The Best Top Down Analysis Strategy for 2025 | Forex Trading Guide

Learn the best top-down analysis strategy for Forex trading in 2025 to boost your win rate and trade like a sniper across multiple time frames.

Key Takeaways

Mastering multiple time frames is crucial for successful Forex trading.
Top-down analysis improves market understanding and trade timing.
Using a structured approach to time frames can significantly increase win rates.
Entry signals combined with top-down analysis provide a strong trading edge.
The strategy is versatile and works across various currency pairs and markets.

What the video covers

Top-down analysis is essential for all types of traders including day traders, scalpers, and swing traders.
The strategy involves analyzing multiple key time frames starting from the weekly down to the 15-minute chart.
Key time frames for trend identification are weekly, daily, and 4-hour charts.
Lower time frames like 2-hour, 1-hour, 30-minute, and 15-minute are used for precise trade entries.
Proper top-down analysis helps traders understand market direction and find an edge.
The presenter shares a personal entry signal that can boost win rates by 20-30%, potentially reaching a 70% winning strategy.
The method applies universally across currency pairs, commodities, and futures.
The video explains how to identify trend shifts and structure changes across time frames.
Emphasis on starting analysis from the highest time frame and working down to the lowest.
The approach helps traders avoid high-risk trades by confirming trend alignment before entry.

Chapters

What is top-down analysis in Forex trading?

Top-down analysis is a method where traders start analyzing the market from the highest time frame, such as weekly, and progressively move down to lower time frames to identify trends and entry points.

Which time frames are essential for top-down analysis?

The main time frames to focus on are the weekly, daily, and 4-hour charts for trend identification, and lower time frames like 2-hour, 1-hour, 30-minute, and 15-minute for precise trade entries.

How does this strategy improve trading win rates?

By combining top-down analysis with a personal entry signal, traders can boost their win rate by 20-30%, potentially achieving around a 70% winning strategy by confirming trend alignment and timing entries accurately.

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If you don't know how to play with time frames, you simply don't know how to trade. It doesn't matter if you're a day trader, scalper, or swing trader. You can't properly top-down analyze a chart, you cannot trade. It doesn't matter what type of trader you are.

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of Trader you are and if you want to be able to be a sniper Trader and constantly winning the markets and become profitable you have to be able to properly do a top down analysis in the market so you can actually see what the

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If you want to be able to be a sniper trader and constantly win in the markets and become profitable, you have to be able to properly do a top-down analysis in the market so you can actually see what the market is doing on different time frames.

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successful you need to be able to manage multiple different time frames at the same time and these are the main key time frames that you need to know for a top- down analysis that is going to be the weekly time frame the daily time

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Now, before you become a nerd or want to be an expert on only one single time frame, I need you to realize that there's not only one time frame to be successful. You need to be able to manage multiple different time frames at the same time.

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where it's headed and how you can find an edge in the market so now let's get into the video on how you can properly do a top down analysis and I'm also going to show you how to actually enter

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These are the main key time frames that you need to know for a top-down analysis. That is going to be the weekly time frame, the daily time frame, and the 4-hour time frame. It does not matter if you're a scalper, day trader, or swing trader. You need to have these three main time frames in your top-down analysis so you can properly understand the direction of the market, where it's headed, and how you can find an edge in the market.

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entry stuff that I use you're going to boost your win rate by 25 to 30% which can lead you to about a 70% winning strategy which is crazy so now let's actually get into the markets right now where I'm going to show show you how to

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So now, let's get into the video on how you can properly do a top-down analysis, and I'm also going to show you how to actually enter a trade with my personal entry signal that I use every single time I enter a trade, and it raises my win rate by even 20 to 25%.

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frames you have the one minute the 2 minute the 3 minute 515 you have all these different time frames you can almost even create custom time frames of your own liking which is actually you know kind of bizarre doesn't even make

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So if you have a win rate of 40 to 50%, if you just add this extra entry stuff that I use, you're going to boost your win rate by 25 to 30%, which can lead you to about a 70% winning strategy, which is crazy.

