[00:02] trade.  And yes, I'm not ashamed to admit it.  In fact, this should be discussed much more on social media.  We are used to media only showing take profits,
[00:14] gains and results, and the pretty side of trading.  But and show you the other side of trading, where I, of course, just like you, also have days and losing streaks where I lose
[00:27] money.  If you don't know me, I'll introduce myself quickly.  My name is Benjamin and I have been dedicating my time to trading for over 7 years .  I have been solely dedicated to trading for quite some time now and have withdrawn more than $300,000 in payouts with
[00:39] funding accounts.  Some of you know me, and just as I obtain and have obtained all these profits and withdrawals thanks to trading, I also, of course, just like you, lose money trading. This is rarely discussed on
[00:51] people are embarrassed to share this, or they don't like people knowing that they also lose money, or it seems like they are less of a trader or worse when they lose you can do very well, you can also do very badly, or just as
[01:06] you can have a very good streak, you can also have a very bad streak. Just as you will have winners, losing trades, winning days and losing days, even losing weeks. And very few people talk about this.
[01:19] interest.  Everyone is interested in demonstrating and showing others how good and perfect a trader they are. This leads many people to people always make money? They always withdraw these obscene amounts of
[01:34] n't I achieve these results?"  So, for that reason, I'd like to make this video demonstrating a trade analyzed completely with my strategy, just as but in this case, the probability, the variance, has been against me and
[01:48] has led me to lose those $000 in just one trade.  That doesn't mean that this trade I'm going to explain isn't good or shouldn't be repeated.  This trail is based on my strategy, my analysis, and my trading, so
[02:02] the same trade with the same characteristics presents itself, I would take it again. based entirely on my strategy, so the only difference between a winning trade and a losing trade is basically the
[02:17] probability.  Because?  Basically, trading has a large element of however good and profitable we may be as traders, this does not change the fact that take, even if based on our strategy, will also be lost.  And I
[02:31] know, I've withdrawn a lot of money from my funding account, and on some been in the top weekly payouts twice. This doesn't mean I don't also have losing days and losing weeks, and just like
[02:45] you, I lose challenges and funded accounts.  I'm not a superhero of flesh and blood just like you, and just as I have good streaks, I have losing streaks, bad days and good days.  Obviously, for it to
[02:59] be profitable, the good days have to outnumber the bad days.  And now let's go through the trade so you can see what I took, why I took it, and hey, it hit my stop loss.  Here I'm going to show you the one I took, which went to the
[03:11] stop loss.  I lost about $0,000 basically because I was trading with a $200,000 account.  As you know, I generally accounts of 200,000 due to my experience.  Therefore, losing $0,000 in a trade is 1% of
[03:27] my account balance, so it's not a very large loss for an general rule, I always recommend and always do is risk 1% of my capital when I am funded.  Because? Basically, because if I risk more
[03:41] than that percentage, if I have a bad run in my funded account, I'll probably bankrupt it. And this is something I'm very clear about, and hey, I'm not risking more than 1%.  Because? Because I can have many
[03:53] account.  As you know, the total drawdown required by funding accounts is usually 8 or 10% of the total balance, depending of course on the funding company, but it's usually around 8 or 10
[04:06] %, so you would need to have approximately 8 or 10 consecutive stop-loss orders to blow the account, which, based on my experience, is is the first piece of advice I'll give you.  When you are funded, do not risk more than 1%
[04:21] of your account balance.  Because? Basically, because if you string together a series of stop-loss orders, your psychology and your account will be greatly affected. More than your account, your psychology will be affected, because when you're in a drawdown of 6%,
[04:33] when you're in a drawdown of 6%, 5%, or 4%, it's quite difficult to turn that psychology around and not feel fear, FOMO, anxiety, and ultimately desperation about bringing the account back to breakeven.  Working with a
[04:45] very negative drawdown in your funded account is quite complicated, especially if you don't have a lot of experience with funded accounts.  Because? account balance keep dropping, you're having a string of stop-loss orders, a run of bad days,
[04:57] and you start to panic, basically talking to yourself and me, and this is going to make you trade much worse because you're going to enter with much less risk, you're going to be afraid to enter into certain collaborations, you're going to start doubting your strategy.
