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By the end of this video, you're going to know exactly how I would start day trading if my goal was to quickly make $250 a day. And this works even if you're starting as a complete beginner.
Learn a beginner-friendly $250/day day trading strategy using the 5-minute NQ London breakout with a simple 8-step checklist.
Key Takeaways
- A simple, checklist-based strategy removes guesswork and is beginner-friendly.
- Focusing on the London breakout session leverages market movers’ activity for better trade setups.
- Maintaining a 2:1 risk-to-reward ratio helps ensure profitable trading over time.
- Taking only one trade per day prevents burnout and promotes disciplined trading habits.
- Realistic profit goals and risk management are critical for sustainable day trading success.
What the video covers
- The video teaches a systematic day trading strategy aimed at making $250 daily, suitable for complete beginners.
- It uses a 5-minute NQ London breakout strategy focusing on the 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. EST London session price range.
- The strategy involves drawing a box around the London session high and low and entering trades when price breaks out after the New York open.
- An 8-step checklist guides traders with no guesswork, indicators, or complexity, making it easy to follow.
- The risk-to-reward ratio is 2:1, meaning traders aim to win twice what they risk per trade.
- Only one trade setup is taken per day, allowing traders to avoid overtrading and maintain discipline.
- The video explains the math behind the $250/day goal to show its realism and sustainability.
- It emphasizes that trading is not get-rich-quick and requires patience and systematic practice.
- The strategy works within fixed trading sessions, making it compatible with full-time jobs or school.
- Examples on charts and recommended tools like TradingView’s kill zones indicator are demonstrated for clarity.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Overview of $250/Day Goal
- 01:17No Indicators, Simple Checklist Approach
- 02:26Checklist Rules and No Guesswork Trading
- 03:58Explanation of London Breakout Strategy
- 05:38Drawing the London Session Box on Charts
- 07:16Trading Sessions and Market Movers Explained
- 08:29Entry Rules and One Trade Per Day Principle
- 12:08Realistic Expectations and Risk Management
- 13:43Live Chart Examples and Strategy Walkthrough
- 16:21Using TradingView Kill Zones Indicator
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I'm going to walk you through the specific strategy that I use, as well as the seven-step checklist so that there's zero guesswork. Now, I'm also going to show you the math behind the $250 a day so you know that it's realistic. I'm
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also going to show you real examples on the charts, too, so you can see exactly how to do this for yourself. Now, look, it's extremely important that you understand that trading is not a get-rich-quick thing at all. It honestly
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took me over three years of trial and error to get to the point that I'm at now. But what I'm about to show you is the exact kind of systematic strategy that I wish somebody handed to me on day
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one. So, with that being said, grab yourself a notebook, grab yourself some water, some snacks, and let's hop right into this.
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All right. So, what you guys are going to learn today is the exact strategy that I would personally use to hit $250 a day.
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It is my 5-minute NQ London breakout strategy. I'm going to go through it start to finish. There's the eight-step checklist that we're going to go over.
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And if you're able to follow this completely in order, this is something where, as I mentioned, it's great for beginners because there's no guessing.
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There's no indicators that you need. There's no complexity. It's literally just following a checklist.
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And having done this for multiple years, as long as I follow the checklist, this thing has absolutely changed my life.
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Now, I'm also going to break down for you guys the $250 a day math, meaning what does that look like? How can it be achievable on a day-to-day basis?
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Just so you guys see how realistic it is, how this strategy kind of forces that to happen, essentially. And I'm also going to give you guys a bunch of rules that will help protect you. I'm going to give you guys all the best
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practices. You guys know exactly what you should do and what you shouldn't do if you want to actually see results doing this. So, I mentioned that this is amazing for beginners. Let me show you guys exactly why. There are four main
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reasons why this has absolutely killed it for not just me, but also people that I've taught that are complete beginners.
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This strategy is extremely beginner-friendly. One of the reasons is that there's a fixed time window. Like the setup in the strategy, it shows up around the same time every day. So, this works even if you still have a full-time
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job, if you have a career, or if you go to school. Now, it's completely systematic, which I kind of hinted at earlier, which means that there's no guesswork. There's literally a checklist that we're about to go over in a second
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here. If the checklist says to enter, you enter. If it doesn't say to enter, you sit on your hands and do absolutely nothing. There's no guesswork. You don't have to think about a single thing. It's simply looking at the checklist, seeing
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if everything aligns, enter if it does, don't enter if it doesn't. The next thing that I love about this is that it's a two-to-one risk-to-reward ratio.
