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title: 'Live Day Trading NQ and ES Futures | Happy Thursday'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=OPicxYFbnn8'
video_id: 'OPicxYFbnn8'
date: 2026-08-05
duration_sec: 6367
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# Live Day Trading NQ and ES Futures | Happy Thursday

> Source: [Live Day Trading NQ and ES Futures | Happy Thursday](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OPicxYFbnn8)

## Summary

In this live trading session, the host analyzes NQ and ES futures, focusing on market structure, fair value gaps, and liquidity concepts. He emphasizes patience and waiting for clear setups, discusses his trading psychology and account management, and shares insights on ICT concepts and personal development.

### Key Points

- **Weekly Profile and Fair Value Gap** [00:47] — The weekly profile shows Tuesday low expansion, pushing up into a daily fair value gap. Overnight session moved 370 points to the upside, and the host is waiting for more information before trading.
- **ES at All-Time Highs, NQ Not** [01:42] — ES is at all-time highs while NQ is not, creating an SMT (Smart Money Technique) divergence. The host likes this because NQ is in the daily fair value gap, and he expects possible manipulation in the coming days.
- **Switching to TradeStation** [09:24] — The host is switching his main account to TradeStation because of the TradeStation API for a project he's working on. He mentions a web development team and a release in about two months.
- **5K Account Status** [10:22] — The 5K account is not blown; it's sitting around 6K. He's trading on it but prioritizes his main account. He plans to make more content once the account exceeds 10K.
- **Starting New Main Account with 50K** [12:05] — He's starting a new main account with TradeStation with 50K, calling it his 'trash can number' for scaling. He wants to get back to trading 8-10 contracts of NQ, risking $3,000-$5,000 per trade.
- **Finding Concentrated Points of Interest** [17:44] — He explains how to find specific areas of rejection by zooming into lower time frame imbalances. Starting from the daily fair value gap, he goes to the 4-hour, then the 1-hour to find the concentrated point of interest.
- **Equilibrium and Internal Manipulation** [21:39] — He explains that when the market does not rebalance equilibrium, there is usually some internal manipulation and a high that gets taken. This is a key concept for understanding rejections.
- **Learning ICT: Start with Liquidity** [26:19] — The foundation of ICT is liquidity and draw on liquidity. He recommends learning how to find draw on liquidity first, and mentions he has a video on YouTube on that topic.
- **Don't Need to Know Market 24/7** [43:10] — He emphasizes that you don't need to know what the market is doing all the time. You only need to know what it's doing for a small fraction of the time to take advantage and make money.
- **Find What Works and Stick to It** [45:13] — He advises against learning too many models. Find what works for you and stick to it. ICT is a way of viewing the market, not a single way of trading.
- **Effortless Trading and Patience** [47:56] — He discusses the balance between effort and patience. Trading became effortless when he stopped caring and just showed up, focusing only on taking what he's confident in.
- **Get a Job to Reduce Pressure** [51:52] — He recommends having a job when starting trading to reduce the pressure of making money. He worked two jobs while trading initially, which allowed him to stop caring about making money with trading.
- **90% of Trading is Psychological** [54:25] — He states that 90% of trading is psychological. Until you understand how your perception and intentions affect everything, it will be hard to see consistency.
- **Successful Trading is About Not Trading** [01:00:13] — He says that 90% of successful trading is about not trading. It's about being patient and waiting for quality setups, cutting out small dumb losses that eat away at your wins.
- **Journaling to Avoid Blowing Accounts** [01:23:37] — He advises journaling every trade to identify common mistakes. Blowing accounts often comes from being focused on getting a payout rather than following your model.
- **Bearish Divergence Between ES and NQ** [01:31:57] — He points out a bearish divergence between ES and NQ on the daily: ES makes a higher high while NQ makes a lower high. This is a bearish signal in an area of expected rejection.

### Conclusion

The session emphasizes patience and waiting for clear setups. The host shares valuable insights on trading psychology, risk management, and ICT concepts, reminding viewers that not trading is often the best trade.

