How I Make Money Trading, Even When Im Wrong — Transcript
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- 0:00Trading became easy when I realized
- 0:01direction didn't actually matter. 90% of
- 0:03traders tell you to trade with the
- 0:05trend, that you need to find and follow
- 0:06your daily bias. But 90% of traders also
- 0:09lose money. And so for the past year,
- 0:11I've only been taking reversals,
- 0:12catching small reactions and price
- 0:14action, and not caring about direction
- 0:16at all. And I've never been more
- 0:17profitable. And so these are the results
- 0:18over my past year of trading, just
- 0:20reversals, not caring about direction at
- 0:22all. And it's actually insane how much
- 0:23more profitable I've been. And trading
- 0:25is easier, it's less complicated, and
- 0:27I'm more consistent than ever. And so in
- 0:29this video, I'm going to show you my
- 0:30exact strategy to profit regardless of
- 0:32what happens. How I make money even when
- 0:33I'm wrong. But first, we need to
- 0:35understand how price action actually
- 0:36moves. You see, price is elastic. It's
- 0:38like an elastic band. The further you
- 0:40stretch in a certain direction, the more
- 0:42that you are for that elastic band to
- 0:43snap back. Think about like this. As
- 0:45price action pushes in a certain
- 0:46direction, the further you go up in that
- 0:49move, the more tension increases. That
- 0:51elastic band is being stretched. So, if
- 0:53you go too far, you'll have a snap back.
- 0:55And the whole point of this strategy is
- 0:56to identify these stretches in price and
- 0:58then take advantage of these little
- 1:00snapbacks. For an example, we've had a
- 1:02stretch here and this has actually
- 1:03resulted in a shift of market structure.
- 1:05So, you think you'd be wanting to look
- 1:06for buys, but I would actually be
- 1:08looking for a sell here for a correction
- 1:10of this overextension, this stretch of
- 1:12this elastic price action just for that
- 1:14little snapback here. And so, regardless
- 1:16of where the direction is going, where
- 1:17price action is moving, it could push
- 1:19bullish, it could reverse and push
- 1:21bearish, it could go sideways. The most
- 1:23likely scenario over the next 10, 20, 30
- 1:26minutes is that there's going to be a
- 1:27correction, a reaction to this
- 1:29overextension. This is the highest
- 1:31probability move. And this is how I get
- 1:33and this is how I get an 80 plus% win
- 1:35rate because regardless of where the
- 1:37market goes, you know, bullish or
- 1:38bearish, even sideways, I'm going to
- 1:41make money anyway. And so I'll show you
- 1:42my three-step process with a trade
- 1:43example that I took early this morning
- 1:45on UJ. As you can see, I took a small
- 1:47reaction price action and I was actually
- 1:49wrong about direction. It continued
- 1:50pushing bullish later on in the day, but
- 1:52I still made 6K on this trade regardless
- 1:54of where price action was going. And as
- 1:56you can see, it is extremely consistent
- 1:58the results that I'm getting. And so,
- 1:59let's get into this trade. I'll show you
- 2:00exactly how I took it and identified it
- 2:02using the three-step process. Okay, so
- 2:04step one is to make sure you're trading
- 2:05within a rangebound condition. The
- 2:07reason here is that you're more likely
- 2:08to have better and bigger reactions or
- 2:11snapbacks of price action within this
- 2:13condition. And the easiest way to
- 2:14identify this condition is just to look
- 2:16at where you currently are and look back
- 2:185 to 10 plus hours and see were you
- 2:20around the same area. It's pretty
- 2:21obvious we've been going sideways for
- 2:23that period of time. And so moving on to
- 2:24step two, which is to wait for an hourly
- 2:26extension. This part will actually help
- 2:28you time the entry and tell you exactly
- 2:30when to enter down to the minutes. So
- 2:31we're just going to zoom into the range
- 2:33and we're going to wait for a new hourly
- 2:34candle to open. And we just want this
- 2:36hourly candle to extend into either the
- 2:38high of that range or into either the
- 2:40low of that range. And so I'll just draw
- 2:41a zone around those lows and a zone
- 2:43around those highs here. And just wait
- 2:45for price action to come into either one
- 2:46of those zones. You can see here we've
- 2:48come into this zone. We've taken out
- 2:50this previous high here. And that moves
- 2:51us onto step three. Now that we've had
- 2:53an alley candle open and immediately
- 2:55extend into the high or the low. Step
- 2:57three is just to wait for an entry
- 2:59model. I just want to be clear as well.
