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title: 'Live Day Trading: How I Made $17,183 Risking $2k (Full Strategy)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=9-zrNcDeGeo'
video_id: '9-zrNcDeGeo'
date: 2026-08-28
duration_sec: 991
channel: 'Craig Percoco'
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# Live Day Trading: How I Made $17,183 Risking $2k (Full Strategy)

> Source: [Live Day Trading: How I Made $17,183 Risking $2k (Full Strategy)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9-zrNcDeGeo)

## Summary

This video documents a live day trading session focused on Bitcoin, Solana, and ETH, where the trader aims to achieve a five-digit profit day. The trader walks through their pre-market analysis, trade entries and exits, and the psychological challenges of trading, ultimately ending the day with a $17,183 profit.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Live Trading Session** [00:01] — The trader introduces the video as a live trading session, showing their complete process, indicators, and strategies, with the goal of achieving a five-digit profit day.
- **Pre-Market Analysis Setup** [00:56] — The trader sets up TradingView, exchange, and a trade journal. They analyze Bitcoin on higher time frames, noting a sell-off, a liquidity inflection break, and a potential key support level, leading to a daily bias of initial downside then upside.
- **Intraday Analysis and Fair Value Gaps** [01:35] — The trader identifies key levels on intraday charts for Solana and ETH, including a bearish fair value gap on the 15-minute timeframe as a liquidity draw, and watches midpoints for reversals.
- **Trading Strategy and Indicators** [02:26] — The strategy involves waiting for a significant move, then a higher high or lower low push, breaking a critical level, and targeting midpoints of fair value gaps. The trader uses proprietary indicators not shared on YouTube.
- **Economic Calendar and Market Conditions** [03:30] — The trader checks the economic calendar for high-impact news, finds none, and expects normal trading. They wait for a breakout before entering a trade.
- **Missed Entry and Revenge Trading** [04:37] — The trader misses an entry due to an unfilled order, which would have hit the daily goal. They acknowledge the frustration and the importance of not letting revenge thoughts force low-quality trades.
- **First Trade and Break Even** [06:27] — The trader enters a long trade, but it results in a break-even exit. They continue to be selective and wait for a second trade.
- **Second Trade: Big Win** [08:17] — The trader enters a trade that becomes a 6.3 R trade, taking profits at 11.3K, approximately five and a half risk factors. They mention the emotional pull of large trades.
- **Third Trade and Asia Session** [10:05] — The trader takes a trade during the Asia open, targeting the midpoint of a fair value gap. They manage risk and take partial profits, ending with a small win.
- **Session Recap and Analysis** [12:38] — The trader reviews the session, showing the Bitcoin analysis, Solana trades, and the big win. They highlight the importance of patience and following the plan.
- **Final Results and Win Rate** [16:03] — The trader reports a 66% win rate, with one break-even and two wins, ending the day with $17,100 profit. They encourage viewers to use the tools and subscribe.

### Conclusion

The trader successfully achieved a five-digit profit day by following a disciplined strategy, using fair value gaps and proprietary indicators, and managing risk effectively. The session highlights the importance of patience, selective trading, and controlling emotions.

