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I Found A Secret To The First Candle Rule — Transcript

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  1. 0:00The first candle rule has taken over day
  2. 0:02trading and there's a reason for that
  3. 0:03because hundreds of traders are seeing
  4. 0:05success with this strategy. But after
  5. 0:07trading hundreds of these setups, I
  6. 0:09found something inside that candle that
  7. 0:11most traders never realize and it's a
  8. 0:13big part of how I was able to turn
  9. 0:15$9,000 into over $170,000.
  10. 0:19And to prove that to you, we're going to
  11. 0:20log into my broker together. But that's
  12. 0:23not the point. The point is that after
  13. 0:25you see what I'm about to teach you in
  14. 0:26this video, you will never look at the
  15. 0:28first candle the same way
  16. 0:31All right, guys. So as you can see, we
  17. 0:33are here on tradovate.com on a regulated
  18. 0:35broker and I'm going to log in with you
  19. 0:36guys so you guys can see my trading
  20. 0:38results. We're going to click live
  21. 0:39trading right here and once it gets in
  22. 0:42here, we're going to go over to the
  23. 0:43reports right here. I'm going to go back
  24. 0:46to when I started this account, which
  25. 0:49was November 5th
  26. 0:51to date, which today is March 17th. And
  27. 0:55as you can see, $170,000 in gross
  28. 0:58profit. Total on the account is
  29. 1:00$177,000.
  30. 1:02It's a live account as you can see right
  31. 1:03here. Now I want to be clear that these
  32. 1:05results are not typical. I've been doing
  33. 1:06this for 10 years. You're not going to
  34. 1:08go out and get the exact same results as
  35. 1:09me. I just show you guys this not to
  36. 1:11flex, but because transparency is very
  37. 1:14important in the trading industry. If
  38. 1:15you haven't noticed already, the first
  39. 1:17candle rule has taken over day trading
  40. 1:20and this is a strategy that I coined
  41. 1:22based on the opening range breakout. And
  42. 1:24it's very simple. You're going to mark
  43. 1:26the high and the low of either the first
  44. 1:2815 minute or the first 5 minute candle
  45. 1:30and watch for a breakout. That simple.
  46. 1:32But one thing that I noticed is after
  47. 1:34hundreds of these trades, I found
  48. 1:36something inside the first candle that
  49. 1:38changes the game entirely. And what I
  50. 1:40was mainly studying was the patterns
  51. 1:43between not only the wins, but the
  52. 1:45losses. Because a lot of times you'll
  53. 1:47take the same exact setup, the same
  54. 1:49rule, but you'll get a different result
  55. 1:51and then there will be some streaks of
  56. 1:53this. And it's not that losses are a
  57. 1:55problem, it's just that not knowing why
  58. 1:58you're losing is because whenever you
  59. 2:00learn why you're losing, often times
  60. 2:03that is where some of your biggest
  61. 2:04breakthroughs in trading will occur. So
  62. 2:06I took it upon myself to study hundreds
  63. 2:08of first candle setups. I wanted to
  64. 2:10understand why some worked and some
  65. 2:12didn't. Not just the pattern, but the
  66. 2:14logic. Now, this book right here, The
  67. 2:16Laws of Trading, is probably my favorite
  68. 2:18book ever written on trading and it was
  69. 2:20written by a quant at Jane Street. Now,
  70. 2:22Jane Street is one of the most
  71. 2:24profitable firms out there. They make
  72. 2:26billions and billions of dollars and
  73. 2:28this quote went something like, "If you
  74. 2:30can't explain your edge, then you don't
  75. 2:33have one."
  76. 2:34And that line changed everything for me.
  77. 2:36And this is what pushed me to dig deeper
  78. 2:38and what pushed me to find the secret
  79. 2:39that helped me flip that account. Now,
  80. 2:40the quant's name is Augustine Lebron and
  81. 2:43his logic is that there is a three-point
  82. 2:46system to finding an edge and most of
  83. 2:48you guys think number one is just going
  84. 2:50to be data. That's what a lot of people
  85. 2:52think that firms use. That's actually
  86. 2:54not the case. The first step for them is
  87. 2:57asking why an edge would even work.
