I Tried Every ICT Concept...This ONE Made Me Profitable

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    Summary

    In this insightful video by Casper SMC, he discusses the complexities of ICT (Inner Circle Trader) concepts in trading and how he ultimately found success by focusing on the principle of "displacement." Initially, overwhelmed by marking out numerous levels and concepts like fair value gaps, order blocks, and breaker blocks, he realized most complexities could be unified under displacement. Displacement, defined as strong price action through key levels or liquidity, effectively indicates market control by either buyers or sellers, simplifying trading strategies and decisions.

      Highlights

      • Casper SMC demystifies ICT trading by simplifying it with displacement, making it more accessible and effective. ๐ŸŽฏ
      • The video emphasizes how displacement helps prevent mistakes like chasing trades or failing to spot traps. ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ
      • Casper shares real-life trading examples, illustrating the practical application of displacement in achieving significant profits. ๐Ÿ’ฐ

      Key Takeaways

      • Displacement is the key ICT concept that simplifies trading, cutting through complexities like fair value gaps and order blocks. ๐Ÿ“ˆ
      • Understanding displacement helps identify who controls the market and predicts when a price is likely to continue or reverse. ๐Ÿ”„
      • Displacement occurs when the market moves aggressively through key levels, providing essential trading signals. ๐Ÿš€

      Overview

      Casper SMC starts by recounting his early days of trading using ICT concepts, where he felt overwhelmed by trying to mark every level and concept on his charts. This complexity led to missing obvious moves and overthinking, prompting him to search for a simplified approach.

        He delves into common ICT terms such as fair value gaps and order blocks, explaining that often these complex terms can be reduced to understanding displacementโ€”a key concept that signals market control and simplifies the decision-making process.

          Through engaging examples and explanations, Casper illustrates how displacement, by showing strong market movements through key levels, offers a clearer trading direction and avoids the pitfalls of traditional approaches that might confuse newer traders.

