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What's up, everybody? Welcome back. Today, we're going to be covering the GXT 4-hour profiling video.
Garrett explains GxT 4-hour profiling, focusing on swing formations, key levels, and trading expansion candles for effective reversal identification.
Key Takeaways
- C2 closure is the primary and easiest swing formation to identify reversals on the 4-hour chart.
- Expansion candles are crucial for confirming valid trade entries; avoid trading non-expansion candles.
- Key levels such as highs, lows, and fair value gaps are essential for anticipating reversals and expansions.
- Waiting for candle three closure can provide better confirmation when candle two does not show expansion.
- Using lower time frame swing points and session timing enhances the accuracy of reversal trades.
Summary
- Introduction to GxT 4-hour profiling and its importance for trading reversals.
- Explanation of swing formations, especially the C2 closure as the most common reversal type.
- Distinction between candle two (manipulation) and candle three (distribution) in swing points.
- Emphasis on trading expansion candles and waiting for candle three closure when candle two lacks expansion.
- Discussion on key levels, focusing on highs, lows, and fair value gaps to anticipate reversals.
- Use of lower time frame confirmations and swing points within candle wicks for better trade entries.
- Framework for framing daily highs and lows to identify valid swing formations and trade setups.
- Examples of internal to external range trades and order pairing ranges for practical application.
- Importance of session timing (Asia, London) and candle characteristics for confirming expansion and retracement.
- Summary of trading strategy focusing on 4-hour expansion candles away from key levels for consistent results.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to GxT 4-Hour Profiling
- 03:07Understanding Candle Two and Expansion
- 06:06Trading Candle Three and Key Levels
- 09:31Focus on Key Levels for Swing Formations
- 12:30Expecting Expansion and Daily Low Formation
- 15:38Order Pairing and External to Internal Range
- 18:40Trading 4-Hour Profiles and Expansion Candles
- 24:49Session Timing and Reversal Confirmation
- 29:53Summary of Swing Formations and Trading Strategy
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Highly anticipated, so I appreciate y'all's patience. I think this video will be an eye-opener for many.
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Highly anticipated, so I appreciate y'all's patience. I think this video will be an eye-opener for many.
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So, the first swing formation or reversal type is a C2 closure, right? This is the most common one, the easiest to identify. This is simply where you just wait for a C2 closure. A C2 closure is visibly shown by the failure to close
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We got a lot to cover, so let's get right into it. So, first thing we must understand is the different types of swing points, right? So, we're always confirming a reversal with a swing point. So, let's get into those different types.
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Now, this next one takes a little bit more experience. It's something I use every single day across all time frames.
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So, the first swing formation or reversal type is a C2 closure, right? This is the most common one, the easiest to identify. This is simply where you just wait for a C2 closure. A C2 closure is visibly shown by the failure to close
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So, the difference between this candle here and, you know, this swing point here. So, they're both candle twos, right?
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below the previous candle's low. As you see, this signifies a reversal and that we can trade the next candle higher, right? So, essentially, candle two is manipulation. Candle three is distribution.
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But essentially, since this candle does not support expansion, even if there's a key level here, we can't trade it as a candle two. You want to wait for that because we want to trade expansion candles, so since this candle doesn't
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Now, this next one takes a little bit more experience. It's something I use every single day across all time frames.
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Where we're opening near that low, so we already know it's likely to be taken out. So, when it does, right?
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It's essentially when candle one hits a key level, right? Or even candle two hits a key level. You have to hit a key level to even anticipate a reversal, right?
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that's the difference there. Now, this next one is simply where you don't have a candle two closure, you don't sweep with the previous candle's low. Um, so, you kind of wait for a candle three closure, right?
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So, the difference between this candle here and, you know, this swing point here. So, they're both candle twos, right?
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That would confirm a swing point. Shout out to T Trades for all these swing formations, by the way.
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This is a candle two. This is also a candle two, but what's the difference? It's the wick size. So, if you've seen my candle profiling video, you would understand this.
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Um, also the daily as well. But it's really specific to the 4-hour, this swing formation here. So, it's essentially this.
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But essentially, since this candle does not support expansion, even if there's a key level here, we can't trade it as a candle two. You want to wait for that because we want to trade expansion candles, so since this candle doesn't
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lower time frame there is. So, pretend this is the 4-hour time frame. And within this wick here, we always see trades through a key level, so we can anticipate a reversal.
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support expansion, given the large wick, the large displacement away from that opening price, you would simply wait for candle three to open to trade the expansion. This is a bit different.
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this low. Like I said, it's when there is a reversal within this candle's wick, or this candle's range, right? Whether that's a lower time frame swing point confirming it or some type of CSD, you know, whatever you use. I use swing
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Where we're opening near that low, so we already know it's likely to be taken out. So, when it does, right?
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So, now let's go over key levels. I really only focus on three key levels.
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And we create some sort of reversal confirmation, you know, this wick is confirmed. Since it supports expansion, it can reverse into expansion. It's still a reversal candle, but it's also an expansion candle because of the that small wick. So,
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And um, and you also retracements, right? So, once you hit a higher low, we can form a retracement. Once you hit a higher low, we can form a reversal.
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that's the difference there. Now, this next one is simply where you don't have a candle two closure, you don't sweep with the previous candle's low. Um, so, you kind of wait for a candle three closure, right?
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expansion. So, really, these are the only key levels that I really care about. So, this is what I'm looking for swing formations to form from to trade away from.
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Um, so once you have a candle three closure, a candle three closure is essentially when you close above candle two's uh, body or high, right? Then you can trade candle four.
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single day to confirm the high and low of the day. So, we all know what internal to external ranges is. It's essentially when market trades into a fair value gap. I'm not going to show you what a fair value gap is. There's a
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That would confirm a swing point. Shout out to T Trades for all these swing formations, by the way.
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We create a swing formation. So, in this case, this is that candle three swing formation, right? Where you know, we can trade candle three. Let's say this is a 4-hour chart. Maybe candle two hits a key level. Doesn't have that reversal,
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So, this is um, specifically to the It's really a specifically to the 4-hour for me, this this here.
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As long as the candle that we're trading within supports expansion, that's really all that matters.
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Um, also the daily as well. But it's really specific to the 4-hour, this swing formation here. So, it's essentially this.
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Marking on EQ of that previous candle's range, which we'll talk about a little bit in a minute or later on.
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It is this, right? But you're actually trading candle three. So, it's basically when the previous candle hits a key level and there's no reversal visibly shown on the time frame, you know, this time frame that we're seeing here, but on the
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So, in this case, right? We have price trading into external range liquidity, right? This can be any time frame. This can be the daily time frame. Let's say the previous day trades at the high, right? Closes at a candle two. This
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lower time frame there is. So, pretend this is the 4-hour time frame. And within this wick here, we always see trades through a key level, so we can anticipate a reversal.
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Asia session, right? Manipulation, London session back into the daily range. Maybe Asia made a fair value gap or something like that, right?
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But we It's not going to reverse within this candle because of the the larger opposing run. So, you're going to wait You're still going to wait for the new candle open, but there's a difference when we can anticipate this candle not taking out
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opposing side of the range is failure swings, like this. So, essentially, this is when, let's say candle one trades into the low, right?
