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This boring trading strategy made me $526,454

Tori Trades · watch on YouTube ↗
Analysed 01 Aug 2026, 03:25 PM IST
★★★½☆ 3.5 / 5
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Heads up: this strategy was originally created for the US stock market. We applied the exact same logic to Indian stocks & indices and the backtest completed successfully — every result below is on Indian market data.

Why 3.5/5? (stars grade the EDGE — per-trade expectancy, consistency, drawdown — not the headline return)

  • Strong per-trade edge: +0.31R expectancy across 3,872 trades
  • Only 36% of trades win — the rare big winners must keep showing up
  • 4 of 9 tested years were negative (2018, 2022, 2025, 2026) — the edge is regime-dependent
  • Max drawdown -21% on the ₹2L portfolio — the compounded return came with deep pain along the way

Detected components (auto-read from transcript)

FuturesIntraday Pivot pointsVolume

Claims it makes (quotes pulled from the transcript)

  • “Most firms pay out between 70 and 90% of profits to the trader.”

Verdict

Auto-backtested. AI-decoded: Trend-line-based entry strategy: action line (trend break) triggers entry; safety line (opposing trend) is the exit/trailing stop. Demonstrated on Bitcoin (crypto) but framework applies to any asset. Ran on 159 large/mid-caps, real costs. 3,872 trades, win 36%, payoff 2.77, expectancy +0.31R/trade (avg +1.76%/trade).

This is a real edge. The payoff is convex (winners run well past the average loser). Reasonably consistent (56% of years positive).

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Tracking since 2026-07-06 — no qualifying signals have fired yet. The engine re-checks every night on fresh data; results appear here the day the rules trigger.

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₹2,00,000 portfolio (max 5 positions, across the stock universe — real delivery costs)

Return+183.6%
CAGR+14.1%
Max drawdown-20.9%
Trades323 · 117 won
₹200,000 → ₹567,295  ·  2018-07-09 → 2026-06-08
201820192020202120222023202420252026
+20%+0%+41%+37%+11%+14%+1%-6%+2%

Simulated on the 159 large/mid-cap universe. Capital-constrained, daily mark-to-market.

Year by year (every trade the rules fired, across the tested stocks)

YearTradesWin %ExpectancyAvg return / trade
201824932% -0.21R -1.52%
201944135% +0.08R +0.41%
202040953% +1.18R +10.33%
202139940% +0.44R +2.50%
202257429% -0.05R -0.60%
202350546% +1.30R +5.60%
202448827% +0.09R +0.11%
202552730% -0.09R -0.75%
202628028% -0.21R -1.25%

Where this strategy made & lost money (the full stock-by-stock breakdown — 158 stocks, incl. 2026)

#StockTradesWin%Avg/tradeBestTotal2026
1 ████████ 2138% +3.7% +47% +78% +47%
2 ████████ 2741% +9.3% +95% +250% +44%
3 ████████ 2421% +0.8% +43% +20% +38%
4 ████████ 2741% +22.6% +182% +610% +37%
5 ████████ 2540% +8.6% +83% +214% +36%
6 ████████ 2843% +5.0% +66% +139% +33%
7 ████████ 2536% +2.6% +68% +66% +27%
8 POLYCAB free peek 2255% +7.6% +55% +166% +24%
9 ████████ 1020% -1.3% +23% -13% +23%
10 ████████ 2658% +13.7% +178% +357% +19%
11 ████████ 1533% +4.6% +53% +70% +18%
12 ████████ 2748% +3.7% +42% +99% +14%
13 ████████ 2631% +3.2% +68% +83% +14%
14 ████████ 2532% +1.5% +53% +37% +14%
15 ████████ 2730% -1.5% +17% -41% +14%
16 ████████ 2839% +3.4% +58% +96% +13%
17 ████████ 2454% +2.8% +21% +68% +12%
18 ████████ 2638% +5.4% +75% +139% +10%
19 ████████ 2945% +1.8% +33% +53% +10%
20 ████████ 2635% +1.9% +40% +49% +10%
21 ████████ 838% +2.6% +37% +21% -24%
22 ████████ 2646% +6.2% +55% +161% -22%
23 ████████ 2250% +1.5% +26% +32% -18%
24 ████████ 3030% +0.3% +56% +9% -17%
25 ████████ 2528% +0.4% +30% +11% -16%
26 ████████ 2236% +2.3% +45% +51% -16%
27 ████████ 3033% +2.1% +38% +63% -16%
28 ████████ 2924% -0.3% +36% -9% -15%
29 ████████ 2730% -0.2% +49% -4% -15%
30 ████████ 2352% +7.9% +97% +182% -15%
You can see the numbers — see the names. Unlock every stock in this breakdown and download it as Excel. The worst stock in this table returned -41% under these exact rules — one wrong pick costs many times the unlock.

