--- title: 'You Look at the Chart Wrong — That''s Why You Don''t See the Trend' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=koCEshCl9tU' video_id: 'koCEshCl9tU' date: 2026-07-31 duration_sec: 1209 --- # You Look at the Chart Wrong — That's Why You Don't See the Trend > Source: [You Look at the Chart Wrong — That's Why You Don't See the Trend](https://youtube.com/watch?v=koCEshCl9tU) ## Summary This video presents a simple, structured approach to trend trading for beginner traders. The instructor, Artem Zvezdin, explains how to determine market direction using high timeframes, identify market structure through swings in highs and lows, and enter trades on pullbacks using Fibonacci levels and volume confirmation. The lesson includes practical chart examples and emphasizes paper trading before risking real money. ### Key Points - **Trading vs. Investing by Timeframe** [00:16] — If a position is held for more than 6 months, it is considered investing, not trading. For investments, use the classic Lazy Portfolio: 33% stocks, 33% bonds, 33% gold, and 1% cash. For shorter trades, follow the trading algorithm described in the video. - **High Timeframe Sets Direction and Take Profit** [01:15] — The high timeframe determines the direction of the trade (buy or sell) and where to place the take profit. The working timeframe is used for finding the exact entry point. - **Market Structure Through Lows and Highs** [01:55] — The market has three main structures: flat (sideways), trend, and impulse. To identify them, track swings of lows and highs, which form when demand changes to supply or vice versa. - **Flat (Sideways) Market Defined** [04:10] — A flat occurs when each subsequent high and low forms within roughly the same price range. It is also called 'balance' because buying and selling forces are roughly equal. - **Bullish Trend Definition** [05:37] — A bullish trend exists when each successive minimum is higher than the previous one and each successive maximum is also higher. This indicates buyers are willing to pay increasingly higher prices. - **Context: Zoom Out for the Real Trend** [07:43] — In reality, highs and lows do not rise continuously. Beginners often open the chart too close, seeing only a few candles. To see the true context, expand the chart as much as possible. - **Impulse Defined** [11:36] — An impulse is a sharp move with acceleration that often signals the end of a trend. It can appear as a series of candles expanding in range (e.g., $10, then $30, then $60) or as one unusually large candle. - **Match Strategy to Structure** [13:13] — In a trend, trade in the direction of the trend. In a flat, buy near the bottom and sell near the top. In an impulse, consider trading against the move for a reversal. - **Pullback Entry with Fibonacci** [16:25] — For trend trading, wait for a pullback (counter-trend move) and then look for the pullback to end in the 50–61.8% Fibonacci zone. Confirmation comes from a series of narrowing candles followed by expansion. - **Practice on Paper First** [19:53] — Before going live, use a demo account or tester to practice the strategy. Paper trading helps build skills without risking real money. ### Conclusion The video provides a clear, systematic method for trend trading: identify the market structure on a high timeframe, then enter on a pullback into a key Fibonacci zone on a lower timeframe. The presenter stresses that beginners must practice on a demo account and maintain broad chart context to avoid common mistakes. ## Transcript the fact that you don’t understand how to trade specifically, it seems like you have the knowledge, but there is no understanding of how to do it step by step. Watch this video. I will tell you how to make trades and decisions step by step. In this video we will look at trend trading. My name is Zvezn Artem Anatolyevich. I have been trading in the markets since 2008. A qualified investor and owner of the state-licensed online school Finzvezda, specializing in investing and trading . Here is my yield chart. Let's go. The first thing we'll start with is determining the term of our deal. If we plan to hold a deal for more than 6 months, then it is no longer trading, it is more of an investment. And in this case we use a classic investment portfolio called Lizheboki. I didn’t come up with this proportion, it was invented by Markovets, and Spirin popularized it. And now Ilya Korobin is also doing a pretty good job of popularizing it. It includes 33% in stocks, 33% in bonds and 33% in gold. Well, that leaves 1%. Well, you can give me 1%. I think you are looking more from a trader's point of view and your trade will be less than 6 months. In this case, we act using this algorithm. The first thing we need to do is determine the direction on a high time frame, that is, determine where the market is moving on a high time frame. The high time frame determines the direction of our transaction, that is, we will buy or we will sell. And also, a high time interval determines the take profit, that is, where we will fix our transaction. If you are a trader and are interested in trading for beginners, you will have a question: how to determine where the market is heading on a high time frame? That is, how to determine a trend, flat or other market structure? So, the