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I almost have a gut feeling in gold. That's the  benefit of spending so much time studying one   pair. I'm an intraday trader, so I like getting in  and out in a few hours. So, I do like using this   on the 5minut. The one minute can get a little bit  messy because if you gave most traders only one   market to trade, they'd probably get bored. Our  guest today is Claudia and she built her entire   trading career around becoming a specialist. I'm  able to identify patterns in gold. I can recognize   prices printed this way before and go off that.  I don't have a set trading window and I find that   you don't need one with gold anyway. If I only  trade at London session, I [music] would miss a   lot of the moves that I'm waiting for. I do have  set list of guidelines rather than like strict   trading rules. So the first is she trades only one  market gold. She uses a simple supply and demand   framework that removes as [music] much decision-m  as possible. So if the one and the 4 hour is   showing this, then there's no point of me dropping  down to the lower time frames. [music] When I'm   looking for a buy, I'm mostly trading from the  five or the 15-inut time frame. And I want to   see a series of lows holding highs failing. So I  want to see two of [music] those. Just waiting for   this entry model in the 30-minut time frame wasn't  good. So I asked myself, how can I increase this   win rate? And the answer was in today's strategy  breakdown, she's going to show you exactly how she   identifies high probability zones. She shares  how she times her entries. She breaks down how   she manages risk. And most importantly, she  explains how she avoids taking the trades that   she knows she shouldn't. Because if I want to  see this entry model play out on the 30-inut,   it's going to [music] show me on the fivem minute  first lower highs creates an order block created   demand zone. After the zones created, prices then  push [music] down and broke these lows. And not   only those lows, it's actually broke a series of  lows. And yes, we see a shift here, but what I'm   waiting for is Let's get into it. So, let's dive  in. Talk me through how this starts for you when   you jump on the charts. Where do you where does  your whole process start? Okay, so as you've   mentioned, I trade only gold. So, I just mark up  gold. That's what I open up. I don't look at any   other pairs. I've only traded gold for like four  years now. So, I open up gold and I start from the   higher time frames. So, I do a top down analysis.  The first thing I do is I mark up the opens. So,   I'll mark up the daily open, the London open, the  New York open for that day depending on what time   that I'm on the chart. So, if I jump on at 10 a.m.  UK time, I'm only marking up the daily and the   London. Um, so those are the opens for the day.  And then I also have the weekly and the monthly   open on the chart. They are really important for  the way I look for entries. Okay, so a lot of my   entries are off opens. So that's if I don't  have the opens marked on my charts, I tend to   have a bad losing day cuz I'm just guessing. And  I'll explain that. But um first thing I do is I So I mark up the opens and then I do my top  down analysis. So I'll start from the monthly,   but often I kind of skip the monthly because on  gold it's mostly bullish because it's primarily   a bullish pair. So but I still check it just in  case. So it's usually bullish. Then I'll go to the   weekly, the daily, and the 4hour and then the 1  hour and then sometimes I'll check the 30 minute,   but I tend to just do my top down analysis on the  higher time frames cuz I it massively helps my   analysis if I gather a higher time frame narrative  first and then apply that with lower time frame   entries. Mhm. So if I don't have any idea of  what price is doing on the higher time frames,   then I really struggle with a directional  bias on the lower time frames. So I need   to do that top down analysis because  and I I'll talk about this in a bit,   but primarily I'm looking at the 4hour time frame.  So that's kind of the trend that I'm trying to   identify on the 4hour and then applying that to  the 55 minutes. So okay, um top down analysis bracelet's going to get annoying. And then  the next thing I do, so once I've done that,   I've dropped down to maybe the 1  hour or the 30 minute at this stage,   then I go down to the lower time frames and try to  identify expectational order flow. So basically,   whether buying pressure or selling pressure is  in control because even if the 4hour is bearish,   the 50-minute could be bullish. So I would want  to catch a buy. Ideally, if they're all aligned,   then that's great. But sometimes they aren't.  So, um, again, I'll talk about this in a bit,   but that's how I identify whether I'm going to  be trading protrend or counter trend. Okay. So,   so you're open to doing either. It just depends  on, I guess, what the chart is showing you at   the time. Yeah. So, I am primarily trading  with the pressure that I'm seeing on the   50-minute and the 5m minute. Okay. um even if it  doesn't align with the 4 hour, but at least if I   know what price is doing on the 4 hour first, I  know how long I should hold a trade for on the   lower [clears throat] time frames because if the 4  hour is bearish and I'm the the 5 minutes bullish,   it's unrealistic for me to try and catch like a  1 to 10 risk-to-reward or a 50 60 point move to   the upside cuz chances are price is pushing into  a point of interest, an area of liquidity before   it aligns with the 4R. Makes sense. So I've yeah  that helps me to figure out whether I should be   shooting for like a one one or a one to three or  where to set my TP um etc. So okay so for this one   on the 5 minute or the 15-inut time frame I'm  basically trying to figure out whether buying   pressure is in control or selling pressure or I  would say is supply or demand in control. Okay.   So if I'm seeing a series of lows holding highs  failing, then that tells me that buying pressure   is stronger than selling and I should be looking  for buys on those lower time frames. Whereas if   I'm seeing a series of highs holding lows failing,  price is making a series of lower highs, lower   lows, then I'm looking for shells basically. Okay.  Yeah, makes sense. So on the five minute if I'm   seeing that price is targeting the previous highs  but it's not breaking the previous lows making a   series of higher highs higher lows then that's  what I'm I'm basically waiting for a pullback   into an area of liquidity and open and I'll talk  through this when I explain my entry model but   that's what I'm doing. So, I'm basically trying to  catch an entry between this high and this low. Um,   because with expectational order flow, because  price is making a series of higher highs,   higher lows, I can expect price to break  this high, but not break that low. So,   if I get in somewhere here and put my stop loss  here, in theory, it should be protected and then   price should target this previous high. So, that's  what I'm I'll talk more about the entry model, but   that's kind of what I'm looking for. Okay. Same  here. If we're seeing price target in these lows,   but the high it's not breaking the highs, then  same again, trying to identify an entry between   this high and low. Trade into the previous low.  Okay. So, that's how I would identify whether   I'm looking for buys or shells on the lower time  frames. Makes sense. Okay. So, the next thing I   would do is I mark up any key areas of liquidity  or points of interest. So places that I would want   to catch an entry from or set a take profit at.  