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Market Mechanics Ep 17: My Full Smart Money Trading Plan + Daily Routine — Transcript

by Brad Goh (The Trading Geek) · 9,273 words · 1,398 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:00A lot of traders think that the money is
  2. 0:01made at the entry, but in reality, a
  3. 0:04huge part of profitability comes from
  4. 0:07what you do before the trade and after
  5. 0:10the trade.
  6. 0:11Most traders lose because they only
  7. 0:13focus on entries, setups, and the
  8. 0:15charts, but real consistency
  9. 0:19comes from having a full process. A real
  10. 0:22trading system is not just about the
  11. 0:24strategy, the entries, or technical
  12. 0:26analysis. It also includes the
  13. 0:29preparation, the risk management, your
  14. 0:32execution, your journaling, your review,
  15. 0:35and how you manage your trading
  16. 0:36psychology. You need the full package.
  17. 0:40And that is exactly what you're about to
  18. 0:41see in this lesson. I'm going to walk
  19. 0:44you through my full trading routine, and
  20. 0:46along with that, I'm going to give you a
  21. 0:48simplified mechanical trade plan that
  22. 0:50you can use right now. So, you can see
  23. 0:52how all of this fits together in the
  24. 0:55real world. So, with that being said,
  25. 0:56let's get into the lesson. So, up until
  26. 0:58now, I've shown you guys the concepts.
  27. 1:01I've shown you guys the framework and
  28. 1:02the logic behind my system, but now I
  29. 1:05want to show you what this actually
  30. 1:06looks like in real life. So, I'm going
  31. 1:08to step away from the slides for a
  32. 1:09minute and walk you through my full
  33. 1:11trading routine on EdgeFlow. What I do
  34. 1:15before I trade, during the trade, and
  35. 1:17after I trade, because this is where I'm
  36. 1:20going to drop some serious sauce. Okay,
  37. 1:22I'm going to give you the entire
  38. 1:23simplified mechanical trade plan, and
  39. 1:25this is really the part which will give
  40. 1:26you the structure you need. It tells you
  41. 1:27exactly what to look for, when to act,
  42. 1:30and just as importantly, when to stay
  43. 1:32out of the market. So, in this lesson,
  44. 1:34I'm going to walk you through the exact
  45. 1:35pre-market routine that I personally use
  46. 1:37to lock in before I take a single trade.
  47. 1:40So, on EdgeFlow, there's this function
  48. 1:41to actually conduct your pre-market
  49. 1:43routine via this pre-market routine
  50. 1:45banner that we have right here.
  51. 1:47The reason why we have this pre-market
  52. 1:49routine banner is because we want to
  53. 1:50enforce your pre-market routine. We want
  54. 1:52to make sure that you are doing the same
  55. 1:54actions every single day to prepare
  56. 1:56yourself, to get into the right state of
  57. 1:58mind before you actually start trading.
  58. 2:01Right? Like I said, consistent actions
  59. 2:03equal consistent results.
  60. 2:05And this pre-market routine banner is
  61. 2:07fully customizable in the settings. So,
  62. 2:09when you go to settings, you go to
  63. 2:10pre-market routine banner, this is where
  64. 2:12you can select the steps that you want
  65. 2:14to be included into your pre-market
  66. 2:16routine. You can delete and remove any
  67. 2:18steps you want. You can add any steps
  68. 2:19you want. Once you're finished
  69. 2:20customizing your pre-market routine
  70. 2:22banner, you can just press save changes
  71. 2:24and it will be reflected right here. You
  72. 2:26can also choose the time in which you
  73. 2:28want it to reset on a day-to-day basis,
  74. 2:30right? So, we highly recommend you to
  75. 2:32set it to 1 hour before your trading
  76. 2:34window. So, for me personally, I like to
  77. 2:36start trading at 3:00 p.m., which means
  78. 2:38I want this pre-market routine banner to
  79. 2:40appear around 2:00 p.m. So, this is
  80. 2:42where I'll come here and then I'll set
  81. 2:43it at around like 2:00 p.m. just like
  82. 2:46this, so that it appears at 2:00 p.m.
  83. 2:49every single day, reminding myself that
  84. 2:52I should do my pre-market routine. And
  85. 2:54also like this banner persists until all
  86. 2:56of the steps are actually completed,
  87. 2:57right? So, this once again forces you to
  88. 3:00complete the the steps that is on your
  89. 3:02pre-market routine banner. Right? So,
  90. 3:04once you complete all the steps here, it
  91. 3:05will disappear, so you can focus on your
  92. 3:07own trading. Now, let me walk you
  93. 3:09through my entire pre-market routine
  94. 3:11step-by-step. The first step is
  95. 3:12obviously to check the economic
  96. 3:14calendar, and I do so by going to the
  97. 3:16news feature on EdgeFlow. This is where
  98. 3:18I want to be filtering it by the
  99. 3:21currency pairs that's on my watch list.
  100. 3:24And then I'll also want to look out for
  101. 3:26the high impact news, all right? So,
  102. 3:28this is where I see, okay, around 7:00
  103. 3:30a.m. there's a high impact news coming
  104. 3:31out for GB, and then around like 9:30
  105. 3:35a.m. there's another high impact news
  106. 3:36coming out. So, this is where I'll tell
  107. 3:38myself, okay, cool, these are the times
  108. 3:39that I won't trade. And to take it even
  109. 3:42one step further, like to make it more
  110. 3:44easier for me to not trade during this
  111. 3:45timing, I will set my block trading
  112. 3:47window here, right? So, this is where I
  113. 3:49can block trading for high impact events
  114. 3:51in this regarding the currency pairs on
  115. 3:54my watch list, and I can choose to block
  116. 3:56it 15 minutes before and after high
  117. 3:58impact news release. So, that's the
  118. 3:59first step.
  119. 4:01Ta-da, done. Check it off. The second
  120. 4:03step is to review your trade plan in
  121. 4:05Edge. Right, so this is where, as you
  122. 4:08can see, second step, review my trade
  123. 4:09plan. This is where I come on to my
  124. 4:10banner over here, and I will open up my
  125. 4:12trade plan, and I will go through step
  126. 4:14by step, you know, I'll go through my
  127. 4:15charting process, go through my entry
  128. 4:17criteria, I'll go through my trade
  129. 4:18management rules,
  130. 4:19uh entry criteria, everything, and just
  131. 4:22read it, you know, the goal here is to
  132. 4:23just get crystal clear on the process
  133. 4:25before volatility starts hitting, right?
  134. 4:28And then once that market review here,
  135. 4:29and then this is where I can check off
  136. 4:31like the second step of the pre-market
  137. 4:34routine itself. The third step is to
  138. 4:36analyze the charts with my trade plan
  139. 4:38right by my side, right? So, this is
  140. 4:40where, on Edge Flow, there's this
  141. 4:41feature that allows you to actually set
  142. 4:43a trade plan that you have created to
  143. 4:45active, just like this, and when you do
  144. 4:47so, it appears in your trading panel
  145. 4:50right by your side. This way, you are
  146. 4:52able to analyze the charts, you're able
  147. 4:54to follow the charting process on here,
  148. 4:56right? So, for example, the first step
  149. 4:57is to mark up my higher time frame
  150. 4:59range. This is where I will mark up my
  151. 5:00swing range, you know, my swing low, my
  152. 5:03swing high, so on and so forth. Uh just
  153. 5:06continuously like follow this charting
  154. 5:08process that I've laid out right here,
  155. 5:09and then once I'm done with all the
  156. 5:11chart markups, this is where I will end
  157. 5:13off the section by stating my daily
  158. 5:15bias, you know, whether I'm bullish,
  159. 5:16whether I'm bearish. If I'm bearish,
  160. 5:18where do I want to be entering the sell
  161. 5:20positions at, you know, where do I want
  162. 5:22to be trading from, maybe on the end of
  163. 5:23a sell right here, and why am I going to
  164. 5:26be selling at this price point here?
  165. 5:29Okay? So, yeah, this is where, you know,
  166. 5:31I can just set an alert at this area
  167. 5:33here as well, like maybe at the edge of
  168. 5:34this zone here, set an alert at 0.705.
