Apprendre le Swing Trading de A à Z en 2026 (Formation Gratuite)

Learn swing trading from A to Z in this comprehensive 2026 free course by Benjamin Deleuze, designed to maximize profits with minimal time investment.

Key Takeaways

Swing trading is the most suitable method for the majority of traders due to its time efficiency and flexibility.
Proper risk management is crucial: prioritize not losing money before seeking profits.
Swing trading allows trading across multiple asset classes and does not require constant market monitoring.
Emotional burden and decision frequency are significantly lower in swing trading compared to scalping and day trading.
Using structured strategies and tools like TradingView can enhance trade management and profitability.

What the video covers

Introduction to swing trading as a time-efficient trading style suitable for most trader profiles.
Explanation of swing trading versus day trading and scalping with real examples and profit ratios.
Swing trading allows geographic freedom and minimal screen time, ideal for students, employees, entrepreneurs, and even unemployed individuals.
Discussion of the importance of risk management based on Warren Buffett's rules: never lose money and always follow that rule.
Swing trading offers flexibility to trade multiple asset classes like stocks, Forex, and commodities.
Comparison of time invested versus annual returns across different trading styles, highlighting swing trading's efficiency.
Emphasis on emotional management and fewer decisions required in swing trading compared to scalping and day trading.
Detailed methodology and strategy for swing trading including chart analysis and trade management.
Use of tools like TradingView for alerts and watchlist organization to optimize trade opportunities.
Final insights on maintaining trading edge, managing stop losses, and adapting swing trading for long-term success.

Chapters

What is swing trading and how does it differ from day trading and scalping?

Swing trading involves holding positions for several days to weeks to capture market moves, unlike day trading which closes positions within the same day, and scalping which involves very short trades lasting minutes.

Who is swing trading best suited for?

Swing trading is ideal for most people including students, employees, entrepreneurs, and even unemployed individuals because it requires minimal daily screen time and offers flexibility across different schedules.

How important is risk management in swing trading?

Risk management is critical; following Warren Buffett's rules to never lose money and always prioritize security before profit is emphasized throughout the course to ensure long-term success.

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Today, many people get into trading with the same ambition: to become freer and generate extra income. But unfortunately, many end up chained to their screens, becoming slaves to their trading and wondering if this activity is really right for them. What if I

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told you that in this video, I’m going to teach you the trading style that requires the least amount of time, and which has allowed Sophie, Paul, Adelle, and Antoine to generate tens of thousands of euros while minimizing the

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time spent in front of the markets? We are going to look at this method from A to Z, and it will probably be one of the most complete courses you will have ever seen on swing trading. And I

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clearly promise you, no matter your trader profile, this video will change your perception of trading and could well make swing trading your favorite method. So now, turn off all your distractions, get comfortable, and let's get started. A quick disclaimer

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before we begin, a little warning before going into this video with an ego, thinking, "Ah, okay, I’m going to be one of the best, I’m bound to perform well." You must understand one thing: today, that's the stat. 90% of

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people who get into trading lose money. And that is why, throughout this video, I am going to instill in you a principle created by Warren Buffett, which is rule number 1: never lose money, and rule number 2: always follow

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rule number 1. So, what does that mean? Of course, I will be implementing it and talking about it throughout this video. But you must understand that today, when you watch this video, you must set aside your ego, and even

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though we are going to look at A to Z strategies to apply to the markets that will give you profitability and an edge to beat these markets, you must always keep in the back of your mind that, firstly, you must not lose, and

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secondly, you start looking for profit. But always look for security, always try to lose as little time and as little money as possible. Right, let's begin, and I am now going to teach you swing trading from A to Z. Of course,

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the majority of people who started trading today did so either to leave a job they didn't really like, or simply to have a certain geographical freedom, or just to have an extra income. In any case, today, what I’m going to

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present to you—the method I’m going to bring you—is swing trading, and it ticks every box. And I know that most of you started out for that potential, its benefits, and potentially drifted into types of trading that end up

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keeping you locked behind a computer all day long. And that’s why we’re going to go back to the basics. In this video, you will learn a type of trading that allows you to be both geographically free and requires as

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little of your time as possible, so you can once again take care of your children, your wife, your friends. If you like video games, then video games, but you will spend as little time as possible after this complete training.

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Right, let's start with the basics. And what is swing trading? Of course, throughout this video, the information provided will be presented in a chronological manner. This means that if you already know the information, you can skip to the next chapter, which

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will be available in the video description, to allow you, once again, to navigate and select the information you don't have yet to improve your trading. But if you don't master swing trading 100% today, I advise you to watch all the information and therefore

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this entire video. So, what is swing trading? And we’ll meet directly on TradingView. So, what does swing trading look like, what is it for, and what does it consist of? Simply put, it’s about taking a position in the

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market. So for example, my analysis indicates that I should buy here because it’s part of my strategy, and we will, of course, see a strategy in this video. I buy here on Thursday, July 30th, 2026, for example, at 6:00

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PM, and then I will leave my position, my trade, open for several days, several weeks, or even several months to let the market evolve and go after interesting profits. The difference with day trading is taking a position in the early morning or early afternoon

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and closing your position before the end of the day. Where the third style, scalping, is entering a position on timeframes like, for example, 1 minute, entering a position at 3:47 PM and exiting here at 4:16 PM. So it’s

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ultra-fast trading intended for the more experienced. But of course, once again, we will see a rational comparison with real statistics without devaluing one method over another without added statistics. And if you're still having trouble visualizing what kind of opportunity swing trading is,

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here is an opportunity that was taken exactly on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 2 PM. The position then moved in the right direction and we exited exactly here on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at 8 PM. Meaning the position lasted 3 weeks

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and it cost us very little time in the markets, yet allowed us to ride a specific move and, as we'll see later, earn a 5.71 ratio. Which means, for example, if you risked €1,000, you earned €5,700. If you risked €100

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, you earned €570, again with very little time spent on the charts, or another opportunity that closed not long ago which we'll see in this video, position taken here on June 29, 2026, at 9 PM. A position that required only

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a few hours of management throughout the duration of the trade, and we had a closing here on July 23, 2026. Once again, 3 weeks of movement, this time to go after a 9.48 ratio. If you invested €100 in this trade, you

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earned €940 on the trade. And if you invested, for example, €1,000, you earned €9,400. That is what the power of swing trading looks like. But that's not all. Where with other methods you are forced to stick to a

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specific group of assets. In swing trading, it's completely different. You can trade wherever the market offers you various opportunities. Whether it's stocks, Forex, or commodities, all asset classes are good to trade with swing trading. Why? Simply because the

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opportunities last longer. You will have more time to analyze several asset classes, whereas in day trading or scalping, you don't have the time to analyze every asset group to select the best opportunities. Now, a question to ask yourself. Who is swing trading for?

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And so we meet directly behind the board. And today, whether you are a student, an employee, or an entrepreneur, swing trading is made for three-quarters of the profiles that exist on Earth today. So student, employee, entrepreneur, and no matter

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your schedule. Whereas a student who has, let's say, a fairly flexible program and schedule, for example from 9 AM to 11 AM with a return at 2 PM and finishing at 5:30 PM, will be able to apply swing trading. An employee who,

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for example, works a night shift starting at 11 p.m., or an entrepreneur who has an even more flexible and, let's say, random schedule, can also engage in swing trading. And this is something you need to understand: the majority of people getting into trading

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today wonder which type of strategy or method they should choose first—scalping, day trading, or swing trading? However, as we will see right away, the vast majority—I’d say 93 to 96%—are forced to choose swing trading.

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And of course, if you have already chosen another style of trading, listen to what follows because it is really important. For example, I’m going to add another box and label it "unemployment." So, someone who is unemployed, for instance, who once

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again has all their time available, will be able to apply any trading method, whether it be swing trading, scalping, day trading, or even a mix of several trading styles. And this is truly something you must understand.

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And why? We are going to start with the choice of methodology, and why swing trading is suited, as I said earlier, for the majority of people. It's because when you choose a method and enter the markets to practice it, you

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will accumulate what we call—and what we’ll

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someone who started with day trading and can no longer practice it, having to switch to swing trading simply because their job or schedule has changed—then they have to start everything from scratch. In reality, this is what is called "losing it all"

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in professional trading, of course. And for this video, which is going to be packed with information, don't hesitate to navigate using the timestamps and chapters, because you may already be familiar with some of this information.

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We will have a section of about an hour on the theory and fundamentals of swing trading, and we will have a section of an hour on the practice, the execution behind the charts. So once again, if you already know a piece of information

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, don't hesitate to skip to the next chapter. But in any case, I guarantee it: you will come out of this video with a total mastery of swing trading strategy. And that is why I invite you to look at the documentation I’ve

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placed on the screen. So, changing methods also means losing everything, and that is—even before I explain the swing trading strategy to you—the number one cause of quitting in trading . And I’ll say it again, I have helped thousands of people get started

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on the markets and make profits today, and the primary cause for quitting is really changing strategies, changing methods, and changing the type of trading. And that is why, once again, I am going to emphasize this first before unpacking all the other information

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that will allow you to become a competent swing trader. So, let’s go back to the example from earlier.

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Someone who chooses day trading and, for example, has a strategy that requires being present from 10:00 AM, OK, until 5:30 PM. Or perhaps the London opening, for example, preparing setups at 7:30 AM and finishing at 2:00 PM. So, a typical day trading pattern.

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OK, this person will practice day trading simply because they are unemployed or perhaps working the night shift and sleeping in the afternoon. So they work from 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM.

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Then, they move on to their London session and go to sleep afterward. OK, that’s their lifestyle, they chose it , and it suits them perfectly. No issues with that. Watch out, look here.

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So, someone who has chosen swing trading will accumulate data, information about their trading over 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months.

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From that point, the person has gathered 4 months of data. So, information that is starting to become valuable for their trading. How to improve one's trading? How to improve their data, errors not to repeat, and above all, a clear improvement in the

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results they will have in the markets. Be careful, unfortunately, and this is once again the number one cause of quitting. Someone who does this type of trading is, let's say, condemned to do the same thing their whole life. Why?

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Because if this person changes jobs, let's say, and finds a job, for example , that must be done during the day, like 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, they will no longer be able to practice the same strategy. And so, what is going to

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happen? Well, naturally, maybe they will switch back to day trading, but a different kind of day trading, applied for example from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

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And so, what is going to happen? Well, obviously as we can see here, I'll click, your life changes and so you get a new job. You find a new line of work.

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Day trading no longer fits into your day and the schedule you had before. And so you have to change your method and you've wiped out 4 months of trading journal. And this is where most people give up. Where you had collected

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4 months of data, where you had worked hard, taken your trades, gathered your data, followed a perfect professional trader's path, you wiped it all out because, simply put, you didn't choose a method, a methodology that could be applied to any type of work: night

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shift, day job, entrepreneur, student, or even unemployed. Now, I used a niche example, but most people, and the majority of people who make this mistake, are those who start trading while unemployed, living with their parents, out of work, and who,

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overnight, have to find a salaried job to potentially pay for their prop firm account or grow their capital, or they become entrepreneurs to once again fuel their trading account, or they go back to school. They choose a strategy that

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initially fit perfectly with the life of someone unemployed, without a job, but which they'll have to change when they become employees, have to change when they become entrepreneurs, and likewise when they return to their studies, they'll have to change. And so

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for example, let's imagine someone who has been unemployed for 6 months, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months of unemployment, a huge amount of data to collect. Come on , let's push it to 7 months, 8 months,

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let's say 1 full year of data. So there , you really have a lot of data to improve your metrics, your strategy, to eliminate all the mistakes you make daily to apply your edge 100%. You are now a trader who has really collected

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data, but what do you have to do? Since you aren't making enough money or it's simply time to find a job or go back to your studies, you then have to start all over again and you've wiped out 12

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months of data. Because I'm telling you straight, if you try to apply a method you used while unemployed during your salaried job, it's impossible. You will miss out on opportunities. You're not going to use your old method from when

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you were unemployed, and just ruin your strategy only to end up at zero on a prop firm account, lose that account, lose your own capital, and lose everything simply because you can't apply your method the same way while

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working, running a business, or going back to school. And that's exactly why this video comes at the perfect time.

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If you choose swing trading, for instance, and you start gathering data but then potentially change jobs—your life changes, you have a new gig—what happens? Sure, you’ve found a new job and a new routine, but you keep your data, you keep your stats because swing

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trading is applicable, once again, to any situation, whether you're an entrepreneur, employee, student, or unemployed. And that’s something the majority of people don't understand.

