working with today.
1:52So, we're still kind of in this range,
1:54honestly.
1:56Um,
1:59we do have jolts today. So, actually, I
2:01got to set an alarm on my phone.
2:05What's up?
2:10Good morning,
2:22All right.
2:26I don't really uh
2:40nice. What strategy
2:46Oh, back and forth, huh?
2:52What strategy are you talking about? He
2:54said the same strategy.
3:09gonna be watching NQ
3:12realistically.
3:17Okay.
3:20Well, hopefully he ended green
3:24yesterday. Yesterday I actually ended up
3:28Oh, nice. Yeah, I was watching it. Um,
3:33it ended up going back and taking out
3:35the highs, but I just entered in too
3:36early. It came came a little bit lower
3:38before
3:40it actually wanted to make that move
3:41higher.
3:51Nice.
3:57Green is green.
4:00What up, FP? So, I mean, realistically,
4:03what I'm kind of looking at right now is
4:09I do want to see us go higher, but
4:14I'm a little bit more passive about like
4:16uh my bias right now because
4:21essentially what I'm looking at is
4:25for one, the first thing the draw if we
4:28were to go higher would be these highs.
4:31is and if not those highs and you know
4:33at least these highs but
4:38we've been catching a lot of resistance
4:40when we start getting into this area and
4:42uh this level right here this gray box
4:46that you see
4:48if we want to basically get towards the
4:50highs
4:55it would need to push pretty hard. There
4:57is a possibility though that of course
5:00we kind of stay within this range um and
5:04meaning that we actually come lower.
5:08So
5:10I don't necessarily have like a a hard
5:13bias right now. But what I am
5:17looking at basically is
5:20on the 4hour candle it's going to be
5:22pretty important. We do have jolts
5:24today. So, I want to see how we're going
5:27to close because we retraced and
5:29reclaimed all of this large drop that
5:31happened on Friday. Um, and now that
5:34we're up here, if we're going to
5:36continue higher,
5:38we wouldn't really want to see us start
5:39coming back down into this area.
5:41Otherwise, it's just likely going to be
5:44consolidation on a higher time frame in
5:47my opinion. But there's probably,
5:50you know, intraday opportunities that we
5:52can take.
5:54The overnight session really didn't do
5:56much. Um, we kind of just like slowly
5:59slipped down all night and then just
6:01recently popped up for pre-market.
6:06So,
6:09the idea would be that [clears throat]
6:11if we are going to go higher
6:16that this would be the target. the first
6:18target. Um, I don't really like how
6:21there's basically equal lows here,
6:23though. So, that might get taken out.
6:26But today, I'm just going to basically
6:30not have a hard bias bias on which
6:33direction we're going to go and just
6:34understand that because we
6:36[clears throat] are in a range, we could
6:37realistically go either way.
6:39But I would prefer it to continue up,
6:43but I'm prepared for it to go down.
6:48Yeah, it could be potentially a trap.
6:51All right, so we just got to be careful
6:53and we got to watch it. Yeah, I do trade
6:56five minute candles. Um I don't trade
6:58one minute candles because
7:04um they're just kind of like
7:07for me at least one minute candles are
7:10kind of noisy
7:11and they fake me out sometimes.
7:15And also sometimes they just like stress
7:18me out. So it's a lot easier for me just
7:21looking at fiveminute candles.
7:25But I mean if you like one minute
7:27candles, you can trade one minute
7:28candles all you want. I just personally
7:30don't really like trading
7:33one minute candles. I used to though.
7:41I used to trade the one minute time
7:43frame only.
7:46But I blew a lot of accounts and I
7:48didn't get any payouts.
7:51And then I went up to like a twominut
7:53time frame
7:55and that was still too much noise. And
7:56then I went up to a uh
8:00three minute time frame and that worked
8:02for a little bit.
8:05But the five minute time frame is where
8:07I'm comfortable right now. So, I'm just
8:10going to continue to trade on it because
8:13I like to see what happens on a
8:14fiveminute candle before
8:17I make any type of decisions. Although,
8:20sometimes, you know, if the ATR is very
8:22large for a fivem minute candle.
8:25Um, [clears throat] sometimes it's
8:27difficult to have a tight stop loss.
8:40So,
8:42we'll wait a little bit to see what
8:44happens
8:46at market open.
8:51We're
8:54sitting kind of within
9:01Asia range. came up and kind of tested
9:04the lows of it after London.
9:11But last night, um,
9:17last night I actually [ __ ] tilted to
9:20be completely honest with with you guys.
9:22I tilted. I [ __ ] up a lot of my
9:23accounts
9:26or basically I [ __ ] up all of my
9:27accounts. I tilted pretty bad.
9:30And then on silver, I ended up going
9:32short somewhere around right here.
9:38Oh, you can't see it.
9:42Oh, my bad. You couldn't even see that
9:44the whole time I was talking about it.
9:46But what's it called?
9:49Um,
9:51I went short on silver somewhere around
9:53here and then I got out literally right
9:56here at the bottom.
9:59So, it put me up like 2,700 on the day.
10:02So, the balance on this funded account
10:03is now like $4,200. But unfortunately,
10:06the other funded accounts that I had, I
10:08kept trying to long it right here to
10:11take all-time highs on silver
10:14and then I just tilted and got chopped
10:16up and then I basically blew a bunch of
10:17funded accounts yesterday. So,
10:21not good. But what [clears throat] I'm
10:24what I think the plan is for today is
10:26I'm probably just going to trade this
10:28account. I already have one payout this
10:31month, but I do need another one. So,
10:36I'm going to build the balance up on
10:38this one and focus on taking a payout on
10:41this one because this one is about it's
10:44the third payout cycle and I'm currently
10:48this would be the second day in the
10:49cycle. So, I still need some uh
10:54I still need some winning days on this,
10:56but um yeah, I need to lock in this
10:59payout. So, I'm going to try and build
11:03the balance a little bit on this
11:04account. I think if I lose
11:10maybe $700 to $1,000 of my profits, I'll
11:14allow myself to lose the 744 bucks
11:17basically. And then if it goes down to a
11:20$2,000
11:21realized profit on the day, I'm probably
11:23gonna
11:25just call it a day.
11:31What up, Eek guy?
11:56What I'm hoping though is
11:59that Jolts does something here today. It
12:01probably will.
12:03Preferably, I would want to see it go
12:05higher, but I I think this might
12:07actually get potentially taken out of
12:10these equal lows right here.
12:14Um, we are still in a range like I was
12:16saying though. So, I'm kind of prepared
12:19for it to go either direction. Although,
12:21preferably I would like it to go long or
12:24go higher.
12:26But, I'm just going to have to wait and
12:28see
12:30what it does
12:34uh when we open up here in like eight
12:36minutes.
12:39Today I'm being a little bit more uh
12:41passive in terms of
12:43a bias because
12:47eventually I mean I would assume that
12:50either today, tomorrow or Friday, we're
12:52probably going to retrace some of this
12:53move. Might not be today.
12:57Um
12:59or maybe we don't. But the weekly candle
13:01is
13:04pretty bullish. We're basically inside
13:07the previous weekly range, which
13:10is kind of gross. So,
13:32but there's maybe an opportunity if we
13:38do I trade the orb? No, I don't. I used
13:40to a little bit. I used to trade a
13:4230-minute orb.
13:45The orb's pretty great though. It would
13:46have worked out perfectly yesterday if
13:48you trade like a 15-minute orb.
13:54Like yesterday on the 15-minute orb.
13:56Where were we?
13:58Right here.
14:00if he traded the retest of this,
14:08but I don't really trade the orb.
14:13Uh I mean, I think the orb is a good
14:15strategy. It's just um
14:19I don't really trade it.
14:21Uh the strategy I trade is I'm just
14:24basically
14:27I build context through sessions and uh
14:31market structure. Like the the easiest
14:33way to explain it is I'm basically
14:37I build uh like a context or a bias
14:40using sessions and market structure like
14:42just swing highs, swing lows
14:45in higher time frames. And then in terms
14:47of entries, I'm reading footprint to
14:49look for essentially pressure and follow
14:52through or rejection.