  169. 5:37And then once price hit that 0.705 right
  170. 5:41there, it triggers my alert, it sends me
  171. 5:42a notification, it asks me to actually
  172. 5:44open up my charts to look for my
  173. 5:47uh trading opportunity and then this is
  174. 5:49where I will wait for my entry criteria
  175. 5:51to appear in the charts, right? Wait for
  176. 5:53my entry models to appear on the charts
  177. 5:55itself. And then once I got the
  178. 5:57confirmation to enter for the trade,
  179. 5:59that is where I will enter for the trade
  180. 6:00right there and then. Okay? Uh and also
  181. 6:03like just make sure that before you
  182. 6:04enter a trade, you review your exit
  183. 6:06criteria, you review your trade
  184. 6:08management rules, so you know exactly
  185. 6:10where to get out of if the trade idea
  186. 6:12does not go well and also if the trade
  187. 6:14idea does go well. And then also just
  188. 6:17review your trade management rules to
  189. 6:18just know exactly how you're going to be
  190. 6:20managing the position once you are in
  191. 6:22the trade. Yeah, so this is where I do
  192. 6:25my analysis, I do my preparation, I do
  193. 6:27my chart markups, I do my research just
  194. 6:29so that I can prepare myself so that I
  195. 6:31know exactly where I'm going to strike,
  196. 6:34right? So I know exactly what what I
  197. 6:35want to see the market do in order for
  198. 6:38me to actually enter for a position,
  199. 6:41right? So this is once again just part
  200. 6:43of the preparation process.
  201. 6:45In the next lesson, we're going to be
  202. 6:46talking more about how to execute trades
  203. 6:48on the trading panel itself, you know,
  204. 6:50how to actually enter for a buy and sell
  205. 6:52on at flow. Here's a bonus thing that
  206. 6:53you can do, right, as part of a
  207. 6:55pre-market routine. I didn't put it in
  208. 6:56here, right, but this is like a little
  209. 6:58thing that I do during uh the the
  210. 7:00pre-market routine. What I like to do is
  211. 7:01to check my existing positions, right?
  212. 7:04If I have any positions that was open,
  213. 7:06you know, that I held it overnight, this
  214. 7:07is where I come in here and just check
  215. 7:09how is it doing. And then this is where
  216. 7:11I might even want to like move my stop
  217. 7:14loss or take profit, right, if my plans
  218. 7:16actually allow, right, based on the new
  219. 7:17information that is reflected on the
  220. 7:19market itself.
  221. 7:20So, that's done. Analyze the charts,
  222. 7:22right? Like I said, this is the step
  223. 7:24where you do your chart markups, right?
  224. 7:25You determine what is the price point in
  225. 7:26which you want to enter the trade on and
  226. 7:28then you just wait for price to get to
  227. 7:30that price point. And then once it does,
  228. 7:32you trade. If it doesn't, you don't
  229. 7:34trade, as simple as that. The next step
  230. 7:36is some form of meditation or some form
  231. 7:38of breath work and that That where I do
  232. 7:40it in the sanctuary, right? so this is
  233. 7:43the last step of the pre-market routine
  234. 7:44because I want to shift my state of
  235. 7:46mind. I want to shift from going into
  236. 7:49from analysis mode to execution mode.
  237. 7:52Right, because like I said, you want to
  238. 7:53make sure that you prime your state.
  239. 7:55Right, you want to make sure that you
  240. 7:56get into a state where you are going to
  241. 7:59be trading like an absolute machine. Uh
  242. 8:01this is where I can downshift. You can
  243. 8:03calm down your parasympathetic system.
  244. 8:05You can calm down your anxiety or any
  245. 8:07emotions that you are facing and overall
  246. 8:09just reset back to a mental equilibrium
  247. 8:12before you start trading. So, this is
  248. 8:14where I will do like a quick little 15
  249. 8:15minutes meditation, right, to clear my
  250. 8:17mind, to ground myself in the present
  251. 8:19moment so that later on when I go on to
  252. 8:21the charts, I can see the market for
  253. 8:22what it is. Right, and I do that through
  254. 8:24this meditation timer right here. Okay?
  255. 8:27I can sit right in both, just come in
  256. 8:30here, sit down for like 15 minutes. Once
  257. 8:32done,
  258. 8:33this is where I will check off the last
  259. 8:35step of the pre-market routine itself.
  260. 8:38So, that's the entire pre-market
  261. 8:40routine, right? And you can see, notice
  262. 8:41how the pre-market routine button just
  263. 8:43disappeared, right, because you have
  264. 8:44completed your pre-market routine and
  265. 8:46now we want you to focus on execution.
  266. 8:48We want you to really just get into
  267. 8:49execution mode, get locked in, and just
  268. 8:52do what you need to do. And before you
  269. 8:53start trading, I want you to ask
  270. 8:55yourself these three questions, right,
  271. 8:56just to check yourself.
  272. 8:58Am I calm? Am I clear? Am I following my
  273. 9:00trade plan? Would I still take this
  274. 9:02trade if I was up big today?
  275. 9:04If the answer is no, if the answer isn't
  276. 9:06clean, if you're like, "Mhm, I don't
  277. 9:08know, you know, maybe." Then you need to
  278. 9:10do more preparation. You need to do more
  279. 9:12research. And you also need to make sure
  280. 9:14that
  281. 9:15you calm your inner state. And you do
  282. 9:18that by performing some form of
  283. 9:20meditation or even like checking out
  284. 9:22like the 60-second reboot box breathing
  285. 9:24exercise that we have given you here in
  286. 9:26the sanctuary feature itself.
  287. 9:28Now you know exactly what you're looking
  288. 9:30for and what you're ignoring, right?
  289. 9:33Like I said,
  290. 9:34the hard part about trading isn't
  291. 9:36spotting A+ setups. it's in ignoring
  292. 9:38everything else. And when you perform
  293. 9:40this pre-market routine, this allows you
  294. 9:43to spot A+ setups better, right? Because
  295. 9:46now you're preparing your charts, you
  296. 9:47know, okay, if price comes up here and
  297. 9:49it does this, okay, this is my A+ setup.
  298. 9:52That's a confirmation, that's the my
  299. 9:54trigger to actually execute the sell
  300. 9:56position itself.
  301. 9:57And most importantly, you also know what
  302. 10:00are the market conditions in which you
  303. 10:01want to avoid. What are the scenarios
  304. 10:03that you just want to stay out the
  305. 10:04market and do nothing? Because the most
  306. 10:06profitable position in the market is
  307. 10:09waiting.
  308. 10:10If you can just wait for a trade idea to
  309. 10:11present itself,
  310. 10:12this just allows you to have
  311. 10:16a huge competitive advantage over the
  312. 10:18people who just trade for the sake of
  313. 10:19trading, for to to just trade for the
  314. 10:21sake of adrenaline, right? For the sake
  315. 10:23of gambling.
  316. 10:24And that's how you
  317. 10:26just really open up your awareness and
  318. 10:29you're able to recognize the
  319. 10:30opportunities when they shows up. Just
  320. 10:32go out there, do your pre-market routine
  321. 10:33because your pre-market routine creates
  322. 10:35is consistency, and consistency is what
  323. 10:37creates edge over time. Consistent
  324. 10:40actions leads to consistent results. So,
  325. 10:43if you're doing the same thing over and
  326. 10:44over every single day, you're going to
  327. 10:46get a pretty much like a much more
  328. 10:49predictable results, right? Like I said,
  329. 10:51you will not guarantee you win, right?
  330. 10:52But you will increase the likelihood of
  331. 10:54you winning. You will increase the
  332. 10:56likelihood of you actually catching the
  333. 10:58A+ setups, catching the outside returns
  334. 11:00because now you have done the
  335. 11:02preparation. Now you're telling the
  336. 11:03market that I am ready to spot the
  337. 11:05opportunities when they do appear. So,
  338. 11:07now I'm going to move on to the entire
  339. 11:09trading plan. So, the next part is very
  340. 11:11important because this right here is
  341. 11:14going to be a simplified mechanical
  342. 11:15trade plan that you can use. And when I
  343. 11:18say mechanical, I mean there are rules.