            Chapters

            • 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction to Overcomplicating Trading Concepts The chapter discusses the common tendency among traders, especially when starting, to overcomplicate their charts by marking every possible level. It describes how this leads to confusion and missed opportunities as traders get caught up in unnecessary complex concepts and terminologies. However, it highlights a pivotal realization that all these elements can be consolidated into a single simplified concept. This approach makes trading more effective by removing unnecessary complexity, thereby focusing more on earning money rather than getting lost in overcomplicated methodologies and terms.
            • 01:00 - 02:00: Order Blocks and Fair Value Gaps This chapter focuses on the concepts of order blocks and fair value gaps in market analysis. Order blocks are defined as either a down-closed candle preceding an up move or an up-closed candle preceding a down move, acting as support or resistance levels in market trends. The chapter emphasizes the significance of high probability order blocks, which are always accompanied by fair value gaps. Further explanations about fair value gaps will be delved into later in the chapter.
            • 02:00 - 03:00: Understanding Displacement The chapter discusses the importance of understanding concepts that validate trading tools like order blocks and breaker blocks. It emphasizes that grasping the core idea, such as the consistent formation of a fair value gap when a reliable breaker block is formed, is crucial. The chapter questions the necessity of relying on these levels if the formation of a fair value gap is a consistent indicator of their effectiveness.
            • 03:00 - 04:00: The Importance of Displacement In this chapter titled 'The Importance of Displacement,' the speaker addresses the common misconception about solely relying on fair value gaps in trading. Although many believe this concept simplifies trading strategies, the speaker argues that fair value gaps often fail. The focus shifts to understanding the concept of displacement, which they describe as a critical strategy that unifies various trading elements such as order blocks, liquidity, and fair value gaps. Displacement is defined as a strong, aggressive movement in price that occurs after key price levels or liquidity are engaged. This concept is presented as essential for more effective trading strategies.
            • 04:00 - 05:00: Practical Examples of Displacement The chapter focuses on the concept of displacement in trading, emphasizing its importance in identifying control in the market. It argues that understanding displacement at the right time helps traders discern which side, buyers or sellers, has control. It ties into the broader idea of tracking 'smart money,' referring to influential market players. The chapter suggests that mastering this concept could reduce reliance on other trading concepts, as it effectively highlights market control.
            • 05:00 - 06:00: Using Displacement for Better Trade Opportunities The chapter 'Using Displacement for Better Trade Opportunities' explains the concept of displacement in trading. This involves recognizing areas where price is likely to continue or reverse, focusing on key levels that the price moves through with strength and closes. The chapter promises to outline a full list of these key levels and provide examples of trade execution to help readers understand how to implement these strategies in their trading practices. It emphasizes the importance of fair value gaps, noting that not all are equal, and displacement helps traders to discern which gaps to use and which to avoid, thus reducing the risk of losses.
            • 06:00 - 07:00: How Displacement Helps in Key Level Analysis The chapter discusses how the concept of displacement can aid in analyzing key levels in trading. It explains the scenario where the market consolidates, moves below this consolidation without forming a fair value gap, and then returns to its range. This movement can trap traders who sold during the breakout, resulting in their positions becoming unprofitable once the market returns to its original range. The emphasis is on understanding these market dynamics to make fewer trades with a higher success rate.
            • 07:00 - 08:00: The Role of Displacement in Daily Bias This chapter discusses how market displacement occurs when aggressive buyers enter the market, leading to a shift that may push prices higher, leaving a fair value gap. It emphasizes the importance of moving through key levels, such as old highs or higher time frame fair value gaps, and highlights the significance of the market demonstrating strength to move through these critical areas.
            • 08:00 - 09:00: Combining Displacement with Trade Examples The chapter discusses market behavior related to 'displacement' โ€” a concept where the market moves significantly through key levels. It suggests that once a displacement occurs, the market often continues its movement, either consolidating at a higher time frame key level or continuing the displacement to the upside. However, the market might also fake a move, trapping traders before potentially reversing. These movements occur even when the market shows consolidation on lower time frames.
            • 09:00 - 10:00: Daily Bias and the Use of Displacement This chapter focuses on the concept of market displacement as an indicator of who controls the market, which is crucial for trading with smart money. It explains that as the market reaches higher time frame levels, buyers and sellers settle on a price within a certain range. Displacement occurs when there is an imbalance, signaling one side's control. Understanding displacement is essential because it helps traders identify fair market value and potential consolidation at significant higher time frame levels.
            • 10:00 - 11:00: Confirmation and Execution in Trading This chapter discusses the importance of understanding market movement, specifically focusing on the concept of 'displacement' in trading. It illustrates how traders can be misguided by 'fake out reversals,' leading to losses when they act prematurely without waiting for clear market movement direction. The chapter uses the context of the ICT 2022 model to highlight common mistakes among traders, such as selling at the market bottom or buying at the top, due to misinterpretation of market signals. By grasping the concept of displacement, traders can avoid being 'trap traders' and can make more informed decisions.
            • 11:00 - 12:00: The Importance of Live Trading and Mentorship The chapter discusses the concept of displacement in trading and how it affects decision-making at key market levels. It emphasizes the importance of not solely relying on reversal strategies, as the market can move into higher levels. Understanding displacement helps traders determine whether a reversal is occurring or not. It highlights the need for adaptability in trading strategies and the advantage of mentorship to navigate complex market scenarios.
            • 12:00 - 13:00: Conclusion: Focus on What Matters The chapter "Conclusion: Focus on What Matters" emphasizes the importance of understanding market dynamics to avoid losing trades and find new opportunities. It discusses the concept of constant auction in the market, where the market seeks a fair value often found at higher time frame key levels. By analyzing displacement, traders can identify the key level the market is targeting. The chapter promises to provide exact trade examples on candlesticks, enabling traders to independently apply these concepts.

