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  1. 0:00Trading became easy when I realized
  2. 0:01direction didn't actually matter. 90% of
  3. 0:03traders tell you to trade with the
  4. 0:05trend, that you need to find and follow
  5. 0:06your daily bias. But 90% of traders also
  6. 0:09lose money. And so for the past year,
  7. 0:11I've only been taking reversals,
  8. 0:12catching small reactions and price
  9. 0:14action, and not caring about direction
  10. 0:16at all. And I've never been more
  11. 0:17profitable. And so these are the results
  12. 0:18over my past year of trading, just
  13. 0:20reversals, not caring about direction at
  14. 0:22all. And it's actually insane how much
  15. 0:23more profitable I've been. And trading
  16. 0:25is easier, it's less complicated, and
  17. 0:27I'm more consistent than ever. And so in
  18. 0:29this video, I'm going to show you my
  19. 0:30exact strategy to profit regardless of
  20. 0:32what happens. How I make money even when
  21. 0:33I'm wrong. But first, we need to
  22. 0:35understand how price action actually
  23. 0:36moves. You see, price is elastic. It's
  24. 0:38like an elastic band. The further you
  25. 0:40stretch in a certain direction, the more
  26. 0:42that you are for that elastic band to
  27. 0:43snap back. Think about like this. As
  28. 0:45price action pushes in a certain
  29. 0:46direction, the further you go up in that
  30. 0:49move, the more tension increases. That
  31. 0:51elastic band is being stretched. So, if
  32. 0:53you go too far, you'll have a snap back.
  33. 0:55And the whole point of this strategy is
  34. 0:56to identify these stretches in price and
  35. 0:58then take advantage of these little
  36. 1:00snapbacks. For an example, we've had a
  37. 1:02stretch here and this has actually
  38. 1:03resulted in a shift of market structure.
  39. 1:05So, you think you'd be wanting to look
  40. 1:06for buys, but I would actually be
  41. 1:08looking for a sell here for a correction
  42. 1:10of this overextension, this stretch of
  43. 1:12this elastic price action just for that
  44. 1:14little snapback here. And so, regardless
  45. 1:16of where the direction is going, where
  46. 1:17price action is moving, it could push
  47. 1:19bullish, it could reverse and push
  48. 1:21bearish, it could go sideways. The most
  49. 1:23likely scenario over the next 10, 20, 30
  50. 1:26minutes is that there's going to be a
  51. 1:27correction, a reaction to this
  52. 1:29overextension. This is the highest
  53. 1:31probability move. And this is how I get
  54. 1:33and this is how I get an 80 plus% win
  55. 1:35rate because regardless of where the
  56. 1:37market goes, you know, bullish or
  57. 1:38bearish, even sideways, I'm going to
  58. 1:41make money anyway. And so I'll show you
  59. 1:42my three-step process with a trade
  60. 1:43example that I took early this morning
  61. 1:45on UJ. As you can see, I took a small
  62. 1:47reaction price action and I was actually
  63. 1:49wrong about direction. It continued
  64. 1:50pushing bullish later on in the day, but
  65. 1:52I still made 6K on this trade regardless
  66. 1:54of where price action was going. And as
  67. 1:56you can see, it is extremely consistent
  68. 1:58the results that I'm getting. And so,
  69. 1:59let's get into this trade. I'll show you
  70. 2:00exactly how I took it and identified it
  71. 2:02using the three-step process. Okay, so
  72. 2:04step one is to make sure you're trading
  73. 2:05within a rangebound condition. The
  74. 2:07reason here is that you're more likely
  75. 2:08to have better and bigger reactions or
  76. 2:11snapbacks of price action within this
  77. 2:13condition. And the easiest way to
  78. 2:14identify this condition is just to look
  79. 2:16at where you currently are and look back
  80. 2:185 to 10 plus hours and see were you
  81. 2:20around the same area. It's pretty
  82. 2:21obvious we've been going sideways for
  83. 2:23that period of time. And so moving on to
  84. 2:24step two, which is to wait for an hourly
  85. 2:26extension. This part will actually help
  86. 2:28you time the entry and tell you exactly
  87. 2:30when to enter down to the minutes. So
  88. 2:31we're just going to zoom into the range
  89. 2:33and we're going to wait for a new hourly
  90. 2:34candle to open. And we just want this
  91. 2:36hourly candle to extend into either the
  92. 2:38high of that range or into either the
  93. 2:40low of that range. And so I'll just draw
  94. 2:41a zone around those lows and a zone
  95. 2:43around those highs here. And just wait
  96. 2:45for price action to come into either one
  97. 2:46of those zones. You can see here we've
  98. 2:48come into this zone. We've taken out
  99. 2:50this previous high here. And that moves
  100. 2:51us onto step three. Now that we've had
  101. 2:53an alley candle open and immediately
  102. 2:55extend into the high or the low. Step
  103. 2:57three is just to wait for an entry
  104. 2:59model. I just want to be clear as well.