  344. 11:21There are rules that actually govern the
  345. 11:23entire trading system. This is not based
  346. 11:25on guesswork, this is not based on
  347. 11:26emotion, this is based on tried and
  348. 11:28tested rules.
  349. 11:30Okay, when I go into the market, I'm not
  350. 11:32just eyeballing it. I'm not just relying
  351. 11:34on gut feeling. I'm actually trading it
  352. 11:36based on the rules that I have in my
  353. 11:38trade plan.
  354. 11:39So, now I'm going to go through the
  355. 11:40entire trade plan right here, step by
  356. 11:42step, and just walk you guys through the
  357. 11:44entire thought process. First step is to
  358. 11:47actually do your charting process. The
  359. 11:49reason why we do this is so that we can
  360. 11:51make sure that we know where we are
  361. 11:53trading. This is so that we can
  362. 11:55determine our trade bias, so that we
  363. 11:57know whether price is bullish or
  364. 11:58bearish, and whether we should enter for
  365. 12:00a buy or enter for a sell.
  366. 12:02All right. So, if you look at a 4-hour
  367. 12:03time frame just like this, this is where
  368. 12:06if you guys know market structure, you
  369. 12:08will know that when price is creating
  370. 12:09lower highs, lower lows just like this,
  371. 12:10we are actually in a bearish downtrend,
  372. 12:12which means that the sellers are in
  373. 12:14control, supply is in control, and price
  374. 12:16is going to continue going down. And
  375. 12:18then if price is going up creating
  376. 12:19higher highs and higher lows just like
  377. 12:21this, then we know that price is going
  378. 12:22up, okay? Literally as simple as that.
  379. 12:25You might think, "Okay, price has
  380. 12:26shifted bullish, right?" So, does this
  381. 12:28mean price is actually going up right
  382. 12:30now, or is price actually going down?
  383. 12:32So, this is where
  384. 12:34I would just really go ahead and map out
  385. 12:35the structure to really figure out what
  386. 12:37is my trade bias. Okay, so if I look at
  387. 12:39this right here, and on my 4-hour time
  388. 12:41frame I can clearly see price is
  389. 12:42creating lower highs, lower lows, right?
  390. 12:43So, price create a new high, push back,
  391. 12:46create a new lower high, goes down
  392. 12:48create a new lower low, create a new
  393. 12:49lower high, and then create a new lower
  394. 12:50low before price continue going down
  395. 12:52even further. So, this is where this is
  396. 12:55the most recent bearish break of
  397. 12:56structure. And since that's the most
  398. 12:58recent bearish break of structure,
  399. 13:00this means that technically this right
  400. 13:03here is our 4-hour swing range.
  401. 13:06Okay, so let me just quickly like show
  402. 13:08you what that would look like.
  403. 13:09So, if this is the most recent break of
  404. 13:11structure, this is the 4-hour swing
  405. 13:13high, which automatically means that
  406. 13:14this is the 4-hour swing low. So, this
  407. 13:17is the highest point that led to the
  408. 13:18most recent break of structure, and this
  409. 13:20is the lowest point that led to the
  410. 13:22pullback. So, 4-hour swing high and
  411. 13:244-hour swing low right here.
  412. 13:27Okay, so just by doing this alone, what
  413. 13:29I've done is that I have narrowed my
  414. 13:31focus to just the most recent four-hour
  415. 13:35swing range. Right, the most recent
  416. 13:36high, the most recent low, that's it.
  417. 13:40Once again, the reason why we are doing
  418. 13:41this is because we don't want to focus
  419. 13:43on what price is doing right here. Okay,
  420. 13:44we don't want to focus on what price is
  421. 13:45doing right here. We only want to focus
  422. 13:47on the present moment. We only want to
  423. 13:49see what price is doing right now. Okay,
  424. 13:51so that is why that's always going to be
  425. 13:53the first step is to determine the trend
  426. 13:54direction whether it's bearish or
  427. 13:56bullish so that we can understand who's
  428. 13:58in control of price, whether that's the
  429. 13:59buyers or the sellers.
  430. 14:01And in this case, since price is
  431. 14:02creating lower highs and lower lows, we
  432. 14:04know that sellers are in control of
  433. 14:05price. So by right, we should enter for
  434. 14:07a sell, right, to trade in alignment
  435. 14:09with that higher time frame trend.
  436. 14:11And next thing is to identify the swing
  437. 14:14range, right? What is the range in which
  438. 14:16you want to focus our energy on, our
  439. 14:18attention on? And when you do that, you
  440. 14:20can see that this is a four-hour swing
  441. 14:21high and four-hour swing low. That's it.
  442. 14:23That's the first step.
  443. 14:25Just by doing this alone, I can just
  444. 14:27really fully focus on what price is
  445. 14:28doing right here.
  446. 14:30I narrow my focus to this range right
  447. 14:32here instead of focusing on what price
  448. 14:33is doing right here. Okay, so that's the
  449. 14:35first step.
  450. 14:36The next step is what I like to do is to
  451. 14:39actually draw like a
  452. 14:40premium and discount tool. And this is
  453. 14:43where when we have a discount and
  454. 14:44premium tool just like this, this helps
  455. 14:46us understand whether the market is in
  456. 14:49the discount phase, right, whether the
  457. 14:51market is cheap or whether the market is
  458. 14:53expensive. Because if the market is
  459. 14:55expensive right now, if price is quite
  460. 14:57high right now, then I duly we should
  461. 14:59expect price to come down back to fair
  462. 15:01value. And if price is cheap right now,
  463. 15:05then we are expecting demand to step in
  464. 15:07the market to cause price to go up.
  465. 15:10Okay, so that's like the theory behind
  466. 15:12this premium and discount tool.
  467. 15:13So if I draw this tool right here, by
  468. 15:15the way,
  469. 15:16just going to share with you guys the
  470. 15:17settings. It's basically the fib
  471. 15:19retracement tool on the screen right
  472. 15:21here, right? So what you can do is to
  473. 15:23just make sure that you go to
  474. 15:24TradingView or Edge Flow, whatever tool
  475. 15:26that you're using for charting, go to
  476. 15:28fib retracement, and this is where you
  477. 15:30can copy these exact settings. Right?
  478. 15:33So, you can just put 0 0.5 right here,
  479. 15:351, and this is the background. Yeah,
  480. 15:37this is the exact setting that I I use.
  481. 15:38You guys can take a photo of this right
  482. 15:40now or take a screenshot, or you can
  483. 15:41always like rewatch the recording and
  484. 15:43just copy these exact settings. Okay, so
  485. 15:45that's the settings. So, what you want
  486. 15:46to do when you're using this tool is to
  487. 15:48actually map it out from the swing high
  488. 15:50to the swing low.
  489. 15:52Okay, so this was another reason as to
  490. 15:54why we actually map out the swing high
  491. 15:55and swing low
  492. 15:56in the first place. It's to so that we
  493. 15:58can actually narrow our focus to this
  494. 16:00swing range right here, and then also so
  495. 16:03that we can actually plot our premium
  496. 16:05and discount tool.
  497. 16:06Okay, so that's the next step right
  498. 16:07here. Okay, first step was to identify
  499. 16:094-hour trend and structure. Second step
  500. 16:12is to make sure that we are buying in
  501. 16:134-hour discount and selling in 4-hour
  502. 16:16premium. Right? Which means that we need
  503. 16:18to map out our premium discount tool.
  504. 16:20So, basically, very simple, you want to
  505. 16:22place this at the swing high just like
  506. 16:24this, and then place the other end of
  507. 16:26the tool at the swing low just like
  508. 16:28this, and then drag it all the way out
  509. 16:30just like this.
  510. 16:31That's it. Okay? It's a very simple
  511. 16:33tool. Anybody can use it. But but yeah,
  512. 16:36like like that's just it, okay? And how
  513. 16:38it works is that this upper 50%, right?
  514. 16:41Above this 50%, which is what we call
  515. 16:43equilibrium, this is where price is
  516. 16:45within premium territory.
