Market Mechanics Ep 12: ICT Killzones — Transcript

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1. 0:00The Forex market is open 24 hours a day,
2. 0:02but not all hours offer the same trading
3. 0:05opportunities.
4. 0:07And one of the biggest mistakes traders
5. 0:09make is thinking they need to watch the
6. 0:12charts all day to get a good move. They
7. 0:15need to stare at a screen all day.
8. 0:17But that is not how smart traders
9. 0:19operate.
10. 0:20Smart traders, professional traders,
11. 0:23know that the market has specific
12. 0:25windows where trading volume comes in,
13. 0:28volatility expands, and high probability
14. 0:31setups tend to appear.
15. 0:33These windows are what we call Q zones.
16. 0:37And if you understand them properly, you
17. 0:38will stop forcing trades during dead
18. 0:41hours and start focusing on the times
19. 0:44that actually matter. In this lesson, I
20. 0:46want to talk about Q zones and timing.
21. 0:49Because even if your entry model is
22. 0:51good, even if you got a perfect setup,
23. 0:54timing still matters.
24. 0:57It's like half of the battle.
25. 0:59Okay, because you can have the the right
26. 1:00setup, but if you're trading during the
27. 1:02wrong session at the wrong time, when
28. 1:04the market is dead, the market may
29. 1:06simply not move the way you want it to
30. 1:08move.
31. 1:10How many times have you found your
32. 1:11perfect trade setup? Right after you
33. 1:13enter the trade, the market just
34. 1:15consolidate.
35. 1:17Or the market just start reversing
36. 1:19heavily against you and then start going
37. 1:20in a way again. All because you're
38. 1:22trading at the wrong time.
39. 1:24So, to put it simply, Q zones are
40. 1:27specific times of the trading day when
41. 1:29high probability setups are more likely
42. 1:31to appear because volume and
43. 1:34participation increases.
44. 1:36So, once again, the market is open 24
45. 1:38hours a day, but the best opportunities
46. 1:41comes during certain windows, and those
47. 1:44are our Q zones. Right? We want to trade
48. 1:46during Q zones, not during random hours
49. 1:49because Q zones, these are the period
50. 1:52where the market tends to deliver clean
51. 1:55price action, liquidity sweeps,
52. 1:57reversals, and continuation.
53. 2:01All right. So, once again, Q zones, they
54. 2:03matter a lot to us because this is where
55. 2:06trading volume is higher, volatility is
56. 2:09better, price delivery is cleaner, which
57. 2:12means there's a higher chance of
58. 2:14liquidity sweep, manipulation, and real
59. 2:17expansion. And the market is just
60. 2:20Basically, the market have more fuel to
61. 2:21actually go and hit the your take
62. 2:23profit. That's it. Right? Like
63. 2:25Those are the times These are the times
64. 2:27right here where the market has a lot of
65. 2:29fuel.
66. 2:30So, if you combine a good trade setup at
67. 2:32a right time, it's so much more stronger
68. 2:36than a good setup at a wrong time.
69. 2:39Okay, like you can have a higher chance
70. 2:40of hitting TP fast if you have the same
71. 2:43setup at the right time compared to if
72. 2:45you have it at a bad time.
73. 2:48So, the following times right here are
74. 2:50in UTC
75. 2:52-4, right? Which is the Eastern Standard
76. 2:54Time. All right. So, all of these time
77. 2:56that you can see on the screen right
78. 2:56here, this is the Eastern Standard Time.
79. 2:58So, based on wherever you are in the
80. 3:00world, you might want to do some
81. 3:01conversion, right? You can just go and
82. 3:03search what these times are in your
83. 3:06particular time zone on Google. It's
84. 3:07very simple.
85. 3:09So, let's talk about each Q zone. First,
86. 3:11we've got the Asia Q zone. Asia Q zone,
87. 3:13this is where the best currency pairs to
88. 3:15trade during this period of time is your
89. 3:17Australian dollar,
90. 3:19the New Zealand dollar, and the Japanese
91. 3:21yen pairs.
92. 3:23And this is usually during the 8:00 p.m.
93. 3:25to around 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard
94. 3:28Time. All right. So, if
95. 3:30this window if you plan to trade during
96. 3:32this window, then you are much better
97. 3:34off trading these particular currency
98. 3:36pairs, AUD, NZD, and JPY pairs.