14:55And then I'm entering based off of
14:57different entry models that I have for
15:00order flow.
15:02Uh what I am going to do though, I've
15:04actually been working on it, is
15:09kind of a lot to explain the way that I
15:11look at the market. So, I wrote like a
15:14PDF, but it's a [ __ ] huge PDF. It's
15:17like [ __ ] 60 pages,
15:20but I'll probably just like have it
15:22available. So, if you ever want to know
15:24like how I actually look at the market
15:26and you you care about it, you can just
15:28read that
15:32because there's a lot that goes into
15:35basically what I'm looking at. It's not
15:37complicated, but it's just
15:46stopping yourself from trading every
15:48setup. Well,
15:54yeah. I mean like
15:58the way that I think about it
16:02is
16:06more trades doesn't necessarily
16:12doesn't necessarily mean that you're
16:14doing a good job
16:19because realistically like during the
16:21New York session
16:24There's not I mean it depends what
16:26you're doing. If you're scalping, it's
16:28one thing, but the way that I trade
16:29where I'm looking for like us to take
16:31out highs or lows or, you know, we're
16:34going for 50 points or more. Um,
16:37realistically, like for that to happen
16:39in a clean way, my apologies, in a clean
16:42way,
16:44it only happens like a couple times
16:46during the AM session.
16:51And then once
16:53the move that I was looking for or the
16:56move quote unquote of the day, like
16:58let's say let's say today we're going to
17:01pump, right? And these highs are the
17:05draw or even just like somewhere in this
17:07area is going to be the draw and we find
17:11an entry and we can ride it all the way
17:13up here. Well, then
17:16at that point that was like all all we
17:18need realistically. There's no point for
17:20us to like
17:23try and like let's say
17:26take a short to take out these lows,
17:28then get out the short, then enter the
17:29long and then like get out and then try
17:31and trade the pullback and then try and
17:33trade the bounce back up and then once
17:35we take these highs, try and trade the
17:36short. Like you're just like exposing
17:38yourself to the market over and over and
17:41over and over.
17:43Um, and sometimes, you know, you might
17:45just continuously win and you're just
17:47having a great day. But
17:50there's quality setups and then there's
17:52setups that are just kind of noise.
17:54Like, let's say you're an ICT trader and
17:56you
17:58and you trade like,
18:01I don't know, fair value gaps. I mean,
18:03there's [ __ ] fair value gaps all all
18:05over the place. What are you going to
18:06do? Trade every single five minute, 15
18:08minute fair value gap that you see? like
18:11there's
18:13there's setups that are better than
18:14others and you want to take the quality
18:16ones or at least the ones that have a
18:18higher probability. Your goal isn't to
18:22predict and catch every single swing of
18:25the market. Um because it's just
18:28unrealistic.
18:31your goal is just to
18:33essentially
18:35catch the main momentum move or the main
18:38move of the of the morning session. And
18:39then if you trade the PM session,
18:41there's one of those two. So that's kind
18:43of the goal.
18:45And that doesn't require a bunch of
18:47different entries and exits.
18:52Yeah. What Spaghetti said, the strategy
18:54is just don't lose.
19:00Nah, I lose all the time. I lost a lot
19:02last night.
19:15Yeah, we got Jolts today at 10:00 a.m.
19:18Eastern. So,
19:21it looks like we're potentially going to
19:25um
19:27go up here, but
19:30I'm prepared for us to just open up and
19:32rip down. But we'll see if
19:38we'll see if there's any opportunities.
19:40I'm willing to um
19:45I'm willing to risk like 700 bucks
19:47today. So
19:53all right. So market [music] just open.
20:13All right. So, we're probably heading
20:15straight towards those highs.
20:38I might actually just take a long right
20:40here, but I need to be careful cuz
20:44There's something that I have called a
20:46weekly route candle and it's sitting
20:47right here.
20:52So, the fact that we just came up here
20:53and rejected
20:55we
20:58I need to wait a second
21:07because we may be actually coming down
21:08to take these lows out that I was
21:10talking about earlier. But
21:14I would prefer if we just continued up.
21:48Ultimately, I'm still looking for us to
21:50come up here. So, even if we come down
21:52here and take out these lows, I'm going
21:54to start waiting to see if there's a
21:57a reversal happening. But, I'm watching
21:59this right now, so I may just take a
22:02long
22:05order.
22:06>> I'm going to go long right here. I'm
22:08gonna risk um
22:13about $425
22:18and I'm going to see if we can push
22:19higher. But if we just whiplash back
22:22down, it's fine.
22:43The only thing that
22:46I need to watch for is this area right
22:49here on it's it's between 810 and 800.
22:57If we can push past that, I think I
23:00should be chill.
23:02If we could push past it and close,
23:06but we need to see the momentum continue
23:08here on the five minute. So, now that
23:11we're pushing up, it's pretty safe for
23:14me to move my stop loss to break even
23:17because
23:18I [clears throat] don't really want to
23:19see this snap back down at this point. I
23:21mean, it could, but
23:24if we're going to start moving higher
23:26right now, I'd like to see it just
23:27happen. I don't want us to come back and
23:30then start [ __ ] around in this area
23:32again. So, but ultimately the target is
23:35going to be probably up here
23:38for about 50 points.
23:50Also, keep in mind if you're like taking
23:52trades that I'm taking, there's a delay
23:54on the uh on the live stream. Um,
24:02and I don't know how how much the delay
24:04is. It could be like
24:0810 seconds or something. So,
24:19I mean the purpose honestly is not uh
24:22signals. So,
24:25but if you take if you take any trades
24:26that I take, just understand that I'm
24:29not a I'm not a genie. I lose trades,
24:32too.
24:44So, we have some orders sitting right
24:46here on footprint. Uh, we need to
24:49basically blast through them. Um
24:53with some aggression.
25:15So, I think we should probably
25:18um
25:21should probably be okay. I don't want to
25:23see this
25:25candle basically come back past this PC
25:48because we are currently approaching um
25:52like Asia session highs. So there is a
25:55chance that we stop prematurely before
26:00previous daily highs
26:04or the daily high. But we're looking to
26:07see if price can go reach high a day.
26:26but we'll see if the momentum can
26:28continue. If we get below um
26:34800 right now, I am going to actually
26:36just get out of it. All right.
26:38>> Order filled.
26:43I don't [clears throat] like the way
26:44that that looks. So, I just ended up
26:45getting out of it for I don't know,
26:48maybe like $200.
26:50It might still just go back up, but
26:55I'm trying to slowly build this bounce a
26:57little bit to be honest
27:02because this this fivem minute candle
27:04could realistically flip from right here
27:05and then slingshot higher.
27:17But it's okay.
27:41Nice. You made $400. It's great.
27:47Now, try not to try not to give it back,
27:51I guess.
28:02Bookmap. Bookmap is great. I used to use
28:05bookmap all the time.
28:11I have basically a heat map on this
28:13chart if you can see it. Like
28:16this is the heat map and then I have the
28:19bubbles right here. Um
28:24so it's essentially the same thing
28:26except I just have it like
28:28like look
28:36See, it's basically a a book map. You
28:39can see we have 122 contracts sitting at
28:42this level.
28:46So, I I definitely use heat maps and I
28:49think they're a great tool. I used to
28:51use bookmap. I just I don't use it
28:53anymore because
28:55I don't need to. I think this is
28:59actually probably going to continue
29:00higher. I think that was just a that
29:02should just fake me out a little bit.
29:14Yeah, it's very similar to bookmap.
29:24Yeah, I probably should just not have
29:26touched that trade. Honestly, we were in
29:28a pretty good spot.
29:30and and the stop loss made sense, but I
29:33was just watching this area and when we
29:34snapped down like that,
29:37that was kind of a emotional response to
29:39that, which was stupid.
29:42But we're probably going to slam through
29:44this right now on this 5minute open or
29:46even before
30:09All
30:19right, I'm actually going to re-enter
30:22into the longs.
30:26>> Order filled.