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Now, if you're a complete beginner, that might have just sounded like Japanese, Chinese, and freaking Arabic put all together. Two-to-one risk-to-reward ratio is very simple. It simply means that whatever you're risking, when you win the trade, you win
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twice as much as that. If you're risking $100 every single trade, you'd win $200 because it is a two-to-one risk-to-reward ratio. You're winning two times as much as you are risking. Now, the next amazing thing about this strategy and why it's amazing
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for beginners and even advanced traders like myself is that you're one and done. Meaning, you have one trade. You have one opportunity, one setup shows up a day.
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If it happens, you take it. If it doesn't happen, you don't take it. It's not something where you have to be sitting here at your charts for 200 hours a day. You don't have to have 300 different monitors. You don't have to
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have anything complex. It's simply following the eight-step checklist that we're about to go over, taking the one trade for the day, win or loss, you walk away. Guess what? Do whatever the heck you want to do with the rest of your
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day, come back the next morning, do it again, and repeat that cycle. All right, so here now is a high-level, I guess, bird's-eye view of what the strategy is.
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The strategy, as I kind of hinted at before, is my London breakout strategy. If you don't know, with trading, there are trading sessions. Think of trading sessions as like job work hours. The same way a lot of people
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go to work from 9:00 to 5:00 or from 8:00 to 4:00, whatever like that, the same exact way that traders or hedge funds or these big banks and the people that are working at these big banks in trading,
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they have job windows as well. They're not trading 24/7, which means that during specific times in the world, specific people are working at the banks and actually trading. The people that work at the banks, the hedge funds, private equity,
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they're the ones that actually move the markets. Us as retail traders, even if we're trading with a million dollars, two million dollars, we're not moving the markets. They're trading with hundreds of millions of dollars, sometimes even billions of dollars, and
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that's how they're moving the markets. So, I'm saying all that to say, there are really three main sessions. There's the London session, which essentially means that all the bankers in London, this is the time when they're usually trading. There's the New York
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session, which simply means that all the bankers, hedge funds, and all that stuff in New York, that's when they're usually trading. And then there's the Asia session, which is the same thing, the bankers, hedge funds, private equity, they're at work during a specific time.
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This strategy is focused on what happened during the London session and going into the New York session is when we're looking for entries. Now, what does that look like? And keep in mind, we're going to go over later on
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inside this video a bunch of examples of the strategy live on the charts, so you guys see it as well, but I just want to give you guys this quick bird's-eye view of what happens. When we're looking at
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our charts, we want to essentially look at all the price action, all the candlesticks that happened from 4:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. And we want to draw a box around all of that. You'll see here in this
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example, we drew a box around. Imagine this is all that happened between 4:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. You want to have the top of the box at the highest point that price was at. And then you want to have the bottom
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of the box at the lowest point that price was at within that 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. time window, right? And all we're looking for at this point is once New York session starts and after the New York Stock Exchange opens, which is
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at 9:30 Eastern Standard Time, we're simply looking for price to break either the London high, the box that we drew out, the high of that box, or the low of that box, and we are entering as soon as
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it breaks it. Now, I'll show you guys a quick little shortcut later on because if you use TradingView, which is a charting platform, there's an indicator that will automatically mark off the period from 4:00 a.m. up until 9:00
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a.m. Now, I'll show you guys that later on inside the video. But let's deep dive into this eight-step checklist. As long as you understand this and you can follow this, this strategy can treat you very, very well. So, the first step is
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kind of what we just went over. Is we want to mark up the London session. And again, that's what's happened between the time window of 4:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. You want to mark this up on the 5-minute time frame
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only on the NQ chart. This strategy is only to be done.
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frame. The single time frame. It's crazy that I am this years old and I still need to count before I can say what number is the one in Spanish. Anyways, that doesn't have anything to do with this.
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The step number two is to draw the box so we can see what happened between 4:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. But a simple way of being able to picture it on our charts is to simply just draw a box. Like I
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said, drawing it from the high of the London session to the low of the London session. And those act as your triggers.
