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title: 'Live Day Trading NQ and ES Futures | Happy Wednesday'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=cYPq1KakDXA'
video_id: 'cYPq1KakDXA'
date: 2026-08-05
duration_sec: 7826
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# Live Day Trading NQ and ES Futures | Happy Wednesday

> Source: [Live Day Trading NQ and ES Futures | Happy Wednesday](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cYPq1KakDXA)

## Summary

In this live day trading session, the trader analyzes NQ and ES futures on a no-news Wednesday, focusing on price action, fair value gaps, and liquidity sweeps. He emphasizes patience, discipline, and avoiding trades without clear setups, ultimately taking a small short position and ending the day near break-even.

### Key Points

- **Market Context and Bias** [00:15] — The trader notes a big sell-off from the previous Monday, with price back inside a range. He identifies a daily fair value gap and expects a bullish hold, aiming to sweep internal lows and continue higher.
- **Key Levels and Liquidity** [01:36] — He highlights a 15-minute fair value gap holding bullish and an inverse fair value gap generating low-resistance liquidity to the upside. He expects this liquidity to be run.
- **SMT and Manipulation** [03:50] — The trader discusses SMT (Smart Money Technique) at the lows and expects early morning manipulation, with a fast rebalance back higher after sweeping lows.
- **Trade Setup and Execution** [08:38] — He describes wanting to see a fast recovery, take the recent low, and then run all low-resistance liquidity. He takes a small short position later, risking about $100, looking for an expansion lower.
- **Patience and Discipline** [12:25] — Emphasizes the importance of patience, not forcing trades, and waiting for clear setups. He notes that hard work in trading often means doing nothing.
- **Trading Psychology** [21:12] — Discusses reprogramming yourself to get satisfaction from following your rules, not from making money. He stresses that comparing yourself to others is detrimental.
- **Entry Models and Tools** [34:35] — Explains that entry models like fair value gaps and order blocks are just tools to understand price action. He recommends finding a mentor and sticking to one approach.
- **Break Even and Losses** [53:08] — Advises that being at break-even is often due to unnecessary losses. He suggests journaling and removing trades that shouldn't be taken.
- **Comparison and Conviction** [01:06:30] — Warns against comparing your trading to others, as it leads to false conviction. He emphasizes that making money doesn't mean you're doing something right.
- **Small Short Trade** [01:40:05] — Takes a small short position with tight risk, looking for an expansion lower. He manages the trade and eventually gets stopped out, ending near break-even.
- **Success and Failure** [01:59:22] — States that failure made him successful, not any specific strategy. He emphasizes understanding your mistakes and learning from them.

### Conclusion

The session highlights the importance of patience, discipline, and not forcing trades. The trader ends near break-even, emphasizing that not taking a trade is often the right decision.

## Transcript

we good I think we should be good I think we should be
think everything uh should be should be good to go all right well good morning good morning hopefully everybody is doing doing well this fine Wednesday morning it is a no news Wednesday it is
morning it is a no news Wednesday it is no news um that is true but we'll see go live today on YouTube I was feeling it I like I kind of like going Live on YouTube like every other week um so we'll see what we get today um again our
goal today is just to come into the market see what the price action gives us see see if there's any opportunity if there's not any opportunity if not we try not to take a trade try not to scrape the knee walk away um and if
there is then we we see uh what that could look like so let's jump in we got around seven eight minutes before Market opens so let's talk about what I'm looking at so yesterday we ended up seeing a big move um selling all the way
back from previous Monday uh session ended up selling all the way back inside this range if we look back to the left of us recent High got taken um from mnq we are currently in a daily fair value gap on the bigger time
frame we're still trying to hold on to this we rejected it originally before sold back off and then came back again into this so right now we're in an area into this so right now we're in an area in which I'd like to see us hold bullish
just sweep these internal lows and then look to continue weekly profile wise if only profile rate we have right now is a classic expansion because we did take Monday low so this is actually kind of a
little bit of a a little bit kind of of a tease and the reason I say that is a tease and the reason I say that is because if we look at
there was no Monday high was not taken so the manipulation like to sell off mean it was it was from Asia but it wasn't from Monday high so Monday low got taken so going into today I'm pretty bullish I'd like to see us start to form
a little bit more and just a little cleaner structure um on the internal price action here to to go look to see buy side of the curve um to work our way little bit clear because I like this big wick down here a lot of the times I'd
like to see a little bit of a trail hold consequent coach of this Wick and then look to see a move back higher es put in relative equal highs again smt at the lows here I believe that it's this from this low let me double
check it's actually from a lot lower but we have that smt there as we have that smt there as well but we can draw either War so we have on the bigger time frame I really like that NQ ended up decided to go hunt
these Rel equal Low's first thing kind of in the week so now that we're the range zoom into the 50 15 minute 15minute fair value Gap holding bullish as well as this 15-minute inverse fair value Gap generating all of
this low resistance liquidity so I'm expecting this to get ran uh I'd like to see this get ran to the upside today for me to be able to take a trade I'd want manipulation down here I believe we do currently have an
smt but I'd still want to see a little bit more I probably don't really expect to take much of what is going on right now and the reason is is because NQ or
ES is kind of just confined in this little tight price action area we did not take this slow so we technically have a little smt here not enough for me conviction that we want to go run all this this is a lot of kind of choppiness
so I'd expect Market open to honestly probably just expand us if we do I'm not going to kind of sweat it um if there's no really clear trade but we do have an holding bullish this we could expect to kind of see open here and go run all of
this low resistance liquidity that we have so that's kind of what I'm looking for we'll see if there is a a more
for we'll see if there is a a more clear opportunity or trade again I I conviction I I wouldn't say it looks it looks bad for for possible Longs going into the open but I'd want to see a little bit kind of more price action