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They choose their trading style because they saw a mentor do it. "Oh, day trading looks cool, taking positions so quickly.""Oh, scalping, I really like that sense of speed." Okay, no, that’s not how you choose a trading style. You choose a trading style by

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projecting yourself as a professional; you want to be a pro trader and be like the best, but you’re thinking like a child, like a beginner jumping into the markets without a solid plan. If you want to become a professional trader

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today, you need to think about what you'll be doing in 6 months, a year, 2, 3, or 5 years, and choose a method you won't replace so you never lose the data you’ve collected. And we will see, of course, throughout this video,

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the various comparisons. But you must understand that if you change your method today, and if you don't choose the right one, you’ll waste time, money, and most importantly data, forcing you to start back at square one over and over. And that is, once again,

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the number one reason people quit the markets today. The number one argument for any swing trader and the swing trading method is time. Specifically, the time needed to prepare, monitor, and orchestrate your entire trading methodology. And the longer the

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timeframes get, and we will see this here on TradingView, the more waiting time you will have, and you shouldn't view that as a disadvantage. OK? Yeah, well, if I trade on the 1-hour chart, for instance, the position will take

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time to develop. OK, well, if I trade on the 15-minute chart today, the position will necessarily be faster to enter, so I'll make more profit. We'll see later why it doesn't work like that in trading, and only beginners think

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that way. Here, for example, we'll go to the 1-minute chart. So the majority of people, beginners once again, will think that the faster it goes, the more gains you can make. Unfortunately today , the faster you are in the markets,

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the lower the timeframes, the more mistakes you will make, and the less time you will have to think about your position, your execution, as well as trade management and exiting the trade, which is where you will understand. So,

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of course, you see it here in the time intervals: the higher you go in timeframes—15 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, etc.—the more time you have to reflect on your opportunity, the more time you have for trade

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management, and above all, the less likely you are to make mistakes. Once again, I've met quite a few traders, hundreds and hundreds, and the majority who manage to execute their trading perfectly, meaning without making errors, are often swing traders. Now,

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it might seem crazy to say, "Yes, but it's utopian to think we won't make mistakes." In essence, understand clearly that if you are trading the 4- hour chart today, where one candle equals 4 hours, and you have 4 hours to

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verify your trading plan to know whether or not to take the position— because you take positions on candle closes—well, you can imagine that you won't make a mistake. On the other hand , if you take, for example here, a 1-

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minute candle and you have to check your plan in one minute, prepare your position with the lot size calculator, check that you have the right lot size to enter the position, and so on, one minute goes by very quickly. Therefore,

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it is susceptible to error. And if, on top of that, you have external factors that come into play, in swing trading, you can handle them. If the candle closes in 4 hours, you have 15 minutes to resolve any issue. OK? In one minute

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, it's complicated to go solve a problem and still execute your position perfectly. And so when we talk about time, we aren't just talking about the time the trade takes. We are talking about the time in which you will

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execute your position. So you will make almost no mistakes. The time for you to do your analysis. Generally, for a swing trader, we'll see it later for my swing trader routine, you'll do that on the weekend in peace and you're not

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forced, for example, to log in at 3:30 PM like scalpers, to prepare your session quickly by looking at previous movements to then plot the levels and then trade. OK, it requires time and responsiveness. You have to be fast in

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swing trading; it's slow, it's a chess player who will take rational positions and who will require very little time from you, we'll see it later, whether it's for execution, trade management, or closing the trade. And now, to go a

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bit more into the details regarding time, we're going to go to the board and we'll start by noting down day trading first. Here, we'll put scalping and here, logically, swing trading. So of course, for now, I will only compare

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the time allocated to these different methodologies, but later we will see a comparative table later in this video that will show you all the ins and outs and all the secrets of the differences between these three methods. But before

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we start, we're going to talk about time. So today, for swing trading, we'll put one star. For day trading, we'll put three stars. And for scalping , we'll put two stars. Today, for me, scalping is much more interesting than

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day trading in terms of time. Why? Simply because a scalper can produce a one-hour or 1.5-hour session per day and still manage to place it and go fast and spend very little time in the market. Whereas a day trader, the one

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who spreads many more trading hours over the day, the time will be really energy-draining and will be much more punitive, and we'll see why later. Now, something you must understand, since you have seen the criteria and barometers of time, you must understand

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that in trading, there is no meritocracy regarding the time you will invest in the markets. And it's not the one who spends the most time behind their screens who will necessarily earn more than a casual trader. Take Stéphane, Ricardo, Sophie, or Paul for

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example; they all spend at most 2, 3, or 4 hours a week, yet they are among the elite of independent traders in France. And that is why, for us, the best choice will always be based, in terms of priority, on the strategy that

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requires the least amount of time. I know, the biggest argument for people who don't want to start swing trading is thinking that with day trading or scalping, you take many more positions, as I said earlier, and therefore, you

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must make more money. That is the beginner’s perspective, but today, any professional trader knows the average number of trades they will take each month. Let me explain. Let's look at the number of trades per month; where a swing trader might have, for

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example, 5 positions per month. A day trader might have 15, for instance, while a scalper might have 30. And you might say, "Yes, but if we all use the same strategy—say, a 50%win rate and identical statistics across swing, day,

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and scalp—then the one taking more trades must win more." Unfortunately, in professional trading, it doesn't work that way. Why? Because today, any professional trader knows their average number of trades per month. And if you don't know yours, it means there was

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something missing in your training. You must know, on average, how many trades your strategy produces per month. If you don't have one, don't worry, I will teach you a strategy in this video right after this. But this means that

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while a beginner might think that taking 30 trades will net more than taking 5, that’s not how it works.

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Once again, remember Warren Buffett's rule: always protect your risk. All the greatest traders protect their risk, and the more opportunities you take on average per month, the more you must reduce your risk. Where a scalper with 30 positions might look for a risk

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percentage on their capital of, say, 0.25%per position. A day trader might be at 0.5%per position, while a swing trader will generally be between 1, 1.5 , or 2%per position. And so this is logical, and you'll see it, of course,

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in any type of professional trading: you cannot risk 1%of your trading capital across 30 positions, because if your strategy has a negative month, a fairly negative one, well, simply put, you could lose a huge amount of your trading capital. And that is why the

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number of positions is directly correlated with the risk you will have in the markets. And it's wrong to think that by taking more positions, you'll make more money, because in the end, the more positions you take in scalping

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, the more you will reduce your risk. It's the same in day trading; it's highly leveraged, so we will lower the risk and the fewer positions you'll have in the markets. Therefore, as seen here in swing trading, the more you can

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increase your risk in the markets. And in the end, the result we'll get is that here at the end of the month, you'll earn € 1,000. Here, you'll also earn € 1,000, and here too you'll earn € 1,000. Of course, these

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ratio and percentage examples are for informational purposes only. If I had divided or multiplied by 3, I would have chosen 1%, 0.33%, and much less for the scalping portion. But you must understand that generally, this calculation is done so that no matter

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your trading style, you always earn the same amount; the more you increase your number of trades, the more you reduce your risk, and the more you decrease your number of trades, the more you will increase your risk. And now, if

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you've been paying attention, the only thing that will change is the number of trades and the time spent. So, to earn € 1,000, you can imagine that you'll always choose, rationally once again, the method that requires the least

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amount of time, because in trading and even in financial markets, we always talk about time invested versus annual return, and that's a table we will see right after this. And the second, which we'll see, is the number of trades per

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month, because the more you increase the number of trades, the more time you inject into the markets, the more fees you incur, and so on. But first, we'll start with time invested versus past returns, and we'll head straight to a

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table that will, I'm sure, change your perception of swing trading compared to other trading methods. We are now moving behind the ladder of real profitability and how to quantify whether you will be profitable today, regardless of your trading method. Now,

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of course, for beginners, it may seem quite complex. I will explain everything from A to Z. And if you don't understand this, let's just say there's no point in using a trading method. Once again, you clicked on this

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video to become a professional. You are going to learn like a professional, and by the end of this video, you will have a strategy, the skills, and the necessary information to apply a trading method like a real pro. So

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today, we are going to run a major simulation. That is to say, how much are you investing in the markets? So, for example, € 5,000. Okay? You can run the simulation in your head with your own capital or a prop firm capital

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, and go up to, for example, 150,000, 50,000, or even 5,000 euros. Next, the question I am going to ask you is: what is your net monthly salary? So, for example, let's take € 2,000, where your price—your hourly rate—is

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currently € 13.20 with, of course, 150 hours of work per month. And of course, if you want to do it yourself or along with me, you can directly download the resources in the pinned comment, and you can run a simulation

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to see if you have truly understood, again while I do it, to master the concept of money ratios in trading.

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Next, we will move to the left sidebar, and here, for example, we have swing trading. So, for example, let's imagine we put 50%annual profit on a swing trading strategy with, say, 5 hours per week. Okay? Which is about average for

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a swing trader. Now for a day trader, we will use the exact same performance, meaning 50%per year, but this time, we will move to 30 hours per week, which is much more representative of a day trader today. Now, what is the third

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criterion? It is what we call the S&P 500, which is the benchmark index. And today, when you start in the financial markets, you must always compare yourself to this benchmark index. And if you don't understand what that is,

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we'll look directly here at the American index, the S&P 500, the 500 largest companies, let's say, capitalized in the US. Which means that this index, if for example you put your money in without doing anything—that is to say, as a pure investment—if

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you invest your money randomly, your trading capital—so let's keep the € 5,000 figure for our simulation—on average over the last few years, the last 10, 20, 30 years, you would have earned 10%on average. OK, so that 10%is really interesting. Why? Because it

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means that for our benchmark, to see if we are a good trader, we know that, OK, the easiest investment in the world today produces 10%per year on average with zero time invested. And that is something you need to understand

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because with zero time invested, you can earn 10%per year on your trading capital. And that is why we now return to our simulation and we see it here: 10%per year on the S&P 500 with zero time invested. All the performance you

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produce today in trading, whether in money earned or in time you spend developing the money you earned in trading, will be directly compared to the S&P 500. Here, we can see it, the S &P 500 is the zero point. This means

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that if you earn less money with your hourly rate plus the profits you made in trading, then simply put, you worked for nothing. You did worse than the S&P 500. And if you had invested your capital, for example € 5,000, in the

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S&P 500, you would have done better in terms of your money invested ratio. If for example you invest € 20,000, you can see that in the simulation, swing trading is profitable by +4,572%while day trading is at a loss of -12,571 €

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. So once again, you made money. You earned 50%per year on € 20,000, which equals € 10,000. But it's the same for the swing trader, who also earned € 10,000 on those € 20,000. What is the difference? It is the time the

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trader spends on their trading strategy . Where the swing trader spent only 260 hours over a year—so don't forget that we are at 13 euros/dollars for the swing trader. So, directly count those 260 hours spent practicing their trading method, whereas the day trader

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will have injected 1,560 hours of their life into their trading to produce those € 10,000. What does that mean?

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This means that with your base hourly rate, so your annual job where you earn , for example, € 2000 per month, if you had invested your money in this job or in temp work, then simply put, you would have potentially earned much more

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money practicing your profession than by doing trading. And once again, in this barometer, I haven't included risk because, again, in your base job, you know that at the end of the month, you will always earn the salary for the

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time you invested. In trading, it's different. You can invest a huge amount of time and not earn any money. And that is the most important metric. And that is what you need to understand before continuing this video, is that

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even if you make a huge profit—so we will raise the day trader's profit here —we see that the more I raise it, the more his loss will decrease. But to perform better than the S&P 500, for example, you will need to achieve much

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higher percentages to be profitable compared to simply investing in the S&P 500, which produces 10%per year but requires no time from you. Because it's easy to say, "Ah, well, for example, I made 124%this year, I am a wonderful

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trader, an excellent trader." And if you worked 30 hours a week, which equates to, for example, 1500 hours per year, those 1500 hours per year, with you being paid € 13 an hour, must be compensated. And if you don't

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compensate for them, then you aren't being honest about your trading results . And that's why today, you will see it throughout this video, today a swing trader who spends—for example, me honestly, Sophie honestly—we spend 3 hours a week, and well, you can imagine

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that even if our performance is much lower than most people, that is 30%per year, which is again utopian, then we will still be profitable because the time invested over our week and over our year, which is 156 hours, will be

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minimal compared to the ratio of time invested and return obtained, and we will still be more profitable than the S&P 500 because we will have earned € 6000 (30%per year) and we only spent 156 hours, whereas the day trader will

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have to work hard in terms of annual percentage to generate performance if he wants to be more profitable than the S&P 500 relative to his time invested.

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And I'm being generous, 30 hours a week ; some exceed 8 hours a day. Let's imagine the Forex market, which is open 5 days a week; 8 times 5 equals 40 hours, for example. And honestly, I'm not exaggerating; that’s 4 hours in

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the morning and 4 hours in the afternoon. A huge number of people do that. But if you put in 40 hours this way, you'll need to perform well just to be more profitable than the S&P 500.

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And for instance, we can see that with 133%per year at 40 hours a week, you aren't even profitable. And you would have to reach truly stratospheric performance, like 150%per year, just to seek a better return than the S&P 500.