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this low. Like I said, it's when there is a reversal within this candle's wick, or this candle's range, right? Whether that's a lower time frame swing point confirming it or some type of CSD, you know, whatever you use. I use swing
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expansion, right? So, here is about, you know, swing formation, candle three closure confirms a swing. Here is about swing formation where candle two confirms a swing, and this is a valid um, candle two reversal into expansion given the wick size. So, you see how
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points to confirm these lows. So, essentially, if this candle's low is created from a swing point and this candle's opening up within it, then I can trade that away.
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framework I'm using to frame the high and low of the day every single every single day, right?
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So, now let's go over key levels. I really only focus on three key levels.
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of the day. So, the low of the day is going to be put in from some sort of key level, right? Then I'm waiting for What Basically, waiting once I hit that key level, I'm basically waiting to see if
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And mainly, it's highs and lows and fair value gaps, right? So, highs and lows are what you frame reversals from.
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candle, I'm trading 1-hour and 30-minutes swing formations, right? So, all I'm doing is just aligning expansion candles, like I said, right?
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And um, and you also retracements, right? So, once you hit a higher low, we can form a retracement. Once you hit a higher low, we can form a reversal.
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We expand away, right? Let's say this is New York session. I can't trade this, right? Why? Because the current 4-hour candle that we're in does not support expansion higher. So, what do I wait for? The new 4-hour candle to open,
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Now, fair value gaps and order blocks are for continuation. So, when price retraces into a fair value gap, we will continue away from it. Um, also after reversal, we expect fair value gaps and order blocks to support price higher in
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C2 closure. But within it, what did it do? This is why it's important to understand um, that you know, we don't actually need a C2 closure, for example, because within that candle, we have a C2 closure and a
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expansion. So, really, these are the only key levels that I really care about. So, this is what I'm looking for swing formations to form from to trade away from.
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So, here, you can actually trade this. You can anticipate this low should not be taken, right? Because of that lower time frame reversal within that candle, that previous candle.
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Now, these are the models. So, essentially like these are key levels, but they're essentially just reversal points and targets, right? That's what a model is, really. This is the universal framework we use on all time frames. So, specifically, I'm using this every
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candle as well, right? Because at this point this is already supporting expansion. So, now we're going to get into profiling the 4-hour chart. So, with Forex traders, you're essentially going to be focused on the 1:00 a.m., the 5:00
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single day to confirm the high and low of the day. So, we all know what internal to external ranges is. It's essentially when market trades into a fair value gap. I'm not going to show you what a fair value gap is. There's a
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5:00 a.m. represents the New York session. So, New York continuation {slash} reversal. We're focused on the hours of 7:00 a.m.
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million videos on it. Price trades into a fair value gap and expands away trading into the external range, right?
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continuation verse uh or not verse, but the 9:00 a.m. New York continuation {slash} reversal. You're going to be focused on 9:00 a.m.
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We create a swing formation. So, in this case, this is that candle three swing formation, right? Where you know, we can trade candle three. Let's say this is a 4-hour chart. Maybe candle two hits a key level. Doesn't have that reversal,
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here. If 1:00 a.m. manipulates, then 5:00 a.m. should continue. If 5:00 a.m. manipulates, then 9:00 a.m. should continue. If 9:00 a.m. manipulates, then p.m. should continue, right?
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but maybe within it we do, right? Or maybe when price starts to expand away, it confirms a reversal, right? Maybe by a CSD or something. Then we can trust to trade away from this low here.
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Does not support expansion, even if it's a key level, you're going to wait for the next 4-hour candle to open. All right, that is a filter for price.
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As long as the candle that we're trading within supports expansion, that's really all that matters.
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Right? It allows you to time high probable entries cuz you are trading within expansion candles, multiple expansion candles. That's why this model is very good, right?
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So here maybe you do wait for this swing formation. Well, now you have a valid candle three closure because it closes above candle two's high. So, now you can trade candle four into this, you know, external range higher, right?
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candle, right? 2:00 to 5:00 a.m. Um New York 6:00 a.m. New York session. So, basically the a.m. session um is going to be between or um the 6:00 a.m. New York continuation {slash} reversal will be uh 8:00 a.m. to 10:00
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Marking on EQ of that previous candle's range, which we'll talk about a little bit in a minute or later on.
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Um and the 10:00 a.m. candle um continuation verse reversal, we're going to be focusing on the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., right? I don't really care about um 12:00 p.m. 13 hundred. I don't care about that, right?
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We expect candle four expansion into this higher, right? Forming This would like form the low of the day, for example, right?
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like four hours a day, you know? That's really all you're trading. So, the if-then statements, right? If 2:00 a.m. manipulates, then 6:00 a.m. should continue. If 6:00 a.m. manipulates, then uh 10:00 a.m. should continue.
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So, in this case, right? We have price trading into external range liquidity, right? This can be any time frame. This can be the daily time frame. Let's say the previous day trades at the high, right? Closes at a candle two. This
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Now, let's go ahead and move on. So, with the London reversal, again, what are we going to frame the high and lows of day from? Key levels, right? So, 1-hour and 4-hour key levels or above should form the high and low of the day,
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would simply be candle two, the previous day manipulation, this next day distribution into internal range. So, the previous day manipulation of external range, the next day distribution into internal range, right? This will also be the 4-hour chart, too, right? This can be
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So, here we have internal to uh external. So, the daily's opening low first, right? As you see, the London session does engage with this key level and you can trade it. Why can you trade it? Because of the small wick.
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Asia session, right? Manipulation, London session back into the daily range. Maybe Asia made a fair value gap or something like that, right?
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Um and we do, right? We have that small wick, so we can simply trade it, right?
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This is one of my favorite models to trade on all time frames. And it would be the order paying ranges or just a manipulation of a higher low in distribution into the opposing side of the range. It's favorable when the
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That's your external range. Since we expanded the previous day, that creates a gap from the previous day that we can then target for external to internal range, right? We can also trade this, right? Because it supports expansion.
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opposing side of the range is failure swings, like this. So, essentially, this is when, let's say candle one trades into the low, right?
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day opens low into it. Right? Asia session hits the lows, we reverse off the Asia lows, right? We can trade it because it supports expansion. So, any reversal profile you're trading will essentially just take out the previous candle's low, right? So, this
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We can already anticipate a potential reversal, so if we're going to reverse, since this candle didn't do it, we would ideally want to reverse off this candle's low. So, this is how you can anticipate a candle two reversal into
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So, it's basically going to be a reversal to expansion candle. So, here's a New York continuation. This is 6:00 a.m. continuation. So, this is basically when Asia or London puts a low of the day in. So, in this case,
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expansion, right? So, here is about, you know, swing formation, candle three closure confirms a swing. Here is about swing formation where candle two confirms a swing, and this is a valid um, candle two reversal into expansion given the wick size. So, you see how
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Here. So, if it puts a low in the day, what can we expect? We can trade this next candle higher, right? We already have the C2 closure or some lower time frame confirmation. So, all you got to do is confirm the low of
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large this wick is? You can't trade it, right? You can only trade this one because of the wick size, right? You can also trade, obviously, this candle three because the draw on liquidity is still open. So, thi
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We confirm the low and high of 4-hour candles with 1-hour and 30-minute swing points, which we're not going to go over today.
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We can go over that in a part two, right? So, in this case, here's your order paying ranges example. Here's your external to internal range example.
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Here's your order block example, right? So again just because this candle is not a reversal candle, doesn't mean it can't reverse, right?