  517. 16:48And below the 50%, this is where price
  518. 16:50is within discount territory.
  519. 16:52And like I said earlier on, if price
  520. 16:54comes down to the discount zone, then
  521. 16:56it's cheap, which means institutions are
  522. 16:59more likely to enter for large buy
  523. 17:01orders because it's cheap, which cause
  524. 17:05price to go up.
  525. 17:07And similarly, if price is actually
  526. 17:10within the premium pricing, this is
  527. 17:12where institutions within price as
  528. 17:15expensive, and they will short it, which
  529. 17:18cause price to go down.
  530. 17:20That's how premium and discount works,
  531. 17:23as simple as that. Which means that
  532. 17:26if price is actually in a downtrend just
  533. 17:28like this, we want to be shorting when
  534. 17:31price is within premium pricing.
  535. 17:33Okay, because this is where price starts
  536. 17:35getting a little bit expensive, and we
  537. 17:36can expect institutions to get
  538. 17:38interested in price for them to continue
  539. 17:40shorting it.
  540. 17:41They are not interested when price is
  541. 17:43down here.
  542. 17:44Okay, because when price is down here,
  543. 17:45this is where it's cheap, right? It's
  544. 17:48not a lucrative price for them to
  545. 17:49actually enter for shorts at.
  546. 17:51So, they're much more better off pushing
  547. 17:53price all the way up here, and then once
  548. 17:55price get a new lower high here,
  549. 17:57dumping the sell orders and causing
  550. 17:59price to continue in the bearish
  551. 18:02downtrend, creating like a new lower
  552. 18:03high just like this.
  553. 18:05So, in this case,
  554. 18:07you want to make sure that you are
  555. 18:08selling at your 4-hour premium.
  556. 18:11Okay?
  557. 18:12Selling at 4-hour premium.
  558. 18:16But, the next question becomes where?
  559. 18:18Okay, where exactly do we actually sell
  560. 18:20at the 4-hour premium zone?
  561. 18:24So,
  562. 18:25this is where you want to determine the
  563. 18:27optimal location to trade. And this is
  564. 18:30the same location in which you want to
  565. 18:32be identifying your entry models. You
  566. 18:35want to be getting your entry
  567. 18:37confirmation and your entry trigger.
  568. 18:39And that is the location. So, where
  569. 18:41exactly do we want to be selling it?
  570. 18:44Well, which brings us to the next step,
  571. 18:45which is to define your supply and
  572. 18:47demand zones.
  573. 18:49So, this is something that I teach uh
  574. 18:50inside my YouTube videos, inside my
  575. 18:52mentorship program, which is this
  576. 18:54concept called institutional zones,
  577. 18:57which is pretty much the point of
  578. 18:58interest that smart money are interested
  579. 19:00in.
  580. 19:01I'm talking about supply and demand
  581. 19:03zones, not ordinary supply and demand
  582. 19:05zones, but like institutional supply and
  583. 19:06demand zones,
  584. 19:08order blocks,
  585. 19:09flip zones,
  586. 19:11flip plus sweep zones, liquidity zones.
  587. 19:14Okay, so there are different point of
  588. 19:16interest in the market, which as the
  589. 19:19best location for you to actually look
  590. 19:22for your entry models and your entry
  591. 19:23confirmation. How do you actually define
  592. 19:25where is the price point in which you
  593. 19:27want to be shorting from?
  594. 19:29So, since we have identified the fact
  595. 19:32that we want to short at a premium
  596. 19:34pricing just like this, then this is
  597. 19:36where we want to make sure that we are
  598. 19:39selling at a supply zone. So, in this
  599. 19:41entire move right here, you can see this
  600. 19:42entire move to the downside, where is
  601. 19:44the most obvious origin point? It's
  602. 19:47going to be situated at the 4-hour swing
  603. 19:49high just like this.
  604. 19:50Right, so this is where you can use like
  605. 19:52a box tool just like this, and what you
  606. 19:54can do is to map out
  607. 19:56the entire range, right? You can see
  608. 19:58this entire consolidation just like
  609. 20:00this. Map out the entire range just like
  610. 20:01this.
  611. 20:03Or if you want to be even more precise,
  612. 20:05you can map out the pivot candle, right?
  613. 20:07Which is pretty much the candlestick
  614. 20:08that caused this entire reversal to
  615. 20:10happen, which is somewhere around here,
  616. 20:12right? This green candle right here.
  617. 20:14Because after this green candle, we got
  618. 20:15this huge red candle that caused price
  619. 20:17to absolutely collapse.
  620. 20:19Okay, so that's one supply zone. Is
  621. 20:22there other supply zones? Yes, there
  622. 20:23are, right? Because when price actually
  623. 20:25came down here
  624. 20:26and pulled back to this supply zone, it
  625. 20:28continued going down. So, this is where
  626. 20:30I can identify perhaps another supply
  627. 20:32zone right here.
  628. 20:33Okay, and then you can potentially see
  629. 20:35another supply zone right here. Because
  630. 20:37this is also where
  631. 20:38another situation where price did a
  632. 20:40pullback just like this and then
  633. 20:41continue going down even further.
  634. 20:43And so on and so forth, right? Maybe
  635. 20:45there's another one right here.
  636. 20:46So, right here, there are four supply
  637. 20:48zones, right? I've mapped out one supply
  638. 20:50zone here, another supply zone right
  639. 20:52here, and another supply zone right
  640. 20:54here, another supply zone right here.
  641. 20:56Okay, so what I'm going to do right now
  642. 20:57is that I'm going to name these supply
  643. 20:58zones. So, the extreme supply zone is A.
  644. 21:01The next supply zone that I've mapped
  645. 21:04out right here is B.
  646. 21:06And the next supply zone is C, and the
  647. 21:08most recent supply zone is D. Which
  648. 21:10supply zone do you guys think is the
  649. 21:11most high probability, right? That has a
  650. 21:14higher chance that price is going to
  651. 21:15respect. A, B, C, or D? This is where it
  652. 21:18gets interesting, right? This is
  653. 21:19something that perhaps people don't
  654. 21:21really understand.
  655. 21:24Is the more extreme the zone is, the
  656. 21:27higher the chance of it getting
  657. 21:29respected.
  658. 21:30What I basically mean by that is that if
  659. 21:32you look at these zones right here, A,
  660. 21:33B, C, D,
  661. 21:35if it's C and D,
  662. 21:38guess where it's located at. It's
  663. 21:39located near the equilibrium level right
  664. 21:42here.
  665. 21:43And if you look at D, it's completely
  666. 21:44within the discount pricing, which is
  667. 21:46exactly why it didn't work, right? You
  668. 21:48can see when price respected D, it made
  669. 21:50a minor pullback just like this, and it
  670. 21:51just blast right through it.
  671. 21:53Because of the fact that there is not
  672. 21:55enough sell orders at that point of
  673. 21:57interest because it's at the wrong
  674. 21:59location, because it's at a discount
  675. 22:01pricing.
  676. 22:03And then if you look at C, price
  677. 22:05continued Price did get a stronger
  678. 22:07reaction at C, but then eventually still
  679. 22:09blast right through it because price is
  680. 22:11moving towards premium pricing.
  681. 22:15Okay, so in this case, C and D is
  682. 22:17automatically eliminated because price
  683. 22:19is already like disrespected it, right?
  684. 22:21So, all because of the fact
  685. 22:24that it's located near the discount
  686. 22:26pricing, which is not where we want to
  687. 22:27sell from.
  688. 22:29And that leaves us with A and B.
  689. 22:31And this is where it gets tricky because
  690. 22:33people don't know how to like look for
  691. 22:35this properly.
  692. 22:36What I basically mean by that is that
  693. 22:38when you look at this A and B right
  694. 22:39here,
  695. 22:40people doesn't know which point of
  696. 22:41interest they should be selling from.
  697. 22:43Some people say that they should enter
  698. 22:44for a sell right here. Some people say
  699. 22:46they should enter for a sell right here.