            I Tried Every ICT Concept...This ONE Made Me Profitable Transcription

            • 00:00 - 00:30 now whenever I first started trading ICT I would Mark out every single level on my chart like most Traders do and my chart would look like a laser show and then I was so overwhelmed and and I overthought everything that I would miss the most obvious moves because I was sitting there with all these over complicated Concepts and then after a while it hit me that all of these levels could be tied into one concept that simplifies everything and removes the need for all of the different complex terminology and all these things that really just get in the way of you making money so whenever it comes to ICT most
            • 00:30 - 01:00 people think about fair value gaps order blocks or breaker blocks let's take a look at order blocks behind every high probability order block and an order block is just a down closed candle that occurs before an up move or it would be an up closed candle that occurs before a down move which we then look at as either support or resistance but every time the market creates one of these levels whenever we have a high probability order block what is present and the answer is fair value gaps and we're going to get into fair value gaps in a second and know the concept isn't fair value gaps themselves so instead of
            • 01:00 - 01:30 trying to map out every single order block on your chart you need to understand what concept validates the order block why do order blocks work and the same thing goes with breaker blocks now you don't even need to understand breaker blocks or order blocks or any of that to get this concept the point of what I'm trying to tell you is that every time a good breaker block is formed what do we have we have a fair value Gap so whenever we're looking at these levels and we realize that if every time that one of them that's actually going to work is formed we have a fair value Gap then why would we even use use these levels in the first place
            • 01:30 - 02:00 now if that is true then why don't we just use fair value gaps I mean surely that would be the one concept that simplifies them all right well that's wrong because fair value gaps often times don't work but few Traders know how to spot when this is going to happen and the concept that's going to tie in everything from order blocks liquidity fair value gaps everything you've ever learned in ICT is displacement so what is displacement well displacement is just a strong and aggressive move after a price interacts with key levels or liquidity now this is very important
            • 02:00 - 02:30 we're not just going to be paying attention to any single displacement it needs to be occurring at the right time now the reason this is important is because it indicates which side of the market AKA buyers or sellers is in control and whenever you trade ICT the whole idea of it is that you're tracking the smart money or the money that manipulates the market the big dogs right so if we're able to use one concept to identify that and then all these other concepts are just building up to that then we don't need most of those other Concepts because this tells us who is in control and it highlights
            • 02:30 - 03:00 areas where price is likely to continue or reverse now the way that it works is price just moves through a key level with strength and closes this could be any key level and we're going to get to a list of all of them in this video along with full trade execution examples that way you walk away from this understanding how to use this and implement it into your trading yes fair value gaps are a part of displacement but not every fair value Gap is created equal and displacement is going to help you determine which ones to use and which ones to avoid that way you lose
            • 03:00 - 03:30 less trades and have a higher win rate so let me give you an example let's say we have a consolidation and the market moves under the consolidation and takes out the lows but it doesn't create any kind of fair value Gap to the downside and it also doesn't really push Beyond this level that much and the market Falls right back into the range what's happening in this area is a lot of Traders are getting trapped anyone who sold this breakout their position is now going to be underwater while the market moves back into the range and if those are sells or shorts when they're closed
            • 03:30 - 04:00 that's going to be the equivalent of a buy and that's likely to push price higher now if there are also aggressive buyers in the market alongside this this is likely to create a displacement and leave a fair value Gap behind now the important part here is that we're moving either through some kind of key level this could be an old high it could be a higher time frame fair value gap or many of the other levels that I'm going to show you in this video but the point is once the market shows us that it has enough strength to move through an area where it should not move through meaning if if the market was going to be bearish
            • 04:00 - 04:30 and it came Above This it would sell off and when we have a displacement through a key level then the market is likely to continue afterwards now what's going to happen again is at some point it's going to consolidate likely at some kind of higher time frame key level and then this pattern will either continue meaning it'll give a displacement to the upside or maybe it moves to the upside and fails and traps Traders above and then if it displaces down okay well you know that the Market's likely to expand and what is happening is the market in consolidation which happen on a lower
