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Episode 29 review of Nasdaq and S&P trading with bullish bias, market structure, fair value gaps, and upcoming Fed volatility insights.

Key Takeaways

  • Bullish bias was justified based on market structure and intermarket analysis between Nasdaq and S&P.
  • Low volatility days require experience and caution, especially ahead of major economic events like Fed speeches.
  • Fair value gaps and relative highs/lows are critical tools for identifying trade entries and market shifts.
  • Smart Money Technique (SMT) offers a non-indicator approach to understanding market dynamics.
  • Close proximity entries are acceptable when ideal trade setups are missed, emphasizing trade management.

Summary

  • The video is a review of trading activity on May 16, 2022, focusing on Nasdaq and S&P with a bullish bias.
  • The presenter highlights the importance of the 12,553.25 level on Nasdaq as a key resistance point.
  • Discussion of low volatility day ahead of Fed Chair Powell's speech and retail sales data release on May 17, 2022.
  • Explanation of market structure concepts including relative equal highs/lows, fair value gaps, and short-term swing lows.
  • Use of intermarket relationships between Nasdaq and S&P to identify divergences and validate trade bias.
  • Introduction of the Smart Money Technique (SMT) to analyze market behavior without traditional indicators.
  • Detailed analysis of price action on a one-minute chart, focusing on entry points near fair value gaps.
  • Emphasis on close proximity entries and managing trades when ideal entry points are missed.
  • Clarification on the use of demo trading and live data to prove trading concepts without rented MT4 servers.
  • Technical explanation of recording software and video editing process used for the tutorial.