  700. 22:48But they don't have a clear mechanical
  701. 22:50rule that tells them exactly when they
  702. 22:53should enter for a sell, whether that's
  703. 22:54A or B. And when you don't have a clear
  704. 22:56mechanical rule, you are relying on
  705. 22:58guesswork. The truth is, I have
  706. 23:01absolutely no clue whether price is
  707. 23:03going to respect A or B.
  708. 23:05I'm not a fortune teller. I don't have a
  709. 23:07crystal ball.
  710. 23:08And the best part is you don't need to
  711. 23:10predict
  712. 23:11what's going to happen next in order to
  713. 23:13make money from this market.
  714. 23:16All you need to do
  715. 23:18is to find the point of interest in
  716. 23:21which you get your entry confirmation
  717. 23:23from.
  718. 23:25And when it appears, you take the trade
  719. 23:27without hesitation, without guesswork,
  720. 23:29without emotions. That brings us to the
  721. 23:32next part, which is the entry criteria.
  722. 23:36Because like right now, if I'm looking
  723. 23:38at this right here,
  724. 23:39I don't know whether I should enter for
  725. 23:41sale right here or right here.
  726. 23:42Because this supply zone is high
  727. 23:44probability because it's quite high up
  728. 23:45in premium pricing. This one right here
  729. 23:47is also quite high up in premium
  730. 23:49pricing, but like which one? Which one
  731. 23:50should is price going to respect? Well,
  732. 23:52the truth is I don't know.
  733. 23:55I don't know.
  734. 23:57And I don't care. Because all I want to
  735. 23:59do is to see the entry confluences
  736. 24:02appear at either point of interest A or
  737. 24:05B. So, when price mitigate a point of
  738. 24:07interest, this is where I jump down to
  739. 24:09the lower time frame. All right, so
  740. 24:10that's the next step right here. Okay,
  741. 24:12listen.
  742. 24:13You don't jump down to the lower time
  743. 24:14frame until price mitigated at the point
  744. 24:16of interest.
  745. 24:18So, at this point of time, this is
  746. 24:19where, you know, price have came up to
  747. 24:21point of interest B.
  748. 24:23Cool. I'm going to jump down to the
  749. 24:24lower time frame right now. But if price
  750. 24:26is still like somewhere around here, and
  751. 24:28it hasn't mitigated my point of interest
  752. 24:29A or B, I'm not jumping down to my lower
  753. 24:32time frame. Very important, guys,
  754. 24:34because a lot of you guys keep on going
  755. 24:36down to the lower time frame to look for
  756. 24:37your sniper entries, even though price
  757. 24:39is not in optimal location.
  758. 24:41So, now that price has touched point of
  759. 24:44interest B, right, my 4-hour point of
  760. 24:47interest, I've gotten my zone
  761. 24:48mitigation. So, this is where I'll jump
  762. 24:50down to my lower time frame, which could
  763. 24:51be the 15-minute or the 1-hour time
  764. 24:53frame, depending on your trading style
  765. 24:54itself.
  766. 24:55Right, so let me just remove this
  767. 24:58right here. Just make things a little
  768. 24:59bit clearer right here.
  769. 25:01Okay, so what you guys can do is to also
  770. 25:03add like an additional time frame, which
  771. 25:05is the 1-hour time frame if you guys
  772. 25:07want, right? If you guys feel like the
  773. 25:09gap between 4-hour and 15 minutes is way
  774. 25:11too much, you guys can always add like
  775. 25:13the 15-minute time frame as well. Uh no,
  776. 25:15you guys can always add like the 1-hour
  777. 25:17time frame as well because it's like
  778. 25:18it's like the perfect sweet spot. So,
  779. 25:20this is where once price mitigate the
  780. 25:21point of interest just like this, I jump
  781. 25:23down to my 15-minute time frame or my
  782. 25:251-hour time frame depending on where is
  783. 25:27your lower time frame. And the minute I
  784. 25:29do that, this is where I search for my
  785. 25:30entry criteria, right? So, let me just
  786. 25:32like close the charting process and I
  787. 25:34just look for that entry criteria.
  788. 25:36There are mainly two things that I look
  789. 25:38out for before I actually enter for the
  790. 25:39trade.
  791. 25:40This right here is one of the 10
  792. 25:42different entry models I have in my
  793. 25:44arsenal and it's the most simple one,
  794. 25:46right? The reason I'm showing that is
  795. 25:47because it's the most easiest one. It's
  796. 25:48It's the one that anybody can
  797. 25:49understand.
  798. 25:51So, the minute price mitigate my point
  799. 25:53of interest,
  800. 25:54this is where I look for my entry
  801. 25:56criteria. Okay, so like I said, the
  802. 25:58minute price
  803. 25:59beep touch it just like this, go down to
  804. 26:01your lower time frame, look for entry
  805. 26:02model. Two things, liquidity sweep and
  806. 26:05market shift. Let me go through the more
  807. 26:07easy one, which is market shift.
  808. 26:08So, if you look at the lower time frame,
  809. 26:10what happened was that price has shifted
  810. 26:12bullish. Now, does this mean price is
  811. 26:14reversing and becoming uptrend right
  812. 26:16now? No, it just means that it shifted
  813. 26:18bullish in the short term so that it can
  814. 26:20actually
  815. 26:21facilitate the pullback to the premium
  816. 26:24pricing. To the supply zone that is
  817. 26:26within the premium pricing. That's why
  818. 26:28it actually, you know, shifted bullish.
  819. 26:30Which means that this bullish move is
  820. 26:32just
  821. 26:33a short term move, right? It's not the
  822. 26:35real move.
  823. 26:36Okay?
  824. 26:37But the internal order flow is bullish
  825. 26:39right now. Okay? That's what matters.
  826. 26:41The internal order flow is actually
  827. 26:42bullish right now.
  828. 26:44So, at this point of time, higher time
  829. 26:45frame is bearish, internal order flow is
  830. 26:47bullish, but because it's like really
  831. 26:49just bullish right now to facilitate the
  832. 26:51pullback.
  833. 26:53What you want to do is to wait for this
  834. 26:55internal order flow to shift bearish.
  835. 26:58Okay, I'm pretty sure that makes sense,
  836. 27:00right? You don't want to enter for all
  837. 27:04sell when the internal structure is
  838. 27:06still bullish because what can
  839. 27:08potentially happen is that price can
  840. 27:09continue bullish just like this
  841. 27:12and just end up taking out the 4-hour
  842. 27:13swing high and just continue creating
  843. 27:14higher highs and just continue causing
  844. 27:16the entire market to reverse. So, what
  845. 27:18you want to do is to wait for this
  846. 27:20internal structure to shift from bullish
  847. 27:23to bearish so that you can actually got
  848. 27:25a confirmation
  849. 27:27that the market has officially done
  850. 27:29bearish and right now it's going to
  851. 27:31continue with the higher time frame
  852. 27:33trend. So, this is where we we can
  853. 27:35potentially expect a new lower high to
  854. 27:37be formed and then later on price come
  855. 27:39down and take out structure right here.
  856. 27:41And this right here is what we are
  857. 27:42trying to catch. We are trying to catch
  858. 27:44the lower high. And you're able to
  859. 27:46identify the lower high to your highest
  860. 27:48degree of precision by waiting for it to
  861. 27:51come up to a premium pricing
  862. 27:54and a supply zone that is within premium
  863. 27:56pricing. Okay, so
  864. 27:58that's the location.
  865. 28:00The next formula is timing, right?
  866. 28:02Timing is pretty much your entry
  867. 28:03confirmation. When exactly do I want to
  868. 28:05enter for a sell if I'm looking at this
  869. 28:07entire move right here.
  870. 28:09So, this is where I'll get interested at
  871. 28:10the internal market structure and this
  872. 28:12is where you can see on the lower time
  873. 28:14frame price has created higher highs and
  874. 28:16higher lows like I mentioned earlier on.
  875. 28:17And this is where you can also map out
  876. 28:19all of your internal break of structure,
  877. 28:21right? So, price creating higher highs,
  878. 28:23higher lows, right? Maybe this is a
  879. 28:25internal break of structure, another
  880. 28:26internal break of structure, another one
  881. 28:29right here. And since this is the most
  882. 28:31recent internal break of structure,
  883. 28:33remember like I mentioned earlier on,
  884. 28:35you want to identify the lowest point
  885. 28:36that led to the break of structure and
  886. 28:38this is going to be your swing low and
  887. 28:39then this right here is going to be your
  888. 28:41swing high.