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And today, a swing trader, for example, balancing at 31%per year with 3 hours a week, will have an hourly rate equivalent to a day trader who produces 158%per year while spending 40 hours a week. Why? Because naturally, the swing

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trader can enjoy their family more, build a side business, or use that money. For example, in their main job, they could increase their hours or take on temp work, while the day trader will be much more dependent on their

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performance. And pay attention, because most people haven't thought about this: we've talked about a positive year, but it's possible today to produce zero performance in the markets. For example , you produced 0%on your capital in the markets because your strategy wasn't

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profitable and didn't deploy the edge you expected. It happens. There are traders or strategies that produce breakeven or even negative results over a year. That is part of trading. Even Cota, who turned his € 5,000 capital into € 15 million. So, someone who is

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a legendary trader featured in the book Market Wizards has had negative years and breakeven years. So, for example, imagine we make 0%in day trading and 0% in swing trading; look at the loss in time you would have produced with day

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trading if you didn't have any performance. It would be stratospherically negative. Whereas with swing trading, it will be much more cushioned. Why? Because in any case, if you didn't make money with your trading, you didn't spend much time. On the other hand, in day trading

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, if you haven't produced much performance, you've still invested a lot of time; and therefore, you've lost many hours that you could have invested in your family, friends, a business, a salaried job, entrepreneurship, or even temp work. But in any case, you are

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more than a loser; you are doubly a loser. And that is what I was explaining earlier with Warren Buffett's rule, which is, first, you must not lose money. The second rule is to stick to the first one. But in

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trading, we aren't just talking about money; we are also talking about time. And that is why today swing trading is one of the most interesting methods, because when you have a losing month, a losing quarter, or a break-even year,

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you won't have spent much time relative to the performance you didn't produce. And I know this can be annoying for beginners, but if you don't understand this, you won't be able to succeed in trading in the long term because any

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professional trader who is in the high spheres of independent trading and making a lot of money...We calculate a trader's yield ratio by looking at how much time you spent for how much performance you generated. And if someone today doesn't want to say how

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much time they spent but says, "Yeah, well, I made 100%on my trading capital, I'm one of the best traders." If you worked 60 hours a week today, I want to tell you directly: you are not an excellent trader. The excellent trader

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is the one who spends the least amount of time possible while achieving the best possible yield. And that is the smartest trader because, once again, we got into trading to have geographical freedom and spend as little time as

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possible while still earning an interesting enough income to either live off of it or have a supplementary income. And so, to conclude on this chart, which again you can download directly in the video comments. You must understand that to judge a

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trader's performance, and that's why we will learn swing trading right after, the method applied to the charts, etc., today you must compare your performance with the time you spend on it: the money you earn compared to the S&P 500,

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which is 10%on average while spending zero time. And you have this specific barometer that you can interact with directly once you've downloaded it to ask yourself, okay, am I a good trader or am I a bad trader? And just

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understand that the further the bar that goes up is from the S&P 500, the better a trader you are, and the further to the left of the S&P 500 the bar is, let's say, the less of a good

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trader you are. And if I had to force one thing, let's say, to drill into the brain of every beginner starting out in trading today, it would truly be this concept. And please, once again, I've mentored thousands of traders, hundreds

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of thousands of people watch my videos. This is a notion to understand, to learn, and really to apply every single day in your trading. Right, now that we're done with the performance comparison part, we're going to talk about the complexity of a method. Today

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, as I said before, there is no correlation between the complexity and the time you put into a method and the money you will make with it. What should interest you is for it to be as easy as possible while taking the least

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amount of time. So, why the easiest? Because it's simply easier to respect your edge, and we'll see what an edge is, to simply get the results from the chosen method. So here, I'm going to put "edge," which will be, let's say,

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the heart of any trader who wants to become profitable in the markets. And I want to tell you straight up, whether you're a day trader, a swing trader, or a scalper today, the goal for anyone practicing this type of method is to

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respect their edge. What is an edge? For the most inexperienced, it means a trading strategy with fixed rules that will simply give you an advantage over other traders on the planet. And if you don't have a strategy with an edge, you

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cannot win because trading is an extremely competitive environment. But what interests us now is that with certain trading styles, it will be easier to respect your edge. Which means not making mistakes and therefore actually producing that edge to win in

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the markets. And that is why we are going to talk about the frequency of errors. Here, let's say a scalper will produce, in terms of errors, quite a significant amount of mistakes. Meaning that between the low timeframes and the

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economic news which has high potential —we'll see that later on the short-term timeframes—there are a huge number of factors that will make it very difficult to stick to your edge in the markets. And so I will simply give three stars for maintaining an

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edge with scalping. For a swing trader, in terms of difficulty, we'll be at one star because, as we saw previously, if you have 4 hours to take a position, how could you possibly make a mistake?

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Unless you get kidnapped. But to be more serious, you won't be able to make mistakes with swing trading once you have mastered your strategy. Here, in day trading, it will be somewhere in between. Since the timeframes will be a

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bit higher, well, it will simply be two stars. Those are the initial indications as to why it will be more difficult to stick to an edge than a neutral approach. Because quite simply, scalping is much faster, so there are

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many more errors. Swing trading, with 4 hours or 1 hour to take a position, is very slow. And here, for example, day trading where you'll be on 15 minutes, you'll still have time to think and, shall we say, execute your edge in the

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markets. Now, what is your edge in the markets? It's, for example, saying to yourself, "OK, I've tested my strategy on, say, 500 trades in the past." These 500 trades showed me mathematically, with a curve you can see directly on my

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computer, that proves your strategy simply produced performance during the time you tested it. And so, that means, for example, you see 500 trades here, so we simply have a curve that goes up.

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OK? That is to say that in the past, if you had applied your day trading, swing trading, or scalping strategy, you would have simply obtained an edge and therefore had a better chance of winning in the markets and would have

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made money. And so, what are you going to do? Simply, you are going to replicate it in the future. OK? So, in the markets, in what's called "live." The problem is that when you apply your method to the live markets, depending

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on the method you have, you will produce more errors. That's what I said earlier. In scalping, you will have more errors. In swing trading, much fewer. And in day trading, it will generally be in the middle. Which means

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that if you want to maintain your edge today, meaning sticking to your backtest to produce the same results in the future, it will be much easier in swing trading because you have more time and fewer chances to make mistakes

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. And in scalping, it will be much harder. So, a scalper on TR will manage to stick to their edge in the markets, thereby making money in the long run and beating other traders. Day traders, let's say on TR as day traders, will

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manage because there will always be a margin for error, as it still remains quite fast-paced. And as for swing traders, three out of three swing traders who have an edge today will manage to produce and replicate the strategy they tested in the past in the

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future, in a live format, simply because on a 4-hour or 1-hour timeframe , it's very easy to enter a position without making errors. And that is really something I wanted to emphasize.

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But imagine: you spend time, regardless of the method—whether it's day, swing , or scalp—to build the best strategy possible for your style, but you can't follow it 100%, even if you dedicate as much time as possible, the best

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strategy, the best performance, whatever you want. If you can't execute it 100%to follow it 100%, you won't get results in the present because you aren't applying it the way it was applied in the past. And that's why, once again, no matter your methodology,

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if you can't apply your strategy from A to Z, 100%execution, zero errors. You won't get the results you had with it in the past, when you tested it, when you did your professional backtest, which you would simply have in the live

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market, in the market you apply daily. And that is why, once again, it's a feature of swing trading that makes it very easy to stick to your edge, because you have time to enter positions, time to think, and time to

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respect your edge and your execution in the markets today. And not to mention what I said earlier, regarding the difficulty, we were also talking about difficulties. If your strategy is difficult, you will inevitably make more mistakes, and therefore your

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strategy will not produce its edge because you made an error due to its complexity. That is why anyone who wants to reach profitability as quickly as possible will always choose swing trading, allowing enough time to take positions without making mistakes. A

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super simple strategy to respect a proven edge when applying it live is, once again, the strategy that requires the least amount of time possible. Well now, let's reinforce, shall we say, your choice to become a swing trader.

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Once again, timestamps are available, so if a part doesn't interest you, you can navigate to find the information that does interest you. But today, you need to understand, and this is really important information. If you choose swing trading, you will be trading

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directly with the asset's fundamentals because they are simply reflected in the time frame you are trading. And that is what we are going to see directly on this diagram. Today, the higher you go in time frames, the further you move away from trading

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algorithms and short-term noise, and the more you surf on an asset's fundamentals. Here, for example, if you see that you are scalping, so for example on time frames like M1, M3, M5, you can see that you will have 12%of

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the fundamentals applied to the asset and you will see 98%noise, because you are fighting against the biggest algorithms and computers on the planet, which are built by mathematicians at microsecond speeds and are paid billions of euros, like for example

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Aladdin, which is one of the biggest algos running on the markets today. How do you expect to be competitive as a beginner, an independent trader, without all the money they have to spend on that kind of robot? And this

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is what you will see: the higher you go in time frames, the better your chances will be in the markets. Why? Because the further you move away from the noise, and the noise is represented once again by the short term, M3, M5,

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M10. And the higher you go in time frames, so for example swing trading H1 , H3, H4, the easier it will simply be to understand market movements because the asset's fundamentals will be integrated into the price. You understand that today, a trader trading

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the M1 doesn't need to look at the fundamentals, or at least the chart won't tell them how the fundamentals are behaving. Today, fundamentals can be read through price, but they cannot be read and integrated into price on a

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1-minute chart because they have nothing to do with each other. The conditions of a company, the conditions of an asset, are not reflected on a 1- minute chart. It's just noise. And as you can see here, it represents this

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kind of curve. It's chaos, it's illegible. And if you go to long enough timeframes, you will see the fundamental trend of the asset you are trading. For example, if you trade Apple today, you know that Apple, as we

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can see here on TradingView, well, it only moves upwards. And so obviously, when you develop a strategy for it, it will be more interesting to look for buying positions if you are swing trading on long-term timeframes. But if

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, for example, I click on one minute, is Apple bullish here? Not at all. You can look for a buy and still not be in the trend, simply because the trend on a one-minute chart is bearish. We have

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lower highs and we have lower lows. And that is something you need to understand. The more you operate on short-term timeframes, the more you will be in a fog that is completely uncorrelated with the asset's fundamentals. And the higher you go in

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timeframe, the more it will simply reflect the true fundamentals of an asset, and the more easily you will be able to trade with the underlying trend that this asset provides you. And it will be much easier to trade, because

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if today, once again, you compare someone who is going to trade Apple or, for example, stock indices like the NASDAQ, someone trading the Nasdaq on small timeframes will be completely lost in the chaos. But the person who trades the Nasdaq on much higher

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timeframes—4-hour, Daily, Weekly, Monthly—will trade only on the buy side because the curve only moves upwards, and you will have a much higher probability of trading in a directional trend rather than trying to trade M1 or M5 on assets that are

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fundamentally advantageous only for buying, and you'll try to buy and sell just because the index on the 1-minute chart is bearish, ranging, or neutral.

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And that is something you also need to understand. I see quite a few traders trading on the 1-minute chart. by saying "OK, I trade US indices, I only trade long," but the long position you're taking on a 1-minute chart has

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nothing to do with the fundamentals of the asset. "OK? It's just noise, and that's why, generally, to have a higher probability of success—and you also see it in terms of ease of profitability—the higher you go in timeframe, the better you'll follow the

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underlying trend. So, I’m talking about following an asset's fundamentals , meaning the directional bias. It will be easier on high timeframes, and the lower you go in timeframes, the less easy it will be. And that is why, today

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, it is still one of the key strengths of swing trading. The more you follow and practice on relatively high timeframes—compared to scalping—the more likely you are to succeed, especially in following an asset's fundamentals and staying away from the

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HFT algo traders who deal with hundreds of millions or billions on the markets every day, and who are unbeatable for an independent trader because you don't have the same hardware. And I simply advise you, if you are an independent

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trader today and you still want to come out on top, to become a swing trader.

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And that is why everything I told you before highlighted swing trading. And today, I honestly think, after having coached—again, I’ll leave Sophie, Antoine, Adelle, Ricardo, Stéphane, and hundreds of other traders who have generated profits on screen—these people did it through swing trading, or

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at least followed the fundamentals of an asset that were reflected directly on their charts to generate the performance you saw on the screen. And so now, to conclude why swing trading is the most interesting trading style, before showing you my method which I

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will illustrate for you on both TradingView and the whiteboard, we are going to move directly to a comparison table. So, we’ll meet right behind the comparison board, and you’ll see that it’s truly important and will completely change the game regarding

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your choice of swing trading. And I’m not just going to say" OK, this method is better than another, "I am going to show you, with A + B concrete examples, why it is much more interesting to start trading today with swing trading.