Educational backtest output only — not investment advice or a recommendation to buy/sell any security. AI-generated from stored historical data; not 100% accurate. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

On the index (same rules applied to NIFTY & BANKNIFTY)

IndexTradesWin%Expectancy (R/trade)Avg return/trade
NIFTY4048% +0.69R +1.64%
BANKNIFTY4144% +0.45R +1.36%
Full transcript (6804 words)
Have you ever sat down with a strategy, followed it step by step, and still walked away confused, not knowing what you were doing? Or have you watched a YouTube video promising that you're going to have a trading strategy that you can walk away with, and you were more confused afterwards than when you started? If you've been jumping from strategy to strategy, trying to find one that resonates with you, one that makes sense, one that you can understand, that you can repeat again and again, you are in the right place. Now, there is a reason that none of it has stuck yet. Most strategies out there are way more complicated than they need to be. The more complicated that the strategy is, the harder it is to learn, the harder it is to actually repeat and get started, and longer it's going to take you to actually find confidence and implement. The strategy that I'm going to walk you through today is built on one simple tool, trend lines. Trend lines are one of the oldest and most essential tools in technical analysis, and they are the foundation that my entire strategy is built on. My name is Tori Trades, and I've been trading for over a decade now. I have turned a $5,000 account into over half a million dollars in trading. I've been using the same exact system for all 11 years, and I documented the entire journey, the highs, the lows, the wins, the losses, and everything in between. By the end of this video, you will have a complete step-by-step system on how to analyze any chart and execute a trade from start to finish. You will not leave this YouTube video more confused than when you came. Obviously, I'm just really good at what I do. So, you just stick around. You're going to learn something. But first, I want to set the stage. This entire strategy is based on one simple concept, trend lines. So, let's start at the very beginning. What is a trend line? A trend line is a line that you draw on your chart that shows the direction price is moving in. Fun fact, trend lines have been used by traders for over a hundred freaking years. They're one of the original tools of technical analysis. I'm talking the literal stone age basics of technical analysis was the trend line. And this is dating all the way back to Charles Dao, which I'm not sure if it sounds a little familiar to you, the literal guy himself, the Dow Jones is named after. But this is why I love trend lines. so much. So, it's not like some new concept that we're trying to reinvent. This is the literal foundation of technical analysis. So, this trendline based strategy allows us to read the markets the same way that the best traders way back in the day have read it for over a century. And I don't know if that gives you a piece of mind knowing that like we're not reinventing the wheel. We're just utilizing the absolute foundational essential tool of trading. So, now that we know what a trend line is, we know it's the basics, the essential, the foundation. There are two types of trend lines. There's an upward trend line. There's a downward trend line. The upward trend line is what we call bullish. It connects higher lows. It means that price is pushing up higher. There is a downward trend line. This is called a bearish trend line. This connects lower highs and means that price is pushing lower. The platform that we are going to use to draw these trend lines on is Trading View. This is the most widely used platform for all traders ever. It is free to get started. It works in your browser and it gives you everything that you need to analyze your charts and mark them up. It's all we need. Now, let's talk about the tool. Trading View has a bucket of trend line tools. Out of all of the trend line tools that Trading View has to offer, we're going to use the one called the ray tool. The ray tool gives us a point A and a point B and then extends indefinitely in one direction. The point A is the pivot point. The point B locks in the degree or the angle that we're going to draw it at. And then the line will extend indefinitely in the other direction to help us see what price might potentially do in the future. And just because I'm kind of artsy fartsy and I like to color code things, I like to make my upward trend lines green and my downward trend lines red. So, we know what trend lines are. We know how important they are when it comes to technical analysis. And now I'm going to introduce a new concept to you guys which is essentially step one phase one part one. This is something called top-down analysis. So before we hop into the charts and draw any lines, we need to talk about top- down analysis. Top down analysis is the process of analyzing an asset from a higher time frame working your way down. So it'll be a monthly time frame, a weekly time frame, a daily time frame, a 4 hour time