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1:32Let's see.
1:48>> [clears throat]
1:54>> All right.
2:03>> We're going to be trying to work on some
2:05e-vals today.
2:10Probably headed up right now to take uh
2:13data highs.
2:24Yo, what up, Adrian?
3:20So, I got some uh
3:23I got some Topstep e-vals.
3:26Dude, I tried to uh
3:28I went on Apex I got some Apex accounts
3:31this morning.
3:32And then I uh
3:34went long during CPI.
3:38My take My take profit was like
3:41It was like 320 ticks.
3:44And we came up to
3:49260 ticks, basically.
3:56Which is [ __ ]
3:59But,
4:00we did make 630 on this account
4:02pre-market.
4:08Actually, speaking about that,
4:11um I need to
4:14adjust this really quickly.
4:16So, these are the Apex accounts I [ __ ]
4:18up.
4:25I need to fix the trading group. We're
4:26going to go
4:28It's a bunch of Apex accounts I [ __ ]
4:30up.
4:33I need my PA.
4:36All right, cool.
4:38I'm going to call this
4:40funded.
4:55So, we're like back in this range here
4:57today.
4:59So,
5:02we got to be careful.
5:21I mean, realistically, what I want to
5:23see us do though is I want to see us
5:24come lower into this area, but we just
5:27are failing to get below this.
5:49Ah.
5:54>> So, what we're just going to watch price
5:57right now.
5:58When we're in a
6:00chop like like a consolidation like this
6:03like a range,
6:04I got to be kind of careful, so.
6:07Right now, I'm watching just Asia highs.
6:12And we'll see if we want to continue to
6:15250. 250 is
6:18where I'm watching if we're going to be
6:19going higher, but
6:22I kind of want us to come down.
6:35Hold on, let me let me fix this real
6:37quick.
6:39Give me 1 second.
6:45My bad. My bad. My bad.
6:48I got to adjust this.
6:52Give me a second.
6:55Give me a second.
6:58All right. All right.
7:03Put this right here.
7:08I know. I know. My bad. My bad.
7:12I just had to fix that.
7:16But for now, we're going to turn that
7:17off.
7:18But yeah, so I'm up on a funded account
7:20from pre-market, but
7:23we blew
7:24We didn't blow evals. We just hit daily
7:26loss limit trying to trade CPI.
7:29I went long. We were like 40 ticks away
7:31from passing like four of them.
7:34And then
7:35it really just didn't extend that much
7:37today.
7:40It It of just went up a little bit, and
7:42then came back down, and I just
7:46it went up, and then it started stalling
7:47like right here, and I just didn't even
7:49care. I mean, their Apex accounts are
7:51like 30 bucks, so I just kind of let it
7:54hit my daily loss limit.
8:02So, we're going to focus on some
8:04Topstep evals today.
8:07Since I'm already up,
8:09or actually, I may trade
8:13I may trade this account. Give me a sec.
8:19Yeah, let's trade this account first,
8:20actually.
8:24So, we're up 630.
8:26We're now copy trading
8:28um
8:29our Apex PA.
8:37So, we'll watch it.
8:43Although, if I lose profits on this uh
8:45I'm going to make sure I don't
8:47I'll The most I'm willing to lose on
8:49this
8:50Topstep accounts, since we're up like
8:52600 bucks,
8:54is like 400, so that we still have a
8:56$200 day.
9:07Oh, wait. I got to change this real
9:08quick.
9:32But, yeah. To this
9:33um
9:35this stuff, I just
9:37I'm more likely to kind of just wait and
9:39sit on my hands unless I see something.
11:19New York's price action recently though
11:21has been
11:23killing me, dude.
11:31I need the overnight sessions to go back
11:33to being like
11:35smaller.
11:37[ __ ] huge.
11:42Uh they weren't that big actually, now
11:44that I think about it.
11:45This overnight move is pretty large
11:46though.
12:03>> [snorts]
12:34>> What country am I from? America.
12:37America, brother.
13:09But I'm probably just going to gauge to
13:11see how this movement is during the
13:13open.
13:16If we're going to have any opportunities
13:18that I'd want to take, then I'll try it
13:20on my two funded accounts.
13:22If
13:25the market starts to deliver kind of
13:28weird like it has been the past
13:34[ __ ] week, then I'll probably just
13:36try and uh
13:37trade some evals.
13:40Yeah, Ikigai the dude CPI.
13:43I bought like four Apex accounts.
13:46And I go long.
13:48I go long right right when it opens up,
13:50right? And I have my TP for 320 ticks
13:54cuz I went two minis.
13:56And just no stop loss basically.
13:59And it pumps up.
14:01It doesn't extend to my TP and it just
14:03like came back down. I was just like
14:07I was like, "Fuck it, dude. Like
14:09it is what it is. I guess it just wasn't
14:11my day for that."
14:15So, we were we were two for two on CPI.
14:20Although
14:21yeah, it is crazy low. You know what's
14:23You know what's even funnier though is
14:24you know all those people who straddle
14:26like this and like this.
14:28They definitely got smoked. They got
14:30smoked today.
14:33Because
14:35people will like say CPI's going to open
14:37up or they would have based it off of
14:39this. They would have done like 20
14:40points above
14:4220 points below or even more.
14:46There's probably a bunch of people who
14:47got wrecked today
14:48trying to straddle.
14:51That's why I don't straddle like
14:53I get it, but
14:59straddling is
15:02lame. Just pick a direction. Have some
15:04balls.
