**Intro To TTrades Fractal Model [Indicator & Settings] โ€” Transcript & Summary | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/transcript/ttrades-fractal-model-indicator-settings/ TTrades walks through his Fractal Model and custom indicator, showing how it marks swing points, candle closures, projections and T-spots across timeframes and bias settings. ## Key Takeaways - The Fractal Model relies on swing points and higher-timeframe candle closures to identify reversals - A change in the state of delivery on a lower timeframe confirms the higher-timeframe reversal signal - The indicator automates marking of setups, projections, and T-spots across different timeframes - Bias settings and timeframe selection filter the setups shown so only relevant trades are visible - Failed setups can be anticipated when price closes through key levels, serving as an early warning ## What the video covers - Introduces the Fractal Model, based on the principle that the market cannot reverse without forming a swing point - Explains using higher-timeframe candle closures that sweep a prior high or low and close back inside the range as reversal signals - Describes confirming a reversal via a change in the state of delivery on a lower timeframe - Demonstrates how the trade is entered on the open-high-low-close of the following candle, with stop on the high and a 2R target - Presents the custom indicator that automatically marks candle closure setups, change in state of delivery, projections and T-spots - Shows how the indicator adapts automatically when switching between timeframes such as daily/hourly and hourly/5-minute - Covers general settings including warning and error messages, alerts, and labels such as C2 and C4 - Explains the bias selector (bullish, bearish, neutral) that filters which setups are displayed - Describes offset, box colors, and projection settings for customizing the chart display - Discusses formation liquidity and using consolidation highs and closures as an early warning that a setup may fail ## Chapters 1. 00:00 Introduction to the Fractal Model 2. 01:30 Swing Points and Candle Closure Reversals 3. 03:00 Confirming Reversals with Change in State of Delivery 4. 04:00 Walkthrough of the Indicator on Price Action 5. 05:00 Applying the Model Across Multiple Timeframes 6. 06:00 Indicator Settings: Warnings, Bias, and Display Options 7. 09:00 Projections, Formation Liquidity, and Failed Setups 8. 19:00 Closing Thoughts and Confluence Answers ## Questions about this video What is the core principle behind the Fractal Model? The model is based on the understanding that the market cannot reverse without first forming a swing point. Reversals are identified when higher-timeframe price sweeps a prior high or low and closes back inside the range. How does the indicator determine a valid setup? The indicator identifies when price takes out a previous day's high or low, closes back inside the range, and is paired with a change in the state of delivery. It then marks projections for targets and T-spots where higher-timeframe wicks may form. What does the bias setting do in the indicator? The bias setting lets the trader choose bullish, bearish, or neutral. Selecting a bias filters the chart to show only the matching setups, while neutral displays both bullish and bearish setups. ## Full Transcript โ€” Download SRT & Markdown 00:05 Speaker A how's it going everyone? This video is going to be a basic introduction into my fractal model. However, the main focus of this video is going to be going over my indicator and its settings and how it is used. So let's hop into the first example here to explain the fractal model and then how the indicator would plot it. 00:22 Speaker A used so let's hop into the first example here to explain the fractal model and then how the indicator would plot it so my fractal model relies on the foundational understanding that the market cannot reverse without a swing point so you can see here the market has 00:36 Speaker A So my fractal model relies on the foundational understanding that the market cannot reverse without a swing point. So you can see here, the market has formed a swing point to reverse, or go from bearish to bullish. And if we are going to reverse from bullish to bearish, we are also going to form a swing point. 00:46 Speaker A market is likely to reverse I will use candle closures so you can see here price has swept out its previous candle high and then closed back inside the range so if you've seen my daily bias video you know that I would be bearish 01:00 Speaker A Now, what do I use to determine if the market is likely to reverse? I will use candle closures. So you can see here, price has swept out its previous candle high and then closed back inside the range. If you've seen my daily bias video, you know that I would be bearish, or looking for a previous day low. So with that understanding that I'd be looking for a previous day low, or a run lower, this next day I'd be looking for an open, high, low, close. 01:13 Speaker A I would go down to the hourly time frame from the daily and look to see if we have a change in the state of delivery so down here on the hourly chart do we have a change in the state of delivery 01:23 Speaker A Now, to confirm this bias, I would go down to the hourly time frame from the daily and look to see if we have a change in the state of delivery. So down here on the hourly chart, do we have a change in the state of delivery confirming the swing point? Well, you can see we have closed through the series of up-closed candles that have made this high. So I consider this high protected, and then I will look to trade the open, high, low, close in the following candle. 