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Before setups and strategies, you need to understand how price actually moves.
Price tells you everything if you know how to listen. Learn to read candlestick structure, identify trend vs. range environments, and understand what buyers and sellers are doing at every bar.
Higher highs and higher lows define an uptrend. Lower highs and lower lows define a downtrend. Knowing exactly when structure breaks and what it means for your next trade separates disciplined traders from gamblers.
Price has memory. Levels where buyers stepped in before tend to attract buyers again. Learn how to identify real S/R versus noise and how to use it for entries, stops, and targets.
Learn the ones with real edge â rejection wicks, engulfing candles, inside bars â and what each signals about the balance of power between buyers and sellers.
Learn how to connect valid swing points, identify channel boundaries, and use them to anticipate where price is likely to react.
Supply and demand zones mark where large orders were placed. When price returns to those areas, big money is often waiting. Learn to identify fresh zones and time your entries accordingly.
The framework I use on every single trade. Higher timeframes set context. Lower timeframes give entry.
The 4-hour chart tells you the overall directional bias. You only take trades that align with this bias. Trading against the 4H is where most losses come from.
The 1-hour chart confirms momentum in the direction of your 4H bias. If the 1H is pulling back against the 4H trend, wait â don't chase.
The 15-minute chart is where you time your entry and place your stop. Wait for a precise trigger â a structure break, a rejection wick, a clean level hold.
All three timeframes need to tell the same story before you put on a trade. One timeframe against you means you wait. Two timeframes against you means you walk away. This single filter eliminates most bad trades before they happen.
The three setups I trade most on MNQ and NQ. Each has a clear structure, a clear entry, and a clear invalidation.
Price makes a sharp, near-vertical move upward on high momentum â then stalls, wicks hard, and reverses fast. Late buyers get trapped at the top and the flush begins.
What I look for: Parabolic move into a known resistance area, rejection wick on the 15M, 4H bias already bearish. Entry on the first lower high after the wick.
Price gaps up at the open, triggers FOMO buying, then reverses and fills the gap. The gap creates excitement. The trap catches the buyers who chased.
What I look for: Gap into resistance or prior day high, failed follow-through in the first 15-30 minutes, price stalling and rolling over.
After a trend move up, price attempts a bounce â but the bounce is weak and runs out of steam well below the prior high. Sellers are in control and any rally is a shorting opportunity.
What I look for: Weak bounce to a prior structure level, lower high confirmed on the 1H, 15M entry on the rollover.
The best setup in the world means nothing without a plan for when you're wrong.
MNQ is $2 per point. NQ is $20 per point. Know your max dollar risk per trade before you enter. If your stop is 20 points away and you risk $100, that's 5 MNQ contracts. Size to the stop, not to the gut feeling.
Your stop goes where your trade idea is wrong â not where it hurts least. Place it beyond a clear structure level. If the stop placement makes the trade not worth taking, the trade isn't worth taking.
Minimum 2:1 reward to risk on every trade. If you're risking 20 points, you need at least a 40-point target. This math means you can be wrong half the time and still come out ahead â if you stick to it.
For prop accounts, EOD trailing drawdown is the only structure I trade under. Your drawdown level moves up with your highest end-of-day balance â not tick by tick during the session.
Hit your daily target â stop trading. The market will always offer another opportunity tomorrow. Hit the number, log off. Non-negotiable.
Set a max daily loss before the session starts. If you hit it, you're done for the day â no exceptions, no "one more trade." Uncontrolled losing days are what blow accounts.
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