15:13This is actually pretty low volume
15:14surprisingly for the second 5-minute
15:16candle of New York open.
15:35>> Although the good thing is is that
15:37January CPI
15:40I didn't trade that on Evals. I traded
15:42that on my funded.
15:44February CPI, I traded those on fundeds
15:47and Evals.
15:49And then I just had a feeling that this
15:51CPI was going to be like a weird one, so
15:55just because we're in the middle of all
15:56this like [ __ ] going on right now.
15:59So I didn't trade any of my fundeds
16:01during CPI. I just bought those $30 end
16:04of day Apex accounts.
16:08So we bought four of them.
16:10What is that? We basically wasted Well,
16:12I still have them. They just hit daily
16:13loss limit, but
16:16basically wasted 120 bucks, but
16:18whatever.
16:19>> [snorts]
16:36>> Yeah, dude. I've been getting rinsed
16:37this month.
16:39Honestly,
16:41I've been getting absolutely rinsed.
16:48Now I don't even care about this month
16:50anymore. I'm just trying to get Evals.
16:53I've already accepted the fact I'm prob-
16:54probably going to end red this month.
16:58Or break even.
17:00I just need to get Evals passed and
17:02prepare for April. It's kind of all
17:04That's basically just my mindset at this
17:06point.
17:09I mean I have two funded accounts right
17:10now, but I mean look at it. It's at a
17:12$900 balance. Like who gives a [ __ ]
17:16It's a It's a baby funded.
17:24I'm trying to see whether or not we're
17:25about to take these highs right here.
17:31We do have um
17:34This is actually pretty low volume, by
17:37the way.
17:39for New York open.
17:56So, I'm kind of curious why the volume
17:58is so low right now, but
18:01maybe it'll start picking up.
18:25Overall though, I'm trying to
18:27yesterday and today, I'm trying to see
18:29this come down here.
18:32But, we're just not
18:34we're just not getting past this.
18:40And then
18:44even if we do start coming lower right
18:45now, like I don't feel comfortable
18:47trying to short it because
18:51if I wanted to look for shorts, like if
18:52I truly wanted to go lower, think price
18:54is going to go lower, I got to wait for
18:56this to be taken out first.
19:00Otherwise, it's just going to make me
19:02nervous the whole time.
19:38>> So, volume stays low like
19:41Just so you guys know, usually what
19:43happens at market open if you're paying
19:45attention to volume
19:47for 5-minute candles
19:49the first one, at least recently, is
19:51usually around 50 to 60,000
19:54contracts traded.
19:56And then the first 15 minutes are
19:58usually pretty strong, so we'll see
19:59these above like 35, 40,000, 35, 40,000.
20:04Uh, but they're lower today, so
20:07for whatever reason we
20:09are having lower volume off of today's
20:12open.
20:15We took out data highs already.
20:17So, we're just Oh, [ __ ]
20:21So, we're watching to see if we're going
20:23to come up here to
20:24Asia highs.
20:31But actually, recently I started using
20:33gamma
20:35which is a whole different thing, but
20:37right now we're at
20:42We're at a
20:44the the basically the call resistance
20:46for uh
20:52for gamma on QQQ.
21:03So, what that what the way I'm looking
21:05at it is
21:07at 610 on QQQ we have like a super large
21:10node of positive gamma.
21:14So, I'm trying to wait to see
21:16if we're going to get pinned to this
21:17[ __ ] and we're just going to
21:20basically just start chopping right
21:22here.
21:24Or if we're going to start moving back
21:25down over here. If we get down here, we
21:28should start seeing
21:30I would imagine we start seeing speed
21:32pick back up.
22:51This whole area right here though, I'm
22:52going to be kind of
22:54cautious
22:55till we start if we start pushing
22:58pretty strong below like this area
23:02then at that point I'll start looking
23:04for us to
23:06come down to this area that we're
23:07watching, but until then I'm just going
23:09to wait.
23:25Also, Alpha Futures is supposed to be
23:27having some deal today, which I'm
23:29probably going to check out.
23:31They're now allowing five accounts,
23:35which is chill.
23:36And they off they're offering 25K zeros,
23:39which I might buy some.
23:48Uh maybe not the 25Ks, but
23:58we'll see.
24:49So, if we start getting down into this
24:51area,
24:53I'll start paying attention to looking
24:54for short opportunities
24:57to take out the this first around 890,
25:00but eventually start targeting lower
25:02towards 800.
25:07But, I need to see
25:09some [clears throat] conviction here
25:11and some
25:12aggressive
25:14activity.
25:19Otherwise, we could just be coming down
25:21and then coming back up.
25:27Back up to like here.
26:20You got cooked by CPI. Did you straddle?
26:26I'm sure people who straddled got
26:28absolutely wrecked.
26:49All right, I'm going to go long right
26:50here. Order filled. With three micros.
26:58Kind of a late entry, but
27:00it's all right.
27:02I just want to see it go up to uh
27:06at least
27:08Asia highs. That's kind of the idea
27:10here.
27:15So,
27:17if I get stopped out of this though,
27:19I'm going to just switch over to the
27:20Evals.
27:30Where's this at?
27:32Yeah, target like up here.
27:35That was kind of nasty, dude. Look at
27:36this.
27:40Look at that entry. It's so bad.
27:43I hesitated on that.