  88. 3:00After that, step number two is to figure
  89. 3:03out who is losing, right? Who is in the
  90. 3:05losing side of the market? And only
  91. 3:07after they do that, do they get into
  92. 3:08step number three, which is the data
  93. 3:11invalidating the strategy. Now, why does
  94. 3:13any of this even matter? Well, because
  95. 3:15with the first candle rule, you're just
  96. 3:17going to be trading, you know, the
  97. 3:18breakout of a first candle's high and
  98. 3:21low. And this is great, but a lot of
  99. 3:23traders don't really realize why they're
  100. 3:25trading this and they also don't realize
  101. 3:27what's happening when the market starts
  102. 3:29to fade away and give a false breakout.
  103. 3:32And right here is where part of the
  104. 3:34secret resides. So here's what we're
  105. 3:36going to cover today to unveil that.
  106. 3:38First, we're going to go over what is
  107. 3:40inside this candle. And this is a layer
  108. 3:42that separates the winning trades from
  109. 3:44the losing ones. And this is the biggest
  110. 3:46pattern that I found when going through
  111. 3:48all of the data that I was reviewing.
  112. 3:50Next, we're going to talk about how you
  113. 3:51can get two setups from one candle. Not
  114. 3:54just breakouts, but also reversals. And
  115. 3:56then we're going to go over real chart
  116. 3:58and trade examples, that way you can see
  117. 4:00exactly how this works. Now, when it
  118. 4:01comes to the first candle, what most
  119. 4:03people see are the high and the low.
  120. 4:07Pretty simple, but this only tells you
  121. 4:09where price went. It does not tell you
  122. 4:12what happened inside. And remember, step
  123. 4:15one of the way that quants and
  124. 4:17professional traders find an edge is
  125. 4:19they ask why. And if all we're marking
  126. 4:22is this high and low, we don't really
  127. 4:24have conviction in what we're doing.
  128. 4:26We're kind of just trading a pattern,
  129. 4:27which is why a lot of traders have
  130. 4:29trading psychology issues. People think
  131. 4:30that they have a trading psychology
  132. 4:31issue because trading is hard and
  133. 4:34they're a bad person or bad trader. No,
  134. 4:36that's not it. It's just because you
  135. 4:37don't have conviction. Because if all
  136. 4:39you're doing is just trading a pattern
  137. 4:40through this and you don't get why
  138. 4:42you're trading it, then you're never
  139. 4:44going to have true conviction, even if
  140. 4:45you backtested it because there's no
  141. 4:47logic to it. So what we want to see is
  142. 4:49behind these big moves, was there
  143. 4:51actually big money behind it? Because if
  144. 4:54there wasn't, this is where you're going
  145. 4:55to get a fakeout. And I know a lot of
  146. 4:57you guys are sitting there thinking,
  147. 4:58"Yeah, I would love to know that. How do
  148. 4:59you do it?" And it's not going to be
  149. 5:01some complicated system or strategy.
  150. 5:04It's a really simple tool that literally
  151. 5:06tells you with data whether they were
  152. 5:07involved in the market or not. And that
  153. 5:09tool is called the value area. Now, the
  154. 5:12value area is pretty simple. It's just
  155. 5:14where 70% of the volume was traded. So
  156. 5:16let's just say we have this candle right
  157. 5:18here and you're just going to be looking
  158. 5:21typically at the wicks and the body,
  159. 5:23right? Those are the only levels you
  160. 5:24have from a regular candlestick chart.