start to build here in the morning but I like where we are accumulating a lot down here I just want to see a little bit more clear change in the state here on the five minute I like where we this five minute
for Value up does look good but I want to let Market open and uh see what we as these relative equal highs would expect honestly just to see a move up to go take those but we'll kind of kind of watch to see what Market open does here
great day hopefully everybody's doing well that is starting starting to trickle in everybody hopefully everyone's having a good Wednesday morning let's get to it this
the bigger time frame too is if this 15 minute for R Gap ends up getting really nicely if we look at like 1 two 3 3 four 5 six seven seven Taps of this
amounts that we're continuing to hold if we do break through this I would want to go see us reach for this next recent low and then go tap this fair value or go tap the PD the consequent encroachment so I'd like to see I'd like
to see us break through this go run this recent low and look to see like a fast move rebalance back higher and the reason why rebalance back higher and the reason why I'd want to see this is because we then
possible or that are originally long possible and we can go rebalance to this encroachment and this is normally kind of what the market will do is we'll have a fat Wick like this consequent cach is the midpoint of it we'll go sweep
we'll break through this 15-minute for Val got be like everybody's bearish internal sell side consequent encroachment holds bullish and then we just run back so that's a possibility too we could see today
trades today Market hasn't even opened today Market hasn't even opened yet now we open let's see what we
here just to go take this uh these internal lows but just letting the resistance up here I'd eventually want to see that become the target
again kind of my bias of what I would want to see is something like
ran through looking beautiful so far I want to see us put an smt at this low consequent encroachments holds bullish so I want this to be fast recovery early in the morning go takes this recent low consequent coach of this Wick
holds bullish I don't want to see us go lower than that and then I want to see lower than that and then I want to see us go run all of this low resistance so now I watch to see the reaction once we go take this
watch here low gets taken pretty fast now we watch the slow down right notice how fast we've been selling off right now in this area right here from this sell side level to this consequent encroachment is when I
is where I want to see price start to hold you can see sell side's now taken I just want this to be early morning manipulation and see a fast rebalance and then look to see the the buy model up towards Asia
that we have this on ES I'd like to see those get taken and maybe put an smt at those get taken and maybe put an smt at this low just letting price print right now just letting price
is this is a this is a good sign that es and NQ both left all of this generator I'd want to see this become early manipulation the morning
Mo Mo's more is I need I it's been a while since I talked to more I need to talk to more reach out see how he's doing
we're doing again remember what I said everybody right now we we can still sell off but I'm I'm favoring this to be fake out which which Coachman hold hold bearish if we just run right through this then we just run
it go but this I'd want to see us respect right here I'd want to see us slow down but this is a fat bearish candle so down but this is a fat bearish candle so we can start to go through this but
look watch price at this level watch how the watch price at this the watch price at this level watch how price works at the level so from here I'd like to see us consolidate hold here not go much lower
just continue to sell I don't there's nothing I do right if we just continue to go through this there's nothing I do if we continue to hold this level and we build more structure then I can look for possible long not yet right because I
my bias if if this gets ran through then I reevaluate right we still go lower there's no trade um there's no trade either way if this holds we build more state of delivery whatever the imbalance that just got created is so the downside
gets ran through so this gets ran through to the upside and then we go run we're we're selling pretty much straight through this so we'll see if we want to Wick this again keep in mind big 1 hour Wick this is where I'd
want to see consequent encroachment hold bullish but uh right encroachment hold bullish but uh right now we just watch
with tjr before I've uh I went I went and visited him in Puerto Rico last year that a it feels like such a long time ago though
tow yes I mean depends what you mean by thata like I read that book probably more I read that book as much as I wouldn't say as much but I read that wouldn't say as much but I read that book a lot I always go back to that book
your thoughts change your life it's it's a book I've made a lot of videos on in a book I've made a lot of videos on in the past of kind of how it relates to
trading are you Christian I am a Christian
[Music] on again I want to the range and now we're kind of slowly tapering off this is where I'd want to start to see us put in a low
back off in this range and we do get all the way back down to this low I'd expect probably to see an expansion towards here so if consequent encroachment does not hold bullish I'd expect us to probably see in a continuation today
lower towards that recent low but there's no trade for me at least right there's no trade for me at least right now just letting the market do its
now I think our goal our goal right now is to be patient and I'll tell you number one if you're whether you're whether you're in an area in which you wouldn't be wanting to take a trade meaning
consequent encroachment could still Wick and hold on but we're probably just this sell side level so for you to be taking a trade the risk is going to be we're just going to run straight to this so you don't take this trade here you
like this is just a chase you don't you don't you don't let you don't touch the market right now um bullish buys right now is off the structure to validate anything right the only thing that we've done so far today
that shows us anything right right now we're just drawing towards the recent low recent low on a bigger time frame was the low created on Monday so this is kind of the Confluence in what we're looking at where Monday we
sell B off internal recent lows get taken smt still holding bullish so again don't be faked out by this move again right if we want to sell we'll sell but consequent encroachment look at how this Wick will play out because when you look
going to see oh consequent encroachment got broke through no it did not look at the 1 hour right this can easily Wick here one hour comes back down consequent encroachment holds bullish like I said internal High gets taken or internal low