So I'll explain it in more detail in a minute,   but Okay. So just say price is bullish on the  5m minute and price is up here at this high, but   there's a New York open here. Mhm. Maybe there's a  nice area of demand. Maybe there's a monthly open,   a London open, whatever it is in there. So  that would be a point of interest for me. Um,   and I that's what I'm keeping an eye on because  I don't want to jump in a trade here because I   want to wait for price to come to me. So, if I'm  looking for buys, I want to see price pull back   into a liquidity level or um one of my points of  interest before looking for a continuation. So,   that could be a point of interest. Another point  of interest could be maybe the market opened for   the week but gapped up and is playing about up  here. Mhm. So this is a gap and imbalance left   from the the weekly open um spike up. So that  would be a point of interest. I would mark that   as an imbalance and that could be an area for uh  for a TP. So if I see maybe on the 5m minute I'm   starting to see this a series of lower highs and  lower lows then that I can apply my entry model   in there and then use that as a TP. Um, another  one could be if price has pushed to the upside,   it's ranged a bit and then it's dropped. But  that's the daily high or the weekly high and it's   untapped and there's a lot of liquidity up there  even though price looks extremely bearish. Um,   that's a key point of interest for me. So with  that in mind, I would know not to hold my sales   for too long because there's a high chance that  price is going to come back there, likely target   it and then continue to the downside if it is  downtrending. Okay, so points of interest are   oh another one kind of similar but equal highs or  equal lows. So if price is doing that for example,   it's ranged, it's consolidated, there's  liquidity on both sides. If price targets   the upside liquidity again, I'm marking that  downside liquidity as a point of interest. Okay, maybe price was pushing up and New York  open happened or London open or daily open,   any type of open happened on the spike up,  but there was no pullback. So that means it's   an untapped open. So again, that's a point of  interest because chances are price isn't going   to go too far before it comes back, captures  that liquidity, and then pushes off. Okay. So,   those are the sort of things I'm marking up is  daily highs and lows, weekly highs and lows,   untapped, equal highs and lows, um, untapped  opens, imbalances, gaps, and yeah. Okay,   let's take a quick break here and I want to tell  you about a prop firm that's actually trusted and   proven to pay their traders. There's only one name  you need to know about. It's Traderify. You see,   Traderify Futures is one of the most trusted names  in the industry. They've had consistent and stable   operations over the last few years and they've  paid out over $125 million to traders. The best   part about doing business with them is there's  no hidden rules. There's no denied payouts. As   long as you hit your objectives, you get paid.  It's pretty simple. Now, here's what Trader gives   you that actually matters as a trader. They've got  flexible plans in place that you can get paid out   daily. You've got the ability to pass evaluations  in just a single day. 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Now, make sure you use the  code PFT at checkout to make sure that you get the   best deal available. Links in the description  below. You basically just got a variety of   different things which act as kind of a a magnet  for price. Is that the right way to put it? Yeah,   definitely. Okay. Yeah. I especially like whenever  there's a imbalance or a gap like this. So, let me So, when there's an imbalance or a gap kind of  like that one and price makes equal lows above it,   I love them because they tend to just spike  down and capture that liquidity. So, that   would be another point of interest is if there's  equal lows resting above an imbalance or a gap,   same thing really. And ju just for clarity all  of these points of interest are they used as   a place to enter or a place to target or  does it depend? Both. Okay. Both. So it   depends how far price pushes away from this  point of interest. So for example this one   um if price pushed like 20 30 points away maybe  more. Sometimes it goes further before it came   back to the untapped open. If I'm seeing a series  of like this of highs hold and lows failing, then   I'll get in a sale to trade from that. If price  is close to that point of interest, I'll just wait   until it hits it and then look for an entry from  it. Got you. Um, obviously it doesn't always work   that way. Sometimes it'll come below the open and  then continue showing me a series of highs holding   lows failing and in that case I'll look for a sell  maybe off a pullback off the bottom of it. So on   my charts I have a lot of levels. So I mark up H  quarter levels, whole levels. So for whole levels,   it would be every 100 points. So 4,000, 4,100,  4,200, and then every 25 points. So 4,25, 4,50,   4,75. And I really love waiting to see how price  reacts off those levels because if my there's been   plenty of trades I've taken where it's not like  my mechanical kind of even though it's not so   mechanical, it's a bit discretionary, but it's  not like my entry model. But what I've done is   I've waited for price to come to that level just  the price level and I observe how price reacts off   it. So if it came into the level and then shows me  a change of character where you're seeing a shift.   So on the way up to that level you're seeing  lows hold and highs failing and then you see a   shift of order flow where now highs are holding  and lows are failing then I'll look from for a   sell from that level because that's showing me  that price wants to turn around to the downside.   Whereas if it's breaks free a level, comes back  and rejects off it and then breaks a high, then   I'm looking for a buy off the top of the level.  So I also observe how price reacts to levels. So   um I'm not just jumping into trades when price  hits these points of interests or areas of   liquidity. I'm also identifying how it reacts  off them to tell me if it wants to turn around   from that level or if it wants to keep going in  the direction. It wants to keep going in the same   direction, right? So, um I'm not just like jumping  into trades whenever price falls an imbalance or   hits an open like I'm dropping down to the 135  minute and whatever I need to get that data to   make a decision um to decide how it's reacting  off those levels. So, I have one question. Yeah.   In the situation where let's say in this example  where we've had price pull up to a key level or a   point of interest. Yeah. And you're seeing that I  think you described it as a change of character,   right? Yeah. [snorts] in going from let's say like  a a fairly bullish structural environment to now   a bearish one. How many times would you need to  see like uh the highs holding and the lows failing   before you can say okay this is different? Is it  just the one time or do you need to see it twice?   I need to say a series of two because often what  happens is for example here if price is pushing up   and then I see a low brick if I jump in a sell  there what often happens is it just flies up   because that's just an internal uh range liquidity  sweep I need to wait for a series of at least   two highs holding and two lows failing to tell me  that supply or selling pressure has truly regained   control. Okay because often you know that's just a  wick sweep. It's just buyers to fuel for a further   move up. So, I need to see two. There's many times  I've jumped in like, "Oh, low broke. Let's get in   on a sale." And then I've got my accounts been  hurt from it. So, um I need to see at least two.   Okay. Nice. That all makes sense to me for sure.  So, this I guess is uh all in the framing of bias,   context, target sometimes. Yeah. Um to help you  from the the higher time frame. Uh and you said   a lot of this is done from the 5 minute and 15  minute if I remember correctly. Yeah. So you   can apply this to higher time frames but it will  take you weeks. Yeah. Um I'm an intraday trader   so I like getting in and out in a few hours. So  I do like using this on the five minute. the one   minute can get a little bit messy because within  that like so in the 5minut time frame here where   you're seeing like a nice change of character in  the 1 minute there's just sometimes it can become   a lot of data and you're it's hard for you to  actually identify whether price is pushing to the   downside or whether it's just ranging in the one  minute. Got you. Um so five minute I think is key.   