  161. 5:26So you're looking at these levels that
  162. 5:29are visible to the naked eye, but real
  163. 5:31professionals are looking at something
  164. 5:33different. They're looking at the value
  165. 5:35area. Now, the value area is just where
  166. 5:3770% of the volume was traded inside this
  167. 5:40candle and it's never going to be right
  168. 5:42around the high or the low. Because the
  169. 5:44reason the high or the low is made is a
  170. 5:46reaction to volume, okay? Price is more
  171. 5:50of an indicator than volume. A lot of
  172. 5:52people mix this up and they think
  173. 5:53volume's an indicator, but price is a
  174. 5:55result of volume. So if you can
  175. 5:57determine where the market was really in
  176. 6:00agreement, meaning in this value area,
  177. 6:03right? That is what we call the 70% area
  178. 6:06of the volume profile. Now, I'm going to
  179. 6:08show you guys this on a chart, but I
  180. 6:10want you to understand this concept
  181. 6:11right now. If you can understand where
  182. 6:1370% of the volume happened, if the
  183. 6:17market starts to move past this area,
  184. 6:19that is the true level you want to
  185. 6:21watch. And if the market can give you
  186. 6:23specific behavior outside of this area,
  187. 6:26you're going to have much more
  188. 6:27conviction, a better entry, and overall
  189. 6:30better trades than if you wait for the
  190. 6:32high. But the real gem is what happens
  191. 6:35whenever the market doesn't get accepted
  192. 6:37and we pop back into the range. This is
  193. 6:40going to give you some of the most
  194. 6:42explosive trades. And if you haven't
  195. 6:43realized already, this happens more
  196. 6:45often than not. Now, these abbreviations
  197. 6:47you see here, the VAH, which is just the
  198. 6:50value area high, which is the high of
  199. 6:52the little box that we have that where
  200. 6:55the 70% of volume was traded. The value
  201. 6:57area low is just the low. Now, the point
  202. 6:59of control is another level that we're
  203. 7:01going to get into here in a minute, but
  204. 7:03this is the single place where the most
  205. 7:05volume was traded. As you can see, this
  206. 7:07middle bar was the largest bar. And what
  207. 7:10these are showing you is just volume at
  208. 7:12price. Typically, you would look at
  209. 7:13volume lower on your screen and it would
  210. 7:16just be bars, but that's just going to
  211. 7:17tell you how much volume was in each
  212. 7:18candle. This can show you the volume
  213. 7:21that was traded at price. Where was that
  214. 7:23volume traded? So it's much more
  215. 7:24powerful. Now, the edge that I found was
  216. 7:26that one candle can give you two trades.
  217. 7:29We have our breakout entries, which is
  218. 7:31where price leaves that value area, then
  219. 7:34it pulls back, tests the area, and makes
  220. 7:36a big move. Or we have when the market
  221. 7:39fails. And again, this is where a lot of
  222. 7:41traders get burned. And when we get a
  223. 7:44pattern that pushes us back into this
  224. 7:46range, when we can see that the smart
  225. 7:48money is selling, that is where we can
  226. 7:50get a really good setup to the downside.
  227. 7:53Now, the reason this is powerful is
  228. 7:54because we want to look at it like this.
  229. 7:56If 70% of the trading happened in that
  230. 7:58value area, that is what we want to look
  231. 8:00at as premium or discount pricing. So
  232. 8:04discount would be at the lows and
  233. 8:05premium is going to be at the highs. If
  234. 8:08you see a market that is moving to a
  235. 8:10premium price and the market is just
  236. 8:12agreeing that that's okay, meaning it's
  237. 8:14just staying outside of that, retesting
  238. 8:16it, and then moving higher, well, you
  239. 8:18could say that there aren't really
  240. 8:19sellers that are in control of the
  241. 8:20market because if there were sellers in
  242. 8:21control of the market, they would want
  243. 8:23to be selling for a premium. It's kind
  244. 8:25of like an auction. If they say, "Hey,
  245. 8:27we've got 100, 110, 120, 130" and people
  246. 8:30are just willing to keep buying, keep
  247. 8:32buying. Well, where are they going to
  248. 8:33go? The auctioneer is going to keep
  249. 8:35pushing the price higher and that's
  250. 8:36exactly how markets work. Now, vice
  251. 8:39versa, if we are going to the downside,
  252. 8:41then we are breaking out, you would be
  253. 8:43looking at it and saying, "Well, are
  254. 8:44buyers going to step in?" Because if the
  255. 8:46market's at a discount, it would be
  256. 8:48getting bought if it was bullish, right?