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" Now of course, there are comparisons that we won’t just discuss, such as the duration of a position. It has nothing to do with the money you will make or the time you will spend. Here, time spent in front of the screen,

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we've already covered that. So, low for a swing trader, very high for a day trader, and high, but much less than a day trader, because these are simply sessions you choose during your day, which will be much less time-consuming

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compared to a day trader. But for us, what will interest us as professional traders wanting to know real data, is that we will start first with the impact of the spread. We are here directly on TradingView to talk to you

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about the impact of the spread on lower timeframes. Well, especially for day trading, scalping, versus swing trading . Here we are, for example, on the GBP/ CAD on a one-minute chart. Okay? So, for example, I want to take a long

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position. So I will take a long position here. Okay? In this way, I will place, for example, a stop loss below this low. There you go. And for example, I will place my take profit here. Okay? A take profit that will

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also be placed at two. Meaning I risk one to go for two of my trading capital . Okay? To do this, we are going to take a theoretical spread, okay? Which is, for example, simply 2 pips. So, I

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will simply create my scale here and calculate 2 pips. There, if you can zoom in on the screen here, we indeed have a 2-pip spread. So, what am I going to do here? I will simply take a line and draw it to mark the impact of

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the spread. So, 2 pips. Okay. And you understand that if you enter based on the base markets here, meaning the bullish candle I drew there, in reality , with the spread impact, you will enter much higher. Okay? Because that's

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the commission you will pay on any broker. Okay? That's the spread. You think you will enter here at 1.88605.

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In reality, with a spread of, say, 2 pips, you will enter here at 1.88624.

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Which means that if you hit your take profit, for example, and the market touches your take profit, you will not actually gain a 2: 1 ratio. Okay? What risk-reward ratio will you actually earn? You will only gain a 1.5

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risk-reward ratio because the spread simply ate into the spot where you originally wanted to enter and made you enter much later. And so, quite simply, your stop loss remains in the same place, your take profit remains in the

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same place, and so, instead of gaining a risk/reward ratio of 2 as you would on TradingView, in reality, you gained a risk/reward ratio of 5 because the two-pip spread has a huge impact on a timeframe like one minute. OK? So, I

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repeat, two pips of spread. Keep that in mind. We are now moving on to day trading and we will switch to the 15- minute chart, still using the same example. So we are going to remove the two-pip spread. So, for example, I take

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a short position here. I will place my trendline to plot a resistance here. I will place my stop loss in this way.

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And likewise, to keep the same scale, I will place this at a ratio of 2. OK, so it's exactly the same opportunity with a ratio of 2. And once again, it doesn't matter what risk you take as long as it's a ratio of 2, it's the

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same thing. It's exactly the same thing . OK, so I take a position here on the bearish candle. That is to say, exactly on Monday, August 3, 2026, at 3:45 PM.

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OK? In reality, if I take a position and I have two pips of spread, so we are going to calculate them. OK, here are two pips of spread this way. OK, I will therefore place my arrow here and

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pull it to the spread. There. So if basically, let's imagine, I hit my take profit and I gained a risk/reward ratio of 2. If I move my entry point, to really calculate how much I actually gained by taking the spread into

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account, I would have simply gained 1.70. Which means I lost 0.3 of a risk/ reward ratio on my opportunity. Whereas in scalping on one minute, how much had I lost? I had lost 0.5 of my risk/ reward ratio, which is huge. Now, let's

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imagine we go into swing trading, we go to the 4-hour chart, so I will delete the drawing. And for example, the same thing, a new opportunity with a ratio of 2, a short position placed here, stop loss placed above the high point,

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and again, a risk/reward ratio of 2. So here, I am looking for 2. There. And what am I going to do? So I place the entry right here, and I will put it right here to be very precise to help

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you understand. Once again, the spread is the same regardless of the timeframe . For example, if you trade with a broker and the spread is fixed at 2, it will be 2 on a 1-minute chart, 2 on a

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15-minute chart, 2 on a 1-hour chart, and 2 on a 4-hour chart, but it won't have the same impact. For instance here , likewise, I'm looking for two pips.

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There, we are here. If I take my arrow and simply drag it like this, we'll be here. If, for example, the market hits my take profit and theoretically I earn a risk-reward ratio of 2, I will take my entry point and place it where I

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crossed the pips, which is where I actually enter on my MT5 or MT4 tool.

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And there, simply, I would have earned a risk-reward ratio of 1.9. And that is really something you must understand.

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And we'll go directly here to the day trading, swing trading, scalping table. Where in basic scalping, I was supposed to earn a ratio of 2. In the end, I only earned a ratio of 1.5. In swing trading, I was supposed to earn a ratio

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of 2, and in the end, I earned a ratio of 1.9. And in day trading, I had a base ratio of 2, and in the end, I earned a ratio of 1.7. And that is the impact of the spread. And once again,

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we used 1.2. It's not a huge spread. Sometimes, the spread will increase near an economic announcement, near a moving market, for example at the US open or US close, the spread can change . Here, we used a fixed spread, but if

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the spread goes up further, if you had a 1.5 base, you could end up with a 1.3 . OK? The thing you need to understand is that between swing trading, scalping , and day trading, you already have, let's say, less of an edge when you

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apply these methods, for example, on the Forex market. Because simply when you earn a ratio of 2, 3, 4, or 5, your performance will always be eaten away by the spread, even in swing trading.

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You will be eaten away, yes, granted, but much less impacted and significantly less than a scalper who is eaten away by 0.5 and a day trader by 0.3. Here, we would be eaten away, for example, by 0.1. And where it gets

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important, and where it simply becomes, let's say, a game changer, is that if for example we take 100 trades, because once again in trading, we never base anything on one trade, as a trade can be random. One trade does not represent

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a trading strategy. We will always talk in units of 100 trades. OK? So we are going to multiply this by 100, this too by 100, and this too by 100. So let's imagine you had 100 winning trades in

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day trading, swing trading, and scalping. You would have therefore gained with this metric 150%, or rather 150R, of your trading capital. But on the other hand, you would have lost 50 in risk-reward ratio due to the spread.

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Whereas here in swing trading, you would have gained 190R and you would have given 10 in risk-reward ratio to the spread in the markets. And here as well, you would have gained 170 in risk-reward ratio and you would have

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simply given 30 in risk-reward ratio to the market or your brokerage platform, and understand that beyond that, relative to time, the spread has a different impact between a swing trader , a scalper, and a day trader. And where, basically, you would have gained

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190 in risk-reward ratio on a swing trading strategy, you would have only gained 150R on a scalping strategy.

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Because, once again, the spread has a different impact: it is fixed, but the timeframe will be different and therefore will have a much larger negative impact on scalping than on swing trading, and let's say the middle ground remains the day trader. And that

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is why here in the comparison table, I marked low for swing trading, medium for day trading, and high for a scalper , and understand that this is really just the beginning and it is something that can really impact the

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profitability of a trader who wants to become a profitable trader today. And of course, once again, if these types of resources interest you, don't hesitate to download them in the pinned comment. And I marked it here regarding the definitions, I preferred to show

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you a diagram, but it's the fixed cost for each trade and the shorter your timeframe, the higher the cost simply will be. And it will eat away at the return you should have had. Now, we are going to talk about the swap. So, what

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is a swap? It is an interest that you will earn in swing trading or lose.

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That is to say, for example, if I have a position on the Euro USD and the interest rates indicate that it is interesting and favorable to buy the Euro USD, I can potentially earn a positive fee that will be added to my

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position. So, for example, here in swing trading, every night, generally at 11 p.m., I can earn a percentage interest that will accumulate as the days go by. And the longer I keep the position on a calendar, from the 1st to

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the 30th for example, as we saw in the example earlier, so for example 20 days , well, you will simply be able to accumulate a lot of positive fees in your trading. And where you would basically have to close a trading

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position with 5, you could potentially close it with 7.5 because you earned 2.5 R in favorable swap fees. Once again, swaps can also be negative. It is a constraint, and perhaps the only constraint of swing trading. But, if

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used well and if you select the right assets, then you can simply, in addition to the base performance which is mostly more significant compared to the reduced fees you would see in scalping or day trading, go get even

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more profit because the position stays open overnight. So of course, as you might expect, I am going to show you where to see them when you trade, in swing trading. For example, here in my symbol bar on Metatrader 5 or

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Metatrader 4, you will click on, for example, Euro USD here, right-click. Then, you go to symbols and when you scroll down, you will see swap rates directly. OK? So that is the swap rate.

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And so, for example, it will be charged once on Monday, once on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, it will always be x 3. So how do you see in which direction to take your position to earn or lose interest? For example, if I buy the

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Euro USD here right now, I will lose a fee of 5 per day for the position I keep. But if, for example, today, short which means sell, if I sell the Euro USD because my position or my opportunity tells me to sell, I will

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earn 2.6 in fees. So that means positive per day and x 3 on Wednesday.

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So you can have a position that is profitable to begin with, but if you take positions with a positive swap in your direction, you will accumulate even more positive fees that will add to your trading position. And for

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example, just to really make you want to do this kind of thing, today the NZDJPY—I'm clicking on the symbol here—had exactly 0.55 in daily fees.

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And you can see, for example, that we are at 0.7, which is already very good for, let's say, capitalizing and increasing your market returns. Here, for example, let's look at the NZDJPY, which gave us a ratio of 9.48, as we

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saw earlier. So if, for instance, you take away the spread—as we've seen in swing trading, it's very little—but on top of that you basically earned € 948, for example, if you risked € 100 . It didn't happen that way. You likely

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walked away with much more money because positive fees accumulated day after day, and besides earning € 948 on a € 100 risk, or a 9.48 risk-reward ratio, you earned much more because the swap fees accumulated positively. So of course, once again,

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it can be the opposite, and in the negative case, that is the only drawback of swing trading today. But understand that it remains attractive, and if you master swap fees today, you can further amplify your gains with swing trading. Next, we move on to the

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impact of slippage. It's the difference between the price you want in the markets and the price at which you actually enter. While the spread is, let's say, the commission your broker takes, all brokers compare themselves based on the spread they set for each

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asset. OK. Well, I'm this broker, I'll set 0.2 on EUR/USD. Oh, for me on this broker, OK 0.5; all brokers compete and offer a more competitive spread to, let's say, attract people. However, slippage is different. For example, we

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are here on MetaTrader 5 and I'll click on one minute here. So, still on the NZDJPY pair, we can see that the market candle is here, exactly at 115.000, but we can see that the line here is different. So what do we call that?

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It's the bid and the ask. It's simply where you will actually enter the markets, whether for a sell or a buy.

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So here is the place where I am actually going to enter. So it is a gap between my trade entry and the actual place where I will really enter. And the example is really to take a position, uh, directly in front of you.

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So for example, OK, I will take an order here on the market. So you can see that I will, for example, place a stop loss randomly. Again, this isn't a strategy, it's to help you understand.

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A TP this way, and we can see that instead of entering where I put my cursor, so on the candle where we want to enter, I will enter much higher.

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There, that is to say on this colored line. OK? So there is a gap between the place where I want to take the position and the place where I will actually enter. And let's say this gap, which is

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called supply and demand and slippage, can be much higher during periods of high volatility, near economic announcements, or near the opening of certain stock sessions. And be careful, the lower the timeframes you use, the more significant this will be. So for

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example, here we are on one minute, we can see that there is still quite a gap . Here, I move to 15 minutes, we can see that the gap is reduced. Here, I go to 4 hours, we see almost no gap. And

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you can see it, but the gap is almost zero. And the further I go down, the more visible the gap will be, and the higher I go, the more invisible the gap is. And again, the closer you get to

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swing trading, so to higher timeframes, the easier it will be for you to have less slippage, and the further down you go, the more complicated it will be. OK ? So for example here, if I buy here where I put my cursor, I enter there as

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a buy. So for example here, I enter, I place and I execute my order. OK, I entered here, we see the arrow, the candle is here, but I entered much higher. What does that mean? I entered and I am directly in the negative. And

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you can see it too, and that is why the majority of people when they enter the markets wonder, "But why, when I enter the markets, am I directly in the negative?" It's what is called slippage . OK? And the more you work on a long

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timeframe, the thinner it will be, and the more you work on a short timeframe, the higher it will be. And so, remember , we already had the spread measured in pips, which is why we’ll go back to the British pound against the Japanese

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yen, for example, which we used earlier for the spread example. But if I click on TradingView, for instance, then press settings and enable the bid and the ask. So, for example, I’ll set the value and the line. Okay, in this

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way, we’ll see that it’s the same thing as on MetaTrader 5 because I wanted to show both timeframes. Well, simply put, there is a gap. But let's go back to our earlier example. If, for example, I take a short position here,

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in this way, you can guess that if I want to sell here, where do I actually enter? On the blue line, so much lower, and plus, I’ll be charged the 0.2 spread. So, for example, I’ll set it here, I enter here on the ask, and I

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can start from here and add 1.2 spread. So that means I’m going to enter even lower than what the market tells me I’m going to enter. So, actually, when you trade short-term timeframes, you have to calculate both the spread

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—what your broker will take—and the slippage, meaning the bid and the ask, the supply and the demand. And since we’re coming back to the comparison here, in swing trading, slippage will be very low. And so, if you combine

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slippage and spread, well, you won’t lose a huge amount of money. In day trading, you’ll lose a bit more money , and in scalping, the loss can start to become significant. And if we go back to the table we mentioned earlier,

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the reality is that if you potentially lose 5 here, the reality is maybe you end up at 13, and originally you were supposed to win a ratio of 2. You end up with a ratio of 1.3, and in the end,

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you don't end up with 150 R, you end up with 130 R in the markets, having given 70 R to the market simply because very low timeframes on independent trading accounts, whether prop firms or personal accounts, are not built to be

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very competitive in the short term and are much more competitive in swing trading. Because even if you factor in the slippage and the spread against the profit you’re going to generate, at worst, what? You will earn 1.8 on

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what's generated, while a scalper will be at 1.3 on what's generated, and understand that there is a gap in returns between a scalper's results and a swing trader's results at the same performance. So, of course, producing the same performance in the markets.