gets taken we Wick this and then we flip so right now I need to wait for that to going to hold I don't know if we're going to go take sell item I don't know right let let it do it first but right now I like this candle right this is
nice because we're holding this so exactly what I wanting to see is is starting to play out but again it's starting so I need to see more first es takes the recent low we have an smt now on a bigger time
frame NQ takes this es does not but I would like to see the only thing I don't like about this is I'd like to see ESO take these equal lows cuz we do we do have a 1 hour equal lows here and I would much
rather expect I I wouldn't want to see really us hold it doesn't make sense for because of this internal smt but I'd like to see those equals get
taken so again right now just uh still watching 9:45 I kind of want to see what 10 a.m. is going to bring as
market do saying here this is kind of the first opportunity for us to flip bullish with this for Value Gap 302 first kind of little we'll see if this wants to kind of spark a move
off Zeus and you have mackers at 9:45 but others at 950 what's the difference the difference is five minutes
like my my recommendation is try it like just try it try moving your Macros five minutes before and five minutes after and just see which one you prefer that's the easiest way I can answer that question
market was Clos in order to improve in trading I feel like I'm lazy but there's nothing to to do only back test God this is this is literally exactly what I tweeted yesterday or the other day guys TR your perception of
trading is it it should be completely different than everything else in your life the the work quote work and like work ethic behind trading is a very different idea than every other thing that you've done in your life putting in
the work is you can't brute force your way to success with trading like you can with other things in your life it's a completely separate style of what work and progress looks like because again hard work means most of the time doing
nothing right like hard work in trading is you sitting on your ass and not doing your idea of like your entire life of what hard work looks like is actually completely wrong and that's why you're failing right now I'm just letting NQ do
this this next recent low but continue to sell here um highly recommend just go read this this this will give you like some clarity go go go read this
crank the sound up a bit yeah I got you better enjoying um writing recently like writing like long stuff like that uh so
going to open up a newsletter and like send and start sending out like really high quality high quality emails like and just writing really in-depth trading trading content and psychology and philosophy I really enjoy it
a while I got to make sure I want and I there's so many projects I'm work like there's just so much [ __ ] the book like there's just so much [ __ ] the book is not first priority right now the the
book is something I'm letting evolve with like there's no date for the book it's literally just whenever I feel like I've my brain has thought thought about whatever like everything I want to talk about then that's it like it because
that's how you create if you rush information and you try to like get it's like hey I want to sit you down right now and I want you to talk to me really in depth about like feeling and and like everything that you know about
trading a lot of the time if you do that it's going to be like half ass right if it good you ever notied the difference enjoying a subject and you can talk
about it hours like you'll go to your friend you like really can talk in depth topic is and you cuz you just love it you're in the mood to talk about it which then helps teach better and people can then understand it better if you
just be like write teach this boom you're like um you know trading's trading's fun I guess blah blah it's like the best content I make is when I'm like flowing and I just again like I said when I like you guys watch the
videos when I sit down for literally an hour straight I have no script like it's I'm in the mood to do that like I'm in a thinking mindset I'm already like this is the moment when I'm going to literally pull out a chair sit there
press the record button and just Yap for an hour and when I do that and I'm in comes out and same thing with like write same thing with writing so it's like I don't plan to write like when I write when I I write and when I write I write
because it creates good stuff and when I have enough good stuff I make a book
just got taken on inq letting the market do its thing here probably expect a continuation um I'd want to go see a continuation if if this 4 Hour F Gap already rejected
to go take this recent low and then on ES I'd wanted to go see low and then on ES I'd wanted to go see us go take those equal lows as well
we do have this smt we'll see if this wants to hold or not we did take the recent [Music]
low did kind of have a change lower time frame though
here but I don't like taking it but while while these equals are below us
what time is it 9:40 so we got macro that opened up here right now still watching no no trades for me yet no
I still I still have a Crosshair on my
chart you hold shift to make straight lines just do live trading daily yes I live trade every single day in the mentorship
group can we F on price nope you sit here and do nothing right now
you guys been up to how's trading been any questions that you guys kind of have while we're while we're letting the market do its thing
take a week it really depends sometimes it's a couple like three sometimes it's like 10 it really all depends on the market but it's definitely not more than 10 like 10 is not 10 is probably is too much um but
normally I would say on average I would say probably like I would say like say probably like I would say like five average five to eight
maybe I don't know you know what's going to give me that data though cool little to give me that data though cool little software called trademap
low news week had no had no expectations I mean that's a good
andq just letting it do its thing here we're going to go expand to this recent low on the bigger time frame with a lot of imbalance left of
us I don't believe there's not really much on the have the potential to really sell back inside the range like if this Fair Val
gab really does want to reject and we do want to hold this smt on the bigger time frame we could see like a fat candle come in here to the downside like just a really bearish day and go run all of this low resistance as well
Tano I could be down I was going to see her in New York but uh I think she was her in New York but uh I think she was in London at the time
yeah if I go to if I go to dub biles I'll go see zzi
workday jazz on Spotify it's my go-to trading your rules the longer you do it I mean your your rules really don't become
thinking because in in my opinion like your your trading success comes when you get to a realization like that there's no other way to be successful to like do what you should be doing like I just I got slapped so many times in the face