  257. 8:49If you have a item in the real world
  258. 8:52that is a hot commodity, right? Like
  259. 8:54maybe it's some popular item, some
  260. 8:56designer item that is rare, whatever.
  261. 8:58There's going to be a lot of people that
  262. 9:00want to buy it if it were cheaper than
  263. 9:01it actually was supposed to be. But if
  264. 9:03no one was around to buy it, well, price
  265. 9:05is going to continue dropping. And this
  266. 9:06is what you see with like NFTs and
  267. 9:08really any asset in the world. But the
  268. 9:09point I want you to take away from this
  269. 9:11is the mechanical version of the FCR,
  270. 9:13which is the first candle rule, only
  271. 9:14sees breakouts. This sees both. And not
  272. 9:17only that, it gives you a way better
  273. 9:20risk-reward and overall better entries
  274. 9:23when you do get a breakout. But the data
  275. 9:24shows that the reversal is often the
  276. 9:26higher probability trade. Let's hop
  277. 9:28right into step number one of what we
  278. 9:30are going to call the first candle value
  279. 9:33strategy. So first, we're just going to
  280. 9:36mark the value area and you want to
  281. 9:38check the context. Now, we're going to
  282. 9:40go over how to check this context on a
  283. 9:42chart and to do that, I'm going to pull
  284. 9:44up ATAS. Now, ATAS is a different
  285. 9:47charting platform than TradingView
  286. 9:49because it gives you real volume data.
  287. 9:51If you want to get my presets so you
  288. 9:53don't have to wrestle all the settings,
  289. 9:55I have exported it and I've left a link
  290. 9:56down in the description that you can
  291. 9:58join my free trading community and it
  292. 10:00will be inside there in the resources
  293. 10:02channel. And once you download it, you
  294. 10:03would just go into the settings and hit
  295. 10:05import and you'll just put in the file.
  296. 10:07So on this platform, it's very similar
  297. 10:08to TradingView. Again, the only
  298. 10:10difference is it has real volume data.
  299. 10:12On TradingView, the volume data is based
  300. 10:14on ticks. So let me just draw out this
  301. 10:16profile. So on this chart, you would go
  302. 10:18over here to volume analysis and then
  303. 10:20you would hit the profile and TPO. And
  304. 10:23if you look at the time right here, this
  305. 10:25is 9:30 a.m. So you want to take this
  306. 10:27whole range from 9:30 to 9:45. So it
  307. 10:31would be those three candles. We've got
  308. 10:33the 9:30 candle, the 9:35, and the 9:40
  309. 10:36because we are on the 5-minute chart, as
  310. 10:38you can see right here. And we're
  311. 10:40marking out the first 15 minutes of the
  312. 10:41day. Now, the reason I'm doing this on
  313. 10:42the 5-minute chart is because this is
  314. 10:44where we're going to find our entry. So
  315. 10:45as you can see here, we have the value
  316. 10:47area high right there and we've got the
  317. 10:50value area low. So these are the levels
  318. 10:52you want to be paying attention to. So
  319. 10:54once you have marked out this first
  320. 10:55value range, what you want to be paying
  321. 10:58attention to is how the market reacts
  322. 11:00when we dip outside of it. So as you can
  323. 11:02see right here, we traded outside of it,
  324. 11:05but when the market tried to retest it,
  325. 11:06meaning it came outside and it hit back
  326. 11:09into the level, we actually came down
  327. 11:11and closed a candle back inside of it.