So hypothetically, I know your approach is very  much intraday, but do you think this same model   could be applied and someone could apply it to a  higher time frame to like swing trade? My entry   model um that I'll talk about, yeah, definitely  I've back tested it on the 4our um and it works   well, but I just don't have the patience to  apply it to the live market. I'm thinking of   the perspective of somebody that's watching this  but maybe doesn't want to intraday or would prefer   to swing trade it, for example. Would it work? It  definitely would work from the higher time frames   when you're looking at, you know, gaps. Um, maybe  like monthly opens definitely on the higher time   frames for like London, New York daily opens,  it might be too small scale, but um definitely   this with like the equal lows risk and above  an imbalancer gap for sure. This this here like   applying this to quarter levels or whole levels  100%. But the only thing is is by the time you get   that confirmation that price has wick rejected off  a level, a whole level or a quarter level and it's   broke that previous high on the 4hour time frame  you've maybe missed like 50 points whereas on the   5m minute you can get in there quite like quite  not immediately on the start of the shift but   um you can get a much cleaner entry on the five  minute um because everything that happens on the   higher time frame happens on the lower time frames  first. So by the time this prints on the 4R it's   already away. Perfect. For sure. Is there anything  else that I think needs covering here before we   maybe start moving into entries? So there's two  more. So the next one is to mark up my zones.   So mark up my supply and demand zone. So once I  have the opens, I've done my top down. I know what   price is doing on the higher time frames. I've  identified what price is doing on the 5m minute 15   minute. I've figured out whether it's aligned with  the 4 hour, whether it's in a it's counter trend.   um I've identified my key areas of liquidity in  that piece of price action or around it. Then   the next thing I do is I mark up my zones.  So that will be my supply and demand zones. Okay. So, um, so when I've identified  the lower high and the higher high,   and I've basically narrowed down where I want to  look for an entry from, that's within that leg,   I'm trying to figure out where would be the  best place to look for an entry. Like, where's   the highest probable place that price wants to  turn around from within that leg? And obviously,   it doesn't always work. Sometimes price that  could be like the shift, but whatever. it   um for continuation. So maybe there's an open in  there or a nice order block created demand zone   that I can identif that I can observe how price  reacts off like this. Mhm. So maybe that's a So   I also like would use this for zones too is that  like one free five minute um how price reacts off   them and I'll explain that but I'm identifying  zones but primarily demand zones which would be   an order block create a demand zone at the bottom  of that leg before price broke the previous high.   Okay. And then on the supply side, same again.  Just looking for basically I'm trying to identify   where a burst in price action started from. So  if you see a really nice spike to the upside,   I'm trying to identify where that happened from  and then waiting for price to come back to it   and then identifying if it's going to hold  or if it's going to fail by breaking down to   the lower time frames and observing how price  reacts to it as to whether I should trade from   it or not. Okay. So that's my zone. So basically  my ideal place is to get in on an entry. So I'm   marking up my zones and then the next thing  would be to set alerts at those areas. Okay? Because if price is up here for example and I'm  waiting for price to come back to this zone,   if I sit there and watch it, I will try  selling to it and I will I'll try jumping in   trades and because I can get very attached to my  analysis and then I get impatient. and I'm like,   I want this to play out now. And then sometimes  I catch myself trying to sell to that zone before   price has even shown me that it wants to turn  around yet. So, I think that's one of my key   roles is once I've identified where I want  to get in on an in price isn't near it yet,   I need to set an alert and I need to go do  something else, whether it's gym, meal prep,   read a book, whatever. Um, anything but stare  at the charts cuz I will start forcing trades.   The more I stare at Trade and View, the more  I convince myself that there's a trade there   when there isn't. So that setting alerts is  like key for me. Yeah. Do you do you aim to   trade within specific sessions or if like your  alert goes off at a random time of the day,   are you open to taking it as long as the setup  is there? I'm open to taking it because it just   depends really. Um sometimes I'm on the charts  for London session for Traify TV's live stream.   Other times I'm up late the night before so I'm  only waking up like midday maybe and I can only   do New York session, whatever. I don't have  like a set trading window and I find that you   don't need one with gold anyway because it can  like honestly like I was waiting for these low   the lows on gold to get taken higher time frame  lows since last week. Okay. And they got taken   last night at 2:00 a.m. during Asian session.  So there's if I only trade at London session,   I would miss a lot of the moves that I'm waiting  for. So that's the beauty of only focusing on   one pair is if you have an alert, if there's  nothing showing, you can just set an alert and   it doesn't matter. you just don't need to trade  then you can just wait for it to go off rather   than exhausting yourself for like an hour or two  and then not having the capacity to look at the   charts if your alert goes off like out of ours.  So um yeah I just trade whenever really I guess   the the benefit of that also is we're probably  going to have people watching this video from   all parts of the world and sometimes not you know  being there for the London session or New York   session is not possible for them. So obviously  you can get outside of those fairly popular. Yeah, my favorite session is Asian session. So I  have to sit up until the late AMRs to trade it. So   I'm actually jealous of people on the other side  of the world for [laughter] goals. Maybe it's a   sign you need to move that way. Yeah. No, I know.  Okay, so we're moving on now to entry models.   Talk us through this. How do you actually get into  the market? So I have a couple of different entry   models that I look for. I have a few different  concepts um confirmations that I combine to   figure out whether a setup's high quality or  not. So, I kind of combine them all, but I'll   talk through three of the setups. Two of them are  kind of overlap. They all kind of overlap. They're   just kind of different versions, but my style of  trading isn't mechanical. I'm definitely more of a   discretionary trader, okay? And I feel like that's  the benefit of of spending so much time studying   one pair is that I almost have a gut feeling in  gold. Um because I've studied it for so long,   I can identify certain patterns or I can recognize  weight prices printed this way before and you know   the past few times it's done this, it's done  this and I can kind of go off that. So all of   my trades they don't follow like the strict same  set of rules. But on days like I mentioned earlier   with the mental check in if I have any external  pressures to be aware of on days where I'm not   in the right headsp space or there are external  pressures following that gut feeling I have goes   the wrong way because often the urge that I'm  feeling to get in on a trade is driven by fear   or impatience and not it's not the right reasons  to get in. So the gut feeling to get in on a trade   only works if I'm in the right head space. Got  you. But I do have set list of rules guidelines   I would say rather than like strict trading rules.  Okay. So the first is I kind of already explained   it over here before but I'll I'll draw. So when  I'm looking for a buy again like I mentioned I'm   mostly trading from the five or the 15 minute time  frame. And I want to see a series of lows holding   highs failing. So, I want to see two of those to  for extra confirmation that demand is actually   in control and the buying pressure is actually  stronger than selling pressure. Then I want to   see an order block created demand zone. So, what  that could look like is maybe a bullish engulfing   candle. Okay? And then I'm drawn a demand zone  from that. But the order block created demand   zone needs to come from one of the higher lows.  