where I just was looking at myself and being like how can I still make the same mistake like over like it's obviously never going to [ __ ] work so I just you just literally just Pro I just programmed myself over time that's
do is you're just programming yourself to build satisfaction from doing what you should be doing not making money like for if I like for me to sit right and if I don't take any trade and I hop off in you know an hour 30 minutes
myself and be like let's [ __ ] great day because I didn't take any trade reprogram yourself to get satisfaction um and you're not focused on making money then you will that will become how you just
think and automatically behave and act but people don't want to do that cuz they want to make quick bread and then they blow up media tells them to do but people can't think for
like I know nothing and lose my confidence in trading guess what brother confidence in trading guess what brother I made a video exactly for that your problems like every single one of your
problems I can fix it's really it's it's genuinely just you being aw is this what to do when you think you've lost all to do when you think you've lost all your
do when you think you've lost all your progress there you go go watch that progress there you go go watch that video
if you want to learn more about it but we live trade every single day um in the single day just an amazing a big announcement that's actually going
to be next Monday too so I will say this we we do plan on so I will say this we we do plan on upping prices in the coming
changes but you guys don't understand I'm so excited with the amount of stuff that we're working on when it comes to the mentorship Trad map book like there's just so much so much so much cool [ __ ] and I I don't think you guys
are ready to see how [ __ ] cool trade map is and how it's it's and just your process of how you think and how you trade and how you
instead of watching price is a bad idea the depends what stage you are in you're trading if you know what you're looking for then no if you don't then know your model and you know that it's not going to be given until an alert
happens then go for it if you are new and you don't have enough experience yourself a disservice because you rush the process and you need that you need that time just watching price action
with FastTrack trading and I'm a little bit stressed because I see people wanting or waiting on a payment since one month does anyone have been paid by ft couldn't help you brother I'd say just stay patient don't overthink it
on order Block in which you look for the whole taking of an entry it's a PD in an order block tells me that's my entry that's my entry if a fair value Gap it doesn't matter as long as it's PD
that is is is in relationship to why price should move at that time that's like PE people were like Justin what's your entry model like I I posted there was a trade I took I think that was probably last week and and um I got a
entry model like you took you you took your trade like there was there was no you don't need a fair value Gap you don't need you really don't need anything you you can take a trade off of no fair value Gap no order block and it'
still be a great trade because there's the same reasons why Market's going to move like if you think of it instead of not as what is like the entry the fair value gaps and Order blocks and like the way that you read price action in a PD
sense is just Tools in which you can understand price action easier like it's just enable to it's it's a putting a name to a picture and quantifying what is you can still read price action the
trades with the exact same buys with just a different entry model and all just depends on what the Market's showing
for any ICT concept fair value Gap breaker any ICT concept fair value Gap breaker block order Block it's it's a PD
likes just [ __ ] putting names to things I don't know I can tell here I like this I like this
see the draw liquidity become by side here now wow es is here now wow es is bullish really getting back up andq just rebalancing but es wants to get bu here we have bullish smt just had a
for five UPS going to open up bullish here I think this looks good we're equal highs and Q again lagging that we are really far down in this range there's a lot of little little differences between
strength and weakness between the assets here
so I definitely expect this to be The Spar the spark of this buy model on ES this fair value gap on the big time frame or 15 minute getting ran through time frame this 15minute for Value Gap just got ran through through I'd like to
see that one minute for up open up pull back and then go look to hunt equal highs that we created in the morning i' say the thing is though is NQ is kind of in a in a weird uh interesting kind of
lower if we do want to reach towards that external low but we did take the recent low from from Monday or Tuesday that was actually last Monday or Tuesday that was actually last week not last week what am I saying
opened too 10: a.m. opens right here Market too 10: a.m. opens right here Market expands
[Music] through draw liquidity are these equal highs yes is going to start drawing towards this right now really really quick really strength a lot of efficiency in the market right now as es
has started to displace no pullback to any of these inefficiencies though so far straight up move towards those highs expected to be pretty quick here 5 minute fa value gap opening up I'd like to see price pull back into
I'd like to see price pull back into this
trade ICT you don't really need to but I do recommend finding a mentor somebody talking about and you stick to them I think people people think that there's they'll learn like they'll watch a bunch of videos on YouTube from somebody and
somebody else and then somebody else and they all trade differently with like over confused like find somebody you trust stick to them be mentored by them and you will see results you you're it's like it's like having 10 NFL coaches
team's going to be good or bad you might think it's going to be good because it's oh more coaches but it's probably going to be worse because it's mixed ideas and somebody listen to 10 people with 10 different ideas and perform
different ideas and perform well you're not
right now again price is just just letting it let letting it go right I'm I'm I'm going to miss out on this cuz doesn't give me the market doesn't give me it and so far just been straight up
move here but bias has been spot on exactly what I wanted to see low gets forv up gets ran through Straight towards buy side right now um exactly what I want to see morning manipulation get ran through so we
definitely going to see that last push up here towards those equal
highs and q's starting to get back into the range as well
bro your patience and trading is insane I just got funed thank you very much
I don't expect es to to pull back much before taking this High um this line that I draw is the series of down closed candles on this entire move here so if we do want to or if I I definitely think we will absolutely go take these equal
Highs but for us to go do so I don't expect us to really rebalance all the have fat a little rebalance here and then and then continue straight back towards those highs