frame, a 1 hour time frame, and then so on and so forth until you reach the time frame that you decide to execute your trades on. Now, why do we use this top down analysis? Higher time frames hold more weight than the lower time frames because they contain more data, more information. So they show us the major trends, the major key levels, and how price has been moving over time. The lower time frames show us what's happening in the moment, right here, right now. The strategy works so well because we use both of these time frames together. The higher time frame gives us context for the lower time frames. So the bigger picture of what the markets have done in the past and the shifts that they've made, we combine that with what the price is doing in the lower time frames. Now, I've got a few analogies that help us understand why higher time frame analysis or top down analysis is so important. So think about it like this. We're going to start with the FBI agent analogy, which I know there's a lot of women out there that feel like they are FBI agents. If you know, you know. You investigate. You will study the past. Every clue, every pattern, every piece of history, and then you build a case. So, by the time that something happens that the FBI agent, you know, the one behind your computer screen is waiting for you to do, they've already anticipated a move that you might make because they've studied everything you've done in the past, your patterns. Another analogy would be a fighter. So, let's say that you are getting ready to fight your opponent. Before a match, you need to watch hours of old footage of your opponent, every move that they make, their weaknesses, their habits. So, by the time you step into the ring, you already have an idea of what your opponent is likely to do because you've already studied their habits, their moves. Do they usually use their left hand? Are they left forward? I mean, I don't really know anything about fighting, but I'd imagine that's the things that you would study. How do they block? But you're prepared when you step into the ring because you've done your research. And yet again, this is exactly what we're doing with higher time frames. We are just gathering the research. We're doing the research on the instrument to help us make a more informed decision on what it's likely to do in the future. So, that is the whole point of top down analysis. This is why it's so important and this is why this is step one when it comes to this entire strategy. We need to research our instruments. The higher time frames give us context. The lower time frames give us our entries, our trade management, and our exits. So, now that we understand why we're going to implement top down analysis, let's learn how to do top down analysis. So, now it's time to get into the charts, open the screens, and draw some lines. Here we go. Now, the instrument that we are going to practice or learn our top down analysis on is a very popular instrument, one that everyone has heard of. I figured the most generic and most broad the better so that we can all understand and relate. We're going to do our top down analysis on Bitcoin. We are looking at Bitcoin on Trading View. Now, what you see in front of you is a completely naked chart. There are no indicators on it. There's no volume. There's no session lines. This is purely price action. This is the movement of Bitcoin. This is all we need. Now, when we do our top down analysis, it's a quite literal term or a quite literal phrase. We start at the top and work our way down. So that means we're going to start with the highest time frame. We're going to go to the monthly time frame on Bitcoin. This right here is everything Bitcoin has ever done. This is our full context. This is us doing our research on Bitcoin before we get married before we actually place a trade. What we're going to do is utilize our trend lines. And remember, Trading View has the trend line toolbox over here. And then the specific trend line tool that we're going to use is the ray tool. So you can go ahead and star that. This will keep the tool right here easily accessible to the left. So, we are going to start using our trend lines. But the top down analysis is what gives them structure. It gives the entire strategy or the entire system repeatability and a process, a step-by-step process that you can implement across any instrument. So, after today's video, we'll have done it together with Bitcoin, but you can do it your own on crude oil, on gold, on the NASDAQ, on the Dow, on Tesla. You can do this same top-down analysis on any instrument, which is the coolest part. Now, what we're doing with these trend lines, this top down analysis is taking all of the context of everything it's ever done leading all the way up to real-time price action to help us with a decision real time. The price of Bitcoin right now is at 78,15. We want to do our top down analysis and draw our trend lines tracking all the way up as close to real-time price action as we can. Now, what does that look like? That means we are going to identify trends in every single one of these time frames leading all the way up to the 1 hour time frame when we're