[05:09] Ultimately, all these aspects will directly or indirectly influence your trading strategy, which is something we absolutely do not want.  As you know, solely on the liquidity found at every market high and
[05:23] low.  Of course, there are liquidity points with greater liquidity; that is, a maximum minimum in a daily 4-hour or one- 5-minute timeframe.  Obviously, of course, there is greater liquidity below
[05:37] Because?  Basically because there are many more positions, many short, much more liquidity , so I generally don't go below the
[05:52] all, my liquidity points.  Obviously, when the market liquidates those timeframe to seek a higher risk-reward ratio, because if I look for entries in one hour, 15 minutes, or 30 minutes, my
[06:06] very small.  Personally, what interests me is having a fairly high risk-benefit ratio.  So that?  so that the price mitigates those stop-loss orders, that is, a negative streak against those expansive movements that
[06:19] clears those points in one hour, 4 hours daily weekly, then I lower the time frame to a smaller one, between 1 and 5 minutes.  So that?  Well, to have a higher risk-reward ratio look for a very exaggerated risk-reward ratio either because I understand that the more I have to
[06:34] probability that the price will go to my stop loss. Working with 1:2 or 1:3 risk/reward ratios is not the same as working with 1: 1 or even 1:10 ratios. Basically, the more the price has to move,
[06:48] price will have to move much more in your favor if you're looking for a ratio higher than 1:2. So , based solely on probability, there's a greater chance that the price will hit your stop loss, rather than
[07:02] reach that 1:10 or 1:8 ratio. I, for example, work with lower ratios , 1:2 or 1:3, because it suits my psychology much better.  If you're going with very large ratios, you have to be mentally prepared.  There are very
[07:14] inexperienced people trading very large ratios when they are not yet sufficiently experienced as traders to withstand a series of seven or eight consecutive stop-loss orders to reach that 1 to 10 ratio. I, for example, when I started, did
[07:27] but I realized that to reach a 1 to 10 or a 1 to 8, I had to use about six or seven stop-loss orders.  And that's psychologically quite tough, so I always work with low ratios between 1 to
[07:42] 2 and 1 to 3.  And I look for these ratios between 1 and 5 minutes when the price has liquidated those high liquidity points which are H4, H1, daily or weekly.  My trading strategy is basically based on two unique patterns,
[07:54] one when I go looking for buys and another when I go looking for sells.  What I need to look for when I'm looking for sales is that the price will settle me at a maximum, whether in the H1, H4, daily or weekly timeframe.  When the price
[08:06] manipulates that point, I would be looking for sales at the top, that is, up, so basically I'm looking for sales, I'm looking for the highs.  However, to look for purchases, I would be waiting for the
[08:19] price to manipulate me to this minimum from here. Once I've taken all those accumulated at this low, I'd be looking for buy orders around here.  These two trading strategy uses whenever, of course, it is within my
[08:32] London session and the New York session. When the price is manipulating, whether it's a high or a low, I would go to a shorter timeframe between 1 and 5 minutes and that's where I would be strategy.  Basically, as you can see,
[08:46] my strategy is extremely simple, so I'm very clear about when it comes to entering.  And you'll see how the price basically manipulates a minimum on the one-hour timeframe, and I go down to a lower timeframe to look for that
[08:58] buying pattern that I just showed you.  And this time, my stop-loss order failed, and I lost that amount, $2,000 in an already funded account.  Now we're going to explain that trade and you'll see how everything worked out
[09:12] told you, if the same opportunity comes up tomorrow, I would take it again, even because it perfectly meets all the parameters of my strategy.  Here we are in the euro-dollar pair.  As you know, I only trade the
[09:26] least manipulated within all the manipulation, of course, that exists in the markets.  Also because I believe that focusing on just one currency pair what the price is going to do .  Because?  Because there are
[09:38] patterns that repeat themselves very easily in certain assets.  As for so long , I practically know where it is every day without looking at the chart, because it's the only pair I trade.  And I know right now,
[09:50] if I close my eyes, I can perfectly tell you where the price is, because it's the only thing I look at to operate my trading strategy. one hour and we see that here we have a minimum, it is even the PDL.  What is
[10:03] low, that is, the lowest point of the previous day, so it has a higher I know this, and why have I come to this conclusion?  Well, basically because, backtesting and I've been focusing solely on this pair for over 7 years, so when the
