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0:59What up, duck?
1:13All right.
1:14MLK day, baby.
1:28Gonna trade some EV valves today
1:30probably
1:33unless
1:35price action
1:38is nasty.
1:40But I'm kind of expecting some
1:42volatility this morning.
1:54also
2:04have a uh
2:07one of these new Lucid Black accounts
2:10um
2:12loaded up here on uh
2:15my ATAS screen. So maybe we'll trade
2:18that today.
2:21We'll see how it goes with that account.
4:38It's a half day.
4:41You know what half days are? They're
4:42eval days.
5:00So, we're going to try and trade some
5:02eval.
5:06I already have uh this one halfway done.
5:10So, we're going to work on this one
5:13later.
5:15I'm going to wait for the markets open.
5:18or the futures market.
5:27But we're not going to I already locked
5:29out of this account, though.
5:32Already locked out of the uh funded
5:34account. I was trading silver last
5:36night. Honestly, silver's been treating
5:39me well, dude.
5:43Knock on wood.
5:57We did have a pretty large gap down
6:00yesterday.
6:02I'm not really expecting that to get
6:04filled until
6:06later this week. If it even gets filled
6:08this week, unless we like invade
6:11Greenland or something, then we're
6:13probably not going to fill that gap for
6:14a long time.
7:17The good news is
7:20tomorrow
7:23we're going to just
7:26try and make 150 bucks real quick and
7:28then take a
7:30a max payout
7:33on this account. I need to start
7:35building my funded accounts back up.
7:38I kind of tilted the beginning of this
7:39month and blew like four of them.
7:43So, I've just been focusing on one
7:45account, but
7:47at least we got this account up.
7:50But I need to get more.
8:26>> [cough]
9:07>> if we do come down lower.
9:10Well, I'm actually curious to see even
9:11though I know it's a holiday and it's a
9:13half day.
9:17I'm curious to see what type of volume
9:18we get today after a gap down like that.
9:23At least for the first hour of the open.
9:28It could be absolute dog [ __ ] but
9:55I guess we'll find out in like 10
9:59minutes, 12 minutes.
10:04We'll be full porting an eval.
10:07Hopefully we go two for two.
10:16But if we do come down, I would be
10:18expecting us to
10:22potentially push lower into um
10:27around the 200 area. Maybe
10:32unless we just like due to it being a
10:35half day for a holiday, unless we just
10:37open up and kind of just like
10:40mess around in this range within within
10:42London's um
10:45within London's range here,
10:55but we're definitely not trading the uh
10:57funded account.
10:59We're going to wait till tomorrow.
11:22I'll be right back.
12:08But you know what happened on Friday is
12:10I missed Friday.
12:13What a beautiful day to trade.
12:17What up, Ramy?
12:21Dude, I stayed up really late on Friday,
12:23so I slept in.
12:26It's the wrong day to sleep in.
12:29You could have targeted these lows. Oh,
12:34fumbled that one.
12:39That's why you got to show up every day.
12:49I mean, you don't really need to show up
12:50today, though. Today is kind of
12:52whatever.
12:55Do I have a course? No, I do not. But we
12:58do have a Discord.
13:01It's free and I post information in
13:04there
13:09for free and
13:12I give away accounts, Alpha Future
13:15accounts for free.
13:27Actually, I'm doing a giveaway for two
13:29Alpha Future accounts. I'm announcing
13:31winners on uh Wednesday. So, if you want
13:34to participate in that and potentially
13:37win a 50k zero account,
13:42then feel free to join the Discord and
13:45check the announcements and
13:48try and win a free account.
13:55We try and do at least one giveaway of
13:57like two 50k accounts every month.
14:00Sometimes there's more,
14:02but usually at least one
14:12trying futures. Um, and you opened a
14:16Ninja Trader account. Are you like a
14:18live account?
14:27If you're just trying futures out, I'd
14:29recommend a uh using a prop firm
14:32instead of a live account in the
14:35beginning just so you can
14:44unless you're going to load like
14:47unless you have some experience trading
14:49and you're going to load like you know
14:51thousands of dollars into um
14:57into a live account, then sure. But
14:59realistically though, like if you're
15:01kind of just testing the waters, I mean,
15:04it's probably smarter to
15:07use a prop firm and, you know, instead
15:09of putting a thousands of dollars of
15:11your own money on the line, you only put
15:13like 50 to 100 bucks and still get the
15:17same experience and still have the same
15:18opportunities to a certain extent.
15:22But if you're like uh coming from a
15:25different market, like let's say you
15:26trade forex or whatever and you've been
15:28doing it for a while and you want to
15:30just trade futures and load up a Ninja
15:32Trader account and go for it.
15:39Uh I use Topep, I use Alpha Futures, and
15:43I use some other prop firms every once
15:45in a while.
15:47Right now, this is a Topstep account.
15:50This one's a topstep account and this
15:52one's a topstep account connected to my
15:54ATAS right now. I do have a Lucid
15:57account,
15:59but um I'm testing out their new like
16:04black account.
16:11Well, starting small, like
16:17if you if you load
16:20if you fund your account with not that
16:22much money,
16:24it's kind of difficult um
16:27because of margin requirements.
16:31Oh, we're taking a drop on the 25 minute
16:36before five minutes before. Probably
16:38going to come down here.
16:43All we need is like 60 to 100 ticks.
16:53But yeah, I mean, you can try a live
16:56account. It'll be good for your
17:01I mean, it'll be
17:03good for a test on your psychology.
17:09There was a time where I stopped trading
17:11um last year I stopped trading profarmms
17:13for like four months and then I loaded
17:16up like $500 into a uh
17:20Ninja Trader account and then I grew it
17:22to like 2500 just playing with one or
17:25two micros over the course of like six
17:28months or something. Then I eventually
17:31lost it all. But what I learned in the
17:33process was uh better risk management in
17:37terms of um I mean you're still flipping
17:39an account so you're still
17:40overleveraging but
17:43I was before that I was going through
17:45this spiral of just like full porting uh
17:49full porting accounts. So it was kind of
17:51a good mental reset.
17:56Well I mean that's that's my that's my
17:59point. It's like if you can't uh pass an
18:02eval. Now, evals do have rules that
18:06necessarily might make it more
18:07difficult, but at the end of the day, if
18:09you're like brand new to futures,
18:12um
18:14I would not really recommend
18:17putting your money on the line in a live
18:20account to start out with.
18:23I would
18:25definitely recommend just testing the
18:27waters with the prop firm and you're
18:29going to dink yourself later
18:33because you're going to
18:36it's all about trying to
18:40lose the least amount of money possible
18:41realistically.
18:47Yeah, live trading definitely helps
18:48sometimes if you get caught in this like
18:52eval
18:53spiral, funded account spiral where you
18:55just full porting and blowing [ __ ]
18:57because you could just buy another one.
19:02Uh market is a half day today. So today
19:05on half days we trade evals. So we
19:08already have one halfway done. We're
19:10going to trade this one. I have another
19:11one connected to this
19:15uh risk management and winning with
19:17small stop- losses. Well, if you're
19:18going to win with a small stop-loss,
19:20then your uh
19:22your entry needs to be good.
19:28Honestly, if we open up right now and
19:29we're going to drop, I'm probably just
19:31going to full port this thing lower.
19:35I will risk $1,000. We'll give ourselves
19:39two bullets in the chamber
19:44for the full port.
19:48But last night
19:50traded a little bit of silver.
19:53So we got a $10,000 balance now.
19:57So now it is time to start working on
20:00getting more funded accounts again.
20:06Yeah. full poor MLK day
20:14because the idea would be
20:17if we hit profit target on I don't know
20:20two EV valves today then during Asia
20:23session later today potentially trading
20:26gold or silver um if we can pass one or
20:30two of those then we can have another
20:32funded account fresh to start off the
20:35day tomorrow. It's kind of what I'm
20:38thinking.
20:49But yeah, Aaron, in terms of winning
20:52with a small stop-loss, you can only
20:53have a small stop-loss if your entry is
20:55going to allow for it. So,
20:58if your entry doesn't allow for it and
21:00you're just trying to put a small
21:01stop-loss because that's how much you're
21:02willing to lose, you it's just going to
21:04get hit.
21:06Stop loss needs to make sense.
21:08All right, let's see what we get here.
21:10We got 15 seconds.
21:19There is a chance that we come down into
21:21this area. I wonder if market open, even
21:25though it's a holiday, will be kind of
21:27whiplashy.
21:57All right. So,
22:00super low volume at the open. We may go
22:02down.
22:04I'm going to go short on this EVO
22:07account. We'll give it a shot.
22:09>> We'll put our uh stop loss right here.