27:48Uh you know what? I'm going to do myself
27:50>> Order cancelled. [ __ ] that [ __ ] I'm
27:51getting out of that [ __ ]
27:55That was [ __ ]
27:59That was [ __ ]
28:16It's better to wait for this to close.
28:24Watch, now that I got out of it, it's
28:25going to go. But, we'll just hope it
28:28doesn't actually.
29:34>> Actually, what I'm going to do is I'm
29:36going to go to an e-val right now.
29:43And I'm going to try
29:44I'm going to try and
29:46full port this.
29:57No, we're not going to full port it.
29:58We're going to risk a thousand.
30:03Order filled.
30:08Right at the bottom of this wick.
30:12We'll go up here for 1530.
30:49>> Oh, just so you can guys see this.
31:34Just going for a one-to-one.
31:38See if we can hit profit target for the
31:41first Evo.
32:25Bro, is it just me or is New York open
32:27slow as [ __ ] right now?
32:33Order filled.
32:35All right, so
32:43We hit profit target on that eval, so
32:46we're going to lock out of this one.
32:50See the thing is is like
32:56I got in on the funded accounts, but the
32:58entry was so dog [ __ ] right? Like so
33:01this is the idea.
33:02This This was the trade I actually
33:04should have uh
33:07Yeah, this is what I was looking for.
33:10The idea I [ __ ] up on the execution of
33:12that funded trade, like the one I took
33:14right before this um
33:17eval because I should have waited for
33:19this candle to close bullish with the
33:21POC down here. And as we go to retest
33:23the POCs, when I should have entered
33:25basically.
33:26And then if you're still in this
33:28if you took it you can try and target I
33:31mean there's a fat cluster of orders
33:33right here.
33:34But you can try and target Asia highs.
33:37So that was kind of the idea, but then
33:39what ends up happening is like
33:41the reason why I got out of that is cuz
33:43like bro
33:44let's say
33:46this is where my entry was right at the
33:48top. Asia highs is basically like
33:51right here, okay?
33:53And my stop loss
33:55was all the way down here. You know what
33:57I mean? Like this is kind of a stupid
33:59trade. So when I hesitated and
34:02got a
34:03got a terrible entry like that, terrible
34:06risk reward. I was just like, you know
34:07what? It's better
34:09it's better if I just cut it and then
34:10I'll just
34:11wait for it to close, see if it's
34:13actually going to work out. And then
34:15we'll attempt it on a eval, so
34:17this eval's done.
34:20And we just took Asia highs right now.
34:23Damn, I fumbled that on my funded. That
34:25was a stupid uh
34:28a stupid execution on my part.
34:31But it's all right. We're still up on
34:32the funded.
34:34We're still up.
34:39So now we're going to watch this. Now we
34:40want to see now that
34:42So what I want to see now that volume is
34:44picking up a little bit, speed's picking
34:46up a little bit.
34:49I'm trying to see if we're going to
34:50start heading towards
34:53250.
35:16Damn, dude.
35:18What a [ __ ] idiot, huh?
35:37Yeah, Oscar. I'm I wanted to I want to
35:39see us go lower, but the problem is just
35:41like
35:44we're just stuck in this thing, dude.
35:47Oh. Too big. Too big.
35:50In this area.
35:54Okay, I'm I'm I've been watching this
35:56area right here
35:58basically all week, but we're just not
36:01getting down there.
36:04Every time we approach it, we just
36:06bounce right back up.
36:18Dude, my bad if uh
36:21>> [laughter]
36:22>> my bad if if somebody tried to take the
36:24same trade I took right here
36:27and then when I got out, they got out.
36:29And then when I reentered on an eval,
36:31you sat out of that one. You're probably
36:32butt hurt. My bad, bro.
36:34My bad.
36:37That was my fault.
36:52All right. So, now that now that we took
36:53Asia highs, we're watching to see what's
36:56going to happen now.
37:02The The idea or what we're thinking,
37:05what I'm thinking,
37:07is
37:08we took Asia highs. Are we going to
37:10continue up to 200 250
37:13or are we just going to slam back down
37:14in here?
37:17What did you miss?
37:18Well,
37:20I went long right here.
37:22Got a shitty entry on my funded.
37:25So, I actually got out of it.
37:27So,
37:30this funded account was up 440.
37:33It was up 600.
37:35But, now it's up 400 cuz I got out of it
37:38for $200 L.
37:40And then I waited for the actual setup,
37:42which
37:45was this.
37:47Sweep, close bullish, POC at the bottom,
37:49next candle opens up, retraces towards
37:51POC, and flips bullish. That's
37:55I use that all the time. So, I did that
37:57with a funded eval.
38:00With two minis.
38:05So, this one.
38:10And now we're watching to see
38:12after we took Asia highs, are we going
38:14to
38:15continue pressure higher
38:18to start
38:19targeting I would be watching
38:22first 200, but realistically 250.
38:27And then
38:31that would be basically
38:33that's it for the upside for me.
38:36If we pump to uh
38:38if we take out 250 and we pump, it's
38:39just like day over for me.
38:42But, if we
38:45take Asia highs and we're about to snap
38:46back down, and we start getting down
38:48here, then
38:50I may consider taking another trade.
38:52Otherwise, I'll just take my profits on
38:53the day for the funded account.
38:56Take the uh
38:58profits on the day for the eval, and
39:00then
39:05just wait for uh
39:07tomorrow.
39:08So far
39:09this candle these two candles are the
39:11only two candles that actually felt like
39:14an AM session for New York.