[10:18] price has a PDL or a PDH and it's a liquid low, for me it has a much higher probability of turning out well.  The statistics and backtesting waiting for is for the price to manipulate this low here, this PDL,
[10:32] London session or in the New York session.  In this case, this trade was the waiting here, I set my alarms and I was waiting for the price to manipulate, for the price to liquidate, to go above and beyond that minimum.  Once the price
[10:47] manipulates that minimum, I would go to the 1 minute to 5 minute timeframe, which depends a bit on how I see the market.  I vary it.  If like two, I'll switch to three.  If I see that I do n't like three, I switch to five and keep
[11:00] switching.  Because?  Because in the shorter time frame, a smaller time frame reward ratio can be very, very high. What I was waiting for here was for the he enter?  Well, during my London session.  He entered at 10 a.m.  As
[11:14] runs from 9 to 11 am, now Spain time.  If you are from another country, please you know what it is, and I will be fulfilling all my details.  I would be liquidating that minimum, that PDL even which has a higher probability, and I would be
[11:27] should only wait for it to give me some entry confirmations in a lower timeframe to be able to enter, to be able to execute my strategy and join that trade. Here I saw that the price gave me
[11:39] quite a big boost, it even made a structural change that would be approximately at this point and left me with several imbalances.  This is a question I get asked a Benjamin, what imbalance do you usually use when there are a lot of them?"  Well, basically I
[11:51] 'm not a magician and I don't know how to predict the future. When this happens, I simply enter the trade at the nearest imbalance , because sometimes the price might touch this one and take off, or it might even touch the last one we
[12:03] I used to trade with order blocks and with the imbalance closest to the realized that the price often touched this one and then moved away, so practically reading the trade, right?  And I was losing
[12:16] incorporated into my operation, my strategy, that, hey, I incorporate myself at am not a magician nor do I pretend to be, well, it makes absolutely no difference to me.  I'd rather put a few more pips on the trade, but enter that trade, okay?  I prefer to
[12:32] reward ratio, but still be involved in the trade. I realized that the precise entry point. So, here, I was simply waiting to place my entry here, secure my position with this stop loss, and aim for a risk-reward ratio of at
[12:46] happened here?  Basically, the price entered my trade, it kind of pulled back, it seemed like it was going up, but look at the detail, it hit this high here, it hit that high again here and finally it didn't reach my
[12:59] 1-2 ratio and notice that it went right up to the stop, boom, and there I would be losing $2,000 on a $200,000 account, losing 1%.  By the way, I would also like to show you that the
[13:13] does practically the same thing in all timeframes, which is that the price .  Here we are observing that the price surpasses a one-minute high and begins to retrace.  In fact, we can observe it here as well.
[13:25] here and you see that it makes that pullback.  In fact, we can also see makes this huge pullback.  So you can see that this happens in all a little further, the price reaches this peak here and then makes that
[13:38] pullback.  It will close out this low here and make that pullback.  So you can see that look at, usually reacts to highs and lows.  Because?  Because there is where all the operations are located .  Buy limits, by stops,
[13:50] sells, sell stops, day profit, stop loss, especially stop loss.  That's where positions, so the price tends to react every time it's manipulated, exceeding a are seeing exactly the same thing here. Manipulate this minimum from here; that
[14:03] this works the same way, regardless of the time frame you search for it in. longer timeframes.  So that?  To increase the probability of a pullback, to reacting and give me time to enter a trade, because if I wait for it to
[14:16] try to enter in one minute, the much smaller than what it can achieve when manipulating a like H1, H4, daily, or weekly.  As you can see, this trade
[14:31] fit perfectly with my strategy .  It liquidates a minimum on H1, it structure change, my entry confirmations, perfect, this is the ?  The probability is that it will hit my stop loss.  And
[14:45] this is part of the process.  This is the most normal thing in the world.  In fact, as I've already much more.  I see that on YouTube, Instagram, and all these sites, strategy also fails, just like mine, but that's normal. You're not a
[14:57] for uploading a video saying, "Hey, my strategy the other day made me This is the most normal thing in the world. In fact, it makes you transparent, and people trust you because you don't make others feel like they're miserable."