structure. The market has three main structures. To determine the structure, you need to understand the lows and highs, as this is key. So, the minimum and maximum are a series of candles in one direction and a series of candles in the other direction. Let's take for example that this is a series of candles of two or three in one direction and in the other direction. I'll show this a little on the graph. We have a minimum on the chart, that is, several candles in one direction, several candles in the other direction. Here is the maximum, here is the minimum, maximum, minimum. Here is the maximum, maximum, minimum. If you are a complete beginner, you may have problems with this. I told you that I am the owner of an online school. So, we have beginning students, they all make the same mistake. They see a slight movement in the opposite direction and immediately become confused. If you look, for example, at this small movement, yes, here the market seems to be moving in the opposite direction, but here, look, within the framework of two or three candles this does not mean anything. Or, for example, right here, right? You see, we have a maximum here, it’s so big, massive. And right next to us we also have some kind of, it seems, maximum, but it’s like, well, not very bright, right? That is, very small. We need to see a good, full-fledged movement. We shouldn't see even a tiny bit of candles there. We need to see the market actually turn around. Why do we need this? Lows and highs are not formed just like that. They are formed due to the fact that our demand has changed to supply. When the market grows, demand dominates. That is, there are many market participants, they buy, the market grows. When the market falls, supply dominates. There are a lot of market participants selling, and that's why the market is falling. When we have a minimum or a maximum, our demand has changed to supply or supply has changed to demand. In other words, being at this point, we understand that at first we had sellers dominating, that is, offers, but they became insufficient and buyers began to appear . The market grew after that. By using minimums and maximums we can understand what is happening in the market and make trading decisions based on this . As was said, we have three structures in total. And these three structures sound flat. It is also called a sideways trend and impulse. Let's look at each of these options. What is flat? FLT, also known as a sideways movement, is when the market creates each subsequent maximum and minimum in approximately the same maximum and minimum in approximately the same range. Let me emphasize again, it’s approximately in the same range. This means that the market may, for example, make a high or low slightly lower than the previous one or slightly higher than the previous one. The main thing is that the market is in a sideways position in approximately the same range. The sideways movement, also known as FLT, is also called balance. And not without reason, because the forces of market participants are balanced during the balance. Here is one example of a sideways movement. Each subsequent minimum and maximum is approximately in the same range. Here is also a complex example of a sideways movement, but nevertheless we have a minimum, minimum, maximum, maximum, minimum, maximum. The market is in a difficult, but nevertheless sideways, trend . It is clear that sideways movements come in different forms. There are small sideways movements, as I showed you, and there are also very large ones. Here I have narrowed the graph, and now we have minimum, maximum, minimum, maximum, minimum, maximum. The market moves in a sideways market segment, but every swing, every movement represents a whole trend. And, as you understand, the next structure is a trend. What is a trend? Explanation for beginners. A trend is a movement of highs and lows up or down. When the market forms each successive minimum higher than the previous one and each successive maximum higher than the previous one, the market is in a bullish trend. This means that market participants are willing to buy at higher and higher prices. Imagine that you want to buy, for example, some apples. You see that the price of these very apples is rising, but your desire to buy is so great that you are ready to buy even in the event of a small downward movement. You are not willing to wait for the price to drop. You think the price will be even higher. So you buy something that is going up in price now. In the hopes of selling it for even more. When the market makes its first swing, market participants enter into buying. Sooner or later, of course, the market will reach a point where it is too expensive. And those participants who bought earlier begin to record their purchases. And we are undergoing a correction. This correction reaches a certain point, which market participants will interpret as cheap. They start buying, and we have a new growth cycle, and the pattern repeats itself. The market again reaches a place where it is expensive, goes down, reaches a place where it is cheap, starts to rise again, and so on, and so on, and so on. Let's go back to our schedule again. Please note that on our large chart, on a high time interval, there is a sideways movement. I zoom in