30:31And I'm going to
30:37It's pretty bad risk-to-reward, but I
30:39think we're going to go. So,
30:42the moment that this candle flips
30:44bullish,
30:46I'm looking for this area to hold and
30:48for us to take the highs.
30:52But, I'm only taking this because I'm
30:53already in profit. So, I'm willing to
30:55risk some of the
30:58some of the profits on the day, but I'm
31:00going to be moving it to break even
31:03right now.
31:05Just looking for it to take the highs.
31:08All right,
31:09>> fil.
31:09>> We took the highs, so I'm out of that.
31:15So, high of day has been reached. We had
31:18some buyers step in, but we just scalped
31:21a little bit out of it for basically
31:23like 300 bucks.
31:32And then now at this point,
31:36probably what I'm going to do is wait a
31:39little bit.
31:42I kind of [ __ ] up that trade though.
31:45um the first one.
31:48So,
31:51it should have been
31:53about 50 points
31:56cuz we got in around here
31:59and it was 50 points with one mini. So,
32:01it should have been realistically like a
32:03$1,000 trade
32:07and it ended up being
32:12we started at $2,700 balance. So like
32:15half of that basically.
32:21So I kind of [ __ ] myself over.
32:26That's what's up. You're up 1.1K. Let's
32:28go.
32:36Targeting 1.5. Are you working on an
32:38eval or something?
32:43All right. All right. So, we took this
32:44out.
32:56Nice. Well,
32:59you should um
33:01I mean $400 is definitely achievable.
33:04You should just wait a little bit
33:08because we just took highs. So, we
33:11reached high a day. We took out the
33:12highs um right here
33:17and now we want to see what price is
33:21basically going to do. Um and then also
33:25keep in mind that 15 minutes about to
33:27open
33:29and then we have jolts which is high
33:33impact news coming in
33:3815 minutes after that basically.
34:04Uh, trading news with an Eval. I mean,
34:06you got to look at what the rules are
34:07for take profit trader. I I don't really
34:09trade with them, so I don't know.
34:14Oh, if it's the rule not to trade, then
34:16yeah, that would suck.
34:19That would suck to uh
34:22take a trade and then lose on a on a
34:25ruled technicality and then basically
34:28you give up all 1.1K of your profits.
34:38So at least uh so so far this basically
34:41played out what we were talking about
34:44pre-market.
34:48We came up to take these highs.
34:52We just fumbled. We fumbled it a little
34:54bit to be honest. We were supposed to
34:56make a thousand. We only made 500.
34:59Um,
35:00now the next area that we would be
35:02seeing if Joltz wants to do it with some
35:06with some volatility. We see if we can
35:07actually get up here. Now,
35:13it'll just be important to see like how
35:18the market reacts to jolts
35:21because once we get above 25
35:25935, we're basically coming into an area
35:28that if we were to reject back into the
35:32range and not take these highs, it would
35:34probably happen in here. Um, based off
35:37of
35:39the way that I trade.
35:46Uh well, Aaron, I mean, it's market
35:48open, so
35:53it's not that it'll never chop. Like,
35:56you'll still have market opens that
35:58chop. I mean, we see it all the time,
36:00but realistically, when you have like a
36:04crazy amount of volume that comes into
36:06the market or the most amount of volume
36:08throughout the entire daily candle is
36:09basically right at market open
36:13or
36:14New York open. So, usually in the
36:18morning, you'll see like a directional
36:20move. Now, if it starts to chop, then
36:24it's just consolidating.
36:26And
36:28what I think though is like, at least
36:31recently, what I've been seeing last
36:32year
36:34is we'll have basically a move like this
36:38right off the open. It just goes and
36:42goes just like how it did basically
36:44yesterday.
36:46And then there's no real pullback or
36:48anything, at least on a fiveminute
36:50chart.
36:52And then once we basically go from an
36:54imbalance, we then shift state into like
36:57a bounce. Um, sometimes like it's pretty
37:01it's not very often that you'll see
37:03price kind of like
37:06and these days are great when we do get
37:07them, but we'll just see price go down
37:09and up and then down and then up and
37:12then just all directional moves um
37:15without any type of consolidation.
37:18It's kind of um not as common, but those
37:21are like great days to trade, but you
37:22can't expect it to happen. So
37:26whenever
37:28whenever we go from a balanced market to
37:31an imbalance and we have like a
37:33distribution move at some point price is
37:36going to eventually find a spot to rest
37:40for a bit
37:42like we're going to find uh fair value
37:44basically and then fair value is where
37:46we're starting to consolidate.
37:50So when that might happen, I do not
37:52know, right? But we got to understand
37:55that like
37:58if you missed this move
38:00and you sat on the sidelines and didn't
38:02trade it and you're waiting for, you
38:05know, something else to happen,
38:08um you have to be prepared for like this
38:10was a move. We took the highs and then
38:13now there's a potential to consolidate
38:15if we're not going to continue higher to
38:17go to 935. But um
38:21we do have Jolts. So Jolts is probably
38:23going to push the market in either
38:25direction.
38:30So we'll see what happens.
38:46Um,
38:49I mean, I have some videos on my
38:50YouTube. I'm going to make more of them
38:52and then I'm trying to create like some
38:55PDF documents
38:58that if anyone cares to, they can like
39:01read it and try and understand orderflow
39:04and uh, basically what I'm looking at.
39:07But I have some videos on my YouTube
39:09that pretty much explain um
39:12a good amount of order flow.
39:16Although
39:18they're more like conceptual rather than
39:22I mean there's one video that talks
39:23about an entry, but
39:26the other ones are kind of conceptual a
39:28little bit.
39:33I mean the
39:35the shortest explanation
39:38and perspective of order flow is
39:40basically
39:42there's two market states. You have bal
39:44a balanced market and an imbalanced
39:46market.
39:48In an imbalanced market
39:51price is not forcing participation or
39:54like in a balanced market price is not
39:56forcing participation. meaning that like
39:58if we're chopping,
40:01we can realistically continue to chop.
40:03When
40:05we have a move like this, it's forcing
40:07participation. And what I mean by that
40:09is like, let's say you were trying to
40:12get early positioning and you were
40:14trying to go short um and then you
40:16entered a position to go short here or
40:19here or here or even at these highs, you
40:22caught a good entry. Um when price
40:24starts to basically run up like this,
40:28everyone who was going short in this
40:30area now their position is basically
40:33getting tested and it's going to force
40:34their participation in the sense of
40:38they may need to get out of their trade
40:40or they may need to take profit or they
40:42may need to hedge a position or
40:44whatever, right? And so the only way to
40:46get out of a sell is to buy. So then
40:49when we're running like this and the
40:50more people that get out of their cell
40:52positions, it just fuels this move to
40:54move even faster if that makes sense. So
40:58that's what I mean by forcing
41:00participation. So
41:04[clears throat] I'll make I I'll make
41:05more content on it so it's easier to
41:08understand. Um, but it looks kind of
41:11confusing and complicated at first, but
41:13it's really
41:15it's really um
41:19not that complicated. It's kind of
41:22complicated, but not really. You'll get
41:23the hang of it.
41:47All
41:58right. So, we just got to wait at this
42:01point for
42:02Jolts.
42:27So, at this point, what I'm thinking P&L
42:31wise,
42:35we're up $3,200
42:37right now, which [clears throat]
42:432,700 of it came from silver shorts.
42:45last night and 500 of it came from
42:51these longs. Right now,
42:54our balance is now $4,700. It is the
42:58second day in the third payout cycle.
43:03The problem is is that
43:08Topstep sent me an email yesterday
43:10saying that they're warning me that I'm
43:12going to be put on a focus traders
43:14program.
43:16So,
43:18I'm trying to build the balance up here
43:21because I don't know how much longer I'm
43:22going to be able to trade with top to be
43:24honest.
43:28So,
43:31we'll see if there's another
43:32opportunity. I'm not going to just lock
43:34out today because of the P&L. Um, but I
43:37will say though, if I do end up taking
43:39this balance
43:41back like five, like if I lose $500 or
43:45something,
43:48I'll probably stop.