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There you go. And understand that it's really important to grasp this because it's truly a basic concept as to why you don't trade small timeframes when you are an independent trader. We will continue and move on to the sensitivity

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to economic announcements, meaning what happens when news breaks while you are positioned, whether in swing trading, day trading, or even scalping. And to do that, it's very simple. So here, this is an economic announcement that took place on Thursday, July 30, 2026,

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at 3 p.m. So these were two very important movements. But if we look here on the 4-hour, is the candle really significant? Did that candle really invalidate all the scenarios?

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The answer is no. The candle is relatively similar to the other candles we see on our chart. And if, for example, you take the size of this candle and then you duplicate it onto many other candles, whether here, here,

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here, uh, or here, it is relatively similar and generally resembles what happens in swing trading. And so, an economic announcement will be far less impactful on higher timeframes. But now , however, when we go down, we go down

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to 15 minutes for example for day traders, we will see that same drop again. And you can see that here, is this drop violent? Of course this drop is violent. If you were positioned to buy, of course you saw it happen. Of

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course it impacted all your opportunities. And well, I won't even mention it, but let's go to one minute.

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We will see the degree of impact on the one-minute timeframe for this move. But if you look closely here, the market completely plummeted and the market completely integrated and reacted to all your scalping opportunities during the economic announcement. And this

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means that today, it's very simple: when you are going to do swing trading, and that's why we will quickly go back to the board to understand quickly...

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But for example, here on a scalper's curve, it will look like this; on a day trader's curve, it will look like this; and on a swing trader's curve, it will look like this. And you understand that between swing trading, day trading, or

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scalping, an economic announcement is completely different and will have a completely different impact. And that is why in scalping, if you don't pay attention to economic announcements, you're doomed. You'll get kicked out of the markets immediately. You must check

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the economic calendar every day and hope that an, let's say, unforeseen economic announcement doesn't drop.

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Because yes, we talk about economic announcements on an economic calendar, for example, the TradingView, FinancialJuice, Myfxbook economic calendars, etc. But there are also economic announcements, whether it's, for example, Trump's tweets, presidential announcements, or natural disasters that are unforeseen. But if

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you are in a position here in scalping, nobody can predict a tsunami, and you can get stopped out of your position simply because you couldn't do anything about it. The economic impact is too powerful and too impactful on a 1-

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minute timeframe. The economic news did nothing here in swing trading, for example, on a 4-hour chart. And so, besides adding complexity to the method , because it's very difficult to apply, let's say, scalping and stick to your edge as we saw earlier, you're also

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adding unforeseen events that will really impact your opportunity. Unforeseen economic announcements and economic announcements in general are unmanageable in scalping. And that is something you must understand, and that is why we go back here to the comparison table. The impact today and

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the sensitivity to economic announcements will be very low in swing trading, or even potentially absorbed entirely. Then high in day trading and very high in scalping. And understand that all the metrics I just gave you are truly game-changers for deciding

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the trading style you will use as a professional trader for your trading career. Next, the number of decisions: low for a swing trader, medium for a day trader, and very high for a scalper . Next, emotional burden; I won't talk

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about that because it depends on the profile. Some people will really prefer scalping over day trading, and prefer day trading over swing trading.

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Emotional burden is truly, let's say, unique and it's something that isn't mathematical, which we cannot filter like everything I mentioned previously.

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So that is something that will remain neutral, and I will not rate it as moderate, high, or very high. Generally , it depends on the profile, and to remain neutral and not invent a statistic, well, generally we won't

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count that. Next, the ease of journaling, trading journaling. It will be very easy in swing trading, moderately easy in day trading, and it will be relatively very difficult in scalping to fully document your trading journal. So why is that? Because if we

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look here at my trading journal and I click on trade, okay? So here, we are on a swing trading strategy with a fairly low number of positions compared to a day trading or even a scalping strategy. Which means that when I take

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a position, for example here, a position on AUD JPY, the time it takes to enter, let's say, all my information , meaning filling out the journal, direction, closing, opening, timeframe, fees, and all the metrics of the trade I took, entering the charts of my

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opportunity, journaling the whole trade , like for example trade management and the progress of the trade until it closes. Well, it's simply going to take much more time when you have many more trades, and obviously less time when

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you have fewer trades. And remember, regarding this previous diagram, the more time you inject into trading, the lower you fall on the profitability scale of a truly high-performing trader , who compares himself to the S&P 500, which requires zero time. And so that

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is another penalty to add. Another penalty that will require your time, unlike a swing trader who, once again, will take 5 or 6 positions per month, where journaling will be very easy. But if you take 30, 35, 40 positions per

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month and you do your journaling, it will take an enormous amount of time. And of course, there are people who will tell me, "Well, I don't do my journaling.""If you don't do your journaling, once again, you won't be

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able to collect the data and information that will allow you to optimize your trading." And there, you do as you please. But once again, my goal as an instructor who wants to have a maximum impact on people who are

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training in trading today, if you don't want to become a professional trader and do things correctly, I don't care.

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Okay, you do whatever you want. But if you want a rational, mathematical choice once again, and to use the simplest and fastest method—the one that requires the least time to win in the financial markets—you'll understand that, because of keeping a

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trading journal, it's 100 times easier in swing trading. Next, let's talk about technical requirements. We aren't talking about the method here, because you can have very easy methods in scalping. When we talk about technical requirements, we're talking about the

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speed at which the candle appears and therefore the speed at which you must make a decision. OK? And that's why we generally rated it low as we saw earlier for swing trading, medium for day trading, and very high. So it is

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very difficult, as we saw earlier, simply to react and think quickly in scalping. And then, regarding compatibility with a schedule, we put excellent for swing trading, very low for day trading—which is for me the worst style of trading today in the

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markets—and for scalping, which can be relatively interesting if, of course , you have a session of one hour to an hour and a half a day and you schedule it well, and you can really have interesting trading if you are

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experienced. And time, we talked about it, but estimated time for a proper swing trader, especially with the method that will be taught in this video: 3 to 5 hours, day traders: 20 to 35 hours, and 10 to 20 hours for a

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scalper. Well, now that we've finished the comparison and the theoretical part , and honestly, it was truly indispensable. If today, once again, you want to make trading, swing trading your profession, now we're going to see how I apply my swing trading on a daily

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basis and we'll start by outlining what my trading strategy looks like. So today, you should know that I have two trading strategies. OK? We are going to separate them into two. We will name the first one, which is really called

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like this: IVC, Index Volume Candlestick. We will focus first on the diagram and here we will call it double structure. OK? So these are two different methods applicable to two different types of assets. Here, the IVC is about looking for directional

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assets. So for example, company stocks or gold when it was only going up in that manner, to then wait for a consolidation. So, once again, looking at an uptrend, let’s map out a zone that psychologically blocks buyers and

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simply tells them, "Okay, the price can't move higher anymore," so we’ll accumulate buy orders whether it's here , here, or here, to wait for what?

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Simply for a breakout with a nice candle, like this one here, to then go and ride the underlying trend of the asset in question. So, for example, if the asset in question looks like this in the long term, this pattern allows

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us to enter somewhere here during a stagnation phase to then ride the movement that the market will present to us. So, this is a very good strategy for entering in the direction of the market. So, a market that is moving in

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an upward trend. We will enter with a consolidation structure where buyers take a break and where, potentially for a few moments, we will have a certain balance. But from here on, the buyers take back control. Why? Because here,

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the candle closes above, and the sellers—positioned potentially in this way, this way, or this way—who wanted to push the price down and had placed their stop losses here, have their orders closed because the market and the buyer dominance return. And so,

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inevitably, we have a buyer-seller balance that is much higher for the buyers, and therefore a much higher probability, 70%plus, to look for buy positions, and we enter the position here. This is the first model and the strategy I use in the markets, which is

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called "Volume Candlestick Index," which was to look for a directional asset, for example like Gold in 2024-2025, to zoom in on lower timeframes, look for a consolidation pattern, and enter at the best moment to then ride the underlying trend. OK?

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So, that is the first pattern that we will see right after this. I'm just presenting the two patterns that I use in the markets today. Now for the second pattern, which is what I call the double structure strategy. Of

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course, I will teach you how to apply them to the markets, how to manage your watchlist, and so on. The second method , the pattern is very simple: it's to look at the Forex market because it is a market where there are a huge number

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of ranging markets. And to do that, we will go to TradingView to simply show you the two different entities of my two strategies. For example, here we are on the GBP AUD, so the British Pound against the Australian Dollar. We

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can see that here since 2014, the market has just been evolving and stagnating. So, in other words, in a range, OK? The market only produces highs and lows and simply alternates between two very specific zones in this way, but is generally not directional.

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OK? Still a range. Whereas, for example , if we go now to a chart like Apple, well, we can simply see that over the same timeframe, the market has only been trending upward. And so with IVC, the first model I introduced to you, we

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will only look for buy positions with this strategy because the directional asset only goes up. We are now going back to the whiteboard. And the first pattern to look for, generally at market highs: we will map out an

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uptrend, then look for a consolidation, map the consolidation, wait for a bearish candle like this, and ride the market reversal. Because, as we said, the Forex market generally oscillates between up and down; it has no defined trend. And so our goal is to look for

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the end of a trend that was signaled as bullish, identify it with a consolidation, and enter a position where the market is no longer bullish.

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Why? Because we will simply have had a lower low than the previous one, and thus a reversal of the bullish Dow theory that will turn bearish to ride the market reversal. Conversely, once again, don't forget that the Forex

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market ranges in this way. So generally , it's in this type of zone that we look for this kind of movement. But conversely, we can also look for movements in the lower zone, that is to say, a market that is trending downward

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in this way. Consolidation, we map the consolidation, we wait for a bullish candle. The reversal of the bearish Dow theory becoming bullish. We take a position here and we ride the upward movement with, of course, a previous bearish trend. Those are the two

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patterns of my strategy, which I call the double structure strategy. Double structure, why? Because the first structure is a trend, marked here, and the second structure will always be a consolidation that marks the end of the trend, and generally, if we draw here,

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we speak of a breakout. OK? The consolidation opens the bearish trend and we are now heading, with confirmation from a candle of course, toward a new trend. In other words, a market reversal. And it's the same here , we had an uptrend broken by the

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consolidation. We have a candle closing here and we want to look for, and we are looking for, a market reversal. So there you have it, the two models I apply to financial markets today. On the right, the IVC, Index Volume

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Candlestick, which can be used for stocks and indices, and the double structure strategy, which is generally applicable to the Forex market. And now that the theoretical framework is understood and you've really grasped the fundamental part of swing trading

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regarding fees, slippage, economic announcements, and all the mechanisms that compare the different methods, as well as the model of the diagrams I presented to you. I am going to do something I have never done before. I will share my personal space with you

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while I use my trading methods, so we'll meet directly at my place, where I will apply my trading methods, show you how I manage my watchlists, how I manage my alerts, how I fill out a trading journal, and the entire

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practical setup of the two methods I've presented to you. We will meet directly during one of my trading weeks so you can understand in even greater detail how I apply my methods from A to Z and how you, after this video, could apply

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them while respecting their edge, never making any mistakes again, and above all, why swing trading is the method you will use at the end of this video after seeing me use these methods.

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Right, we are now in my personal space, and we are going to look at organization and how to manage your watchlist. Firstly, with the double structure strategy. Here on TradingView , in the right sidebar, I invite you to

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create your own watchlist and call it " double structure." Of course, I advise you to have a watchlist for each strategy you intend to apply to the markets. Then, once that's done, you simply divide this same watchlist into

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subsections. So, how do you create sections? It's very simple. You click here and you add a section. There, a section will be created, and then you can rename them. Personally, for the strategy, I chose one that I'll call "

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take profit," one I'll name "ongoing,"" invalidation,""watch,""construction," and then to sort all my opportunities, I'll divide them into each of the currencies present as base pairs. So for example, GBP currency, GBPJPY, GBPUSD, GBPCHF, GBPAUD, GBPNZD. And this applies to all market assets, so

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naturally the assets that fit the strategy. Next, what is the role of each sub-section I have created? Here, "Take Profit" is for when an opportunity is finished. That means I have made a profit on it, whether it's a full TP or simply an opportunity that

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has closed. For example here on NZD/USD , which we saw in the previous video, with a 5.71 ratio, I know I hit a take profit. So I will place this currency pair here, and when I go to fill out my

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trading journal, I will use this box to fill it out directly. This simply avoids having to look for which pair I made a profit on, or which opportunity closed, and which asset I need to enter into my trading journal. Of course, we

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will see later how to fill out your trading journal using the "Take Profit" category. Next, "In Progress" is, well, for positions currently running. For example, right now I have a position open on Eurocad, the Euro against the Canadian Dollar. So, this is a position

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entry that was made this way on this candle. On the 2-hour timeframe, where each candle represents 2 hours, and the opportunity has been managed. We are still in the position, so it is still active. And so, when a trade is in

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progress, to see if I need to perform any trade management, I simply know that I currently have only one opportunity running. So, I only need to monitor one position. OK, so it is the only position that will require me to

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monitor it or set alerts, as we will see right after in my category and my watchlist. Next, we have the " Invalidation" panel. What is " Invalidation"? It is very simple. So, let's imagine I have an opportunity here. We are on USD/JPY. I had

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correctly identified my first structure . I had correctly identified my second structure, which was schematized by a consolidation with highs at the same level and lows at the same level.