39:17And it's also because this was the
39:184-hour open, too.
39:22Other than that, it's been pretty slow
39:23so far this morning.
39:57Damn, the balance is low on this thing,
39:59dude.
40:00Cuz I [ __ ] up.
40:06Whatever.
40:18Sit down.
40:40>> I did.
40:41I did full Oh, you mean on the funded
40:44account? No, on the funded account I
40:46can't I can't. I had a feeling this one
40:48was going to be kind of weird, so I just
40:50did evals.
40:52Let's go Jay Durant.
40:54Awesome longs. That's what's up.
41:03Yeah, that was a pretty decent long. I
41:05just like really uh [ __ ] up on that
41:06execution. I was I was super lethargic
41:09with it. And I was too early on the
41:12funded account, which is what caused a I
41:15mean, we could have
41:16we could have like
41:18This was my thought process on that, by
41:20the way. When I entered right here and I
41:22was telling you about how like at that
41:24point the
41:26the risk-to-reward was basically dog
41:28[ __ ] Like this is a stupid trade.
41:31Even if I held it through this and then
41:33it did this and then it went up,
41:36that doesn't make it not a stupid trade,
41:37you know what I mean? So, like
41:39it's a stupid trade. I just had to get
41:41out of it.
41:42[ __ ] up, took the L on it.
41:45It's fine.
41:50Oh, yeah, up 220 on the XFA. Let's go.
41:55How many days in are you on that XFA?
41:57What's the balance sitting at?
42:12One day on XFA, okay.
42:15Well, we got four more days to go.
42:35I'm currently watching uh
42:39this 15-minute
43:02Ahmed, did you full port CPI?
43:20How did How did that go for you?
43:23Oof.
43:25Sorry, bro.
43:29Hey, we we always got next CPI, right?
44:24>> All right, I'm going to go short on this
44:26other Evo.
44:27>> Order filled.
44:29We went a little bit heavier, but we're
44:31going to have a real tight stop loss, so
44:33we'll risk a thousand bucks.
44:35And we'll try and get down here to uh
44:40basically sweep this 5-minute low.
44:50So, super tight stop. We may get stopped
44:52out of it, but we're giving ourselves
44:54another chance.
44:57Look how tiny that trade is.
45:04Ooh,
45:05it swept it. We're going to go break
45:07even just in case it wants to snap back
45:09on us.
45:17Order filled.
45:19Teased it.
45:21It teased it.
45:40All right, well,
45:41we're just going to wait.
45:51Damn, what was that, dude? That must
45:52have been like a tick or something away.
46:10>> It's actually probably a better idea to
46:12use two minis.
46:16But
46:17I want [clears throat] to see if we're
46:18going to start taking out these orders,
46:20pick up some speed, start getting below
46:22here. If we start getting below
46:25this area, or I guess it's easier to see
46:27on this chart.
46:29We start getting below this area, then
46:33I'm expecting us to actually start
46:35dropping pretty fast.
47:02Also, 25% off Alpha Future accounts
47:05using code Thrax.
47:21Uh do I use Sierra?
47:23Nah, Sierra's a great platform, but
47:25their UI is straight ass cheeks,
47:28brother.
47:32It's like probably one of the like I'd
47:35say Sierra charts is like probably one
47:37of the best order flow platforms. It's
47:39the most customizable, but their UI just
47:42like
47:44sucks.
47:46Their UI just sucks.
47:49So, I don't I use ATAS, ATAS. I use
47:53ATAS. I think it's a really powerful
47:55order flow platform, and the UI for it
47:57is easy to use. It's chill.
48:01Chunky monkey, would that be considered
48:03trading in a range? What, the one that I
48:04just did right here? Yeah.
48:07The short that I just took right here?
48:12Yeah. That's why the moment that it um
48:16the moment that it swept this 5-minute,
48:18I just was expecting it to push a little
48:20further when it first swept it, but when
48:22it swept it and then it my TP was like
48:24right here and it started just kind of
48:25like stalling right here.
48:27I have to move it to break even because
48:30well, now we see this candle kind of
48:32snapping back, but
48:33here we are
48:36sitting in this because you remember
48:38what I said at the beginning of this uh
48:42session is
48:44if we go look at this and I've been
48:46using gamma recently,
48:48where are we sitting? We're sitting
48:50basically
48:53we're getting pinned to this large ass
48:55node essentially.
48:56So, we're kind of just like
48:58oscillating in between the two. So,
49:00there is a chance that we actually just
49:02range right here for a bit, but what I'm
49:05trying to see is I'm trying to see if
49:07we're going to come down here
49:10cuz then we don't have to worry about
49:11this anymore. We come down here and then
49:13if we get down
49:15over here, we'll start picking up some
49:17speed.
49:18But yes, this is trading in a range.
49:20This is a
49:24This is a range.
49:35So, you just got to be careful about
49:37trying to trade any type of breakdowns
49:39right now.
49:43Oh, [ __ ]
49:51We just need some confirmation
49:53to go lower.
49:56Some aggression.
50:00Cuz sometimes
50:02these large uh
50:07And I'm I'm like still
50:09wrapping my head around gamma, by the
50:11way.
50:12But it's really important.
50:14And shout out to Crown for uh
50:18having me start looking into it.
50:20But gamma goes hand in hand
50:24in like dealer positioning and hedging.
50:26It goes hand in hand with what we're
50:28doing here with order flow, so
50:31start paying attention to it.