Okay? Then after that zone's created, I need price   to push up and break the previous high. So it's  really important that it does this because if it   doesn't, then it's not valid, right? Um because  often what could happen is price doesn't break   the previous high. I try to buy off the zone  and what happens is it just plummets because   that's a change of character. That's a shift of  order flow. Buying pressures actually exhaust it   and selling pressures regain control. So I it's  really important for that previous high to get   broke after the zones create it. And then what  I'm looking for is the way that price returns to   the zone. So I'm looking to enter off this zone,  a buy. If it returns to it extremely aggressively,   then that's like stay [snorts] away from stay  away from it. It's not um it's not a high quality   trade. What I want to see ideally is like a slow  controlled push back to the zone. And ideally,   I'd love to see price ranging above it, creating  liquidity on both sides because that means that   when price taps into that zone, there's still  liquidity resting up here and therefore it's   likely that the zone will hold and price will push  up, capture that internal range liquidity and then   target the previous high on that uptrend.  So, the rules for that is um this might price is uptrending making a series of  higher highs and higher lows. Mhm. And   then um so one of the higher lows  creates an order block create a   demand zone. So I'm just going to do  higher low order block. And then the   third one is price pushes up and breaks  the previous high after making the zone. previous high break and then I don't want price to come back into  the zone straight away after it breaks that   high. I want to see price build liquidity on  both sides. So I basically want to see price   play around like I mentioned creating liquidity on  both sides before a spike down then a push up. So, liquidity on both sides above the zone. And the reason I want liquidity  on both sides is because when it pushes down into   the zone, then it's taking buyers out of the  market cuz when price consolidates like that,   it's there's sellside liquidity to the upside of  that range, buy side liquidity to the downside.   And when it pushes down, takes out that buy  side liquidity. It's more than likely fueling   for that push up to break this previous high.  Okay. So, I want to see a tap into the zone, but also liquidity taken on the way. Now, I'm  going to draw a few examples of how I apply   this in different ways. So, it's not always a  range above the zone. Sometimes that could be   an open or a quarter level or those levels I was  chatting about my points of interest. I get really   nice entries when there's an open in there at  those zones as well. Okay. But there's different   versions of it, but the main thing I'm looking  for is I want to see buyers taken out of the   market before I look at getting into buy off that  area or off that zone. So, if there's no liquidity   taken out, then it's there it's not a valid trade.  Mhm. So, same for sell side just flipped. I'll not   write it all out for the sell side. I'll just  draw the little Yeah, sounds good. So, yeah,   series of lower highs, lower low, order block  created, supply zone. After the zones created,   price breaks the previous low. It doesn't shift  right back into the zone straight away, but rather   it returns to the zone in a controlled way, I  guess. uh ranges, consolidates, builds liquidity   in both sides, takes out the sell side liquidity  there at the top of that range, taps into the   zone, and then I'm looking for a sale to the  previous low. So, exact same, just flipped. Um,   so yeah, that would be my main entry model for the  5m minute time frame. Um, then another one I would   use if price is consolidating is I call it price  trap. if I'm not seeing a series of lows holding,   highs failing, or highs holding, lows failing,  um, and price is kind of moving to the side,   consolidating. So, it could be that I check the  charts and I'm seeing there's like no directional   bias there. You're seeing highs failing, lows  failing, like there's no series. Then what I   would do is just say that's the high and the  low and price is kind of created and price is   stuck in a consolidation. Then what I'll do is  I'll mark that up. I'll drop down to the one   minute time frame and identify like a really  refined tight supply zone. And same again for   the downside for a demand zone. Even better if  that's like a quarter level um or like an open,   right? So even better if I have like a really like  nice point of interest where it's just a line,   but if not often it's usually just a really  refined supply demand zone. Um so what I'm   doing is I'm dropping down to the one minute. I'm  basically identifying the order block from the 1   minute. So just making it smaller. Y and then  waiting for price to break out of it. So when   price is doing this, what I'll do is I'll set an  alert on both sides. So I'm not trying to trade   that. I'm waiting for a breakout. Okay. Um but  it's not always a breakout. It could be So there's   a breakout model and then there's the sweep to  sweep model. So for the breakout, it could be   that price pushes above there, pulls back, breaks  a previous high. like I mentioned before, that   tells me that buying pressure is stronger than  selling even though it's taken out this liquidity,   right? So then I'm looking for a buy from this  area. Okay. Um let me draw a different example. Whereas if price pushes up here, takes that up,  takes that sell side liquidity, but it breaks it   with a wick, not a candle body, and then it comes  back within the range there. So if it flies up,   flies down, creating a wick, wick rejects  there, and you're seeing a series of highs,   holding lows failing on the 135, 5 minute, then  what I'm doing is I'm looking for a sell down   to the downside liquidity. Yeah. So it was like  I explained before where I'm trying to identify   how price is reacting to certain levels. It's  just the same thing really. I'm waiting for   price to take either side of the liquidity.  Um often what you'll see is price sweep one   side and then target the next. Okay? So I tend  to trade that way. Um unless for this example   when price breaks out you'll usually see like  a slight sweep maybe but if it's if there's no   liquidity taken from the bottom if that's perfect  equal lows then chances are it's going to take   upside then target downside. Y but if there's a  little sweep then more likely this will happen.   M so um that's how I would deal with when price is  consolidating as I'm setting alerts on both sides   waiting for price to push out because it can be  very easy to convince yourself in this piece of   price action like oh it's going to make the break  now and then what happens is you enter a trade you   hold a buy you watch it come back to entry and  then you've spent like half a day maybe a full   day just watching price bop along and then by the  time price actually makes that move you're pissed   off you're impatient you feel angry at the market  because you've spent put a lot of time in and you   want to be rewarded for your time. So often what  happens is you've either blown your accounts,   you've wasted all your bullets for the day or you  just completely missed this move all together. So   that's why I really emphasizing that alerts  are so important to like your mental capital   as you know save it as well. Um so alerts in these  situations. So the first entry model was catching   continuations when price is actually trending.  This one is more when price is consolidating.   Just for clarity before you wipe this. Yeah.  