99. 3:40This session is usually a lot slower,
100. 3:43but it's also kind of more cleaner for
101. 3:45certain currency pairs.
102. 3:47But this is not where you can expect
103. 3:49like the big explosive move on the USD
104. 3:51pairs.
105. 3:53Right? Because in the Asian session,
106. 3:54price tends to be like quite
107. 3:56consolidatory, right? Like it just tends
108. 3:58to like chop around, move sideways a
109. 3:59little bit, especially for USD pairs.
110. 4:02But if you're trading these currency
111. 4:03pairs,
112. 4:04it could provide a decent amount of
113. 4:05trading opportunities. Right? Like the
114. 4:07Australian dollar, the New Zealand
115. 4:09dollars, and the Japanese yen pairs. And
116. 4:11then next up, we've got the London Q
117. 4:12zone, right? Which is my favorite Q
118. 4:14zone. This is the Q zone that I
119. 4:15specialize in. This is the Q zone that
120. 4:17I've been focusing on for the past few
121. 4:19years. And it's also the Q zone that I
122. 4:21trade on a daily basis. Right? Like you
123. 4:22can see all of the trade that you have
124. 4:24seen me take on my second channel, Brad
125. 4:26trades,
126. 4:27is like 90% of I probably take it during
127. 4:29the London Q zone. Maybe 10% is taken
128. 4:31during the New York or Asia Q zone. But
129. 4:3390% of it is London Q zone.
130. 4:35And the reason why I choose to trade
131. 4:37this Q zone is because it's the
132. 4:39afternoon time in my country, Singapore.
133. 4:43And not only that, but also the currency
134. 4:45pairs that I trade tends to provide the
135. 4:47most amount of trading opportunities
136. 4:49during this period of time.
137. 4:51And that is the euro pairs, the Great
138. 4:54Britain pound pairs. Right? So,
139. 4:56EURUSD, GBPUSD, GBPAUD, right? Euro and
140. 5:00NZD, right? Whatever that involves euro
141. 5:02and Great Britain pound, this is where
142. 5:05you will see quite a lot of trading
143. 5:07volume, which automatically means quite
144. 5:09a lot of good old trading opportunities.
145. 5:12Right?
146. 5:14So, there's a certain pattern when it
147. 5:16comes to this Q zone itself.
148. 5:19If the daily structure is bullish, what
149. 5:21tends to happen is that price will sweep
150. 5:23the Asia high, creates the high of the
151. 5:25day, and then goes down. Okay, once
152. 5:27again, not always, right? This strategy
153. 5:29is known as the Asia sweep strategy,
154. 5:31which I already covered in one of my
155. 5:33YouTube videos, which you can search
156. 5:34search it up. But basically, during the
157. 5:36Asia session, let's say price is
158. 5:37consolidating just like this. And then,
159. 5:40when it's consolidating, you can
160. 5:42identify the high of the consolidation
161. 5:43and the low of the consolidation. So,
162. 5:45this becomes the Asia high, and then
163. 5:47this becomes the Asia low.
164. 5:49So, if the daily structure is actually
165. 5:51bullish, what tends to happen is that
166. 5:54during the London Q zone, price can come
167. 5:56up there, sweep the Asia high, create
168. 5:58the high of the day, and then it starts
169. 5:59coming down.
170. 6:00And then if price is actually bearish,
171. 6:03then what tends to happen is that price
172. 6:05can come up there, sweep the Asia low,
173. 6:07right here, this is the Asia low, and
174. 6:08then reverse and go back up.
175. 6:10Not always, but sometimes this Asia
176. 6:13sweep strategy works really, really
177. 6:14well. Right? So, yeah, that's the London
178. 6:17Q zone, my favorite Q zone to trade. I
179. 6:19really do think that this is the best Q
180. 6:20zone. It's like it's not too volatile,
181. 6:22but it's also not too slow. It's perfect
182. 6:25if you're trading euro and Great Britain
183. 6:28pound.
184. 6:30Next up, we've got the New York Q zone,
185. 6:32right? So, the New York Q zone is 7:00
186. 6:34a.m. to around 10:00 a.m.
187. 6:37Eastern Standard Time. This is where
188. 6:38news usually appear, right? This is
189. 6:40where high impact news are usually
190. 6:41released.