## Transcript

so hopefully everybody's doing well happy Thursday let's jump in and kind of talk about what we're looking at going into uh the morning here let me make sure this is all set in stone and good to go
right all right let's jump in hopefully everybody's doing well let's get to it are we looking at going into the day here here so first of all we want to recognize the
weekly profile so far has been Tuesday low expansion week pretty much um out that recent Monday low we're starting to push up into this daily for Value Gap we currently are in this daily fair value Gap overnight
fair value Gap overnight session absolutely moved 370 points around to the upside I need to see a lot more information up here for me to kind want to do when it comes to this internal price
action so going into the morning I'm going to be pretty patient um I like these London lows that are that are equal lows I'm going to be pretty like to see these London lows become a Target um and just rebalance to this but
lot more structure here at the highs for me to get a good uh confident bias um es again same thing we're just starting to accumulate here on the five minute this
should be touching this so we're going to going to be we're going to be patient today we'll see what we get if we do get anything if we don't all good we are simply observers simply reacting to the opportunity that's being
reacting to the opportunity that's being given to us again keep in mind es is now at all time highs we still do have this smt on the bigger time frame so es is at alltime highs n q is not at alltime highs and I like that because NQ is in
the daily fair value Gap so in my opinion I would really really like to see some sort of clear manipulation in the next coming days um since this is the bigger time frame on the 1 hour if we can easily start to see us have some
sort of structure here manipulate take some sort of high start to dis place and and actually fall back in fall back inside this range that's kind of the see of this smt to continue to hold out
but uh going into today since we don't really have a lot of that PA in place yet um I think it's best for us to just kind of be patient here going in the morning so we got Market open it looks like we're already starting to draw
just go take these off the bat maybe we'll have a internal smt here um and back up but we have this F minute fap that just got ran through so I kind of
that just got ran through so I kind of want to see well yes immediately starting to get back down
so es just took this recent low we do have an smt wants to hold or NQ does want to go run these London lows to me I think where we
these London lows to me I think where we want to go run these London lows we'll morning most likely going to be waiting for that that night :45 950 macro um and
then we'll see what 10 a.m. is we don't we have a we have pal Beacon at 9:45 huh oh he already spoke is he speaking right
now huh I'm not
okay dude no shot guys I'm so sorry you guys can't see my
up oh my discord's not letting me screen share again
the YouTube guys we'll just do a we'll just do a YouTube stream today just so it's easier I don't have today just so it's easier I don't have to go back and
forth let me pull this up real quick for you guys right live is going to be on YouTube today guys so on the
call all right and Q working our way towards London
currently reading as a man thinketh that I highly highly recommend
see how price reacts here 15 minute we do kind of have this internal change in the state but we are kind of not at an area in which we' want to see we need to see kind of more manipulation
here just watching going into the morning here 9:35 morning here 9:35 so far this is just the first rebalance on the bigger time frame Spark by the open
clear paradigm shift for me thank you Justin I got you I know we haven't done um a YouTube live stream in a while so it's always it's
always fun to do these here and there just to hop on with you guys and show uh kind of my my market analysis we go live pretty much every every day in in the in here here and there for you guys just to get a little little taste
being patient letting the market kind of do its thing here first couple minutes of the market came down just took London we do hour as well the 15minute we started to zoom in see these right now just letting
out until we can get a clear some clear structure in the day
over to um trade station I'm switching over my main account to trade station currently um the only reason I'm doing that from trade oate is because we're using trade station API and a project that I'm
working on that you guys will see soon I'm in the in the works of making something really really really really [ __ ] cool um I have an entire web development team that is working on this it'll probably be around we'll have our
base done and it'll probably be releasing in around two months two and a solidified thing we're GNA we have a lot of other things we we want to add to it that are just going to take time um but we're creating an application that's
really going to change change the Traders with the 5K um 5K video should be up
completely honest this is this is where the 5K is at the 5K is not blown I keep the 5K is sitting at around 6K I'm actually trading on it right now the 5K actually trading on it right now the 5K is sitting at around 6K um the
difference is is a boys got to make money too like the small account's super showing you guys and I'll still trade on it trust me I'm not going to I'm not going to stop trading on it but I'm going to prioritize my main account
because trading on a 5k account is not really fun when I I am used to trading I want to trade big Capital right like I want to make money so um I'm going to be side I'll be trading the small account I'm I'm I'm going to make content on it
depending on depending on how the account goes honestly the once the account gets above 10K then I can actually start making some some more fun content and start scaling it but the the thing with a small account that that in
the past is I'm ex I'm extremely more so conservative when it comes to scaling before I double the account after I
double the account it's way more easy for me to scale than it is if I'm Sub sub 100% And I don't know why that is it's just how it is so like that's why there hasn't been a lot of content because it's still below 10K and I I
on my other account side but once that happens you guys will be bigger numbers too once my trade station account gets funded
how much Capital do you have on your main that is a putting all the capital that is currently in my actual account into this
new account I'm only putting a certain amount so I'm starting a new main account with trade station with I I'll tell you I'm starting with just with 50K so trade station my new account will be 50k it's not as much as what my other
one my other one is but I like I like starting with 50k and then having that as a base and the reason I the reason I like doing that is because throughout my throughout my trading career when I'm in scale periods like when I'm when I'm
scale periods like when I'm when I'm like really trying to scale my size um trash can number that's what I like to say so 50k is my trash can number meaning I want to go into a scale period where I can get back to trading 8 to 10