drawing our very first ever trend line. We are going to look for the lowest point we see on the screen. Now, there's going to be a few rules and guidelines that we have to these trend lines specifically. One rule will be specific to the very first trend line we draw. The very first trend line we draw needs to start with the lowest point we see on the screen. This is going to be the first rule for our very first upward trend line. Just to preface, we'll have upward trend lines and downward. Remember, bullish and bearish trend lines. So, the rule for drawing our very first upward trend line, we're looking for the lowest point we see on the screen. We also need to have this line angled in some degree upwards. This cannot be a horizontal line. So, I'll show you what would be incorrect and what would be correct. This right here, using the actual lowest points of Bitcoin, this line would be incorrect. This is a horizontal line. When drawing our very first upward trend line, it has to angle upwards. So, we're going to use the lowest point we see on the screen while also angling our trend line upward. Now, what are some other rules for our trend line? When continuing to draw trend lines, we're going to have these set of guidelines to abide by. One, every trend line has to connect to one another. Two, we try to capture as many touch points as possible. Three, price cannot have intersected or poked through the trend line. As long as we follow these three rules, you'll be able to correctly move through your top down analysis. So, anytime you're unsure, just go back to those same rules. make sure, okay, did my trend line connect to the last one? Am I trying to capture as many touch points as possible? And have I made sure that price hasn't crossed through or intersected my trend line? So, on our very first upward trend line, we were able to capture one, two, three touch points. Great. We captured as many touch points as possible. It's angled upward. Price hasn't poked through or intersected. Now, when drawing our next trend line, a good rule of thumb here to figure out or to remember how to connect each one of our trend lines is remember I said we have these two points here, a point A and a point B. We've got a pivot point, which is our initial starting touch point, and then we've got our point B, which locks in the angle or the degree of where we're drawing our trend line. I like to call this one point A, this one point B. When connecting trend lines, the previous point B will always be the new point A. So, drawing a new trend line here, we've got a new point A. It's going to start at the previous trend lines, point B. Boom. Now, we're going to follow these same exact rules that we just followed in the last trend line. Try to capture as many touch points as possible. Make sure that the line connects to one another. And price cannot have poked through or intersected. Now, I want to give you an example of what it looks like to have had price intersect or poke through and what's incorrect. If this line was to go up any steeper like this, this line would be incorrect. Price has broken through the trend line already. So, you want to think of these trend lines as truly holding the price up. So, this would be the correct placement of our next trend line. So, we're working towards getting as close to real-time price action as possible. So, we're going to continue connecting and drawing these trend lines until we can get as close to here as we can. So, that means we have more trend lines to draw. So, let's keep going. Next trend line, same rules. Previous point B is new point A. Capture as many touch points as possible without price intersecting. Okay, we have followed all of our guidelines and we are ready to draw yet one more upward trend line. Previous point B, new point A, and this is as far as we can go for this one. This is all of the upward trend lines that we can draw for the monthly time frame on Bitcoin. We do need a downward trend line. So, we want to track upward and downward trends, bullish and bearish trends. There's going to be some instances where on higher time frames there isn't a downward trend line to draw, but in this instance we can here in Bitcoin. So we're going to draw our very first downward trend line. So remember we had some rules for our very first upward trend line. We're going to implement those same rules. Same same but different for the downward trend line. So for our very first downward trend line that we're drawing on the monthly time frame, we're looking for the highest point that we see on the screen. And then we just continue to implement the same exact guidelines or the same exact rules as before. try to capture as many touch points as possible without having price intersected or poked through. And I'm going to change the color of the downward trend lines just to differentiate the two. Now we've got red downward and green upward. So this is all we can do on the monthly time frame. We've gotten as close to real-time price action as we can. This is now our indication that we can continue this top down process. So we did everything that we need to do in the monthly. Now we're going to do the same exact process