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00:06
Speaker A
All right, folks, welcome back. This is episode 29. I'm going to be doing a brief review of what took place today.
00:14
Speaker A
I obviously executed today. I wasn't planning on doing two videos, but uh obviously by the comments, some people are a little bit confused.
00:27
Speaker A
So, I kind of like want to bring your attention back to that 12,553 and a quarter level, which is the relative equal highs here on Nasdaq.
00:36
Speaker A
So, that was kind of like the basis for why I went into the market today, Monday, the 16th of May, 2022, with a bullish bias.
00:55
Speaker A
I was looking for this draw on liquidity still for Nasdaq.
01:00
Speaker A
I originally went in looking for a trade in Nasdaq, but
01:02
Speaker A
All right, and the S&P, much like the Nasdaq, had a daily swing low.
01:06
Speaker A
And while we didn't have relative equal highs here for S&P, the bias was, in my opinion, warranted for at least the beginning of the week.
01:15
Speaker A
Looking for continuation on the upside.
01:19
Speaker A
Before I get into it, tomorrow, which is Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 8:30 in the morning, New York local time.
01:26
Speaker A
We have retail sales numbers and then 2:00 in the afternoon, New York local time.
01:32
Speaker A
We have the Fed chairman speaking.
01:34
Speaker A
So, there's going to be all kinds of volatility at 2:00 tomorrow.
01:40
Speaker A
That's the reason why the market was kind of like lethargic today.
01:43
Speaker A
But I wanted to kind of like showcase something.
01:45
Speaker A
So, today I kind of like wanted to put a nail in the coffin finally about this whole business about
01:50
Speaker A
rented MT4 servers, okay?
01:52
Speaker A
I'm never going to bring the conversation up again or the topic again.
01:55
Speaker A
I think everyone knows now by seeing what I've done here, just in a short span of time.
02:02
Speaker A
If I did this for another five, six weeks, you could clearly see that it's not impossible for the same things I was doing on Twitter.
02:08
Speaker A
Years and years ago, okay, with MT4, I'm not using MT4 here.
02:14
Speaker A
I can't game this system, I'm using live data.
02:17
Speaker A
You're watching the execute, it is what it is, folks, okay?
02:20
Speaker A
Now, it's paper trading, it's demo trading, but I do it just to prove that I can read this stuff.
02:25
Speaker A
I'm not trying to beat my chest, I'm not trying to brag, but I just want to finally put this to bed.
02:30
Speaker A
Because it's still, you see people talking about it all the time.
02:33
Speaker A
When they do that kind of talking, you take them back to these videos here.
02:36
Speaker A
You link these videos to them and let them chew on that.
02:40
Speaker A
All right, so we have the one-minute chart.
02:45
Speaker A
I'm going right into the one-minute chart because we're starting with a bullish bias.
02:50
Speaker A
And at 9:30, we see the market does, in fact, take out a short-term high.
02:56
Speaker A
It declines.
02:57
Speaker A
I'm not interested in going short.
03:00
Speaker A
It does not give me a pattern anyway.
03:02
Speaker A
Notice that there's no fair value gap revisited.
03:05
Speaker A
The market creates this relative equal low, starts to rally.
03:10
Speaker A
Trades up into the afternoon in here.
03:13
Speaker A
I want to see it create a buying opportunity.
03:18
Speaker A
Now, the logic behind all this is
03:20
Speaker A
we're in a day before Fed chair speaks.
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Speaker A
So, there's going to be very low volatility as a result of that.
03:29
Speaker A
So, it's going to be a small range day.
03:32
Speaker A
Doesn't mean you can't trade it, obviously.
03:34
Speaker A
But it takes a little bit more experience.
03:37
Speaker A
Now, I'm not saying that you should trade ahead of Fed chair Powell speaking or any future Fed chairman.
03:42
Speaker A
Because it's going to be a very quiet day, usually like this, okay?
03:46
Speaker A
And it's important to know when the volatility is likely to occur and when also the volatility is likely to shrink up and get kind of like lethargic.
03:51
Speaker A
If you look at the S&P at the top, you can see the drop down.
03:55
Speaker A
Relative equal lows, and then we have the same similar pattern here, but look what Nasdaq was doing.
04:00
Speaker A
You see that?
04:01
Speaker A
Lower low when S&P was saying, I don't want to go that low.
04:04
Speaker A
So, it was resisting going lower.
04:07
Speaker A
Then we retraced higher, just like this Nasdaq did.
04:10
Speaker A
But then Nasdaq made a lower low than that of 10:00 in the morning.
04:15
Speaker A
While at the same time, the S&P said, no, once again, I'm not going lower than the low I made at 10:00.
04:20
Speaker A
So, we had a divergence here and here.
04:22
Speaker A
No indicators, folks.
04:24
Speaker A
I'm using intermarket relationships and this is what I dub SMT, Smart Money Technique or Smart Money Tool.
04:28