191. 6:43And
192. 6:44this session is best for
193. 6:46US dollar pairs. Right? I mean like
194. 6:49honestly, it kind of like
195. 6:50self-explanatory, right? Like Asia
196. 6:52session, this is where people in New
197. 6:54Zealand, Japan, and Australia are awake.
198. 6:57And then London session, this is where
199. 6:59people in Europe and London is awake and
200. 7:02actively trading. And then New York
201. 7:03session, this is where traders in the
202. 7:06United States are actively trading,
203. 7:07right? Which is why you can expect more
204. 7:09trading volume for the USD pairs during
205. 7:11the New York session itself.
206. 7:14Now, this doesn't always happens, but
207. 7:15sometimes it does happens where you can
208. 7:17see we got like a consolidation that is
209. 7:19formed during the London session, and
210. 7:21then price tends to retrace back to the
211. 7:23London range, and then maybe continue
212. 7:25the swing structure. It really depends
213. 7:27on the context of the market and the
214. 7:29condition of the market for that
215. 7:30particular setup, uh particular day
216. 7:32itself.
217. 7:34Yeah. So, sometimes you can see London
218. 7:36give you like a expansion to the upside
219. 7:38just like this. And then New York
220. 7:40session, it might give you like a little
221. 7:42retracement and then continuing the
222. 7:44trend direction that was established
223. 7:45during the London session. Or it could
224. 7:47even cause the entire trend direction to
225. 7:49shift
226. 7:50from bullish to bearish. Right? So,
227. 7:53yeah, it really depends on the market
228. 7:54condition.
229. 7:56And then next up, we've got the London
230. 7:58close, right? Which is around 10:00 a.m.
231. 8:00to 12:00 a.m. This session is quite good
232. 8:02for USD pairs as well. There's a little
233. 8:05bit lower trading volume, right? This is
234. 8:07where you see price tends to retrace
235. 8:09back to the daily range.
236. 8:11But, you know, if you want to catch
237. 8:13small retracement base opportunities,
238. 8:16this London close session would be
239. 8:18pretty decent for you.
240. 8:21So, those are the four different Q
241. 8:23zones, right? You must understand that
242. 8:25not all Q zones are the same. Asia Q
243. 8:27zone is usually a little bit more
244. 8:28slower, a little bit more range bound
245. 8:31where the market is just going sideways,
246. 8:33right? London session, London Q zone,
247. 8:36this is where you see like the market
248. 8:38expand
249. 8:39heavily. And then New York session, this
250. 8:41is where price can retrace back to the
251. 8:44range that was established in the London
252. 8:45session, and then either continue or
253. 8:48cause the entire trend to reverse.
254. 8:50And then London close is back to, you
255. 8:52know, the market being slow again. But,
256. 8:54you know, if you are catching like small
257. 8:55move, this could be decent for you as
258. 8:57well.
259. 8:58Each one of these Q zone has its own
260. 9:00personality, and you need to make sure
261. 9:02that you are matching your expectations
262. 9:04to the session that you are trading.
263. 9:06What I basically mean by that is that if
264. 9:08you are trading EURUSD,
265. 9:11you cannot expect to get the same
266. 9:13volatility in Asia session as you do in
267. 9:16London session. Right? So, for example,
268. 9:19if you're trading EURUSD on uh Tuesday,
269. 9:22and you trade it during the London Q
270. 9:23zone, and price tend to move very, very
271. 9:25fast, hit your TP very, very fast. And
272. 9:28then on Thursday, you decide to trade
273. 9:30EURUSD during the Asia session. And then
274. 9:32now you realize that, wait, same setup,
275. 9:35same entry model,
276. 9:37but why is it taking so long for price
277. 9:39to hit TP? Why is price not even hitting
278. 9:41TP during this entire Asia session? What
279. 9:43is price doing? Why is it so slow? So,
280. 9:45that's what I mean when I say that you
281. 9:46need to manage your expectation because
282. 9:49different currency pairs have a
283. 9:51different volatility depending on the
284. 9:53session that it's in.
285. 9:54Okay. So, different currency pairs move
286. 9:56differently at different speed
287. 9:59based on the Q zone it's at, right?