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Now, I mentioned to you that we don't care what happens before 9:30 Eastern Standard Time happens. We need to wait until the market opens, and the market opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. So, if price ends up breaking above the London
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high or London low between the hour between the time of 9:00 a.m. or 9:30 Eastern Standard Time, we do nothing. We have to wait until after 9:30 Eastern Standard Time to actually enter into a trade. Now, I'll show you guys, like I
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said, some examples of that. And as soon as it enters, or as soon as it breaks either that high or that low, we're entering the trade. This is showing us that now New York session has started because New York session is right after
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London session. This is showing us that now New York session has started and that they decided that they're going to either take the market higher. When I say they, I mean the New York bankers and New York traders, the New York hedge
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fund traders, they decided that they're going to take the market higher than what London session did before or take it lower than what London session had before. So, we are riding the wave of what New York session, which is the
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strongest session out of all three of them. We just want to ride the wave that they're going on. We want to ride the direction that they're going on. And a clear sign of seeing the direction is when it breaks either that London high
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or that London low. So, that's why as soon as it breaks it, we are entering for either a buy or a sell. We enter for a buy if it breaks above, a sell if it breaks below. Now, we need to have a
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stop loss set in place. If you don't know what a stop loss is, you should. But, a stop loss essentially just stops you from losing too much money. It essentially is if price tapped this area, close out my trade at a loss,
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and stop me from losing more money. Now, how we set our stop loss is very, very simple. If price broke above our London session, we enter for buys. And if we enter for buys, we're putting our stop loss below the candlestick that tapped
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us into the trade. Now, it's vice versa for sales. So, if price breaks below our London session, we would place our stop-loss above the candlestick that entered us into the trade. Now, keep in mind, like I said, we're going to go
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over examples of this here in a second. Step number six is we're always going to make our take profit a two to one. I'll show you guys exactly how to draw that on your chart, and I explained to you
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guys that the benefit of doing that is if we win one time, we're essentially making two times as much as we risked.
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Now, step number seven is important and it's kind of what I mentioned before as well. You're only having one entry per day. So, let's say it breaks the top of your box first, you would take that entry. And let's say it reverses back
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down and breaks the bottom side as well, you are ignoring that one. You're only taking one entry, and you're taking whatever entry happened first. If it breaks the other side after, you're not taking that second trade. Now, because
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this is about volume, and this is a a breakout strategy, it needs to have volume. Usually, volume starts to die down after around like 11:00 or 12:00 uh p.m. Eastern Standard Time, 11:00 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So, the rules that I have
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is that I'm not taking this setup if there's no break of either the high or the low before 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time has happened. So, essentially, the entry window for me with this strategy is between 9:30 Eastern Standard Time and 11:00 a.m.
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Eastern Standard Time. If it happens outside that window, I'm ignoring it, I'm going on with my day, and I am waiting until the next day to potentially get a setup. Now, let's talk about the math behind it. So, I
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mentioned to you guys that this is the exact strategy that I would use if I wanted to make $250 in a day trading. I mentioned that every single time we're entering and using the strategy, we're going to win two times
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as much as we are risking. So, for every trade, I would simply risk $125, meaning if the trade went in the wrong direction, it went away from me, and it was going against me, and I was losing money, the max I would ever lose is
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$125. But, if the trade won, I'd win two times as much as I was risking, which $125 * 2 comes out to $250.
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That one win, I'd be completely done for the day. I'd have my $250. I don't need to win every day with this strategy.
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There's not a single strategy in the world that will win every day. If any trader on YouTube or some dude comes up to you and says that they win every day, or you see somebody on Instagram or something saying they win every day,
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they're lying. Run away from them. Actually, slap them so they have some common sense put into them. That is not in a real-life thing. Everybody loses, and you have to understand that losses are part of the system, but this system is
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completely in your favor, because you can lose two times in a row, and then win one trade, and you make all of your money back. That's why I love this strategy. So, having went through the math here, I want to give you guys two
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rules when you're trading this before we hop into the charts here, and I'll show you guys real-life examples of this strategy. There's two rules that will allow you to stay profitable when you're trading this. You have to trade just one
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trade per day. Most of the time, if it breaks the high first, and then let's say it reverses and goes to break the low, you would lose both of those trades. That there's no reason for you to do that. Every single time it breaks
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the high, or breaks the low first, just take that one trade. Be okay with it if it ends if you end up losing the trade, or you end up winning the trade. Be okay just walking away, having took that one
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trade. Also, as I mentioned, and I just want to reiterate here, only take trades from 9:30 through 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. That's when the the is going to have the most volume, and we want volume when we're trading this strategy so that
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we can actually see a good breakout. If there's no volume, there will not be a good breakout. We'll be sitting around, potentially waiting hours just to lose a trade. That's why we That's why we trade during that specific time window. Now,
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with that being said, let's hop into the charts so we can walk through this strategy, and I'll show you guys a bunch of examples so you know exactly what you're looking for, and exactly how to replicate this for yourself. Now, keep
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in mind, all the examples we're about to go over are literally the same type of setups that I take inside of my inner circle. Now, if you don't know what my inner circle is, it is where I train you
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one-on-one how to trade exactly how I trade. Not only do you get access to me one-on-one where I will personally mentor you, but you also get access to all of our live trades. We trade live every single day, Monday through Friday.