01:37 Speaker A so you can see here as we let this play out you can see we reach higher we sweep out a high to the left and then we get an opposing candle formation here so I'd anticipate this Wick to have formed and 01:49 Speaker A So you can see here, as we let this play out, you can see we reach higher, we sweep out a high to the left, and then we get an opposing candle formation here. So I'd anticipate this wick to have formed, and then I can look to trade lower the rest of the day. So I could either get on side in this next candle here, or in this hourly candle, or wait for a New York session. 02:02 Speaker A New York session what happens we sweep out this High to the left we then close through the down close candle that made that high so if I wanted to put on a position I could put on a position on 02:15 Speaker A So you can see here, as we approach the New York session, what happens? We sweep out this high to the left. We then close through the down-closed candle that made that high. So if I wanted to put on a position, I could put on a position on the close of this candle, my stop on the high, and looking for 2R. Let's see how this works out. It makes us wait some time, but we do hit our TP on that trade. 02:28 Speaker A review the foundational Concepts within the fractal Model A Higher time frame closure in this case price swept out its previous day high and closed back inside the range we have a change in the state of delivery that confirms that reversal 02:42 Speaker A So just to review the foundational concepts within the fractal model: a higher time frame closure. In this case, price swept out its previous day high and closed back inside the range. We have a change in the state of delivery that confirms that reversal, and then in the following candle I'm looking to trade the open, high, low, close as that is what is determined by my higher time frame bias. So you can see here, this is how I would mark it out. 02:52 Speaker A to make this more efficient for myself with the help of two degrees I have designed my own indicator to mark this out all for me so let's go ahead and rewalk through through this price action but with my 03:02 Speaker A Now, to make this more efficient for myself, with the help of two degrees, I have designed my own indicator to mark this out all for me. So let's go ahead and rewalk through this price action but with my indicator. So you can see on this new candle close, it has identified that it's taken the previous day's high, closed back inside the range, and is also paired with a change in the state of delivery. With this, it will mark out projections to give myself targets, as well as mark out a T-spot, which is an area that I look for higher time frame wicks to be formed. 03:15 Speaker A to give myself targets as well as Mark out a t-spot which is an area that I look for higher time frame Wicks to be formed so for instance if we are going to trade lower here I would like to see 03:26 Speaker A So for instance, if we are going to trade lower here, I would like to see price trade into this gray area, form a high or a higher time frame wick, and then trade lower throughout the day. As we let this continue out, this is when I would then mark up my opposing candle formation, and I'd like to see this trade lower throughout the day. And you can see as we get into the next day here, because we have closed bearish, I will then look for a continuation in this following candle. If we let this play out, you can see we do get this continuation lower, and then we finally go and take out these lows to our left. So you can see that is what my indicator looks like. 03:39 Speaker A lower throughout the day and you can see as we get into the next day here because we have closed bearish I will then look for a continuation in this following candle if we let this play out you can see we do get this 03:56 Speaker A Now let's go back and take a look at this New York session setup where we have swept out this high here. Since my model is fractal, hence the name of the fractal model, I can apply this on multiple time frames. So here we are on the daily and hourly, but let's say I wanted to go in here on the hourly and 5-minute. I could go ahead and rewind, drop down to the 5-minute time frame, and the indicator would auto-adjust for that. So you can see we've taken out this high. If I had a bearish bias, I could go ahead and switch this to bearish, and it would only seek out the bearish setups. And then as I let this continue here, we get this higher time frame candle closure, the 5-minute setup, and then I'm anticipating the higher time frame wick to form in this area to trade lower. So as we let this play out, you can see we respect that area, and then we get a continuation there to the lows to the left and to our standard deviation projections. 04:09 Speaker A have swept out this High here since my model is fractal hence the name of the fractal model I can apply this on multiple time frames so here we are on the daily and hourly but let's say I wanted to go in here on the hourly and 5 04:22 Speaker A So let's go ahead and go through all my indicator settings. The first setting is warning and error messages. Do I want to have that turned on? I personally do, because if I'm not on an automatic time frame, let's say I am on the 1-minute and 15-minute model and I'm on the 5-minute time frame, I'm going to get an error because the 5-minute is greater than the 1-minute, or the lower time frame, in that case. So I want to see that time frame, and I can see that I need to go to a 1-minute time frame or below to view it. 04:35 Speaker A and switch this to bearish and it only seek out the bearish setups and then as I let this continue here we get this higher time frame candle closure the 5 minute setup and then I'm anticipating the higher time frame Wick to form in 04:50 Speaker A Now in our general settings, if I want to get alerts when setups form, I'm going to go ahead and have this toggle turned on and follow the instructions to get the alerts that I want to have. Now in terms of history, this is going to show how many previous setups on the chart. So if I only want to see the current setup, I can go ahead and make that a zero, and it would only show the current setup. So for instance, if I let this continue to play out, it would then disappear. If I have that set up to one, then it would go ahead and show the most recent setup, and I can go all the way up to 40 for those setups. So let's say I go to 15, hit okay, you can see this will show the last 15 bearish setups because I also have my bias set to bearish. 