where I can get back to trading 8 to 10 contracts of NQ um risking around $3,000 to $55,000 per trade um and winning around 8 to 15 to 20K per around 8 to 15 to 20K per trade and 50k is The Benchmark where
when I fund the account and my goal is to up my size I fund the account mentally burning all of that Capital that's why I call the trash can so when I'm in a scale period I don't don't just immediately scale on an already existing
account that I have because it's just too dangerous I mentally am aware of whatever capital I put into a separate new account is already gone in my head literally means absolutely nothing because I'm in a scale period and when
you go into when you go into the market trying to scale with more size without you will trade differently you will be because you're looking at your p&l way more than it has been before and uh you
start freaking out so he blew the 5K brother did you not just hear what I said everybody thinks I what people don't see one thing and immediately are like he blew the 5K I'm trading on the 5K right now brother open your
ears I don't currently trade prop firms but I have a buddy um I was in I was in New York with Matt um he's on Twitter and he was telling me to give it a shot to do like a couple he's like he's like dude you could make he's like dude you
could milk it so I might that's something again there's too many ways to trade because I want to trade on my main account I want to scale I can do copy trading I've never done copy trading before um
guys we've been filming such fire content you guys are not ready such fire content we're we have so much cool stuff that's that's going to be in the works that's that's going to be in the works right
now you guys aren't ready too and the application oh my I'm so excited to share with you guys something that I've been working on um I don't what I don't know what if I want to share a little bit right now cuz
don't know if I want to share it that to that many people the the community knows that many people the the community knows the mentorship
little a little down low for now still just watching here
anymore it's because there's so many little monkeys in here that just are little monkeys in here that just are spamming random
description brother you can learn more there how's everybody's week been going so far though when has everybody been up to how's everybody's Trading
of see how price reacts from there I don't think we're probably I don't think think this will most likely be an initial rebalance but I do want to see initial rebalance but I do want to see how price reacts
gaps what do you mean like the one inside of the daily because I have the daily one marked all of this is still one inbalance right like so so there's multiple ways to go about th this is
bigger time frame and balances if I want to find specific areas of rejection this is how I would do it I have a daily for Value Gap right we're in a daily for Value Gap I zoom into the 4 Hour what's the concentrated
point of interest in this imbalance this now it's not to say this whole inbalance but then I go into this 4 Hour imbalance and we could pull this over and then I go into that 4H hour imbalance even more and I find that
concentrated point which is this one hour and then this one hour is now becomes my concentrated point of
today let's go been over about one every day the video you made uh in about Sardinia unlock a huge psychological Horizon for me in my own life beautiful brother I absolutely love to hear it love
what are you doing my bad you're so right
me chat filters can I slow this down Community
taper off here just letting the market do its do its thing we got 945 macro that just opened up see what we want to do just kind of letting the market do its thing here
let's get some jazz on that is what we're missing that is what we're me you know when the jazz is on it's game
over I can trade oh it's still L there we go
breaker um are you talking about like this like if this was a breaker and we come up and tap the breaker but not discount is that what you're saying yes not it's not that the breaker is uh the rejection it's there's a soup so the the
rejection it's there's a soup so the the way the way that that would happen is not rebalance equilibrium is the times in which we have a soup so what does that mean it means we would rebalance here let's say equilibrium was some line
up here it would be something like this oh my bad there would be some sort of recent high that gets ran beforehand we wouldn't just tap this and then immediately reject there would be
some sort of small high or intermediate term high that gets ran before then the equilibrium so if you look at all the times where the market does not rebalance the equilibrium there's some sort of internal manipulation and high
that gets taken because of it little gem for
you psychology videos are fire thanks from Green from Italy marsho today right now my bias is pretty pretty loose and the the reason is is overnight
loose and the the reason is is overnight session um big move to the upside we're hour for Value Gap So currently right now I'm more so just watching price we're starting to get an initial rejection from this area um I'm not
fully sold on a bearish move today though because this is just the initial to be we got to we got to be able to zoom out right I think a lot of people the biggest problem that so many Traders have is
the overconfidence not the overconfidence but the the alignment with time when when so many people look at this and which is like okay we have this one hour for Value Gap we have a daily for Value
room to the downside this is just the first candle this first candle could be an initial rebalance to let's say here and then do something like sitting here and then having manipulation and then having a move like
there's a lot of structure that can take place up here when someone sees a one candle to the downside it could be an internal model just to rebalance so what I'm looking for is I'm looking to see how price reacts here because this is
what the bearish area of rejection would be is this break in this 5 minute fair value Gap so if if we are bearish and we are want to we do want to draw towards the downside then I would expect price to
rebalance have some sort of bearish internal model here like like we talked direction and then look to see downside downside order flow um and also I want to see how 10 a.m. candle opens we have eight minutes but also on the opposing
eight minutes but also on the opposing side we are still incredibly bullish so rebalance it's just the first candle to the downside this can easily get bought the downside this can easily get bought back up and see an expansion right so
right now there's not there's two sides of a coin and we let price action start is going to be clear again it's like it's like the Pictionary analysis right wait for the picture to be dumb clear right now it's
cookie it could be a moon it could be literally anything wait for it to be
have a quick question how should I learn or what should I learn first and what's next um the foundation of ICT is always going to be liquidity and draw liquidity so the first thing I recommend always in