            • 04:30 - 05:00 time frame as we approach these higher time frame levels meaning that buyers and sellers have agreed on a price inside this range but once the market shows imbalance meaning that one side is in control you're going to see a displacement so if displacement can tell you who is in control of the market and the whole idea of ICT is to trade with smart money then displacement gives you everything that you need to know because the market is going to always form fair value and consolidate likely at higher time frame key level
            • 05:00 - 05:30 and then eventually it's going to expand in One Direction and that is the market showing you its hand now another thing that can happen is maybe you get these fake out reversals and this is where a lot of Traders end up losing a lot of money they don't wait for a displacement and then they become those trap Traders I mean how many times have you been trading the ICT 2022 model or trying to catch a reversal and you ended up just selling the bottom or or buying the top well what's Happening Here is you're not waiting for or understanding displacement because if you understand displacement you're going to avoid this and not only that you'll be able to
            • 05:30 - 06:00 capitalize off of that move because as we know not every time the market hits into a higher time frame key level will we just reverse often times there might be some other key level above and the market moves into it and when the market displaces through the first one that's the market telling you it's showing you its hand that it's not ready from that level but a lot of ICT Traders will continuously try to sell these setups just because they've been conditioned to only look for reversals but with displacement you can determine not only whenever reversal is going to happen but if it's it's not then you can take a
            • 06:00 - 06:30 trade in that direction so understanding this not only saves you from losing trades it's going to give you a whole new world of opportunity and I'm going to show you exact trade examples of all of this on candlesticks that way you can walk away and do this on your own so remember the market is always in a constant auction and it's always seeking fair value this fair value is likely to be found at higher time frame key levels and displacement is going to show you which key level the market is reaching for this is literally the Market's way of telling you where it wants to go based on liquidity there are three ways
            • 06:30 - 07:00 that displacement tells you everything that you need to know about the markets and if you don't understand these three things well then you're going to leave a ton of money on the table and you're going to miss so many good trades that you would have taken otherwise now I've used these strategies to make anywhere from a few thousand in a day to $100,000 in a single month so let's look at this example when this Wick was created what was the last level we traded into well we traded into this swing high now did we displace into this swing High the answer is obviously no because if we displace we would have a huge candle and we would have a fair value Gap or a
            • 07:00 - 07:30 series of huge candles with a series of fair value gaps but we didn't and instead we rejected away and what this tells us is that we're likely going to seek liquidity that's lower so we want to look at the structure point that sent us up there that failed to displace now on the contrary look right here the market displaced through this low so if the market displaces down creating fair value gaps then all of this can be viewed as noise because the market has shown you its direction is down now you can make this even higher probability if this occurs into a higher time frame key
            • 07:30 - 08:00 level but if the market tells you that the direction is down by displacement you have a very high probability that you're going to continue from that displacement so if you look at this leg and structure this high right here did its job and broke through new lows creating this displacement down so this right here can be looked at as a protected area now you can also combine that the fact that there are a lot of trap Traders above that because we got manipulated at that high so you have a very low chance that the market is going
            • 08:00 - 08:30 to trade back to this area now there are a couple ways you can use this one of them being stop losses which we're going to go over later in this video but understand right now that the market is pushing to the downside it's displacing so this whole price action is likely to move to the downside and after you know this well you know that this is the true Le in price action and we're likely to continue down so what can you look for well you can look for the same thing Traders getting trapped above highs by a lack of displacement so if you look at this Le in price there's no fair value Gap the Market didn't even close a
            • 08:30 - 09:00 candle much less displaced through this high so the Market's likely to continue to the downside so then you could look for sells anywhere through this area where you can get good enough risk to reward down to this low now every time the market traps Traders like this right here or if you look right here like this that is a new area where you could move down your stop loss okay because the market after it traps Traders then it shouldn't revisit that area so there are a plethora of trade opportunities here that a lot of Traders would miss because they would say oh well the Market's not