## Transcript

trading. So, I'm going to show you my complete process, the indicators and strategies that I use, as well as my specific trade entries and exits, and that you can basically watch and learn from my trading strategies. I've been
like to do these live trade videos as part of a series to keep you guys and what we're working on on the private side of our team. Because even though I working on, I like to always make sure that I'm providing value to you guys
what we're going to be doing today. Two weeks ago, I just increased my per trade document with you guys me trying to handle that proper risk management. And if all goes to plan, I'm going to aim for a five-digit day. It's about 8:50
everything set up, show you guys how I do my pre-market analysis, and then hopefully we're going to find trade number one. [music]
pulled up. I have my TradingView set up over here. I have my exchange where I'm my trade journal here where I'm going to be tracking my performance. Okay. The basically figure out for the day where I'm expecting price to go. So, right
now, I'm going to look at the higher time frame view of Bitcoin. Right now, we've obviously sold off a significant amount, tested this low level. We've had this liquidity inflection level finally break. We have potentially a key support
level right here. So, the daily bias for the day is kind of leading me to believe the price could drag down initially and then end up trading up for the rest of for the overall day. Okay. The next thing that I want to do is figure out
sort of what's happening on an intraday level with the pair that I'm looking to trade. So, typically I'm trading Solana and ETH. Okay. Right now, I can see that this level is going to be a highly tested level that if price does break
momentum out. But considering we're expecting for price to sort of roll off I'm going to be waiting for price to contact off of and then break underneath on the opposite side. Okay, on a higher time frame, I want to identify some key
areas which are fair value gaps on a 15-minute time frame. So, I have a bearish fair value gap here which should be a draw in liquidity for the day. I also have this area which I'm going to be watching the midpoint off of for a
reversal. Again, I also I'm going to be watching these bullish areas here for responses. So, now I kind of have layers of areas where I believe price could gravitate towards. What I'm going to be looking to do strategy-wise for the day
things and I'm going to be using some proprietary indicators. As far as effectively looking for for the day. I want to wait for price to either make a move significantly up or significantly down. Then, I'm going to be waiting for
price to make a higher high push or a lower low push, break under a critical level, and what I'm going to be doing is targeting the midpoints of fair value gaps. Now, I'm also going to be using proprietary indicators, stuff that we
I can't necessarily share on YouTube. Okay, but you are going to see how I'm able to sort of maneuver this on the chart and execute this with real-time the New York open right now. I'm going to finish getting set up and then we're
trade number one. So, we're getting big sell-side pressure out of the gate this morning. We're still kind of in the middle of no man's land here. Price hasn't really established [music] an area that I'm looking to get in on an
in the morning, price is going to move and I'm going to take a direction, but this time I'm going to wait to see if we actually get a proper setup cuz we I do And largely, what I'm going to do is look for [music] this economic calendar
for high impact news. It looks like we have no high impact news events. So, should be pretty normal trading, but I want to wait for a break out of one before I'm getting in. You'll see we ran into this midpoint here and immediately
rejected off of this 15-minute level. So, if we do get another response here, trading this down at first in the do use TradeZella for my trade journaling, but I actually built a trade
journal on Notion that I used for a long time. If you want access to [music] other tools that I use, you can go in the description, follow me on Instagram, DM me the word tools, and I'll send that over to you via DMs. Now, we're getting
downside. The only thing is we really didn't get any sort of entry literally just a waiting game. We want to make sure that we're taking the take. On Bitcoin, we did come down and test this low level again, as we sort of
going to sort of wait for the market to pick a direction, and then look for a trade, but little slower of a morning. The market is coming back down to probably retest this low area here. Yeah, I was trying to set up an order to
be able to get in right here. My order literally just didn't fill, so I didn't it's unfortunate cuz it would have already been hitting the daily goal, which is a little bit frustrating, but that's the kind of the name of the game
with trading. What I'm waiting for now is for the market to show some sort of response level to see if I can find a shorter time frame opportunity. What I'm opportunities, not just trying to take a ton of opportunities. I'm going to be
hopefully find trade number one. Right now, we are having price sort of retest the over side of this level here. What I'm waiting for now is to see if we get a positive response here, and then also if this is going to correlate to a
positive response outside of this area for me to be able to get an entry signal. Basically, I'm waiting pop and a response, but I really need to see that fully confirmed so that I'm not trying to long a downtrend. I'm also trying to
fight my revenge here because this would have already been off of my other position about 14K. So, a little bit frustrating in there off of missing that name of the game of trading. You can't let, you know, those revenge thoughts
win and force you to take trades that are not of quality. So, I'm still waiting for us to get a response, a flip, find an entry, and then [music] flip, find an entry, and then [music] hopefully we will enter into our trade.
want to be ready for this candle to close, see if we can get into our structure, so I want to be ready. But, I only put my order in here. It kind of took off without me still already, so we'll see if this pulls back down or if
that was the opportunity two on the day. I literally was acting as fast as I could. Like, there's no possible way to do that. do that. All right, so we're in long here.
still see if this structure can break, and I'm going to see if I can find uh trade number two. So, first trade break even, not bad. Still being selective, and hopefully trade number two is a full runner. Price has sort of been trending
down for the majority of the day. I've been waiting for this level to see if I can take a run at it and break to break to the bullish structure. On a 15-minute time frame, we're getting a fixed response off of this high important
get a quick flip here. We're getting an actionable level. We should be able to see some rejection off of this zone. And once again, a little frustrated that I session, which would have already put me at my daily goal, but it is what it is.
really, really nice gap. I have my buy-side indicator here. Once this candle closes, I can look to set a position up. Hopefully, we get a response off of this level and continue to flip to the upside. I'm going to set
this up now. Hopefully, it can hold this level. I have my order in. level. I have my order in. >> [music]
really big move. That was the area then, for sure. This fair value gap is kind of where I was expecting price to have an issue. We broke through that. We didn't break through the candle yet. The next spot would really be up here, which