anybody that is going to learn ICT is learn draw liquidity learn what liquidity I have a video on my YouTube on how to find draw liquidity um I have on how to find draw liquidity um I have a video on YouTube of what is liquidity
are why do I get guys I don't don't I don't beef with don't beef with like I'm probably the like I'm probably the least problematic Traer in the
least problematic Traer in the space I genuinely do not care about like I'm going to stay in my lane and [ __ ] rip I genuinely don't care to look in someone else's lane or talk [ __ ] on anybody else like I genuinely don't
coming from cuz I'm not I'm not aware aware about to expand still in that 1 hour for Val Gap just letting price do its thing here
Gap just letting price do its thing here we got 10 a.m. in 5 markets move generate liquidity hunt liquidity rebounds and efficiencies
liquidity rebounds and efficiencies rebal off it's getting a little it's getting a little
actually on a phone I was on a meeting with him yesterday Casper's a great guy Casper is probably my favorite Trader in the space I'm most closest to I think me and Casper align on many values and in just
many things things in life in general as as just individuals um yeah Jesse is a as just individuals um yeah Jesse is a great guy absolutely love Jesse
here um is a rebounds back into this 5 minute fair value Gap this breaker on the 15minute I just want to kind of see how price reacts here I'm not looking at I'm not immediately taking any short I'm not immediately taking any any any trade
here I want to see the internal model zoom in look to see how how we start moving here are we are we fast as placing trying to get through it are we building structure inside of it are we going to continue to just kind
of slowly taper off here then the picture PL
to and book um it's called change your thoughts Change Your Life by Dr wayy
here would not be surprised to see this imbalance get ran through we'll see kind of how we start to reject but notice again the displacement again the displacement here 10 a.m. opens 10 a.m. candle andq
rebalances or ES rebalances we actually do have this internal S&T so this could see some manipulation 50-minute for Value up getting rebalanced to we'll see if this is an area in which
back down we do have that internal smt here down we do have that internal smt here is a little too zoomed in for me
likely see a continuation of the downside as we rebalance this fair value downside as we rebalance this fair value Gap is held
bearish we are just kind of consolidating down here
here I want to let this 10: a.m. Open start to kind of figure out what we want to do this smt does not look bad here though but we are pretty back in pretty though but we are pretty back in pretty far deep in this
range could start to see maybe a fat candle com in here with this smt but
here short doesn't look too bad probably see a a bigger candle com in here
too really slow PA here though so I'm kind of just watching letting the market kind of just watching letting the market do its
I'd want to start to see us speed up to the downside if this smt is going to internal model displacement rebounds of the fair value up it's been continuing to hold bearish i' expect to go see new lows but really kind of inefficient PA
so far right now so it's best kind of for me to watch more clear but I would expect to see a continuation here soon yes immediately rebalance take the high tap the fair value Gap imately displaced but NQ is
kind of sitting here fooling around we should see a speed up
I don't know man it's like I've been doing this for a long time or something doing this for a long time or something like reaction here cuz now we're we're in a spot where if I look at yes here again
but there's also a lot of imbalances price action on the bigger time frame is still still bullish we have respected this 15minute fa Val Gap we did thing yes looking to see a little bit more downside potentially
um but honestly just kind of just just let the market really do its thing here clear opportunity for a trade so far today was that little internal short but market really just do its thing here until we can learn to find a bottom and
we kind of just been tapering off today so far but that was a little nice little continuation short if you could if you were catching that um I decided to stay too small too internal for me kind of
want to see some more some more price action
even what even is this I don't even know why this is here this I don't even know why this is here to be honest
doing this for a while I've seen a lot of crazy comments throughout my days of crazy comments throughout my days it's
videos are extremely valuable much love brother
WAP is going to be closed pretty soon it's not the [ __ ] use the link in the in it's not the [ __ ] use the link in the in the bio if you want to learn
more when will you start modeling what never I don't [ __ ] way to make money it's like you don't got to work
for [ __ ] you should be giving God that money cuz he made you look like that you money cuz he made you look like that you did literally nothing
still just letting the market do what it's doing no way you said that oh my God
what's the draw now so again kind of where we are right now let's clear this up so this next 1our candle opens at 11 o00 so we got some time but I want to see if this is
closes we're going to we're going to Wick back in this I I probably expect this this fair value Gap to not really open open bearish we'll see 15minute tapped back into 5 minute fair value Gap still has not been tapped back into
we're slowly tapering off here I got a question that I saw in the chat that know which one of these imbalances to focus on you don't you focus on the telling you we could bounce here we could bounce here we could pounce
anywhere I don't know but I'm going to Mark where price action is and I'm going to show is is price action showing me a reason new bounce because if not we're going to continue to go lower is there easily Rec
manipulation recent low getting take and displacement whatever and if it's not figure out the market when it's not clear I think people people hate that they don't know what the Market's doing 24/7 you should not know what the market
when they feel like they don't know what the market is doing 24/7 guys I got no clue what the market is doing 24/7 all I need to know is what the market is doing for a small fraction of that time for me to take advantage and make
the picture to be clear if it's not stop fighting the ego of trying to be right or wrong most of you guys fail because you care more about being right oh Justin said it was going it was going to go lower and it actually just rebalanced
brother put the fries in the back like you're never you have to realize that there's nothing people care about the wrong things in trading and that is why they fail
description brother cheers all up to you for the helpful videos on psyche and hasn't learned multiple models but can't seem to stick to one and stay
