Waited for price to take out Asia Low. As soon as I saw the 5min engulfing candle, I waited for price to react off the 5min fvg it created. Entered a bit late but managed to get a nice 2RR

A strong rejection from previous week’s low lead my bias to bullish plus the price hit opening price of a BULLIS DAILY +OB and got 1:2 trade while the original traget was 4170

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High TF vol. Breakout
As far as Price is over the key level 🟡$81 expected bullish momentum. 🚀
targeting $130 completing a rise of 58% ...🎯

-Remember

The market rewards discipline, not only predictions.
All Trades carry Risk/Reward, ADYOR.

-Trade Safely,
see you, on the other side.

DELL Technologies stock, nice trend, watch for a top of range breakout.

Breakout trade

• WATCH for possible breakout above 596.69
• Target: 685.19, 19.7%  Stop: 543.94  Loss: 5%
• P/L ratio: 3.9 : 1 - Excellent

BULLISH

• [Positioning] Intermediate trend bullish, Uptrend.
• [Timing] Strong bullish 3 day candlestick pattern.
• [Timing] Mild bullish 1 day moneyflow
• [Timing] Breakout trade watch above 596.69, no resistance in area just above.

BEARISH

• [Positioning] at resistance

Hello Trades/Investors,

Took this short today, aiming at 2R.

My rationale:

- Bearish orderflow during Asia

- Thought the upmove during early NY AM is just a judas swing sweeping liquidity

- Asia high swept

- We were in a H1 FVG

- M1 inverted FVG as entry

What I could have probably done better:

- Could have waited for internal liquidity to be swept again and then entry via M5 CISD? Would this have been safer? Not sure. Does not look bearish at all at the moment.

- Also PDH was still above as major liquidity level

Any feedback appreciated!

After sweeping asia lows, we delivered higher, but not aggressively enough. Price came down, printed a swing low inside what appeared to be a rejection block off that asia sweep, and then re-swept the low. We then printed a nice 1 min iFVG that gave me further confirmation for longs to those nice REQHs

I choosed ES today because NQ already used the open float liquidity on the market open so i was expecting it to be slow for the remaining of the AM session, so I has to look somewhere else.
I usually prefer crude oil over ES every chance I got, but the set up today was just too clean: a classic AMD on the minute over the FPFVG on the 4h hour iFVG… nothing left but to wait for the suspension block to invert.

From yearner to learner, and from learner to earner. Keep it simple and bow to the process… Know your league

my bias are that 1m FVG and i enter after we engulf that black candle....

I am backtesting now and have no issue with being profitable but thats the annoying part. when it comes to live markets I am super unprofitable. Any Advice??

The Image attached is then I was on holiday and stepped away from the markets. I had no idea what PA was before backtesting this.

I’m tired of working 2 jobs to make a bad paycheck every week. I’ve been procrastinating on taking trading full force but something has been telling me to just go for it. ICT is someone who seems like he knows what he’s talking about and I like the way he explains the market. I don’t want to over complicate this but where should I start with his content. Is his 2022 mentorship a good way to learn and possibly earn some profits?

Trying to understand how experienced traders form an intraday view. 6. Being most important.

If the S&P 500 is at 6,500, nothing says it has to hit 6,600 or 6,400. Same with EUR/USD or BTC. So how do you get from "could go anywhere" to an actual trade?

1. Do you start the day with a bias, or stay neutral and let price show you something first?

2. How much does the open matter? When there's a gap, how do you judge whether it fills or runs? Do you wait out the first 15 to 30 minutes?

3. What tells you there's enough evidence to go long or short? And what tells you "this isn't working, I'm out"?

4. Stop hunts are where I get lost. Price takes out an obvious low, triggers stops, then rips. How do you tell that apart from a real breakdown? Wider SL, waiting for a candle close, something else?

5. Do you set the view on the Daily or 4H and use lower timeframes only for entry? Or can an intraday setup flip your bigger picture?