43:52Um, so basically FP like Topstep has
43:56this thing called a focus traders
43:58program
44:00and
44:02um,
44:05basically what it is is like they limit
44:08you to having only one account a month
44:10if they put you on it. I think there's
44:12two stages to it, but
44:19they limit you to one account a month,
44:20which is [ __ ] It's basically like
44:25so basically for the past like seven
44:27months, dude, Topstep hasn't made a
44:30single dollar of profit off of me.
44:32Meaning that like every month for the
44:34past seven months,
44:37they have paid me out more than I've
44:39given them basically. So
44:42apparently what happened yesterday is um
44:47a bunch of traders got focus trader
44:50program emails which is basically a
44:52warning
44:54and they were saying like oh your
44:56trading behavior isn't sustainable in a
44:58live environment and it's like okay well
45:02yeah no [ __ ] this isn't a live
45:04environment we're trading sim funds so
45:07of course I'm going to trade it
45:08differently than how I trade a live
45:11account because their rules aren't even
45:14what a live account should be like. Like
45:15what the [ __ ] [ __ ]
45:19rules around payouts and minimum
45:22requirement for profits and days and
45:25blah blah blah blah blah. It's all
45:27[ __ ]
45:30So, anyways, I'm trying to build the
45:33balance on this one because I don't know
45:34how many more funded accounts I'm going
45:35to be able to have with Topstep because
45:37they're basically backing me off. Um,
45:41because I'm net positive with their firm
45:43and they said that this month they're
45:45doing like risk adjustments.
45:47So, I guess I'm part of the risk
45:48adjustment, which is [ __ ] whack, but
45:51whatever.
45:53Yeah, I don't like Apex. Any firm that
45:56has an unrealized trailing draw down, I
45:57do not touch it. Analyze Bitcoin.
46:03Hold on. We can do that later. Top. I
46:05got to see what's going to happen with
46:07uh Jolts here and if we're going to push
46:09up to 935 or not.
46:15But yeah, so I'm basically getting
46:16shadowbanned from Topstep because they
46:19don't like the fact that I full port my
46:20evals and then get more payouts to cover
46:22all the fees and then just end up making
46:24money every single month off of Top.
46:27They're not a fan of it.
46:30Um,
46:32passing evals to be honest, if you have
46:34a strategy and you know that it works,
46:37um, I just full port him. But obviously
46:40me doing that has gotten me into a
46:42position where Topep is basically gonna
46:43shadow bam me if I continue to do it,
46:46which I'm gonna continue to do it.
46:47They're not going to try and they're not
46:48going to make me change the way that I'm
46:50trading.
46:52But um
46:56yeah, I basically just full port him
46:59because you got to think about like
47:00this, right? Like if I know that the
47:03whole point is to make money. Exactly,
47:05Aaron. So, it's like if I know that I
47:08can get payouts and it's not a big deal
47:10for me to pull a payout and on average
47:12my payout is anywhere from like $1,500
47:15to two grand, sometimes more than that.
47:18Um,
47:20and in a in an eval with no activation
47:22fees, like $89 or $90, it's like one
47:25payout covers,
47:27let's just say 15 evaluation accounts.
47:30And I know that if I full pour evals,
47:35you can pass them in two trades with top
47:37step. So realistically between the
47:41amount of evals that I buy that I pass,
47:43I'll probably pass like maybe 60% of
47:45them. So that means that I run through
47:47evals like crazy, right? Um I'll blow a
47:51lot of evals, but I'll pass a lot of
47:53evals. And then what ends up happening
47:56is because the payouts cover so much of
47:59those fees,
48:01the gap between money in and money out
48:03when it comes to Topstep as a firm,
48:07uh, it grows for me. So I just make more
48:09and more money because I just keep
48:10taking more profits and full porting
48:12more evals and then get more fundeds and
48:14then the cycle continues. So I've been
48:17doing that for like seven months.
48:20um they don't like it because I'm
48:23basically exploiting the structure of a
48:25prop firm because you would never do
48:27that like um with a live account. I
48:30would never just full a live account if
48:32I had one, right? So
48:34um and they're basically telling me
48:36like, well, you would never do this with
48:37a live account, so you can't do it with
48:38us. It's like, well, no [ __ ] No [ __ ] I
48:42can't do it with a live account. That's
48:43why I'm using a prop firm because I know
48:44I can do [ __ ] like that. But when it
48:47comes to evals, yeah, I don't waste any
48:49time on them. I full port them. If
48:51you're learning and you're still trying
48:53to get the hang of like passing evals
48:56and stuff, um, you should definitely not
48:58fullport them. If you don't get
49:00consistent payouts, you should not full
49:02port evals.
49:05you should just use an eval as a way to
49:12try and get experience and screen time
49:14with real emotions being involved um and
49:17focus on, you know, being a better
49:20trader and your strategy. Yeah, Alpha
49:23Futures is great. I use them all the
49:26time. Unfortunately, I [ __ ] blew my
49:28accounts last night. So,
49:31I was tilting really [ __ ] hard
49:34yesterday
49:36because honestly, that email that email
49:38I got from Tops Up kind of bummed me
49:39out.
49:41Kind of bummed me out a little bit and
49:43then like I tried to go heavy on silver
49:46to build up a balance because
49:49I don't know, they [ __ ] me up, dude.
49:50They they [ __ ] got in my head
49:52honestly with that email. So, here's
49:55here's the Jolts candle. Let's see what
49:57it does, if it's gonna do anything. But,
50:01Alpha Futures is great.
50:03I'm gonna continue to trade with them
50:06and then once Topep doesn't allow me to
50:09trade with them anymore, I'll probably
50:10just
50:12use some other firms.
50:15All right, so we're starting to push
50:16down a little bit, but
50:20we'll see how far it actually wants to
50:21retrace.
50:44So, what I'm thinking right now is like
50:49we try to we're trying to push down
50:51right now. If this just if this attempt
50:53just kind of totally fails and we snap
50:55back up, um
51:01there's a chance that we probably
51:03continue to 935. But you got to be
51:06careful cuz
51:08this is if as long as this doesn't get
51:10removed now, this area right here
51:14is what needs to essentially hold.
51:21Uh, my API tool. You're talking about
51:24the bot that I was working on.
51:28The bot I was working on was it was fun
51:30to work on it
51:33and I used it to pass some evals for me.
51:39But, um, it's kind of a big project,
51:42dude. And it distracts me from my normal
51:44trading. It's really hard to focus on my
51:47normal trading and then focus on my bot
51:49at the same time because like
51:53let's say right now like I'm running my
51:54bot. Well, I have to make sure that it's
51:56doing what it's supposed to be doing
51:58because
51:59it's I'm building it, right? So then it
52:02distracts me from trying to normally
52:04trade. And then I noticed that when I
52:06was building the bot, my trading
52:09kind of went downh downhill because I
52:12was distracted. So I still do it. I
52:15still have all the stuff. Um, we still
52:17coded all the the interface and stuff
52:20that you guys saw when I went on like
52:21TopStep TV or whatever if you saw me on
52:24there. And um,
52:27I just haven't really been using it
52:29recently because I'm trying to
52:34I'm trying to [ __ ] make money right
52:37now. I mean, the the uh the bot thing is
52:41like a fun thing.
52:44It's it's very difficult to create a bot
52:46and anybody who creates a bot and tries
52:48to sell it to you is you should never
52:49purchase a bot, by the way,
52:53because market regime shifts and then if
52:55that bot was working in one market
52:56regime, it's not going to work in the
52:58next one. And if someone claims that it
52:59does, they're full of [ __ ] Unless
53:01they're
53:03unless they're [ __ ] uh some genius,
53:08but at that point they'd probably work
53:10for a firm and they wouldn't be selling
53:11you their strategy for like 500 bucks.