05:05 Speaker A and go through all my indicator settings so the first setting is a warning and air messages do I want to have that turned on I personally do because if I'm not on an automatic time frame let's say I am on the 1 minute and 15 minute model 05:18 Speaker A So let's go ahead and pull back up our settings here. C2, C3, and C4 are the higher time frame candle closures. Now, I go over all the requirements for these within my course and mentorship, but essentially this means candle 2, candle 3, candle 4, and then specific candle closures with that. So you can see this will show a candle 2 closure. If I don't want to see a candle 2 closure, I go ahead and turn that off, and then I will only see candle 3 closures with candle 4 continuation. I personally like to have all of these on because I like to view all of them. 05:28 Speaker A see that I need to go to a 1 minute time frame or below to view it now in our general settings if I want to get alerts when setups form I'm going to go ahead and have this toggle turned on and 05:39 Speaker A Now, you may notice on the chart there are a few different colors of these C2, C3, and C4. A gray C2 is when the setup has remained valid throughout candle 4. A red C2 is when that setup fails within the first candle, and an orange C2 is when that setup fails, but not the first candle after, but the second candle after. 05:50 Speaker A can go ahead and make that a zero and it would only show the current setup so for instance if I let this continue to play out it would then disappear if I have that set up to one then it would go 06:01 Speaker A Now going into my bias, this is where I can select my bias. So in the previous example I just showed you, I was bearish going into the New York session, so I went ahead and selected it to bearish, and you can see how all of the bullish setups will disappear as I have chosen bearish. That will only show me the bearish setups. If I want to see bullish, I can go ahead and select bullish, and then it will show me all the bullish setups and not the bearish. If I don't have any bias, or a neutral bias, I can select neutral, and it will show me both bearish and bullish setups. 06:13 Speaker A bias to bearish so let's go ahead and pull back up our settings here now C2 C3 and C4 are the higher time frame candle closures now I go over all the requirements for these within my course and mentorship but essentially this 06:28 Speaker A Now, the cool thing about this indicator is I can go ahead and adjust my kill zones through the time frame filter. So for instance, you can see all of these different setups here, but let's say I'm only interested in price in the New York session between 8 and 11:30. I could go ahead and adjust it from 8 to 11:30. One thing about this: it's going to choose the whole hour's candle, so this means I would have to w 06:38 Speaker A that off then I will only see candle 3 closures with candle 4 continuation I personally like to have all of these on because I like to view all of them now you may notice on the chart there are a 06:48 Speaker A few different colors of these C2 C3 and C4 a gray C2 is when the setup has remained valid throughout candle 4 a red C2 is when that setup fails within the first candle and an orange C2 is when 07:01 Speaker A that setup fails but not the first candle after but the second candle after now going into my bias this is where I can select my bias so in the previous example I just showed you I was bearish going into the New York session so I 07:14 Speaker A went ahead and selected it to bearish and you can see how all of the bullish setups will disappear as I have chosen a bearish setup right and so that will only show me the bearish setups if I want to see bullish I can go ahead and 07:27 Speaker A select bullish and then it will show me all the bullish setups and not the bearish if I don't have any bias or a neutral bias I can select neutral and it will show me both bearish and bullish setups now the cool thing about this 07:41 Speaker A indicator is I can go ahead and adjust my kill zones through the time frame filter so for instance you can see all of these different setups here but let's say I'm only interested in price in the New York session between 8 to 11:30 so I 07:54 Speaker A could go ahead and take a look at this adjust it from 8 to 11:30 right and one thing about this it's going to choose the whole hours candle so this means I would have to wait for the 9:00 a.m. closure so if I 08:06 Speaker A want to include the whole 8 Hour closure I'm going to have to choose 7 a.m. for this with that selection it has removed all of the setups that were not inside the Kill Zone now if I have multiple 08:17 Speaker A different kill zones I can have up to three so let's say I want to view London and New York am session I can go ahead and select that and then I'll get those setups as well now going into a few of 08:28 Speaker A the customizable settings the higher time frame candles or the power of three candles on the right side I have the option to hide those if I don't want to view them and then I can