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There could be a lower time frame reversal, right? So, maybe within this candle, there's a 1-hour swing point, etc., right? Or maybe a 30-minute CSD, 15-minute CC, whatever you require, right? But, you're not going to trade this here away from this key level. Why?
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Because it does not support expansion. So, you're going to wait for the 6:00 a.m. to continue away from that 2:00 a.m. low.
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So, now this is 10:00 a.m. continuation. So, 10:00 a.m. continuation is when either 2:00 a.m. sets a low of day or 6:00 a.m. sets a low of day, doesn't matter. So, here's example of 6:00 a.m.
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setting a low of day, hitting internal range, right? And then, 10:00 a.m. continues towards Asia session highs.
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Here's order paying ranges where 6:00 a.m. puts a low of day in. Here's external to internal.
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And here's 2:00 a.m. putting a low of day in, right? As long as there is a draw on liquidity open for 10:00 a.m., you can trade continuation. But, let's say we expand prior like we expand a very large range prior
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to 10:00 a.m., you don't really want to look for a 10:00 a.m. continuation, especially if the draw on liquidity is already taken. So, that's a little tip for you.
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So, the 6:00 a.m. 4-hour reversal. This is the ideal New York reversal, right? So, within the 6:00 a.m. candle, you want to be trading the and pairing your framework with drivers. So, the 8:30 driver and the 9:30 driver. This is why
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it is preferred to have a 6:00 a.m. reversal to form the high and low of the day in a New York reversal because you're essentially pairing that with the driver because the drivers reside within that 6:00 a.m. 4-hour time window.
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So, it is very ideal that is it a 6:00 a.m. reversal. So, the your best trades are probably going to be 6:00 a.m.
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manipulation, 10:00 a.m. continuation. If you just waited for that, if you just traded the 10:00 a.m. candle, uh you will do great. You'll do fine, okay?
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There's plenty of opportunities within that one 4-hour candle, you know? Literally the first hour of that 4-hour candle, the first two hours. Um so, yeah. That's it another tip there.
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So, here's an example of, right? Previous sessions hit a key level, right? Where Asia you know, London hits this key level, but doesn't reverse. So, we got to roll that over to the next session. If London is not going to
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reverse, then we got to have um ideally, you know, uh New York to reverse. I can't talk, sorry.
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And ideally the drivers to reverse, right? If you haven't seen my driver video, go and watch it. One of the most consistent things you're going to see.
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Um it's very good. And uh yeah. So, here's an example of order paying ranges, right? Where previous session consolidate, well, we want 6:00 a.m. to go and manipulate, right? As long as it has that small wick, we can trade it,
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right? If it doesn't have that small wick, can't trade it. Then, you'd be trading the 10:00 a.m. continuation.
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All right, so here's an example of external to internal and just an order block continuation, basically, right?
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So, here is the 10:00 a.m. reversal, which is not my favorite. There is There's some nuances to the 10:00 a.m. reversal um which we'll get into.
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I don't know if I have some examples of that, but a lot of times you can trade the 10:00 a.m. counter.
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So, what I'm what that really is is let's say we expand very large, I know, over overnight or just the a.m. session, whatever, and then 10:00 a.m. opens. So, basically the daily range is already capped off, it's already, you know,
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expanded. You can trade the 10:00 a.m. back to the range. This is a bit different where it actually forms a low of day and is actually creating the bulk of that daily candle. So, it's a it's a bit different. Um
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and this is specific, okay? When the driver trades into a key level. So, for example, like you you open up the 6:00 a.m. candle and we haven't hit a key level yet, really. So, when the driver has expanded to a key level, right? But,
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they don't reverse. The reason why they won't reverse, for example, is because maybe the opening price is really far away or whatnot. Maybe they just Maybe they just hit that key level like late into the the end of that 6:00 a.m. candle or
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something like that, right? This is when you can actually anticipate a teeny reversal to be like more high probable.
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The reason why you don't want a teeny reversal majority of the time is because when those drivers fail to reverse, it's not really a good sig- that's not a good sign if they don't fail to reverse. Like you want the 6:00 a.m. candle to
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reverse. So, that's why I say that. Um and I have an example of this, actually. Yeah, I do, actually. So, that's good.
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So, again, I'm not going to go over this. We've already seen this, right? So, now let's go into the GXT ideal profile. This is where the low of the day, the the daily wick is formed from SMT manipulation.
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Right? So, basically, the low of day is created from protected swing creating the wick. So, what do we do after manipulation or once a protected swing is created? We expand, right? The expansion creates the body of the candle. Right? So, now you're just
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aligning 4-hour expansion candles away from this the low of the day, right? So, basically, this 2:00 a.m. candle here forms the low of the day, right? You're not going to trade this candle. Why? Because it does not support expansion. Pretty large
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wick. So, you're just going to simply wait to align yourself with expansion. Does that make sense?
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So, that is the GXT ideal swing or profile. So, now let's get into putting it all together here.
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So, this is an expansion candle, right? Continuation, right? You're just working off the previous candle's range. So, you're going to mark out the EQ of that previous candle's range if you're going to continue, right?
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Within that previous candle's range, there can be a gap left within the previous day's range to actually form the low from, right? So, this is where the day opens low into that gap that is or resides within that previous day's
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range, right? Then we're just trading a 4-hour profile. So, really all we're trading is a 4-hour expansion candles away from this key level. That's really it, right?
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Which if this wick supports expansion, right? We can trade it, right? This is internal to external. Trading 4-hour expansion candles away from it.
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Now, this is a C2 expansion candle, right? So, this is the daily reversal into expansion candle, right? So, let's say the previous day expanded into a key level. So, we can already anticipate a reversal.
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So, if this candle trades into a key level, but didn't reverse, well, we want to trade we want to manipulate that previous candle's low to reverse from, ideally, right? So, this is an example of us reversing off of that external range
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low, which is the previous low. And you know, that's just external to internal, right?
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We're just trading 4-hour expansion candles away from that, right? So, here is premium discount of that previous candle's range, right? We can target around EQ or the previous, you know, day's high, which is some sort of external range high, or simply just a
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fair value gap that resides in that previous candle's range. So, here's an example of what I mentioned earlier of you actually fading a um daily candle. So, the only way you can do this, guys, is if the previous day expanded a lot,
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like overnight or, like I said, before 10:00 a.m. or something like that, where it hits a key level, right?
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Like a daily key level. So, you can already anticipate some sort of reversal candle, you know, forming there or some sort of reaction. That's the only way you can trade this reversal candle, right? The only way you should be
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trading it. So, essentially, what you're going to be You're going to be fading the daily candle, but you're going to be trading a 4-hour expansion candle back into the daily range. So, you you're not you are fading the daily candle, but we already know
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that we can tr- we can fade a daily candle, right? But we know that price cannot expand past this open.
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So, our targets we need to adjust our targets. We can't be targeting key level or objectives way beyond the daily open way up here. It can't It's not going to work It's not going to work ever because of the large wick. Okay? We know that
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price can close, you know, we don't know where it's going to close, but we know it's going to close somewhere, you know, you know, wherever, right? So, if this is going to form the low of day, we know
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it's going to form the the day is going to you know, close back within this range somewhere in here right?
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But we can target either, you know, the you know, maybe some relevant uh high or something back within the daily range, maybe external range liquidity or internal sorry.