prefer trading NQ over yes I prefer NQ because just it's it's more efficient in my opinion when it comes to PA I think yes a lot more times than not will we'll have slow less efficient PA more chop more equal lows
efficient PA more chop more equal lows more equal
though we're starting to get back up inside this range right now really just letting the market kind of do its thing here nothing uh that I want to that I am looking to kind of take here yes I'm expecting that last little push
up towards those equal highs I'd like to see a little bit more of a rebounds inside the range but definitely expecting us to go expand NQ is really starting to get back inside this range as well
or just the body of the candle closing above above
relationship to structure meaning there's structure like that we're we're displacing through right
a break in Break Even phase I've been journaling but um taking serious but it's just not clicking for me right now what would you do I mean you have to get to the you got to know what the problem is a lot a lot
of you guys know what the problem is you just don't want to confront it and like the the the the the n 90% of the time people that are at break even the only because you take unnecessary Dem losses like 90% of the time that's the reason
why you're at break even is you take wins but you just take a bunch of unnecessary stupid losses that cause you to be break even so okay look in your take it out successful trading is not about
bad go look in your journal and take away the [ __ ] that you shouldn't be making money but taking away away the [ __ ]
probably would expect es to expand from the five
nothing for me yet I'm still just being super just being patient um don't want to take long in premium I again I expect yes to probably hold this for Gap and could take a little bit of a scalp for me it's in premium I don't want to take
it um NQ starting to get back up inside this range 5 minute again just straight more structure one it's gets ran through internal High gets taken right now I let es go take this high if you want to take a little bit of a of a long scalp you
can I do think we're probably going to get an expansion internal model 15sec through this Sparks the move es will expand to go take these equal highs um a still needs more structure for me to base if we want to go draw towards these
imbalances and haven't been tapped yet or not um I just let the market do its thing and I just back test price action right I test my eye and I like the the market is constantly giving you opportunity not to take a trade that
the market the market is always giving you opportunity but that opportunity isn't always an opportunity to take a trade it's an opportunity to learn an trade it's an opportunity to learn an opportunity to to see grow test ideas in
for as an opportunity to trade you're there but you're going to see it if you think it's the opportunity for me to test my eye CU I know there's nothing
right now but I'm going to continue to test my eye continue to back test where do I think the market is going to go and right now there's no reason for me to take anything 15 minute for Value Gap I'd like to see this open up on ES
10:30 we got we got some time as that just opened but 5 minute most likely would expect this to hold bullish on ES I'd expand up towards those relative equal highs NQ continue to build structure
five minute for Val up open we'll see if this holds bullish or patient no urgency to take any trades don't feel like I'm missing out on anything I'm notice how it it's not controlling my trading or my thinking I
going to do and I still don't take a trade because I have discipline which I'm looking for isn't present then there's no reason to take
it but you watch es will expand here those equal
this range before we actually go take that then maybe there be an opportunity but again the best trades that you're going to take are going to call out to you keep in mind too we haven't had any news this
discipline I just fell off and now I don't really have a reason to make trading work and I'm lazy you don't have a reason to make trading work what do you mean by that that I mean brother that's that's that's
a that's an internal question you have to ask yourself like I I can't magically make you disciplined I can't magically make you not lazy from my words like that's something that you have to ask yourself what do you want like do you
want to trade do you want to make money like what what do you want in life like do you want to be happy happy this isn't a one-sized fits all people think that like your success equals my success and equals Johnny's success and equals this
guy's success and equal like it doesn't work like that what do you want you got to sit down and ask yourself some questions why am I lazy you say you don't have a reason to make trading work okay well then should
make trading work okay well then should you be making trading work
want to buy it I bought I I built it so you really you can't buy it
every sing I live trade every single day in in in the mentorship group I just I do it probably every other week I would say on YouTube all right NQ es 5 minute say on YouTube all right NQ es 5 minute held bullish again expanded equal highs
now taken NQ starting to get back up inside this range we now have an smt at the highs but I don't really expect this to hold bearish because the bigger time frame is already bullish um I would want to see a
continuation here and then have this be changed in the state so I'd like to see changed in the state so I'd like to see some displacement back to the upside
did this logo taken I'm curious to see if there uh was this internal SMG if there uh was this internal SMG here yeah there was a little baby
how did you balance trading in school I didn't I [ __ ] raw dogged it I was in whether I could or couldn't be I would somehow be doing
there's no there's no balance when you learn like you become obsessed with it and you [ __ ] that's that's what you do like I there was no other thing in my when I first started trading like that was my life everything I did was was
I I think there needs to be an absolute balance like an a balance in relationship to like you just doing other things like the balance is still like 90% trading 10% [ __ ] other things
but there's it's not like a 50/50 it's like the world isn't equally water and equally land and it's still perfect
[Music] moving yes changing the state on the bigger time frame again and big expansion here and Q all the way back up in this range again if you took Longs great for
me specifically entry model really wasn't present for me to for me to take it or just have confidence in it um would have wanted to see again that 5 little thing maybe is a little scal on ES let the runners go with the rest of
just kind of watching price action right here have no have no really fomo or desire to get kind of jump in this right now um just letting the letting the market really do its thing here again if it's not dumb clear if to what I want
then um I won't take it might be to you and that's great if it's to you take it and that's great if it's to you take it but for me right now I just still watch