50:35But what I was going to say is like
50:37those super large uh
50:40positive gamma or positive gecks levels
50:45sometimes it's just like it's got like
50:47some gravity to it, so we just like
50:50like right now it's
50:53probably sitting like right here.
50:59If you were to transfer it over to an IQ
51:00chart.
51:17So so far
51:18not bad. We're up on the funded. We did
51:22lose a little bit.
51:23We're up on this one.
51:26We're going to try and see if we can go
51:28two for two
51:31with the evals.
51:35And also
51:36this month, dude I've been like
51:40hitting profit target or getting the
51:41first half of these evals done, and then
51:43like I try and trade them during Asia,
51:45and I just get absolutely cooked.
51:48So we're going to make a We're going to
51:50make a decision right now that
51:53these uh Evals
51:56if they are half If they are halfway
51:58done, they're not going to get traded
51:59during Asia.
52:02So far
52:04I've been losing a lot of Evals during
52:05Asia session.
52:37No, I don't stream during Asia.
52:43I don't really trade Asia like that,
52:44bro. Like
52:46I don't sit I don't sit here and like do
52:49this what I'm doing right now.
53:00I'll usually just like go on during like
53:02Tokyo open or sometimes even near CME
53:05open, and I'll just like
53:07try and full port an Eval real quick.
53:09May take me like
53:105 minutes, and then
53:12I just stop.
53:14So, it's not Wouldn't really be much of
53:16a stream, right?
53:20And it moves so slow, like
53:23Well, not recently, actually. But
53:25Let me take that back.
53:27It hasn't been moving slow recently, but
53:32I don't know. I just don't really trade
53:33it.
53:35I don't seriously trade it, if that
53:36makes sense.
53:37Unless we're talking about like gold or
53:39something.
53:41Yeah, yeah, there we go. Gold, yep.
53:44But I don't I haven't been trading gold
53:45recently.
53:50There's about 2 months where I basically
53:52only traded gold, but
53:57we're trading NQ. Speaking about gold,
54:00let's go take a look at it.
54:14And also
54:15one of the reasons why I haven't been
54:17trading gold, like I was trading it all
54:19during this
54:23this like pump up, right?
54:27I traded it a little bit on the drop.
54:30But once we started doing this
54:33on a higher time frame, I just was like,
54:35"Ah, I think I think I'm okay
54:38trying to trade gold."
54:40So, we went back to NQ, but now
54:43and also because they had all the
54:45contract limiting and [ __ ]
54:47But I mean, NQ's doing the same [ __ ]
54:49like
54:51this is disgusting, dude. We've been in
54:53this We've been stuck in this since
54:55basically November.
54:58It's nasty.
55:03The highs and lows are just aggressively
55:05getting defended.
55:09And now we're in this smaller one here.
55:10We're in this one.
55:14We did gap down and sweep this, but
55:18that makes me think
55:19since we gap down and we swept this
55:23this makes me think that
55:25before we come down here and try and
55:26target this again
55:29we're going to be heading up here and
55:30here.
55:32That's what I would be imagining, at
55:33least. So, that's why I'm watching right
55:36here because
55:40I'd want to see something like that.
55:43Arranging model.
55:46Bro, I just
55:47I don't like trading ranges.
55:50I can if I want to. Like I could trade a
55:53range if I want to.
55:57I just don't really think it's a good
55:58idea for me.
56:07I mean, I've been trading a technically
56:08I've been trading a range this for the
56:11past I don't know
56:134 months or something.
56:18But on the higher time frame, but on a
56:19lower time frame like this type of range
56:21is I try and be careful about it.
56:28Like if we're talking about a range
56:29that's happening
56:30on a 5-minute or whatever.
57:04You can't hear?
57:12Yo, Joseph. Can Can you guys hear me in
57:14the Discord?
57:20Okay.
57:22Then I I don't know, Joseph. Maybe leave
57:24and come back.
57:27All right, cool.
57:36>> All right, let's see if we can start
57:37getting away from this area.
58:05We have about 30 seconds left in this
58:075-minute candle. I'm trying to see how
58:09strong this close is going to be or if
58:11we're going to create a wick
58:14in the last 30 seconds
58:16and where the POC is going to be at.
58:21And then we may or may not try and
58:24give this eval a shot
58:27on a continuation for the pressure lower
58:31to try and hit profit target again.
58:34And if we blow it, then yeah,
58:36whatever.
58:39We'll be We'll be
58:40uh
58:41one for two.
58:49Order filled. All right, I'm going to go
58:51short. That was kind of a nasty entry
58:53though.
58:55So, I'm going to
58:59Well, actually, we just need 1,400, huh?
59:02I'm going to have to move this one to
59:04break even pretty quickly, otherwise
59:07Yeah, we'll
59:08we're going to get stopped if this
59:10candle flips.
59:12So, we're going to hope it doesn't flip.
59:15But, it is, so we're we're
59:18cooked.
59:28Cooked.
59:58Oh.
1:00:01All right, we're going to get stopped
1:00:02out of this one, but
1:00:05we'll just try it again.
1:00:09We'll have like 700 of drawdown.
1:00:17I'm actually going to uh trail the stop
1:00:19a little bit.
1:00:23Just to the high, so that we have a
1:00:25little bit more drawdown to play with if
1:00:26we get stopped out.
1:00:38The moment we If we get a push though,
1:00:40we start actually taking some of these,
1:00:42I'm just immediately going to move it to
1:00:44break even, but
1:00:46like that.