[15:11] will say, "Hey, what's going on? I'm the only one who loses in this market, everyone earn what I have earned, having withdrawn more than $300,000 in funding accounts, I also lose trades, there are also
[15:24] I'm a flesh-and-blood person, I'm not the best trader, nor do I want to be.  All I want to do is make money and try to teach others.  And I think, I came up with the idea of making this video so you can see that my strategy also loses
[15:37] bad weeks, I also lose challenges, I also lose superhero, nor do I want to be, okay?  That's why I decided to upload this video so you can all see that you lose trades even if you follow the strategy.  You can
[15:50] have the best trade in the world and say, "Wow, it ticks all the boxes."  Well, you can not seem like the best in the world and end up going to the TP.  That's part of trading, that's probability. We can, uh, make a little
[16:04] dent in the probability, okay? Based on our strategy, based on concepts we have, which we see in the backtest meet the market and we see that in the long run the strategy is profitable, but of course there will be
[16:16] losing weeks, you will lose challenges, you will lose funded accounts because this is the most profitable you have to accept losses, because I, for example, if I continued trading and trading and trading and I wouldn't have lost $0,000, but I would have
[16:30] lost a funded account of 200,000.  But with my experience in the world, and as I've already told you, if this same trade came up tomorrow, Cujadra, with my liquid perfection strategy, has a minimum, even a
[16:44] minimum PDL within the London session, within my operating session, and it strategy is telling me to enter? Well, I'm in.  And if this counts, of probability and it's part of trading.  In fact, as I'm telling you,
[16:57] Because I lost this trade.  My London session is over.  As you can see, my stop is , I'll come back in New York and if the price is the same, I'll go in again .  Tomorrow I will trade again with my same strategy, since
[17:12] joy, as I say, it has allowed me to retire from a lot, a lot of money from funding accounts.  Why would I stop keep trading, I don't care at all .  And there's something I wanted to tell you,
[17:25] see, I'm going to show it to you.  Check the price here.  Look, I wasn't so was proving me right, but it wasn't the right time, period.  But I didn't know when trading strategy, it was telling me to enter, but look what
[17:40] the New York session at 2 pm, notice the momentum it had.  In other this area, I made a mistake, I hit my stop loss, I lost those $000, but notice that I wasn't that lost in my analysis, my strategy wasn't that bad, I was
[17:55] .  It gave the push, it would give that TP later in the the SL.  Notice how the price after manipulating SPD, which is what I was went bullish, boom, so you can see that my strategy wasn't so lost, because
[18:08] buy, but well, at that moment at 10:30 in the morning it wasn't the right time how later, after 3 or 4 hours, the price finally made that upward movement, which, as I always tell you, manipulated the minimum.  And here
[18:21] Basically because it liquidated all those stop-los, it liquidated that minimum, all those liquidity from outside and upwards.  But I price was going to continue falling and absolutely nothing happens.  So you can see that
[18:35] approach was correct, but I ended up hitting a stop loss and this is the most normal thing in the world, there's nothing to worry about .  And I'm sure that many people, if this happens to them, would have hit the stop loss and then gone to the profit target in the area they
[18:49] would have said, "Hey, why did I hit the stop loss and then disaster. No, man, it's part of trading."  And this is the reality.  My was signaling purchases, there were all the possible confluences on which
[19:02] minimum liquidity, time, confirmations, I enter, they take out a stop loss and then the .  Hey, I ate the SL and that's it.  What you need to know is when to is that you don't know when to stop.  I'm sure many of you would have used your stop loss
[19:15] and continued trading because you want to recover, without you when you placed your stop loss earlier. You start to feel bad, you get FOMO, anxiety, despair, and you don't just end up losing $2,000 or 1% of