them calling it a day up 1K let's go brother
trading since May I'm already 3 months profitable on demo but I cannot start live or fund it because it is from 18 years old Australia and my parents cannot know brother you got so much time just
know brother you got so much time just wait like just wait just keep keep keep back keep keep trading keep paper trading if you can open up a joint with your parents if if they somehow let you but my main thing is just wait is just
continue to work continue to put the work in and grow but it's like honestly yeah go live your [ __ ] life bro like you have so much time to be successful you have so much time to trade you have so much time to do it all like you're
Market's never going to go anywhere brother like go go live your life and go brother like go go live your life and go enjoy being a
kid go [ __ ] off and do dumb [ __ ] for a little bit
have six more tradable days left if you have any have any advice renew answer to this question you either you either renew it or you up your size and
try to finish it in six days there's two there's two there there's two easy deciding factors choose a it I can't make that decision for you
journey and something that I see so many of you do and like I did this too when I to tell you it's not [ __ ] normal you shouldn't normalize it but it's like we
we have this like psychological process of seeing a move like today and like going into this and you sitting here and being like Oh you know I didn't take a didn't see a trade I didn't see you know whatever it was maybe you did and you
whatever it is but you you'll go on social media and and you'll literally look or you'll see random people in in like today's chat right like you'll see random people post in the chat and be like up 1K out off those Longs let's go
made 1K and it like you're brain triggers that like you did something wrong because you didn't make 1K and it's like no that's not [ __ ] re that's not real your brain it's the enemy that's literally the enemy trading
is you versus the little Enemy Inside and it's just being able to to discern what's a bad way of thinking like your way of doing something is not somebody else's way of doing something if you caught a long and you had conviction fan
[ __ ] tastic like let's go let's go right that's great you had conviction because you did not doesn't mean you're doing something wrong again 90% of trading is you not doing [ __ ] so a lot of the time not
doing [ __ ] so a lot of the time not doing [ __ ] is actually the right thing don't let other people and other people like stay in your own lane I I can't I
can't preface this enough stop caring about what other people are doing stop taking if they're making money if you're losing money and comparing yourself like going to be able to build personal conviction when you're constantly
looking for either affirmation or somebody else's approval or what other comparing that to what you're completely different brains two completely separate eyes and you you're
looking at complet you're own you're on complete unique Journeys you can't compare your step 24 with somebody else's step
macros extended macros their time windows
inside this range that fth that one minute gets ran have some more manipulation I'd like to see us rebounce back
down again es this becomes Chang in the state bigger time frame
not take a trade how would I know if I'm actually doing something wrong like my comparing to others because you don't know the full story and that's why it's tricky and that's why you will get [ __ ] doing that because what happens
is is there's there's there's there's three there's like three main outcomes three there's like three main outcomes of this right you you don't take a trade and you know first of all if you if you have to look at somebody else to know if
[ __ ] conviction and that's your first problem like if you say if someone made how would I know if I'm actually doing something wrong you have that mean at somebody else to know if you're doing something wrong that's your [ __ ]
problem first of all second of all if you're looking at their trading and you're comparing their way of viewing things and their you know outcome to relying on somebody else for approval and you don't have enough conviction to
wrong there comes a point in your trading where yeah when you're learning to know what you're learning right because you don't have a system once you you're you're you're choosing to continue to have the training wheels on
your bike and you're expecting to be a [ __ ] BMX rider how can you be a BMX when you still got the [ __ ] training wheels on and you're still looking to other people like it's not going to work you're never going to build a level of
self-conviction and discipline and control and able to have confidence in your trading what's your Edge what's your system when to not step away again look at me and how I'm trading right now everybody in this chat is saying Justin
there was an opportunity to take a long I don't give a [ __ ] it's not my system it's not how I trade and I don't care if you took a trade or not if you took a trade you had conviction you made money that is what is right right that is what
is right what is wrong did I not have conviction and I still took a trade because of everybody else telling me yes that is false conviction you are tied to the money you think you are doing something right because you made money
that is not real the market of [ __ ] social media in the trading industry making money means you are doing something right that is not how [ __ ] trading works you will not be successful if you think money means you are doing
something right it's not how it works you'll make money in a week and then two weeks and then you'll blow it up in 3 days raise hand anybody in the chat you'll be successful for a little couple days and then one day you blow
everything up why because you don't have real loop of [ __ ] being taken advantage of and you can't see
but that's that's that's the that's the truth so you can either listen or no but I'm telling you right now you you'll you'll you'll either end up you'll either end up figuring that out on your own after after years and countless
listen or you'll end up quitting and you'll never even realize it to begin
brother you matter stop caring about what other people are doing you need to conviction comes with getting uncomfortable get uncomfortable get uncomfortable for
holding nicely we're still holding that 15minute fa Val Gap I'd like to start to have a 15-minute fa Val Gap if we can rebalance to that I kind of like um to for valap just got ran through I'd like to see us reach back
down there she goes for
week if like Market can give me something to make a video on um the 5K like I'll be honest first of all the 5K is not blown it's at like 5'8 I believe
so it's back down to what it was but I'm going to be honest it's just not like I I thought it was going to be like this is this is me being 100% honest with you guys I I just don't get anything out of it like I I want to make money and in
trading on a 5k account from what I have been trading on it doesn't it doesn't do me like a service like I've been it's like I've been there done that kind of trading on my Live account so I'll