22:13We'll see if we can start coming down to
22:15take out some of these lows. If not,
22:16we'll just snap back up. I'll lose a
22:18thousand bucks, but whatever.
22:22If we do take the lows
22:26then we will um hit profit target on
22:30this trade. So
22:34if we lose it then we will have another
22:38opportunity
22:45because I'm only risking $1,000.
22:51Well, not only $1,000. I'm risking half
22:53of the account right now, basically
22:5757, but volume right now is dead. So,
23:01today is going to be a This opening
23:04print is terrible, by the way. So,
23:07today
23:08is definitely not going to be the best
23:11day to trade.
23:15Um,
23:20honestly, dude, paper trading is a waste
23:22of time. In my opinion, I think paper
23:25trading is a total waste of time.
23:31It's like It's like if you were to play,
23:33I don't know, basketball,
23:36and you go to the court by yourself and
23:38you're just shooting threes
23:41and you think that like you got it down.
23:45Well, what's going to happen when
23:46there's a guy in front of your face
23:47trying to block you from throwing your
23:48three? You know what I mean? Things
23:50change a little bit.
23:53So,
23:55I don't know if that analogy makes
23:56sense, but the idea basically is just
23:59that
24:02when you're paper trading, you're
24:03missing one of the most essential parts
24:05of trading, which is the emotions.
24:09When you're paper trading, you don't
24:11give a [ __ ] because it's you don't have
24:13any money on the line.
24:22Can we get it? Can we just go a little
24:24bit further? We already took one of the
24:26lows. Actually, at this point, just so
24:30that I don't put myself in a shitty
24:32situation, I'm just going to move my
24:35stop to break even. We're either going
24:38to go and take these lows right now with
24:40a bit of a snap or we're not going to do
24:42it.
24:45Uh, where do you look for a good entry,
24:47Aaron? Well, I mean, it just depends on
24:48your strategy. Um,
24:53I try sometimes I have pretty big stop
24:55losses because I need them, but
24:59sometimes I'll have pretty tight stop
25:00losses.
25:04It really it it really doesn't doesn't
25:07um
25:09my goal is not necessarily to have like
25:11the tightest stop loss possible
25:13realistically.
25:15I mean if I get a nice entry and I can
25:17have a nice tight stop loss then great.
25:20But
25:26almost there.
25:35What do I use with order flow?
25:38I don't know what you mean by that.
25:47I guess maybe if I understand your
25:49question correctly, market structure.
25:53Oh my god, I'm getting teased right now.
25:55Don't do this to me.
26:00Yeah, psychology is a big part of
26:02trading, but psychology without an edge
26:04is just
26:08you need an edge.
26:11So, it is trading is also about having
26:14an edge because if you don't have an
26:15edge, you could have great psychology
26:17and still [ __ ] suck.
26:26Yeah, if you're trying to learn how to
26:27read charts and understand data, um,
26:32like understand reading this type of
26:33stuff,
26:35then you you definitely shouldn't be
26:38loading up a live account, bro. Like,
26:40please save your save your money. Just
26:43listen to me. If you're if you're still
26:46learning how to read a chart.
26:49>> All right,
26:52so we hit profit target on this account.
26:54We're lock We're going to lock out of
26:55this one.
26:57So now
27:00we hit profit target on this account. We
27:02hit profit target on this account. And
27:05we are up $2,400 on this account with a
27:08$10,000 balance. So we're going to sit
27:10here for a second.
27:13We're going to decide
27:15if we want to trade
27:18more or not. But I'll sit here and we'll
27:21watch. But this the reason why I took
27:23that trade by the way
27:26um
27:28is because for one I don't think we're
27:30going to fill the gap. So any type of
27:32long position until we get like up here
27:36any type of long position is just out of
27:38the question. Just totally out of the
27:41question.
27:43And we set up these lows perfectly for
27:44us to run through them and take them
27:46out. So when you see before market open,
27:49we had a little bit of selling pressure
27:51stepping in. We waited for the opening
27:53print. Very low volume, like less than
27:56half of normal volume at the opening
27:59print because MLK day. So we wait.
28:03Buyers didn't do anything. So we just
28:05try to take it short and hope that we
28:06can get a continuation to the lows. So
28:09we went three minis and hit profit
28:11target.
28:15How do I read candles? Um, I have some I
28:19mean, it's kind of a loaded question.
28:21That's like kind of a lot of stuff to
28:22answer, bro. But, uh, if you really want
28:25to know,
28:27if you really want to know, well, I have
28:29videos on on YouTube. I'm going to make
28:32more videos on YouTube. Um, starting
28:35next month, I'm going to be posting a
28:36lot more a lot more educational, long
28:39form content.
28:41But if you want to know exactly how I
28:44view the market and like what what I am
28:48looking at and how I am actually like
28:50figuring out
28:52what I'm trying to do.
28:56If you really care, I wrote a PDF. It's
29:00like took me like two weeks to write it.
29:01It's like 60 pages long. It's got little
29:04diagrams in there and [ __ ]
29:07So, if you really want to know, you can
29:10join the Discord. You can go into my
29:12little PDF section
29:15and you can download my market
29:18blueprint. And if you really want to,
29:19you can read it
29:25and that'll give you a good idea on how
29:27I think about markets and how I think
29:29they move. And it sets up the foundation
29:32for understanding what I'm looking at.
29:34Because if you don't really understand,
29:37okay, so like what goes into a trade is
29:39not just like there's so much like
29:45context
29:48before it comes down to the entry.
29:50There's so much that has to be looked at
29:52before that. So much that has to be
29:54thought about before that before you
29:56actually dial in on like taking an entry
29:59because you got to figure out which way
30:00you think you're going to go and why.
30:02Why are we going to go that way? So,
30:05yeah, I have that in there. There's also
30:07a if you struggle with tilt,
30:11I also wrote a PDF for that, too. That
30:12one took me like three weeks to write
30:14because it's like 120 pages, but it's
30:18not like a normal psychology thing of
30:20like, oh, fear and greed and blah blah
30:24blah. No, if you actually struggle with
30:26tilt, and I used to struggle with tilt a
30:27lot because I used to basically just
30:29gamble. Um, there is an actual process
30:34or a system that you can use to prevent
30:36yourself from tilting.
30:39I still tilt sometimes, but
30:42it's a lot less common.
30:46Should we buy another account?
30:50I'm up on top this month. Money in,
30:53money out. We could buy more accounts,
30:55but is today the right day to do that?
30:59We kind of just took the low,
31:03so I'm really not expecting much else.
31:11And the volume is dead.
31:24Damn, bro. I didn't know I was region
31:27blocking you like that.
31:29My bad. Well, how about this? Um,
31:36yeah, it is a holiday today. It's a half
31:38day,
31:40but we hit profit target on an Eval, so
31:43off the open. So, now volume's dead
31:47basically. So, we're just sitting here
31:50hanging out.
31:52My job here is done.
31:55basically made like $5,000 today,
31:58although 3,000 of that was eval.
32:03Uh, but what you can do
32:07for the homie that was blocked by the
32:09region is DM me on like Instagram or
32:14Twitter or something. It's trades. I'll
32:17just send you an invite link, bro, if
32:19[ __ ] is blocking you.
32:22And then you can go look at those like
32:23PDFs that I have or watch my videos or
32:27whatever.
32:44If you're going to continue to trade
32:46today,
32:49I would probably recommend that you
32:50don't
32:52This was like really the only move of
32:54the day for for the morning.
32:58Just a quick 30 points to go take the
33:00lows.
33:02There's probably some there might be
33:04another move, but
33:07the volume is so low right now
33:12that it's really not worth it. Or else I
33:15would be buying more accounts.
33:18Although I got to be careful about
33:20buying accounts because Tops Up sent me
33:23a warning.
33:26Topep emailed me a warning telling me to
33:28stop doing it.
33:32But you know what? Top step can suck a
33:33dick, dude.
33:43They're not about to tell me what I can
33:45and can't do.
33:50They just don't like how I full port
33:52evals.
33:54There's nothing wrong with full porting
33:55some evs.
34:11Well,
34:14the benefit of having more accounts
34:19is like
34:22so with with trading,
34:25let's say you trade
34:27and you make a certain amount of money
34:30and now you want to make more money.
34:33Okay? Well, if you want to make more
34:35money,
34:37how are you going to do that? Well,
34:39there's two options to do it. Either you
34:41can scale vertically or scale
34:43horizontally. Now what does that mean?
34:45When you scale vertically that means
34:47that in your trading you're increasing
34:50size, you're increasing your risk and
34:53you're increasing your reward. That is
34:56scaling vertically. Now the other option
34:59is to scale horizontally.