in the weekly time frame. Weekly time frame here. Quick tip here. So, when we go from the higher time frames to the lower time frames, think of it like we are looking at price with a magnifying glass or under a stronger and stronger lens. So, that means we're getting a little bit more precise and we're seeing more price action or more movement. So, when we go from the higher time frames to the lower time frames, you'll notice that things are just a little bit off or a little bit wonky. All we'll do is just simply make some adjustments to make sure we're still following those rules. So, price poked through just a little bit here. We'll take this line and adjust it. Price was a little bit off on this line here. We're going to take the line, simply adjust it, get it a little bit more accurate. There we go. And then same for the downward trend line. It's a little bit off. So, we're just going to simply adjust it here and adjust this one here. There we go. So, this is just a tip to keep in mind when you're going to the lower time frames. You'll just need to make some slight adjustments every time. Okay. Now, we're in the weekly time frame. For the weekly time frame, there are no additional downward trend lines we can draw. We've gotten as close to real-time price action as possible in this time frame, but there is some additional upward trend lines that we can draw to help get us closer. So, we're going to follow the same steps, the same guidelines. When drawing another trend line, make sure it connects to one another. Previous point B is new point A. Capture as many touch points as possible without price intersecting. Now, I'm going to make this green again. There we go. And that is as far as we can go in the weekly time frame. So, not as many trend lines that we needed to draw on the weekly. And that'll happen with different instruments that you do a top down analysis on. But for this one specifically, not too much we needed to do on the weekly. So, now it's our indication. We can continue to move down. We did monthly, we did weekly. Now, let's work our way down to the daily time frame. And you'll see some adjustments need to be made. Price poked through a little bit over here. We just need to make some adjustments. There we go. Adjust this one here. Perfect. And adjust this one here. Now, we can see a steeper upward trend line that we can draw. Previous point B is new point A. Try to capture as many touch points as possible without price intersecting. There are still no additional downward trend lines we can draw. So this is our indication. We can continue moving down. Now let's go to the 4hour time frame. 4hour time frame. We need to make some slight adjustments here. Slight adjustment here. And now we can finally come in with one more steeper downward trend line. Capture as many touch points as possible. We're going to make it red. Make sure price hasn't intersected. And we're going to reach our final destination. Now we're going to move down to our final time frame here, the 1 hour time frame. So we're going to stop in the 1 hour time frame for this video's example. It does not mean that you have to stop at the 1 hour time frame. If you decide to trade a lower time frame, you'll just continue these same steps or the same process working your way down to the lower. For example, if you trade a 5minut time frame, you will go from the 1 hour to the 30 minute to the 15 to the 10, then to the 5. That's where you'll stop. But for today, we're going to stop at the 1 hour time frame. Now, we have made it to the 1 hour time frame and there are no additional lines that need to be drawn. We have completed our very first top- down analysis. Congratulations. Okay, now that you know how to do your top down analysis, here's where we are. We have a chart. We got a bunch of trend lines. Some are bullish, some are bearish, some are going up, some are going down, some are green, some are red. So, right now, they're just lines. It's just showing us what price has done in the past and how it's gotten to where it's at now. How it's gotten to real-time price action. But that brings me to my absolute favorite part of this entire strategy. We don't ever have to guess where price is going next. It is one of the coolest parts and the most exciting part of the strategy, and it gets me so excited. And I don't know if you've ever heard of girlfriend brain, but this is like this strategy is girlfriend brain. We don't have to figure out what we're going to eat for dinner tonight, where we're going, what we want to wear. This is where it all comes together. The price is the one in control. The price will tell us when to get in. The price will tell us what direction to take and the price will tell us when to get out. Our entire job in this whole system, in this whole strategy, is to simply follow the price. That is the strategy. Now, I'm going to introduce you to two terms that makes all of this come together, that makes all of this work. The two terms you need to know is action line and safety line. So let's start with the action line. The action line is yet another very literal term. I love the literal easy to understand terms of this strategy. Action line