continue to trade on on on the side but I'm I'm probably going to go back to because it's like a brother has to make money too and it's not gonna 5K is not money too and it's not gonna 5K is not going to give me
where we are right now hold on curious to see if
this really really clean price action today so far
up if that's what you want to call it I mean like that's that's like imagine the billionaire like there's just no need like giving up would be if I've never traded and I've never made money ever before and like I decided to do it
and that's my goal like if the goal has no purpose or value then it's a [ __ ] no purpose or value then it's a [ __ ] useless
here I like uh I want to see this 50 minute hold bullish though on ES we do have at the highs here though and these to see thatt at the lows become
protected we'll see if NQ wants to hold this fair value Gap or not we had rebalance all the way back inside the
this fair value Gap become the internal draw on a low time frame so if I zoom in draw on a low time frame so if I zoom in at the you know 10 second 15 second
bullish after this internal low gets taken start to work our way up towards taken start to work our way up towards this
imbalance es came all the way back down and Q running through so far
and there was really no reason to do it like that that was the the original activation energy is the activation energy was literally just for my ego cuz I I I I didn't I I didn't like seeing people like that genuinely had no like
just people in the space that I just shouldn't have cared about and that was really that was really it it I just realized that it was an ego activated
[ __ ] is what's up but I realize I don't need to do that like that's just ego I'm I'm a Trader first and my goal is to educate first like I will always give you high quality information and
knowledge and honest information I'm not trying to take advantage of you or anything like like I will always spit the [ __ ] truth to you and I guarantee you if you implement it into your trading you will see success that is my
trading you will see success that is my job my job is not to feed my own ego for
from the morning rebalance back to equilibrium pretty much back to opening the literally the opening price and then selling now back down price and then selling now back down inside the range still just watching
I'm in I am in this more than a year year what should I do what should I change again my I I don't I don't I I don't know I need more information I problem is my my recommendation like always if I don't have that information
contining contining to trade don't focus on making money build good habits and continue to improve one year that's you're very early brother you have a lot of time don't rush it just
us hold this area and start to rebalance back up
that gets ran there we should see it move higher
build structure still watching we actually came down to the original change in the state low
the biggest thing I'd want to see is we've we've had manipulation on both legs so so today so today right Market opens sell side gets taken smt at the lows es immediately shoots back up and takes Asia high so now we have smt at
back down again so it's like manipulation both sides of the internally this could be possible change in the state but also this bullish and balance is holding so I expect rebalance
internally need to see more Confluence for something I'm going to go to the for something I'm going to go to the bathroom though bathroom break
so we did what we wanted to do back in that one minute fa value Gap
I want to look at this from just a separate perspective
I mean looking at this I'd want to see us go lower but we do have this bigger time from smt
now what is your guys bias bullish or bearish
bearish bearish short short bearish bearish bearish bearish long bear bull bearish bearish bearish long bear bull bear bear bear undecided bear bear bull bear bear bear undecided bear bear bull bull bear bull bull bull bear
bear so definitely more bearish than bullish but there definitely some more Bulls I'm long bearish until
leaning a little bit more bearish here I I actually like I I can feel a short possibly coming on here like this for Value Gap I want to see hold bearish I just I'd like to see it just a little be a little bit more risk averse of like
is a little bit clear because I can take an a trade here and it would it could invalidated I like where we are here with smt morning inverse came back this fair value gets ran through we just tapped it as an inverse and this and
see internal model here on this price action this for Value up getting ran through and that's why 15 seconds starting to and that's why 15 seconds starting to get displaced back out of
so this is it right here actually we just put in this smt I don't want to see this spe changing stay on on Q or yes
I honestly think a short stab does not sound too
think es looks really good here I think it'll probably push NQ
down would expect us to start to speed up here towards the downside
brother I think we I'd want to see as expand towards the recent Lev
five minute close beautifully below this as
off very fluid price action say like it's very just
charts I think for think for me I'd like to see us sell back off but I still would expect us to maybe come back down come back up manipulate one
more time I'm just letting the kind of price action build here still kind of price action build here still kind of just waiting for it to be dumb clear
I'd want to see this probably be the selling
point back that un balance back to the inverse
little short position I'm going to take a stab short here really small size I'm just looking to see an expansion lower really tight risk
see this High be protected so I'm trading lower time frame very tight risk um definitely not high is what I'd want to see when it comes
trade I'm only risking I think probably like a little bit over 100 but I'd want like a little bit over 100 but I'd want to see es hold this I want
a trade that's like it either works fast or doesn't but I'd like to see this become internal turtle soup and see an expansion
right here I'd want to see us start to sell
manage this is I don't want to see us go back to that High um I'd want to start range so just going to continue to lower risk except uh couple probably around $100 risk like literally just nothing right now so I'm not too worried but I
like like where we are 5 minute recent move back up in the morning smt gets put in place displacement this 5minute F Val gets R ran through changing the state from this series of down closed candles comes back
well as the inverse Taps it back to equilibrium of internal smt I'd want this to be the internal soup as this 15-second fair value Gap continues to hold bearish I'd like to see this internal High be the
like to see this internal High be the manipulation leg and then frame kind of trade so we'll see uh we'll see if it plays out or not but this this is this isn't a big trade at all so I'm not really worried about this
all so I'm not really worried about this this either kind of goes or doesn't