  105. 3:01It's important how you overextend. And
  106. 3:02so we want a big stretch of price action
  107. 3:04to build up all that tension to make it
  108. 3:06more likely that there's going to be a
  109. 3:07snapback here. And so for the entry
  110. 3:09model, I mainly look for this around the
  111. 3:11halfway point of the hour, around 30
  112. 3:12minutes into that hour. And the main
  113. 3:14entry model I use is just a simple shift
  114. 3:16of market structure here. I'll wait for
  115. 3:18price to break a high and then
  116. 3:20immediately break a low. I look to enter
  117. 3:22on a pullback to around 50% of that
  118. 3:24shift. And so I'll just drop down onto a
  119. 3:27lower time frame. And we'll just wait
  120. 3:29for that shift of market structure. So
  121. 3:31we can see we're making higher highs and
  122. 3:32higher lows. That 30-minute candle is
  123. 3:34continuing to push bullish. And then we
  124. 3:36have a break of a high here and then we
  125. 3:39immediately break that low. So a bit of
  126. 3:41a shift on the lower time frame. So what
  127. 3:43you can do is just wait for a pullback
  128. 3:45towards 50% of that shift. My entry was
  129. 3:47a little bit late due to that volume.
  130. 3:49And for my target it was around 50% of
  131. 3:51this extension here. And so that's
  132. 3:53around a 1.3 risk reward. And most
  133. 3:55likely price is going to have a little
  134. 3:56reaction for that snapback of the
  135. 3:58elastic price to release that tension.
  136. 3:59So it can further continue pushing or it
  137. 4:02can reverse or it will range. It doesn't
  138. 4:04really matter. But most likely there's
  139. 4:06going to be this little reaction here.
  140. 4:07And so, as you can see, it plays up
  141. 4:09pretty nicely. Comes back into 50% and
  142. 4:11it reverses, continues pushing bullish,
  143. 4:13but it doesn't really matter. We've
  144. 4:15already caught our reaction of this nice
  145. 4:17stretch in price action here. And so,
  146. 4:19for our next example, we're actually
  147. 4:20going to be trading counter to the
  148. 4:21direction. We can see that pretty
  149. 4:23clearly we're moving bearish here, but
  150. 4:25we're just going to wait for an hourly
  151. 4:26candle to open within this bearish
  152. 4:28trending range and overextend into the
  153. 4:30lower half here, which it does very
  154. 4:32nicely. And we're going to be looking
  155. 4:34for something pretty similar to the
  156. 4:35previous hour where the open of the hour
  157. 4:37immediately pushed bearish and then
  158. 4:38around the halfway point you had that
  159. 4:40little reaction, that pullback. And so
  160. 4:41we've had the nice extension. Now we're
  161. 4:43just going to wait for a shift of market
  162. 4:44structure around the halfway point of
  163. 4:46this hour, this wick here. And so
  164. 4:47waiting for a 1 minute shift of market
  165. 4:49structure. These are the most recent
  166. 4:50highs here. This is the most recent
  167. 4:52structure because it was pretty high
  168. 4:53volume. And so we want to wait for a
  169. 4:55break of this structure here. And so we
  170. 4:57have a break of that high here. What we
  171. 4:59just want to do then is wait for a
  172. 5:00pullback. Wait for price action to come
  173. 5:02into 50% of this move. We then have
  174. 5:05another shift within that. This would be
  175. 5:07a even lower time frame shift here. We
  176. 5:10can look for an entry here. Stop below
  177. 5:12the low and we can target 50% of this
  178. 5:15alley over extension here for a nice 1.5
  179. 5:18wrist toward. You see it plays it pretty
  180. 5:21nicely. And then you actually have
  181. 5:22another hourly candle overextend for the
  182. 5:24next hour or 20 to 30 minutes into the
  183. 5:27high of this range happen a bit earlier
  184. 5:29on into the hour. But this move built up
  185. 5:31quite a lot of tension. And so likely
  186. 5:33there's going to be a reaction, a
  187. 5:35correction of this move here. And around
  188. 5:36the halfway point, you see it shift
  189. 5:38bearish and again continue pushing
  190. 5:40bearish. And so we can just wait within
  191. 5:42this condition and wait for an hourly
  192. 5:44candle to open overextend in a certain
  193. 5:46direction and then shift around the
  194. 5:48halfway point to have that little
  195. 5:49reaction of this extension here. And
  196. 5:52it's so consistent every single day.