  328. 11:13And when this candle closed, that is an
  329. 11:16execution. So you would come over here
  330. 11:18to plot your trade and click the short
  331. 11:20position because if we hit into the high
  332. 11:22and then close back inside, you're going
  333. 11:23to want to be going short because buyers
  334. 11:25got trapped. Remember we talked about
  335. 11:27the why this works. Well, why is because
  336. 11:30we can see that the market is selling
  337. 11:32off as soon as it gets to premium
  338. 11:34pricing. Number two was who is wrong in
  339. 11:36the market. All of these buyers were
  340. 11:38trapped. And if we zoom in here, um
  341. 11:41ignore all the footprints in these
  342. 11:42candles. If you guys want to make more
  343. 11:43videos on those, it's just profiles in
  344. 11:45each candle, but pay attention to this
  345. 11:47profile right here. As you can see, most
  346. 11:50of the buying happened down here lower
  347. 11:52in the candle. So if we know that the
  348. 11:54most amount of traders got active down
  349. 11:56in this area, but the market's moving
  350. 11:58aggressively, well, what are these
  351. 12:00traders up here? These are likely retail
  352. 12:02traders cuz they can't account for much
  353. 12:04volume. They're not really, you know,
  354. 12:06pushing much mass in the market. So
  355. 12:08they're all getting trapped in the
  356. 12:09market. And they're going to be in
  357. 12:11positions all through here. They're
  358. 12:13longing all through this. And they're
  359. 12:15going to end up getting stopped out of
  360. 12:17this trade and when they get stopped out
  361. 12:19of their trade, that is going to be
  362. 12:22rocket fuel for moves to the downside
  363. 12:24because if someone's in a long and
  364. 12:26they're exiting the market, well, that
  365. 12:28is the equivalent to a sell, okay? So if
  366. 12:30they're selling and then we also see
  367. 12:32smart money is selling because they're
  368. 12:34pushing back in, you can look at it like
  369. 12:35these guys got faked out. And you're
  370. 12:38going to take a trade at that time and
  371. 12:40you're going to put your target where
  372. 12:41all of those people's stop losses
  373. 12:43because if all of these traders got in
  374. 12:44in that first 15 minutes, well, their
  375. 12:46stop's going to be at the low of the
  376. 12:48first 15 minutes. So you're going to
  377. 12:49target that low. But right then, you're
  378. 12:52not going to just take profits. And this
  379. 12:54is where my trading differentiates from
  380. 12:56a lot of people. You're going to want to
  381. 12:57start trailing your stop loss up to the
  382. 13:00candle that hit into that level. Now,
  383. 13:03let me give you an example of the trade
  384. 13:04that I actually took on this setup. Now,
  385. 13:06this is something I broke down in a full
  386. 13:08volume profile course here on YouTube.
  387. 13:10If you want to watch this video, but
  388. 13:12let's take a look at this exact setup
  389. 13:14that I took. That way you guys can see
  390. 13:17what I'm talking about. So as you can
  391. 13:18see, I entered the market and then the
  392. 13:20market started to move down. Every time
  393. 13:22after we hit into this level, I'm
  394. 13:23trailing my stop up at each candle.
  395. 13:26Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. And you see that
  396. 13:28I'm able to get a much bigger trade.