35:01So what does that mean? Well, you don't
35:04increase size, you don't increase risk,
35:06but you increase the amount of uh
35:08accounts that you're trading. You can do
35:10that with prop firms. You wouldn't do
35:12that with a live account. With a live
35:14account, you would have to actually
35:15scale vertically. But with prop firms,
35:19you can basically have multiple
35:22accounts. You can copy trade them if
35:24you'd like to. And so what could end up
35:27happening is let's say that silver trade
35:30I took last night, I had five funded
35:32accounts and I was copy trading them and
35:34this was the leader. Well, then instead
35:37of making $2,400, it would have been
35:392400 times five.
35:43So,
35:46the whole point of trading prop firms
35:49and this like gamified version of
35:51trading, because that's what it is. It's
35:53just a gamified version of trading. It's
35:55not real trading
35:57in my opinion. But this gamified version
36:01of trading is they give you an
36:03opportunity to access leverage that you
36:05would not have otherwise with your own
36:08capital. So if you're using prop firms
36:13and you're not trading multiple
36:15accounts, then you are wasting an
36:17opportunity that is provided to you
36:18because that is the entire that's the
36:21most important the most important thing
36:22about prop firms is the fact that you
36:25can literally have multiple accounts and
36:27each of these accounts if you pass them
36:29are like a hundred bucks. Okay, this
36:32account that I have right here,
36:36you know how much it took to buy this
36:37account? To get this account, it took a
36:40hundred 80. It took $89.
36:43$89 to get this funded account. The
36:46balance is at $10,000.
36:49This is the fourth payout cycle. So,
36:53basically,
36:55I'm pretty sure I pulled so far like
36:58$7,000 or something out of this $6 or
37:01$7,000 out of this uh No, probably
37:05probably like5 or $6,000 out of this
37:08account alone off of a $89
37:12investment,
37:13right? And then and then when I take
37:15this $5,000 payout tomorrow, well, then
37:18that's going to bump the numbers up even
37:20more, right? we're going to be at
37:21basically $10,000
37:23pulled out from a $89 investment. That
37:26type of leverage when it comes to live
37:28accounts, dude, is just like
37:32doesn't exist. It doesn't exist.
37:36So then, so then if you think about
37:37that, right, then the idea would be
37:39like, okay, well,
37:42take your $89 investment,
37:46put it into some account, pass it, get a
37:49payout, take the profits, get more
37:51accounts, repeat the process, do it over
37:53and over and over, and then next thing
37:55you know,
37:58you're making some money.
38:07A 10 times better thumbnail for me.
38:10Damn. You don't like my thumbnail, bro?
38:13If it's trash, just say that.
38:28What up, Void?
38:35Yeah, if you're trading a CFD, um,
38:42if you're trading a CFD,
38:45then
38:49you could trade like NDX or US 100, I
38:52think.
39:00Um,
39:03and I'll check your message after I'm
39:05done streaming.
39:09Can you copy trades automatically? Um,
39:12so you just set up a you just set up the
39:15copy trader. So
39:18there's platforms where like on project
39:21X you can cop you could set up a leader
39:23and a follower. Basically, the leader
39:25account is the one you're trading on.
39:26The follower are the ones that just take
39:27the same trades
39:30automatically.
39:33Um,
39:35or you can use third party trade copiers
39:38that are crossplatform
39:40like trade syncer
39:43ones
39:45or tra or like trade sync. I don't know
39:47what the [ __ ] it's called. Um, but yeah.
39:52All right, bro. Well, if you want to
39:53make me a thumbnail,
39:59DM me on Instagram,
40:02thrades, and we can talk about it.
40:09We can talk about it. Yeah, today is not
40:12the best day to trade, especially if
40:14you're trading an account that you care
40:16about.
40:17Um, you probably shouldn't. And you can
40:20just tell like based like the the moment
40:23that we open
40:25the first five minute candle will always
40:27tell us with volume whether today is
40:30going to be a slower day
40:35or a faster day. And the moment that the
40:38first fivem minute candle opened up
40:41with $22,000 or my bad 22,000 contracts
40:45traded on a fivem minute MNQ candle.
40:48It's [ __ ] Because most days,
40:52a normal day or even tomorrow, you're
40:54going to see this first five minute
40:56candle is going to have like 40 to
40:5950,000 contracts traded in it. So, the
41:01fact that we're basically half of that
41:03or even slightly below that. Um, that
41:06just tells you that the volume's not
41:08there today for obvious reasons because
41:10it's a holiday.
41:12So, it's early close.
41:15So, it's better if you just uh don't
41:17trade now.
41:19I'll still trade it for evaluations like
41:22what I just did earlier this morning
41:25when I traded this move down on this
41:27account
41:29because I'm full porting it. I really
41:31don't need a big move. Like I went three
41:33three minis. I just need 100 ticks
41:38and 100 ticks is just provided all over
41:41the place. So
41:44So we did hit profit target on two of
41:47these. Hopefully later today we could
41:49pass
41:51both of them, but at the very bare
41:54minimum hopefully pass at least one of
41:56them.
41:59I'll be bummed if I blow both of those,
42:01but whatever.
42:04Happens sometimes.
42:16But yeah, if you're uh
42:19if you're going to be one of those guys
42:20who uh is looking at this gap right here
42:26and you say to yourself,
42:29"Oh, gap's always get filled. Oh, the
42:31gap needs to be filled. The gap's always
42:33going to get filled." And you're just
42:35going to long this all week. Just be
42:36careful, dude.
42:39I don't think this is going to fill till
42:42way later this week.
42:45And if we do pop up into this like
42:47tomorrow or whatever, I doubt we're
42:49actually going to uh
42:53it's possible, but I doubt that we're
42:55going to get a full fill on this. I
42:56mean, this is a massive gap. Anytime you
42:58have gaps like this,
43:00what'll usually happen is I'll mark out,
43:03if you can see this right here, it's
43:0425%, 50%, 75%.
43:08It is likely that we do a partial fill.
43:10So, I'd be watching like quarters
43:13quarters of the gap, but I definitely
43:16don't think we're going to get up there
43:17today
43:22and even tomorrow.
43:26I'm actually expecting us to dig a
43:27little deeper. I was looking for um
43:34I was looking for us to take out these
43:36lows this week, but because we opened up
43:43with such a big gap and immediately took
43:45it out, now I'm just kind of like, h now
43:48I'm just waiting. I need there to I need
43:51us to build some structure again.
43:53Otherwise, I'm looking at this area
43:54right here.
43:57Let me actually change this.
44:05And then if we blast through this, then
44:08we're taking this.
44:10But overall, as long as we don't
44:14kick off a war and increase tariffs,
44:19eventually we will fill this gap on our
44:21way back up to hit these highs.
44:25But we have been stuck in this range
44:30since
44:32November
44:34on a higher time frame.
44:38Like look at this weekly. This is
44:40disgusting.
44:45Nasty.
45:07But
45:11even though we are in a range, we are
45:13having some pretty large moves within
45:15this range because it's a massive range.
45:16It's like a thousand points. So
45:20easily within the range you can have 300
45:23to 500 point daily candles and within
45:25those daily candles are great moves
45:30but it's just
45:32it's just difficult because like when
45:34you're when you're playing a range on a
45:37higher time frame
45:39or something like this, right? like
45:45you don't want to trade like you don't
45:47want to trade the the equilibrium or the
45:51middle point of this range.
45:53It's better when trading ranges on
45:56higher time frames to trade the
45:58extremes. And what I mean by extremes is
46:00like discounts or premiums
46:04until we break out of this. Eventually,
46:06we're going to break out of this one way
46:08or another.
46:12Although, we're going to need some type
46:13of uh
46:16some type of catalyst for us to [ __ ]
46:19get down here. Although, if we get down
46:22here,
46:24if we get all the way down here back
46:27into like 24,000,
46:31that's going to be interesting. And it's
46:33probably going to get kind of volatile.
46:38We got a lot of room to go until we even
46:41start thinking about that.
46:49So, we're getting some buying pressure
46:50stepping in.
46:57I still don't think we're going to go
46:58fill the gap or even
47:02get up here.
47:04We're definitely not filling the gap
47:06today, but I just mean like
47:09get up here.
47:24If we get above like
47:2925,400 area, 25,390
47:34then we may pop up over here
47:38a little bit,
47:41but I don't think we're getting higher
47:42than 25% of the gap. If for whatever
47:45reason a bunch of volume just like kicks
47:47in and we just like start riding up, I
47:50don't expect us to get above this area
47:52um today. I believe that we're
47:55realistically today going to probably
47:58stay within
48:00like a 200 point range.
48:03somewhere around right here. We'll
48:05probably just mess around in here.