53:13So,
53:16yeah, it takes a lot of time. It's
53:18awesome, though. Like if you can figure
53:19out a a good way to
53:22um you know make a bot and you and you
53:25know when are the best conditions to
53:27turn it on and you can turn it on and
53:29let it run and you do a good job and you
53:31optimize it and change it when market
53:33regime starts to change and you
53:34continuously adapt it. I mean it could
53:36be great
53:38but it's definitely a full-time thing.
53:40You can't just like create a bot and
53:42then just like let it run think it's
53:44just going to make you a millionaire.
53:45It's like
53:48It requires kind of like full attention.
54:11So, at this point,
54:13I'm just waiting to see what this fivem
54:15minutee candle is going to do if we
54:22So, we had obviously selling pressure
54:24come in from Jolts, but um
54:29this push push lower is
54:32kind of like getting exhausted a little
54:34bit. Honestly, it's
54:39We got 10 seconds left. So, I want to
54:41see how this closes. If the next five
54:43minute opens up and we just basically
54:46rip past all this selling pressure, then
54:48essentially the sellers failed and we're
54:50probably going to go make another high.
54:55Yeah, strategy of course is like
55:00what it comes down to when it comes to
55:02the bot
55:04and also the way that I trade normally
55:06because I use orderflow. For me to try
55:08and make a bot using level two data is
55:11so [ __ ] difficult. So, I have to use
55:12a completely different strategy
55:16and um
55:20then it like [ __ ] with my head because
55:23then I'll be seeing [ __ ] that my bot
55:24should be doing and then like I'm trying
55:26to trade my normal strategy and then it
55:28just gets messy mentally
55:31when I'm doing it at the same time.
55:38Especially because when you're making a
55:40bot like
55:43uh you know you can back test it all you
55:45want but the most accurate way to uh
55:50the most accurate way to actually make
55:52an algorithm work is to uh forward to
55:54walk forward with it to forward test it
55:57to actually implement it in current
55:58market conditions because like if right
56:01now the average daily range is like 370
56:03points and the average ATR on a
56:05fiveminute candle on a daytoday is like
56:08[ __ ] [ __ ] 30 points and then you go
56:11and you back tested some strategy back
56:13in 2021 when [ __ ] candles were like
56:16when 100 ticks was like oh you know what
56:18I mean like your entire strategy
56:21basically you're like oh it did well the
56:23past five years it's like well
56:26that doesn't mean it's going to do well
56:27right now all right let's see let's see
56:28if we're going to push higher right
56:42It's creating a pretty nice wick here on
56:44the on the hourly. Um, if we close above
56:48these sellers, it's very likely that
56:50we're going to just go take these highs
56:52and continue towards potentially 935.
56:56If um
57:02if we leave some clusters right here, I
57:04may potentially try and take a long
57:07position as long as we don't take this
57:09high before this candle closes.
57:13But we are pretty deep in premium right
57:16now. So if we were to turn around, we
57:19would be turning around somewhere in
57:20this area, especially after taking this
57:22high. So, I got to be careful uh cuz
57:25we're basically buying at an extreme of
57:28premium.
57:35Yeah.
57:39Yeah. But it's fun stuff though. Working
57:42on an algorithm. It's fun.
57:47I enjoy it. If I if I'm ever like a
57:51month where I'm just like up a lot from
57:54my normal trading, like I'll mess around
57:56with the stuff. But
57:58when I'm trying to make sure that I'm
58:00beating prop firms, uh I got to focus.
58:04Like right now with the prop firms,
58:06money in, money out for the month, I'm
58:07only like payout versus how much I
58:10spent. I only pulled out like 1,500
58:13from Topstep earlier this month in
58:15January. Um, I mean, we're still at the
58:18beginning, but and I spent like maybe
58:20350 bucks. So, I'm up like $1,000 with
58:24firms. I That's not enough. I need to I
58:27need to build this balance so I can be
58:29up like a few b a few bands with the
58:30firms and then
58:33get some more accounts.
58:37Then once everything is chill
58:40and I have a bunch of funded accounts
58:41and you know we're consistently beating
58:43the firms every month, I'll probably
58:44revisit it.
58:52So this is uh
58:57we're going to see how this closes. This
58:59is kind of a weak close for this attempt
59:01to go higher.
59:14What do you mean? Do I trade funded
59:16slowly
59:17or make a certain amount? I never have a
59:23a dollar amount target. I think that
59:26that's actually a bad idea. Unless
59:28you're in an eval where like obviously
59:30you need to hit consistency. Having a
59:32dollar amount target is kind of a bad
59:34idea because it might force you to
59:39take a trade just to hit like some
59:41dollar amount. But
59:44realistically, it doesn't matter. We
59:46should just be trading like uh
59:49yeah, now I don't have a profit goal.
59:55I mean, we can make like,
59:59you know, we can make three grand, we
1:00:00can make five grand, we can make $200. I
1:00:03mean, just whatever the market wants to
1:00:06give us. Some days we don't trade. Like,
1:00:08some days
1:00:10we sit here all day and then there's
1:00:12nothing.
1:00:18But I don't think anyone, if you're in a
1:00:21funded account, I don't think it's a
1:00:22good idea to be like, I just need to
1:00:24make $500 a day. Okay. Well, what if
1:00:26there's not opportunity for you to make
1:00:27that $500 a day? What are you gonna do?
1:00:29You gonna force it? So, I don't think
1:00:32it's good psychologically to do that.
1:00:36I don't really like the way this looks
1:00:37right now. There's a a potential we kind
1:00:40of consolidate right here, and I would
1:00:42hate to try and attempt to go long right
1:00:45now just for this to kind of snap back.
1:00:47So, I'm going to
1:00:49probably just sit out of this. But if we
1:00:52do start getting buyers um stepping in
1:00:55again, we attempted to push higher twice
1:00:57before jolts. If we successfully do it,
1:01:00then we're headed to 900 first and then
1:01:03if we continue momentum, we're going to
1:01:05935.
1:01:06But there is a chance that we probably
1:01:09consolidate here or just pop slightly
1:01:12above to 900 and then fall back down
1:01:16and kind of consolidate a little bit.
1:01:17So,
1:01:20we'll give it some time.
1:01:22I'm not uh pressured to try and take a
1:01:26trade. I mean, [ __ ] dude. We're up like
1:01:283,200 bucks, so
1:01:48Oh yeah. So I mean it.
1:01:52Let's look at it.
1:01:56Yeah. Like
1:01:59this is this is turning into a
1:02:02if we don't
1:02:05break out on this candle or the next
1:02:06candle and we just have a red candle
1:02:09that comes back here but doesn't
1:02:11actually push lower and just stays in
1:02:12here. It basically becomes like a for me
1:02:17like a don't touch this area type of a
1:02:24type of condition. I mean, it looks like
1:02:26we might push higher right now. Some
1:02:28buyers are stepping in.
1:02:41Yeah. So, no FOMO. I mean, the easiest
1:02:42thing about no FOMO is just like
1:02:47just remind yourself today is not the
1:02:49only day to trade. You know, there will
1:02:52always be more opportunities.
1:02:56Unless this unless the market and all
1:02:57the firms and all the [ __ ] just [ __ ]
1:02:59disappears then I guess. But
1:03:01realistically like
1:03:03there's always tomorrow. There's always
1:03:05more opportunities. If you had some
1:03:08analysis that something was going to
1:03:10play out and you didn't enter and then
1:03:12now it's playing out. Well, [ __ ] just
1:03:15good [ __ ] You know, you've you had the
1:03:17right idea, but don't try and chase it
1:03:19or force something that
1:03:24is going to put you in a shitty
1:03:25position.
1:03:39So, it looks like looks like we're kind
1:03:42of just consolidating here right now.
1:03:48We just had buyers attempt to step in
1:03:50and they kind of failed to do it. So,
1:03:54We're just stuck right here.
1:03:58So, unless they can actually just start
1:04:00blasting through this, this is probably
1:04:02an area where we should not um touch it.
1:04:15And plus, we're deep premium right now.
1:04:23In this range at least, the range would
1:04:25be from here to here, from this swing
1:04:27high to this swing low.
1:04:35And we're just stalling out here at the
1:04:37886 level.