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personally use for every single time I do a top down analysis on any pair on my watch list so this does not matter the currency pair that you're trading doesn't matter if it's gbpusd Euro USD GBP JPY the same top down analysis

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So now, let's actually get into the markets right now, where I'm going to show you how to properly do a top-down analysis and you can actually have an edge over the market. So let's get into it.

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to pass by the same exact inspection they have to see how much oil is in it how old is the oil in there how much how many quarts of oil have to be added and what type of oil it's the same thing

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So first things first is going to be the actual time frames to do the top-down analysis. There are hundreds of different time frames. You have the one minute, the 2 minute, the 3 minute, 5, 15. You have all these different time frames. You can almost even create custom time frames of your own liking, which is actually, you know, kind of bizarre. It doesn't even make any sense in my opinion, but the possibility is there.

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doing to the determine if you're interested in taking this trade so these are going to be the main time frames that I use which is the 15 minute 30 1 hour 2hour 4our daily weekly and monthly so I put a star on them so they stay on

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And then also, you can go down to the seconds and how many seconds and stuff, which is absolutely just ridiculous. You notice here I have a star on every single time frame that I personally use for every single time I do a top-down analysis on any pair on my watch list.

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down analysis so you want to start off from the highest of the time frame and work all your way down so you were to start off from the weekly then after the weekly you would go to the Daily then

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So this does not matter the currency pair that you're trading. It doesn't matter if it's GBP/USD, EUR/USD, GBP/JPY. The same top-down analysis applies to any pair, any commodity, any future. Everything is exactly the same because it just consists of a top-down analysis.

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specific way on how to do it and what time frame do you divide from each don't worry it's going to make sense and literally just a second so for this video we're going to be using the weekly the daily the 4 Hour the 2 hour the 1

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The simple analogy that I can put here is if you were to take a car into a shop to do the oil change, it has to pass by the same exact inspection. They have to see how much oil is in it, how old is the oil in there, how many quarts of oil have to be added, and what type of oil it is.

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for one parts of the top down analysis and then the 2H hour the 1 hour and 15 and 30 minute is used for another part of the top down analysis so this part is going to be used for the trend to

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It's the same thing. It doesn't matter if it's a Rolls-Royce or if it's a Honda Civic. They have to go through the same oil process to have the standard of what they should do next.

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that you're going to be executing so you have a top down analysis to identify the trend and a top down analysis to identify the entry which are is actually very neat because this way you can actually build an edge and make more

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Same thing here. You have to go through the standard of what the time frames are doing to determine if you're interested in taking this trade.

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my memory from the beginning ways of my strategy but I don't use it anymore to be profitable haven't used it in a really long time just have it there it's kind of like a superstitious thing right just I like it so you want to start off

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So these are going to be the main time frames that I use, which is the 15 minute, 30, 1 hour, 2 hour, 4 hour, daily, weekly, and monthly. So I put a star on them so they stay on this top section here, and I only focus on the ones that are needed for a proper top-down analysis.

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not going to see a lot of movements it just looks like one Big Blob of a move simplest example I can show you is actively what the market Has Done Right Here looks like one Big Blob so if I

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So first things first, what is a top-down analysis? Well, it's pretty self-explanatory. You have to start from the top down, right? It's a top-down analysis. So you want to start off from the highest of the time frame and work all your way down.

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then bullish and that this Market has shifted completely at at this section right here let me actually just delete this stuff so you can see how this Market has gone from bearish to then bullish this Market was creating lower

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So you would start off from the weekly, then after the weekly, you would go to the daily, then from the daily, you would go to the 4 hour, the 4 hour to 1, 30, 15 minutes. It's just pretty much a ladder that goes from the highest time frame to the lowest time frame.