  889. 28:42Okay, so maybe I'll just put that in.
  890. 28:45Swing high
  891. 28:47or internal high, right? However you you
  892. 28:49deem it as.
  893. 28:51And now
  894. 28:53the market shift will only happen after
  895. 28:55price take out the 1-hour swing low.
  896. 28:58So, if I'm looking at this right now,
  897. 29:00this is the internal structure, yeah?
  898. 29:03So, market shift means what? Means
  899. 29:05there's a shift in the trend direction
  900. 29:08of the market. And since right now the
  901. 29:10internal structure is actually bullish,
  902. 29:12if the market were to shift bearish, we
  903. 29:14need to get a break of structure to the
  904. 29:16downside.
  905. 29:17We need to see price comes down and take
  906. 29:19out the last
  907. 29:21higher low just like this, giving us a
  908. 29:23market shift, which indicate to us that
  909. 29:25right now price is indeed shifting
  910. 29:27bearish. Supply has take control of
  911. 29:29price. Sellers have overwhelmed the
  912. 29:30buyers, and right now we are shifting
  913. 29:32bearish.
  914. 29:33So, that is the market shift, right? You
  915. 29:35basically want to see price take out the
  916. 29:37last low just like this.
  917. 29:39So, here's where price is at right now.
  918. 29:41Price is somewhere around here, okay?
  919. 29:42So, this means that the internal
  920. 29:44structure is still bullish until price
  921. 29:46take out this low.
  922. 29:48If price take out this low, then we got
  923. 29:49our market shift, and this is where we
  924. 29:51can expect the entire internal structure
  925. 29:53to start shifting bearish.
  926. 29:55If price respect this low right here,
  927. 29:57comes down, mitigate this low, maybe
  928. 29:59some demand zone right here, and
  929. 30:01continue bullish, this means that the
  930. 30:03internal bullish order flow is still
  931. 30:04intact, which means we have more room to
  932. 30:06go.
  933. 30:07Price is just going to continue going
  934. 30:08up.
  935. 30:10So, that's the market shift, right? The
  936. 30:11market shift happens when price take out
  937. 30:13a structural structural high or
  938. 30:16structural low. And in a bullish
  939. 30:18uptrend, you want to see it take out a
  940. 30:19structural low, and in a downtrend, you
  941. 30:21want to see it take out a structural
  942. 30:22high.
  943. 30:24Okay, so at this point of time, if I
  944. 30:26want to enter for a sell to know for a
  945. 30:27fact that the entire structure is
  946. 30:30shifting bearish, what I do need to do
  947. 30:32is to see later price comes down, take
  948. 30:34out this low right here.
  949. 30:36Take out a swing low, giving me a market
  950. 30:38shift.
  951. 30:39And what I also want to see, which is
  952. 30:41the second criteria, is my liquidity
  953. 30:43sweep. Okay? So, liquidity sweep is
  954. 30:46pretty much professional institutions
  955. 30:48hunting stop losses. That's it.
  956. 30:51And what you want to do is to identify
  957. 30:53the price point in which retail traders
  958. 30:55are placing their stop loss. And that is
  959. 30:58where the liquidity sweep is most likely
  960. 30:59going to happen.
  961. 31:01Basic concept right here. Below a swing
  962. 31:03low, there's going to be liquidity.
  963. 31:04Above a swing high, there's going to be
  964. 31:06liquidity. Because if a retail trader is
  965. 31:08entering for a buy at this swing low
  966. 31:10right here because they want to trade
  967. 31:11the reversal, they're going to be
  968. 31:12placing their stop loss below the swing
  969. 31:14low. Similarly, if they enter for a sell
  970. 31:16right here, they're going to be placing
  971. 31:18their stop loss above the high, and
  972. 31:19that's where liquidity is sitting.
  973. 31:21Okay, so liquidity is usually found
  974. 31:24above a swing high or below a swing low.
  975. 31:26Okay? Basic concept. There's other fancy
  976. 31:29patterns like double top, double highs.
  977. 31:31Once again, not going to cover all of
  978. 31:32those. You can check out my liquidity
  979. 31:34concepts video if you want to learn more
  980. 31:35about liquidity. You want price to take
  981. 31:37out the most recent liquidity.
  982. 31:39Okay? So, over here, you want to see the
  983. 31:42liquidity sweep happen at the point of
  984. 31:44interest that you want to be trading
  985. 31:45ideally. Okay? Ideally, you want to see
  986. 31:47some form of liquidity sweep happen
  987. 31:48right here.
  988. 31:49So, the minute price mitigate a point of
  989. 31:51interest, next thing you should
  990. 31:52automatically look for is whether price
  991. 31:54have a liquidity sweep. So, you look
  992. 31:56towards the left-hand side of the chart,
  993. 31:57and you try to identify where is all the
  994. 31:59available liquidity.
  995. 32:00Yes, there is liquidity right here
  996. 32:02because this is a swing high, there is
  997. 32:04stop losses right here.
  998. 32:06Yes, there is available liquidity right
  999. 32:07here as well.
  1000. 32:08But, what you guys fail to take into
  1001. 32:11account of is the fact that there is
  1002. 32:13also liquidity all the way right here as
  1003. 32:15well.
  1004. 32:16This swing high is also liquidity.
  1005. 32:21Okay, because after all, it is still a
  1006. 32:22swing high. People who enter for a sell,
  1007. 32:24they're going to be placing their stop
  1008. 32:24loss above these highs right here.
  1009. 32:27Ideally, I want to see price take out
  1010. 32:29the liquidity right here that is formed
  1011. 32:31during the pullback phase,
  1012. 32:33and also the liquidity that is formed
  1013. 32:35during the continuation phase on the
  1014. 32:37left-hand side.
  1015. 32:38Ideally, I want to see price take out
  1016. 32:40both of these liquidity. I want to see
  1017. 32:42price come up, take out this liquidity,
  1018. 32:44cause price to reverse, and also take
  1019. 32:46out this liquidity and cause price to
  1020. 32:47reverse. Ideally, I want both. Okay, so
  1021. 32:50that's the liquidity sweep itself.
  1022. 32:53So now,
  1023. 32:54what I do in this case is that if I'm
  1024. 32:56entering for shorts today, and I want to
  1025. 32:58get a extra confirmation that price is
  1026. 33:00shifting bearish,
  1027. 33:01I want to see price comes down, take out
  1028. 33:03this low here,
  1029. 33:05and it also swept the liquidity above
  1030. 33:08this high right here, creating like a
  1031. 33:09V-shape reaction just like this, and
  1032. 33:11also swept the liquidity above this high
  1033. 33:13right here.
  1034. 33:14That's the ideal scenario.
  1035. 33:16Okay, that's generally the ideal
  1036. 33:18scenario.
  1037. 33:20If I get that, then I got my liquidity
  1038. 33:22shift, I got my market shift, and this
  1039. 33:24gives me the confidence to actually
  1040. 33:26enter for a sell position.
  1041. 33:30Now, there is two ways where you can
  1042. 33:32enter for this trade. You can either
  1043. 33:34enter after price swept the liquidity,
  1044. 33:36right? So, the minute price swept the
  1045. 33:37liquidity from this high and this high,
  1046. 33:39you straight away enter.
  1047. 33:41This is what I call the aggressive
  1048. 33:42version of the entry model. Super duper
  1049. 33:44aggressive because you are assuming that
  1050. 33:46price is just going to go down right
  1051. 33:47now.
  1052. 33:48If you are using this form of entry
  1053. 33:49model, I would recommend you to actually
  1054. 33:52place your take profit at a place where
  1055. 33:55it's actually reasonable. Okay, so this
  1056. 33:57is where we get into exit.
  1057. 34:00So, where should you exit, right? So,
  1058. 34:02now I've shown you how to enter, right?