means it is time to take action. Time to place a trade. This is when we enter a position. So here's the logic and this part is super important. If price breaks an upward trend line, that means the uptrend is being violated. Buyers aren't in control anymore. So we are taking a short position. We're betting that price continues down. If price breaks a downward trend line, that means that the downtrend is being violated. Sellers are not in control anymore. So, we take a long position. We are betting the price continues up. The line that price broke is our action line. And the direction the price broke will tell us which direction to trade. That right there, price breaks a line. We take a trade in the direction of the break. That is your entry criteria. That is your foundation. Quick note, there are ways to get more picky about your entries. There are things that you can layer on to help you get pickier about your setups. There's different playbooks that you can take, but in today's video, we're going to go over the foundation of the entry model here. Now, the second term, the safety line. The safety line is exactly what it sounds like. It is the line that's going to keep us safe in our trade. The safety line will always be the opposing trend line to the action line. It is the line moving in the opposite direction of the action line. So, if we took a short position because price broke an upward trend line, our safety line is the downward trend line above price. If we took a long position because price broke a downward trend line, our safety line is the upward trend line below price. Now, here's how it works. As long as price keeps moving in our direction and respects the safety line, we stay in the trade. The safety line is literally the line just keeping us safe in our trade and it's always keeping us in profit. As soon as price violates the safety line, we are no longer safe in our trade. It is time to close our position and that is our exit. So just like our entry criteria, this is our exit criteria. We don't have to guess when to close our trade. Price will tell us exactly when to do that. Are there more layers? Yes, there is criteria. There are things that we can do to help us get more precise. There are filters that can help us look for the best setups. And there are a ton of different playbooks that you can use with this, but the foundation is this. Action line gets us in. Safety line gets us out. You know when to enter because price told you. And you know when to exit because price told you. If I had to take everything that I have learned in the past 11 years of trading and boil it down into three words, it would be that follow the price. Now, let's get into a few advanced tips here. Let's get into position sizing, stop- losses, and trade management. We now know when to enter and what direction to take the trade in. But that is only half the trade. The other half is how much to put into the trade. And this means how many shares, how many contracts, how many lots, how big of a position size are we getting into this trade and how much money are you willing to lose if this trade doesn't work out. That decision is on you. Unfortunately, there is some part of this strategy that does require your own discretion or your own decision, and that is position sizing. But it comes down to two things. Position sizing and stop-loss. Now, what is a stop-loss? Stop-loss is also exactly what it sounds like. It is a tool that stops your loss. Now, you will set this before you even get into your trade. So, this is what you decide. If you get into this position because of our action line, price moves against me and violates my safety line, how much am I willing to lose? The stop-loss closes the trade for you automatically. It is how you protect yourself from losing more than you had planned. Now, for us, we know our entry model, we know our exit model, and we know that our exit model is the safety line. So, the stop loss will always go on the other side of the safety line. So, if price hits that level, violates the safety line, that is where a stop-loss will be initiated. And that's how we know the trade is no longer working. That's how we know we're no longer safe in our position. Close our trade. Now, position sizing. What is position sizing? Position sizing is how big your trade is. How many shares of a stock? How many contracts of a future? How many lots of a forex pair? How many is the position sizing? Now, the bigger position sizing, the more money that you'll make if it moves in your favor or if the trade works out, but also the more money that you'll lose if it doesn't work out. So, how do you decide how big to go? You base it on how much you're willing to lose. That is essentially it. Now, we do have a rule of thumb for beginners. Never risk more than 1 to 2% of your capital on a single trade. Capital just means the amount of money that you have deposited in your account, the amount of money that you have to trade with. So, if you have $10,000 in your account and you're willing to risk 1 to 2%, that means you're willing to lose $100 to $200 per trade. So, that is the most that you're willing to risk on any single trade. If you risk