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down analysis all we're doing is literally zooming in to the exact same price that you are seeing right here so this same exact move that we have identified on the weekly time frame that has shifted structure when we go to the

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But there's actually a very specific way on how to do it and what time frame you divide from each. Don't worry, it's going to make sense in literally just a second.

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going on in the market so this exact same Market move is what's going on right here and I'm just going to go down to the Daily because I've already done the top parts of the analysis now I'm going to start working my way down and

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So for this video, we're going to be using the weekly, the daily, the 4 hour, the 2 hour, the 1 hour, the 30 minute, and the 15 minute. So this is actually divided right down the middle almost pretty much, and it's divided right at this section right here.

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notice that within this same exact Market move there is a lot of structure that is happening inside here so all I'm simply going to do is just draw out the structure points following the same weekly move that happened on the section

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Why, you may ask? Well, that is because the weekly, the daily, and the 4 hour is used for one part of the top-down analysis, and then the 2 hour, the 1 hour, and 15 and 30 minute is used for another part of the top-down analysis.

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it because if we were to only look on the daily this is what we would see and we would see a bunch of rubbish we would see literally the market going up down up down up down it's a bit confusing but

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So this part is going to be used for the trend to identify if the market is headed to the upside or the downside, and then this part right here, which is the 2 hour, the 1 hour, the 30 and the 15 minute, is going to be used for the entry of the market that you're going to be executing.

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trade do you want to take an overall of a swing trade do you want to take a little scalp trade this is very important because you can almost do a little bit of everything with the proper top- down analysis confirmation because

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So you have a top-down analysis to identify the trend and a top-down analysis to identify the entry, which is actually very neat because this way you can actually build an edge and make more money.

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is bearish even though it's a probably a beginner Trader this might look bullish it's actually bearish you can see how the market was here indeed creating higher highs higher lows higher highs higher lows higher highs higher lows higher highs and then we had broken this

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So when you're doing a top-down analysis, you want to start off on the weekly. I have the monthly here. I don't use it as much anymore. I kind of just look at it every once in a while just to refresh my memory from the beginning ways of my strategy, but I don't use it anymore to be profitable.

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is an even deeper pullback so then the weekly time frame can continue going to the upside hypothetically but we know that the weekly could have that deeper pullback because the daily time frame is now bearish and it's simply going

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I haven't used it in a really long time. I just have it there. It's kind of like a superstitious thing, right? I just like it. So you want to start off on the weekly time frame.

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this is all big hypothetical right this is uh basically what we're having right in front of us right now and it is 100% a fact and that is that the weekly time frame is a bullish and then that the

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So when you start off on the weekly time frame in the markets, you're probably going to see a market that looks something like this. You're going to see very big moves. You're not going to see a lot of rejections. You're not going to see a lot of movements. It just looks like one big blob of a move.

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really get a clear indication it's why we have to go down now to the 4 4 hour so we're simply going to get the same exact Market move from the daily time frame right here we're going to put it

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The simplest example I can show you is actually what the market has done right here looks like one big blob. So if I were to copy the most recent market structure, it looks like one big move like this, very easy to identify, not that hard to pretty much see what's going on, right?

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already started from the top and we're working our way down now this is currently how this looks on the 4our time frame so for examples purposes I'm going to Simply start it off from this point right here just because there's a

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So this market, you can clearly tell that it was going from bearish to then bullish, and that this market has shifted completely at this section right here. Let me actually just delete this stuff so you can see how this market has gone from bearish to then bullish.

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the upside and every lower lower and lower high that this Market created heading to the downside so as you guys can see it might look a little bit messy but once I move it to the outside you can see very clearly right here that

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This market was creating lower lows and lower highs, and then we broke this structure level, making this a new higher high. Now, I understand by doing a top-down analysis that the weekly time frame is bullish, so it's going to look something like this.

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time frame this is what the top down analysis looks like on the daily time frame and now this is what the top down analysis looks like on the 4-Hour time frame everything you're seeing here is the exact same markets as as you can

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Now, when we do a top-down analysis, all we're doing is literally zooming in to the exact same price that you are seeing right here. So this same exact move that we have identified on the weekly time frame that has shifted structure, when we go to the daily time frame, all we literally do is just zoom in.