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However, when entering the position, I did not get the ratio I was expecting. OK, with the double structure, we expect 2.5. Here, if I place my TP exactly this way, where we should place the TP for this trading methodology,

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well, we would have simply had a ratio of 1.57, which does not fit the strategy. Since it doesn't match the strategy, even though I waited for the opportunity to trigger, I'm simply going to mark it as invalid. I wasn't

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able to take the position, but that's okay. The scenario is invalidated. The scenario where I expected a 2.5 ratio at entry turned into a 1.57. So I'm placing it in the invalidation category . Next, we'll have the watchlist

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section. So the watchlist is, as the name suggests, a subsection where I wait for the opportunity to trigger. I already have my two structures: my first bullish structure that outlines the first part of the double structure, and the second structure which is

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outlined by a consolidation. So what am I going to do here? Of course, I'm going to do this chronologically. I'll set an alert, but we'll see that in the A to Z analysis part. This is just to explain how I separated and organized

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my subsections. And so, as soon as I have two validated structures, as soon as I have two structures that validate my strategy but I don't have the confirmations yet, it goes straight to the watchlist. Next, we'll get to the

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construction part. Construction, as we'll see in the A to Z analysis part, is when I detect a potential opportunity that hasn't yet validated its two structures. For example, I detect a trend line here to here, but I don't have a second structure yet, so I

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can place the opportunity in construction. I know that, potentially, the first structure has been respected.

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Now, I'm waiting for the creation of a second structure. So it's under construction, and I don't have the opportunity or the asset in the watchlist yet because it simply doesn't have two validated structures. And to finish, as I said before, here is the

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list to organize myself and know which currency pair is where in relation to the main currency. Okay? So that was how I organize my watchlist with the double structure strategy. Of course, you can apply this to any trading

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strategy. Either way, it needs to be as simple and fast as possible for you.

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There's no point in making something too complicated if it takes more time. There's no point in doing something sloppy and half-baked if you miss your opportunities and have to double-check every time. "Okay, I can't find the trade where I took profit, I don't

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remember which one it was." Well, it's not a big deal, I just won't put it in my trading journal. No, you need to be organized, and we'll see that. So, of course, how do I go about a full

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end-to-end analysis? Right, now we're going to move on to the end-to-end analysis of this strategy. How do I do it? Currently, let's imagine it's the weekend because, yes, this strategy— and I recommend it—operates on the weekend, or rather you analyze on the

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weekend, Saturday or Sunday, whichever fits your schedule. And you also have the option to add a session on Wednesday to update or simply modify certain psychological price zones on the markets if the market shows they are no longer active or just need

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adjustment. But we'll see all that in the course of the end-to-end analysis. Now, I already have opportunities to enter into the trading journal, etc., but let's imagine you are starting from scratch with this strategy. So, what am I going to do? Simply, before showing

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you the end-to-end analysis, we'll head over to the trading journal. So this is the double structure strategy, the one I'm going to show you and the analyses I'm going to produce. It’s a strategy that contains 626 trades, a max

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drawdown of 12.9, and a risk-reward ratio. And if you had practiced it and applied it to the markets while 100% respecting the backtest, you would have made money from 2020 to 2026. So, a very good strategy for 6 years, a good

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strategy to apply to the markets if you are ready to apply it from A to Z and respect all the trades and especially the trading plan. But how do you perform these analyses as quickly as possible while still 100%respecting the

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strategy to get the advantage it provided in the past? To do this, we'll start directly with a watchlist. I always start from the bottom. Okay?

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First point and first tip. I always delete all my drawings. That way, I return to a neutral state on the charts . I know I won't be influenced by a zone I drew in the past or anything like that. I start with a blank chart.

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Next, I always start with the 30-minute timeframe. Why? Because in the backtest we see here, across all the recorded trades, the timeframe with the most trades—the one that provides the most profit simply because there’s a much larger sample size—is the 30-minute

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timeframe. So, if you analyze your chart and you have a choice between the same opportunity on a 30-minute timeframe versus, say, a 3 or 4-hour one, you'll simply choose the 30-minute timeframe. Why? Because there are simply many more samples on that

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timeframe, so we will always favor it at the start of our analysis. So, no matter how you start, you begin directly with the 30-minute timeframe and then you analyze your charts. So, do I see an opportunity here? What am I

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going to do? I will do this very pedagogically at first, and then I will pick up the pace so you can really see how we analyze these opportunities with this type of strategy. So here, I clearly detect an oblique resistance

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that could potentially mark a first structure. Do I then detect a second structure? The answer is no. It's way too weak here. I might place a psychological zone here that groups market impacts as support. But we don't have a second structure marking a

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consolidation or a reversal pattern like an inverted head and shoulders. Okay, so is it worth trading? The answer is no. So, I clear the charts and move up in timeframe until I potentially find an opportunity. Once again, it is possible—and it happens

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often, we will discuss the rotation of the strategy of course—that an asset offers no opportunity. And as you can see, I just went from 30 minutes up to 4 hours and found no structure. Of course, with experience, it will be

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much easier than at the start. At the beginning, you will always be searching and looking at all timeframes, but after a while, with experience, you will have the eye and visual instinct to know if it fits the strategy or not.

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Next, Euro/CHF, 30 minutes here. Okay, I see something potentially more interesting. I'll take my trendline this way. Okay, I'll draw my support that maintains the uptrend and marks the first structure with higher highs and higher lows. Okay. Next, do I have

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a psychological zone marking a market consolidation? The answer is yes. Did the market present a trend here? Not really. The market has been ranging for quite a long time now. August 3, 2026.

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To August 6, 2026. So okay, this is an opportunity where both structures are identified. We have a first structure that marks the bullish trend with higher highs and higher lows, therefore a bullish Dow theory. And from here, we

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have a break, first of the trend line, but also of the Dow theory because we are no longer producing higher highs, but highs at almost the same level and lows at almost the same level. OK? So we are entering a consolidation and

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that is what we are looking for for our second structure. So the first question to ask yourself is, do we put the Euro/ CHF in "under construction" or "on watch"? As I said earlier, if you have detected your two structures for the

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double structure strategy, you put it on watch. If, on the other hand, I only had one structure, such as the diagonal support or diagonal resistance, well, it simply goes into "under construction ." So what am I going to do here?

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Simply, what is left for me to do? When on watch, you will perform a complete analysis. When under construction, no?

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And we will see that just after. So when I speak of a complete analysis, it means checking that all psychological zones and all the zones we see on the charts have been placed to help with future trade management. What is trade

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management? It is when the opportunity triggers, you will use the zones you have drawn to simply have better exits and better trade management. Let me explain. If here, for example, we see a market bouncing off a psychological zone multiple times, simply what are we

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going to tell ourselves? It's that the zone worked in the past, it will also work in the future. And if we see a reversal pattern occurring at this psychological zone, we could ask ourselves: "OK, should I do some trade

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management? Should I move my stop loss to adapt my risk and reduce it if the opportunity reverses?" That is what psychological zones are for. It prevents the market from evolving blindly where you see a pattern and say , "Oh yeah, OK, I'm afraid the market

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will reverse." No, here you will act only based on the psychological zones and you will use them. So after drawing the psychological zones, I like to map it out to be sure, let's say, of the higher highs for trend number one, well

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, structure number one. And then also for the consolidation, to notice that I do indeed have highs and lows at almost the same level. OK? So that is just a habit. What are we going to do? No, when something is on watch, "watch"

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means watch, but we aren't going to look at these charts every hour just waiting for the opportunity to validate . So what are we going to do? Simply put, we are going to place an alert at the spot where the trade would

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potentially be interesting. Personally, if you have the TradingView Pro plan, meaning with enough alerts, I always invite you to place two alerts. One alert below the psychological zone, to be triggered the moment the opportunity becomes interesting. Right-click, add

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an alert on EuroCHF. Okay, create. Here , I have an alert. If the market triggers the alert this way, I will be notified directly on my phone or by email. And to do that, I invite you to click here on notifications to choose

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how you want to receive your alert. Whether by email, by message, or app notification, depending on what you want and where you are sure not to miss the alert. So that is my first alert.

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For my second alert, if I still want to monitor my opportunity, I will place it here. So why on the return to the psychological zone? Why? Simply to update this opportunity and see if it is still valid. Meaning, if for example

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the opportunity arrives this way, I am triggered by the alert, I receive the alert, and then the market closes and triggers the second alert. Well, I would have had two notifications. Do I tell myself, visually, is the opportunity tradable? The answer is no.

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And that is why I generally like to place several alerts to be sure. Why?

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Because I know from experience: if I place my short position here, to sell the market, and I place my take profit where I need to, at the start of the creation of the bullish structure, and I place my stop loss where it is

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invalid, above the high, well, simply put, I won't have a good ratio. I would have a ratio of 1.15 instead of having a minimum ratio of 2.5. So the market comes back this way and, for example, closes here; well, what am I going to

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do? I am going to place my short position here. I will reset my short position this way. This time, the moving average will be much lower. So I don't have the estimate, but it should be something like this. You can place

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your stop loss above the moving average , above the high point, and then look for an interesting ratio. For example, here 414. And so, this is something you will need to integrate for the double structure strategy; if your ratio isn't

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good, I strongly advise you to set alerts on your psychological zones to prepare for a pullback. Without that pullback, the opportunities won't be good due to a poor risk-reward ratio.

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Okay? So these are scenarios you might encounter; of course, I won't do it for every opportunity. You need to understand that there are two ways to do this. Either the first way is to take a position directly when the

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psychological zone is broken, provided you have a good stop loss that gives you 2.5 plus. If you can enter there, that's great. Otherwise, you will have to wait for a pullback. These are the only two alternatives in a double

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structure, and there is no third option . Okay? So this is an opportunity ready to be analyzed, ready for an interesting trade entry. And don't forget to always place the most important round numbers. Here on the chart, it will be 0.93000, which is a

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round number that can potentially serve as support or resistance, functioning just like a psychological zone. Okay?

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If the market bounces off it and potentially creates a consolidation this way, you will use it for trade management and potentially place your stop loss here to be protected by the psychological zone and the range resistance. So, that's an opportunity

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we'll put on our watchlist. We'll leave a little tag here and then move on to the next one. We are now arriving at Euro GBP, so the euro against the British pound. Okay, so right here I have my first answer. I have a trend

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line to draw here. Okay, I'm going to sketch it out this way. And as I said earlier, since I don't have a second structure yet, where am I going to place this? I'm going to place this directly into construction. Okay?

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Because I don't have my two structures yet. I only have one structure. Of course, I want to say this straight away: not all pairs or assets you place in construction should be annotated.

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It's a waste of time because if the market continues to move upward on its trendline support like this, well, you've simply drawn scenarios for nothing. You've drawn your psychological zones for nothing. The goal in the construction section is to

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draw as few things as possible to save as much time as possible. And from the moment you start, like here with Euro-CHF, to place your alerts, place your psychological zones, place your take profits, etc., it will only be

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when the second structure is valid. OK? As long as the second structure is not valid, you must not annotate your charts. So, of course, you draw the trend line to mark the first structure, but you do nothing else. So here, we're

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going to leave it in construction. Next , Euro USD. So, do I have something here on the 30-minute? Okay, I will draw it. Okay, not great. I'll move up here to 90 minutes. Pro tip. From the moment you work with the strategy long

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enough, you will skip timeframes. Meaning, for example here on this opportunity, I won't go through 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 90 minutes, 1 hour . No, I know that between 30 minutes and 45 minutes, I'll have more or less

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the same setup. I don't have to check every timeframe to look for a setup.

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For example, you can do 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours and you'll have all three , it will be, let's say, enough to look for an entry. Here, for example, on Euro USD, I detect one on the 4-hour.

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So, I will place my trend line. If the trend line is like this, well, it's not really interesting because you aren't connecting many high points and it's not really the true structure and you can't find a real trend line. So, we

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will remove this side. We'll look only at this one and OK, here we have something consistent. Don't forget, it's not a big deal to sacrifice a little risk-reward ratio because yes, if the line started here, well, you could simply have a higher take profit.

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But in any case, what we want is the best trend line to have the highest probability. So the trend line is good.