288. 10:02Based on the the time that you are
289. 10:03trading it.
290. 10:06So, yeah, don't just uh forget about the
291. 10:09timing, right? Make sure that you
292. 10:10combine the currency pairs that you are
293. 10:12trading with the right time. So, if
294. 10:14you're trading the Asia Q zone, then
295. 10:16perhaps you want to be trading these
296. 10:17pairs. If you're trading the London Q
297. 10:19zone, trade these pairs. If you're
298. 10:20trading the New York Q zone or the
299. 10:22London close, then you want to trade the
300. 10:23US dollar pairs.
301. 10:25And my best advice for you would be to
302. 10:27pick the session which you have
303. 10:30your mental faculties, right? Where you
304. 10:32have the capacity, the mental bandwidth
305. 10:34to actually trade.
306. 10:35If you're working a 9-to-5 job
307. 10:38based on the Eastern Standard Time,
308. 10:40London session might not be for you,
309. 10:41right? You might want to trade before
310. 10:43you go to your 9-to-5 job, then if
311. 10:45that's the case, New York session would
312. 10:46be pretty decent for you.
313. 10:48Right? Or if you are a single mom with
314. 10:50like five kids and you realize that you
315. 10:52can't trade in the
316. 10:53in the at nights or maybe because you
317. 10:55have to put your kids to sleep or
318. 10:56whatever, and have to fetch them back
319. 10:57from school, then you might want to
320. 10:59trade the London session.
321. 11:02Right? When you Okay, actually London
322. 11:04session wouldn't make sense, right?
323. 11:05Maybe cuz like this is 2:00 a.m. to 5:00
324. 11:08a.m., so you'll probably be asleep by
325. 11:09then. Maybe you want to trade
326. 11:11uh during the New York session as well,
327. 11:13right? Like in the mornings at in the
328. 11:15morning time where you are free. Right?
329. 11:16So,
330. 11:18I would My best advice would be like
331. 11:19find a time in which you can fully focus
332. 11:22on the on the charts and just stick to
333. 11:24that session. And then once you
334. 11:25determine the time you want to trade in,
335. 11:27then go and choose the currency pairs in
336. 11:29which you want to focus on. So, if you
337. 11:32want to trade during the London session,
338. 11:34right? If this is the session that you
339. 11:35pick, then these are the currency pairs
340. 11:37that you want to be trading.
341. 11:39Euro and GBP pairs, right? EUR/USD,
342. 11:41GBP/USD, GBP/AUD, GBP/JPY if you're
343. 11:44feeling a little bit adventurous,
344. 11:46right?
345. 11:47So, yeah, that's my my best advice.
346. 11:49Don't try to trade every pair in every
347. 11:50session.
348. 11:52Find a session in which you are the most
349. 11:54free to trade, and then focus on the
350. 11:56currency pairs that is that provides the
351. 11:58most amount of trading opportunities
352. 12:00during that session. So, now let's go on
353. 12:02to the charts.
354. 12:04So, there's this indicator that you can
355. 12:06use to like just easily identify the Q
356. 12:09zone. So, you can just go on to
357. 12:10indicators, come here, search in Q
358. 12:13zones,
359. 12:14and the one that I have on the screen
360. 12:16right now is this one right here. ICT Q
361. 12:18zones plus pivots, right? So, if you
362. 12:20click on that, you have like this little
363. 12:25indicators that you can see on the
364. 12:26screen right here. Where did it go?
365. 12:28There we go. Yep. So, yeah, this is the
366. 12:30indicator itself, right? So,
367. 12:33if you want to know how to get that
368. 12:34indicator, just go search here, type Q
369. 12:36zones, and then just click on this one
370. 12:38right here. ICT Q zones plus pivot.
371. 12:41I personally hate indicators, right?