shouldn't be learning more my my recommendation to you is is is find what works and just stick to it find what works and stick to it guys like I want to be so honest when I say this don't fall for all of the
traps on social media of like these new new created ICT concepts of like what people people like to coin terms just because it's easy to sell people like to because it's easy to sell people like to coin ideas because it's easy to sell
there is no right or there is no right way of of trading ICT in my opinion there is simply your way of trading ICT and when you stop trying to figure out somebody else's way and you instead figure out your way because you're on a
completely unique path a completely unique individual you're going to see than somebody else is even if you're trading the exact same concept there's a reason why so many different ICT Traders trade so many different ways ICT is a
way of viewing the market it's not one single way of trading and you have to figure that out with your experience with understanding yourself what style trading on Lower time frames do you like trading on higher time frames do you how
how do you like using your risk management like do you focus more on win these things depend on the person it's not a one-sized fits-all thing so my concepts learn draw liquidity learn how to recognize imbalances learn how to
recognize manipulation focus on profiles focus on time and slowly start to build going once you know where the market is going and when the market is going there not where it's when because you can take a trade have confidence that we're going
get stopped and then the market eventually goes there right that doesn't knowing where and when the market wants to go there and then being able to have an entry model based on that so Focus number one first on where the Market's
Market's going and when it wants to go there and then focus on an entry model and then constantly work on it and then don't focus on literally block out caring about whatever what what everybody else is doing the reason why
about what other people are doing instead of themselves and they wonder why they can't see success stay in your lane block out all the [ __ ] noise trade what you see stop caring about other
effortless for you trying to understand the balance between effort somebody I had a comment on my last video that really that really put it in a really good way because a lot of people have this
problem somebody wrote in my comment section that the reason that they struggled with trading is because they grew up playing sports and it's a really really good way of looking at it because he says actually where's the
comment I kind to read this cuz this is he did such a good job at uh at explaining um what it was that he was that he was feeling and the difference between striving and arriving I think it was on this video so
than most because I always put in more work than the rest even though that was years ago I find it hard making a transition to realizing there's hard work in patience before hard work has always been associated with physical
exertion but now with trading hard work also comes with the patience I have for positions during choppy price action patients want to have to show up and get the job I hate and Trust the process so
the the idea of the the I think one of the reasons why people don't see success with trading is because social media continues to push this idea of like staying up till 3:00 a.m. you know get your work done blah blah blah blah blah
like just hard hard mentality of what work should look like and in trading that does not work that idea of like putting in the work and getting at it complete opposite of what trading is when you are striving for an opportunity
putting in the work unless you're actively trading right and that's why actively trading if they're not actively looking for a trade they feel like eventually get successful because of it which is the complete opposite and
it's one of the only things in life and in business where hard work is actually not a good thing it's hard work is a perception it's your perception of what hard work looks like hard work is a different
work is literally sitting in your chair and waiting being patient exchanging striving for arriving that's why I talk about philosophy so much and tosm relates to trading in so many ways
because it is the idea of exchanging striving for arriving you're no longer constantly looking for Success like my trading became effortless when I just completely stopped
carrying I just show up in the market and all I'm focusing on is taking what I'm confident with right now today I there's nothing I like I know I might we're going to see a big candle here boom big candle comes in I didn't really
the good risk for me to take it there right there's no reason I don't care on I don't care what it's going to do tomorrow I'm simply an observer in the moment and if the market tells me to trade I'm going to trade if it doesn't
and that's the difference that a lot of people need to make is that you're going to trade the market tells you when you're going to trade and you you when you're going to trade and you must be obedient
have if you don't have to worry about bills 100% 100% and that's why I always recommend get a job when I was guys when I first started trading I was working two [ __ ] jobs at the same time in school I would trade in class I would
to school after school I would deliver pizzas and I would work at a restaurant buser so I had income that I was working for coming in so I could stop caring about making money with trading people expect just people expect the market to
like I'm going to start trading immediately start making money and when you go into the market primarily focused on making money all of your decisions be impatient you're going to see opportunity that's not there it's cuz
your intention is immediately going to reflect your actions like that's just and how you are as a human being the more that you start diving into yourself as an emotional creature the more you're going to understand how trading
a job you will not be successful in trading I fully believe that because you're trying to fit trading into every other aspect of your life when you treat trading as the supplier like you treat the
market as what's going to take care of you it won't because you're going to opportunity it needs to pay your bills it needs to do this it needs to do this force it when you set time limits when you set intentions when you set
expectations doesn't go well and it's the same thing with everything in life when you notice all of the negative things that happen in your life when you feel stressed when you feel anxious when you feel any sort of negative emotion
it's that you set expectations for something and it didn't get met that is it every negative emotion you have is simply an expectation that was not met fridge expecting something good opening up being a little bit disappointed that
something good right that little small little disappointment ah right or me going on a date expecting oh this girl is going to be the girl in my dreams little thing goes wrong wrong and you're frustrated the entire night and then you