  1059. 34:03Which is the aggressive version of the
  1060. 34:04entry model, right? Is you can enter
  1061. 34:06Wait, no, I will show you the
  1062. 34:07conservative version. My bad. So, the
  1063. 34:09aggressive version of the entry model is
  1064. 34:12asking you to enter right after the
  1065. 34:13liquidity sweep. The minute price take
  1066. 34:15out this higher, take out this higher,
  1067. 34:17you enter straight away at this candle
  1068. 34:18right here. Aggressive version of the
  1069. 34:20entry model.
  1070. 34:21Conservative version of the entry model
  1071. 34:23requires you to wait for price to pull
  1072. 34:26back to a point of interest, a supply or
  1073. 34:28demand zone, maybe just like this,
  1074. 34:31after the market shift is formed, after
  1075. 34:32the liquidity sweep. Wait for price to
  1076. 34:34pull back and then you enter for a sell
  1077. 34:35at the supply zone that was formed at
  1078. 34:38the liquidity sweep or created the
  1079. 34:40market shift.
  1080. 34:42And this is where you want to enter for
  1081. 34:43a sell from.
  1082. 34:45Okay, so
  1083. 34:47once again, aggressive or conservative,
  1084. 34:49it depends on your personality, depends
  1085. 34:51on your trading style.
  1086. 34:54Now, based on which entry model you
  1087. 34:56choose, you want to make sure that you
  1088. 34:58are choosing the right way to actually
  1089. 35:00exit the trade.
  1090. 35:02This is where you want to make sure that
  1091. 35:04if you are using the aggressive version
  1092. 35:06of the entry model, you want to manage
  1093. 35:07your expectation, right? Because at this
  1094. 35:08point of time, price has not officially
  1095. 35:10shifted bearish yet. It's just you
  1096. 35:12assuming that price is going to go down,
  1097. 35:14but that's not what actually happens
  1098. 35:15yet.
  1099. 35:16Remember, we don't trade the market for
  1100. 35:18what we are Now, we don't trade the
  1101. 35:19market for what it is, we trade the
  1102. 35:21market for what we are.
  1103. 35:22So, you don't want to impose your
  1104. 35:23assumption onto the market.
  1105. 35:25So, you want to manage your expectation.
  1106. 35:27If I'm entering for a sell right here,
  1107. 35:29I'm going to be targeting this low right
  1108. 35:31here. I'm not going to assume that this
  1109. 35:33low is going to get taken out because
  1110. 35:34price has not taken out the low yet.
  1111. 35:38Right? So, this is me managing my
  1112. 35:39expectation. This is me trading the
  1113. 35:40market for what it is.
  1114. 35:42And this is where I'm going to be
  1115. 35:43placing my stop loss above the high or
  1116. 35:45above the the supply zone right here.
  1117. 35:48So, since I'm entering for a sell at the
  1118. 35:49supply zone, I'm going to be placing the
  1119. 35:50stop loss a few pips above the supply
  1120. 35:52zone just like this.
  1121. 35:55And then I'll place my take profit at
  1122. 35:57the
  1123. 35:58opposing demand zone.
  1124. 36:00Okay, just like this. Manage my
  1125. 36:01expectation because I don't want to
  1126. 36:03assume that price is going to take out
  1127. 36:04this low.
  1128. 36:05This is the aggressive version of the
  1129. 36:06entry model. That's how you manage the
  1130. 36:08trade. You place your stop loss at a
  1131. 36:10price point that invalidate your trade
  1132. 36:12ideal and you manage your expectation
  1133. 36:13when it comes to your TP.
  1134. 36:16Okay, cool. Now, next up is the
  1135. 36:19conservative version. Conservative
  1136. 36:20version, same exact thing, right? So, if
  1137. 36:22you're entering for a sell at like a
  1138. 36:24Let's say a supply zone right here.
  1139. 36:27Same thing, you want to place your stop
  1140. 36:28loss above the supply zone and this is
  1141. 36:30where you want to place your take profit
  1142. 36:31at the opposing supply and demand zone
  1143. 36:34like this one hour low right here as
  1144. 36:35well.
  1145. 36:36If you want if you already got a market
  1146. 36:38shift right here then you can go ahead
  1147. 36:40and maybe move it to the next opposing
  1148. 36:42supply and demand zone but like I said
  1149. 36:43you don't want to assume right? I'll
  1150. 36:45much rather off you guys manage your
  1151. 36:47expectation set it at a price point that
  1152. 36:49is reasonable that you can expect price
  1153. 36:50to gravitate towards next.
  1154. 36:53And yeah, that's pretty much the entire
  1155. 36:54trading process. Once you do that this
  1156. 36:57is where you can actually do your full
  1157. 36:59take profit right here. You can actually
  1158. 37:01set a stop loss set a take profit and
  1159. 37:03this is where my personal trade
  1160. 37:05management method is that I just use set
  1161. 37:06and forget.
  1162. 37:08I just make sure that I hold a trade all
  1163. 37:10the way through right? After I place my
  1164. 37:11stop loss place my take profit I don't
  1165. 37:13do partial profits I don't trail my stop
  1166. 37:15loss I just take profit all the way
  1167. 37:17through. Okay? So yeah, that's pretty
  1168. 37:20much the entire trading plan. So let's
  1169. 37:22move on to the next part.
  1170. 37:25Right, let's move on to the next part
  1171. 37:27itself. The next part is pretty much
  1172. 37:30going to be
  1173. 37:31the post market routine. How do I
  1174. 37:33actually make sure that I journal my
  1175. 37:35trades and all that stuff to ensure that
  1176. 37:36I improve my trading performance at all
  1177. 37:38times. Let's say you know what let's say
  1178. 37:40I enter for like a bunch of trades right
  1179. 37:41here and then let's say I decide to
  1180. 37:43close a trade over here.
  1181. 37:46By the way like the minute you actually
  1182. 37:47open a trade there's this cool feature
  1183. 37:48that allows you to document your emotion
  1184. 37:50right? So this way we actually record
  1185. 37:51your emotion and this gets synced
  1186. 37:54straight to the trading journal. So you
  1187. 37:55know exactly how you're feeling when
  1188. 37:57you're entering for the trade and then
  1189. 37:58the minute you close the position just
  1190. 38:00like this you will also get
  1191. 38:03a way to actually journal in less than
  1192. 38:06five seconds right? You can take your
  1193. 38:07emotion in there let
  1194. 38:09yourself know whether you actually
  1195. 38:10follow your trade plan and type any
  1196. 38:11notes that you want to like type in here
  1197. 38:13and you can even like do like a voice
  1198. 38:14reflection over the trade itself.
  1199. 38:18Yeah, but anyways
  1200. 38:19that's pretty much like let's say today
  1201. 38:21I've actually gotten a bunch out of a
  1202. 38:23bunch of positions, you know, I lost
  1203. 38:24like $242
  1204. 38:26right here. This is where I will move on
  1205. 38:29to my post market routine which is
  1206. 38:30journaling and reviewing. Okay, so first
  1207. 38:33thing first is to go to journal and this
  1208. 38:35is where I would want to make sure that
  1209. 38:37I actually start to take the time and
  1210. 38:39space out to actually introspect. Right,
  1211. 38:41so over here at a high level you are
  1212. 38:43able to find out whether you actually
  1213. 38:44follow your trade plan or not. Okay, so
  1214. 38:46do you follow your trading plan? Right,
  1215. 38:48what was your result for today? What was
  1216. 38:49your win rate? What was your average
  1217. 38:50amount to risk? What was the amount of
  1218. 38:51trades that you took?
  1219. 38:52How many trades you win? How many trades
  1220. 38:54you lose? And whether you violated any
  1221. 38:55guardrails. Right, guardrails is pretty
  1222. 38:57much the rules that we have set earlier
  1223. 38:58on. If you violate any of these, it will
  1224. 39:00be documented right here. Right, just to
  1225. 39:02give you an example on what that looks
  1226. 39:04like, you can see if you actually
  1227. 39:06violate a guardrail, it will show up
  1228. 39:07right here as well.