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does it make more sense to sell because at the end of the day the Market's going to do two things it's either going to go up or it's going to go down we're simply trying to find an edge on where it makes

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All we do is get a little bit closer, and when we get a little bit closer, what happens? We start seeing a little bit more of the detail of what's going on in the market. So this exact same market move is what's going on right here, and I'm just going to go down to the daily because I've already done the top parts of the analysis.

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also bearish why maybe it's a beginner Trader you can identify this as bullish but it's actually the same exact concept as the daily time frame this Market was creating beautiful higher lows and higher highs heading to the upside but

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Now, I'm going to start working my way down, and when I started from the top, I realized that this market is now going to the upside or this market is going to the downside, whatever the case is. Then I go down to the daily time frame, and I notice that within this same exact market move, there is a lot of structure that is happening inside here.

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Market structure right here so every single time frame that we go down we just get more in detail on what the hell the market is doing exactly this way we can find an edge on what decision should we take So based off of this right here

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So all I'm simply going to do is just draw out the structure points following the same weekly move that happened on the section to the upside. So if you notice, this is the same exact move from right here on the weekly, but now this is on the daily, so we can iden-

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that two time frames are going beish versus one time frame is bullish so as of right now that is literally only the first half of top down analysis which is going to be the weekly the daily and the

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4our this is to Simply understand the trend of the market where is the majority of the time frames headed so we can pretty much create an edge on that direction and take the trade that way now this is what I do do personally for

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myself to catch day trades intraday trades and also swing trades some of you scalpers out there people that are taking even you know trade on the lower time frames you guys don't have to start on the weekly you guys can pretty much

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go Daily 4 Hour 2 hour and then you look for your entries from the D from the lower time frames down I personally like the weekly the daily and the 4 Hour simply because the higher time frames are more respected than the lower time

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frames why well it's because it takes the weekly a lot more time to create a structure Point than it does on the 1 hour in order for the 1 hour to create a structure Point can literally happen within four to 5 hours which happens

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very often but on the weekly time frame for it to create a structure point it takes about four to 5 weeks to create the same structure point so what do you think is going to have a stronger basis

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of holding price something that happens every four or five hours and can happen tens of times throughout the day or or do you think something that happens once every month to month and a half it's pretty logical in my opinion it's why I

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stick to the stronger because at the end of the day I want to put my money behind something that is going to give me more odds of making me money versus not just doesn't make you know sense in my mind

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so after we understand that this is the top down analysis for the trend of the market now we're going to go through the top down analysis of the entry part which is very key because it's where a lot of Traders pretty much just want to

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jump the gun and go straight into entering the market but they got to understand that before entering the market they have to properly do a top down analysis to actually be able to execute a trade so now that we

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understand that two of these time frames are bearish I'm just going to remove the one that's bullish because we're not interested in buying at all and we should not be interested in buying at all we don't want to take a counter

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Trend trade makes no sense it's a high-risk trade so we're going to only look for reasons to sell so now that we have our two time frames that are going to confirm to us that this is bearish we're going to now look for entries on

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the 2H hour the 1 hour the 30 minute and the 50 minute so what exactly are we looking for on these time frames in order to take the trade now this is literally where you're about to have a

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aha moment you're literally about to tell yourself wow I cannot believe that I have not been seeing this so like I like it's literally like been right in front of your face the whole entire time and that is if we are

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selling why don't we continue the selling top down analysis Market structure on the entry points what does that mean let me show you so if we are interested in selling this market right here we know that this is what it looks

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like from the daily to the 4our here now this exact same Market structure let's say hypothetically on the 30 minutes just to show you guys very simply with the same exact Market that we're currently using you can see that on the