  397. 13:30Now, on this trade, I was up $13,000,
  398. 13:33but I ended up getting a little bit of
  399. 13:35that taken back from me and making
  400. 13:37$11,000, but still pretty good if you
  401. 13:40ask me. But the reason I'm able to do
  402. 13:42this is because I am looking at this
  403. 13:44like a squeeze. I'm looking at this
  404. 13:45like, okay, well, these traders came
  405. 13:48into the market, these buyers up in
  406. 13:51here, but they're retail buyers. And
  407. 13:53then all of those retail buyers, all
  408. 13:55these guys up here, right? They're
  409. 13:57underwater. So the market's likely not
  410. 13:59going to move back up to where they're
  411. 14:00at. And they're just going to keep
  412. 14:02exiting and as soon as they get stopped
  413. 14:03out here, if sellers are really in
  414. 14:05control, this is like rocket fuel. So
  415. 14:08see how understanding why you're doing
  416. 14:11what you're doing is very powerful
  417. 14:13because then you can keep moving your
  418. 14:14stops up, keep moving your stops up. And
  419. 14:16And right here was where I end up
  420. 14:17getting stopped out. So if you see, it's
  421. 14:19a big, big difference from, say, where
  422. 14:22we are at right here with a 1.6 risk
  423. 14:24reward all the way down to here with a
  424. 14:272.37. Now, sometimes you'll be able to
  425. 14:29get even higher risk to reward on very
  426. 14:31explosive days. And I'm sure you guys
  427. 14:33can think of some days where you've had
  428. 14:35a stop out on the first candle rule and
  429. 14:36it just went insanely against you. And
  430. 14:39this can help you not only avoid those
  431. 14:41setups or avoid those fake outs, but
  432. 14:43help you capitalize on them. Now, let's
  433. 14:45take a look at another day. And both of
  434. 14:47these are recent examples. This is just
  435. 14:48on March 9th. So as we can see right
  436. 14:51here, we're going to mark out the first
  437. 14:5315 minutes of the day. So here was the
  438. 14:55high of that first 15 minutes. We're
  439. 14:57going to go down to that 9:40 candle and
  440. 14:59we're going to mark right down to its
  441. 15:01low. So in this example, we can see that
  442. 15:04in that profile,
  443. 15:06there was the value area high up here
  444. 15:09and the value area low. So if we were
  445. 15:11just want to take a rectangle and we can
  446. 15:13draw this out to have a little bit of a
  447. 15:14cleaner chart, we can just draw this out
  448. 15:16and then we can zoom out and see how the
  449. 15:18market reacted to this price action. So
  450. 15:22in this example, you would have actually
  451. 15:24taken one loss. And I'm not here to tell
  452. 15:26you guys that you would ever just have
  453. 15:30a, you know, perfect strategy that's
  454. 15:31never going to take a loss. So I'm going
  455. 15:32to walk you guys through how to handle a
  456. 15:34losing day and turn it to a winning one.
  457. 15:36So in this setup, you had hit into that
  458. 15:39first candle's value area and then
  459. 15:41retested it and closed down. So I would
  460. 15:44have entered the trade right there and
  461. 15:45then you could have put a stop loss
  462. 15:48right at that candle
  463. 15:50at its high right there, right at that
  464. 15:52retest candle's high. And then in this
  465. 15:54example, I would have looked to target
  466. 15:55down lower towards some lows over in
  467. 15:57this area because we had already traded
  468. 16:00under that area. If it's a breakout, I'm
  469. 16:02just going to look for our the nearest
  470. 16:04lows right around that two to one risk
  471. 16:06to reward. If you like, you can just
  472. 16:08trade a mechanical two to one risk to
  473. 16:09reward, but I found that often times
  474. 16:11you'll go a little bit further than
  475. 16:12that. However, that was a losing setup.
  476. 16:15So what do you do at this time? This is
  477. 16:17where a lot of you guys just panic. You
  478. 16:19say, "Oh my god, loss. I suck at
  479. 16:21trading. I'm going to get on YouTube and
  480. 16:22watch another strategy video." No, we're
  481. 16:24not going to do that anymore. Because
  482. 16:26once you understand the why, you can
  483. 16:27say, "Hey, look. Okay, cool. Well,
  484. 16:29sellers really tried to push the market
  485. 16:30down here." Now, let's take a look a
  486. 16:32little bit deeper at this profile. We
  487. 16:34can see that it's pretty, you know, it's
  488. 16:36not balanced. It's definitely not a
  489. 16:37balanced profile, but there's not any,
  490. 16:39you know,
  491. 16:40there's not a huge amount of sellers
  492. 16:42down here. There's also not a huge
  493. 16:44amount of sellers up here. Um or traders
  494. 16:47up here more so than there are down
  495. 16:48here. So you could say that at the end
  496. 16:50of the day, if the market can really
  497. 16:51start to pop back into this range,
  498. 16:53there's not really a reason why you
  499. 16:55shouldn't take a buy. And a lot of
  500. 16:56traders will say, "Oh, that's
  501. 16:57overtrading." It's genuinely not. You
  502. 16:59know, it's sometimes you're going to
  503. 17:00lose a trade and you're going to say,
  504. 17:01"Hey, I was wrong." and be able to take
  505. 17:03a trade in the other direction. I know
  506. 17:05that whenever I first started trading, I
  507. 17:06was really scared of this and I felt
  508. 17:09like this was gambling, but at the end
  509. 17:10of the day, guys, like this is trading.