Speaker A
Now, the importance of that is
04:30
Speaker A
I already had a bias that's bullish.
04:33
Speaker A
There was no short trades that were lined up with this model today.
04:37
Speaker A
There was no interest in wanting to be short.
04:41
Speaker A
I want to focus on being long.
04:45
Speaker A
So, we're in the one-minute chart here.
04:48
Speaker A
And I want you to take a look at what we have framework-wise.
04:52
Speaker A
Obviously, you've probably already seen the short video I compressed today.
04:55
Speaker A
But looking at price action like this, yes, you can see there is a rally up.
05:00
Speaker A
It breaks this short-term low, a fair value gap, it trades up into it and breaks down.
05:04
Speaker A
Big deal.
05:05
Speaker A
This doesn't fit the criteria because the displacement leg here would require us to see a fair value gap above 50% of the high and the low of the displacement leg.
05:10
Speaker A
And we don't have that.
05:12
Speaker A
So, nothing here fits the model for a short.
05:17
Speaker A
But watch what happens.
05:19
Speaker A
The market creates a run on sell stops here, then rallies.
05:24
Speaker A
Retraces back down into a fair value gap.
05:27
Speaker A
I've seen this happening, but I was trying to get the recording software that I use.
05:32
Speaker A
And by the way, let me just throw this in here too, because I see people asking.
05:36
Speaker A
My website address as a watermark.
05:40
Speaker A
TradingView doesn't do that.
05:42
Speaker A
Okay, I use my Camtasia recording software that helps me do these videos.
05:47
Speaker A
Uh, it's just an application you can overlay like a like a text.
05:52
Speaker A
Call out, they call it.
05:53
Speaker A
And that's what it is, so it's really when I'm doing the recording talking.
05:57
Speaker A
There is nothing here.
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Speaker A
It's a it's a blank chart.
06:00
Speaker A
And then at the end of the recording, when I'm editing it, I'll just add in my website address and
06:05
Speaker A
So anyway, with that said.
06:06
Speaker A
We've seen the market trade back down in and I was trying to get the Camtasia Studio to open up.
06:10
Speaker A
And sometimes it doesn't open up and give me what I need, so I have to close it down entirely and restart it.
06:16
Speaker A
And the whole time this candle was doing its business.
06:20
Speaker A
And I wanted to see it return into this fair value gap once more.
06:24
Speaker A
And I got in on this candle here.
06:27
Speaker A
And we'll look at the relationship between
06:31
Speaker A
the Nasdaq, which was a little bit sloppier in here.
06:35
Speaker A
Versus the S&P.
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Speaker A
A little bit more structured here.
06:39
Speaker A
So, the fair value gap in here, this candle in here.
06:42
Speaker A
It retraced down into it.
06:43
Speaker A
And I want to get close to this fair value gap without it running too far away.
06:47
Speaker A
So, I kind of like want to touch you a little bit tonight with close proximity entries.
06:50
Speaker A
That means you might not get so precise with your entries.
06:54
Speaker A
You might fumble with your order entry or something might happen like it happened with me.
07:00
Speaker A
I I wanted to record me entering, not just simply say, here, here's a trade I took.
07:03
Speaker A
So, I wanted to show obviously me getting in.
07:06
Speaker A
Putting the stop, managing the position and adding the second position in here.
07:10
Speaker A
What do you do in this situation if you miss the ideal entry?
07:13
Speaker A
Well, as long as you're getting in there really close or like I'm suggesting here, a close proximity entry.
07:19
Speaker A
I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
07:21
Speaker A
So, if we are looking for entry patterns.
07:26
Speaker A
The idea is we want to get into where our model is suggesting it.
07:30
Speaker A
So, we're seeing the market trade lower, lower, lower, it's failing to make a lower low like Nasdaq.
07:36
Speaker A
And we have this low that's probably not going to be taken out because we're bullish.
07:41
Speaker A
The market rallies up.
07:43
Speaker A
We have a short-term shift in market structure.
07:46
Speaker A
Then it trades back down into the fair value gap.
07:48
Speaker A
Look how many opportunities it gave to go long.
07:51
Speaker A
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
07:56
Speaker A
Eight candles, it gave an opportunity to get in this area here.
08:00
Speaker A
Either inside the fair value gap or in close proximity to it.
08:05
Speaker A
Now, when the market starts to rally.
08:07
Speaker A
I have one more indication that the market structure has shifted again, bullish.
08:12
Speaker A
With these highs taken out here.
08:15
Speaker A
And then I had a small little fair value gap there.
08:18
Speaker A
And then you watch me add more.
08:21
Speaker A
A limit order came in.
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Speaker A
Filled it.
08:23
Speaker A