haven't touched anything either this is the first uh first little trade here but pretty much like a break even for me this is like a a paper trade
to see a move but tight risk we'll see what happens here hasn't been anything high quality
to see a speed up here towards the downside
I'm not looking for big move on
low and then I'll let the runner go if we do want to sell back we do want to sell back but we do have an SNT in the morning
though I try to get in a live like every other every other week on YouTube
super slow PA right now as we're approaching cut off
time this will probably probably be the only trade that I take today
sna yesterday um there's a part of me that fears spiraling I just started trading what would you recommend there it's just it's just all in your head like don't you're so you're so attached to the outcome that is the perceived
the only reason why why you feel like you're going to spiral is because your value is tied to the outcome and if that outcome is not green then it means have no idea what you're doing that's not the case you need to just become
not the case you need to just become detached to it
oh stopped out right there on that little probably step away in a little I say probably 20 minutes
but I'd like to see uh what we want to do
to see either a continuation of this holding or not again bearish bias is not invalidated yet I would still want to see uh this continue to hold bearish and look to see a
reverse maybe put in an smt at the internal highs
problem for most people isn't the L it's their reaction to the L 100%
not and we still have all that low resistance from the morning but we do manipulation on both sides of the market good
issue what do you think the problem with that yourself the question like you know what the problem is you don't ask yourself
why like cuz the Y is what is how you fix it and if you don't know what the why is you haven't done enough
a desk job away from my kids there you go huge you're too focused on the money like as much as much as it sucks you're too focused on the money you you bring outside factors into trading you
are not yourself when you are trading you're an observer you have no tied decisions you are doing is when you bring your outside life and your desires and your family and everything you want into the marketplace you will lose
to reflect your intentions of your life you can't the market is is going to base what the market shows you when you bring in yourself and your ego and your in yourself and your ego and your identity into the market you will lose
obsessed with the idea of winning and losing like I can take one win and I can take one small like I can take a small loss and I can take a small win and all the comments in the in in the chat are like this guy has no clue what he's
doing oh my God like that just shows you right now that you think trading is just like winning and losing like the like one one single trade like one single day you're not [ __ ] successful brother there's a reason you don't have
long-term success you're you're obsessed with the idea of one [ __ ] trade and with the idea of one [ __ ] trade and the outcome of one
to look back and and and and see your your behavior like
tips well there's a couple things that you should be doing wrong time in relationship to what to zoomed in wrong time as in you have the right then it goes back in your favor are you CH zoomed in on the lower time
frames it could be a couple different things I need to see your Journal
successful in equities trading over 25 years this past year and Futures my ass has been kicked what what worked for me in equities does not work in Futures when it comes to equities is it a different strategy is it long-term is it
short-term kind of play is it completely different are you trading Futures different than you would do the equities are you trading it the
same I appreciate you spuck much love brother for
much love Ryan appreciate it brother glad you're enjoying
evident in my training keep it up Justin great stuff much love
wouldn't even say ICT taught me how to trade because ICT didn't make me successful like I don't think that I don't think any strategy makes you you get to a point where you realize trading like you can trade any strategy
successful like you can have literally the best strategy ever in your mind and don't there's a lot more to trading than just that just that so I would say just [ __ ] failure made
me successful a [ __ ] ton of failing and understanding what I do wrong and understanding what I do wrong and learning how to how to
downside if that 5minute fa Val Gap gets ran through i' want to see us sell back off I think we look good but again we're still kind of just building internal still kind of just building internal price
would you recommend learning ICT I do recommend learning profit let's go brother for
hold look to see back down but want to see that 5 minute get ran but want to see that 5 minute get ran through first
soon then maybe check back in the PM and see what we're
like possible shorts here I wish there was some sort of
getting that five minutes still holding bullish though 15minute order flows bullish as well
you guys one thing you have to realize is there's really no high middle of a range with two sides of manipulation morning came down NQ takes recent low smt displacement back up if I look at this I'm bullish if I look at
es same thing but Asia High gets taken smt and then we get change in the state technically can play both sides of the market which in reality is the decision you should do is really nothing um but this smt holds in the
morning if I had to pick I'd more so rather be bullish because the bigger time frame is bullish as we take these internal lows on the bigger time frame I think this little move is just probably a fake out and then we see an expansion
a fake out and then we see an expansion this becomes change in the state of
minute fa up getting ran through so one and doubt you just watch
would definitely expect to see an expansion here this F minute holds
to do right now is just probably step away as as we're just building internal away as as we're just building internal price
action I do live stream every single day in the mentorship group not on YouTube yeah we have had no news this week we've had no news this week so far
there's a link in the description for the YouTube once a week please who's with me unfortunately no I take care of my my unfortunately no I take care of my my students
it's time to probably call it here and let the let the morning the rest of the let the let the morning the rest of the morning kind of play
out yeah all righty guys I'm going to go ahead and call it a morning I think I'm down like pretty pretty much break even on the day like I traded micros today I think I'm down like $50 $500
like $50 $500 um enjoy the rest of your day go take the next 10 15 minutes go Journal what' you do right what you do wrong be safe I will see you all in the next video or in the next live or in the mentorship if
you are a student and yeah hopefully you guys enjoyed learn something from this morning I will see you all whenever I will see you enjoy the rest of your day guys peace peace out