entire moment of your life because you're constantly having these little intentions that you live throughout your entire life and you can never actually live in the moment and be satisfied and be fulfilled because you're constantly
how your life should be lived instead of just [ __ ] living it there you trading but people don't want to talk about it cuz they don't I don't know the
people are just don't have the I don't know it all has to do with trading there's a reason why 90% of trading is psychological until you understand it until you understand how your perception how your intentions how you're
constantly changing environments it'll all affect everything and until you gain awareness and in control of yourself it'll be very hard to see yourself it'll be very hard to see consistency
that's the difference oh we can get into some deep talks here he says you either deal with the pain of observation or the pain of expectation there there is no pain with observation it is submission that is your ex that is your expected
outcome of what observation looks like observation is not pain observation is only pain because you have the expectation on the other hand of making expectation on the other hand of making money no that's wrong if you think of
observation making money right what's the oppos like it's either you sit there of times that decision without observation is going to [ __ ] you so does this observation really is pain no it's exactly what you should be doing you're
submitting to the moment and being in the truly present you stop the truly present you stop caring observation is not pain submission is not pain it's not weakness it's
it's strength it's empowering to
of understanding and peace was summoned love it
market in my opinion here just letting uh let letting us do its thing
this was uh this was really the only the only uh this was really the only the only possible trade today in my
4our it's been slowly tapering off no reason reason to
like right now we just uh we just hit midnight
Tuesday low expansion week so if we look at kind of the weekly profile for the day that Tuesday manipulation take this recent low this was beautiful Monday open put in low Tuesday expansion
Tuesday low of week Wednesday expansion Thursday expansion Friday we'll see what do Thursday initially pulling back I would expect um something like this
would expect um something like this today we'll see job is just to react not predict so
patience is getting built listening to your videos good I'm
to a point to realize like trading in successful trading is about not trading 90% of successful trading is about not trading than it is actually Trading
to take away and get rid of all of the little small dumb losses that you take that eat away up all your wins and just being patient and wait for quality
tra Up N would have getting shaken out so many times before let's go your trading never I will never borrow money ever in no MM
streams in the mentorship group yes this is the first time I've done a live stream on YouTube in a in a while but I I live stream every every day in I live stream every every day in membership
bulb over you that you switch on for the Deep Thoughts with Justin that's hilarious
cool down though for sure it's getting a little it's still a little toasty and I'm ready I'm ready for fall workout or fall uh fall you'll be able to go back and watch it on the
the only reason I said that is literally right right when I was talking I got a reminder that I'm working out with my trainer in like 30 minutes
there'll be a there'll be a video probably next week on
on everybody relax how do you work out your number of contracts for each different trade given different SL levels uh I measure it out different SL levels uh I measure it out so like depending on um what I'm risking
trading on I'll just use a long short position and if I I like the idea I'll be like my Stop's going to be around here and this is how I measure risk so um and let's say I want to I want to risk Max 300 then I'll just adj adjust
my contracts and see what the what the max loss would be
kind of how my brain like where we are right now and kind of how how I think is when I look at oh that's not I wanted
drawings is that was I charting on NQ
charge just wiped but let me redraw this real quick
Value Gap right we're in the daily for Val Gap we're starting to see a smt I'm not really focusing on that right now because it's on a bigger time frame um we're starting to see a lot of displacement back down which I really
really like right this is what I wanted to see for a bigger time frame bias um right now since we still are in these imbalances I can't do anything yet so will look at this candle and immediately
right but this could just be a rebalance to this inefficiency um and then look to see possibly this get bought back up and be another expansion go take the recent high so I'm waiting for internal price
because right now this has been a straight up straight down move right I don't like trading this price action I need to see an an area in which we sort of recent load get taken I need to see more more
structured so right now I'm patient in just letting the market really do its slowly slowly tapering off and selling off the entire day there's no reason for me to be able to touch this until I can see more structure in this area in an
area in which I expect to reject put some more price action in and look to see what we want to do from there but right now it's just simply observing and watching price action but there's no there's no trade so far today for
here and just put in some more structure we don't we don't have any structure we don't we don't have any news the rest ofday do
[ __ ] it's obvious that he blew the account you guys just don't
listen what's the background music it's some nice nice soothing
minute for up got tapped as well as that one starting to comment I'd like to see a start RSE back
yes want to see us Wick this imbalance right Wick's going to do the damage right Wick's going to do the damage here tapped back into this for I get
too five minute for up getting ran through
what all indicators do you use so I have extended macros which are just macros that are extended by five minutes on both sides so 9:45 to uh 8:15 I have power three this is the 4 Hour candle so at 10:00 a.m. the 4-Hour
way it looks um I have Search and Destroy I have daily range dividers so I can look at the weekly profile um and then I have midnight open those are pretty much the main main main
those are pretty much the main main main things I use
Buy Canon event listen to someone to tell you to buy Canon event do it do it right now byy do it man do it it's a Canon event you got to go through it it'll be even better if you win win it'll be even better dude you're going
it'll be even better dude you're going to make so much money right now
dude they'll probably actually make money on it
right now it was up the highest it was at was 92 I believe 92 little bit and then now it's sitting at
little bit and then now it's sitting at uh 1,200 somewhere around there did you hear about Eminem starting trading excuse me
no 9k on the account not up 9k to up 1.2 that'd be
like for man I mean yeah I'd want to see a manipulation like I when when you try to predict too early it's like one one little little up move and everybody little little up move and everybody starts