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30 minute it's going to look very very different let me just bring this here put it back on where the market is so we know that we're exactly on the same Market that we drew up in this section

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right here now this just back on this area so let's look at it on the 30 minutes so if we go on the 30 minute time frame you can see how we're just going to structure up this last section

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here you can see how it consists of a lot more structure points literally creating a bunch of little higher lows and higher highs throughout the whole entire way and this is obviously happening a lot faster than the 4-Hour

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time frame then the daily time frame so on and so forth so if you notice right here this markets on the 30 minute time frame looks very different than you would want it to now what do I mean by

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that it's very confusing well don't worry it's about to make a lot of sense right now so I'm just pretty much dragging this all the way back to our 4our section which is going to be right around over here so what I have done

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right here is I've literally brought in this zoomed in section of the entry area of gbpusd on the 30 minutes from the 4H hour so this is the 4H hour time frame now this is what it looks like on the 30

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minute time frame so I've obviously only focused on this section here because if I were to pretty much go back all this would look very rubbish it would have a lot of different structure points and doesn't matter to what we're about to do

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right now so if this is what the 4H hour time frame looks like and we've understood that this time frame is bearish just going to put it here so it's very Visual and this is what the 30 minute time frame looks like what is

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this 30 minute time frame doing right now are we actively bullish or are we actively bearish well once again probably to a begin a Trader this time frame might be bearish but they're actually wrong this time frame is

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bullish this Market was creating lower lows lower highs lower lows lower highs lower lows lower highs lower lows and we have now shifted to the upside making this 30 minute time frame bullish so now that this 30 minute time frame is

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bullish well doesn't mean that it's the right time to enter this trade because we are looking to sell and we can only sell when we have a bearish market if we have a lower time frame which is the

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time frame that we're going to enter that is against our overall topown analysis Trend it simply does not make sense to enter the trade the lower time frames have not shifted the structure yet making it not logical to enter the

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trade so this right here would be a perfect example of a loss that a Trader would take or a position that I personally would avoid so to make this very simple and very straight to the point it simply comes down to this if

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this is going to be let's say the 4our time frame and this is what the market would look like on the 4H hour and if I were to divide it from 4 hour to then 30 minutes this is what it would look like

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on the 30 minute let me just make it a very clear cut through version of what it could look like following the same path this is simply going from the 4H hour to the 30 minute time frame they're

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obviously exactly the same this is simply just 4 hour and then this is going to be 30 minutes we are analyzing this Market looking to take this trade to the upside this is where we would wait for this

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pull back here to then buy this is going to be the key of a patient Trader waiting for this area to hit to then enter the position now this is where top down analysis is so crucial because this

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pullback right here is going to give you the perfect confirmation that you have to wait why because now this time frame has gone bearish all the way up to this area in here and you cannot enter this Market as long as this Market continues

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bearish you could only enter on this Market once it has shifted with the overall time frames from the top that analysis if the 4our and then the daily time frame are bullish you want to make sure that then the 30 minute time frame is

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also bullish with the overall time frames on the pullback it went bearish and then we have to wait for it to Simply go bullish so we can then continue to take this trade to the upside the key is when you're going to

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enter the trade on the lower time frames you want to make sure that it allow aligns with the trend of the overall top down analysis if you were to write down one thing from this one entire video that would be it right there so pause

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the video watch it and as you pause the video hit that subscribe button because this right here took me like 2 and 1 half years to understand and the fact that I'm just putting it in this video right now is actually crazy so hit that

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subscribe button right now cuz nobody else is making it as simple and as effective as I am right now because this alone can boost your win rate by 25 to to 30% so make sure you hit that subscribe button so this obviously looks

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very simple on line chart right but we don't trade line charts we trade candlesticks let me actually show you how it looks like on the Candlestick section so I'm just going to pretty much hold on to this for just a quick second

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I'm going to show you guys on this very live example that I'm actually very eager to enter right now so as you guys can see this is a very clear shift of structure if we were to start off from