too much per trade, one bad trade could entirely wipe you out or take a huge hit to your account. So, when it comes to trading, we're working with probabilities. So, we want to keep that range of 1 to 2% so that you could take like 10 losses in a row back to back to back and you still haven't made a huge dent on your account and that allows probabilities to work in our favor. Small risk per trade keeps you in the game. And that's why this is a great rule of thumb for beginners. It allows the beginners to stay in long enough to actually see it through. Now, quick side note before we keep going. You may be thinking, I don't have $10,000 to trade with, so these numbers aren't even really clicking to me. But don't worry, that's not an issue. There is a solution. We'll get into it later in the video. But just keep that in the back of your mind. But for now, let's keep going. Now, here is one last concept to add to all of this. Trailing your stop. The safety line isn't just where you place your initial stop-loss. As price moves in your favor and respects your safety line, your stop will trail along that safety line. This allows you to maximize on profits when you're up instead of allowing price to come all the way back down to the original stop-loss. So, you move it. It's dynamic. It moves along with the safety line. This is called your trailing stop. Think of it this way. The safety line is a dynamic concept. price will continue to eb and flow and move along your safety line. The stop loss, we will keep adjusting. Your stop loss follows that same line. So, the longer that the trade is working out, the more profits that you'll lock in along the way. Now, this part is hands-on. You will be manually moving your stop along the safety line as price progresses. As price shifts and moves along with your safety line, you will take that stop-loss and continue to move it as price es and flows along your safety line. So, that is essentially the stop-loss placement and safety line in one. Your safety line is your trailing stop. They are one and the same. And for some traders who have already been doing this for a while, the acronym SL, safety line, same as stop-loss, SL, but it tells you exactly where your stops should be and how you should trail them and how you should move them. Everything is dictated by what price does. If the price moves along and respects your safety line, so does your stop loss. If price moves along your safety line, you're staying in your trade. As soon as price violates, you're closing your trade. All of our decision-m is done based on what the price is doing. Follow the price. Always come back to that phrase. Here's what every single trade looks like for us. One, top down analysis. Make sure you mark up your charts. You've done your research on what price has done overall leading all the way up to real-time price action. Two, action line. Wait for price to break your trend line and then you get into a trade in the direction of the break. Three, pre-planned position sizing and stop-loss placement. This is our initial risk. How much are we willing to lose if we get into this position? Remember, 1 to 2% of your capital for beginners. Four, trail your safety line. And then five, price tells you when to exit. As soon as price violates the safety line, it's time to close the trade. That is the entire framework, step by step. And if you want to see the strategy be implemented on a live account, I've done plenty of trade breakdowns where I go over this exact strategy using my own personal live account. Click any of the videos over here. Later in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how we utilize these trend lines to place our trades. And I'm going to show you this process in real time, step by step, what the market is doing right now, today. Here's what to do next. Go on to Trading View and activate their paper trading account. You want to enter a number that is closer to the realistic amount that you're actually going to be trading with. This is how you get the reps and this is where you start. You could enter $10,000. You could enter 20, 25, 50, 100K, 200K, whatever you think would be more realistic to what you'd actually like to trade with. Paper trading is using fake money, but you've got real market conditions and real price action. So, you follow the same exact rules or the same exact system that we just went over. Same setups, same risk, same stop- losses. This is where you're going to get the reps in, build the consistency, master the strategy. Once you've done that, once you have actually proven consistency to yourself that this strategy works, that's when you get to look into something called a prop firm. Prop firm is short for proprietary trading firm. This is a company that will give you access to trading capital. So instead of risking your own $10,000, remember we talked earlier about if you don't have $10,000 to invest into a trading account. This is the alternative. They will give you access to trading$10,000, $25,000, $50,000, 100 to even $200,000 worth of trading capital. Here's how it works. You pay a small fee to take an evaluation. The evaluation is a test. So come to the test prepared. They