372. 12:43Most of you guys have been watching my
373. 12:45video for quite some time, you will know
374. 12:46my stance on indicators. I hate them, I
375. 12:48don't use them at all, but you know,
376. 12:50this is something that can really help
377. 12:51you out if you are new to
378. 12:54trading, right? If you're new to forex
379. 12:55trading and you still can't figure out
380. 12:57what time is a Q zone. So, if you step
381. 12:59on this indicator, you will be able to
382. 13:01see that, okay, this is the New York
383. 13:03morning session, this is the New York
384. 13:05uh p.m. session, and then this is the
385. 13:07London session, the London open to the
386. 13:10uh this is the London open low, this is
387. 13:11the London open high, this is the Asia
388. 13:12high created, Asia low, right? This is
389. 13:14the Asia session, right? You can see
390. 13:16based on each session, there's a like
391. 13:19different move, okay? So, if you look at
392. 13:21if you just scan the price action from
393. 13:22left to right like what we can see on
394. 13:23the screen right here, Asia session,
395. 13:25EUR/USD consolidate, okay? Consolidate a
396. 13:28little bit,
397. 13:29establish the Asia low, establish the
398. 13:31Asia high. And then when London session
399. 13:33opens, right? This is the overlap
400. 13:35between Asia and London session, price
401. 13:37came up there, swept the Asia high, and
402. 13:40then cause prices start coming down.
403. 13:42And then in the London session, price
404. 13:44continue going down, and then during the
405. 13:45New York session, you can see this is
406. 13:47where price retrace a little bit and
407. 13:49then continue with the trend direction
408. 13:51that was established during the London
409. 13:52session.
410. 13:53And then so on and so forth. Another
411. 13:55example right here.
412. 13:57Like I said, don't just
413. 13:59depend on these two heavily, right?
414. 14:01Because sometimes, depending on the
415. 14:03market condition, depending on the
416. 14:04context of the market, price will move
417. 14:06differently. What I mean by that is that
418. 14:08even though the textbook, the law, the
419. 14:12theory says that, you know what? EUR/USD
420. 14:14is supposed to consolidate during the
421. 14:15Asia session.
422. 14:16Sometimes, because there's so much
423. 14:18momentum, there's so much pressure in
424. 14:20the market, so much volume, so much
425. 14:22liquidity in the market,
426. 14:24it might not want to want to consolidate
427. 14:25during the Asia session, right? It might
428. 14:27want to actually like trend a little bit
429. 14:29during the Asia session.
430. 14:31Also, it might not want to move during
431. 14:33the London session, and as a result, you
432. 14:35will see price consolidate a little bit
433. 14:36during the London session.
434. 14:38So, use this as a reference, right? But
435. 14:40like don't just like use it as a crutch,
436. 14:44okay? Like just see the market for what
437. 14:45it is, observe the market conditions and
438. 14:48trade accordingly. Don't try to
439. 14:50anticipate the market, don't try to
440. 14:52control the market, don't try to predict
441. 14:54the market,
442. 14:56observe the market.
443. 14:58React to what the market does, okay? So,
444. 15:00whatever the market give you, react
445. 15:02accordingly.
446. 15:04So, in this case, you can see right
447. 15:05here, New York session starting going
448. 15:07up, right? You can see New York session
449. 15:08tends to have a lot of liquidity, and
450. 15:09Asia session starts slowing down again,
451. 15:11right? You can see the volatility starts
452. 15:13slowing down again, London session start
453. 15:15picking up the volatility, and then
454. 15:17another example right here, New York
455. 15:18session over here, so on and so forth.
456. 15:23Okay, so a lot of beginners, what they
457. 15:24tend to do is that number one, they tend
458. 15:27to trade all day long, right? They will
459. 15:28wake up at 9:00 a.m., they go on to
460. 15:30their charts, and then they trade all
461. 15:32the way to 9:00 p.m.
462. 15:35I learned this the hard way. I know this
463. 15:37from like first-hand experience, because
464. 15:39that was what I used to do as well. You
465. 15:41know, I'll wake up in the morning, first
466. 15:43thing I do, go on to the charts with a
467. 15:44cup of coffee coffee and just like stare
468. 15:46at the charts all day long.
469. 15:49I was so addicted to staring at the
470. 15:50charts that I don't even dare to go to
471. 15:52the toilet.
472. 15:54And what happens to happen is that when
473. 15:56you do that, you might make money during
474. 15:58the Asia session in the morning,
475. 16:00but then if you continue trading the
476. 16:02London session
477. 16:03and then the New York session, what
478. 16:04tends to happen is that whatever money
479. 16:06that you made from the Asia session, you
480. 16:08give it back to the market during the
481. 16:09London session.