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Do I have a second structure? The answer is yes. Here, I drew a psychological zone this way. We definitely have a very nice consolidation. Could we have entered a position here? We'll see together. So, this is a missed opportunity because I

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didn't do my analyses on all the pairs to leave some pairs free for this video . But so what would I have done simply here? Could we have taken the position?

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So let's see if it's possible or not. Long position here. OK, we'll place the stop loss below a low point. The low point is here. The TP is as we saw at the start of the trend. And here, we

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would have had a ratio of 1.37. Is that good? The answer is no. So what are we going to do? We'll wait for a pullback.

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As I said earlier, what is a pullback? It's when the market returns to the psychological zone and impulses. Is it good here? The answer is no. Because the market doesn't really engulf the previous one. We don't have an

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engulfing pattern; we don't have a very strong buy signal. And this candle here isn't a bullish candle either. Now you might say to me, "Yes, but the candle is green." But if the body here is smaller in size than the wick, the wick

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represents the sellers. So the sellers are stronger than the buyers even though the candle is green. So, is this an opportunity I could have taken? The answer is no. So that's interesting. OK . Invalidation because it's not good.

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So I'll place it in invalidation. I generally use invalidation when I was waiting for a setup and I need to delete the chart to put it back in the list later. And so I'm going to do it in front of you. It was just to show

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you the process. OK. Well, not a tradable opportunity. I delete the chart and I directly put Euro USD back into the Euro currency section. OK?

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This way, when I come back to it, I'll have a neutral vision again, and if a setup appears for example in 30 minutes , then I will be neutral and I will have deleted all my old charts so as

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not to be influenced by what I worked on and drew just before. Next, we arrive at Gold. So 30 minutes. OK. Do I have an opportunity? There is no trend line here. I'll switch to 1 hour, I'll switch to 4 hours. OK, on the 4-hour, I

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have a good opportunity on the double structure. I will outline this resistance which is really visible and really relevant. We can see it's very clear. Next, for the second structure, it will be something like this. So a psychological zone that will mark the

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consolidation. Consolidation with support always at the same level. So exactly at 3965. A psychological zone like this. Could we have taken a position here? The answer is a long position, I place it here, stop loss below the low point, take profit here,

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and I have a ratio of 2.09. Does this fit the strategy? The answer is no. So, what am I going to do? You can still do it. Wait for a pullback. So, I will put this on my watchlist because there is

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still a possibility to enter while respecting the strategy. However, that's not the case yet. So I will put this on the watchlist. I'll add a label , and what am I going to do? As I said before, right-click, add an alert here,

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and in any case, if the market keeps moving up and leaves without me, I don't care because it wouldn't have respected the strategy anyway. On the other hand, if the market comes back here, I will be notified. OK, very

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interesting. And if the market does that, well, I can take a buy position, put a stop loss here, and naturally, if we run the simulation, I would potentially have, let's say, a fairly interesting ratio to go for a buy in

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the markets. Here 3.7, so much more than 2.5. So, very interesting. That is the scenario. If you are a beginner, I advise you to create scenarios like this so that when the market validates one of your zones or one of your

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scenarios, well, you are simply ready. OK? You are ready to act and you know what you need to do. So we are going to do it together here, and I invite you if you are a beginner. OK? You wait for

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this kind of thing, and don't forget that when you are monitoring, don't hesitate to refine the chart, that is to say, OK, verify that you have a bearish or bullish theory depending on the direction. Take your psychological zone, duplicate it, put it on your take

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profit to simply have a long position that is directly well-placed. OK? Look for psychological zones. OK? This one is a zone that worked well in the past.

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I will draw it, and if the market uses it in the future, well, I will simply do trade management with it. OK, I have a very good one here as well. One impact, two impacts, three impacts. I will pull it over to here. OK, I'm just

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going to hide this indicator so it's much more readable. There we go. And here, there you go, I have a prepared opportunity. I have my plan. I know I will wait for a pullback because I cannot take the position since the

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ratio wasn't good. And this remains an interesting opportunity. I will of course pay attention to the round numbers. So now they are in bold on the chart, we see 4006, 4008 and 4000. 4000 , we don't care, it's in the past. 4002

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will serve as support if we come to look for a pullback. It will be more about watching 4004 or 4006. There you go, opportunity prepared. Exo USD and we continue. So, here we are on the NZDCAD. I am going to take my trend

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line this way. I am going to draw it. OK, it's not really interesting. OK, it's potentially interesting. We will check in any case, we verify. OK, it's not really what we expected. We don't really have a consolidation pattern.

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The market was moving rather upwards this way. It's not really an interesting opportunity in 30 minutes.

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So what am I going to do? I am going up to 1 hour. OK. Do I have anything? No.

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Do I have anything in 4 hours? Uh, the answer is no. OK. I might have a trend line here but it's not well-developed yet. We had a trend line here but it was broken, so it's not interesting.

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Moving on to NZDCHF. Always start with 30 minutes, don't forget. OK. So do I have an opportunity here? I seem to see one. We will see if it validates. So here I potentially have a trend line with Don't forget that a trend line is

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always a zone. I draw a trend line, but it is generally a zone this way. OK. Do I have an interesting price zone? The answer is yes. I have an interesting price zone. However, this is something you must understand. So here you might

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say, "Yes, but the trend is relatively close to the structure." Well, at least the second structure is huge compared to the first, there is no problem. In any case, what will interest us is rather the risk-reward ratio. The only

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problem with this type of scenario is that the risk-reward ratio is usually too low to be taken. OK? So for example , since there are already two structures, we can start drawing. Don't forget that if you only have one trend

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line, you don't draw. You only draw when there are two structures. So OK. And here, we will have to wait for, let's say, a unique scenario. If that unique scenario doesn't happen, the opportunity cannot be taken. So let's

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imagine taking a position here at TP. So the market absolutely needs to do this. So either a pullback, and you could potentially have an interesting ratio with a moving average. There, a scenario like that is needed to get 2.5

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. Or another likely scenario that could happen is that the market comes back. Shows a new high, closes here. So what do you do? You place your entry here, your stop loss above the high point there, and you have a 2.8 ratio. But

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the market will have to respect a perfect scenario to get a good ratio. Of course, with experience, you will have the visual eye for it. I know that when you have a large structure as a second structure and it's very close to

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your take profit, you know that this is the kind of opportunity where you'll have a fifty-fifty chance of being able to take the position because generally the ratio will be too short. That’s fine, it respects the strategy. So

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since we clearly have the two structures, we’ll place this on our watchlist. And if there is a if you have any doubt, well, I advise you once again to prepare a scenario like the scenario that could happen, which would

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be valid. OK? So for example, this way, which is the most likely to happen. OK?

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And that way, when you reach your opportunity, you already know what you're waiting for. You already know what you are prepared to do and what you won't do if the ratio isn't good.

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OK? I am outlining my Dow Theory structure. I have higher highs and higher lows. I have a consolidation.

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The market is at exactly the same price as it was on July 31st, 2026. We are here on August 6th, 2026. So it is still a valid opportunity, and I will leave it on my watchlist, of course, as

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usual, an alert here to be notified of the bounce off the psychological zone, and an alert here for the break of the psychological zone. I save the chart. I don't forget to check if I have any psychological zones to draw for my

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trade management. The answer is yes. One impact, two impacts, three, four, five. We can even stretch it here to get more. There is a psychological zone that will be useful for our trade management. Opportunity validated. I'm checking if everything is OK. I’m

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staying here. There we go. So, I have three watchlists with three different scenarios. First, NZDCHF on the 30- minute timeframe. Next, I have the XO representing gold on the 4-hour chart, with an opportunity where we're waiting for a pullback. If the pullback doesn't

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happen, we don't enter the market. Then we have EuroCHF on the 30-minute timeframe with exactly the same thing.

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So there you go, those are the three opportunities we'll be monitoring. Of course, I won't do all the analysis in front of you. I'll just do them off-camera and we'll meet up again once I've finished all the analysis to show

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you, of course, how to manage these positions along the way. But before that, I really wanted to remind you of the importance of alerts because they will totally define how much time you spend on the charts, how much time you

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spend trading the markets with your strategy. And we were able to see in this video that the time factor was really, really interesting. And the more intelligently you place alerts in specific spots, the less time you'll spend behind your charts waiting for

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certain confirmations. So don't forget that on the scale I showed you, the more time you invest, the less profitable you will be in terms of the ratio of time invested to gains generated. And so what are you going to

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do? You'll try to limit the time invested in the markets as much as possible with alerts, which is why a substantial TradingView plan is generally very interesting for balancing and achieving a great ratio of time invested versus money earned in

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the markets. And that's why today, I often repeat it to my students, there is great importance placed on the various alerts you set on your trading chart, and I want to remind you of that , always in relation to time. With this

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method, you analyze either on Saturday or Sunday. And if, for example, you didn't have enough opportunities and just want to update your opportunities, you can do another 30-minute analysis session on Wednesday, but generally, it's either Saturday, Sunday, or

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Wednesday. There, I've finished sorting through all the opportunities for the dual structure strategy. We currently have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 positions on the watchlist and let's say three opportunities in development.

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And we're going to take a quick look. We have NZDUSD on the 45-minute timeframe. So I've placed the alert below the psychological zone and also on the psychological zone. Next, we have NZDJPY. It's the same thing here, right-click, add alert. I'm checking

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that everything is okay. My psychological zones are well configured . Moving on to GBPCAD. Okay. Same here, I received an alert a few minutes ago because the market returned to the psychological zone. So it validated one of my confirmations. And now, I'm going

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to place an alert here to simply validate the pullback. I would like to have a market that consolidates a minimum to then close lower, take a position, put a stop loss above the moving average, above the psychological zone. Okay? So GBPCAD, then GBPCHF.

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Here, it will be a much higher timeframe. We will generally be on a 3- hour chart. The alerts are well placed.

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We will have AUD CHF with the alerts well placed as well on a 3-hour chart.

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We will have NZD CHF this time on a much lower timeframe as we saw earlier.

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So this time 30 minutes with the alerts placed and the scenarios. We will see Gold which is on a 4-hour chart with still the same scenario and still the same alert placed. We will have Euro CHF which will be on 30 minutes in this

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way with the alerts placed and to finish CAD CHF which is an opportunity detected here on a 3-hour chart for which I will therefore add an alert here below and an alert on the psychological zone to be notified. So

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before continuing and before moving on to the follow-up and execution of positions to simply show you how we operate, this represents only 15%of the practice on the double structure strategy, that is to say, doing the analyses. Afterwards, it will be

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opportunity monitoring, alert management, and execution. But otherwise, you have really done a large part, 3/4 of the strategy after having analyzed and sorted your pairs on this same strategy. But before continuing, I wanted to talk to you about what we

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call opportunity rotation on this same method. So, what is rotation? Rotation is simple, we will go here to NZD USD.

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So, I told you about an opportunity present here on a 30-minute chart. So, very interesting and which respects the strategy. However, if we zoom out here, we can see that recently, we had a very interesting opportunity, the one I

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showed you at the beginning of the video. Okay? The one with a ratio of 5.71. And that is something you must understand when I talk about rotation.

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I am talking about pause times, I am talking about strategy downtime. When you take a position here on an asset and you manage your opportunity to then exit with that same strategy, you might find yourself in a case where the asset

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you select is in a reconstruction phase , and that's normal. OK? Why? Because the market will never produce double structure patterns all the time.

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Sometimes it can happen, and notably on the NZD/USD, it looks very similar. Here, we had a trend line, a psychological zone, we could re-enter, but conversely here, we couldn't. If you see that you draw your trend line, there was no price zone to plot. And so

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during that time, you couldn't take a position. And generally, if we look closely at a pattern, if here for example, we hit the take profit and then potentially the market continues its drop, as long as it keeps dropping,

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we won't be able to take a position because we're waiting for a second structure. And that is what you need to understand. We call this rotation, the pause times between swing trading strategies. Where for example a day trader could potentially have a setup

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on the same asset every day. For us personally, it's the market that will decide. It's the market that will choose when it offers no opportunity and is in a recreation phase. And generally, that's what I call, or rather what we call, restoration. But

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if you have your first structure like this, then a psychological zone here, taking the position, it moves correctly . OK, TP, two choices. If the market continues its bullish trend, well, you are in a reconstruction phase. You wait

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for the market to then present a consolidation to potentially look for another opportunity like this. But you can also have the opposite case. As we saw on NZD/USD, the market creates a second structure directly, trend line, position taken. It can happen, but

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usually it happens once in 5. OK? It happens much less often than the market continuing to trend upward. And that is something you must understand, and it's normal today that you might have an opportunity on an asset and perhaps not

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have any opportunities on that same asset for a while. That is why in double structure, we work with several assets to always have a rotation and a fairly interesting trade frequency. And that is why we generally talk about

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trade frequency, and the average trade frequency for a strategy like the double structure will be 8 per month.

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So, eight opportunities on average per month, two per week, and one opportunity on average per day that we can find simply right here as I’m leaving it on the screen. Alright, now that you have all the keys and

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information to execute the same strategy as me, we’ve seen the analysis part, so now we’ll move on to the monitoring and execution part.