1:00:50Oh, don't do it to me again, dude.
1:01:05Bro.
1:01:08Come on.
1:01:10NQ, that's twice now today.
1:01:17On the same account, too.
1:01:35>> We got to We got to bust out the hammer.
1:01:49Dude, come on.
1:01:56Order filled.
1:01:58All right, cool.
1:02:04That was a sketchy one cuz um
1:02:09I was supposed to enter it like right
1:02:11when this candle came up and retested
1:02:13this POC.
1:02:15I was kind of I was supposed to enter
1:02:17right as we started to flip bearish, but
1:02:19this large order came in which gave me
1:02:20like a [ __ ] [ __ ] entry.
1:02:23And I went in three minis, so
1:02:27So anyways, so we're going to lock out
1:02:29of this one. So we're two for two on the
1:02:30vowels.
1:02:32This one and this one and now we're on
1:02:36And I locked out of the funded actually.
1:02:37I did myself a favor.
1:02:39So
1:02:41what I can do though
1:02:45is I have another funded.
1:02:50Because I think if we continue lower
1:02:52right now, if we actually get past this,
1:02:53we're going to pick up some speed and I
1:02:55think I can catch something.
1:03:19Unless we snap back up here.
1:03:39Also, just know basically if this candle
1:03:43flips back and the next one starts
1:03:45bumping back into here.
1:03:50Eh, [ __ ] this [ __ ] [ __ ] this [ __ ]
1:03:55We need some direction, dude.
1:04:01NQ's been a little indecisive at the
1:04:03opens recently.
1:04:05It's been a little sassy.
1:04:15Bookmap?
1:04:16Bookmap's awesome.
1:04:19Bookmap is awesome if you use it
1:04:21correctly.
1:04:23I used I actually started my journey
1:04:25with order flow through Bookmap.
1:04:28It's a great platform.
1:04:31The only reason why I don't have it
1:04:33anymore is because I basically have
1:04:35this. You know what I'm talking about?
1:04:36So, like
1:04:37what am I going to do? Pay for two
1:04:38platforms that show me basically the
1:04:40same [ __ ]
1:04:46But yeah, I mean if you want to get
1:04:48Bookmap, I think it's great. Just make
1:04:50sure you
1:04:51you like really understand
1:04:54what it's showing you and how you're
1:04:56supposed to read it.
1:04:59It's that's very important.
1:05:00Understanding passive liquidity and
1:05:02passive orders
1:05:04and understanding that those are not
1:05:05just stop losses
1:05:09and that they can get removed at any
1:05:10time.
1:05:17But if you wrap your head around like
1:05:19the auction process and how
1:05:22aggressive liquidity
1:05:24is interacting with passive liquidity,
1:05:27I think it's a great tool. I mean, I use
1:05:29I mean, look, I'm using it, right? So.
1:05:36But it's
1:05:37The only thing about Bookmap though is
1:05:39it's like what? $80 a month? And then
1:05:42this is also I pay $80 a month for this.
1:05:44So it's like
1:05:48I just pay for this one instead.
1:05:51Joseph, you're up. You took a short with
1:05:53me.
1:05:56What up, Ahmed?
1:06:34All right, I want to see how this
1:06:355-minute is going to close.
1:06:49They show up as passive liquidity.
1:07:00Very nice.
1:07:0324
1:07:05Where's that?
1:07:07It's somewhere around here.
1:07:11I hope so. That's what I'm waiting
1:07:12waiting for. I want us to
1:07:14I just need us to close pretty strong
1:07:16and then I think I'm going to try
1:07:18see if there's an entry for shorts
1:07:20to then target
1:07:22down here, right? But that's what I've
1:07:24been waiting for all morning.
1:07:26But yeah, Ahmed, stop losses and take
1:07:28profits and all just like limits and
1:07:31stops, they show up as passive
1:07:33liquidity.
1:07:49As long as it's like an actual like prop
1:07:51firms are not going to [ __ ] show it
1:07:53cuz it's not real, right? So
1:07:56just whatever is actually showing on the
1:07:58book for the CME.
1:08:05Hold on. I'm going to answer you in a
1:08:07second. I'm going to answer your
1:08:08question in a second. I need to see what
1:08:09price is about to do right here.
1:08:20This is the area that I was talking
1:08:21about. I'm watching to see if we're
1:08:22going to start picking up speed.
1:08:25Now that we're getting over here.
1:08:56I'm going to go short right here.
1:08:59Oh, where did it go?
1:09:01Oh, [ __ ]
1:09:04Oh, [ __ ] All right, hold on.
1:09:12All right, I'm going to try it again.
1:09:17We'll risk like 400. We'll We'll go to
1:09:18the top of this 5-minute. We're going to
1:09:20hope for We're going to look for a flip.
1:09:23Whoops.
1:09:27So, we're we're entering short right now
1:09:28looking for a flip for us to continue
1:09:31selling pressure lower to start heading
1:09:33towards these lows.
1:09:34If um
1:09:36it snaps back up and takes me out
1:09:39I'll lose 400 bucks, but
1:09:44I'm only taking I'm taking this on an
1:09:45Apex PA account, so an of Apex funded
1:09:48account.
1:09:49Basically, I just don't really want to
1:09:51see price get back above this.
1:09:56But, if it does, then I'm just going to
1:09:58call it a day and we'll be up 400 on uh
1:10:02the Topstep account. We'll be down
1:10:05I don't know, what, 600 on this Apex
1:10:07account, and then
1:10:10Oh, what the [ __ ] is this, bro?