Um, this is all happening from a five and 15   minute perspective. Is that right? Or is this  the 4 hour? Mostly looking at whenever price is   consolidating like this. I'm generally watching  it from like the 1 hour 30 minute. Okay. Um,   so if it's consolidating on the 1 hour or  the 4 hour, then it's not going to be doing   anything on the lower time frames. you might  catch some nice moves, but like I mentioned,   I need that higher time frame narrative with  the lower time frame execution. If I don't   have the higher time frame narrative, I'm going  to be trending in all sorts of directions. I'm   not going to feel fully committed to a buy or  sell bias. I'm going to close my winners early,   hold on to my losers too long. Um, so if the one  and the 4R is showing this, then there's no point   of me dropping down to the lower time frames.  That's why I do the top down analysis. I need to   see some form of story or some form of narrative  on the 4 hour and the 1 hour. Once I see that,   then I feel confident that I know what I'm doing  on the 515 minute. Got you. So, if I can see from   the 1 hour that it's consolidating, I don't even  go down to the lower time frames. I'm just setting   alerts on both sides and I'm then as soon as  my alert goes off and price breaks either side,   then I'm dropping down to the 515 minute. Makes  sense? Perfect. The third one is kind of like   the first one, but it's just like an additional  confirmation because I noticed that I there was   like four or five days in a row where I just kept  missing the move. So like price would like [ __ ]   down and I was in a buy and then I would switch to  a sale and it shot up and like there was just like   three or four times in a row where I was just  like in the complete wrong side of the market   and it was really frustrating. Yeah, I need some  form of rule that helps me to be more mechanical   in which way the market's moving because even  though the price is up trended in the 4, it can   be difficult sometimes in the lower time frames.  Well, I decided to start using 30 minute bullish   engulfing candles or bearish engulfing candles.  So, that is my guideline for what direction I'm   looking to trade from basically. So, I stopped  guessing in the chaos and started taking a step   back, waiting on the 30 minute before dropping  down. kind of similar to what I was doing before   except more strict, more disciplined. I have a I  know exactly when to drop down rather than just   like kind of following the gut or whatever. So,  if I see a 30-minut bullish engulfing candle,   I'm waiting for that to close and then I'm  dropping down to the 55 minute and I'm marking the   open. So, I'll mark the engulfing candle open and  the uh the candle close and then I'm looking for   a trade within that area. So, um, often what would  happen is there's maybe a New York open in there,   a London open, a daily open. Um, I'm waiting for  price to come down into the open. So, let me just   mark this up over here. So, just say that's a New  York open. Um, I'm waiting for price to show me a   change of character where we're seeing a series  of lows holding highs failing. Maybe there's a   one minute bullish engulfing candle in there.  something to show me. I need highs feeling and   some bullish and some bullish engulfing candles  to tell me that buying pressures regain control   anywhere in here. If it doesn't show that and it  comes below the open, then there's no trade. Okay.   Um, but that was a rule I added in. Basically, I'm  applying that first entry model with the waiting   for price to pull back into a demand zone, trading  to the previous higher time frame high. So,   it's kind of the same as the first entry model,  but I've just added in additional confirmation   because if that's a bullish engulfing candle, then  I'm looking for a buy within that candle open and   close. Whereas, if it's a bearish engulfing  candle, same again. I'm waiting for price to   come back into the candle range, I'm waiting for  a change of character within that range. If it   happens up here, there's no trade. So, ideally,  I want to see a quarter level, a whole level,   and open to trade from. Okay. So, yeah. Do you  do you have a like a specific setup that's like   your favorite or a specific like type of uh market  conditions? Like do you prefer trending or counter   trend or a specific entry model? Yeah, I prefer  when the 4 hour is bullish and the 550 minutes   bullish and price pulls back Indian open. So I've  got a few examples on my laptop for this. So I   prefer when this is the 4 hour and the 5m minute  are all bullish. They're all aligned and then   there's an untapped open. So that could be London  Daily, New York. I love when price comes back,   shows me a change of character, wid it sweeps  the liquidity from the open and then shows lows   holding highest feeling. Execute a buy and I  can target a previous higher time frame high   on that one. Okay. With my stop loss below this  low. Got you. So um yeah, most of my entries are   off continuations off opens. Nice. Nice. Um is  that I feel like we've covered everything. Think   I want to say we've got the kind of context from  the higher time frame. We've got the entry models.   We know where we're putting your stop loss  and targets. Does that feel like everything   for you? Is there anything we're missing? Yeah.  So, there's one thing that's missing. The lower   time frame confirmations are with that first  entry model. Let me draw this bigger this time. So, the series of lows holding highest  failing price coming back into the zone.   So if I just enter so the 30 minute time frame  is primarily what I'm drawing these zones on and   then I'm dropping down to the lower time frames  um to identify a similar setup because everything   that happens in the higher time higher time frame  happens in the lower time frame first. Mhm. Now I   back tested this simply trading from these zones  on the 30-minut time frame and the win rate was   20%. Okay. Just executing just waiting for this  entry model on the 30-minut time frame wasn't   good. Mhm. So I asked myself, how can I increase  this win rate? And the answer was dropping down to   the five minute to identify the confirmation. So  I've got examples on my laptop, but if price comes   down and taps into the zone, even if there's like  a 5m minute bullish engulfing candle here, that's   still not enough for me to enter off that zone  because no highs have failed yet. Okay. So even   if there's like two bullish engulfing candles, it  doesn't matter. I need a series of highs failing   before I get in because the likelihood of that  zone holding is very low because chances are   it's going to push right through. So I need to  see that change of character from the 5 minute.   If you just trade at this entry model off like a  single time frame, the win rate isn't as great as   if you use like multi-time frame analysis. The  higher in time frame you go to draw the zones,   the more reliable. Like if you try to trade this  off the one minute, you're going to take a bunch   of losses. So uh when you see on my charts you'll  see why I have like all my songs marked up like 30   minute 1 hour because when I go back to check the  charts if it says 5 minute I know to disregard it   because it's not reliable where whereas if it  says 4 hour or 1 hour I know to lean on that   more because the higher in time frame you draw  these demand and supply zones the more reliable   they are. 30 minute 1 hour drawing the zones you  can do on the 4 hour as well. Back tests really   well on the 4hour um and then drop them down  to the 5m minute to identify how that reacts.   So if again fair it's basically the same thing.  It's just a combination of loads of different   things. Tap into the zone breaks of highs then I'm  entering. Okay. So am I am I right in saying that   you will never use limit orders in any way. It's  always market execution. Is that fair? Yeah. I   do prefer the B on the charts because if I set  a limit order at a zone then I'm not there to   identify them. Yeah, of course. But that's why I  use alerts. I'd rather set an alert and then be on   the charts to identify the reaction and then make  a decision from there. Um, and if I miss my alert,   it doesn't matter. Like, it's just a trade.  Um, I'm not like fast on needing to be there   for every single one. Okay. But yeah, that's  it. Nice. Uh, I guess one of the last questions   I had that I always like to probe into is risk  management. Yeah. So, I don't know if you have a   different model of managing this, whether you're  in like challenges or evaluations versus funded.   