48:11Um, do I do one-on- ons?
48:19Uh, not really, bro.
48:23But like
48:25I'm always willing to help somebody out.
48:31So,
48:35we can talk about it, I guess. I mean,
48:41if you're looking for like a mentorship
48:43or something, I don't really like offer
48:45that,
48:47but if you ever need advice or you have
48:49questions, I'm more than happy to answer
48:51them.
48:56So, I mean, the the easiest way to get
48:58in contact with me like over everything
49:01is Discord.
49:03I'm on Discord like every day. So,
49:12but like I mean, but to answer your
49:14question, do I do one-on ones or do I
49:16have like a mentorship? No, I don't.
49:24But I'll always answer questions as long
49:26as long as as long as like you
49:30actually trade.
49:33Cuz one thing is for sure. If someone
49:34just is like coming in here and they're
49:36like, I want to learn how to trade.
49:39I I don't have time for that right right
49:41now. I don't have time for that. That's
49:43way that's way too much explaining
49:46everything.
49:48[ __ ] dude. That's what YouTube's for.
49:54And screen time. YouTube and screen
49:56time. That's your best mentor right
49:58there. And you know what? It's it's free
50:00to a certain extent,
50:10but I'm hoping
50:12I'm working on making some content.
50:15Um, and I'm hoping that
50:20uh it'll help you guys out. If you guys
50:23have questions,
50:25maybe maybe in the future, like six
50:27months down the road, you might ask a
50:29question. I'll be like, "Perfect. I have
50:30a video for that. Go check it out. Makes
50:33my job easier."
50:36It's okay, easy. I know you're a newbie.
50:38There's nothing wrong with that.
50:40Absolutely nothing wrong with it. And
50:42that's not a dumb question. And screen
50:43time is basically just like experience
50:45like sitting in front of the screen,
50:48watching charts, trading, experiencing
50:51emotions,
50:53um, experiencing losing money, making
50:58money, making mistakes, doing things
51:01right over a long enough period of time,
51:05you're basically just clocking in hours.
51:07Think about it like uh like a pilot
51:09license, right? Like you can't just like
51:10go take a test and then become a pilot.
51:12You got to have hours of time in the
51:14air. You got to have like 10,000 hours
51:17to fly a certain plane. Things like
51:19that. There's really no difference when
51:20it comes to trading. You got to get your
51:23get your hours in. You got to clock in,
51:28gain some experience.
51:33Like for example, right? I know because
51:36I have enough screen time that today is
51:39going to be slow and today is not the
51:43best day to trade. But if you don't have
51:46screen time and you're just like just
51:48started trading last week, you might be
51:49like, why is the market so slow today or
51:52whatever. Um,
51:55but people who trade, they understand
51:57like, okay, well, today's a holiday. The
52:00opening print was weak. There wasn't a
52:02lot of volume.
52:05And you only know that because it's
52:07happened before.
52:18Yeah, I have a I'm also
52:20I mean I don't know if I'm going to ever
52:22do a mentorship, bro. That's not the
52:24goal. Like
52:30it takes a lot of time and effort.
52:33Although I am creating content, I'm
52:35creating content for people. I'll create
52:38resources. I'll create tools. But what I
52:42think of in terms of a mentorship is
52:44like
52:50there's only so much that somebody can
52:52do for you, dude. Like realistically,
52:55when it comes to trading, there's only
52:57so much that a guru or a mentor can do
53:01with you. Because when it really comes
53:04down to trading,
53:06nobody is there to hold your [ __ ]
53:08hand, bro.
53:10No one's going to tell you to stop doing
53:12that. No one's going to tell you to keep
53:13doing that. They're going to tell you
53:16what you should do,
53:20but
53:22once you start getting in the fight,
53:25[ __ ] flies out the window. I mean, I
53:28could tell you everything about trading.
53:31That doesn't mean you're going to be a
53:32successful trader. It's like uh
53:36it's like what Mike Tyson says, like
53:38everyone has a plan till you get punched
53:39in the face. like I could [ __ ] tell
53:41you everything about how to trade, how
53:43to manage your emotions, and you're
53:45like, "Yeah, I understand. I'm I'll
53:47totally do that." And then you lose
53:50three trades in a row and [ __ ] [ __ ]
53:51flies out the window and you're blowing
53:53accounts and [ __ ] So, it's hard. It's
53:55hard to mentor people. I mean, that's
53:57really just like a cash grab. That [ __ ]
53:58is kind of a
54:01um
54:06but [ __ ] maybe if someone wants to
54:07throw bread at me, [ __ ] it. I'll [ __ ]
54:09try and teach you whatever you want to
54:10learn, but I just
54:16don't want you guys to spend money on
54:17stupid [ __ ]
54:23Tory trades. Yeah. Where's the trend
54:25lines at right now?
54:28Yeah, boy. You want you want to join my
54:30mentorship? It's uh
54:34it'll last for three hours and it's
54:36$10,000. I'll teach you how to be a
54:38profitable trader with one setup with a
54:4080% win rate and you can retire.
54:44You'll be my first customer.
54:48Let's check out the Tory trend lines. We
54:50don't got one yet.
54:55Deal.
54:58Yeah, we also offer uh payment plans
55:02$10,000 broken up into thousand payments
55:05every hour.
55:10All right, we're moving back up. Let's
55:12see if we're gonna um
55:15we'll probably take these highs, but I'm
55:16not I'm kind of expecting us to take
55:18these highs right here and then maybe
55:22chop around a little bit. Or another
55:25potential scenario is we have this uh
55:30this buying pressure coming in and then
55:32it'll actually start to get kind of
55:34exhausted a little bit, but it'll
55:36basically just start doing this. Here we
55:38go with a little Vshape. We come up here
55:41and then we'll just start going like
55:45like that.
55:47We could potentially do that.
55:50But if this happens, do not trade this.
55:54Those slow grinds up. Unless you're like
55:56already in a trade from like right here,
55:58you were to get like a break and a
56:00retest and entry and then we start going
56:02like this and you hold it. Sure. But
56:05anytime you start seeing the market kind
56:07of like
56:09slowly grind up at like a 45 degree
56:12angle,
56:15you shouldn't touch it.
56:18We'll see if we can get through this
56:19area. I think um it's likely it's
56:24likely.
56:40But yeah, I'm probably not gonna um buy
56:42another account today.
56:45I will wait until
56:48uh market GlobeEx open the CME open.
56:54I'll catch 150 bucks on this account.
56:56I'll pull a five grand payout and then I
56:59will
57:00full port the second half of both of
57:02those evals that I hit profit target on
57:04today. And my goal is just to pass one
57:07of them. If we pass both of them, great.
57:11If we pass none of them, I'll be sad.
57:15And then hopefully we can have some uh
57:17more funded accounts for Tuesday.
57:20This week should be interesting though.
57:21I think this week should be interesting.
57:33Let's go pass the eval.
57:38That's what's up.
57:44Yeah,
57:46max payout.
57:54Where did I learn orderflow?
57:58YouTube.
57:59YouTube and staring at this
58:03every day
58:06for a very long time.
58:15Really, really what it comes down to,
58:17like if you're trying to learn
58:19orderflow, you just need to understand
58:21auction theory.
58:23If you don't know what that is, go watch
58:25some YouTube videos on it. You need to
58:27understand auction theory because at the
58:30end of the day,
58:33at the end of the day, why does the
58:36market move? It moves because people buy
58:39or people sell. Okay? It does not move
58:43because there was a three-wick candle
58:45pattern. That is just how you visualize
58:48buying and selling. But at the very core
58:50basis of why a market is moving, it is
58:53moving because there is an auction that
58:54is being that is being that is taking
58:57place between buyers and sellers.
59:01And when buyers are in control of that
59:04auction, price is going to go higher.
59:07When sellers are in control of the
59:09auction, price is going to go lower.
59:18I think I said that right. Anyways,
59:22so then if you understand the foundation
59:24of um
59:27if you understand the foundation of
59:29auction theory,
59:31then order flow, you can piece it
59:33together. You can start figuring it out.
59:37If you don't understand auction theory
59:40and you're used to just drawing lines
59:42and boxes on a chart and you're looking
59:45at candlestick patterns every day like
59:48head and shoulders and [ __ ] bare
59:50flags and bull flags, you're probably
59:53going to look at order flow and you're
59:55going to open it up and you're going to
59:56be like, "What the [ __ ] is this?" Like,
59:59you be like, "This looks complicated."
1:00:01It's really I mean, it is kind of
1:00:03complicated. I'm not even going to sit
1:00:04here and tell you that's not
1:00:05complicated. It is kind of complicated,
1:00:07but
1:00:10only in the sense that there's a
1:00:11learning curve to it. But once you get
1:00:15past the learning curve, you're
1:00:17chilling. You're chilling.