            • 09:00 - 09:30 giving good enough risk reward because they want to sell and just put their stop loss here but every time that Traders are trapped that is a new area you can move your stop- loss too so remember when price displaces above a high or a low creating a fair value Gap that is the Market's way of saying we're continuing but when price barely Taps a level and fails to displace often times creating a wick or maybe even it closed a candle body but it didn't create a fair value Gap well that's the market telling you that it's going to reverse and a lot of Traders are getting trapped now very important guys you want to make
            • 09:30 - 10:00 sure to only do this at key levels you don't want to be watching this every single time it happens on your chart especially on Lower time frames or you're going to lose a lot of Trades because of it but the way the market reacts to these key levels like for example let's say a lot of people only want to look for a reversal well let's say if the market hits a key level and it's manipulating lows right it's manipulating lows but then displacing to the upside well that key level is likely to fail and you need to look for another key level and you can plot out a trade to trade to that level where most ICT Traders are going to get trapped now
            • 10:00 - 10:30 this is going to be a turning point for so many of you guys who are struggling with ICT I want to go ahead and break down a trade example that I took the other day using this exact strategy so if we look at this trade that I took on NASDAQ making 6,000 bucks it was in like I think 18 or 20 minutes not bad off just two contracts too I didn't over risk here let's break down this trade and show you how powerful this really is so first off when we came to the morning okay what you want to pay attention to is how is the market Market reacting
            • 10:30 - 11:00 during the session okay so if we look right here we have this fair value Gap and if you don't know what a fair value Gap is all it is is a three candle formation where the middle candle is very expansive and the Wicks on either candle don't meet so you see right here we had a fair value Gap and the market tapped into it right at the open so like I told you guys you want to pay attention to this at key levels now a lot of ICT Traders were probably trying to short right here because the market hit this level and then it moved to the downside but what happened here what failed to happen well the market didn't
            • 11:00 - 11:30 displace so if we understand the Market's not likely to continue to the downside of that a displacement well where is it likely to go and this is where a lot of Traders trip up and psychs out of good trades thinking that they're chasing but they get just stuck in one way of the market so let's go on to the lower time frames and not only did we have a failure to displace right here and a lot of Traders got trapped and then the market displaced to the upside so if we have trap Traders below this low and the Market's displacing up multiple times that's a very high
            • 11:30 - 12:00 probability the Market's going to continue to the upside so where is it likely to continue to well I went to a higher time frame which for me is the 15 minute and I marked out any areas of liquidity that I saw which there was this swing high and this swing high now I could have held this trade a little longer than I did and got some more money out of it which I'm a little salty about but hey it happens I'm happy that I still made 6,000 bucks so I executed the trade right here and had my stop under this series of fair value gaps So I entered somewhere in this candle put my stops under this fair value Gap and
            • 12:00 - 12:30 then I let the market just kind of run I wanted to see how it reacted because again you can use displacement for everything and as the market hit this first level it kept displacing so I held on to the trade but as the market hit into this level I didn't see a fair value Gap created through it and I looked at the 5 minute and we failed to close Beyond it so that's why I exited the trade where I did again I could have held a little longer um it is what it is still 6,000 bucks and just a couple minutes using something so simple I'm not mad at it but again just to recap here the market when it opened it had hit to a point of liquidity so you
            • 12:30 - 13:00 always want to pay attention to displacement at key levels so if we look right here what happened well the market didn't displace it barely moved to the downside and not only that there was also that 15-minute fair value Gap so you want to pay attention we've got the 15-minute swing high right here in a 15-minute fair value gap which level is likely to work and displacement is going to tell you this so we failed to displace for the downside meaning that there are trap Traders underneath that low so if those cells are underwater and the market starts moving up against them we they're going to close which is the
            • 13:00 - 13:30 equivalent to a buy and the way to confirm that is by then going onto a lower time frame and seeing that the market is telling you it's reaching aggressively to the upside so a lot of people will get stuck in this mentality of only reversals but the market can tell you that it's not going to reverse here and it's likely to go to other key levels and then frame a trade just like this based upon that logic now before I show you how to use displacement alone to find daily bias I want to show you guys something that I put together all for free for you guys it is a literal full course on everything that you could need to know about how to trade and then