I only had one and a half, or no, I'm sorry, one and three-quarters handles.
08:28
Speaker A
Okay, seven ticks if you want to think of it like that.
08:30
Speaker A
I had seven ticks of heat against me on this little candle here before it started running in my favor.
08:36
Speaker A
I took the full pull off here.
08:39
Speaker A
And I did not get the highest high.
08:42
Speaker A
I was a little disappointed in that regard.
08:44
Speaker A
But uh the the candle obviously hit it there.
08:48
Speaker A
And we'll go over to TradingView and we'll look at the business.
08:51
Speaker A
All right, we're over here on TradingView.
08:54
Speaker A
This is live, you can see.
08:56
Speaker A
Time of that's recording, this is where I'm sitting down at the computer.
09:00
Speaker A
And the market trades lower, creates that short-term run here.
09:03
Speaker A
Rallies.
09:05
Speaker A
Breaking market structure to the upside.
09:08
Speaker A
Trades into the fair value gap and the secondary fair value gap.
09:11
Speaker A
And then it runs up into the liquidity above here.
09:13
Speaker A
Now, if I add
09:17
Speaker A
the executions.
09:20
Speaker A
I want you to see look right in here and right in here.
09:24
Speaker A
And up here where you'll see the exits and entries.
09:27
Speaker A
Respectively.
09:29
Speaker A
So, you can see there's that candle.
09:32
Speaker A
That entry.
09:34
Speaker A
3,994 and a half.
09:39
Speaker A
3,996 and a quarter.
09:43
Speaker A
And it went down to 94.
09:47
Speaker A
What's the low here?
09:48
Speaker A
Yeah, 94 and a half.
09:50
Speaker A
So, it was only less than two uh handles, or no, less than one.
09:56
Speaker A
Yeah, less than one.
09:58
Speaker A
Less than one uh handle of heat entering on this candle here.
10:03
Speaker A
And the next candle had a little bit of retracement.
10:05
Speaker A
So, very, very, very tight placement.
10:08
Speaker A
And this was not entering in the fair value gap, it was in close proximity to it.
10:12
Speaker A
So, the underlying idea was it was going down in here to go higher.
10:17
Speaker A
Retrace into that to go higher.
10:20
Speaker A
And you saw me map out all this stuff here.
10:23
Speaker A
And call it up in, you know, business is done.
10:26
Speaker A
But the exit up here.
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Speaker A
4,022 and a half.
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Speaker A
And that's that.
10:33
Speaker A
You can see there is no short positions in here.
10:37
Speaker A
No short positions over here, none of that business.
10:40
Speaker A
And on Nasdaq, we'll pull that up just for completeness sake too.
10:47
Speaker A
No executions.
10:50
Speaker A
So, all the business was done in the S&P today.
10:53
Speaker A
So, my question to you is, when you see these videos and
10:58
Speaker A
I'm trying to illustrate, obviously, that I don't need to fraud anyone.
11:03
Speaker A
The things I'm teaching you, I think that you're seeing evidence that it works.
11:08
Speaker A
Hopefully, uh you guys have seen enough with this here.
11:11
Speaker A
Um, do the math, folks, okay?
11:13
Speaker A
In less than a week and a half, how much more would you see this compound if I did it for six more weeks?
11:19
Speaker A
Or five weeks?
11:21
Speaker A
It's hard to imagine the things that I did on Twitter with MT4.
11:26
Speaker A
Not a rented MT4 server.
11:28
Speaker A
Literally pushing a button, putting the orders in, doing the whole business, okay?
11:32
Speaker A
I know a lot of you have just discovered me and you're seeing people post stuff about how other traders or other mentors or other teachers.
11:39
Speaker A
They fake their positions.
11:41
Speaker A
I'm open about paper trading because it's compliance.
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Speaker A
I'm not legally allowed to give you trade advice.
11:48
Speaker A
So, I'm protected by my discussion in paper trading because you cannot make money with paper trades.
11:54
Speaker A
And you can't lose money with paper trades.
11:57
Speaker A
But I've always said this from the beginning, I've dubbed myself the demo baller.
12:02
Speaker A
I championed that name because I want to make sure everyone knows that I'm not promising you profitability.
12:09
Speaker A
I don't dangle a carrot in front of you and saying you're going to do what I'm doing here.
12:13
Speaker A
Because you're not going to be able to replicate this.
12:15
Speaker A
You're not, okay?
12:17
Speaker A
Don't be deceived by seeing me do this again for like the fifth time.
12:24
Speaker A
Running up an account like this with breakneck speed velocity.
12:29
Speaker A
And this is just casually doing it in a tight range.
12:32
Speaker A
When there's large ranges, I could have easily taken this over to a million dollars.
12:36
Speaker A
Already.
12:39
Speaker A
But it doesn't prove anything.
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Speaker A
Except for the fact that I can read price action.
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Speaker A
That's all.