uh talk me through like how much you risk per  trade and maybe how that differs between where   you are in the prop firm model. Yeah, so talk or  draw, entirely up to you. Whatever's whatever is   easier. So it's a bit different because I well I  have different answers because I have a different   style of risk management on CFDs and then a  different on futures and then a different on   my personal account. Okay. So should I start with  CFDs or futures? Uh let's go CFDs to begin CFDs.   So I'll just talk about it. Um so general rule of  thumb is 10% overall draw down 5% daily draw down   on a CFDA account. I tend to go for the two-step  account. So I have that static draw down um bigger   draw down buffer. I tend to risk 1% maximum per  trade. Okay. Didn't start off that way. Okay. I   was very much in the habit of 5% for a trade.  And I learned very quickly that it's painful.   It's a painful and [laughter] very expensive  route to go down when you lose your prop firm   account from two trades in like 24 hours. Yeah.  So, I've definitely pulled that back a lot. Um,   and I've just seen through experience how much  better it is in the long run when you risk less. I   struggled to risk less for a very long time. Like,  I had people tell me, you know, you risk half a   percent per trade, risk 1% per trade. And I knew I  needed to do it, but I just couldn't bring myself   to do it. I think because I'd been so rewarded  from going all or nothing for so long that my   brain just wouldn't let me. So after hearing  that advice, I think it took me a year to even   try a half a percent risk per trade. But then as I  started doing it, I realized, wait, I can actually   like take losses and end the day in profit. Like  this is great. So um I started training myself   that this is better. You can take like free losses  and still end the day in profit with less risk.   So on a prop firm on a CFD evaluation 1% okay per  trade um and then on the fund it a little bit less   I'll try to do less but on the future side it's  different I don't view it in percentages because   it's the contract sizes are different yeah it's  different so for example with a 150k lightning   account with tradeify you have $5,250 overall  draw down okay and $3,000 available risk per   So what I do on the future side because I haven't  quite figured out the percentages yet. What I   would do is whatever my risk is. So on futures,  I'll just mark this up. So I'll take my daily risk allowance and I'll divide that by 10. So on these  150k accounts that I have at the minute,   um they're lightning accounts, I have $3,000 daily  risk alliance, but even but if you hit that, then   you're kind of you're kind of shooting yourself  in the foot because you only have two like $2,000   risk left. So I take the daily risk alliance, I  divide that by 10. So that means that I'm risking   $300 per trade, right? Um sometimes I'm flexible  with that. Sometimes I'll do 500. It depends,   but I usually don't go over 500. So, by dividing  my daily loss allowance on the futures accounts by   10, it just allows me to make much better quality  decisions because I know it it allows me to handle   losses a lot better and take them on the chin  far more. Um, because again, like just building   up that proof to my brain that taking three or  four losses is fine because you're going to end   the day, you could end the day in profit because  you're risking low all you mean. Yeah, of course.   Of course. So with the futures, I definitely um  recommend risking less than CFDs. Um I definitely   do. So I think starting futures was a blessing  for me because my risk management is better than   ever because of the trailing draw down as well.  Um you can't really afford to go all or nothing   on futures, right? Um you can't own CFDs either,  but you know what I mean. True. It's um it's   harder to get to where you want to be on futures  prop accounts by um by risking your full daily   alliance. So I the one thing I love about futures  is they have lockout features that you don't get   on CFDs. So even though you're allowed to risk  $3,000 in a day or I personally set the risk   um settings on these accounts to $1,000. So that  gives me room for around three consecutive losses   in a day and then 100 extra in case like spread or  slippage, whatever. Um so as soon as I hit that,   my account locks like I can't touch them.  Okay. And it's so good. Like that has saved   me so much. Nice. Um because obviously when  you start a new trading day, you're like,   "Right, I'm going to follow my plan. I'm going  to follow my rules." And it can go downhill very   quickly. Were you going to tell maybe you take a  loss, the price takes you out really quickly and   um you get pissed off quickly. Yeah. So it can be  easy to forget what you said at the start of the   day. So when I sit down at the start of the day  and I decide right this is the maximum I want to   lose in the day and I plug that into the lockout  um settings then whenever I hit that I forgot that   I've even set that at the start of the day and  then I go to revenge trade and I can't. So it's   really really nice. Um so yeah futures whatever  your daily loss allowance is divide it by 10 is   my advice. Nice. Okay I like that. Um, [snorts] is  there anything else that you feel like we want to   cover before maybe we jump onto some charts and  look at some real examples? No, I think that's   good for the whiteboard. Yeah. Yeah. All right.  Perfect. Let's get switched over. Okay. So, we are   on the hourly chart of gold. Uh, talk me through  this. I know you've got a few examples to share   with us today. I'll I'll let you take the wheel.  Talk us through some actual trade examples and   hopefully some winning and some losing ones. Yeah.  Yes. So, I usually look for zones on the 30 minute   time frame as I mentioned. Um, and as you can see,  I've got all my levels here. So, whole levels,   quarter levels, the monthly opens. Here's some  like weekly and monthly highs, daily highs. So,   those are the types of points of interests I  was mentioning before. So, and as I mentioned   earlier as well, you can see that I've labeled  my zones. So, I have 15 minute here. We have a   4hour imbalance. Like if it was like a 10 if it  was like a 15-minute imbalance, it's not really   reliable. But that's why I've got 4 hour on there  so that if I'm zoomed in on price action up here,   I'm mindful of that 4hour imbalance to the  downside cuz the higher in time frame you go,   the more likely price is going to reach it. Um  so, okay, so let's pull up this example. So,   um to the left here, you can see I've got my  lower highs, low lower lows marked up. So,   the way I do that is I just go into the 4 hour and  I scrunch price action up. Um, so I'll scrunch it   up and I tend to just grab the Let me get rid  of that one. I tend to just grab the arrow and   I'll mark it up from the four R. So, I usually do  this first, okay? And then I go back and add in   those little lower highs, lower low circles  because um if I'm because for this example,   if the 4hour time frame is bearish and this  is the lower high and this is the lower low,   if price breaks above this lower high, then I need  to start shifting the higher time frame narrative   from bearish to bullish. Okay? So, ideally, I  want to be looking for a sell in this leg here,   and that's what we're going to break down. So  price has came up there. It's broke that by a   wick. Do you remember I mentioned that I  need to see a brick with a candle body,   not a wick. Okay? Because if price shoots up  and shoots back down just as fast, that creates   a wick and that is more than likely just a sweep  because price pushing down just as fast to create   that wick means that selling pressure is really  strong in that area and therefore I don't want to   be looking for a breakout buy up here. um chances  are that was taking liquidity from these highs and   now selling pressure regain control again. This  downtrend is continuing and chances are price is   heading back towards the lows. Okay, so just say  this is where I opened up the charts. I can see   that there's you can see it on the 30 minute but  I've refined it on the 50inut to an order block   created supply zone. I've marked up my zone and  you can see that the zone is resting right above   the monthly open and I forgot to mention this  actually in the whiteboard is so the higher in   time frame you go with the zones the more reliable  they are but also if supply zones are resting   above a point of interest so if there's a zone  resting above the monthly open or a quarter level   they're perfect they're much higher quality than  just a random 30 minute supply demand zone okay   so we can see this was the June monthly open here  Price pushed down a bit, created some lows there,   enticed some buyers in here, pushed up, took  out any sellers from the monthly open, um,   activated any took out any pending orders. A lot  of liquidities rest in the monthly opens. That's   why we often see price come back to them. And then  it's pushed down, taking out these lows, right?   