  510. 17:12Um so the first setup you could have
  511. 17:14taken here, the first long, is that once
  512. 17:17the market started to close back into
  513. 17:18this area, you could have taken a long
  514. 17:20right here and it would have had a kind
  515. 17:22of a wide stop loss, but you would have
  516. 17:25put your stop down at this low right
  517. 17:27there,
  518. 17:28and it would have worked out, right? You
  519. 17:30could have just targeted up higher and
  520. 17:32let the market kind of run and do its
  521. 17:33thing. And you could look over here and
  522. 17:35what I like to do in these setups
  523. 17:37is kind of just look over to the left
  524. 17:39and see if there's any key levels. Now,
  525. 17:40here we had a gap right here. So you
  526. 17:43could have just traded this towards that
  527. 17:44gap fill and then started to trail up
  528. 17:46your stop loss after that. Now, another
  529. 17:49setup you can do and and you can also
  530. 17:50just use a fixed two to one here. Um but
  531. 17:53on these kinds of setups, like if you
  532. 17:54have a really big move in the morning,
  533. 17:56sometimes I like to just look for some
  534. 17:58kind of key level over to the left. Now,
  535. 18:00another setup you can look at as well is
  536. 18:04if you missed that one, did you get that
  537. 18:05breakout? And this is how you can look
  538. 18:07to spot a breakout. In this example
  539. 18:10right here, you want to think of it
  540. 18:11like, okay, well, the market not only,
  541. 18:14you know, trapped sellers, right? We saw
  542. 18:16sellers step in. They were trying to
  543. 18:18sell off for these, you know, discount
  544. 18:20prices, but buyers finally stepped in
  545. 18:22under all these lows and then pushed the
  546. 18:24market back up. So you can say from that
  547. 18:26happening, buyers are in control, okay?
  548. 18:28If buyers are in control, what do you
  549. 18:30want to see happen at premium prices? So
  550. 18:34let's say if we get right into this
  551. 18:35area, which is what we have determined
  552. 18:37as premium prices based on that value We
  553. 18:39didn't determine this. The market said
  554. 18:41that. It's a value area high. So if the
  555. 18:43market gets above that and closes and
  556. 18:46starts to really form an aggressive move
  557. 18:48to the upside and and stay up there,
  558. 18:50anytime you have some kind of move down,
  559. 18:52that is where you're going to want to
  560. 18:54take a trade. So in this example, we
  561. 18:57went down into a fair value gap. Now, if
  562. 18:59you don't know what a fair value gap is,
  563. 19:01it is just the gap between candles'
  564. 19:03wick. So notice how this candle right
  565. 19:05here, its high did not touch this
  566. 19:08candle's low. So this candle was
  567. 19:09expansive and it formed a gap. So as
  568. 19:11soon as you start pushing outside of the
  569. 19:14first candle's value and you start to
  570. 19:16form key levels, if you dig back into
  571. 19:18one, you can take a trade there. And
  572. 19:20then on these kinds of trades, I like to
  573. 19:22just trail my stops up and not really
  574. 19:24take profits. Like I I'm not a big uh
  575. 19:27profit taker. Like I I would rather, for
  576. 19:29example, once we get something like this
  577. 19:31and we get this engulfing right here, I
  578. 19:33would just enter the trade and I would
  579. 19:35keep my stops here to start. And I would
  580. 19:37just have an open TP. Like I'm literally
  581. 19:38just going to let my trade run. And if
  582. 19:40the market, you know, starts to make a
  583. 19:42big move up right As soon as we make
  584. 19:43this pop up and we're trading momentum,
  585. 19:46I'm moving my stop to break even, right?