12:45
Speaker A
That's all I'm showcasing.
12:46
Speaker A
I'm not trying to say I'm the best.
12:48
Speaker A
I'm not trying to say that you can't make money in other things.
12:51
Speaker A
I'm just saying.
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Speaker A
I know how to read these candlesticks, I know what they're likely to do.
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Speaker A
Most of the time before they do it.
13:00
Speaker A
I know at times I take losing trades.
13:02
Speaker A
But when it's really likely to work with the algorithm.
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Speaker A
I'll be dialed in.
13:09
Speaker A
You can't fake what I'm doing.
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Speaker A
You can see me executing the trade, you can see me managing the trade.
13:15
Speaker A
And you can see the orders entering and filling.
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Speaker A
They pop up, they verify the whole thing.
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Speaker A
No replay button appear.
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Speaker A
None of this stuff, okay?
13:24
Speaker A
See how that's blue now?
13:26
Speaker A
Like you can't create that same scenario.
13:30
Speaker A
So, I'm hopefully satisfying this discussion that people like to bring up all the time.
13:35
Speaker A
About rented MT4 servers because they couldn't wait to put that on me.
13:38
Speaker A
Because they watched me do just like this and I ran up to $5 million in a little less than one and a half months.
13:43
Speaker A
Okay, so.
13:46
Speaker A
I understand that doesn't seem possible.
13:49
Speaker A
I understand that people that would be able to do what I'm doing could very easily go out there and defraud people.
13:55
Speaker A
I'm telling you it's demo.
13:58
Speaker A
I'm not saying that I did that with real money.
14:00
Speaker A
I'm just saying that I can read price action.
14:04
Speaker A
I can see these patterns forming and even with these other folks out there.
14:08
Speaker A
With fake MT4 servers and MT4 screenshots of making money and all this other fake withdrawals.
14:14
Speaker A
I made fun of all that stuff.
14:17
Speaker A
I trolled those people on Twitter.
14:20
Speaker A
Now, I'm about to go back to Twitter.
14:22
Speaker A
This time, I'm not going there with that intent.
14:26
Speaker A
I'm ready, should someone want to bring it.
14:28
Speaker A
But I'm not there or going there for that reason.
14:32
Speaker A
The reason why I'm going to Twitter is I miss being able to do my small little vignettes.
14:36
Speaker A
Where I would do recordings of me either taking a trade or reading price action and having some short little clip.
14:42
Speaker A
40 seconds long or less of music in the background.
14:44
Speaker A
I missed doing that.
14:45
Speaker A
Maybe it wasn't always your cup of tea for my music choice, but I have a very diverse palette for music.
14:51
Speaker A
And it's just one of those things I enjoyed doing.
14:54
Speaker A
So, it might not be worth it for you to follow me on Twitter.
14:58
Speaker A
Or it might be, I don't know.
15:00
Speaker A
But I kind of wanted to clear the air for the last time.
15:05
Speaker A
And show you all one more time where I don't need to do what what frauds do.
15:10
Speaker A
Like I can I can see this stuff before it happens.
15:13
Speaker A
And you can learn how to do this too.
15:16
Speaker A
You can read it before it happens, you can see it, you can have faith that.
15:21
Speaker A
The things that you're learning here are rooted on sound logic.
15:25
Speaker A
It's not randomness.
15:27
Speaker A
It's not retail logic.
15:29
Speaker A
These are things that are algorithmic.
15:31
Speaker A
And I think today was a testimony to that.
15:34
Speaker A
So.
15:36
Speaker A
Tomorrow's going to be very volatile.
15:38
Speaker A
Be careful, do not try to trade tomorrow.
15:40
Speaker A
You'll probably hurt yourself if you do.
15:43
Speaker A
Or don't listen to me and learn the lesson the hard way.
15:47
Speaker A
Until I talk to you next time.
15:49
Speaker A
Be safe.
Topics:Nasdaq tradingS&P 500bullish biasmarket structurefair value gapSmart Money Techniqueintermarket analysisFed speech volatilityday tradingtrading review

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the main trading bias discussed in this video?

The main trading bias discussed is bullish, based on relative equal highs on Nasdaq and supportive market structure in the S&P.

Why was the market lethargic on May 16, 2022?

The market was lethargic due to low volatility ahead of the Fed Chair's speech and retail sales data release scheduled for the following day.

What is the Smart Money Technique (SMT) mentioned in the video?

The Smart Money Technique is an approach that uses intermarket relationships, such as divergences between Nasdaq and S&P, to analyze market behavior without relying on traditional technical indicators.

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