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So, this is an example of external to internal. So, either the external, you know, key level is way to the left or maybe it's created within the same day. So, maybe this is Asia expansion, London low, New York manipulation of London low,
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right? 10:00 a.m. opens up, right? We already have a reversal within the previous 4-hour candle because it hit a key level, which is an hourly low here.
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And then we can trade that 10:00 a.m. candle back within the daily range, right?
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This is This example of the previous day is a reversal candle, so we're expecting this next day to expand.
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Within that previous day's range, we have a relevant low. So, when manipulated, right? This creates a protected swing, which, you know, confirms this low of the day, which is the GXT ideal profile, right? Like I said, the ideal scenario when
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manipulating is, you know, opposing feather swings on the other side of that that um range to targets. That's always ideal.
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Now, we're just confirming the low with a swing formation, right? And ideally, SMT. So, this is trading another C2 candle.
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This is for the forex traders, right? This is order pairing ranges. So, we manipulate the previous day's high back within that previous day. We have a bunch of feather swings to target, right? So, just going from range high to range low.
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Now, we're just trading 4-hour expansion candles away from that. So, we wouldn't be trading this 1:00 a.m. candle. So, this is technically a London reversal.
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We'd be waiting for that New York continuation because this doesn't support expansion. You just don't know where it's going to close, right? Could close here, close here. You don't know.
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So, you don't wait for this candle to expand. And it's also not going to travel very far past the open because of the candle profile.
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So, that's all I have for here. Now, let's get into these examples here. So here what do we have? Let's go to the daily time frame.
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So, with this previous week here, we have an expansion, as you see. So, we can definitely expect a new phase of price. So, a lot of times you can be very one-sided on a Monday.
Speaker A
This idea you can't trade Monday, not true. Especially when the previous week actually hits a key level or expands, right?
Speaker A
Here's the reason why. So, here's the logic. If we're going to rever- if there's going to be a reversal week, when are we going to reverse? Early on the week, typically, right? Off of this candle's high. More than likely. We're going to
Speaker A
reverse early on the week. So, it makes sense that you can trade Monday back to the range, right? If you're going to have some sort of profile like daily profile that supports the idea. But also, if you're going to continue from this
Speaker A
range here, when would we open low first? Or or how if we're going to continue, how are we going to continue, typically, right? We're going to open low first and go higher. That's how a bullish candle forms typically right?
Speaker A
So, whenever we're going to open low early on the week. So, you're one-sided bearish, right? Going into the week.
Speaker A
When are you likely to, you know, consolidate, right? After expansion. When the candle opens, right? So, either way it's like even it's going to consolidate or or trace, blah blah blah.
Speaker A
You can't be bullish this this this day, right? Cuz you you would expect a new phase of price, typically, right?
Speaker A
It's just like this week here. It's like if we're going to continue, like if this if we're going to reverse this week, for example, and if we're going to continue off this candle's range, like you're going to see the low
Speaker A
of these candles probably made really ear- early on the week. Uh this is Wednesday.
Speaker A
This is Tuesday. So, typically, like Monday through Wednesday is going to you're going to reverse, right?
Speaker A
You're likely going to reverse or retrace early on the week. So, this is what we have here, right?
Speaker A
Where it just makes sense because here the daily is opening high first and relieving a gap, right? So, in this case, you don't want to you don't want to trade Asia session. So, you would trade what? London session.
Speaker A
A manipulation of this high. So, as you see, what forms the high of this 2:00 a.m.
Speaker A
candle? Sorry. Is a CSD on the 1-hour time frame. But also, a swing formation on the 2:00 a.m. candle, right?
Speaker A
So, this forms the the high of the 2:00 a.m. candle. Now, you have to ask yourself, we hit a key level to form the high of day, 1-hour and above key level.
Speaker A
We have a draw on liquidity. The candle profile supports it. It's opening high first. The logic makes sense to retrace back in this range or whatnot to fill this gap. So, now you're asking yourself, does the current 4-hour
Speaker A
candle support bearishness or expansion? Expansion. So, obviously, it does, right? As you see that small wick. So, then you can trade these expansion candles to this low.
Speaker A
It's as simple as that, right? So, this should be your target, essentially. Or the the gap fill, you know, whatever you want, right?
Speaker A
Now, with this this previous day's close, this looks very good to continue from, right? What do we have? A bunch of feather swings. You have a gap here. So, this could just be right price returning into a gap. This could be a higher time
Speaker A
frame draw on liquidity. So, what are we going to do? We're going to look for a key level back within this previous candle's range, right? So, whatever key level is you know, by the daily open, that's really what we care about. This could form the
Speaker A
potential high and low today. So, do we have a key level? Sometimes you don't.
Speaker A
So, in this case you do, right? Look within the previous candle's range, we have a 4-hour gap.
Speaker A
And even better, right? We open high first into that gap. Right? And we create SMT with the range high. So, this is a very strong signature in price. Essentially where price creates a fair swing, that fair swing is created from a gap and SMT with
Speaker A
the range high. This is a very high probable signature, especially with the candle profile supporting it, right?
Speaker A
And look at all these fair swings, like very one-sided, right? So, look at the high of the day.
Speaker A
It's formed from a 6:00 a.m. New York reversal and a 10:00 a.m. continuation, but we can actually trade this reversal.
Speaker A
As you see, right? Why? Because it hit the key level. It's the candle that actually creates the SMT, but also, let me delete this.
Speaker A
But also it supports expansion. So, see how we can trade candle twos? We don't have to wait for the close necessarily.
Speaker A
Um so, if you look here, what forms the high of that 1-hour swing? Right?
Speaker A
What do we have? A CSD in the hourly timeframe. It's up to you like what you want to require. I don't require an hourly CSD, but it's there.
Speaker A
In this case. But 9:30, as you see. So, if this is going to be a high of day or this is going to be a bearish day, then what do we want the driver to do?
Speaker A
We want it to reverse. So, here's the 9:30 the driver. As you see, it creates SMT with NQ here and puts in a reversal.
Speaker A
So, if 9:30 reversed, what should 10:00 a.m. do? Or the 6:00 a.m. candle also reverse, you know, 9:30 as well.
Speaker A
10:00 a.m. should just continue lower. So, this is when you can trade the you know, whatever you trade, right?
Speaker A
So, here's continuation order blocks. Um you know, maybe you trade just the 30-minute opposing candle here. That's fine, too, right? Many ways to trade. Um I'm going to show you guys you know, multiple different ways to trade this, but yeah, this would be just
Speaker A
be this, right? You have the 10:00 a.m. opening here. So, once it closes above the opposing candles, now you can assume that the high of the 10:00 a.m. candle is protected by these opposing candles essentially. Put your stop loss here
Speaker A
and you let it ride, right? Until your overall draw on liquidity, especially just the previous day's low here. So, that's an example there. Hopefully that makes sense.
Speaker A
Now, let's move on. So, with this is a interesting example. I don't want to show you guys the most, you know, you know, like perfect examples or whatever. And I had man, I had a I had a example of
Speaker A
a Asia reversal. So, this is kind of scuffed here, guys. I don't know why I didn't show this.
Speaker A
Kind of annoying. This is supposed to be in here, but it's not. So, obviously I showed you guys a London reversal.
Speaker A
But what about an Asia reversal? This This doesn't necessarily have to be formed from a swing point, right?