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We send out all of our trades. I keep saying we, me and the other coaches.
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There are four other profitable coaches inside of the inner circle as well that are there to help you, and you can follow all of their trades as well as my trades. We don't just show you the trades that we're taking. We teach you
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how to do it for yourself. That way, you are able to replicate it, and you understand exactly why we're entering the trades, and you understand exactly how to do it for yourself. So, if we go on vacation, and we're not sending out
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trades, you can still make money and take the same exact trades that we would have taught. My inner circle is honestly just everything that I wish I had when I first started off trading 9 years ago.
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We have a dedicated trading psychologist in there to help you master that mental game of trading, which if you didn't know, is the hardest part, yet the most important part of trading. So, it was extremely important that we have that
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inside of the inner circle. As I mentioned, I've put my whole heart, my entire soul into the inner circle to make it the one thing that I wish I had that would have fast-tracked my way to being successful with trading. Now,
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spots are always pretty much full. If you look in the comments, you're always going to see people complaining about not being able to get in, or when are we opening up some spots.
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Some spots have now opened up, so I'll leave a link for it inside the description of this video. It's I'll be honest, it's not for everybody. It's not for people who just want to make like 100 bucks or 200 bucks a month. It's
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more so for people who want to learn the skill that can make them five figures, sometimes even six figures a month. I can't say that's going to happen for everybody. I know of two people inside the inner circle that are now doing six
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figures a month consistently, but a lot of them are doing four and five figures pretty consistently. It's for that that type of people. So, if you're not trying to take it serious, the inner circle is probably not for you, if I'm
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being honest. But, if you are someone that wants to take it serious, someone who actually wants to see real scalable results with trading, I'll leave a link inside the description of this video for the inner circle to have the opportunity
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to join it, to have me and all the other coaches help you fast-track your way to success. Now, let's get into these examples. All right, so here we are on the charts. As I mentioned, this strategy is only to be done on NQ. As
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you see here, we are on the Naz 100 or the NQ chart. Now, we're on the 5-minute time frame. I told you guys there's a little hack to be able to mark off the zones that you're looking for. And
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simply how you do that, there's an indicator right here. If you tap indicators or press indicators and type in kill zones, you'll see kill zones pop up by this person named Oscar VS. You can press that.
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And what will end up happening is that you will then see that these lines will pop up on your chart. Now, yours might look slightly different. If you come over here to the left and press this little drop-down and go to the settings,
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you can copy my settings that I have here, so you can have it look exactly like mine.
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Uh you can copy the style here as well, if you want. If you don't do that, it will look a little bit like Let me set set It'll look a little bit like this, like a a little bit uglier. I
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personally don't like it looking so colorful and all that stuff. So, you can copy my settings if you want. But, essentially what the kill zones does is it marks off that time for you. As you see right here, this is 3:00 a.m. I'm on
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Central Standard Time cuz I live in Texas. So, this is 4:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. That's when that yellow line starts. And then the white line starts at 8:00 a.m. uh Central Standard Time, which is 9:00 a.m. Eastern
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Standard Time, which is what we've talked about. All right, so now let's mark up the high and the low. We have one example here where we have the low is down here.
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Mark off the high right up here. And then we just wait for price to break either the high or the low. Let's fast forward here. Remember, we also have to wait until after 8:30 Central Standard Time, which is 9:30 Eastern Standard
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Time. And that happened right here. This green candlestick was actually that stock market open. So, now we're okay to look for a trade as long as we get a setup before 11:00 Eastern Standard Time, which is 10:00 Central Standard
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Time. So, let's just fast forward here. And we see we broke it right here on this candlestick. So, as soon as we broke it right here, this is at 9:40, which is it's fair game. We can trade because it's still during the time
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window. We'd enter as soon as it broke below it in this example for a sell. If we remember on our next step is we use our stop loss and put our stop loss above the candlestick that we entered
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on. This is the candlestick that we entered on. So, we put our stop loss right above it. And then we're just dragging our take profit until this right here risk-to-reward ratio says at least a two. So, let's drag it until it
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says a two. And that is the trade. We can see if this ends up playing out. We can see it ends up selling down and ends up hitting our full take profit. So, we would have been able to make that $250
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right here by trading that super simple strategy, marking off our our high and our low, waiting for a break of it, taking our entry, putting our stop loss above our entry, going for a two-to-one risk-to-reward ratio, and cashing out. Let's go through
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a few more examples just so you guys understand completely and are able to replicate it for yourself. All right, so let's run through another example here.