1:00:24But yeah,
1:00:25so first place to start if you want to
1:00:27learn orderflow, go learn about option
1:00:30theory.
1:00:36Yeah, that's good. I mean, some traders
1:00:39like trade option theory concepts and
1:00:41they don't even really understand it.
1:00:42Like if you ever trade fair value gaps,
1:00:44like that is auction theory mechanics.
1:00:48Although most people don't trade fair
1:00:49value gaps the right way because they
1:00:51just like mark any three candle pattern
1:00:52that has a gap in the middle of candle
1:00:54two and call it a a fair value gap.
1:00:57That's not actually the case. Um,
1:01:02I'm actually going to make a video about
1:01:03that to explain that. But
1:01:07yeah, fair value gaps usually require um
1:01:11I know it's going to sound crazy. Put a
1:01:14fair value gap requires a gap of fair
1:01:17value.
1:01:20So how do we identify that? Well, you
1:01:23can use orderflow to identify it.
1:01:26Otherwise,
1:01:29if there is no gap of fair value and a
1:01:32fair value gap, then what do we have? We
1:01:34have three candles. We just have three
1:01:36candles with displacement. Not an
1:01:39auction inefficiency. It's just
1:01:40displacement.
1:01:50But I'm not saying that like fair value
1:01:51gaps are [ __ ] I use I use fair
1:01:53value gaps. But you just got to know
1:01:55like which ones to use because some of
1:01:57them are higher quality. We'll call
1:01:59well, you know, we'll call we'll call it
1:02:00a higher quality fair value gap and a
1:02:03lower quality for value gap.
1:02:05Do not treat them all the same. They are
1:02:07not all the same.
1:02:22And even if you don't even if you don't
1:02:24use footprint,
1:02:27that's fine. Just you should still
1:02:28understand how auction theory works.
1:02:30Like you should still understand auction
1:02:32theory mechanics. Like it's
1:02:36it's literally how price moves
1:02:41it's pretty I think it's pretty
1:02:43important. Even if you don't even use
1:02:45footprint or order flow,
1:02:56right? You got to set a foundation. You
1:02:58got to set a foundation on why this does
1:03:00what it does. Why did this happen? Why
1:03:05do we move down? Why did we move up? Why
1:03:07are we moving sideways? Okay. Well, once
1:03:10you set a foundation and you understand
1:03:12a little bit on how markets move, well,
1:03:15then it's going to be a little bit
1:03:16easier to understand strategies.
1:03:23The the worst thing you can do is like
1:03:25open up a chart, be a brand new trader,
1:03:27and be like, "Let me just go search up
1:03:29uh best strategy of 2026."
1:03:32Best best best trading strategy 2026.
1:03:36And find some dude who just makes some
1:03:37strategy whereas his uh thumbnail is
1:03:40like this. And then it's like it's like
1:03:43uh this one strategy changed my life,
1:03:4580% win rate. And you're like, "This
1:03:47looks pretty good." and then you go and
1:03:49trade it and and it doesn't work for you
1:03:52or maybe it does and then you [ __ ]
1:03:54go, "Ah, let me go find a new strategy."
1:03:56You're just going through the algorithm
1:03:58of trading [ __ ] [laughter] [ __ ]
1:04:00strategies like just learn how the
1:04:02market moves, dude. It'll make
1:04:04everything like way easier.
1:04:07Yeah. And then and then when you're when
1:04:09you're going through strategies on
1:04:10YouTube and they're not working and then
1:04:12you're like, "You know what? Maybe what
1:04:13I need is I need to pay somebody $2,000
1:04:15to teach me." It's like, bro, come on.
1:04:20That's how they get you.
1:04:22The hook. They hook you in. They reel
1:04:25you in. Give me your money.
1:04:35Uh, how much time did it take me to get
1:04:36the logic of orderflow? So, I first got
1:04:39introduced to Orderflow in terms of like
1:04:42um
1:04:46I would say at the end of 2023, the
1:04:49beginning of 2024, I first opened up my
1:04:52first footprint chart. I got bookmap.
1:04:56I did not know what I was looking at. I
1:04:59really didn't understand it. Um, I
1:05:02understood a little bit about auction
1:05:04theory, like a tiny bit just in terms of
1:05:07like buyers and sellers and you have a
1:05:10balanced market and an imbalance market
1:05:13and market's not going to move unless
1:05:15that scale starts to tilt a certain way
1:05:18to either side.
1:05:21Um,
1:05:24and then I stopped using orderflow for
1:05:27about
1:05:296 months because I didn't really know
1:05:31how to use it. And then I decided to
1:05:34give it another shot. Well, I stopped
1:05:36using footprint charts. I rema I still
1:05:38used bookmap, but then I didn't really
1:05:41like bookmap anymore because I didn't
1:05:44really understand it. I just saw heat
1:05:45levels and saw them as targets, which
1:05:49is not necessarily the way you should be
1:05:51looking at it. And then um and then last
1:05:55year at the beginning of the year,
1:05:59I got back into footprint charts,
1:06:02but I took it like super seriously
1:06:06and I really took time to try and
1:06:09understand it. And because I already had
1:06:12a foundation, a little bit of like
1:06:15knowledge on kind of how it works. Um, I
1:06:19got past the learning curve
1:06:22relatively quickly.
1:06:25And then I'm still learning about order
1:06:27flow because it's it's kind of a complex
1:06:29topic. There's a lot of moving parts to
1:06:31it. Uh, but I still learn about it every
1:06:33day. Every day that I watch the chart do
1:06:35something, I'm like, "Oh,
1:06:37makes sense."
1:06:39But in terms of like getting just the
1:06:41idea or you're wrapping your head around
1:06:43order flow, it really like if if you're
1:06:45not a brand new trader and you
1:06:47understand a little bit about how
1:06:48markets move, um
1:06:52it's really not that difficult to wrap
1:06:53your head around if you just take some
1:06:55time and actually like think about it,
1:06:57use your brain a little bit.
1:07:04No, I would not say that the if you're a
1:07:07brand new trader, easy.
1:07:09I would not say that learning a
1:07:11footprint chart should be at the top of
1:07:13your to-do list.
1:07:15What you should what should be at the
1:07:17top of your to-do list
1:07:21is
1:07:24learning about why markets move. So
1:07:26maybe learning about uh some auction
1:07:29theory
1:07:30and then
1:07:33I would just honestly I don't trade this
1:07:36strategy but if you're brand new to
1:07:37trading you should just trade the orb
1:07:39bro like it is because that setup will
1:07:44actually teach you good habits and the
1:07:46reason why as a new trader
1:07:49I will always recommend that somebody
1:07:51starts out by trading the orb while they
1:07:53learn about I don't know if you want to
1:07:55learn about footprint go for it. But
1:07:58I wouldn't. If you don't, if you're new,
1:08:01dude, you're going to start seeing
1:08:02things and you're thinking you're seeing
1:08:04something when it's not really that. And
1:08:05then you're just going to like just
1:08:07trade the orb because what the orb is
1:08:09going to do for you as a new trader is
1:08:12it is a very specific setup. It's very
1:08:15specific. And not only is it a specific
1:08:17setup where you have to wait for the
1:08:19break and then usually a retest and then
1:08:21enter in a one or two risk-to-reward and
1:08:24blah blah blah, it's going to teach you
1:08:26patience. It's going to teach you
1:08:28patience because
1:08:30you're going to have to sit there and
1:08:32you're going to have to wait for it and
1:08:34you can't like force an orb setup
1:08:37because it's either there or it's not.
1:08:40So, I think for a new trader, learning
1:08:44the orb or the opening range breakout is
1:08:47probably a pretty good place to start.
1:08:50It's a very simple strategy. It's like
1:08:54as simple as it could [ __ ] get.
1:08:57And
1:08:59it'll teach you good habits as long as
1:09:01you're not being a [ __ ] It'll teach
1:09:03you good habits in terms of like being
1:09:05patient and waiting
1:09:09and that is important to build for your
1:09:12foundation as a trader
1:09:15because if you trade some strategy like
1:09:18let's say like bro let's say we trade a
1:09:20strategy where we're using EMAs and [ __ ]
1:09:23and the first strategy you take is like
1:09:26an EMA strategy and you have like six or
1:09:28seven EMAs on like your screen and
1:09:31you're like anytime we [ __ ] and do
1:09:32this or that or EMA crossover. I'm going
1:09:34to take a trade. Well,
1:09:37you don't have the experience yet to
1:09:40have a filter. Does that make sense? You
1:09:43don't have the experience yet to
1:09:44understand when and when not you should
1:09:46when and when not to actually trade a
1:09:49certain strategy. But the opening range
1:09:51breakout, the requirement for a filter,
1:09:56in my opinion, is a lot lower. You don't
1:10:00need a lot of experience to trade the
1:10:01orb. It's very easy to do it. Other
1:10:04strategies, you need experience to
1:10:06understand when that strategy probably
1:10:08isn't a good idea for the day.
