Speaker A
All right, so this is going to be an update to the YouTube channel because there's a lot of people freaking out thinking I'm missing or gone.
Live trading update showing a bullish equity trade aiming for $50,000 with insights on fair value gaps and market structure.
Key Takeaways
- Live trading with real funds can demonstrate realistic expectations for student traders.
- Fair value gaps and market structure are key concepts for identifying trade entries and targets.
- Trading during market open requires flexibility due to potential whipsaws and volatility.
- Risk management can include manual monitoring and willingness to close trades quickly rather than strict stop losses.
- Economic events like FOMC can cause significant volatility, so trading should be limited or cautious on such days.
What the video covers
- The video is an update from the trader who is on vacation but shares a live trading session aiming to reach $50,000 equity.
- The trader explains the concept of fair value gaps and bullish market structure while analyzing intraday price action.
- The account targets an average return of about 20% per month and demonstrates live trading with real funds, not demo.
- The trader discusses entry strategy around market open, emphasizing risk management and flexibility without strict stop losses.
- A detailed explanation of how price action interacts with fair value gaps and swing highs/lows is provided.
- The trader places a limit order aiming for a scalp trade with a small drawdown and a target profit of around $1,000.
- The importance of being cautious during FOMC days due to expected volatility is highlighted.
- The video concludes with a summary of profits for the day and month, commissions paid, and a review of the trade monitor tab.
- The trader shares insights on how new traders might react nervously and the differences between trading platforms used.
- Overall, the video serves as a practical demonstration of live equity trading with educational commentary.
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Speaker A
I'm on vacation, folks.
Speaker A
But, uh, I took the opportunity to sit down here this morning with you and try to hopefully make a mile marker on the equity on this live account.
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I'm going to try to hit 50,000.
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So I'm watching this potentially make a fair value gap.
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I want to see that swing high broken.
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And we'll see if we get that here.
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And again, this account is really meant to show like averaging like 20% a month. I get questions all the time like, you know, what do I think a student that has gone through all the teachings have worked out a model?
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You know, what could they reasonably expect to see?
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And this is kind of like my answer to that.
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Also, to kind of like remind everybody, I'm not just finding cherry-picked trades in a demo account.
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I can trade with live funds too.
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All right, so we're about to break that swing high, if it does, that'll be bullish market structure.
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I'm thinking we can trade back to on the daily chart back to like 14,000, but that's a little bit of a stretch so far intraday.
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Okay, we have the market structure bullish now.
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So there's a fair value gap.
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I'll highlight that. I'll go into the chart here.
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I'm watching this candle, see how it closes.
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Because that will complete our imbalance, you can see that right there.
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Okay, give me another.
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Right there, that's the low end of the fair value gap, this thing's always tricky.
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All right, so now we have the close of that candle, so now I can.
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I'm a little off on that because I'm clumsy with the finger swim.
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Change the color here so you can see a little bit better.
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Now, it's technically the open, so it's a little bit of volatility that comes in here.
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It can overshoot that low.
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I don't care if it does, if it goes back up into the fair value gap, I will buy it.
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Okay, now when you're entering on like the opening, like 9:30 equities opening, uh, you could take a long entry here, but you don't know how far it's going to whip below that low, and you could be wrong and painfully wrong.
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So what I'm watching is, does it want to go below that short-term low that it's already created moments ago?
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Which would be outside and below the fair value gap, and it does not negate the fair value gap.
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Because I'm using narrative.
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Narrative is, I expect people to look at that and say, okay, it's going to go up, and they're already trying to buy right now.
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But their stop loss is going to be below that swing low.
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So sell stops are resting at 13,614.
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They just took those now.
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Now, this is a high-risk entry long there.
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But I'm watching price now entering that same fair value gap.
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So one more time to see if it wants to poke a little bit lower.
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And I'm again, my daily bias is bullish, so I'm looking for higher prices.
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So I'm going to go and aim for the 80 level.
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That'll give me a nice figure to run to 50,000 on equity.
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I do believe it's going to go higher, but I'm on vacation, so I want to kind of like.
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Let me take this long entry.
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And there you go.
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All right, so now I'm watching price.
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And I want to see it expand up.
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Now, because it's the opening, and I don't know where if we whip below that low.
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I'll give it a chance to go below it just by a little bit.
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And I'll close it at market.
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Generally, I like to trade with a stop loss, but if I'm trading the open like this, stops can be taken really, really easily and then reverse and then never give you a chance to be in it, so I'm allowing myself a little bit of flexibility.
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I'm not trying to encourage you to trade with a stop loss.
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Believe me, I'm I'm right here ready to click and close it if it trades below it.
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And I want to see it expand up.
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Now, I want to see an energetic run above the swing high that was formed just to the left of where we are right now.
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There is a fair value gap at the 680 level.
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And it's above equilibrium, so it would be a premium market.
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So that's why I'm going to be targeting the 80 level.
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Plus it's around 50 handles, so that gives me about $1,000 or more.
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All right, so now right now at this moment, I want to see it expand aggressively.
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Not around, I want to see it really try to spread its wings and take off and start moving.
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Okay.
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There's a small little fair value gap in the last three candles up.
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I don't think it needs to fill that in or even revisit it.
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But if it were to, I would expect price to be, you know, supported by that.
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So in other words, not going below the 630 level.
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Okay.
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Now, at this moment, I could put the stop loss on at my entry.
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And if it takes me out, then I'm would basically move to the sidelines.
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And I wouldn't take any more trades today because it's FOMC.
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FOMC, you can trade in the morning, but you got to be done early.
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If you're trading equities.
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It's important to be aware of the economic calendar because we're probably going to have a lot of volatility later on today.
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I still think they'll push it higher with that.
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So here's my limit order, I'm going to place it there.
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And we'll see if we can get this puppy to reach up there and grab it.
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I mean, I feel confident it's going to go way beyond that, but short little scalp.
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Very little drawdown, about three handles of drawdown if that from the entry.
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Or the candle I entered on, let's say it that way.
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The low from my entry was only like three handles below.
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I have to make, have to go watch the video and see what the actual drawdown was from the point of entry.
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I'm not sure if I had any.
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If I did, then that's what it was limited to, 60 bucks or so, not bad if you're trying to make $1,000.
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Had a small little scalp early in the morning.
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All right, and.
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Now, this is where neophyte traders or newbies, they get nervous.
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I hit the wrong thing here, I always, uh, think I'm on the other platforms I use, I use TradeStation and I use TradingView, and it's different settings, different things you can look for.
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All right, so there's my fill on the limit order.
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Rounding out the day and the month of March, I will not be taking any more trades this month.
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So $1,255 on two trades, about $15 or so in commissions, so take that off of there, that will be the net for the day.
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I'll take you over to the monitor tab here after I scrunch this up and show you the the run on price.
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Now, I think it's going to go higher, but here's the monitor tab showing the actual trades today, and you can see the profit and loss since I started this account.
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And the commissions, which are high because I did a lot of latency tests and I'm done, a lot of things that would kind of like mimic what a new trader would do once they get into live fund trading.
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