So, there's still liquidity resting in the monthly  open there. And that's why I have that zone there   because if price is going to turn around anywhere  within this leg, like I mentioned, I'm looking for   opens as points of interest to observe if price  turns away from. So what I'd be looking for in   that situation is a shift of character. So in if  I logged on to the charts and this is what I seen,   I would set an alert here at the monthly open  and then wait for price to tap into it. So I have   my zone ready. I can see that there was an order  block created supply zone there. We can see a nice   downtrend here of highs holding lows failing. Mhm.  One of those lower highs creates an order block   created demand zone. After the zones created,  prices then pushed down and broke these lows. And   not only those lows, it's actually broke a series  of lows, right? Extra confirmation that selling   pressure is stronger than buying pressure right  now. And yes, we see a shift here, but what I'm   waiting for is a turnaround. Right. So, I'm trying  to identify a sell opportunity between this high   and this low in line with that higher time frame.  Yeah, exactly. So, then my alert would go off and   once prices tapped into that monthly open, alerts  went off. I'm dropping down to the 5minut time   frame. And you can see here that price has tapped  into the gym monthly open and it's broke one low,   right? And we also have the London open, this blue  line here. So, that's perfect. That's if there's   two opens. Amazing. Especially off a 30 minute  zone. So now I'm waiting to see if price wants to   turn around from here and how it reacts off London  open. So we can see a second break. So now there's   two lows that have failed. Mhm. And what I would  have done there, I pressed I got trigger happy. Um   is I would have looked for a sell off the London  open. Okay. because price has taken liquidity from   the monthly open. It's now showing me a series  of you can see this little supply zone here. And   I'll draw another one. That's that series that I  was talking about is we can see a series of highs   holding lows failing. So price created a high,  broke, pushed to the downside, broke this low,   tapped into that supply zone, broke another low,  came back, wick rejected off London open. So,   what I would do here is I would ideally would  have sold up here on that tap into the second   supply zone, right? Um, and then placed my stop  loss above the zone. So, I used to set my stop   loss directly above the high of the candle that  created the zone. But with back testing and my   uh data collection, etc., I noticed that price  often wrecked me out and then continued. Okay. So,   what I do now is I give it a little bit more  room, a couple of points. um because it could   wick it because it could break it with a wick, not  a candle body. The zone's still valid. Um and I'd   rather have a little bit less of a risk-to-reward  and still catch the trade then get wicked out.   Um [clears throat] and then I would my general  risk-to-reward is like a 1 to two. Okay, so   for this example, that's perfect because that is  this previous high here. And I mentioned before,   I'm not sure if I mentioned it actually, Breakf.  So, I've [snorts] back tested this a lot and   it's a concept that I use in my analysis is often  you'll see like just in this like often you'll see   when price is up trending it'll pull back into the  previous high and then continue higher. Okay. So,   um I call that break theory. So, that's another  point of interest that I would use for my take   profits because if price is truly bullish here  on the higher time frames and I've just caught   a pullback thinking that I've actually caught  a downtrend, um it's good to set my TP at a   place where price is most likely to turn around  from. So, here we have previous highs for Brey,   but we also have a whole level 4,500 and that's  perfect. That's a one to two rest. That's ideal   for me. Um I don't like shooting for much higher  than that really. some if I get a nice clean entry   on the 5m minute just say it's a buy on the  4 hour is also bullish then I'll hold it for   longer but okay one to two rests generally what  I go for um and then I'll just let this play out   now and you can see more nose breaking and then  price pushing back to 4,500 nice and you can see   here that the entry model that I'm looking at on  the 30-minut time frame I'm basically trying to   identify that on the 5minut as Because if I want  to see this entry model play out on the 30 minute,   it's going to show me on the 5minute first.  That's why I keep saying everything that happens   on the higher time frame happens on the lower time  frame first. Yeah. So, it's the same entry model,   but I'm applying it to different time frames  for that extra confirmation. Nice. So,   that's a sell example. Let me pull up a buy  example. And then I'll pull up an example   where the lower time frame confirmation would  have saved me from a loss. Nice. With this one,   you can see that price is extremely bullish to the  left. We can see a really nice push to the upside.   We can see highs failing, lows holding, highs  failing, lows holding, high's failing. Right? So,   there's a really strong series of price pushing  to the upside here. Now, like I drew out on the   whiteboard, I'm looking for an order block created  demand zone from one of the higher lows. So, we   have that zone here. It's also resting below the  January monthly and the 2026 yearly open. Nice.   Which this is actually the first year I've marked  out the yearly open and I can see how price comes   back to. It's really interesting. Um, so price  has pushed up, broke those highs there. So if I   jumped onto the charts and this is what price was  showing me right now. This is where I would set   my alert down here. Okay. Now I don't set it right  at the bottom. Sometimes I'll set set it like five   10 points above, right? So that I have time to  come onto the charts and analyze because if I'm   like in Tesco's or out and about or whatever and  I get an alert that price is right in this zone,   I'm not going to have time to analyze and make  the right decision. So, I tend to set my alerts   like somewhere here because that gives me like 10,  15 minutes, sometimes more heads up before price   actually taps into my entry area. So, we can see  not one sets of highs failing here, but two. And   then at this stage, I'm just waiting for price to  come back into the zone. And you can see a nice   push to the downside from New York open. Mhm. And  then at this stage, my alerts went off. I'm on the   charts. I'm identifying the price has tapped into  this zone and you can also see this is London open   this blue line here. So do you see how that zone  overlap slots perfectly below London open because   with that rule that I mentioned before like I need  some form of liquidity like even though this is an   aggressive I would consider this an aggressive  push to the downside towards my zone it's now   taking buyers out from London open. Y. So what I'm  doing then is I'm dropping down to the 5minut time   frame and at this stage this is actually Asian  session starting now. So you can see this is the   daily open. So price is not only taking out buyers  from previous days London open but now daily open   as well. So I'm looking for this confirmation that  price