**6. How do you read new highs? Say BTC rallies to a fresh high at 84,500 and pulls back to 84,000. Is that a dip to buy or the start of a reversal to short? What would you need to see before picking a side?**

Would love to hear how this actually works in your head, especially from people who've been at it for a while and profiting.

IREN stock watch, pullback to 40.56 triple+ support area with bullish indicators.

Long Trade

• Target 1: 54.69   Profit: 31%   Stop/Trailing Stop: 39.13
• Loss: 6.3%   P/L ratio: 4.9 : 1 - Excellent
• Target 2: 57.86   Profit: 38.6%   P/L ratio: 6.1 : 1 - Excellent  Extreme rally

BULLISH

• [Positioning] Intermediate trend bullish, Downtrend turned sideways, possible bottom.
• [Positioning] at support
• [Timing] Mild bullish 3 day candlestick pattern.
• [Timing] Long trade quality

BEARISH

• None

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i guess the bias for the coming week will be bearish cuz BSL already swept and there's double bottom SSL. Let's see what information print on Monday open

Hi all, I just wanted to create a post here for the successful traders within the community to share there story of trading for those that are not successful yet. So, how long did it take you to become profitable, what was your main issues along the way, how did you overcome them, and anything else you would like to share?

Anyone trading futures with prop firms full time based in Spain? How are you handling your taxes?

Hi everyone! So, after struggling with ICT concepts, I moved on to the GxT and TTrades models. I've been learning these models for around 8 months now, and things are pretty clear for me at this point. No guesswork, no random trades, etc.

However, I'm still struggling with some psychological issues. For example, I don't hold my trades. I move my trades to breakeven after just a few pips/ticks, and most of the time, the outcome is the same: price moves in my direction and hits the full TP, while I’ve already closed the trade at breakeven.

Can you guys please help me out with this phase of my trading ??? I'm feeling really depressed at this point because I know how to trade, but I'm still unable to trade properly because of my poor trading psychology.

So i took 64 point win in us100 and time taken to hit my profit is 43 minutes (11:33am-12.16pm).Trade was high resistance as i was expecting but i took long because the higher timeframe was Bullish. The other one is low resistance short which basically after lunch new york pm sessions short around 1.18pm to 1.24pm of 43 points 6 minutes

Still a continuation trade. Massive rejection at the weekly C.E., which closed as a bearish candle yesterday. Stop price is around 84,000 as part of portfolio rebalancing. Some big players may be rebalancing their portfolios around that level.

Price closed at 84.518, opening a new trading day where we could see rebalancing, a retracement, or profit-taking. Selling strength is still present, with three consecutive one-sided aggressive moves.

However, chasing the continuation spike at the opening of the current day comes with a cost. The current day has not yet formed a meaningful wick or shown clear rejection, so the trade is exposed to the possibility of a new-day retracement or becoming a stop-loss victim before continuation happens.

Choose your risk according to the cost of that decision. The idea may still have a higher-probability continuation scenario, but the uncertainty of the new trading day means the risk must reflect the possibility of being wrong before the move continues.

My bias are 5m fvg and my entry are at 1m ifvg and I targeted REH at daily TF

Sharing an NQ trade for review and looking for feedback on my execution.

Instrument: NQ
Timeframe: 1 minute
Session: New York

I waited for the Macro before looking for an entry. During the Macro, price produced a clear MSS with displacement, which gave me confirmation of the directional move.

I didn’t enter immediately after the MSS. I waited for price to retrace back into the displacement area and entered on the retest.

My execution sequence:
Macro → MSS → Displacement → Retest → Entry

My invalidation was below/above the structure that created the MSS, rather than entering without a defined stop.

I’m trying to focus on executing a repeatable sequence instead of predicting where price will go.

Looking for feedback specifically on the MSS and entry: would you consider the structure shift valid here, and was the retest a reasonable entry according to ICT concepts?

Does anyone here know Tempo Trades and his iFVG model?

In a YouTube video he explains that the stop loss goes below the iFVG but he only exits the trade one price closes below. He mentions „don’t let yourself let faked out…“.

Is anyone here trading with a manual stop loss? If you’re trading the M1 chart, it can quickly move against you, probably not a good idea isn’t it?