  586. 19:48Now, a lot of people get scared and say,
  587. 19:49"Oh, it's too too early to do that." I
  588. 19:51don't care. Like I would rather just be
  589. 19:53aggressive moving my stop up every time
  590. 19:54like we make a swing low and move up,
  591. 19:56I'd move my stop right under that low.
  592. 19:58Again, let me just delete this so you
  593. 20:00can see. I'd move it right under that
  594. 20:01low again. And then every time we make a
  595. 20:03swing low, I'd move it again and again
  596. 20:05and again. And this is going to help you
  597. 20:07a lot of times get way more out of your
  598. 20:09trades than just letting trades turn
  599. 20:11around and come back and stop you at
  600. 20:12break even.
  601. 20:13So, the reason for this and the reason
  602. 20:15that I would do this in this example is
  603. 20:17because we have a lot of energy. Right?
  604. 20:20If you If you're If you're seeing a lot
  605. 20:21of energy in the market, you've already
  606. 20:22seen one side wrong. You have your why.
  607. 20:24You have who's wrong. At this point, you
  608. 20:26don't really want to see the market wait
  609. 20:28around a lot. So, these are kind of tips
  610. 20:30that, you know, typically with these
  611. 20:31videos I I make them like really stupid
  612. 20:33simple and just go one, two, three, but
  613. 20:35I really want to start giving you guys a
  614. 20:36lot more value here on the channel and
  615. 20:38going in a lot deeper. So, hopefully you
  616. 20:40guys enjoy this. Uh leave a comment if
  617. 20:41you like this kind of deep dive
  618. 20:43explanation. So, remember, step one is
  619. 20:46to mark the value of that first candle.
  620. 20:48Step two is to wait for a breakout or
  621. 20:49reversal. And step number three is to
  622. 20:51execute and manage the trade. And when I
  623. 20:53say manage the trade, I mean use your
  624. 20:55trailing stop loss. Another way you can
  625. 20:57use stop losses in this strategy is you
  626. 20:59can actually put it at the value area
  627. 21:01high. This gives you a lot better risk
  628. 21:04to reward. As you can see, this
  629. 21:06increases that significantly. So, if
  630. 21:08you're trading a reversal and you're
  631. 21:10hitting into the value area high, you're
  632. 21:11coming back down, you can put your stop
  633. 21:13right there at that value area high. You
  634. 21:15now have everything you need to go out
  635. 21:17and trade this in the markets tomorrow.
  636. 21:19You have a full strategy on how to
  637. 21:21execute using what you've learned. But,
  638. 21:23I want to be clear, having a strategy is
  639. 21:25the easy part, which is why I built my
  640. 21:27mentorship the way I did. Inside, you
  641. 21:29have someone trading with you live, 10
  642. 21:31sessions a week if you need it in the
  643. 21:33London and New York sessions. You have
  644. 21:36somebody checking every single trade
  645. 21:37that you take in our own proprietary app
  646. 21:39giving you direct feedback on all of
  647. 21:41your trades and correcting your
  648. 21:42mistakes. And you get your own coach
  649. 21:44assigned to you to hold you accountable
  650. 21:46to going through the process. If you
  651. 21:48want to apply to work with me in my
  652. 21:50mentorship, I'll leave the link in the
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  654. 21:54everybody gets in. So, if the link isn't
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  657. 21:59working, there are still slots remaining
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  659. 22:03we work together or not, I am rooting
  660. 22:04for you to win. And truthfully, you can
  661. 22:07do this all on your own. That's pretty
  662. 22:08much how I did it. It just took me many
  663. 22:10years. So, I do offer the mentorship if
  664. 22:13you want a fast track and learn from my
  665. 22:15mistakes. But, by no means you have to
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