1:10:15Uh I don't trade the orb, bro. Um but if
1:10:18you do trade the orb, I'd recommend
1:10:20probably starting out with like a
1:10:2115-minute orb or a 30-minute orb.
1:10:26I will tell you though, today if you
1:10:28tried to trade the orb, here we are.
1:10:31Let's let's take a look at this orb
1:10:32setup. Okay, so here we are. We got the
1:10:35orb high. We got orb low. You'd be if
1:10:39we're on a 15-minute, you'd be looking
1:10:40at the five minute. You'd be waiting for
1:10:42a break out of the opening range high.
1:10:46And then let's say that here we are.
1:10:48You're waiting for the retest. Okay.
1:10:50Well, then this would be the setup.
1:10:52We'll think about the setup like you're
1:10:54going to enter in here on the retest of
1:10:56the uh of the opening range breakout
1:10:58high. You'll target these highs.
1:11:02You'll give yourself uh a one to two
1:11:04risk-to-reward.
1:11:06And this will be your only trade of the
1:11:08day.
1:11:10If it comes down here, you take it. If
1:11:12it doesn't, then don't take it. But
1:11:14okay, hold on. There's probably somebody
1:11:16watching this right now who's about to
1:11:18take this trade. Time out. Don't take
1:11:21this trade because it's a holiday and uh
1:11:27volume is dead. But that is the I'm just
1:11:29trying to explain the idea, okay? I'm
1:11:32not telling you to take this trade, but
1:11:34this is the idea of the orb, right? You
1:11:35you mark out 15-minute high, 15-minute
1:11:38low. You wait for a fivem minute candle
1:11:42to break one side and close.
1:11:45And then you'll just wait for a break
1:11:48and a retest. If the retest never comes,
1:11:52well,
1:11:53then you're practicing patience. If the
1:11:55retest comes, take it and accept the
1:11:58loss.
1:12:00And then the orb obviously gets more
1:12:02complicated than that. You have mid
1:12:03midline touches and all these different
1:12:05things. But this is the basis of it.
1:12:08This is a very this is the basics of the
1:12:10orb. And for a new trader, this is a
1:12:13very
1:12:15good setup to try and trade because it
1:12:18is so simple. Now, if you were to take
1:12:20that, I just explained that entire
1:12:22strategy in less than five minutes.
1:12:24I am not able to explain all of order
1:12:26flow to you in five minutes.
1:12:29It's just not going to happen.
1:12:32So that's my point. So long story short,
1:12:35easy to answer your question. Focus on a
1:12:39very simple strategy and do not change
1:12:41your strategy. Just like focus on the
1:12:43orb, bro. And in the meantime, learn
1:12:46about auction theory. Learn about how
1:12:48markets move. Learn about the battle
1:12:50between buyers and sellers and how that
1:12:52affects price. And then when you think
1:12:54you got
1:12:56a little bit of experience under your
1:12:58belt, then take a look at or flow if you
1:12:59find it interesting.
1:13:02Yeah. Or you could or you could uh took
1:13:04the long off the rejection on the bottom
1:13:06of the orb. Yes.
1:13:13So, I'm going to remove this now because
1:13:16I don't want anyone to think that I'm
1:13:17about to take that trade and try and
1:13:19take that trade because I'm not going to
1:13:20take that trade.
1:13:25But that would be the idea.
1:13:28We'll see if it works out.
1:13:33But I don't trade the orb because uh
1:13:37there's nothing wrong with it. It's just
1:13:40not my type of style. I'm not although
1:13:43we are having some volatility pick up
1:13:45right at the orb high right now.
1:13:49I used to trade the orb. Actually, I
1:13:50used to trade a 30-minute orb for a
1:13:52couple months. It was actually pretty
1:13:54good. It had I I've documented all the
1:13:56data on it. It had like a 70 win 70% win
1:14:00rate. Uh double breaks rarely happened
1:14:03on a 30 minute unless we had a ranging
1:14:05day. And uh
1:14:08it was pretty chill. Just targeted two
1:14:10to one passed a couple evals using it.
1:14:18There's nothing wrong with food.
1:14:36What do you mean? Is it not hard to take
1:14:38in market opening?
1:14:45What do you mean by that?
1:15:08Oh yeah. Uh what what what
1:15:13new traders do a lot is they
1:15:17gamble market open.
1:15:20Um
1:15:22there's nothing wrong with trading
1:15:24market open though, but you just got to
1:15:26understand kind of how market open
1:15:30works.
1:15:32Um,
1:15:34and it's actually better usually to wait
1:15:39a second.
1:15:41I usually wait unless something is
1:15:43really clear to me. Like unless
1:15:45something is just like super clear on
1:15:46why I should be doing something. Um,
1:15:49realistically like you should be waiting
1:15:53for market open to pick a direction.
1:16:00Um, well, you know what's going to help
1:16:02with that? If you're having trouble
1:16:03understanding where market open is going
1:16:05to go at the start of the uh New York AM
1:16:08session,
1:16:09you should try and focus on
1:16:11understanding a little bit of higher
1:16:13time frame bias.
1:16:16Now, it's very important that when you
1:16:17create a bias that you have an
1:16:18invalidation area because then it's no
1:16:21longer uh a bias. It's a opinion. So if
1:16:25we're looking at higher time frame,
1:16:27you're what you should be doing before
1:16:29market open is like understanding
1:16:33location and where we actually are in
1:16:35terms of uh market structure and then
1:16:38identifying the current draws on
1:16:40liquidity. So that would be maybe um
1:16:45it's not only swing highs and swing
1:16:47lows, but it's also um just other parts
1:16:50of the chart like
1:16:54big displacements with imbalances that
1:16:56cause inefficient auctions. In other
1:16:59words, fair value gap. And um you got to
1:17:03understand kind of where we are in
1:17:04location to these these things.
1:17:08And then at market open, you have an
1:17:09idea on where potentially we might go.
1:17:12And then you wait and then you try and
1:17:14take uh a trade to line up with your
1:17:17thesis on where you think market's going
1:17:19to go.
1:17:23Otherwise, like I don't know what some
1:17:25traders might do is they might take a
1:17:26look at market open on a one minute
1:17:28candle just zoomed in. They're not
1:17:29looking at anything else. They're just
1:17:30looking at this and they go like, "Oh my
1:17:32god, the market's crazy. Which way is it
1:17:34going to go?"
1:17:37It's like you're at the beach,
1:17:39you're staring at a grain of sand, and
1:17:41you don't know where the ocean is. You
1:17:43got to understand where you're at.
1:17:59Dude, look at this 15minute orb. Look at
1:18:02this thing.
1:18:04You could have taken it.
1:18:06Look at that.
1:18:10Although it's not a good idea to be
1:18:13trading today, but I'm just saying. I'm
1:18:16just saying.
1:18:20You would have been up for 100 ticks.
1:18:24You could have moved to break even right
1:18:26now. Look at this. Beautiful buyer
1:18:28stepping in, stacked in balance. We're
1:18:31going to see if we can close strong on
1:18:33this bullish fiveminute candle. If we
1:18:35do, then it's likely we go take the
1:18:37highs. That would have been your two
1:18:38your your two risk reward right there.
1:18:42That's just an example.
1:18:44Although I don't trade the orb, but
1:18:47there's nothing wrong with it.
1:18:50Uh yeah, you're going to blow evals.
1:18:54I blow a lot of evals, but I trade prop
1:18:57firms differently than how you guys
1:18:58should be trading prop firms. until you
1:19:01kind of
1:19:03until you kind of trade a little bit
1:19:05more.
1:19:07Four months with one eval.
1:19:10You know what? You might feel like
1:19:13you're not making any progress, but to
1:19:15be honest,
1:19:17to be honest, the fact that you've held
1:19:20on to an evaluation
1:19:23for uh
1:19:28a month
1:19:30Not bad. But I will say, you know what's
1:19:33probably happening is you're just you're
1:19:34scared.
1:19:36You're scared. Like
1:19:43if you're trading in an evaluation and
1:19:44you're like going up and down by $200 a
1:19:47day, up $200, down 200, up 200, down
1:19:50200, up 200, and it's just like lasting
1:19:53for a month. Like the good thing is is
1:19:56that like at least you're not blowing
1:19:58the account. So you're not struggling
1:20:00with tilt, which is like that's great.