482. 16:11And then London session, you start
483. 16:12feeling emotional, and then start
484. 16:14revenge trading, overtrading, and then
485. 16:16now
486. 16:17you lose money,
487. 16:19and now you're down bad for the New York
488. 16:21session.
489. 16:22And then maybe in New York session, you
490. 16:24make back a little bit of money. And
491. 16:25then tomorrow during the Asia session,
492. 16:26you you lose money again. And then
493. 16:28London session, you make money, New York
494. 16:29session, you lose money. It's just this
495. 16:31cycle of like unprofitability that I
496. 16:33can't seem to get out of because you are
497. 16:35trading way too much.
498. 16:37Okay, the cost of overtrading is you
499. 16:40give back your profits back to the
500. 16:41market, and the hidden cost of
501. 16:43overtrading is that you start to feel
502. 16:45analysis paralysis,
503. 16:47which means you analyze the charts so
504. 16:49damn much
505. 16:51that you just can't think clearly
506. 16:52anymore. Right? You can't establish a
507. 16:54trend direction, you are lost and
508. 16:56confused in the market because your mind
509. 16:57is just so worn out. You are just so
510. 17:00tired.
511. 17:02So, don't try to like trade all day.
512. 17:04Instead, what you want to do is to pick
513. 17:05the session in which you want to focus
514. 17:07on, and like I said, trade the pairs
515. 17:09that provide you the most amount of
516. 17:11opportunities during that session.
517. 17:20All right, so now I'm going to give you
518. 17:21guys like a very systematic framework
519. 17:23that you guys can follow like step by
520. 17:25step to apply this right here.
521. 17:28Step one is to come here
522. 17:31and determine which session you want to
523. 17:32be trading, okay? Like whether that's
524. 17:34the London session,
525. 17:36the New York Q zone or the Asia Q zone,
526. 17:39whatever it is, pick the Q zone you
527. 17:41which you want to focus on.
528. 17:43Right? Just just pick one.
529. 17:45Once again, if you don't know which one
530. 17:46to pick, ask yourself which one is the
531. 17:49best for my lifestyle.
532. 17:52Which one is the most sustainable to me?
533. 17:55Which one can I stick to for the
534. 17:56longest? Right? Whichever your answer
535. 17:58is, choose that one.
536. 18:00Once you choose the session, then you
537. 18:02want to choose the pairs in which you
538. 18:04want to be focusing on.
539. 18:06Right? So, if you choose London session,
540. 18:07then you want to focus on EUR/USD,
541. 18:09GBP/USD. If you choose New York session,
542. 18:12you want to focus on
543. 18:13anything that have USD inside, right?
544. 18:16EUR/USD works, GBP/USD works,
545. 18:19anything that have US dollar inside.
546. 18:22And then once you have these two steps
547. 18:24in place, then you want to be focused on
548. 18:26trading that session, right? So, during
549. 18:292:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. Eastern Standard
550. 18:31Time, let's say you're trading the
551. 18:32London Q zone, you want to come down
552. 18:34here to EUR/USD chart, and you want to
553. 18:37develop your higher time frame trade
554. 18:38bias.
555. 18:39And then you want to go to the medium
556. 18:41time frame, map out your point of
557. 18:42interest, map out your supply and demand
558. 18:43zones, whatever. And then once price
559. 18:45step into those zones, you go down to
560. 18:47the lower time frame, and you search for
561. 18:49entry model, you search for your entry
562. 18:50confirmation.
563. 18:52So, whatever that we have learned so
564. 18:53far, right? The multi-time frame
565. 18:55analysis, you know, the supply and
566. 18:57demand zones, all that stuff, you want
567. 18:59to apply it
568. 19:01on the session in which you choose to
569. 19:03focus on.
570. 19:07And then you just wait for your entry
571. 19:09confirmation to appear during that
572. 19:10session, during that Q zone. And when it
573. 19:12does, right? Like for example, let's say
574. 19:14this is a trading opportunity, you see
575. 19:16it during your Q zone, you execute the
576. 19:18trade. You enter the trade with
577. 19:20confidence.
578. 19:22Right? You wait for a price delivery,
579. 19:23right? You wait for a liquidity sweep,
580. 19:25market shift, whatever, whatever, you
581. 19:27wait for entry model.
582. 19:29If it appears, you enter into the
583. 19:30market.