1:04:51The 15minute is looking
1:04:56pretty bullish, but
1:04:59again, we're kind of just stalling right
1:05:01here. So, it's better to wait.
1:05:37I'd say basically as long as we're
1:05:39within
1:05:47basically basically as long as we're
1:05:49within like this area.
1:05:52Um,
1:05:57it's kind of just like [ __ ] This is
1:05:59just like noise. Like, yeah, we see
1:06:01sellers coming in, but
1:06:04it doesn't mean anything yet.
1:06:50So, we got to just sit here.
1:06:54I would not, if you're trying to take a
1:06:56trade right now, I would not try and
1:06:58force anything in here. I mean, you can
1:06:59try enforce something or anticipate a
1:07:02break lower or whatever and it could
1:07:05potentially work out, but it's just like
1:07:08a better idea to probably not,
1:07:13at least for me,
1:07:19until I see some type of actual
1:07:21confirmation that we're not just going
1:07:22to snap back into this.
1:07:42And also like
1:07:47these highs,
1:07:54I would be surprised if we Don't
1:07:56actually take these out by market close.
1:07:59Like if this is left as high a day and
1:08:01it looks like this, it would be kind of
1:08:03weird.
1:08:10I mean, it could happen though, but
1:08:15we have buyers stepping in again. We're
1:08:17just stuck here. We're going to see if
1:08:19these fail. And then if they fail, then
1:08:22it should probably pick up speed to the
1:08:24downside.
1:08:30But we don't want to anticipate it. We
1:08:32got to wait for a confirmation that's
1:08:34that it's actually happening. Otherwise,
1:08:35it's just like
1:08:38you're going to you try to take I mean,
1:08:40imagine you try to take a long right
1:08:41here, then it comes down. You're like,
1:08:42"Oh, no. It's going short." You take a
1:08:44short right here and then it snaps back
1:08:45up. I mean, you could just literally
1:08:47blow your entire account in like [ __ ]
1:08:48one hour trading this [ __ ]
1:09:28So, there's actually a decent amount of
1:09:30activity happening in this area, but
1:09:32there's no movement.
1:09:35There's no follow through. There's no
1:09:38movement. Volume on this candle, on this
1:09:40fiveminute candle, is actually pretty
1:09:41large. It's about 28,000 contracts.
1:10:01So, I think if it does break out of one
1:10:03of these
1:10:05ends, this this end or this end, it
1:10:09might pick up some speed. But
1:10:14we're going to just have to wait for it
1:10:15to actually get out of here and not just
1:10:18like move out of here, but like actually
1:10:23push hard with an imbalance of buyers or
1:10:26sellers. Sellers if it's this direction,
1:10:28buyers if it's if it's up,
1:10:31and then uh wait for a close.
1:11:14Like this is a per this is a perfect
1:11:17example of why you need to wait because
1:11:20like
1:11:25if
1:11:27you saw this candle coming down and you
1:11:29were like, "Oh, we're going lower and
1:11:30you try to enter shorts right here.
1:11:32Well, now you just took a $100 100 ticks
1:11:34of heat and unless you
1:11:38unless you put your stop loss at the
1:11:39highs, but like that's a 50 that's 55
1:11:42points. It's kind of large.
1:11:45And then even right now, like don't see
1:11:47this and be like, "Oh, we're going
1:11:50higher." Well, we don't know yet because
1:11:54we're stuck right here for now.
1:11:59I do think that we're probably not going
1:12:00to leave this high like this. Um whether
1:12:03or not we do that like within the next
1:12:0630 minutes or we do that sometime later
1:12:08today or maybe the PM session, I'd
1:12:11probably assume that this is probably
1:12:13not going to be left here like this. But
1:12:18we'll wait.
1:12:26That's nasty.
1:12:28It's like 30 30 points.
1:12:41But earlier somebody was uh
1:12:44I forgot who someone was asking me about
1:12:48chop and I and I mentioned a balance and
1:12:52an imbalanced market. This is an example
1:12:54of it. imbalanced market to a balanced
1:12:56market and then once we leave here
1:12:58imbalanced market and then it'll find
1:13:00somewhere to rest balanced market. The
1:13:02goal is not to trade balanced markets.
1:13:04The goal is to trade the imbalances
1:13:09because that's what causes a price
1:13:11movement. When price is balanced like it
1:13:14is right now, it's not going anywhere.
1:13:17buyers and sellers have kind of agreed
1:13:20on a fair value which is right around
1:13:22here for NQ.
1:13:24So until we get out of here,
1:13:27this can continue to do this for who
1:13:28knows how long until one side literally
1:13:32forces the other side to participate.
1:13:33Meaning like all everyone who's been
1:13:35buying in here, if we really sellers
1:13:37really decide to push lower, then it's
1:13:39going to force buyer participation to
1:13:41either get out or add to their position
1:13:43or whatever
1:13:46and try and defend or whatever, right?
1:13:48Same goes for the the highs. But until
1:13:51that happens, there could just be like
1:13:53indefinite theoretically like indefinite
1:13:56[ __ ] chop.
1:13:59But we know that eventually it's going
1:14:00to break out.
1:14:23Um,
1:14:25well, if you were to if you were to be
1:14:27looking at a volume profile,
1:14:29like I'll pull one up, but before before
1:14:31I pull it up,
1:14:34um, if you're looking at a volume
1:14:36profile, you are most likely
1:14:39after all this [ __ ] this is probably I
1:14:42don't even know where it's at right now,
1:14:43but it's probably the PC and you're
1:14:45going to see a large high volume node
1:14:46sitting right here. So like
1:14:50let's just let's just draw a volume
1:14:52profile so I can show you what I'm
1:14:54talking about.
1:14:59So the PC is sitting right here, right?
1:15:02And we have volume area high and volume
1:15:04area low. When
1:15:07and this is where the peak of all the
1:15:09volume is, right? So, like typically
1:15:14when we're balanced, you're going to
1:15:15have like a lot of volume and no
1:15:17movement. And then um it's basically
1:15:20going to be like you would know that
1:15:22we're kind of in a balanced area. And
1:15:24same goes for like let's say you're
1:15:26looking at a volume profile, right? And
1:15:29we start dropping. Okay. Well,
1:15:32where's the next area where we kind of
1:15:34were balanced a little bit? Okay. where
1:15:36it's probably going to be this next
1:15:37shelf of like the volume profile.
1:15:40Um, so there is a potential that once if
1:15:42price does move down, once it actually
1:15:45gets into this area, it could I mean,
1:15:47not specifically this area because you
1:15:49shouldn't be using a volume profile like
1:15:50this. Let me actually delete it.
1:15:53We'll we'll do uh
1:15:55we'll do one for
1:15:59the day. Let me see if I could
1:16:08[ __ ] Not this one.
1:16:11The one where you could draw it out.
1:16:18Okay. Like here.
1:16:22Perfect.
1:16:27So, like let's just say that
1:16:30this is the uh current daily candle.
1:16:33Okay. So, if you were to be looking at
1:16:36this right now,
1:16:39well, the PC is technically down here,
1:16:41but you see this super large high volume
1:16:44node. Well, it's sitting here like this
1:16:46peak right here. It's sitting right here
1:16:49where price is consolidating. We have
1:16:52this low volume node or this like valley
1:16:54you can call it when we made this large
1:16:56move up. And the reason why is because
1:16:58it was basically an imbalance of buyers
1:17:01over sellers. So you don't have, yes,
1:17:04there's a lot of volume in this candle,
1:17:06but it moves through this area like
1:17:08really quickly. And so down here, you
1:17:10have another basically
1:17:13peak, we'll call it high volume node. So
1:17:17if price begins to move down, there is a
1:17:19potential that if we come back down here
1:17:22into this low volume node, we can
1:17:25basically bounce off of it. But if it
1:17:28rips through it, then the next area
1:17:29where it might potentially
1:17:32find balance again is where previously
1:17:35where buyers and sellers found balance.