also change the size of them so you can 08:40 Speaker A see now they are hidden I will go ahead and bring them back and you can adjust the size of them between small medium and large now an offset will offset it from your chart So currently it has this 08:51 Speaker A default offset of this location here where it's going to offset it about that much let's say I want more space between myart chart in my higher time frame candles I can go ahead and just adjust this offset to 10 or whatever you select 09:06 Speaker A and that will move these candles to the right so you can see those candles now have moved to the right and basically doubled the offset there the body border and Wick of the candles are pretty self-explanatory those will just adjust 09:20 Speaker A the colors of the higher time frame candle now the higher time frame open this will Mark out the current higher time frame open of the higher time frame candle so you can see at this 12 a.m. 09:30 Speaker A hourly candle it is marking out the open of that if I wanted to turn that off I can go ahead and turn that off there or I can adjust these settings between solid dashed and dotted now open close 09:41 Speaker A time is going to be those vertical lines which I find very important in my analysis for separating the individual open high low close so you can see each of these three hours over here are separated vertically here I can go ahead 09:54 Speaker A and turn that off if I do not want to view it and you can see that is what it looks like with it turned off now the low and high lines are going to go ahead and Mark out the high and low of each 10:04 Speaker A hour on the lower time frame chart this is not something I personally wish to see so I go ahead and leave it off for my default settings now going into the model style do you want to show my 10:15 Speaker A fractal model labels that is going to be the C2 C2 failed C4 all of those labels so if I want to have those on I'll have those on and I can choose the size of them or I can go ahead and turn them off 10:27 Speaker A if I do not want to view them now the Candle One Sweep is going to Mark out that first candle that was swept out from the higher time frame closure so you can see it will Mark out the 10:36 Speaker A previous candle's High here as well as on the lower time frame I personally like to view that now here I have the choice for my change in the state of delivery between two options for a bullish change on the state of delivery 10:48 Speaker A and bearish change on the state of delivery I personally keep them the same color but some people do want to see the bearish change in the state of delivery as a different color so for instance if I wanted a different color on the 10:58 Speaker A bearish change in the state of delivery I'm going to adjust that setting and then you can see it will adjust between bearish and bullish now for candle equilibrium that is just going to Mark out this higher time frame candles EQ so 11:10 Speaker A you can see it is marked out there as well as on the lower time frames if you don't want to see that you can go ahead and turn that off with the toggle and it will disappear now for the t-spot this is the 11:22 Speaker A area in the higher time frame candles that I look for the higher time frame Wick 2 form so essentially on my short setup here I'm expecting price to open high go lower and then close so I'm anticipating a high to be formed in this 11:35 Speaker A box so those are the settings for that and you can adjust those boxes how you see fit by default they will be gray and green as that is how I have them now going into the projections these are 11:46 Speaker A currently drawn from the bodies so the series of bodies in the change in the state of delivery I can go ahead and adjust the manual input on these projections these are the default settings that will be there but let's 11:57 Speaker A say I wanted to add in something different let's say I wanted to add in A5 I can just type in a comma and5 click out of this and then the script will go ahead and add in that custom projection so you can see how we 12:12 Speaker A have just added in a new projection there so if you use different projections than me you can go ahead and add those in manually now with the labels of the projections you can go ahead and adjust those too however you 12:23 Speaker A see fit or you can go ahead and turn them off entirely by clicking this box right here and you can see the labels will Disappear Completely now one thing I wanted to talk about here is I'm going up to the higher time frame on the 12:35 Speaker A hourly and you can see we should have a setup being printed but it is not why is that the case so you can see I still have my time frame filter marked out here which won't show up on the hourly 12:46 Speaker A so I want to go ahead and adjust the choose below period and adjust this to something below the current time frame I want it to show up on so you can see this time filter will only apply on the 12:57 Speaker A 30 minute time frame or below for the this given Kill Zone so you can see how that now has adjusted to print on the chart now the last thing I want to talk about is the formation liquidity so you 13:07 Speaker A can see right here formation liquidity a dotted line what is that well given this candle closure here and looking bearish I want to see price run out previous candle's lows or previous day's lows as you can see this previous day's low here 13:21 Speaker A has already been taken however this previous day's low has not been taken and that gets marked out there by the formation liquidity now now the last thing we can talk about here is the table so you can see down here on the 13:33 Speaker A right it will go ahead and give me the time frame asset what fractal model I am