remainder of this position, I'm going to try to target the midpoint of this gap up here. See if we can have prices continue to push substantially higher. There's a good chance that this sort of
reduce risk to break even. So, it's either we locked in this 4,500 or price either we locked in this 4,500 or price starts to rush up.
>> Wow, I'm not used to trades this big. I definitely feel the emotions pulling on definitely feel the emotions pulling on me.
And we also have resistance right here. This is already a 6.3 R trade. I'm going to go ahead and just take it off the table. Crazy trade.
entry zone here. I took partial profits off at this first area here, just because this was the consolidation zone right in this area. Additionally, at this point we were already up five risk factors on the day, so I didn't want to
let all of that profit go. Originally, I was going to target this area up here, bullish fair value gap here, you can see that's exactly where the midpoint ended up having a response. In addition to the fact that we had support breaks down,
resistance drops down, and then fills back into that area. So, maybe this don't know, breaks that level. Who knows? All I know is that I was able to knows? All I know is that I was able to get out of this trade for 11.3 K, or
approximately just shy of six risk factors. A really good start to the day. first trade that I was looking to take was after this breach level right in
here. You can see my indicator perfectly signaled a continuation to the downside and then trailing that down to the nearest fair value gap would have this level or at the very least this level, which would have given me, you
know, another five. Could have been a 20 plus day, but it is what it is so far. We should see volume start to pour in as we start to approach the Asia session, 20 minutes. So, I'm going to eat something and hopefully we're able to
find a trade number three before I go out to dinner. So, we had Asia open just now. What I'm noticing is it price is failing consistently off this level and we just broke and made a close underneath this level, right? What I'm
looking to do is take this gap. I already took an entry here off of the midpoint of this gap. So, if price is going to fail off the structure and continue dropping down, I should be able to at least get price to move into the
midpoint of this range, in which case I should be able to reduce risk. should be able to reduce risk. >> [music] that I'm looking for. Listen, I don't really know how far through this point
we're going to get. If we can dump down, we got to basically break through this red zone. If we can close below this red zone and invalidate it, great. If that down here and that will be all she wrote. That's going to get me nice
little 4R. I lost so much to slippage on this trade. 400 in, by the way. So, I'm looking for, like I said, this to break that gap. Either way, I am break even on this trade. I'm not going to let this trade come back up and stop me out for a
direction. We're just going to let this play out. It is what it is, mate. play out. It is what it is, mate. >> [music]
There's really no next level for this to want to gravitate to before it reaches makes sense that it's going to hit that take profit level. Didn't like that level. Come on down now. I'm going to take off partials here. So, I locked in
fees and stuff. See if we can get the fees and stuff. See if we can get the rest to push down. >> I want to be like 85.14. Come on and test that midpoint now. Make my day
test that midpoint now. Make my day jolly. Come on. admire it flip this level. You're just reading the markets. Look at that. Look
at that. It's like we've reached ultimate nirvana, guys. >> [music] >> Look at that. All the way back up to profit, I don't know what is. Unbelievable. If anyone's going to sit
here and say like, "I don't know what I'm talking about." You know what I'm saying? Another 6K on the day. 17 on the day. Wow. All right. So, after all said and done, let's go over the session from
yesterday and see how things sort of shook out. This was my Bitcoin analysis. I was assuming right out of the gate at around 9:00, we would get an initial dump in the market down to this general area. So, short bias was kind of in tune
already. Main thing that I was looking to trade was Solana. We had that break originally. Price started moving down out of New York in the New York session. I had my proprietary indicator telling me short here. This was the first
actionable move to the downside. So, this is where I drew my first piece of analysis. Bearish fair value gap. Looked to try to get an entry. I literally was possible. Take profit level would have been right down here at this next
available bullish fair value gap on the 15-minute. So, I did leave, say, 10R on the table, which would have got me to my entire daily goal. But, we missed it. patient on trade number two. We got this liquidity inflection developing at this
point. Price broke out. I was trying to time a nice gap. We also added this buy I ended up getting in right in this consolidation after we saw a response trade? Not really. I just wanted to see this level break, and I knew that we had
an order block down here. Basically, three consecutive candles with a fair value gap after that low was swept. So, to me, I wanted to play this to the up. I reduced risk on this trade, ended
up getting out for break even, 176 lost with slippage. Those were post only As the market sort of started to develop, I marked out this area here. I break, which you could see we had the high impact break above this previous
resistance zone. Once again, you can see proprietary buy signal here and here. All things were a go for me to be enter the market, especially because we had So, I sniped beautifully into that
level, came down, break even here, continued all the way back up, and you'll see I was able to take first profit here, and then second profit up here right into this previous resistance zone. That was the beast of the trade
there. That was that 11K, about five and a half risk factors. That was the big one that got me to my daily goal. I was basically letting the market sort of finish developing here. I wanted to wait for you could see this Asia open. Volume
kind of dies out, and then you'll see as Asia opens, the volume starts to pump back in. So, as soon as price came into this sort of focal point, I wanted to see how it was going to respond off of this underside here. This was the first
knew this is where the volume was going to come back in, so I was hoping to just risk, which I did right here. And then price came perfectly down, you'll see, to that exact point. So, my take profit was the midpoint of this higher time
frame fair value gap. That's exactly where it went before reversing all the way back up. Literally a perfect take profit area here. There was also another here, which would have been, you know, me trading into the middle of the night.
buy signal, change of character over here. And then once again, if we're looking for liquidity inflections, that's literally my perfect liquidity inflection midpoint buy signal here. I
around here. And then probably would have been take profit right around here. So that could have been, I mean, anyways, whatever. Point is, all said and done, 66% win rate. So I basically had a clean day, one break even, two
That's obviously nice when those happen. And ended up with 17.1k Overall, really, really good trading session. If you want any of these tools description, follow me, DM me the word
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