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We're going to do the same exact thing. We're going to look at our kill zones, our yellow line to our white line. We're going to then drag our box or create a box from the low to the highest point
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before the white line started. So, this is what our box now looks like. Now, we're just waiting until 8:30 or 9:30 Eastern Standard Time. Let's fast forward until we get that candlestick.
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Right here. And as you see price actually ended up breaking it. Now, this is a great example. I'm actually glad that we have this. Trade would have lost cuz price tapped and broke below this London low.
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So, we would have entered as soon as it broke below it. Right here. We would have put our stop loss above the candlestick that we entered on and we would went for a two to one risk to reward ratio. But as you
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can see this trade ended up losing. We can fast forward. It ends up going to the or ends up playing around actually. I thought it ended up Yeah, ends up going to the upside here. The trade ends up losing
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and that's perfectly fine. I mentioned to you guys before you're going to lose. Don't come watching this video thinking you're going to take this strategy and win every every trade. That's not how trading works. You have to be okay with
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taking losses. That's why this strategy is also so powerful because no matter if we lose one trade, when we win the next trade, we make back all of our money that we lost plus more. So, this is a
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losing trade and that's perfectly fine. At that point we would then walk away. But let's go through another setup here cuz as I mentioned I want you guys to fully understand exactly what it is that you guys are looking for. All right, so
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we'll do the same exact thing here. We'll mark it off from the low to the highest point. We'll drag our box so we know exactly we're looking for a break of. If it breaks to the downside, we're looking for sells. If it breaks to the
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upside, we're looking for buys. Let's fast forward here, see what happens. Remember we have to wait until 8:30.
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Right now you see it broke it and this is at 8:25. So, this setup would now be invalid. I'm glad that we have this example as well. This setup is now invalid, meaning no matter what happens now, I would not take this trade. We can
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fast forward to see what happens at stock market open. And as you see, price actually ended up selling down. This is actually a perfect example. Um so, what would have happened is we would entered if we didn't wait
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until market open, we would have entered as soon as this candlestick broke this low. We would have put our stop loss right above that candlestick that we entered on, and we would have went for a two to one. And what would have
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happened? We would have got wicked out. We would have lost this trade instantly. That's why it's important that we follow all the steps inside of that checklist that we had just went over. All right, so here's another example. Let's mark
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off the low right here to the high point. So, now we have the London high and the London low. And let's just wait for 8:30 to happen, which should be this next candlestick. 8:30, which is 9:30 Eastern Standard Time. I'm not going to
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keep saying that. You guys are smart. You guys know that I I'm on a different time zone. So, we didn't get a break yet. Let's see if we get a break now.
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And as you see, we did get a break right on this candlestick. So, we would have entered as soon as it broke above that zone. We would have put our stop loss below the candlestick that entered us into the trade, which is right here,
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right below it. And then, again, we're just dragging this until this gets to a risk to reward ratio of a two. And as you see, this trade hit in a matter of seconds or minutes, maybe two minutes max, and we were able to be done with
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the day. We made our $250, and I could walk away at this point because I had my one and done trade. So, as you can see, this strategy absolutely kills it as long as you follow the checklist to a T. The checklist is that same
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eight-step checklist we literally just went over. The first step is to mark off your London high and your London low.
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Draw your box around it is the second step. Make sure you're waiting for market open, which is at 9:30 Eastern Standard Time. After market open happens, then go and enter as soon as it breaks either the high or the low, then
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you're going to set your stop loss below the candlestick or above the candlestick that you entered on, depending if it was a buy or a sell. You're going to set your take profit to a two to one risk to
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reward ratio. You have to make sure you're only taking one trade per day. I don't know why I'm still doing stuff with my hands cuz I'm not even on the right number. I think I'm on seven.
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Yeah, you take one trade per day, and step number eight is that hard cut off at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, meaning no trades after that. Now, look, I've given you guys the full blueprint today, the exact session, the exact
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checklist, the exact math behind a $250 day, but I'll be honest, this is the cold hard truth. You really can't change your life if you're only trading with a couple hundred bucks. Like, that's just real. The only reason this super simple
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system pays me the way it does is cuz I have capital behind it, and I'm not risking my rent money, I'm not risking my college tuition or nothing. I'm doing something that everybody should be doing, and that's I'm using other
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people's money to trade with. If you think about it, it's like real estate. Most people never buy a house with cash, you leverage other people's money. So, if you want to see exactly how you can take the same strategy that we just went
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over and scale it with something called funded accounts to potentially give you multiple five figures every single month, watch this video right here. This video I break down the entire truth step-by-step on how you can use this strategy paired with other people's
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money to scale how much you're able to potentially make with your trading. So, I'll see you there.
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