out to you when when you change your perspective to the literally the market treat the market like a side ho treat the market like a side girl don't give it too much attention just a little bit until it gives you
opportunity until it's like no please please take this trade please it's so here's such a good trade here's such a good trade take it I respect women it's not like I don't have any I'm very respectful it's just an analogy relax
me it's not tell me it's not a really good analogy you like no I I'm not going to take this trade NOP mmm get away until it until it's literally calling out to you it's calling out Justin come back please please and
Justin come back please please and you're like all right fine
Sopranos actually I know of it
can I go back to sleep yet or no I mean go for it
15-second time frame and when to stay on a one minute most of the time honestly I I I would say stay off of the 15sec um because more often than not if even just that like sometimes it'll happen to me too um when you jump into
confirmation of a bigger time frame reason like of a one minute or a 5 minute model or Reason to jump onto the 15sec a lot of the times you're going to you're just going to over analyze and a lot of times you're going to get stopped
invalidated the model for example let's say you're in a 5 minute looking the long and you zoom into the 15sec and you take a long and a 15sec fair value Gap you get stopped out and then the market goes in your favor cuz
there was never an invalidation of the model but since you looked in the 15sec you you got spped out so a lot of the times I always recommend staying off of it the only times I say that you can go to the 15sec is when you have confidence
no reason for the market to go back to wherever your stop is so if there's a clear internal model and you trade it on the 15sec that mean that must mean that there's a clear 1 minute to 5 minute model and that's the reason you're going
on a lower time frame most of the time I would say say frame most of the time I would say say off
of Vlogs we we we we are working on some fire vlogs
again no reason to really touch right now just letting the market do its thing
no I'm no longer uh I'm no longer looking for any editors right now
so we're back at equilibrium of this previous price range which is its thing here no reason to try to catch a
continuation or a reversal just let price action build out
our private Community I only trade month on YouTube but I love doing it here and there but then I also don't like doing it cuz people in the chat man you some of y'all are just weird I'm not
lie but I'll still give you some free gumps for the people and I love making content for you guys I won not lie I love you guys I love won not lie I love you guys I love making I love making some cool
Justin just letting the market do its thing here warline
soon because I'm going to go work out with my trainer um and just kind of let back in the PM session and see what we're doing then
blowing accounts all the time I pass some then blow then and I don't pass some and then blow them like any tips on what I can do well what's the reason you're blowing them there's obviously a common denominator of what you're doing
that you're blowing your accounts are you journaling if you're not journaling be journaling because now how are you going to know what what you're doing your trades you're going to make the same mistake over and over again because
you're not you don't even know what the mistake is or a lot of the time you do just don't seem to to change it because you're more focused on getting a payout right you pass a funded account or you you pass an evaluation and then blow
your funded account why because you're focused on getting a payout right when God I have the POS I'm in a position that I can actually make money right now I'm in a position where I can actually make money right now and you over focus
you're trading on a funed account which in turn makes you take terrible trades sit there and wait for good opportunity and you're literally just focused on making money every problem in trading will always go back to the source of you
intentions and the expectations that you set before putting yourself in a trading bad decisions if your intention and you socially and mentally program yourself to build satisfaction on good habits
don't come to the market making money does not bring me satisfaction me sitting here right now and doing nothing brings me satisfaction cuz that is what is going to make me money long term when you get overly focused on Fast
satisfaction now you just want to press a button you just want to get you just a trade you want instant gratification and have to reprogram yourself to build satisfac action on doing nothing on
building good habits taking trades that are dumb clear not overleveraging following your your trade model whatever it
to date got you pulled up my phone here I did this before on a webinar you you can't pull that with me brother you can't pull that with me where is
no hold on trying to find the screenshot come on this was 2023 this was last year's
year there's also multiple accounts I've been trading on been trading on so where the [ __ ] is it I remember I took a screenshot like a couple weeks ago
it let me just log in and get another screenshot hold
can see can see this this was
look cuz nobody else can [ __ ] bring this up and actually show you year-to dat p&l show me your year-to date pnl you can't get away with that with me
people love to [ __ ] hate until they see a screenshot in their face
to see for the bigger time frame uh we could have a lot of opportunity going into next week this is a beautiful candle love this this is what I really want to see daily fair value Gap holding beautifully this was what we talked
smt on the bigger time frame this is going to still hold reason High getting and balance this is the first kind of move that we need to see for for a downside the more that these 4-Hour fair value gaps start to get ran through the
more opportunity we're going to have going into the previous or the next couple weeks this is what will become the cell model
instant rejection that daily that daily candle is just flipping and wicking again don't C don't don't really worry about this right here a lot of this is this is what I like to call a shiny candle this is like shiny gold candle
where you look at this and you're immediately like oh my God imagine if I shorted this imagine if like I caught this entire move and then you try to go into every other candle trying to catch that move this is just like want to this
mad if you don't know what you're looking for and you can't control here like literally just let the market do its thing let us build more price action an opportunity will arise you don't need to make money right this
second right now oh my God freaking out let the market do its thing so far it opportunity for me so I'm just going to let the market do its
here soon I do have to go work out with my trainer
place um this little magnet right here on the left click the magnet if you want to draw a straight line you just hold shift