- 3:01It's important how you overextend. And
- 3:02so we want a big stretch of price action
- 3:04to build up all that tension to make it
- 3:06more likely that there's going to be a
- 3:07snapback here. And so for the entry
- 3:09model, I mainly look for this around the
- 3:11halfway point of the hour, around 30
- 3:12minutes into that hour. And the main
- 3:14entry model I use is just a simple shift
- 3:16of market structure here. I'll wait for
- 3:18price to break a high and then
- 3:20immediately break a low. I look to enter
- 3:22on a pullback to around 50% of that
- 3:24shift. And so I'll just drop down onto a
- 3:27lower time frame. And we'll just wait
- 3:29for that shift of market structure. So
- 3:31we can see we're making higher highs and
- 3:32higher lows. That 30-minute candle is
- 3:34continuing to push bullish. And then we
- 3:36have a break of a high here and then we
- 3:39immediately break that low. So a bit of
- 3:41a shift on the lower time frame. So what
- 3:43you can do is just wait for a pullback
- 3:45towards 50% of that shift. My entry was
- 3:47a little bit late due to that volume.
- 3:49And for my target it was around 50% of
- 3:51this extension here. And so that's
- 3:53around a 1.3 risk reward. And most
- 3:55likely price is going to have a little
- 3:56reaction for that snapback of the
- 3:58elastic price to release that tension.
- 3:59So it can further continue pushing or it
- 4:02can reverse or it will range. It doesn't
- 4:04really matter. But most likely there's
- 4:06going to be this little reaction here.
- 4:07And so, as you can see, it plays up
- 4:09pretty nicely. Comes back into 50% and
- 4:11it reverses, continues pushing bullish,
- 4:13but it doesn't really matter. We've
- 4:15already caught our reaction of this nice
- 4:17stretch in price action here. And so,
- 4:19for our next example, we're actually
- 4:20going to be trading counter to the
- 4:21direction. We can see that pretty
- 4:23clearly we're moving bearish here, but
- 4:25we're just going to wait for an hourly
- 4:26candle to open within this bearish
- 4:28trending range and overextend into the
- 4:30lower half here, which it does very
- 4:32nicely. And we're going to be looking
- 4:34for something pretty similar to the
- 4:35previous hour where the open of the hour
- 4:37immediately pushed bearish and then
- 4:38around the halfway point you had that
- 4:40little reaction, that pullback. And so
- 4:41we've had the nice extension. Now we're
- 4:43just going to wait for a shift of market
- 4:44structure around the halfway point of
- 4:46this hour, this wick here. And so
- 4:47waiting for a 1 minute shift of market
- 4:49structure. These are the most recent
- 4:50highs here. This is the most recent
- 4:52structure because it was pretty high
- 4:53volume. And so we want to wait for a
- 4:55break of this structure here. And so we
- 4:57have a break of that high here. What we
- 4:59just want to do then is wait for a
- 5:00pullback. Wait for price action to come
- 5:02into 50% of this move. We then have
- 5:05another shift within that. This would be
- 5:07a even lower time frame shift here. We
- 5:10can look for an entry here. Stop below
- 5:12the low and we can target 50% of this
- 5:15alley over extension here for a nice 1.5
- 5:18wrist toward. You see it plays it pretty
- 5:21nicely. And then you actually have
- 5:22another hourly candle overextend for the
- 5:24next hour or 20 to 30 minutes into the
- 5:27high of this range happen a bit earlier
- 5:29on into the hour. But this move built up
- 5:31quite a lot of tension. And so likely
- 5:33there's going to be a reaction, a
- 5:35correction of this move here. And around
- 5:36the halfway point, you see it shift
- 5:38bearish and again continue pushing
- 5:40bearish. And so we can just wait within
- 5:42this condition and wait for an hourly
- 5:44candle to open overextend in a certain
- 5:46direction and then shift around the
- 5:48halfway point to have that little
- 5:49reaction of this extension here. And
- 5:52it's so consistent every single day.