            • 13:30 - 14:00 an entire trading plan covering how you're going to continue it and this covers everything from your trade checklist to risk management and psychology and even how to continue learning the right way so if you want to get this for free go ahead and click the link down in the description again it's a free course free trading plan I mean there's tons of stuff inside this so again go ahead and click the link and I'll send it to you right now so let's talk about directional bias also known as daily bias in the ICT world now this is 100% the reason that most IC Traders fail because they complicate tons of
            • 14:00 - 14:30 different concepts to try to find daily bias they're looking at everything under the Sun from Market maker models fair value gaps structure liquidity ipto range all these complicated things that you really don't need when all you need is displacement in one time frame and this works for any time frame it's not just the daily chart it could be your 1 hour chart or anything let me show you exactly what I mean so I want you to pay attention this example right here and watch how the candles are closing this candle closes beyond the previous candle's High this one closes beyond the
            • 14:30 - 15:00 previous candle's high and this one and this one and this one and this one and then notice what happens here these two fail to close beyond the previous candle's high and what do we have we start to have a little bit of a retracement now you can combine this with fair value gaps to get even a higher probability of daily bias in One Direction now the reason this is powerful is especially whenever you're talking about daily charts previous daily high and previous daily low are very very important key levels where a lot of liquidity is is at so let's just
            • 15:00 - 15:30 say if the market is pushing past the previous daily high and closing Beyond it well that shows that the Market's not trapping Traders above it and that the trend is obviously bullish now notice how simple this is compared to using a ton of different concepts and what this is going to look like on a lower time frame is this right here so this was a previous daily low and what you're viewing on a lower time frame is a full day of price action so as the market traded in that previous daily low it displaced on our lower time frame but on our higher time frame all this looked
            • 15:30 - 16:00 like was a candle body closing below the previous candle's low and once that happened that tells you that the market is likely to go down on the next day this is why a lot of people lose money trying to short at alltime highs if this is you then you know who you are especially recently in the Futures markets or in crypto markets everybody's wanting to short the all-time high without any proper logic just because they've learned in ICT that there's liquidity there well that's not how the markets work you need to be paying attention on a daily basis basis to what the Market's doing right now so if
            • 16:00 - 16:30 you're struggling with daily bias just focus on candle close if you don't close behind the previous High then there's a chance it's manipulation now you're going to want to use the confirmation from The Next Step that I'm going to teach you to confirm this but you can also understand that if the market does clearly close through the high then that's displacement and you don't want to try to trade a reversal now a little trick here is to require 2 days of failing to close before framing large reversals so in this example if you notice right here you don't want to just sell immediately on the first candle closure as soon as we've had this huge
            • 16:30 - 17:00 move to the upside you want to have a little bit more confirmation and you can layer that in with the next step of what I'm about to teach you but you can also wait for fair value gaps to create in the other direction now another gem is that this works on any time frame so let's just say you are trading Futures in the morning you could use this on the 1 hour chart and just use the 9:00 a.m. candle to see which way the Market's likely to continue for the next hour of the day you could do this on a 15minute chart or any time frame to see what the next candles price action is likely to
            • 17:00 - 17:30 be you can also use this to understand which fair value gaps are likely to be tapped into this is also referred to as Breakaway gaps so in a market where we have a fair value Gap right this fair value Gap was created but if we look at the very next candle and we close Beyond it well then this fair value Gap is not likely to be traded back into at this time so with fair value gaps like these you wouldn't want to wait for retracement to trade now a lot of Traders get left behind because they don't understand this and they're always waiting for a retracement into the fair value Gap but if the market is continuously closing candles beyond the