1:17:37Now, you have to take context into
1:17:40account though because this is
1:17:43pre-market
1:17:45um
1:17:46and then this is market open. So, you
1:17:50got to keep that in mind because where
1:17:52buyers and sellers found were kind of in
1:17:54agreement and found balance during
1:17:56pre-market can mean absolutely nothing
1:17:59for market open. So, now the PC finally
1:18:01changed up here. Um, but yeah, I don't
1:18:05use mark uh volume profile
1:18:08like this that often. I do sometimes,
1:18:11but something to look at is every five
1:18:13minute candle that I have basically is
1:18:16its own volume profile. Um, these are
1:18:19all volume profiles. This I'm looking
1:18:22where the volume's at.
1:18:25Uh,
1:18:28red, yellow, blue on some spots. So,
1:18:31blue is
1:18:33is the actual volume profile. Red and
1:18:36yellow are big trades. Yellow is buyers
1:18:38big trades. So, here we go.
1:18:52And then red is sellers. So, right now
1:18:55we're seeing large buyers step in. But
1:18:58just because large buyers are stepping
1:19:00in doesn't mean that we should
1:19:01necessarily buy it right now because we
1:19:04need to see what's going to happen
1:19:05following this. And we're still not out
1:19:06of this range area yet. But if it does
1:19:09get above here, we're going to take 900.
1:19:13[clears throat]
1:19:18I mean, when it comes to footprint,
1:19:23I'm not going to sit here and tell you
1:19:24that you need footprint. I mean, you
1:19:26don't. I mean, you can you can look at
1:19:28normal candlesticks like this. Like
1:19:30let's say the same way that I'm looking
1:19:32at a footprint chart and I see that okay
1:19:35sellers try to step in and they failed
1:19:37and we came back up. Okay. Well, if
1:19:39you're looking at an hourly candle and
1:19:40you see a large ass wick like this,
1:19:42well, if we use our brain a little bit,
1:19:44right? What does that mean? Well,
1:19:46sellers try to push down. They failed
1:19:48and we came back up. So, you don't
1:19:50necessarily need footprint. I just like
1:19:53using footprint for my entries because
1:19:56um I like to visualize it this way. I
1:19:59like seeing the additional information.
1:20:02Um, and
1:20:05it comes down to preference. I mean,
1:20:07it's the strategy that I trade. I like
1:20:08trading with footprint. Do you need
1:20:10footprint? No. Can I trade without
1:20:12footprint
1:20:14to an extent? Probably. Do I want to?
1:20:16Not really.
1:20:18So, you don't necessarily need footprint
1:20:20charts, but to me, I feel like it helps
1:20:23me out.
1:20:25And if it doesn't, if you don't think it
1:20:26helps you out, then you don't got to use
1:20:28it. I mean, there's plenty of traders
1:20:30who are super successful that don't use
1:20:32footprint. There's plenty of traders
1:20:34that are super successful that don't
1:20:35even use [ __ ] candlesticks, you know?
1:20:38They just uh I mean, you have traders
1:20:40who literally just look at the DOM, you
1:20:42know? I never look at I mean, I barely
1:20:45look at the DOM ever. I'm just looking
1:20:47at I mean I am because this is
1:20:49technically depth of market right here
1:20:51as levels but
1:20:54but yeah
1:20:56so
1:20:57anyone who ever tells you like oh like
1:20:59you need if you want to be a successful
1:21:00trader you need to do this this way it's
1:21:02like no you don't
1:21:06there's a thousand different ways to
1:21:08[ __ ] skin the cat.
1:21:11If you want to trade trend lines, go
1:21:12ahead and trade trend lines. You know,
1:21:16supply and demand, ICT, SMC,
1:21:21order flow, support and resistance. I
1:21:24mean, it really doesn't [ __ ] matter.
1:21:33But yeah,
1:21:35so
1:21:37we are failing to get above this [ __ ]
1:21:42I don't know how long how long we're
1:21:43going to stay here, but looks like we're
1:21:45uh we're kind of comfortable in this
1:21:47area.
1:21:50And this is actually a pretty decent
1:21:52size range if you think about it. So, if
1:21:54you were to actually try and trade this,
1:21:56the safest place to put your stop loss
1:21:58if you're going short or long or
1:22:00whatever is obviously on the other side
1:22:01of this range. Um
1:22:05Oh [ __ ]
1:22:12So,
1:22:13it's decently large. Honestly, to be
1:22:16completely honest, it's like
1:22:19200 ticks. So,
1:22:22and also there's always an there's
1:22:24always a chance that when we do um like
1:22:28consolidate like this that we can just
1:22:30manipulate to one side before we
1:22:31actually push. But
1:22:36I do think that we're going to push
1:22:39through here only because like
1:22:43I'm not really expecting
1:22:46the daily high to be left like this. I
1:22:48think that that's kind of a weird thing.
1:22:50It w it usually wouldn't look like this.
1:22:52So we have massive buyers stepping in
1:22:54right now.
1:22:56We're going to see if they can continue
1:22:58up to 900. And then if the momentum
1:23:00continues, then the target should be
1:23:02935.
1:23:05At least it would be for me. But what we
1:23:08need to be careful about right here is
1:23:10now that a large buyer stepped in, the
1:23:12market needs to accept this move out of
1:23:13this range. If it rejects this, we would
1:23:15fall back into the range. But how we're
1:23:18going to understand acceptance is there
1:23:20needs to be an additional strong push or
1:23:22follow through after these buyers step
1:23:24in. And then at that point, we
1:23:25understand, okay, buyers are taking us
1:23:29out of this range. And then we're going
1:23:31to look for potential momentum and
1:23:34continuation, watching volume, delta,
1:23:36and everything else to push us higher
1:23:37first to 900 and then potentially to
1:23:40935.
1:23:43Um, I mean, I don't know if order flow
1:23:46would be considered like the easiest or
1:23:48the best. I mean, I guess it's all
1:23:50preference.
1:23:53I do think it's great though. I think
1:23:54it's amazing. I think Orderflow is
1:23:56awesome, but obviously I'm biased
1:23:59because I trade it every day.
1:24:13I mean, I'm sure you'll probably run
1:24:15into a lot of people who say that ICT is
1:24:18the easiest and the best. And if you
1:24:20don't trade ICT, you don't know what the
1:24:22[ __ ] you're doing, you know?
1:24:25Everyone's got their own
1:24:27everyone's got their own strategy and
1:24:29stuff. So,
1:24:33as long as you're making money, dude,
1:24:34who cares?
1:24:36If my strategy is to look at the [ __ ]
1:24:38stars and the moon and how they align
1:24:40and trying to predict price and it's
1:24:42working, then who the [ __ ] cares?
1:24:45[snorts]
1:24:50So, we're kind of stalling out right
1:24:52here.
1:24:54We're going to see if we can get that
1:24:56push higher right now.
1:24:58You You wouldn't want to, if we are
1:25:00going to go higher, it should happen on
1:25:01this candle right now. Like, you
1:25:02wouldn't want to basically see this
1:25:04candle push back and close into this
1:25:06area or else we're going to just kind of
1:25:08[ __ ] stay in this range.
1:25:11This candle should be the candle that
1:25:13pushes higher and takes 900 if we were
1:25:16to be going higher, which it looks like
1:25:18we are.
1:25:26But I can't like even though I say that
1:25:29I can't take this trade. Why? Because
1:25:32like
1:25:33it's terrible risk-to-reward. What am I
1:25:35going to target 900 and then have my
1:25:37stop somewhere all the way [ __ ] down
1:25:38here? or it just
1:25:40it wouldn't make any sense.
1:25:43Now, if we do push through this and the
1:25:46momentum continues, then we would be
1:25:49going to 935.
1:25:54After 9:35,
1:25:56if we do get up to 935, I would be very
1:26:00careful about price continuing to go
1:26:02higher.
1:26:05It would need
1:26:08It can.
1:26:11But
1:26:13now you're getting into the area that we
1:26:16rejected for months.
1:26:20Um, with rhythmic, no, I'm not having
1:26:23any issues with rhythmic.