584. 19:32If it doesn't appear during your Q zone,
585. 19:35do nothing.
586. 19:38Okay? Do nothing. Do not force a trade.
587. 19:41If price haven't get to your desired
588. 19:43price point
589. 19:44and your entry confirmation haven't
590. 19:46appear, stay out of the market.
591. 19:49All right, so during this 2:00 a.m. to
592. 19:515:00 a.m.,
593. 19:52if your trading opportunity appear, if
594. 19:54your entry confirmation is present in
595. 19:56the market, go and take the trade with
596. 19:57confidence.
597. 19:59Trusting that it's going to play out
598. 20:01because there's sufficient liquidity and
599. 20:02volatility in the market, and you've
600. 20:04done sufficient preparation.
601. 20:07If your opportunity does not appear, you
602. 20:09stay out of the market. So, you don't
603. 20:11trade.
604. 20:12And then tomorrow, you do the same thing
605. 20:13again. You show up at this time, this
606. 20:16period right here, scan the the charts,
607. 20:18look for trading opportunities. If there
608. 20:20is, enter. If there isn't,
609. 20:22chill, right? Relax, do nothing. And
610. 20:25then the next day do it again. And do
611. 20:26that all the way from Monday to Friday.
612. 20:30So, yeah. That's the power of like Q
613. 20:33zones. Majority of my trades, like I
614. 20:35mentioned, is taken during the London Q
615. 20:38zone itself.
616. 20:40Right?
617. 20:41With that being said,
618. 20:42I just want to say that one of the
619. 20:44biggest mistake that traders tend to
620. 20:45make is trading outside of their edge.
621. 20:49That is exactly why inside Edge Flow,
622. 20:51right, which is my trading super app, we
623. 20:52have actually built a feature that
624. 20:55allows you to define your own trading
625. 20:57window. So, you can literally determine
626. 20:59when to trade and when not to trade, as
627. 21:01you can see right here.
628. 21:04So, for example, if you want to trade
629. 21:05during the London Q zone, which for me
630. 21:08is going to be the 2:00 p.m. to 5:00
631. 21:11p.m. Singapore time, I'll just come in
632. 21:12here and set it to like 2:00 p.m.
633. 21:15to 5:00 p.m.
634. 21:18Right, 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
635. 21:21And if right now it's not 2:00 p.m.,
636. 21:24this trade button will be blocked,
637. 21:26right? This trade button will literally
638. 21:28be grayed out, and I will not be able to
639. 21:30open a trade.
640. 21:32So, Edge Flow literally forces me to
641. 21:34just trade during my Q zone, just trade
642. 21:36during the London Q zone itself.
643. 21:39This is such a useful feature to have
644. 21:40because when you have such a guardrail
645. 21:43in place, you're not relying on
646. 21:45discipline. You are just implementing
647. 21:48that discipline into your trading system
648. 21:50itself.
649. 21:52You won't have the urge to trade the
650. 21:53Asian session. You won't have the urge
651. 21:55to overtrade during the New York session
652. 21:57because you can't. You physically can't
653. 21:59press the trade button.
654. 22:03So, yeah. That's just one of the many
655. 22:05cool features that we have inside Edge
656. 22:06Flow. So, if you want to stick to a
657. 22:09certain trading window, and you find
658. 22:11yourself
659. 22:12not being able to do so because you got
660. 22:14itchy fingers, or because you are bored
661. 22:16and you want to make money for the day
662. 22:17itself, you might want to try out Edge
663. 22:19Flow. Like, try to guardrails and build
664. 22:22these guardrails into your system
665. 22:24itself.
666. 22:26So, with that being said,
667. 22:28just understand that Q zones, all of
668. 22:30this stuff is cool, right? But, it's not
669. 22:32just going to magically make you
670. 22:33profitable. It's not like, "Oh, I just
671. 22:35need to trade EUR/USD during the London
672. 22:37Q zone. I just need to buy when that
673. 22:40happens, and then I will make money
674. 22:41automatically." No, that's not how it
675. 22:43works.
676. 22:44Once again, it works best when you
677. 22:45combine your multi-timeframe analysis
678. 22:48and other market mechanics concepts like
679. 22:50auto blocks, premium and discount,
680. 22:51supply and demand, so and so forth.