on the chart and now I see entire trends in this sideways movement. Let's look at this situation together. We have the bare minimum here. I highlight the largest minimums and maximums. Maximum. The minimum is higher than the previous one. The maximum is higher than the previous one. the previous one. The maximum is higher than the previous one. Maximum minimum, maximum higher than previous, minimum higher than previous. Again maximum, again minimum. And then Again maximum, again minimum. And then maximum, maximum, minimum, and so on. And now let's see where the minimums and maximums are moving. Notice that they are moving upwards. This means the market is in a bullish trend. It should be added that sometimes the lows and highs will not rise continuously. They grow constantly only in trading textbooks. In reality, there are times when the lows and highs do not rise. That is, within the framework of a large trend, seven-minute movements in the opposite direction are possible. And this is absolutely normal. You need to look at the context. In order for you to see the context, you need to open as much of the chart as possible so that you can see where the market is actually moving. The main mistake of novice traders is that they open the chart too close. That is, their chart looks something like this when they have several candles open here. From these two candles, three candles, you can’t say anything about the market. You need to open as many stories as possible. Now we will continue to discuss the trading strategy, but for now a little advertisement. Please don't rewind it, it allows the channel to remain independent. You won't find any to the fact that we earn most of our money from investments and trading. We are our online school Finzvezda. And for 11 years now we have been teaching ordinary people about the financial market. 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Our training is available at affordable prices, and the quality of our training is highly rated by investors and traders on independent review sites. And the fact that we have been teaching for 11 years, and there are no pending court proceedings or criminal cases, and I have not declared myself bankrupt, and all payments go through my business, and I, as an entrepreneur, am liable with my property. This fact alone indicates that we conduct our activities legally and honestly, and we have a ton of positive reviews, and we truly guarantee the quality of our education. Scan the QR code and explore our school. And the next structure is, of course, impulse. What is impulse? Explanation in simple terms for a beginner trader. Impulse is a sharp movement with elements of acceleration, which symbolizes the end of this movement. Technically it looks like this . Let's say our market is in a positive trend. The market is growing, it makes some pullbacks, the candles move in both directions, but the market as a whole is growing. And here, approximately plus or minus candles are formed their volatility is $10. And then a candle starts to appear at $30, the next candle appears at $60. That is, rapid acceleration occurs. This is one version of the impulse. The second type of impulse is when we have just one large candle. That is, the market was trading with small candles, and then a huge big candle appeared. Please look at this example of an impulse. Sharp acceleration and sudden movement. On average, candles look like this, and here is a candle like this. Here is also an example of an impulse, a sharp acceleration. Here is an example of an impulse, also a sharp acceleration. Here is an example of an impulse. As you may have already guessed, these structures can alternate. Not even to alternate, but to be like a matryoshka doll, that is, one inside the other. For example, we have an impulse that is directed downwards. This impulse, which is directed downwards, is in a bearish trend. The bearish trend is located within the sideways range. Well, it's just an egg in a duck, a duck in a hare, and so on. much simpler. You don't need to interpret the entire market. You just need to understand what is on the high time frame. Why did we place such emphasis on defining our structure? If the market is trending, then we will trade in the direction of the trend. For example, the market is growing, we will also try to enter into a purchase. If the market is in a sideways movement, we will trade from the boundaries. We will buy from the bottom , we will sell from the top. But if the sideways movement is large, if the market is in an impulse, we will trade to close the impulse, that is, we will trade against the market on a movement in the opposite direction. In this video, we will look at trend trading, that is, trading in a trend. Here is a diagram of how to analyze the market for a beginner trader. As you may have noticed, there is a high time interval, that is, where we determine the direction, that is, whether we should enter into a buy or sell, and a working time interval, where we will specifically make the entry point. The difference between these timeframes only determines the frequency of your trade. The lower you are on this list, the faster you will get a deal. It is clear that the minimums and maximums on the daily time interval will change for quite a long time. At 