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the daily time frame well let's start off from the weekly right weekly we can very clearly tell that we have had a lower low lower high lower low now we've had a higher high weekly time frame is actually bullish but you can see how we

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have very strong weekly rejection candlesticks confirming to us that this can pretty much not like this area and have a deeper pull back to then continue to head to the upside because the overall trend is bullish on the weekly

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time frame now starting from the top working our way down to the Daily time frame you can see that the daily time frame has actually shifted structure beautifully you can see how we have a very valid left head and then a right

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shoulder we have confirmed broken through the neckline of that Head and Shoulder well now this time frame is bearish so we have two completely different time frames telling us two completely different things it's 50/50 you want to go with the weekly 50% of

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going up you want to go with the daily 50% chance of going down well I'm not going to take a trade on a 50/50 chance I want to have the majority of the possibilities that I can in order to T

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enter this trade that's why I'm going to go down now to the 4H hour to continue this top down analysis when I come over to the 4our I can very clearly tell that this 4our was in a bullish trajectory

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heading to the upside creating higher highs and higher lows and then we had this massive bearish move that has engulfed pretty much the last couple of weeks in one single session what it did indicating to us that well now now the

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4our is bearish as well giving us two time frames that are bearish versus one now I want you to ask yourself what makes more sense to sell or to buy obviously to sell so now we move over to

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the entry part of the actual trade so you can go to the 2hour the 1 hour the 30 minute the 50 minute whatever looks cleaner I like the 30 minute the most out of anything so when I go over to the

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30 minutes you guys can see here that in the 30 minutes we have structure everywhere we have structure here heading to the upside then we have structure here heading to the downside and on this structure heading to the

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downside we can see how we created a insane amount of a double bottom and then we have now shifted to the upside making the 30 minute time frame bullish you cannot enter a sell if you have a bullish time frame what do you have to

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do you have to wait for this time frame to now go bearish and once it goes bearish then you can continue to take the trade with the overall market now I don't think you guys understand how powerful this is this is literally the

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market showing you its hand first so you can then follow it a lot of Traders want to predict the Market's hand before it actually happens not me I want the market to show me what it's going to do

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after it shows me what it's going to do I'm like all right cool you're actually going to go down well I'll jump in with you I don't want to predict that it's going to go down I want to wait for for

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it to confirm that it's going to continue going down with these other time frames so then I can actually then jump on the ship with it it's almost like a hack it's literally telling you hey I'm actually going to start going

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down to the downside now the lower time frames are pretty much letting you know that so when you get over to the 4H hour time frame you were to pretty much see one big red Candlestick going like this

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and what you know is that on the 30 minute time frame we shifted this is where you enter the trade and then you can pretty much set and forget your way to success because the lower time frame is confirming that it is going to

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continue the trend with the top analysis of the overall time frames and you're probably asking yourself what is this word set and forget and how can you set and forget your way to success like is that even possible well that's what my

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students have been doing in the last three months they've been making anywhere from ,000 to $1,500 a week as a beginner set and forget Trader where they're literally catching trades like this with me every single week on a call that I get with

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them and I explain to them my top two top three pairs that I trade for the week that have the clearest and most precise top down analysis that give us the edge on the market and confirm to us

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that hey it makes more sense to sell at this moment than to buy simply because the overall time frames are actually going down just hop onto the trend to the downside or all the time frames are going up hop on the trend to the upside

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and if you don't know what set and forget is and you want to know more about it well make sure you hit the link in the description below I have a video there for you that explains to you

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exactly what s forget is and how it's changed lives all around the world and it lets Traders make anywhere from a th000 to $1,500 a week as a beginner set foret Trader so make sure you guys watch that

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video the link is in the description below I appreciate you guys watching this video all the way to the end if you want to see more videos like this make sure you hit that like And subscribe button and I actually have a video for

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you that explains to you precisely on what candlesticks are so make sure you check it out in this section right here and I'll see you guys in the next video take it EAS you guys

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