1:26:26But then again, my rhythmic data is not
1:26:28paper trading rhythmic data. So, it's
1:26:30not through a prop firm. I pay for
1:26:31rhythmic.
1:27:08So,
1:27:12uh, they're just different servers.
1:27:14They're different servers. So, like if
1:27:15you are having trouble on Rhythmic Paper
1:27:18Trading Chicago, like let's say that's
1:27:20the one that you're using or the proper
1:27:21tells you to use, that's going to be
1:27:23different than Rhythmic Chicago. Uh,
1:27:26because they're different servers. So,
1:27:27if one server is having issues, then it
1:27:29doesn't necessarily mean all of them are
1:27:30having issues. I mean, it could, but I
1:27:33haven't seen anything. And if the if
1:27:36you've been having problems and I
1:27:37haven't been having problems, then that
1:27:38might be why.
1:27:43All right. So, we in fact did not leave
1:27:45this as the high of the day. So, we'll
1:27:47see what actually becomes high day
1:27:51and we'll see if we can actually push to
1:27:53935 or if we're going to actually just
1:27:54turn around somewhere up here.
1:28:21But for the AM session,
1:28:25if we were to think about this
1:28:26logically,
1:28:28for the AM session, I know it's still
1:28:30early in the day, but
1:28:35if we have the idea A that like New York
1:28:38session will typically have in the AM
1:28:41maybe one or two solid moves like really
1:28:44solid moves with momentum and they go
1:28:46for 50 to 100 point. Oh [ __ ] Look at
1:28:48this.
1:28:49Oh [ __ ]
1:28:55Holy [ __ ]
1:28:59You could chase this if you want to. I'm
1:29:00not going to do it though
1:29:03cuz that might happen. Damn. What the
1:29:05[ __ ] was that?
1:29:16Damn.
1:29:17All right.
1:29:23Whoa.
1:29:25That came out of nowhere.
1:29:29I wonder if so if this this could look
1:29:33like the high of day. I mean, that would
1:29:34make sense if this was the high day more
1:29:36than if this was the high a day. This
1:29:40would look a little bit more like what a
1:29:42high a day would usually look like. But
1:29:44that's [ __ ] crazy.
1:29:48And that wasn't even like any type of
1:29:50normal open either of a candle. Look at
1:29:54all these. Look at this. Look at the
1:29:55imbalance on sellers. That's crazy.
1:29:59That's crazy. I wonder if it's going to
1:30:01continue or if that just [ __ ] took
1:30:04everybody out that was in a long
1:30:06position and is now going to rip up.
1:30:08That would be [ __ ] brutal. I doubt
1:30:11it. It looks like
1:30:16Damn, that was kind of gnarly.
1:30:19No, that was not Jolts, dude. The Jolts
1:30:21was supposed to come out like uh Jolts
1:30:25came out like 40 minutes ago,
1:30:28right? Am I tripping?
1:30:38There was nothing there. I don't even
1:30:40know what that was.
1:30:42That happened at
1:30:4810:38 Eastern time.
1:30:52Yeah. Anyone who was long with their
1:30:55stop loss like right below this range
1:30:58just got violated.
1:31:09We'll see if the if this actually is a
1:31:12legitimate initiation to move price
1:31:14lower.
1:31:16Damn, good stuff. You're short.
1:31:22Not bad.
1:31:35Yeah, kind of a weird uh
1:31:38weird candle. Look at this [ __ ] 15
1:31:41minute.
1:31:43What the [ __ ] It might actually
1:31:46continue lower.
1:31:58The only reason why I wouldn't want to
1:32:00take this lower is because we already
1:32:01kind of took this low. If we'd never
1:32:03took the low on this push down, I might
1:32:06have actually tried to take a short
1:32:08right here. But
1:32:11you know where we are now? We're right
1:32:13back in this [ __ ] range.
1:32:18Oh, that was Nvidia news.
1:32:32I'm going to go short.
1:32:34>> I'm going to go five micros, though. And
1:32:36I'm literally just going to put my stop
1:32:39at the top of this uh
1:32:42at the top of this candle. I might get
1:32:44stopped out right now because we're in
1:32:45the range and this can just be snapping
1:32:47back and forth. But
1:32:51if I lose this trade, I'm going to be
1:32:53done for the day and I'll be up uh 3,000
1:32:56bucks.
1:33:16I would like to see a continuation here
1:33:20of selling pressure, but if we don't get
1:33:21it, it's all right. At least to the low
1:33:24of this candle that [ __ ] happened.
1:33:36And once we start getting closer to the
1:33:38bottom of this range, like a little bit
1:33:40more, I'm actually going to move uh my
1:33:43stop loss to break even because I don't
1:33:46want this to stay in the range and snap
1:33:48back.
1:34:01And I would like this PC to remain here
1:34:03on this fiveminute candle. If it starts
1:34:05to be closer to the bottom of the range,
1:34:07it's not it's not good.
1:34:16So, there's like 30 seconds left.
1:34:20>> Yeah, that's nasty.
1:34:22That is disgusting.
1:34:41So, we might actually just stay in this
1:34:43range.
1:34:48But you know what? Worst case scenario,
1:34:50we will
1:34:52end the day up uh
1:34:55three grand.
1:35:03It is the new 15-minute candle. So,
1:35:05we're going to see
1:35:09this is kind of a weird looking
1:35:1115minute. Small body, two large wicks to
1:35:13both sides. This 15-minute candle may
1:35:16just stay within this entire [ __ ]
1:35:20uh range from like here to here for the
1:35:23next 15 minutes. I mean, that's like
1:35:24almost 100 points. So,
1:35:32Yeah, and also the PC came back to the
1:35:34middle of this uh five minute. So, it's
1:35:37likely that we actually
1:35:40uh stay in the range, get stopped out,
1:35:42come back up here.
1:35:45But it's all right.
1:35:52>> Order filled.
1:35:53>> All right.
1:35:59So
1:36:02that was one, two, maybe I think the
1:36:05third trade.
1:36:08I don't know. But
1:36:11what I was trying to see is we had large
1:36:14sellers come in here. Um
1:36:18I wanted to see us actually continue
1:36:19lower, but we're staying here in the
1:36:22range.
1:36:26So, I went half size on that. So, I only
1:36:28went five micros because I real I mean,
1:36:30I knew that we were in the range and
1:36:32it's realistically not a good idea to do
1:36:34that. But, we're in profit on the day,
1:36:36so
1:36:39might as well try and press a little
1:36:41bit. If it doesn't work out, you know,
1:36:43who cares? We lost $227.
1:36:48Balance is 4500.
1:36:52profits three grand. Um, at this point
1:36:55we are getting closer to lunchtime. So,
1:37:01we're kind of just staying in this
1:37:03range. We try to break out with large
1:37:06volume to the upside and then something
1:37:08happened. I don't know what. Uh, might
1:37:10have been Nvidia, might have been
1:37:12Russia.
1:37:13Who the [ __ ] knows, dude? I don't know.
1:37:15But we [ __ ] came down. It failed to
1:37:17go lower and now we're right back here
1:37:19in this range. Maybe it might actually
1:37:21push up now, but I don't want to trade
1:37:22it. Uh, this is kind of gross. Like,
1:37:26like, look at this. That's [ __ ]
1:37:28disgusting.
1:37:30So, I think it's probably the best idea
1:37:35to call it a day,
1:37:37protect our capital in low probability
1:37:40conditions,
1:37:42and come back tomorrow because I still
1:37:45need winning days on this account to
1:37:47pull the third payout from this funded
1:37:50account.
1:37:52So,
1:37:54that's it. Hopefully you guys didn't
1:37:58trade this [ __ ] and get [ __ ] wrecked.
1:38:00Or if you did, I hope you were like SM
1:38:02who shorted it up here and instantly
1:38:04made 70 points like in the blink of an
1:38:06eye. But uh I will log off for the day
1:38:10and I'll be back um tomorrow probably 15
1:38:13minutes before market open. So if you're
1:38:15going to trade the rest of the day, just
1:38:16be careful
1:38:18and I'll catch you guys next time.
1:38:19Peace.

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