1:10:13And then, we'll be up like uh
1:10:17profit target on the two evals.
1:10:40Although, honestly
1:10:43this 15-minutes looking nasty
1:10:46for my short idea.
1:11:02>> Oh yeah, I'm cooked. I'm cooked.
1:11:04All right, I'm going to answer your
1:11:05question now.
1:11:06So, when price just flies or drops with
1:11:08no aggressive buyers, is that an
1:11:10indicator?
1:11:12Uh not necessarily.
1:11:15Contact Well, what do you mean by
1:11:17indicator? Indicator of what?
1:11:20Like context matters, you know?
1:11:24Structuring a structuring a trade idea
1:11:28matters more
1:11:30than any type of signal or entry. Like
1:11:34the context around it
1:11:36matters the most.
1:11:41And the regime that we're in, too. Like
1:11:43what's the environment that we're
1:11:44sitting in? And what are the conditions
1:11:46that we're currently trying to trade?
1:11:52Or sellers, what do you mean?
1:12:06All right, well, we got cooked on this
1:12:07trade, so I'm done for the day. But,
1:12:11a sign that TPs and stop losses have
1:12:14been hit.
1:12:15Well, I don't think you should be
1:12:16thinking about passive liquidity like
1:12:19take profits and stop losses.
1:12:22They're stop orders and limit orders.
1:12:25So, just because something is a stop
1:12:27order
1:12:28doesn't mean that someone is getting out
1:12:30of a trade, if that makes sense.
1:12:37Same goes for
1:12:42like
1:12:44like let's say we're looking at this
1:12:45line, right?
1:12:47We don't know
1:12:49if these are breakout traders trying to
1:12:51get into this or if this is
1:12:55people going long getting out of this or
1:12:57adding into this. You know what I mean?
1:12:59We don't we don't know what these are.
1:13:00We just know that there are orders
1:13:02sitting here.
1:13:04They can be
1:13:07stop orders, limit orders. We don't
1:13:09know.
1:13:12But if price is just like
1:13:23If I see big trades, is there a way to
1:13:25tell they are still in or are they out?
1:13:27No.
1:13:29The purpose of The purpose of big trades
1:13:32Okay, so like the entire purpose of
1:13:33these candles, by the way,
1:13:36is
1:13:37We're just This is a visual
1:13:39representation of the of the tape.
1:13:42Time and sales.
1:13:44So, we're just looking at
1:13:47participation
1:13:49between buyers and sellers.
1:13:52Bro, if this [ __ ] just drops right now,
1:13:53I was like, "Fuck you, NQ."
1:13:56But we're we're watching the
1:13:57participation between buyers and
1:13:59sellers. And so, everything in these
1:14:01candles are like orders that were
1:14:03executed.
1:14:05So,
1:14:06when big trades
1:14:08like for example, if you were to see
1:14:10large buyers step in here or large
1:14:13sellers stepped in here,
1:14:15that doesn't necessarily and there's
1:14:17different reasons why that may why that
1:14:19may happen, but that doesn't necessarily
1:14:21mean that like
1:14:23we know who got out of a position or we
1:14:25know like
1:14:28You know what I mean? Like
1:14:31We're just watching
1:14:33the auction [clears throat]
1:14:35based off of
1:14:36history
1:14:38of the tape that shows us aggression,
1:14:40who's participating, who's aggressive,
1:14:42who's dominant,
1:14:46who's trying to push, who's try Who's
1:14:48absorbing? You know, things like that.
1:14:50So, big trade indicators,
1:14:53the way that I use them, there's two
1:14:55different ways that I use it.
1:14:58It depends on where that big trade
1:15:00indicator appeared. Okay, so like
1:15:03if
1:15:05let's say
1:15:07this big trade indicator appeared here
1:15:10at this low, this this big trade right
1:15:12here.
1:15:13I treat that differently than I may
1:15:15treat this one.
1:15:16Because
1:15:18or if we see
1:15:20like let's say you see all this uh
1:15:22clustered liquidity sitting right here.
1:15:25Let's say this doesn't get removed from
1:15:27the book
1:15:28and we come down here
1:15:30and when we take this out because
1:15:32there's so many orders sitting right
1:15:33here in this cluster
1:15:35that it causes a uh
1:15:37a big trade.
1:15:41I treat that differently because I I
1:15:42know why I know why that big trade
1:15:46happened. Well, the only way we're going
1:15:47to get past this area with all these
1:15:49orders if they don't get removed, right?
1:15:52Is we need aggressive participation
1:15:55from sellers to hit the bid
1:15:58to take out all these orders and you
1:16:00know, that's potentially going to cause
1:16:03a big trade indicator to appear.
1:16:06Now, if we're in the middle of nowhere
1:16:09and someone is doing like there's like
1:16:13we see like a a big trade indicator
1:16:18pop up in an area that doesn't have to
1:16:20do with resting liquidity, like somebody
1:16:21just or something just
1:16:25aggressively executed on the book that
1:16:27had nothing to do with trying to break
1:16:30through an area of resting liquidity
1:16:32then I watch that.
1:16:34And the way to think about that is like
1:16:37okay,
1:16:38that's like we'll call it the catalyst,
1:16:41okay?