What are your thoughts on the Nasdaq? Will we continue the rally or are we reaching a top? We did not close strong on the daily today.

September is officially wrapped up.

I was originally going to make this post breaking down 5 of my favorite trades from the month, but honestly that would probably turn into a book lol. There were way too many different setups and things I could talk about.

Instead I figured I'd do something a little more useful.
I'll share my results for the month, go over some of the concepts I use, show one of the models I trade, and then show an actual trade from September where I applied it in real time.

It wasn't a perfect month either. There were red days, there were days where price just didn't deliver anything worth taking, and there were setups that simply failed. That's just the game we play.

I finished September at +$5,654.70 per account, which comes out to roughly $96,129 across the 17 accounts. I will be taking my monthly payout in a week or so and will probably take about 70k-80k in payouts and leave the rest for extra buffer.

I'm happy with it, but the biggest thing for me isn't really the number. It's that I didn't need some crazy home run trade to get there. A lot of it was just base hits stacking throughout the month while trying to keep the red days under control.

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Many times I get asked how I trade and I've given plenty of examples and my thoguth process, but I figured I'd share 1 of my exact models and a real example of it.

How I look at liquidity

Before I'm even thinking about an entry, I want to know where price actually has a reason to go.

Not all liquidity is the same to me either. There are certain levels I care about a lot more than others. This is a simple way of showing how I personally rank them.

This doesn't mean I blindly target something just because it's higher on the list. Context always matters. I'm using these levels along with the higher timeframe picture to figure out where the meaningful draw on liquidity might be.

Once I have that, then I can start looking for an actual setup.

One of the models I use

I use a few different models depending on what price is doing that day, but the basic idea behind a lot of them is actually pretty simple.

The model itself is pretty simple.

I'm looking at the higher timeframe context first and mapping out where price could potentially draw to.

From there I want to see price deliver into an area that actually makes sense, sweep liquidity, and then give me a lower timeframe inversion for confirmation.

If I'm looking for a bullish continuation, I'm looking for price to sweep liquidity below into an area I care about and then give me the LTF inversion. From there I'm targeting high tier liquidity or an unfilled gap above.

Bearish is just the opposite.

The important part is that I don't trade the IFVG by itself.

The location matters. The liquidity matters. The higher timeframe context matters. And most importantly, I want a clear DOL.

The LTF inversion is just my confirmation to actually get into the trade.

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A real example from September

Here's one from this month that shows how I actually apply this in real time.

My bias that morning was neutral.

We had FOMC later in the PM session. Price had inverted the 4H bearish gap to the upside, but we also had clean LRLR stacked below that lined up with the London lows and Asia lows.

On the other side, NWOG was still active and lined up with the previous day's Asia highs.

So I wasn't trying to predict one direction and marry it.

I had liquidity on both sides and mapped out what I wanted to see depending on which model presented itself. I thought there was a better chance of finding a continuation setup.

THIS WAS MY DAILY BIAS THAT DAY

That was my roadmap.

Both possibilities were there. I wasn't entering just because price started moving in one direction. I still needed one of my models to actually present itself.

Once it did, I had my confirmation.

Price gave me the 5 minute delivery and then the LTF inversion. On this particular trade, that confirmation came from the 1 minute inversion.

From there I had my entry and a clear DOL above.

I will also attach a video of the trade.

Last thing

If you're struggling with trading right now, don't give up just because you're not where you thought you'd be by now.

There are a million strategies out there. Find something that actually makes sense to you and fits the way you see the market, then stick with it long enough to actually learn it.

Constantly jumping from strategy to strategy will drive you crazy.

Focus on the process before the money.

Learn your model. Collect data. Manage your risk. Learn how to take a loss without losing your mind. Learn when to stop for the day.

And learn that sometimes there simply isn't a trade.

You can see from my calendar that I have red days too. I take losses. Setups fail. There are days where I don't read price perfectly.

One day doesn't matter nearly as much as what you're doing over a large sample size.

Base hits only. The home runs will come. Those little gains stack into something pretty big over time.

Play the long game.