            • 17:30 - 18:00 previous candle high or low then it's very unlikely that that fair value Gap will be traded into any time soon once you master this simple way of reading bias you can start using it for literally everything from Catching the move of the week to the move of the day or even scalping the move of the current hour that you're trading you can even combine this with the time of day to catch the biggest moves that the Market's going to provide but before we can use this for advanced entries you need to understand one critical thing about confirmation and this this is where most Traders go completely wrong
            • 18:00 - 18:30 and Confirmation is the most important part of your trading because when it comes to trading really all we're doing is mapping out key levels and then using a confirmation at one of these key levels to see where we're going to go next that's what trading comes down to whether you're trading ICT or whatever you're trading it's just different methods of doing the same thing mapping out key levels and then finding a confirmation to enter a trade so you're going to always use a higher time frame key level and then a lower time frame confirmation always remember that time frame alignment and key level selection
            • 18:30 - 19:00 are critical and I'm going to give you a full list of these here in one second so once the market comes to these key levels you want to see is there displacement or a lack of it just like I showed you in that trade example it's going to tell you everything that you need to know because whether or not the Market's going to reverse that's not the only trade you can take a lot of Traders only want to trade reversals but if the market displaces through the level then you have a trade if the market reverses and displaces away from it you also have a trade and fair value gaps can give you a precise entry point after this displacement but you have to make sure
            • 19:00 - 19:30 that you're using the right time frames and the right key levels so go ahead and take a screenshot of this on the left side here is your higher time frame so if you're using a higher time frame key level then you would use this time frame to confirm the reaction of it most of you guys are going to be down here if your day trading and for key levels you're going to use time based liquidity which is going to be your previous week your previous day and your previous sessions highs and lows and you can also use the higher time frame to find fair value gaps order blocks or swing points now let's take a look at the trade that I took earlier just to make sure that
            • 19:30 - 20:00 you understand so as we hit into a key level we then want to see does the market displace away from it in this example the market did not displace away from it so that is a signal that we're likely to go higher and after the market failed to displace to the downside that tells us we're going to go up to those key levels which we're going to Mark out as higher time frame swing points now for me I'm going to be using a 15 minute and a 1 hour because I am day trading but this could be used on any time frame so it's very simple guys all it is is keyless level once the market hits into
            • 20:00 - 20:30 it if we displace to the downside creating fair value gaps cool the market is likely to move down to some other key level but if the market consolidates and it's trying to find fair value and it fails to displace down what that shows is that sellers are not in control and if they get trapped then the market is likely to move to the upside now the same thing can happen for Longs let's say if we come down to this area the market hits into it and we start to reverse well that is showing you the market is displacing away this level and that buyers are taking control but if
            • 20:30 - 21:00 the market hits into this level fails to displace through highs and then displaces to the downside that shows you that this key level is not going to hold and we're likely to move to some other key level and there's going to be a trade you can take down to that next level now that you understand these confirmation signals let me show you exactly how to implement it into your trading because information is one thing and execution is another and this is exactly why I execute in front of my students every single day so go ahead and click the link down in the description if you want to trade live
            • 21:00 - 21:30 with me while the market is open that way you can see all these theories and concept in action and take the trades right along with me this is exactly how Jaden made $270,000 in the last 6 months trading this exact strategy now of course his results are not typical but it is proof of what can happen with hard work and dedication but it wasn't just the live trading that got him there in my mentorship every single student submits all their trades and every one of them is reviewed they're also held accountable to do all of their daily tasks and trade like a professional I
            • 21:30 - 22:00 mean we even track their habits we're making sure that they do everything that it takes in order to become a profitable Trader we trade with them live teach them the exact methodologies and break everything down give ebooks and homework I mean this is the most inclusive trading education program that you will ever find and that's why I'm so confident in it that if you do everything that I tell you to do then I guarantee that you will become a funded Trader in the next 12 weeks or I will trade live with you for free until you do so go ahead and click the link down below and see if you're a good fit because I don't work with everybody but if you are then I guarantee you will
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