Speaker A
And this is this is essentially when the day opens up and it starts expanding, right? So, the way you're going to trade this is you're just going to be either two things. You're either going to be trading a continuation from the previous 4-hour
Speaker A
range. So, you're wanting the previous 4-hour, you know, um upper half to respect right? This range so to to support expansion. So, that small wick, you're basically just trading a 4-hour expansion candle away from the low of the day, right? Just like I have
Speaker A
mentioned right? Um or above the daily open. Right? So, here's the daily open, above it. There's going to be some form of swing formation that forms. Right? So, basically price expands, retraces, puts in a swing formation. This swing formation confirms
Speaker A
reversal. So, basically expansion, retracement, the C2 kind of caps off the retracement, and the next candle expands. Does that make sense? Um so, I wanted to add this in there because it's very important because a lot of times
Speaker A
Asia session can be high and low today. So, it's really good to know. And that's what you see here. So, with this weekly profile, as you see, this is Monday's open here.
Speaker A
And Monday expands higher and we inside bar within Monday's range throughout the whole week, really.
Speaker A
Um so, what is this? This is a consolidation profile. At this point, the weekly candle is more so supporting a bullish week because of the small wick on the on the uh you know, the the lows, right? So, price
Speaker A
expanded pretty far away from the weekly open, so I'd be favoring this as a manipulation to really return back in this range, but we know it can't really expand really far away because you're going to see that this is
Speaker A
a bank holiday, so it's capturing Thursday and Friday in one range. But this is not a the day you're going to look at here.
Speaker A
It's not a bearish candle whatsoever. So, here's the opening price. So, essentially the previous day, the bank holiday traded into low.
Speaker A
We just instantly open up and expand away. That's what I mean by this. Prices open up and expand away.
Speaker A
So, when you see this kind of happen, um in this specific scenario, it's like you know that price is not likely to get all the way up here. One because that daily range is going to be huge for one,
Speaker A
like this daily range is already massive at this point, but also the the weekly candle profile doesn't really support that. So, when price returns back into this range and we have an internal manipulation, this can form the high of day, right?
Speaker A
So, this is an example of 6:00 a.m. forming the high of day, right? Um and there's no candle two closure as you see. But when you look within this candle, what do we have?
Speaker A
A reversal. So, we have 9:00 a.m., so we're pairing a driver, or sorry, we're pairing a manipulation with the driver.
Speaker A
So, 9:30 reverses price. That's pretty significant. So, 10:00 a.m. opens up within that reversal, within the previous candle's range. So, as you see, like this candle does not reverse. Why? Cuz it doesn't support expansion. When does it actually
Speaker A
reverse? When the new candle opens, right? Pretty random right? What about this here as well?
Speaker A
So, here you have a nice V-shape signature, right? You trade into low and then expand away like this.
Speaker A
So, you see how we have a C2 candle above the daily open. So, this can be a area to reaccumulate to continue, you know, away from that low of the day, right? From this gap, really.
Speaker A
And get to some sort of draw on liquidity, which is this little range high. Does that make sense? So, that's an example of this, actually.
Speaker A
Here. Example of this, a C2 closure above the daily open. Okay. Um So, that's an example there. Also had this example here. These are just days where um they have like interesting profiles, so I I wanted to show you guys. So, here
Speaker A
you see Asia session just expands, creates the whole daily range. Right? This is when you can expect the next, you know, sessions to retrace because we cannot expand forever. That's one thing we we really can't do, right?
Speaker A
What do we also trade into? This daily swing low, right? So, we can expect some new phase of price. Um you can't expand forever, so this is when, you know, London or New York can retrace back in this range. But we also can't The other
Speaker A
thing we can't do is expand past this this daily open. Why? Because look how far price traded away from this this opening price.
Speaker A
So, see this this is an expansion candle, right? So, you expect this to be some sort of retracement, and that retracement be capped off at some point.
Speaker A
So, you know that price is going to close below this opening price, right? So, when this 10:00 a.m. candle here trades into the opposing candle or just premium of the range, you can just trade this candle, you know, back lower
Speaker A
essentially. So, this is like a p.m. trade. So, like 1400. So, you have the logic is the same. Um it doesn't really matter what what um kind of, you know, thing you're trading.
Speaker A
It doesn't really matter what time you trade, blah blah blah blah. Does not matter.
Speaker A
Um I remember I traded this as well. It's kind of random, but here's a manipulation here.
Speaker A
What forms the low of day? It is 2:00 a.m. You have an SMT here, I I do believe.
Speaker A
Let me just double check that. I don't remember. Okay, you do. I don't know how I remember that. But yeah, you have an SMT here.
Speaker A
I guess it's on ES, right? What? Where's my drawing go? Weird. I don't know where my drawings went, but here you have an SMT here.
Speaker A
Right? And I remember I traded this high, right? Here's the candle profile, right? It opens low first, right? It's trading back in this range. Anyways, let's move on to another example.
Speaker A
All right. So, with this, what did the previous week do? Expanded, right? So, if this is going to be another expansion week, do we have a key level that is from the previous week's range?
Speaker A
Or are we, you know, are we have Do we have a key level around the weekly open?
Speaker A
Why do we want to Why do we want key levels from or around the opening price of the candle that we're trading? It's because we want closer proximity key levels, so they support expansion. So, the the candle low can trade into it and
Speaker A
have that small wick. If it's a key level that's really far away, then obviously that would create a large wick, right? Because price would have to travel very far, which doesn't support expansion. So, we don't want to trade
Speaker A
that right? So, in this case, we have Monday opening high first, which is not really ideal. Like this can support some retracement lower because opening high first, right? And then we have price leaving these kind of like these fair swings,
Speaker A
right? And then price trades into this low, creates gap SMT, so if I show you these assets, none of these other assets trades with gap, as you see. So you have SMT with the gap there.
Speaker A
Where Why are my drawings disappearing? What the hell, man? Where are my drawings disappearing?
Speaker A
Okay. That's weird. It's over here. So here you have um that SMT, right? With that previous candle low within a gap, so you can already anticipate what? A reversal to expansion candle on the daily time frame because the previous day hit a key level,
Speaker A
right? And I have SMT confirming that low. That's great, right? So I go to the 4-hour time frame here.
Speaker A
What do we have? 6:00 a.m. manipulation. What we expect 10:00 a.m. to do? Expand, right? It's also a strength switch. Why is it strength switch? Notice how this is the candle that manipulated, right?
Speaker A
That is in discount of a range. Look where NQ and or ES and YM are, right? They're in premium of a range.
Speaker A
And look at this close here, guys. Look at the close. Look at the wick size. So it's showing, you know, strength, basically. Look at ES here.
Speaker A
The 6:00 a.m. close is closing a with a large body, right? Over here it's with a large body as well. You have an SMT right here.
Speaker A
So that is obviously a strength switch, right? Boom, there's your two-stage SMT. So you can trade this higher, right? If I go to the 1-hour time frame, here is your two-stage SMT right here.
Speaker A
Right? You see it happened even sooner, actually. So here you be manipulated prior to 9 9:30. So what does the 9:00 candle do, which has 9:30 in it? It expands away, right? So again, there's these drivers, right? Very consistent. We already know
Speaker A
this. We also have a V-shaped signature that is a sign of reversal. You guys should know that. What do you have on the posing side of that?