  1229. 39:09Okay, so like this is where
  1230. 39:11Okay, like for example this day right
  1231. 39:12here, I traded outside my allowed
  1232. 39:13trading window. Right, so this is where
  1233. 39:15it would get documented right here.
  1234. 39:17And you will also see like whether you
  1235. 39:18actually completed your pre-market
  1236. 39:20routine right here as well. And this is
  1237. 39:22also where you are able to see like the
  1238. 39:24amount of trades that you actually
  1239. 39:25journaled. So let's go on to like this
  1240. 39:27trade right here and this is where I
  1241. 39:29will complete my actually my journaling.
  1242. 39:32All right, so this is where you will
  1243. 39:33actually upload your chart screenshot,
  1244. 39:34higher time frame, medium time frame,
  1245. 39:36lower time frame. Right, maybe let me
  1246. 39:38just give like a quick example right
  1247. 39:39here. Copy this image over here. Go back
  1248. 39:42to this trade.
  1249. 39:43Boom, boom, boom. Okay, so the reason
  1250. 39:45why I actually journal is because
  1251. 39:47journaling is what allows you to
  1252. 39:49actually get feedback. Okay, this is
  1253. 39:51what allows you to actually understand
  1254. 39:54how exactly to No, this is what allows
  1255. 39:58you to get the data points you need to
  1256. 39:59actually improve your trading
  1257. 40:00performance. Right, so this is where I
  1258. 40:02come and journal, ask myself whether I
  1259. 40:03follow my trading plan or not. Right, I
  1260. 40:05look at my trading data in here,
  1261. 40:07put in what are the trade plan that I
  1262. 40:08actually follow. Right, in this case I
  1263. 40:10follow the market mechanics trade plan,
  1264. 40:11put in the confluences that I actually
  1265. 40:13actually enter the trade on. Right,
  1266. 40:14liquidity sweep, market shift, whatever,
  1267. 40:16put in the trade management method, set
  1268. 40:17and forget, or whatever, and put in the
  1269. 40:19mistakes that I commit right here,
  1270. 40:20right? I can just dump it in and just
  1271. 40:22add like a tag over here, and then put
  1272. 40:23in my entry emotion and my exit emotion,
  1273. 40:25and just overall add a note or voice
  1274. 40:27reflection. Once again, the reason why
  1275. 40:29you're doing this is so that you can be
  1276. 40:31more aware, so that you can be more
  1277. 40:32conscious of your unconscious patterns.
  1278. 40:35Once again, very important because this
  1279. 40:37is where you get the data points you
  1280. 40:38need to actually improve.
  1281. 40:39Once you're done with journaling, like I
  1282. 40:41said, go and review your daily trading
  1283. 40:42data. You can also review it on your
  1284. 40:44dashboard as well, where you can see all
  1285. 40:45your high-level metrics, all the most
  1286. 40:47important metrics at a high level like
  1287. 40:49your win rate, your average amount you
  1288. 40:50bought, your profit factor, even your
  1289. 40:52edge score, so you can see how you're
  1290. 40:54performing not just like
  1291. 40:55qualitative-wise, but also
  1292. 40:56quantitative-wise as well.
  1293. 40:59And also, I like to go and perform some
  1294. 41:01form of like reviewing, right? This is
  1295. 41:03where I actually
  1296. 41:05come here, and this is where I go
  1297. 41:08through
  1298. 41:09a monthly review, quarterly review,
  1299. 41:11annually review, and I can see like this
  1300. 41:12is just like an example on how it works,
  1301. 41:14right? And there's these templates right
  1302. 41:16here which allows you to like just just
  1303. 41:17go through that. Okay, there's a bunch
  1304. 41:19of templates in here that you can
  1305. 41:20actually use.
  1306. 41:21Uh, but yeah, this is just an example on
  1307. 41:23what I do at the end of each period, at
  1308. 41:25the end of each month, at the end of
  1309. 41:26each quarter. I like to sit down with a
  1310. 41:28cup of tea and just review the trading
  1311. 41:29performance, how many trades I win, how
  1312. 41:31many trades I lose, how many trades I
  1313. 41:32break even, and just overall look at my
  1314. 41:35trading data, and actually get the
  1315. 41:37feedback from here, right? Do like a
  1316. 41:39huge process audit, do a huge
  1317. 41:41reflection, so that I can make less
  1318. 41:43mistakes, and I can understand more of
  1319. 41:45what works, right? The goal of doing
  1320. 41:47this is to just understand your strength
  1321. 41:48and weaknesses. So, like I said, you can
  1322. 41:50do more of what works and less of what
  1323. 41:52doesn't. So, after that, I'll also do
  1324. 41:54like a quick little meditation, right?
  1325. 41:56Just so that I don't carry my losses
  1326. 42:00through the next trading day. I just
  1327. 42:01like to do like a overall mental reset.
  1328. 42:03You can do this like breathing exercises
  1329. 42:05in here as well, just to get you back to
  1330. 42:07a mental equilibrium, so that you can
  1331. 42:09approach the the
  1332. 42:10session with a logical and rational
  1333. 42:14mind. So, that's what my full trading
  1334. 42:16routine looks like. Before the trade, I
  1335. 42:19prepare myself mentally and also my
  1336. 42:21charts as well. And just build context.
  1337. 42:24When I am trading, I follow a mechanical
  1338. 42:27trading plan with clear rules on when to
  1339. 42:29enter and when to exit. And after I'm
  1340. 42:32done trading, I journal my trades, I
  1341. 42:34review my trades, and I use data to
  1342. 42:37continuously improve and refine my
  1343. 42:40trading plan.
  1344. 42:41That is what professional trading looks
  1345. 42:44like. That is what consistency actually
  1346. 42:46is. It's not guessing, not gambling, but
  1347. 42:49having a real process, a real system, a
  1348. 42:52real framework.
  1349. 42:53Because at the end of the day, trading
  1350. 42:55success comes from process, not
  1351. 42:58predictions.
  1352. 42:59And like I said, most traders do not
  1353. 43:01need more information. They need more
  1354. 43:03structure. And when your system is
  1355. 43:05clear, discipline just becomes a whole
  1356. 43:07lot easier. That is the purpose of a
  1357. 43:10mechanical trade plan, to reduce the
  1358. 43:13emotional mistakes, to make your
  1359. 43:15execution more repeatable,
  1360. 43:17and turn trading into something you can
  1361. 43:20actually measure and improve.
  1362. 43:23So, hopefully this lesson has shown you
  1363. 43:25that EdgeFlow is much bigger than a
  1364. 43:28trading journal software, a
  1365. 43:31trading signal group. It is
  1366. 43:34indeed a full trading operating system
  1367. 43:37that is built to help you plan your
  1368. 43:38trades, prepare for the market open, to
  1369. 43:42execute trades with god reals, to
  1370. 43:44journal your trades, and to review your
  1371. 43:46trading performance with more structure
  1372. 43:48and discipline.
  1373. 43:50Because that is what professional
  1374. 43:51trading actually looks like. It's not
  1375. 43:53sexy, it's not exciting,
  1376. 43:56but it's methodical, repeatable, and
  1377. 43:59extremely powerful when you do it
  1378. 44:01consistently.
  1379. 44:02And when you combine the strategy, the
  1380. 44:04routine, the rules, and the software to
  1381. 44:07gather. This is when trading starts to
  1382. 44:10feel simpler,
  1383. 44:11clearer, and more repeatable,
  1384. 44:14and more profitable.
  1385. 44:16So, if you guys have enjoyed this
  1386. 44:17lesson, let me know down in the comments
  1387. 44:19what is the biggest gap in your current
  1388. 44:21process right now.
  1389. 44:23Is it your trading plan? Is it your
  1390. 44:25execution? Is it your journaling? Or is
  1391. 44:29it your reviewing? Right, what's the
  1392. 44:31missing piece for you right now?
  1393. 44:33Let me know down in the comments.
  1394. 44:35And with that being said, hope you guys
  1395. 44:36enjoyed this lesson, and I look forward
  1396. 44:38to seeing you guys in the next lesson.
  1397. 44:40And as always, remember you're just one
  1398. 44:42trade away.

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