1:20:02So don't get what I'm about to say
1:20:04wrong, but that's great,
1:20:08but you are trading it kind of kind of
1:20:10scared. Like
1:20:14now I'm not saying that that's kind of a
1:20:17I'm not saying to like be super
1:20:20aggressive and like blow your accounts
1:20:23like
1:20:26because you got to think about it like
1:20:27this like
1:20:30trading at the end of the day comes down
1:20:33to survival, right? Comes down to
1:20:35survival because you can never grow if
1:20:38you're not alive. So, you got the
1:20:40survival part down.
1:20:43Honestly, my recommendation to you is to
1:20:47just keep doing what you're doing. It's
1:20:50good. You're getting screen time. You're
1:20:52not blowing the account. You're
1:20:53definitely feeling the emotions and
1:20:55you're going up and down. You're maybe
1:20:58feeling a little frustrated or whatever
1:20:59you're feeling, but just keep trading
1:21:01it. Just keep practicing good habits of
1:21:03not blowing up your accounts. And while
1:21:06you're able to survive that uh you can
1:21:10actually learn and grow during that
1:21:12period. So while you're practicing good
1:21:16risk management because I would say um
1:21:20having an evaluation for over a month is
1:21:22pretty good risk management in the sense
1:21:24of you're just not tilting. But um while
1:21:28you're practicing good behaviors for
1:21:30risk management, then you can also focus
1:21:32on um practicing better trading and
1:21:39don't just like try and rush things,
1:21:44especially if you're just learning.
1:21:49Yeah, that's great. 400 daily loss limit
1:21:52with two micros.
1:21:56There's nothing wrong uh with being a
1:21:59break even trader. I mean, you're not
1:22:01you're not losing money technically.
1:22:08Now, there's a big difference between
1:22:12your situation and if somebody came in
1:22:14here and was like, I'm four months into
1:22:17trading and I've blown 300 accounts and
1:22:19I just can't seem to pass an eval. Okay.
1:22:21Well, now we have a problem. We have a
1:22:24big problem.
1:22:27But you're not you're not that's not
1:22:29your situation. So you're fine. Just
1:22:31keep taking your time. Keep learning.
1:22:33Four months is not a lot of time.
1:22:36You got to understand we're trading.
1:22:40We're trading a financial market where
1:22:42we have some of the smartest people with
1:22:46the best resources
1:22:48on the other side of those trades
1:22:52who have been doing it for years, who
1:22:54went to school for this type of stuff,
1:22:56who are
1:22:58geniuses.
1:23:01Don't worry if you don't figure it out
1:23:02in four months.
1:23:05You're fine. You're right on track.
1:23:14>> [laughter]
1:23:16>> Dude, there's honestly there's nothing
1:23:17wrong with you shouldn't you shouldn't
1:23:19think like that
1:23:22if you're not profitable in a year.
1:23:24Dude, if
1:23:27I didn't make a single dollar trading
1:23:28futures until like my second year
1:23:30trading futures.
1:23:33I woke up every morning just to get
1:23:34smacked by the market.
1:23:41So don't put a timeline like never
1:23:44either you want to do this or you don't
1:23:45want to do this. If you want to do this
1:23:47then you got to understand it's going to
1:23:48be a journey. For some people it might
1:23:50take them only a couple months. For some
1:23:52people it might take them five years.
1:23:54But you got to be if this is really what
1:23:56you want to do which keep in mind this
1:23:58is very difficult to do. It's the only
1:24:00type of job where you can clock in and
1:24:03lose money. It's the only type of job
1:24:05where you're at a major disadvantage if
1:24:07you wake up and you don't feel good. I
1:24:10could go to I could go get a job
1:24:12wherever and I can show up hung over and
1:24:14I could just thug it out. I can't do
1:24:16that here. I have to be on the top of my
1:24:18game constantly. I h I have to make sure
1:24:22that I'm always on top of it.
1:24:25So, it's a very difficult thing to do.
1:24:26So, don't put a timeline on it. Just
1:24:28give yourself time and just learn the
1:24:29process and enjoy it. Enjoy the process.
1:24:31Enjoy the pain. You're you're going to
1:24:33feel it.
1:24:36Uh what could be the 100k futures
1:24:38account risk per trade?
1:24:41Okay. Well, it depends on it. It depends
1:24:43on the draw down. So,
1:24:46um
1:24:48you should never never look at a eval.
1:24:54You should never look at an eval and
1:24:56say, "I have $100,000." No, you do not.
1:24:58Do not risk one or two% of $100,000.
1:25:02That does not exist. That number is
1:25:04fake.
1:25:05Your account size is not $100,000.
1:25:08It's not a h 100,000 in the futures
1:25:10account. It's whatever the draw down is.
1:25:12So let's say for whatever prop firm you
1:25:15have, your $100,000 account is going to
1:25:18be a $3,600 draw down. That is your
1:25:21account size. That is your account size.
1:25:24It's $3,600. It is not $100,000. So,
1:25:28when you start trying to determine how
1:25:30much you should be risking per trade,
1:25:33well,
1:25:35base that calculation off of a $3,600
1:25:38uh balance.
1:25:41Now, you also need to keep in mind that
1:25:43most traders over the course of a year,
1:25:46if you were to make 30% 40% on your
1:25:50money over the course of an entire year,
1:25:54you did a pretty good job. With an
1:25:57evaluation, what they want you to do is
1:25:59make more than 100% on your money.
1:26:02People are trying to do that,
1:26:05like me, in a day, in two days, in a
1:26:08week. You got to understand that when
1:26:10you have an evaluation, they're
1:26:11basically telling you you have to flip
1:26:13this account. You got to flip this
1:26:14account and double the money in it. It's
1:26:17kind of unrealistic and you have to be
1:26:18aggressive to do it. The only way you're
1:26:20going to pass evals in a timely fashion
1:26:24is you have to be aggressive. Now, be
1:26:25careful because when I say be
1:26:27aggressive, that doesn't mean that
1:26:29doesn't mean that you just like don't
1:26:30know what you're doing and you buy an
1:26:32Eval and you just start full port and
1:26:33[ __ ] because it's just not going to
1:26:34work.
1:26:36But it is the nature of the account.
1:26:38This is what we are playing here. We are
1:26:40playing a gamified version of trading.
1:26:42They want you to be aggressive. The only
1:26:43way
1:26:45the way to win and there is a difference
1:26:49by the way between being aggressive and
1:26:52being reckless. There is a huge
1:26:54difference between being reckless and
1:26:56being aggressive. Aggressive means that
1:26:59you know when to apply the pressure. You
1:27:02know when to press the gas. You know
1:27:03when to do certain things. Being
1:27:05reckless is just like [ __ ] gambling.
1:27:07You're just like vibe trading. Oh, you
1:27:11know what? I We have two green candles
1:27:14of think one's going to be green. Let me
1:27:15go full port.
1:27:18Don't Don't do that, dude.
1:27:22Oh, profitable.
1:27:25Dude, I didn't even get a I didn't even
1:27:26get my first payout until like the end
1:27:28of the second year trading. This is now
1:27:29my fourth year trading. I didn't get a I
1:27:32didn't even [ __ ] touch a single
1:27:34dollar till the end of the second year,
1:27:36basically.
1:27:41And then and then after I got my first
1:27:43payout, the second one didn't come until
1:27:45months later. But now I get payouts
1:27:49consistently.
1:27:51I'm going to try and keep it that way.
1:27:54Um, but it takes time.
1:27:58It takes time and realistically
1:28:02like last last year I was profitable.
1:28:05Sure. this year I'm going to be
1:28:06profitable. Sure. But realistically
1:28:09overall, I'm not even gonna cap with you
1:28:11guys. I lost so much money the first two
1:28:13years of trading that as a net positive
1:28:16trader, I'm still trying to climb out of
1:28:18that hole, dude. I blew like 300
1:28:21accounts my first two years trading. And
1:28:24they were not cheap eval either. They
1:28:25were all like over a hundred bucks.
1:28:28So I went 30k in draw down.
1:28:32So, I'm like barely [ __ ] profitable.
1:28:38Um,
1:28:42yeah, three years to be profitable. I
1:28:44mean, that's a cool like that's a decent
1:28:49Oh, here we go. Look at this.
1:28:52Uh, I'm not a full-time trader. I do
1:28:54other stuff, too, because this only
1:28:55takes up an hour of my day. So,
1:28:59takes up like two hours of my day
1:29:01nowadays cuz I don't just sit here and
1:29:03back test all day, but takes up like two
1:29:05hours of my day. Um, sometimes more
1:29:08actually. Maybe if I'm trading Asia
1:29:09session, maybe like four hours of my
1:29:11day. So, you got all these other hours
1:29:12to do something else. So, yeah, I do
1:29:14other stuff.