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Right, so we are back one day later, and today is Friday, August 7th. We are back on the GBPCAD where we simply prepared a scenario where we were waiting for the market to pullback, to react at the psychological zone to use

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it as resistance and then take a position to get a good ratio. However, the market simply broke through our zone. So, invalid. And what do you do in those moments? If the market has truly invalidated the setup and

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there’s nothing left to do, well, you simply abort the opportunity. But if you have the possibility to lower the psychological zone to make it match one of your supports, with at least two or three impacts, you can. Here, we can

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see that on this timeframe, the second structure is starting to be quite significant. I can simply go up to a higher timeframe. So here for example, we’ll switch to 45 minutes like this, and we have a much clearer setup in

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terms of information, and we see a second structure that perfectly respects the structure we're looking for. We clearly have several impacts here on our psychological zone. We have a close that will normally finish; we’ll see it in 1 minute and 10

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seconds. And so for the execution part, what are we going to do? We’ll go to Metatrader 5, then go to the GBP CAD.

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Here, we’ll click on GBP CAD, right-click, chart window. We will then return to TradingView for the short position. So, to simply calculate the position size, we place the stop loss above the moving average and above the high. We are looking for a take profit

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at the start of the creation of the bearish trend, that is to say at 1.87179. The ratio is 2.92. It’s perfect, it perfectly respects the strategy. And now, all we have left to do is simply take the position. The

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candle is valid and so we will place a stop loss at 1.88780 and a take profit at 1.87179. There you go, in this way.

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Next, I return to TradingView. I see that the candle has just closed and I can take the position directly. So here , I will put 1%of my trading capital.

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It calculates my lot size automatically and I enter a sell position directly. There we go, the position is open, the stop loss is well placed, and now I'm going to explain the opportunity from A to Z because I simply had time to take

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the position, and with double structure —well, generally in all trading strategies—you need to be precise with your execution. So, as a reminder, we previously had a psychological zone that was broken. So the first solution if it's not possible is simply to abort

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the opportunity. We will see opportunities where the market simply doesn't give us the chance to do it.

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But if you can do it, you can take the price zone and adjust it to the market, meaning move it down or up. Once again, depending on whether you are buying or selling. In this case, we were simply

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able to move the opportunity down, but at a minimum, it must respect two to three impacts. So here, it's perfect.

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We have several impacts on this price zone. And what was also very interesting about this opportunity is that we had lower and lower highs, which allowed us to have a perfectly placed stop loss. And personally, if I'm hesitating about a high point, I

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click here on the line chart. OK, here I clearly have a high point, and it's perfect for seeing the difference between real high points and market noise. You switch to candles or you switch to a line chart, and we can see

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the high points directly. High point, high point, high point, high point, high point, high point. OK? Sometimes there is noise here; it's not really a high point, for example. Not here either. And the line chart will allow you to smooth things out and quickly

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see if the Dow theory is respected and, therefore, place your stop loss in a perfect spot. for your scenario. So the entry position is at 1.8376, we have a ratio of 2.92. If you risk 100 €, for example, you can go for 292 €. If, on

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the other hand, the market hits your stop loss, you lose 100 €, and if you risk 1000 €, you can gain up to 2920 €. This is what an execution on the double structure strategy should look like. I simply advise you, if you are

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often away from your charts, that when a candle closes—for example, if you are working on 30-minute or 45-minute timeframes—you should always have alerts set on your phone in the clock section. OK? I'm not talking about TradingView, meaning knowing when the

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candle will close and being in front of your screens, or behind your phone if you trade on mobile, to enter at the best possible moment. Here, we see a candle with enough space. Shifted away from the psychological zone. So we had

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a low lower than the previous ones. We have highs lower than the previous ones . Dow theory validated, stop loss above the high above the moving average, good entry, and we let the trade evolve.

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Next, we had an opportunity under surveillance on the NZDJPY. So, the market had closed above the psychological zone. However, the candle is way too close to the psychological zone. Meaning that, for example, if the market rebounded downward here, we can

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assume the same thing might happen here . The market did not close with a nice bullish or bearish candle. Well, in this case, bullish, to say we are well clear of the price zone. We were potentially waiting for something here

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to have a detachment upon closing from the psychological zone. Because I repeat it once again, the psychological zones on the markets that we will draw are utopian zones. We know that at these price levels, we will have interesting rejections, but the exact

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width is unknown. OK? It is the market participants who will create the upper extremity and the lower extremity. And that is why, generally, to protect yourself and be sure not to take a position within a psychological zone, which could be dramatic. Because if you

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take a position here for example, and in the end the psychological zone was a bit wider, and you take a position at the exact spot where there was resistance, well, you will simply get stopped out immediately. So, what do

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you do? You wait for a nice candle close. The market did not produce a nice candle close above this psychological zone. Simply, we wait.

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And in this case, we will adapt the zone because the market has shown us that the zone was actually a bit higher . We take the psychological zone if you like, we zoom in, and we will make it

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match the closes here like this. And then, I can draw my psychological zone again and see if it respects the second structure. And there, it's perfect. We can even draw a trendline here which will, of course, serve to place our

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stop loss in an interesting way. When I say interesting, what do I mean? It simply means you can place your entry here, so if the close is well-spaced as I said earlier, and a stop loss below the low point, meaning there and below

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the moving average. So that will make for a fairly short stop loss with an entry taken this way to aim for a ratio of 5.67 on this opportunity. You risk € 1,000 to earn € 5,600. That's huge. It's a very nice ratio for the

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double structure strategy. And so what am I going to do now? I will either set an alert or simply set an alarm on my phone to go off in 30 minutes to see if the candle will be interesting or not.

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It's one of the ways you prefer. Personally, I don't want to be paranoid about setting alerts and alarms on my phone. So, I will always place an alert here, for example, add an alert, and I will wait for the alert to trigger so I

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am notified. Next, yesterday, I talked to you about the construction subsection. So here, we are on EuroGP.

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I had drawn an oblique support and we can see that the market broke this oblique support without creating a second structure. So what do I do? I know already that this is a trade that won't be good and I can simply delete

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the chart and put the euro back in its respective currency. And you can do the same for all your constructions. So does this potentially invalidate it here? The answer is no because in reality the market could come here to

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create a second structure. So for example, consolidating in this way for an entry. OK, so it remains interesting and we can already potentially do what I've done, draw this same psychological zone. OK, we are waiting for one more

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impact to move it to monitoring. Here, GBP NZD. So now it's starting to be interesting. The market is starting to consolidate. It's starting to be an opportunity we will monitor and which is beginning to respect the psychological zone. The moving average

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is good, the structure is good, and I can place this currency pair in the watchlist that I will place here, and I'll change the label. Of course, in the meantime, I took a position, so that was Eurocad. I already took it

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before making this video, which I showed. So it's a position that was evolving perfectly. OK, we didn't get a reversal signal here, and I'll remind you that when I talked about trade management, you'll be doing probability-based trade management,

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meaning in relation to the market structure. What is the market structure here? It's about managing below the low points every time the market produces a low point. So we switch our chart to a line graph, and here we see a low point

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. So we were able to move our stop loss below the psychological zone. So, perfect. However, here, even if the market grazed its take profit and got close to it, the market didn't produce a reversal pattern, a consolidation

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pattern, or a new low. So, we weren't able to move our stop loss. And that means that here, we can see it when we switch back to candles. We got out this way, so it's not a big deal. We could

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have exited with more profit if we hadn't stuck to the trading plan, but we are professional traders. You are future professional traders and you must respect your plan. And so, if the market invalidates your stop loss and you exit even though you could have

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exited with more profit, it's not a problem. It's part of the plan, it's part of the strategy, and remember, the strategy was tested this way and you must replicate how the strategy was tested in the past to get results in

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the future. We're back a few hours later, and the market has just produced an economic announcement, so live. Here , we can see high volatility in the markets, but also on MetaTrader 5 as well. And as I was telling you in the

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fundamentals section, in the theory section, here in swing trading—let's say 30 minutes and up—you are protected, you are secure when you undergo an economic announcement. And actually, I'm glad there's an economic reaction during this demonstration to show you that, simply, when you place a

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stop loss on timeframes of 30 minutes and up, generally, and in the majority of cases, the stop loss will protect your opportunity from the power and volatility of the economic announcement . OK? And so don't forget that when you

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take a position, always do it to avoid mistakes—you click, so here we were in monitoring mode, and we moved to active, we are in a position. OK? And when it's finished, you set your take profit and then record it in your

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trading journal. For example, we're going to Eurocad now; we know it's closed, so we'll move it directly into the take profit section. And of course, I didn't mention it, but we've done the execution, the analysis, you've seen how to manage the different time slots,

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and especially, simply, how to manage symbols and the watchlist. But if you want to delve deeper into this strategy and see it across hundreds of available scenarios, you can click on my live broadcast channel; I've been using this

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method for many years live, and you can just immerse yourself in it, watch the various lives, and learn with them. Now , of course, there's way too much information to watch everything at once , but don't hesitate to just set

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yourself one replay per week to improve your methodology and especially your application of this same strategy. And to finish, we will look at the journaling part. So, it's simple, we'll head over to your trading journal. Next , you will click on trade. Then, you

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will click on add a trading position. So, for the position we saw close out on a stop loss in the live, well, a positive stop loss because we exited here thanks to trade management. The market had moved, and we used this

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psychological zone to move our stop loss just below it. So that was the entire setup. It was, of course, an opportunity here on the 90-minute chart as we can see right here. Simply put, what am I going to do? I'm going to

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fill out the trading journal in front of you, and you'll have to do the same for every opportunity. And that's why I also mentioned in the swing trading fundamentals that it only takes a few minutes because we simply don't have

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that many opportunities in a month, so you won't lose a lot of time. OK? So we are on Eurocad on the 90-minute chart.

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Here I will click on Eurocad. I will select the 90-minute timeframe. We have a closing date today, August 7th, confirm, and an opening on July 30th at 11:00 AM. There we go. Next, I was indeed long on this trading position. I

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risked 1%of the capital. I generated a risk-reward ratio, it's simple: I'll take the theoretical target and place it at the price where I exited, which is here. And so I generated a risk-reward ratio of 0.76. I go back to

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my trading journal and here I will enter 0.76. So if I risked € 1,000 here, I actually made € 760. Now, the only thing you're missing is simply to take a screenshot here at the top right ; so, copy the image and. You're going

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to close the position here, and you will right-click and then paste to have your position closing chart, and thus have the data to know, in the future, how to simply optimize the data you will collect. So, I have my image here,

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I've filled in all my data, and of course if you have custom fields like for example day and night, here we have a 2-day position. Structure 2, we had a consolidation. Did we have a pullback?

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The answer is yes. Did it take profit? We can't answer. It didn't touch or exceed it. The risk was 1%. Strategy compliance, yes. Detached structure. So the difference between a detached structure and a two-in-one for this strategy is very simple. A detached

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structure is a second structure here that develops after the breakout of the resistance. But if for example you have a downtrend like this and here a second structure, and it still evolves within the diagonal resistance, so the second

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structure evolves within this diagonal resistance. Then we simply call it a two-in-one structure. OK? So that is the difference between a detached structure and a two-in-one. And so what do we have? What are we facing? Simply a detached structure because here it is

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detached from the first structure. So we are going to click on detached structure. Structure 1 was a downtrend.

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If you track the underlying trend, it's very simple. You multiply the current timeframe by four. So you are on 90 minutes, on average, let's go to 4 hours. What is the trend on the 4-hour chart here? It is a neutral trend. So I

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will record it here. Neutral underlying trend. And you can see why. Because simply between here and here, the market did not produce higher highs, higher lows, or vice versa. It is really just a range. OK, so there you

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go, I've collected my custom fields and then I click on save. And then, once the data is collected, over hundreds of trades, you will have this kind of thing to know where you are most efficient and where you are simply the

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worst. Well, it's not you, rather your strategy. Okay, you're not bad; you just collected data to have data and potentially use it to optimize your information in the future. So, you now know how to log a trading strategy, how

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to manage your watchlists, your alerts, your structures, your trade management, and your execution using MetaTrader 5, as we've seen here. I think I've covered everything, and I wish you great success with this trading strategy. There you go, I hope this

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huge free course on swing trading has helped you better understand the methodology I've been applying for many years now. This method has allowed many traders I've mentored to make a lot of money in the financial markets, whether with their own capital or through prop

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firms like FTMO. Why this method is currently the most efficient, competitive in terms of swap, slippage, spread, impact of economic news, time spent on charts, and accessible to all types of profiles. Today, I think you've discovered a method that

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shouldn't be overlooked. A method that will allow you—and I guarantee it— to be competitive compared to the rest of the traders currently in the markets , and if you apply everything seen in this video, you have a real advantage

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in succeeding in the financial markets and finally becoming profitable after all these years or all the time wasted on various other methods. I hope you will follow this training from A to Z to the letter. Don't hesitate to watch

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it several times, and I wish you happy trading. Take care of your loved ones.

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Don't forget to comment and like this huge, high-value video. Thank you for participating, and I'll see you later.

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