[19:27] the entire account.  You would have lost the challenge, the funded account, the house, the motorcycle, the homeless person on the street.  And this is the reality.  Many of you don't know how to accept losses.  Hey, I ate SL and that's it .  And I'm sure that many
[19:40] eaten a SL and seen the group of the moment upload a story, uploaded an Instagram with their Lambo, their cigar and their wine.  Oh, he's doing so well.  This guy wonderful.  This one never fails.  This one never touches SL.  No, he plays it too.  The thing is
[19:52] have the guts to come here, show you a YouTube video and say, "Hey, I capable of doing this.  They always show you the positives, the profit, the right?  And hey, what's more, a guy is telling you this .  In my case, I am one of the
[20:06] and I'm not making this up.  I have already shown you hundreds, dozens, and hundreds of withdrawals from funding companies such as FTMO, Alfa Capital, Neoma, West Fund, telling you, hey, I lose too, I 'm human, I'm flesh and
[20:19] blood, I lose too, I have bad days, I get a SL and then the movement happens.  Just like you, dude.  The thing is, I've been going to ruin my day and make me feel frustrated, nor am I going to change my strategy,
[20:31] .  I do care.  I'm still the same.  Because?  Because this strategy has proven to me over the past 7 years that I've been using it is the best of all and the one that has given me the most joy.  So I'm going to continue, and if
[20:43] same confluences and everything in my favor, I'm going to enter again.  I don't care at all whether I got SL today or SL for 3 days in a row.  I'm going to a winning strategy, the problem is that it needs to be replicated over time.  If you
[20:56] years, you'll see that you'll earn the same money as me.  Because?  Because if I you?  a strategy as objective and as simple as the one I show you uploading content to YouTube for over two and a half years, and as you can see, you can go to my first
[21:09] go to the first video I uploaded to the YouTube channel, which, as I said, was the same strategy.  I'm still talking to you about PDH, PDL, liquidity, and everything, about the London and New York sessions.  The same.  I've been
[21:22] proving it to you all this time, like I said.  Hey, do this, do this, replicate it and you'll make you change strategy from one strategy to another, now I go there, now I go here, n't trade in London, now I trade in Asia, now I change strategy, now it does
[21:34] account, I don't accept the losses.  Now, if you string together all those mistakes, then because you're not doing it the right way.  But if you replicate this every and make the same trade that took me out of the stop loss, if I
[21:48] for two, if I replicate it for three, you will end up making money like I have liked this video where I show you that my strategy also loses, that I I'm flesh and blood, I'm a human being, I 'm not a robot, I'm not an
[22:00] lose, I also have those where I hit the stop loss, boom, and it goes straight to the take profit.  Oh, this is trading, period.  And anyone who doesn't want to tell you is lying to your because they also fail and also lose SL and have and lose money and lose
[22:13] difference is that they don't tell you about it or show it to you .  That's why I've come here and lose the challenge too.  Hey, I have loser days too.  Hey, I done it too, and nothing happens.  I keep withdrawing money because I know this is
[22:26] part of the process.  Now I accept the losses, I hit a stop loss, I leave, I'll come back do the same thing, I execute, I'll do the same strategy, I don't change or do anything, I'm not FOMO, nothing can overcome me.  I'm going to replicate exactly what
[22:38] my strategy, which has brought me so much joy, tells me.  If you liked the video, let me know in the comments.  This, obviously, is not a pleasant experience, if you lose, you're a loser, it's because you had the fence wrong, you had it wrong."   It didn't matter what you
[22:51] background I have, you already know the shed a little light, to give a little light to all this lie that shared on the networks, that nobody seems to ever lose money, or
[23:04] reality is, there are bad streaks, there are bad days, there are losing days, there are days when you lose more than $2,000, but this is trading and this is reality.  In trading, you come prepared for a long journey.  That's all , I hope you enjoyed it and
[23:16] , I hope you enjoyed it and see you in the next video.