Speaker A
Consolidation. So when 10:00 a.m. opens here, right? It has that inter-candle CSD, which is a T-trade concept, but basically price expands away from the 10:00 a.m.
Speaker A
open, right? Forms a um order block. Now I can assume that the 10:00 a.m. low is put in because it's protected by an order block, right? We should expect order blocks to support price higher, right? Into our draw on liquidity, and
Speaker A
we can target 2R 2R draw there. Hopefully that one makes sense. It is a 6:00 a.m. reversal, 10:00 a.m.
Speaker A
continuation, right? We're not going to trade this 6:00 a.m. candle. We're going to wait for the 10:00 a.m.
Speaker A
candle ideally now. One way you can trade the one way you can trade a reversal candle is under a couple of conditions.
Speaker A
It's when the profile supports it ideally right? So in this case, doesn't really support it.
Speaker A
Mm, kind of, not really. It's kind of a weird profile where it kind of opens high first and opens low. That's not ideal, right? Um you also need like higher time frame, right? So the higher time frame definitely supports it, like
Speaker A
for sure. Higher time frame supports it. But the most important part really is you need to be trading away from the low of the day, right? The 6:00 a.m. candle or the candle that you're trying to fade has to be
Speaker A
and it's always going to be the 6:00 a.m. candle, actually. It's always going to be 6:00 a.m. candle. I'll show you I'll I'll show you the reason in a minute, but um you you want the 6:00 a.m. candle to
Speaker A
form the high and low of day, right? You want it to be manipulation. So you want to be trading manipulation, always manipulation, because this is where like it's likely to form the reversal candle um and just close like high within its
Speaker A
range or whatnot. And there also needs to be SMT. Why do you need SMT? So you can know it's an actual reversal. Like that way it actually forms a reversal candle. But here's how you position yourself within this candle.
Speaker A
Well, not another thing, like you have to have a driver, by the way. So the 6:00 a.m. candle, why do we trade 6:00 a.m. candle? Because that's what the majority of the drivers are within.
Speaker A
So the reason why you can trade a reversal candle, you know, within a driver is because we have the extra volatility to also expand within that same candle, right?
Speaker A
So that's kind of the logic there, right? With with fading uh candles. And you know, with 9:30 also just expanding away from this reversal, like you have extra confirmation, but here's how you actually position yourself.
Speaker A
You're going to take the opening price of that candle to the low of the candle that you assume to be the reversal.
Speaker A
And ideally, you want to enter in the lower half of this candle's range, right? Why? Because you don't know where this candle's going to close, right? You don't want to be entering super high in a reversal candle just to
Speaker A
have the next candle, you know, take you out or whatever. Or just to have, you know, you think that the this candle's going to close way up here, but it ends up closing down here and takes you out.
Speaker A
You know, you want to be positioned as low in that reversal candle as possible when it's a bearish candle, and vice versa. Or your stop loss needs to be positioned in the lower half, at least, right?
Speaker A
Um so that's how you want to approach it there if you wanted to trade or fade a 4-hour candle. So yeah, it's going to be 6:00 a.m. drivers SMT. That's how you position yourself, essentially.
Speaker A
So moving on, here on the daily chart, what do we have? The previous week, we're just in a gap, really. As you see, we're just in a gap.
Speaker A
Previous week, we have this um swing reversal that forms, right? And we just kind of expand away from that. And this candle retraces, and we have an SMT here.
Speaker A
If I go to Ethereum, I had to throw it I had to throw uh crypto in here for you for you weirdos, for real.
Speaker A
But um here you see that none of these these days take out the previous candle's low, obviously. And this candle does. So when this day expands away, that confirms the swing point. So now I can expect Thursday to expand
Speaker A
with that information. Right? We also leave these equal highs to target behind. And we retrace into this gap, right? So looking back within the previous candle's range, can we continue away from that? Do we have a key level within it to continue
Speaker A
away from on the 1-hour or 4-hour time frame? So here you have a 4-hour key level. The daily opens low into it. We put in a reversal here. And then we can expect expansion next candle, right? So when when I go to the 15-minute time
Speaker A
frame, for example, right? Whatever you choose to trade, many of you guys know the GXT alignment or whatnot. Here's the 15-minute that works perfect, right? You have that V-shaped reversal that confirms.
Speaker A
That's what you want to see within a C2 candle. You want to see these these reversal signatures. You want to see SMT etc.
Speaker A
So here you have that V-shaped reversal, that CSD, and then you're just trading the continuation order blocks um with, you know, while aligning expansion, right? So the daily supports expansion, the 4-hour supports expansion, the 1-hour candle supports expansion, right?
Speaker A
So now you see what you're doing here, right? You're aligning, you know, multiple time frame expansion candles in the same direction.
Speaker A
So now let's move on. So here we go on silver. This is a trade that I took on gold, though, but we're going to go over silver here. So with this weekly profile, as you see, uh actually I can show you a little bit
Speaker A
better here. Here's the opening price of that weekly candle. So we open high for kind of like open low, leave equal lows, and then we open high, leave equal highs. So what is this consolidation week, right? So when we
Speaker A
manipulate that low, just like that second example I showed you guys or the first few example, where we had that consolidation profile, we can return back within that range, right? Especially if the current 4-hour can't or the the current daily candle
Speaker A
supports that idea, right? So here you have SMT with that low, so that obviously supports that idea for sure. But here's this day opening low first. You see that? So this week is quite large, quite large wick. So what
Speaker A
can we target? Either the daily open or just above it because we know it's not going to really expand much past the opening price. So this fair value gap, what could this be? External to internal.
Speaker A
So we have a 1-hour or 4-hour key level or or or above, right? Confirming the low of day. So here is a daily key level, SMT.
Speaker A
What do we have here? A swing point confirming the low of the day, but as you see, Asia session hit this low, but did not reverse. So we expect London session to put in the reversal, right? We can trade this
Speaker A
candle, too, as well. Why? Because it supports expansion. See that small wick? We can trade that. Or if you want to add, you know, if you're coming to New York session, I traded this in New York session. So I actually traded the 6:00
Speaker A
a.m. candle, right? Um higher into this this high, and obviously 10:00 a.m. I just held it into this high, right?
Speaker A
So if you go to the 15-minute time frame, for example, you can trade that 2:00 a.m. reversal because we have that 15-minute CSD, whatever you require, right? Maybe you require a 30-minute CSD, you know, whatever you require. So here you have
Speaker A
that V-shaped signature that is a reverse signature. So you can enter on the second, you know, you know, second CSD, whatever fair value gap, blah blah. It doesn't really matter what you enter on it. It all works out because you have you're
Speaker A
aligning expansion candles, right? The candle profile you're trading supports expansion. The it makes sense on the weekly time frame for that, you know, consolidation profile. This is a relevant low on the higher time frame.
Speaker A
There's SMT there. You know, the list goes on, right? It's very high probable, this trade. You're also trading back to weekly open, blah blah blah blah.
Speaker A
So that's an example of a GXT London reversal. Now let's get into to next example here.
Speaker A
So here on this higher time frame or this weekly profile, price just opens up right into the previous day's low on Monday. We see we close back within the previous day's range and we expand you know, back to the range and this
Speaker A
relevant high. So, this is where we can definitely anticipate some sort of reaction, whether it's reversal or retracement to trade back within this range.