set to so you can see because I have it on automatic it is currently on the daily and hourly the time until close so 13:45 Speaker A there is 4 hours until this higher time frame candle closes my bias I have selected so you can see it is currently neutral but if I adjust that up here it will show and then I can also show my 13:56 Speaker A time frame filters that I have set now all of this is pretty customizable if you do have stuff that you want added into this indicator I'm always going to be improving this so just go ahead and shoot me a message and I will see if it 14:08 Speaker A makes sense but let's go over a couple more things such as overlapping the indicators so here we are going to go over a few examples of overlapping the higher time frame t-spot with a lower time frame setup so you can see here we 14:22 Speaker A are in this higher time frame t-pot we have a sweep of these consolidation highs and then we close back inside the previous bar so looking for price to trade lower here what I could do is go ahead and copy this indicator by right 14:36 Speaker A click copy command V and paste on a second one move this to the lower time frame so instead of having it on the daily and hourly go to automatic and then I would go down to the 5 minute 14:48 Speaker A time frame now down here on the 5 minute time frame you can see it's a bit messy because it's overlaying the higher time frame candles with the lower time frame candles so I'll go ahead and hide these higher time frame candles and I'll just 15:01 Speaker A view the lower time frame candles here so you can see I'm go ahead and remove the drawings as we get into this next candle you can see it prints the setup right so we have the t-spot right here 15:13 Speaker A on the 5 minute chart so if I was looking for a setup to trade lower I could either just take an entry here with my stop on an invalidation or look for a confirmation setup in here and you 15:24 Speaker A can see what happens here we start to trade that lower right and you can see we did get a bullish setup that printed right here right and that did fail right away as it was opposing the higher time frame one now 15:41 Speaker A with the closure lower I'd be looking for a continuation out of this area now as we let this play out you can see once it closes over this area that I'm looking for a continuation this will turn red because that is not 15:57 Speaker A ideal for me to be looking for a continuation lower when it closes over that level and you can see that closure right there over my level was the early warning that this setup was not likely to continue so let's go back out to the 16:12 Speaker A hourly time frame to see if there's any other setups so you can see as we get into the next day here what occurs is we have a candle 2 closure on the daily chart setting up an hourly setup so you 16:25 Speaker A can see if we zoom in I'd be wanting to see the higher time frame Wick form in this area here and we have a fair value Gap here so narrowing down this point of Interest I can drop down to the hourly 16:38 Speaker A and 5 minute to see if a setup occurs in this area that is bullish so you can see as we let this play out there was a bearish setup and you can see what do we notice the continuation from this bearish setup 16:52 Speaker A has failed and that is what actually creates the bullish candle to closure now in this area we have the hourly t-pot which I'd want to see hold and a 5-minute te- spot right here now with the closure through these opposing candles here that 17:09 Speaker A would be an order block I could look to take an entry in here my stop on this low and looking for 2 R and as we let this play out you can see we get a continuation higher and what else happens with this 17:23 Speaker A closure on this higher time frame I'd be looking for a continuation in this area here in candle 4 you can see now that we have closed over those down close Candles there I'd anticipate this low to hold if we are 17:38 Speaker A going to trade higher we finally hit that TP there so you can see that is what I wanted to show was there's a lot of different things that you can do with this indicator in terms of a Confluence or 17:51 Speaker A overlapping but you can see how this hourly t-spot was then overlapped with the 5-minute t-spot and if I really wanted to I could go to the lower time frames in there for our last example here you can see we are on ES on The 18:05 Speaker A Daily and hourly chart as we let this daily candle close let's see what happens you can see our daily candle has closed inside the previous day high as shown here and here we have a candle two closure with a change in the state of 18:19 Speaker A delivery here are the projections from the reversal now if price is going to continue lower I'd like to see price hold or not close over this t-spot area here so as we let this continue to play out you can see as we enter the New York 18:35 Speaker A session we have just Consolidated so with a consolidation I'd like to see a manipulation before we get expansion here you can see we manipulate this side of the range so where would I like to see price reach for well ideally 18:50 Speaker A using the formation liquidity or the previous day's low over here which is marked out and in line with the projections I'd like to see price expand to these lows you can see price then expands to those lows and hits the targets and that 19:08 Speaker A will conclude the video with the introduction to my fractal model as well as showcasing my indicator if there is anything that I missed with in this video in regards to settings or the indicator feel free to leave a comment 19:20 Speaker A in the comment section below and I'll get those answered but with that I 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