between uh correlating assets so when we look at the daily on ES and NQ right this is a b a bearish Divergence between assets right
es is at highs NQ is not so the exact same high on ES versus NQ es puts in a higher high NQ puts in a lower high so this is a bearish Divergence between assets meaning we're having a bearish Divergence in already in area in which
we expect to reject daily fair value Gap buy side has been taken and smt it is an extreme likelihood we reject here right so now now that we know that this is internal model this is how you trade
daily for Value got buy side taken right stop in the opposing Direction smt at zoom in and we recognize the internal model right now this is just the initial not worried about this I don't need to catch a move here all I need is a piece
side Lev levels and until that structure forms there's no reason for me to take a trade so all I do is I'm waiting for more structure to be formed on the on to go see us hunt all of this low resistance liquidity there has not yet
been keep in mind there's not yet been a change in the state of delivery or a right because there's no low here yet there's no low this is all just one big move it's simply up down so there's no low here that has been broken through so
form for me to get a good understanding of what that looks like and a lot of the something like this where it's just like a slowly grind back up this imbalance of do something like this and we just kind of form internal
price action here pretty much the rest of the day and then overnight session of the day and then overnight session whatever but
same you mean ICT smt is a concept
um I believe so I believe snts work with 4X pairs
texts me he's here I'm probably going to hop off
you guys know way more than you think you know and if you're in a position to teach it a lot of times you can share that knowledge you just don't have a lot of you know what you what you're looking for and a big part about
profitable Trader is I talked about the in in that recent sit down video it's like a lot of the times we we romanticize this idea of profitability so much that it seems so far Out Of
Reach instead of us just submitting to us just being good Traders like it's always so far out of we're trying to be successful we're trying to be patient we're trying to be disciplined instead of just being that thing and when we set
that expectation of it being Out Of Reach of we're trying instead of just doing and being there's always room for err a lot good experience like you've made mistakes and you've learned from it and
trades it's just being able to have confidence with the experience you confidence with the experience you have and not in an endless cycle of have and not in an endless cycle of repeating the same mistake
what's the book you're reading now I'm reading as a man thinketh all right my trainer said it'll be here at 8:15 we got 10
like I think like 2500 a month or something like that or I no I wasn't even that much I think I paid him 3K for three months or something like
that and we meet four four times a week I think
when are you on live um on YouTube not often I'm live every day group we we trade every single day pretty much except if there's other other outside things like sometimes no news Mondays won't trade or depending on
how the week goes but pretty much every day how Jo the mentorship link is in by if you guys want to learn more tastical Traders mentorship is just is basically
uh what but I I wanted to create something that I wish I had when I first started trading because when I first started trading I would join literally just communities that fed me terrible habits that just had no clue what they
were talking about or any idea and I thought that like th% options returns were normal I thought that just like random [ __ ] trades and winning was happens is is you take a you take a trade you make money and then somebody
will be like oh good job good job good job when in reality it doesn't matter if could be doing something absolutely wrong so it's like you're promoting bad habits because somebody's not actually looking at your trades even if you made
money and say brother you obviously overleveraged here you immediately and you made money but nobody's there to tell me that that's why I'm here I'm them feedback what did they do right what did they do wrong what are things
circumstances to kind of continue to grow um we Lov live trade and then basically 60 videos of pretty PR much everything that I know um continuing to add to it too I have a weekly profile video that's going to be most likely
added I'm going to create a small version for YouTube and then like a hour hourong version for the mentorship group um
Justin I have been break even in my funded for a month um at 5,300 right now it or should I go back to demo to build more conviction and avoid bad habits I have to be recognizing what's the reason you're at break even right one of the
the biggest how the how you get out of Break Even all comes down to your ability to recognize your problems and take out the negative people trading is
adding to the good and a lot of people try to focus on adding to the good when in reality a lot of it is taking away the bad Break Even stage is a good place to be because all it takes is one little fix for your trading to start seeing
good results so the biggest thing you need to be doing in a break even phase is journaling journaling every single opportunity every trade that you take what are the little micro mistakes that you're doing what's holding you back
from break even and 95% of the time the common thing that I see with people that are Break Even is just the little small dumb trades that chip away at their profits like they'll just they'll take really good setups and then they'll take
like four dumb dumb trades that just chip away their losses or chip away their wins so it's being able to cut those out cut out the negative keep the your results are going to continue to be and just journaling journaling
and just journaling journaling journaling
thing here again all morning down move back to equilibrium back to OT of the previous price range and now one hour for Value up we little bit to the upside letting this
kind of price action start to play out here down here but really so far nothing today the only the only possible trade like I said in the morning I think was a nice little uh short here as we put in this
smt internal model recent High got taken here on the lower time
frame all right guys I'm going to go ahead and call it here um as I'm going to go got to go trade with uh not trade train with my trainer um hopefully you all enjoyed hopefully you got something out of the today's session I know we
didn't take any trade totally normal totally fine uh Market didn't really give me the opportunity I wanted to see and that's totally fine you have to realize that that is totally fine if you can go throughout the day and not take a
so hopefully you guys enjoyed the session you learned something um got some of your answers or questions answered if you didn't feel free if link in the description all that good stuff so hopefully you guys have a good
rest of of your day and I will see you all next all next time peace out guys enjoy your day