  197. 5:55Okay, same price action again within the
  198. 5:58same bearish trading range. We've had
  199. 5:59this hourly candle open and immediate
  200. 6:01overextend push bearish here.
  201. 6:06And this is actually quite a lot of
  202. 6:07volume.
  203. 6:09But around that halfway point of the
  204. 6:11hour, we have a bit of a shift of
  205. 6:14direction. We break out these we break
  206. 6:16these one minute candle wick highs. So
  207. 6:18we break a new high here. We can look
  208. 6:20for a pullback in towards 50% of this
  209. 6:22move. It's in the second half of the
  210. 6:24hour. We can put a stop loss at that low
  211. 6:27and we can target 50% of this
  212. 6:28overextension here. That' be a 1.6 six
  213. 6:32risk-toreward on average and taps into
  214. 6:35that hits the take profit pretty easily.
  215. 6:38And we don't care about where price
  216. 6:39action is going. It can go against us.
  217. 6:41It can flip, you know, in reverse. It
  218. 6:43doesn't really matter. We're just
  219. 6:44targeting the highest probability moves
  220. 6:47and waiting for this specific type of
  221. 6:48hourly overextension for price to
  222. 6:50stretch without a pullback for 20 or 30
  223. 6:52minutes. You're just extremely likely to
  224. 6:54have these high quality moves. The price
  225. 6:56has these little reactions, these
  226. 6:58snapbacks, and it is extremely
  227. 6:59consistent. And then again for our third
  228. 7:01example, you can see we're in a bit of a
  229. 7:03range here over the past five plus
  230. 7:05hours. And as you can see over these
  231. 7:07five plus hours, you tend to have that
  232. 7:08little reaction, that snapback in price
  233. 7:11around that halfway point of the hour,
  234. 7:13especially when you get that extension
  235. 7:14or just price action moving in a certain
  236. 7:16direction for that period of time. You
  237. 7:17are likely to have that snapback and
  238. 7:19again a little reaction here around the
  239. 7:20halfway point of this hour to create 50%
  240. 7:22of this bearish move here. And so in
  241. 7:24this range again, we'll just identify
  242. 7:25the highs and the lows of this range.
  243. 7:27We're at the lows and the new hour of
  244. 7:29this the new open of this hour opens and
  245. 7:32immediately pushes bullish into the
  246. 7:33upper half of this range here. So, we're
  247. 7:35approaching the halfway point of this
  248. 7:37hour. We have a nice overextension here
  249. 7:41and we can just wait for price action to
  250. 7:43shift bearish which we have. We've taken
  251. 7:45out a high into taking out a low. We can
  252. 7:48look for a pullback in towards 50% of
  253. 7:50that bearish move there.
  254. 7:53And we can just target 50% of the hourly
  255. 7:55candle to overextend here.
  256. 8:00And as you can see, taps in and then
  257. 8:02hits our takeprofit quite easily. And
  258. 8:04again, in this example here, if price
  259. 8:06was if price action was going to shift
  260. 8:08and push bullish, because you had this
  261. 8:10extension here, you're likely to have a
  262. 8:11pull back to release that tension in
  263. 8:13order to then, you know, push bullish.
  264. 8:16If it's going to reverse or was going to
  265. 8:18go that way anyway. If it's going to
  266. 8:20rangebound, well, you're still likely to
  267. 8:22have that reaction of this of this
  268. 8:23previous bullish movement. And so, this
  269. 8:25is how I make money trading regardless
  270. 8:26of where price action is going,
  271. 8:28regardless of the direction, because the
  272. 8:30direction doesn't matter if you're
  273. 8:31entering at the right time. And this
  274. 8:33alley candle extension strategy makes it
  275. 8:36so you do enter at the right time. I'm
  276. 8:38able to get a positive riskreward with
  277. 8:40an average win rate of around 80%. It is
  278. 8:42insane how profitable this strategy is.
  279. 8:44And so, when you just focus on catching
  280. 8:46these small reactions, you will get the
  281. 8:48consistent results you want. And as
  282. 8:49always, test this out, forward test it,
  283. 8:50back test it, get some experience with
  284. 8:52it before you put it into live
  285. 8:53conditions. And if you want more
  286. 8:55information on exactly how to use this
  287. 8:56every single day, just watch this video
  288. 8:58right here. I go in-depth deep dive on
  289. 9:00exactly on the actual mechanics of this
  290. 9:02approach. And if you want any other free
  291. 9:03resources, my free journal, my my free
  292. 9:05mind maps, or more information on this
  293. 9:07counter behavior strategy, links in the
  294. 9:09description or below, join the Discord
  295. 9:10to other free content in there. But hope
  296. 9:12you guys enjoyed this and I'll catch you
  297. 9:13guys in the next

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