- 5:55Okay, same price action again within the
- 5:58same bearish trading range. We've had
- 5:59this hourly candle open and immediate
- 6:01overextend push bearish here.
- 6:06And this is actually quite a lot of
- 6:07volume.
- 6:09But around that halfway point of the
- 6:11hour, we have a bit of a shift of
- 6:14direction. We break out these we break
- 6:16these one minute candle wick highs. So
- 6:18we break a new high here. We can look
- 6:20for a pullback in towards 50% of this
- 6:22move. It's in the second half of the
- 6:24hour. We can put a stop loss at that low
- 6:27and we can target 50% of this
- 6:28overextension here. That' be a 1.6 six
- 6:32risk-toreward on average and taps into
- 6:35that hits the take profit pretty easily.
- 6:38And we don't care about where price
- 6:39action is going. It can go against us.
- 6:41It can flip, you know, in reverse. It
- 6:43doesn't really matter. We're just
- 6:44targeting the highest probability moves
- 6:47and waiting for this specific type of
- 6:48hourly overextension for price to
- 6:50stretch without a pullback for 20 or 30
- 6:52minutes. You're just extremely likely to
- 6:54have these high quality moves. The price
- 6:56has these little reactions, these
- 6:58snapbacks, and it is extremely
- 6:59consistent. And then again for our third
- 7:01example, you can see we're in a bit of a
- 7:03range here over the past five plus
- 7:05hours. And as you can see over these
- 7:07five plus hours, you tend to have that
- 7:08little reaction, that snapback in price
- 7:11around that halfway point of the hour,
- 7:13especially when you get that extension
- 7:14or just price action moving in a certain
- 7:16direction for that period of time. You
- 7:17are likely to have that snapback and
- 7:19again a little reaction here around the
- 7:20halfway point of this hour to create 50%
- 7:22of this bearish move here. And so in
- 7:24this range again, we'll just identify
- 7:25the highs and the lows of this range.
- 7:27We're at the lows and the new hour of
- 7:29this the new open of this hour opens and
- 7:32immediately pushes bullish into the
- 7:33upper half of this range here. So, we're
- 7:35approaching the halfway point of this
- 7:37hour. We have a nice overextension here
- 7:41and we can just wait for price action to
- 7:43shift bearish which we have. We've taken
- 7:45out a high into taking out a low. We can
- 7:48look for a pullback in towards 50% of
- 7:50that bearish move there.
- 7:53And we can just target 50% of the hourly
- 7:55candle to overextend here.
- 8:00And as you can see, taps in and then
- 8:02hits our takeprofit quite easily. And
- 8:04again, in this example here, if price
- 8:06was if price action was going to shift
- 8:08and push bullish, because you had this
- 8:10extension here, you're likely to have a
- 8:11pull back to release that tension in
- 8:13order to then, you know, push bullish.
- 8:16If it's going to reverse or was going to
- 8:18go that way anyway. If it's going to
- 8:20rangebound, well, you're still likely to
- 8:22have that reaction of this of this
- 8:23previous bullish movement. And so, this
- 8:25is how I make money trading regardless
- 8:26of where price action is going,
- 8:28regardless of the direction, because the
- 8:30direction doesn't matter if you're
- 8:31entering at the right time. And this
- 8:33alley candle extension strategy makes it
- 8:36so you do enter at the right time. I'm
- 8:38able to get a positive riskreward with
- 8:40an average win rate of around 80%. It is
- 8:42insane how profitable this strategy is.
- 8:44And so, when you just focus on catching
- 8:46these small reactions, you will get the
- 8:48consistent results you want. And as
- 8:49always, test this out, forward test it,
- 8:50back test it, get some experience with
- 8:52it before you put it into live
- 8:53conditions. And if you want more
- 8:55information on exactly how to use this
- 8:56every single day, just watch this video
- 8:58right here. I go in-depth deep dive on
- 9:00exactly on the actual mechanics of this
- 9:02approach. And if you want any other free
- 9:03resources, my free journal, my my free
- 9:05mind maps, or more information on this
- 9:07counter behavior strategy, links in the
- 9:09description or below, join the Discord
- 9:10to other free content in there. But hope
- 9:12you guys enjoyed this and I'll catch you
- 9:13guys in the next
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