wants to turn around on the 5m minute. So,   we can see one set of highs fail and we're  starting to see a series of lows holding   highs failing. Yeah. Okay. So, there's one high  that's failed and there's a little demand zone   there. Second high field and you can see a nice  pull back into the previous high break. So, often   we're seeing price pull back into the previous  high brick. So, at this stage I've see two highs   failing. Price [snorts] looks like it wants to  push higher. now because that extra confirmation   was a little bit higher. It was like 10 11 points  higher. Um it doesn't matter. I'm still covering   the low with my stop loss. And then with these  types of trades, I tend to try and target the   previous high on the higher time frame. So this  one's a bit further away. So I still shoot for a   1 to2 um which happens to be on a quarter level  for 350. and it's also resting below that day's   New York open. Nice. Because if price doesn't want  to target that high, but you see it pushing to the   upside. Y um what it could do is come into New  York open, take liquidity, and then turn back to   the downside. Okay. So I don't So I really like to  ask myself where's the highest probable place that   price could turn around from? Where's holding  the most liquid at a and then I also target   um I also use that to set my TPS. Nice. So,  and also when you zoom out on the 30 minute,   you can see a nice bullish engulfing candle  there. So, if I'd entered that on the 5m minute,   then zoomed out and seen that bullish engulfing  candle, that puts me at ease. Makes me feel more   comfortable. Um, and then we'll just play this  from the 15 minute then. Nice. There you go.   I'm actually curious to see what it does here  after New York open. Just Yeah. See? Nice. So,   do you see the way it tapped into that New York  open and then dropped right back to, right? So,   it's I'd much rather catch a one to two risk  to reward and get out where price is likely to   play about from um than try and hold a trade for  too long and watch that come the whole way back   to entry because I would have been holding that  for 12 hours. Not usually as long as that, but um   usually if a trade doesn't move within 2, three,  4 hours, I just cut it and just wait for the   next one or wait till the next day. Yeah. But um  sometimes these types of setups play out in like   40 minutes, 50 minutes. But there's nothing worse  than holding a trade for that for like a couple   of hours and watching it come back to entry. So  I shoot for like one to two risk to reward on   average. I guess that's probably more helpful with  futures cuz I understand most of them you can't   hold overnight. Yeah. You can't hold over a reset.  Um which is great, but it's also like when you   catch a really nice setup at 7:00 p.m. And like  it's it's very easy to like I'll just size up.   size up to try and push and get my personal daily  profit target in the few hours that are left. So,   I have caught myself doing that a few times. But  it's um yeah, it's nice that it's a every day is   a fresh day and a fresh start to for new data and  to follow your plan rather than holding a trade   for a couple of days. Nice. Nice. All right. Cool.  Nice. So though that is a buy and a sell example   of how that um that works with the 30-inut zones  and then the fivem minute confirmations. And I'm   going to pull up an example of where waiting for  that 5m minute confirmation had saved me from a   loss. I'll just keep these on there. [snorts]  Okay. So for this one you can see that price is   dropping to the downside. We can see a nice series  of lower highs, lower lows. Um, and the reason   I've marked this one is because it's resting above  London open, right? But obviously at this stage, I   would have no idea whether it's coming here, here,  here, whatever, right? But I would set my alerts   um I would have set my alert here and here. So,  we're just going to use this one as as an example.   So, just say I jumped on the charts when price was  here. Okay, there. Um, it's tapped into that zone,   right? If I just jumped into a sale because I  seen, oh, it's tapped into a 30 minute supply   zone. Price is downtrending to the left. This is  bound to hold. Um, would have got stopped out,   right? So, dropping to the five minute once  my alert would go off and just waiting for   that confirmation like, yeah, we have a bearish  engulfing candle here kind of, but there's no lows   breaking. And like I mentioned on the whiteboard,  an engulfing candle is great, but it's not enough   on its own. Yeah, I need that's just a bonus  confirmation, an additional layer of confirmation.   I need to see lows break before I sell off before  I'm confident that it's most likely going to hold. But this is an example where you [snorts] can see  a little bit of lows broke there. Mhm. We can see   a bearish engulfing candle. One low broke. But  that's why it's important to wait for a series,   right? So, one low kind of broke. What I would  want it to have seen is that high to hold for   price to pull up there and then break another  low. Yeah. And then I could have got in. So,   that's how that lower time frame confirmation  really saves you from entering from zones that   aren't actually going to hold. Nice. And then,  okay, so this is so this would be an example   where the empty model appears, but it doesn't  work out. Um, so we can see here that price   created a supply zone there. It's then pushed  to the downside. It's broke some lows. Well,   we can see lows broke, lows, broke, lows broke.  So from in hindsight or from stepping back,   it looks like selling pressure is definitely  stronger than buying pressure from this area.   So you'd expect if price comes back  to that area, it would drop again,   right? And we can see here that it's very close.  So um at this stage I would drop down to the 5m   minute to see how price reacts off the zone to see  the likelihood of it holding or not. And you can   see that London open is now printed right below  that zone which is perfect. So let me zoom in and we're just waiting to see if any lows fail.  So now we can see price has pushed down. It's   pulled back into London open. and it's wick  reject off the bottom showing me that selling   pressure is stronger than buying from the open.  It's then broke these lows. So here for example   we can see it looks like lows failed. It looks  like these highs are holding prices came back   below the London open. So from the 5m minute you  could maybe argue that that zone looks like it's   going to hold. So just say you enter to sell  here to rest enter from London open. So yeah,   because if price would want to push to the upside  from here, it might look like it would reject off   on the open and then just continue that move up.  But the fact that this came below, it could be   easy to see that as confirmation that that supply  zone is holding and price wants to drop to the   downside, enter in a sale, and you see that it's  just shot away. Mhm. To the upside. So um yeah,   I guess that's another example of waiting for that  series of two highs holding, two lows failing. You   can see that price comes on, sweeps liquidity  from these opens, from these quarter levels   before the zone fails. Um, so really important to  wait for that series. Awesome. Yeah, I like that.   I always like to end these where I can with a  losing one as well because I think it's important   for everyone at home to see these, understand  that yes, they can work. They can work really   well and allow you to extract huge money from the  markets, but they're not going to work every time,   right? And that's part of the probabilistic nature  of the game that we play, right? Um Claudia,   that's been super super insightful. I'm very  thankful for you taking the time to show us.   Um and hopefully there's been a lot of gems for  everyone at home. Thank you so much. Thank you,   too. Right guys and girls, that's another episode  in the bank. Let us know your thoughts on today.   What was the biggest thing that Claudia shared  that you have taken away that you're going to   start implementing to help your approach to  the markets? Let us know in the comments.   We'll be reading every single one. 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