1:29:18But, all right. But I I'm self-employed,
1:29:20so like I could just That's why I get to
1:29:23sit here and do this and I don't have to
1:29:24like go clock in somewhere. So, I'm
1:29:26blessed to be in that position.
1:29:32If it's a $4,000 max draw down, then
1:29:34that's your account size. So, what I
1:29:36like to do, like the way that I'll trade
1:29:38like a funded account, if I have $4,000,
1:29:40I want to make sure that I at least have
1:29:42like
1:29:45six to 10 trades.
1:29:47six to 10 trades that I can lose in a
1:29:49row before blowing the account because
1:29:50it's pretty unlikely that I'm going to
1:29:51lose six to 10 trades in a row with the
1:29:55way that I trade. It's just it's it
1:29:58really doesn't happen. It can happen,
1:29:59but it's not likely.
1:30:04Uh what made the difference biggest
1:30:07difference in your consistency?
1:30:11Screen time, brother. Screen time. just
1:30:15being here, just doing it every day.
1:30:19Like you'll see you'll see uh
1:30:28I don't know. The emotional roller
1:30:30coaster went from being like this to now
1:30:32it's just kind of like this. If that
1:30:34makes sense.
1:30:36Kind of just I've lost a lot of money.
1:30:39I've made some money. It's just just I
1:30:42do the same thing every day. It's just
1:30:44repetition just over and over and over.
1:30:50So,
1:30:52the only thing I need to do is I just
1:30:54need to make sure I don't tilt. That's
1:30:55the only thing that I basically focus on
1:30:57every day. I just focus on not tilting.
1:31:00That's like the most important thing.
1:31:03Capital preservation. If you can't trade
1:31:05tomorrow, then you're a loser because
1:31:09how are you going to win without an
1:31:11account?
1:31:16No, I didn't go to college.
1:31:20Tell me I had to pay to go to school.
1:31:23Yeah, right. Yeah, right, buddy.
1:31:28I didn't like going to school in the
1:31:29first place. And you're telling me I got
1:31:31to pay?
1:31:34What I want to do in life doesn't
1:31:36require a college degree, so why the
1:31:38[ __ ] would I pay for one?
1:31:43Although there's nothing wrong with
1:31:45college, don't get me wrong,
1:31:48just not for me. But if you're trying to
1:31:51be a doctor or lawyer, then obviously,
1:31:53yeah, you need to go to college. Duh.
1:32:02But if I want to degen the markets like
1:32:03a gambler, you don't need a college
1:32:05degree for that.
1:32:11No, I'm just joking. But
1:32:16there's nothing wrong with a little bit
1:32:17of education. Actually, I did go to
1:32:19college. I went to YouTube University.
1:32:22That's the best college out there. Free
1:32:23tuition.
1:32:26You show up to class whenever you want.
1:32:29It's great. It's my favorite school.
1:32:42All right. So, I I'm pretty sure what I
1:32:44said earlier is about to play out right
1:32:45now. So, basically, um it is very likely
1:32:50that we stay within this area for the
1:32:52rest of the day. It's about a 175 point
1:32:55range.
1:32:57Um, we have a early close,
1:33:00so we're gonna be uh probably just
1:33:04chopping around here. Maybe make a move
1:33:06up and then move down and then move up
1:33:08and then chop. What's wrong with my
1:33:10coffee mug, bro?
1:33:13You don't like it? I need a better one,
1:33:15huh?
1:33:17I need a Thrax coffee mug.
1:33:20Or I need a uh
1:33:23a Never Flat coffee mug. It's huge.
1:33:26Yeah, dude. I drink lot. It is huge.
1:33:28Look at it. It's [ __ ] massive, huh?
1:33:32It's cuz I like coffee. What can I say,
1:33:34dude?
1:33:43Oh, that's funny as [ __ ]
1:33:48Yeah, dude. Big coffee mugs. You got to
1:33:51drink at least four espresso shots in
1:33:53the morning.
1:33:54At least four of them.
1:33:56>> [snorts]
1:33:59>> It's literally my uh my morning routine.
1:34:01First thing I do, wake up, grab this big
1:34:05ass coffee mug if it's not dirty,
1:34:09put two americanos, americanos in that
1:34:12thing, sit down,
1:34:15check out the check out the charts, and
1:34:19try and not lose all my money.
1:34:23No, I don't have lifetime. Um,
1:34:26so basically what what I did is uh I got
1:34:31grandfathered in with ATAS I I believe
1:34:33because they used to only have one um
1:34:37they used to only have one plan. It was
1:34:39either the free trial or you pay for it
1:34:41and I pay monthly for it. Um but then
1:34:43they created all these different plans.
1:34:44So sometimes people ask me like what's
1:34:46the difference between this plan and
1:34:47that plan and that plan. Um I don't
1:34:50know. I have the biggest plan. and they
1:34:51just like grandfathered over everyone
1:34:53who was like legacy and then moved them
1:34:55to uh like the highest plan which is
1:34:58Altra. Um the only difference really
1:35:00between Ultra and Pro that I've noticed
1:35:03besides like the besides the crypto
1:35:05stuff because there's like some crypto
1:35:06differences but um the biggest
1:35:09difference is just how many indicators
1:35:10you can have and how many active
1:35:12connections you can have. So, if your
1:35:14plan as a trader using ATS is to copy
1:35:17trade a bunch of different prop firms um
1:35:20with a bunch of different accounts, like
1:35:21if you want to trade like 10 20
1:35:23accounts, you can do that with ATS, but
1:35:26you just need to be able to make that
1:35:27many connections. So, if you have more
1:35:31than three prop firms you're trying to
1:35:32work with and all connect them to the
1:35:34same thing and then, you know, use the
1:35:36uh use the following manager on here.
1:35:41Um, then you're going to need to
1:35:42probably have the ultra. Um,
1:35:47but it's worth it. It's worth it, dude.
1:35:55Unless you don't unless you're just
1:35:56trading one account, then you don't need
1:35:57the you don't need the ultra. You could
1:36:00just use a pro
1:36:02and it's like half the price, I think.
1:36:10But if you are going to get a task,
1:36:11please use my code. Help me out. I'm
1:36:14poor. I'm struggling.
1:36:26I'm hoping tomorrow, let's think for a
1:36:29second. What do we got this week for
1:36:31market news?
1:36:33We have some [ __ ] this week.
1:36:38We got
1:36:41GDP,
1:36:43PCE,
1:36:47and PMI. and Michigan sentiment.
1:36:52So, with everything going on and a
1:36:54little bit of some red folder news
1:36:56Wednesday onwards,
1:36:59I'm hoping we can get some good
1:37:01volatility here.
1:37:03And if for whatever reason, if Trump
1:37:06decides
1:37:08to invade Greenland, I will be sitting
1:37:11here at my computer ready to short,
1:37:15ready to short the market.
1:37:18The only problem is if some type of
1:37:21crazy [ __ ] happens like that, I would
1:37:24guarantee you Project X is going to go
1:37:26down. I guarantee it.
1:37:31Maybe I'll trade my live account.
1:37:39Netflix earnings tomorrow.
1:37:41All right. All right. Yeah, we should
1:37:43have a I'm hoping to have an interesting
1:37:45week. I'm hoping that this is the week
1:37:47where we start getting ready to break
1:37:50out of this uh higher time frame range
1:37:52that we've been stuck in for a little
1:37:53while.
1:38:04But honestly guys, Marcus's not going to
1:38:06do [ __ ] It was fun talking to you guys,
1:38:08but I do have some stuff I got to do.
1:38:10So, just a little bit of a recap. Uh
1:38:12today is MLK day. We ended up hitting
1:38:16profit target on the stream for this at
1:38:19market open. We hit profit target on
1:38:22this account um yesterday trading silver
1:38:26and we hit $2,400 trading silver last
1:38:30night at CME open or GlobeEx open. I
1:38:34mean, so um later today I'm probably
1:38:38going to trade silver or gold again and
1:38:41just try and make $150 to $200 to get a
1:38:44payout and then we're going to try and
1:38:46pass these two accounts. Hopefully I
1:38:49don't blow both of them, but if I do,
1:38:52I'll just buy some more. Um but yeah, if
1:38:56you're going to trade the rest of the
1:38:57day, don't.
1:38:59It's very simple. Don't.
1:39:03This is [ __ ] Do not trade this.
1:39:07Just wait for tomorrow. Go do something
1:39:10else.
1:39:11And uh I'll catch you guys tomorrow
1:39:13before market open.
1:39:15Peace.

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