681. 22:54Q zones does not replace your entry
682. 22:56confirmation. It does not replace your
683. 22:58entry model. It does not replace your
684. 23:00higher timeframe
685. 23:02bias, your immediate bias.
686. 23:04It just help you improve the timing of
687. 23:06your entry model.
688. 23:08So, like I said earlier, if you found
689. 23:10the entry trigger
690. 23:12at the right time, compared to if you
691. 23:14find it at the wrong time, it can make a
692. 23:15big difference.
693. 23:17You finding at the right time will allow
694. 23:20your trade to go to TP very very fast.
695. 23:22You finding at the wrong time will allow
696. 23:24the trade to maybe stall a little bit,
697. 23:26or maybe not even hit your TP at all.
698. 23:29So, the Q zones is the timing part of
699. 23:31the equation.
700. 23:33Remember, success in trading equal
701. 23:36developing the right trade ideal
702. 23:38at the right place at the right time.
703. 23:42The right place is all about your supply
704. 23:44and demand zones, your auto blocks, your
705. 23:45point of interest. The right time is
706. 23:48about Q zone.
707. 23:49It's about trading during the Q zone
708. 23:52where institutions are the most active.
709. 23:55And then later on, where we talk about
710. 23:57liquidity concepts, this is where we
711. 23:59will talk more about how to trade
712. 24:01in a much more precise manner.
713. 24:04Okay, so just to sum up everything that
714. 24:05we have learned so far, to keep it
715. 24:07simple, Forex market is open 24 hours a
716. 24:09day, but not every hour give you the
717. 24:11same quality of opportunity.
718. 24:14The best setups usually appear during
719. 24:16our Q zones, right? The London Q zone,
720. 24:19the Asia Q zone, and the New York Q zone
721. 24:22itself.
722. 24:25And also the what's that one? London
723. 24:27close. Yeah, London close.
724. 24:29And then based on the Q zone in which
725. 24:31you are selecting, choose to focus on
726. 24:34the currency pairs that provides the
727. 24:36most amount of trading opportunities
728. 24:37during that Q zone.
729. 24:38So, Asia Q zone will be the AUD, NZD,
730. 24:41and JPY. London Q zone will be EUR and
731. 24:44GBP. New York Q zone will be
732. 24:47the USD pairs, right? Same as the London
733. 24:49close.
734. 24:51The goal is not to trade all day. The
735. 24:53goal is to trade the right windows
736. 24:55because I want you guys to remember
737. 24:57this, all right? In trading,
738. 24:59you don't get paid for how hard you
739. 25:02work. You don't get paid for
740. 25:04the amount of hours you put in on the
741. 25:06charts.
742. 25:08You get paid based on your decisions.
743. 25:14You get paid for making the right
744. 25:16decisions.
745. 25:18Okay, so it's not about working hard.
746. 25:19It's not about like sitting over here,
747. 25:20slaving your ass off,
748. 25:22trading for 12 hours a day.
749. 25:25Hell, I trade like less than a few hours
750. 25:28a week, and I still make six figures a
751. 25:30month consistently.
752. 25:33And it's not because I'm working any
753. 25:36harder than you are. I'm working
754. 25:37smarter. I know how to identify my trade
755. 25:41bias, and I know how to position myself
756. 25:45at the right time
757. 25:46to, once again, capitalize on the luck
758. 25:48itself.
759. 25:50Yeah, so you don't see me like slaving
760. 25:51on my charts every day, you know, having
761. 25:53like red, bloodshot eyes. No, I'm chill,
762. 25:55man. I'm living my life. I know what
763. 25:57trading is for. Trading is for me to
764. 26:01live a life of freedom, not for me to be
765. 26:03a slave to the charts.
766. 26:05After all, like, that's why we started
767. 26:06trading in the first place, right?
768. 26:08So,
769. 26:09yeah, focus on one session, right? One Q
770. 26:12zone. And if you want something to
771. 26:14enforce it, if you want a trading app to
772. 26:16enforce it, try Edge Flow. Link in the
773. 26:18description.
774. 26:21So, with that being said, I hope you
775. 26:22guys have enjoyed this episode itself. I
776. 26:25look forward to speaking to you guys in
777. 26:26the next episode, and as always,
778. 26:28remember, you're just one trade away.
779. 26:31Mwah.