30 minutes it will be very fast. I want to make a very quick trade, so I will use the 5 minute time frame on the working interval, and I need to open a high time frame on the hourly chart. So, I'll open the hourly chart and let's try to determine the market structure. Here we have maximum, minimum, market structure. Here we have maximum, minimum, minimum, minimum, maximum. It's a bit think you will agree with me that there is a bearish trend here. Therefore, it is necessary to look for a deal to sell. Also, take profit is determined on a high time interval. As for take profit, we usually make take profit the largest minimum or maximum that exists at the current moment. In our case, we are a little limited by history, so our nearest minimum is located here. We will take it as a take profit. That is, such a very short deal is planned. But on a small time interval, we determine a specific entry point and our stop order. What does a trader do on the Moscow Exchange or any other? He is trying to make money. And he does this using a similar scheme. Here we have a high time interval. I drew it here as a blue line. And we have a working time slot. It is more frequent, but moves in roughly the same direction. Let's take a look and go back to the chart. And now we have an hourly schedule. The market is moving down. If we open a five-minute chart, notice that the market is also moving down, but it does it a little differently. That is, here in one candle there is a whole movement, that is, up or down. As for the stop order, we use a stop order if we are engaged in active trading, especially if we are trading with leverage. And we need to place a stop where the logic of our entry point is lost. We'll talk about this a little later. Let's first figure out where exactly to look for this entry point. We determine the entry point on a small time interval, that is, on the working time frame, but only in the direction of the high one. Since we are discussing trend trading today, we are looking for an entry point on a pullback. What is a pullback in trading? In simple terms for a novice trader, this is a movement in the opposite direction. Let's assume your market is growing. A rollback is a movement in the opposite direction. that is, a fall in the prices of shares or other financial instruments. There are several types of kickbacks. There are shallow rollbacks when the movement occurs at the upper boundary of the wave. occurs at the upper boundary of the wave. There are normal or average pullbacks, when the market goes into the middle of the previous wave. And, of course, there are deep pullbacks when the market reaches the bottom of the wave. Next step. We need to wait until the market finishes its pullback and begins to turn in the opposite direction. You can understand where the rollback will end using regular candles. You should see a series of narrowing candles followed by a move in the opposite direction. Here we have an example of narrowing candles followed by a reversal. Here we have a market going up, narrowing the candles, and a reversal occurs. The market moves up, a squeeze occurs, and a reversal occurs. So, we have determined that our market is moving down. We need to look for an entry point for sales. Now we need to determine that our rollback has ended. For this purpose, it is very convenient to use the Fibnach grid. We stretch it from high to low. And we should see the end of the rollback in the green zone, where we are now, in general. I call this zone 50%. We use the Fibonacci grid only to determine 50% and 61%, that is, this very green zone, because this is where the maximum probability of a subsequent reversal lies. Next we see an increase in volumes. Well, we'll probably talk about volumes in the next videos, so please subscribe to the channel. So, we make a short trade here with a stop behind this formation and a take profit at the nearest major minimum. In our case it is located here. Let's take a look. How will it all end? The market reached our take profit. You might ask: "Is it possible that the market will go in the opposite direction?" Yes, of course it can. This is why we use a stop order. Let's look at another example. Likewise, let's say I want to make a quick trade. I open the watch. Each subsequent minimum and maximum moves upward. We are in a bullish trend. Let's switch further to the working timeframe. We find the nearest formed wave. It is located here from high to low. And we determine the middle. The market has reached its halfway point. Next, a series of compression appears, followed by expansion in the opposite direction. Why does this happen? Because there is a major participants here. This is also confirmed by the volume. Here you can take a long position with a stop behind this formation. And now where to determine take profit? At the nearest major here. Let's put it here. Here is a major high, after which there was a downward movement. And the market reached our take profit. I hope this makes things a little easier and more or less clearer for you. I tried to give you the simplest trading strategy possible. Yes, it has its downsides in the form of the fact that there will be very few transactions, but nevertheless they will have high potential. 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