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