Speaker A
And at this point, it's kind of a pretty interesting, right? Because we have Monday or um the week basically supporting expansion, if I show you here.
Speaker A
Two small wicks here. That supports expansion. So, if we're going to continue away from this low, right? This key level right above the weekly open should support price higher, essentially. So, basically what this is is Monday, Tuesday expansion, Wednesday
Speaker A
retracement, and a reversal off of Wednesday's low to expand again. So, expansion, retracement, expansion. That's all that is right?
Speaker A
So, but this previous day's low is also a fair value gap. Okay? So, there's a logic for these two days.
Speaker A
Now, let's go into see what actually forms the high and low today. So, as you see here, how can we anticipate or how do we even know that this could be a retracement lower? It's not just because we take out external range. That's not
Speaker A
the reason. The reason is because the candle profile. You see it opens high first.
Speaker A
That can signify that that this idea can be valid, right? And then we obviously print a reversal signature.
Speaker A
Here, because we have that C2 candle at a relevant time, which is London. So, this is where we can anticipate 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. to continue, you know, to target, you know, EQ of the range. So, basically it's New York or
Speaker A
London reversal, New York continuation, right? And that was the you know, this day that's what it did. It just rebalanced EQ, right?
Speaker A
So, now you're just waiting for the previous day. What's it going to do? Is it going to respect this range to continue lower? Or is it actually going to reverse off of this low? And it's just like that logic where I told you
Speaker A
that um where I told you guys that Monday can be one-sided. This is the same the same kind of logic where the previous day it expanded into a key level.
Speaker A
So, it's like when would we reverse if the previous day hit a key level, but it didn't really reverse? We would reverse early on in the day. Why is that?
Speaker A
And we would ideally reverse early on in the day from the previous day's low.
Speaker A
Right? Same logic as I told you guys earlier. It is actually just like this logic on the higher time frame. If we're going to reverse off this previous day's low, we're going to do it early on the week because we're opening near it. You
Speaker A
know what I'm saying? So, the day is opening near the key level, which is the daily fair value gap or the previous So, therefore it it would reverse in Asia or London. That's when it would do, right? So, when Asia actually expands
Speaker A
away and gives this reversal characteristic of that V-shape signature, right? So, you see the retest of this low and expand away. Well, then [ __ ] I mean, that's the low of the day, probably right?
Speaker A
And it's that same logic here. You know it's our fractalizing things, right? What do we have here? A C2 closure above the daily open.
Speaker A
Right? So, this is going to be low of day. Then, you know, this gap that forms, you know, above the daily open should support price higher, right? So, when it does, this C2 candle, right? This is the Asia
Speaker A
reversal. And this can form the you know, you know, a a little like um reaccumulation to continue from, right? Basically. This is like a New York continuation away from the swing point, essentially, right?
Speaker A
Um so, hopefully that kind of made sense there. Um we're also within that new week opening gap. So, if I show you here, right? So, that's added confluence, really.
Speaker A
But yeah, that's just a Asia reversal example I wanted to show you guys. So, now let's get into a 10:00 a.m.
Speaker A
reversal profile. So, again, Monday being one-sided again. Why? This is actually back-to-back Mondays being one-sided. I'm telling you Mondays are very one-sided, honestly. So, here's the previous week expanding into a low.
Speaker A
So, what does it make sense for Monday to trade back into the range? Because this week actually continued from the previous range. So, here's the previous week's range. It continued from it. But if even if we're going to
Speaker A
continue, early on the week we're going to open high first. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A
And if we're going you know, this Monday here, same [ __ ] Like if we're going to reverse, we would reverse early on the week.
Speaker A
So, even this day right here, it's like it's even if we're going to continue like lower, either way, it's like we're going higher first. Like that's ideally what's going to happen majority of the time. So, you can trade Mondays. It's actually
Speaker A
[ __ ] You can't trade Mondays. Um but anyways, Tuesday, we create SMT with Monday's high here.
Speaker A
So, you can trade, you know, it's also a uh SMT fill. SMT fill is simply um basically just gap SMT, right? Where one asset trades into a gap, but the one doesn't. That's simply what it is.
Speaker A
Pretty simple. But what how can we anticipate this being a reversal day? Is the candle profile.
Speaker A
So, what does the day do? It opens high first. This is also a good example of a 10:00 a.m.
Speaker A
reversal that is actually um like tradeable, really, because here you're seeing 9:30 is making its way towards the draw on liquidity. And that's fine, right?
Speaker A
Doesn't mean that it didn't reverse or anything like that. It just it didn't hit the key level yet. It's just trading towards it, right? This is when 10:00 a.m. trades and hits the key level, right?
Speaker A
Um which is absolutely fine. So, here you see the high of this 10:00 a.m.
Speaker A
candle is formed from what? A 1-hour swing formation or 30-minute swing formation, whatever you want to use. Does it support expansion? Yes. So, 10:00 a.m. hit the key level, right?
Speaker A
Created the SMT. Does it support expansion? Yes. So, then you can trade into these lows, right? See the daily open high first. Look at all these failed swings here.
Speaker A
Right? What do you have here? A gap from the previous day's range. So, really this can be order pairing ranges, however you view it, because this is an external each high. These are a bunch of external ranges lows.
Speaker A
Also a fair value gap below those lows. So, whatever you view it, right? Simply just a a 1-hour or above key level, right?
Speaker A
You have SMT there. We have the profile supporting it. And we're aligning expansion candles away from it.
Speaker A
So, moving on. Now, I got one forex I got uh I think two forex examples here.
Speaker A
So, with this previous week here, trading into this gap, we can expect this next week to do trade into these lows. If you fail to manipulate these lows, where can you head to? This low.
Speaker A
Simply right? So, at this point, Monday, if you know, if we're going to open up the week here and we're this close to low, I mean, Monday can expand. Like this is when Mondays can expand, etc.
Speaker A
Like Mondays are very tradeable, I said. Um so, Monday's opening very close to these lows, so makes no sense to trade higher.
Speaker A
Like this is when Monday can definitely expand right? So, that's what it does. And Tuesday closes, right? This is a failed to manipulate this low.
Speaker A
Obviously, this is not manipulation at this point. We're trading way beyond it. So, if this is going to be high of the week, Monday, this gap needs to hold, right? So, when this Wednesday candle has an SMT between Tuesday and
Speaker A
Wednesday's high and gap SMT as well, right? That is confirming that we can continue, right? Does the daily candle support s- expansion? Yes.
Speaker A
Now, we're going to confirm the high of the day from a 4-hour swing point. In this case, you're trading a candle two reversal to expansion.
Speaker A
Why? Because within that gap, we have this basically this 4-hour swing formation. This 4-hour swing formation that we are manipulating. And does it support expansion? The answer is yes. The candle does support expansion. So, this is a basically a um London reversal. Or what
Speaker A
time is this right now? It's kind of like New York session. It's around 7:00, so it's kind of like a New York reversal, actually.
Speaker A
And what do we have here, guys? 15-minute CSD. We have that V-shape signature. Um you know, here's another opportunity here, right? So, that's an example of that 5:00 a.m.
Speaker A
reversal into expansion, basically, right? So, in this case, we're going to trade continuation. So, now we're going to mark out EQ of this candle's range. So, here's the high.
Speaker A
Here's the low. Looking for a key level within the lower half of the previous candle's range, okay?