will give you a simulated account at the size that you're trying to get funded for. So you'll take an evaluation for a 10K account. You'll take an evaluation for a 50K account or 100K account. So you have to prove that you can trade profitably and consistently using their rules. Things like a daily loss limit, profit targets, etc. If you pass the evaluation, you get access to the funded account capital from the firm to trade with. And when you make money on that account, you and the prop firm split the profits. Most firms pay out between 70 and 90% of profits to the trader. The reason that I love prop firms so much is that it is the lowest barrier to entry to get into trading. These evaluations cost anywhere between $50 to $100. So, think about this. If you want to trade $100,000 in a futures account, you've got to deposit $100,000 in a futures account. Most people don't have that. With a prop firm, the only amount of money that you're risking is the amount that you paid for the evaluation, which is usually around $100, and that's it. Get funded and start trading. It is hands down the best path forward for anyone who is serious about trading that doesn't have that larger amount of capital to start with. Now, here's my recommendation. Alpha Futures. Alpha Futures has a 50K premium account that costs around $79 for the evaluation. That gets you access to $50,000 worth of futures capital. And if you enter code Tori at the checkout, you'll get a discount. And if you're not a futures trader, there's also Alpha Capital and you can use code Tori for a discount there as well. So, if you want to take the next step, the link will be in the description below. Now, there's one more thing. If you have made it this far, it is the ongoing maintenance of our trend lines. What does that look like? If you do your top down analysis, you wait for price to cross one of your lines, you close your screens, maybe a day goes by, you come back. How do you readjust your lines? How do you maintain the lines? So, I want to go over that example before we finish today's video. How do you continue to do this again and again after today? So, your chart is not a static picture. The price is not going to just stay where you left it when you do your top down analysis. Price will continue to eb and flow and move. So as price moves through your old trend lines, you need to update your lines. You need to update to new touch points, new highs and new lows. Markets are always changing directions, always creating new trends. So your trend lines need to adapt with them. Now, this is what you do regularly. This is not on a weekly basis or a monthly basis. Adjusting your lines is on a daily basis. So you'll sit down, you'll go to your designated time frame and see what lines need to be adjusted. Your daily routine is what separates you from traders who guess versus traders who have an actual system and an actual process. Now, let me show you what this looks like on the charts. Now, let's say that you go back to Bitcoin. You've done your top down analysis already, but the price has since then crossed through. It has broken through and violated one of the trend lines. Now, you weren't able to get into a position when it crossed. So, you need to modify or adjust your trend lines to prepare for the next move. This is what the ongoing maintenance looks like. If you open up your charts and price has already crossed through some of your trend lines, you're going to go back and abide by those same rules that we went over. Make sure price is not intersected. Make sure lines will always connect to one another. And try to capture as many touch points as possible. So if I want to adjust this line to the correct area based on what price has done now, I will take this point B and move it here. Now price has not intersected and I've still followed all of my rules. This is what the ongoing maintenance looks like. Now once price breaks one of these two lines, we understand that we've got an entry, we've got trade management, and we've got an exit. But as you maintain your lines and as you continue to watch price day after day, you'll need to adjust these lines. And this is what the ongoing maintenance looks like. So now you have a clear idea of how to get in, how to manage a trade, how to get out, and what the ongoing maintenance looks like for trend lines. How do we adjust them when price breaks them and we didn't get in on the opportunity or we didn't get in on the trade. That's everything. So there it is, the complete trend line system. No indicators, no noise, no confusion. A very clear step-by-step system and strategy. You start from the top, monthly, weekly, daily, 4 hour, 1 hour, or continue down to some lower time frames. You know exactly when to enter your trades, how to manage your trades, and when to exit. And you even know how to maintain your trend lines after price has already broken through. So that is the whole system. It is simple. It is repeatable. It works on any market, any instrument, and any time frame. This is purely a price action-based trend line system. Thanks for watching everybody. Hope this is helpful.

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