1:16:42And
1:16:43we wait to see reaction. So, let's just
1:16:47say right here, okay? There was some
1:16:48orders sitting right here. So, we have a
1:16:50big trade right here. Does this mean we
1:16:51just go long right here?
1:16:53No.
1:16:55Could you and could it work out? Maybe.
1:16:58But, does it mean that we just do that?
1:16:59No, because we need to see
1:17:02what's going to happen after this. Like
1:17:07That's why like okay.
1:17:10If we have big trades pop in here for
1:17:13for shorts, and I already said earlier
1:17:16that if we get down here,
1:17:18I think we can pick up speed to the
1:17:19downside to target the the bottom of
1:17:21this range.
1:17:23Then, if I want this pressure to
1:17:24continue,
1:17:26I wouldn't really want to see us
1:17:28get back above here.
1:17:30Otherwise, like it was weak. Like it's
1:17:33weak.
1:17:36And same with same with this. Like if we
1:17:38have the a big buy order step in right
1:17:40here.
1:17:42We care more about what happens after
1:17:43the fact. We don't care that it happened
1:17:46The fact that it happened,
1:17:48okay, we'll pay it like it's happening
1:17:50again. We're paying attention to it.
1:17:52But, we need to see what the reaction is
1:17:54after that.
1:17:55And it but you're not just going to sit
1:17:57here
1:17:59and like
1:18:00something that's really important to
1:18:02mention with the way that I trade
1:18:04is
1:18:06order flow
1:18:07and like this stuff is literally the
1:18:10last thing the last thing that I look
1:18:13at.
1:18:15It's the last thing.
1:18:19So,
1:18:20in my opinion
1:18:22or with the way that I trade,
1:18:24I don't necessarily
1:18:29use order flow to look for signals and
1:18:32then try and justify that signal by then
1:18:34going and looking at the chart and
1:18:37trying to justify it and then entering.
1:18:40I already have an idea of what I think
1:18:42price should be doing
1:18:43and I'm only using order flow as a
1:18:45confirmation. Like
1:18:49I hope that makes sense.
1:19:02You can see when big traders get out
1:19:04when you have a single print in a candle
1:19:06one side
1:19:08has many orders the other has zeros.
1:19:10Yeah.
1:19:12I mean
1:19:14I I don't zoom in. Like I'm not I'm not
1:19:18looking at the numbers to be completely
1:19:20honest.
1:19:22Yeah, there's information you can pick
1:19:23up like when you have like stacked
1:19:25imbalances, right? Or you have finished
1:19:28auctions or unfinished auctions or if
1:19:30you have areas that are just like like
1:19:32sometimes on candles that that create
1:19:35nasty wicks
1:19:36you'll see on the
1:19:38on the bid in the ask like one side will
1:19:39just be 00000, right?
1:19:44But
1:19:46I'm usually looking at it like this
1:19:48or I'm just looking for the the bold
1:19:50numbers because those are the
1:19:51imbalances.
1:19:53I'm not really reading these numbers.
1:19:58Cuz I have a
1:20:00the indicators
1:20:02that tell me what I want to see.
1:20:04Imbalances, stacked imbalances.
1:20:07Um
1:20:09large part large participants entering
1:20:11the market.
1:20:14The POC, the volume profile in each
1:20:17candle.
1:20:28So, yeah.
1:20:29I mean, I have videos
1:20:31I have videos that I made
1:20:34that go over a lot of this stuff. So, if
1:20:36you want to like
1:20:38learn about it,
1:20:40you can watch those.
1:20:42Sometimes, it's hard for me to uh
1:20:46explain stuff in the morning because
1:20:49for one,
1:20:51I live on the West Coast. So, like
1:20:54it's early as [ __ ] for me, bro. Like
1:20:57And I woke up even earlier. I woke up at
1:20:594:00 a.m. this morning to get ready to
1:21:01trade CPI.
1:21:02So,
1:21:04and then when I'm looking at charts,
1:21:06and I'm staring at them, my brain gets
1:21:08kind of fried. So, then it's hard to
1:21:10like start explaining [ __ ] sometimes cuz
1:21:12I'm just like kind of out of it.
1:21:14But,
1:21:16I have videos that I make
1:21:19when I'm like feeling decent that
1:21:22explain
1:21:23uh that type of stuff.
1:21:26It's just hard sometimes in the morning
1:21:28cuz it's early.
1:21:33But, I think
1:21:35um
1:21:39I think I'm just going to call it a day.
1:21:40So,
1:21:43we're down
1:21:45$562
1:21:48on my funded account on Apex.
1:21:52And then,
1:21:55um
1:21:58I'm up $446
1:22:02on the funded account or $42 on the
1:22:04funded account. Hit profit target on
1:22:06this. Hit profit target on this.
1:22:10So,
1:22:12we're kind of just like in this range.
1:22:14I wanted to see us drop lower and
1:22:16continue with some aggression to start
1:22:18taking out these lows, but we didn't
1:22:20want to do it.
1:22:23So, I think
1:22:25I'm just going to stop trading.
1:22:27And I'll just come back tomorrow. We'll
1:22:29try and finish off those e-vals.
1:22:31I don't think I'm going to trade them
1:22:32during Asia session.
1:22:36And then hopefully we can have some more
1:22:38funded accounts. If not, then whatever.
1:22:50And as always,
1:22:52if you're going to continue to trade,
1:22:53just be careful.
1:22:54Further that we get the closer we get
1:22:56towards lunch hours, just be careful.
1:22:59All right, I'll catch you guys later.

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