Speaker A
Simply. So, when I go to the 4-hour time frame, okay, cool. I see a fair value gap. So, price should form the high of day from this level, ideally, right? So, when the daily candle opens high first, that already supports a bearish move.
Speaker A
So, as you see, this candle here did not reverse its Asia session as well.
Speaker A
Um and London session reverses. And we can trade London session. Why? Because it supports expansion, right? Has that small wick. So, we can reverse and expand.
Speaker A
Right? We can also trade the 5:00 a.m. candle because the previous candle reversed. We have open objectives here.
Speaker A
And obviously, our higher time frame draw on liquidity that could could have potentially got hit the same day, right?
Speaker A
So here you're seeing that we have that 15-minute CSD. We have a fair value gap that you can maybe enter off of, right?
Speaker A
Whatever you like to use. Here's the open price of that 4-hour candle. It's right here.
Speaker A
You see it opens high first. Expands lower. At this point, it's like if this is going to be high of the 4-hour candle, this gap has to hold, right? So, that can be an entry as the 4-hour candle
Speaker A
already supports expansion. It's already starting to trade away from the high, eliminating the possibility to become a bullish expansion candle, right?
Speaker A
And that's something that we will talk about later on in another video about profiling in general, right? You can profile any candle.
Speaker A
Um and you kind of see a little bit of You kind of see that a little bit um in the example I've shown you guys. You can figure it out. I've already shown a couple examples of it, couple different
Speaker A
ways so. Here, as you see the the 4-hour candle is opening up within a key you know, a level that we want to hold, right? We can do that same logic, really.
Speaker A
I can look back within this previous candle's range. I want this candle's high to be formed in the lower half to support expansion. I don't want it to be up here cuz that wick could be very large, right?
Speaker A
So, as you see this candle right here is actually opening up within a fair value gap, right? Or this opposing candle. So, it's like it can just rip lower. It doesn't have to create this large wick or anything with it, right? You can
Speaker A
anticipate it being a small wick because you would anticipate this to hold ideally, right? Because we're so close to these lows, there's no point to go higher at that point, right?
Speaker A
So, in this case, expands lower. You get a continuation, you know, blah blah blah. This is just um clean examples, right? Of just aligning time frames right?
Speaker A
So, both days does the daily support expansion? Yes. Yes. Does the weekly support expansion? Yes. So, that's an added confluence as well.
Speaker A
4-hour supports expansion here. 4-hour supports expansion, 4-hour support supports expansion, 4-hour support expansion, right? Simple as that, right?
Speaker A
Now, let's move on into our last example, guys. So, here's an example that I also took.
Speaker A
Go ahead and move this here. So, here's another day that we can anticipate and trade on Monday. Why?
Speaker A
Because what is what did the previous week do essentially? It expanded. So, here's the low of the week, expanded into external range high.
Speaker A
And we retraced back within the same week. So, basically the previous week retraced into EQ range. So, if the previous week retraced and actually put in a reversal, we have an SMT here and a C2 closure, then what can the previous week do? What
Speaker A
can the next week do? It can expand. And when would we expand if the you know, Friday manipulated? We would expand early on the week, so Monday.
Speaker A
So, that's what we do here, right? Does it support expansion? Yes. Do both of these days support expansion?
Speaker A
Yes. For this day, since you have a strong close here on a Monday, we have this CSD here and this two-stage SMT, I can expect this next to expand, right?
Speaker A
Ideally. So, what do I want to you know, this day to support ideally the previous candle's range and we can look for a key level, you know, within this here.
Speaker A
So, going to lower time frame, does the candle profile support expansion? Right, the wick size do. We already checked that out. But does the way the candle act it the way it's forming does it support expansion? Yes, right? Cuz they're opening low first,
Speaker A
right? There's candle profile are the two there's two components. It's the wick size does it support expansion?
Speaker A
It's also the way it forms. So, a bullish expansion candle opens low first. That's what we have here. London reversal because we have that C2 candle.
Speaker A
You see New York both New York sessions 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. continue, right? Do they support expansion? Yes.
Speaker A
Small wick? Yes, small wick. So, you're aligning expansion candles there. What about over here?
Speaker A
Opens low first. Do we have a key level on the 4-hour time frame? No. Do we have a key level over here? Not really.
Speaker A
What about 1-hour time frame? All right, we have a gap here. Sure, right? We have a gap here.
Speaker A
We also have the driver's expanding away. I actually traded both of these days as well.
Speaker A
I only traded this 9:00 a.m. candle, so you're seeing that the driver is expanding away because a low of day is put in, right? So, driver should do what? Expand into these lower resistance highs.
Speaker A
Also traded this day around the driver as well. Um and you're also seeing that, you know, we can't look back within the previous day over here or sorry, we can over here, but not really over here. There's no
Speaker A
There's no key level to the left, so that just means that the previous sessions have to create some sort of key level to trade away from, which would be this swing low on the hourly time frame.
Speaker A
So, again, hourly or above. So, here's an hourly swing point we manipulate. And when you know, London actually trades away from it, that just confirms a low of day. So, then we're just trading 4-hour expansion candles away from low
Speaker A
of day. So, that supports expansion. That supports expansion. The daily candle supports expansion, right? Simply.
Speaker A
Um also traded this as well. So, why did I trade this? Well, a little bit of asset synchronization.
Speaker A
You're seeing that this asset failed to manipulate this high. So, when that happens, you see my SMT video, we know that um you expect assets to catch up. So, this is when the middle asset catches up.
Speaker A
When it catches up, this is when we basically um reverse. I posted on Twitter.
Speaker A
And you're going to see that the other triad creates an SMT here, right? So, basically it's like when SMT breaks.
Speaker A
I'm going I'm making this video so long, but so, when one asset fails to manipulate it, the middle asset then catches up to break that SMT. So, as soon as it catches up to break that SMT, you're seeing that the other asset is
Speaker A
creating an SMT here. And this is a reversal signature, reversal sequence between triads, right?
Speaker A
There's a couple There's a lot of different sequences between triads. Really one of the most powerful things when looking at triads and understanding market direction, but how can we even trust that?
Speaker A
Well, it's the it's the profile, right? So, if I show you the profile here, what formed the high of the day?
Speaker A
London, you know, C2 closure, but also how does the candle actually form? It has that that um signature where it opens high first, right? It's a very large wick.
Speaker A
As you see, pretty large wick. So, what would this also be, guys? External to internal.
Speaker A
So, we can trade this candle, but understand that it's not going to expand much beyond either the daily open or the the objective that's in close proximity to daily open, so like this swing low.
Speaker A
It's not going to expand past it. It's going to have a very hard time to do it.
Speaker A
As you see, this probably Yeah, it just consolidated right? So, anyways, guys, going to leave you all with that.
Speaker A
My next video will be on precision swing points. And then I can probably do GXT part two because this is kind of just scratching the surface, but you can do a lot with this video.
Speaker A
I know this will help a lot of you guys, so let me let me know what you guys want to see in the future. Let me know if you enjoyed this.
Speaker A
Um and yeah, leave a like, subscribe. Um and yeah, thanks for being patient, guys. I try to do these when I can, but show love and it'll it'll definitely encourage me to do more of these, guys.
Speaker A
But uh yeah, I'll catch y'all later, man, and y'all have a good one and good luck trading.
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