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title: 'The Trading Strategy That Made Him $153 Million'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=jU2YQC7TC0k'
video_id: 'jU2YQC7TC0k'
date: 2026-08-19
duration_sec: 771
channel: 'TradingLab'
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# The Trading Strategy That Made Him $153 Million

> Source: [The Trading Strategy That Made Him $153 Million](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jU2YQC7TC0k)

## Summary

This video analyzes the trading strategy of Takeshi Kotegawa, a Japanese intraday trader who turned $13,000 into $153 million in eight years. The presenter breaks down Kotegawa's approach, which focuses on buying stocks in long-term downtrends at key support levels, and provides a step-by-step guide on how to implement it.

### Key Points

- **Trader Introduction** [00:28] — Takeshi Kotegawa is a famous intraday trader who turned $13,000 into $153 million, a gain of 11,700% over 8 years.
- **Core Strategy: Buying Downtrends** [01:58] — Kotegawa focuses on stocks in long-term downtrends, aiming to find the bottom and profit from short-term reversals. He prefers bear markets as they present more opportunities.
- **Trade Duration and Conditions** [02:42] — He typically holds trades for 2-6 days, sometimes up to two weeks. In bear markets, he looks for stocks at least 20% below their 200-day moving average, with 35% being a safer buy level.
- **Market and Sector Sensitivity** [03:23] — The rebound levels depend on market conditions and sector volatility. Tech and biotech are more volatile, while utilities are less so, requiring different gap thresholds.
- **Finding Stocks with a Screener** [04:36] — Use a stock screener (e.g., TradingView) to filter for common stocks with price change below -20%, price above $1, and price below the 20 EMA by 20%. Look for gradual downtrends, not sharp drops.
- **Market Sentiment Check** [06:51] — Check the overall market trend (e.g., S&P 500) and sector-specific sentiment (e.g., XLK for tech) using higher timeframes like the 4-hour chart to gauge conditions.
- **Chart Setup: EMA, RSI, MACD** [08:07] — Add a 25-period EMA, RSI, and MACD (default settings) to the chart. Use a larger timeframe (4-hour) to identify the gap between price and the 25 EMA.
- **Entry Confirmation** [09:45] — Mark major support levels on the higher timeframe. Wait for price to hit a level, then switch to a 15-minute chart for confirmation: price bouncing, uptrend forming, and MACD histogram turning green.
- **Trade Management** [11:38] — Set take profit at the next major resistance level and stop loss below the recent low. Adjust take profit size based on market conditions (smaller in bear markets, larger in bull markets).

### Conclusion

The strategy is effective because it adapts to current market conditions rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach. By combining trend analysis, sector awareness, and technical confirmation, traders can improve their odds of success.

## Transcript

This is is Takeshi kotegawa Kote..a.ga..wa. He is one of the most famous intra day traders on the stock market who made millions of dollars
To be specific he traded from just $13,000 to 153 million dollars. Which if you do the math, is a 11,700% gain.
And what s even crazier, he did all of this in the span of just 8 years. Did he use specific indicators? Well I scavenged the internet for days looking for those answers.
Annnnnnd I found some secret site releasing his exact strategy. Since im the awesome youtuber I am, Im gonna share it with you. Now I recently released a video, like this, about Larry Williams (who is also a professional
trader) and I went over how he made his millions in trading as well. I think im gonna make this whole go over million dollar traders strategies video a series. Because, I think that s one of the easiest ways to become successful at trading, is by
Makes sense. I think we can learn a lotfrom videos like this. So to understand Takeshi s strategy, we first have to understand what type of trader he
Takeshi had specific conditions he was looking for when trying to find stocks to enter in. He was mainly looking for stocks that were in a long term down trend and his goal was to try to find the bottom of that downtrend, to then profit from a short term reversal.
Now as you may know, finding the bottom of a trend is a lot easier said than done. But with the help of his secret strategy, its raises the odds a ton of you finding the So knowing that Takeshi liked downtrends, he really liked bear markets.
As he stated in a an interview, bear markets present the most opportunities. But he also traded in bull markets as well, he just fine tuned his strategy to whatever Which we ll go over how to do that in a little bit.
Now in the articles I read, Takeshi on average, was in his trades for around 2-6 days. But often times, he would hold his position for a week or two depending on the conditions
But what conditions was he specially looking for? In the bear market of 2001 and 2002, I would only look at stocks at least 20% below the
35% being a somewhat safe level to buy at. The price would then surge at which point I d close the position at a profit. And he says this cycle would continuously repeat the process where he would then repeat
Not all stocks are going to react the same. And the sensitivity of the rebound levels greatly depend on multiple factors like market For example a stock is way less likely to bounce at a key level if that day the market
It also depends on the sector. For example, stocks in the tech and biotech sectors are much more volatile than say Stocks in the utilities sector which are a lot less volatile and don t move as much
So he said a big part of his strategy was finding the right moving average threshold For example, you would have a bigger gap on tech companies and a smaller gap on utility
So with this strategy, there is not a one size fits all . There requires a bit of judgment To help you out a bit, I did some research of my own and ranked the most volatile sectors
Consumer and tech being the most volatile. So just keep that in mind when using this strategy. So now that we all of the conditions for using this strategy, let s move onto how to find
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It s free money. Now Takeshi didn t really explain this part, but I myself found a great way to do this. I ll leave a link in my description.
I think you need tradingview pro in order to use this, but if you don t have that or don t feel like paying for it there are some free scanners out there you can use instead. Once your on the screener.
Go to the settings. Make sure we are only looking at common stock, these exchanges, price change % is below -20, price is above $1, mark current trading day, and price below the 20 ema by 20%.
You can also filter out specific sectors if you want to trade stocks in a specific sector. Now, Takeshi said himself, he liked stocks that were gradually downtrending.
So often times form this biggest losers list, you will see penny stocks that had sharp down We want to disregard these stocks. What we are looking for is something like this, where the move is very gradual downwards.
Just go through the list and try to find stocks that are gradually moving downwards. There are multiple ways to do this. But the way I personally do it, is by using my private indicator, tradinglab.ai
I will also leave a link to that in the description. Not just the stock we are trading. An easy way to do this is by looking at the snp500.
To do this go to mt5, type in us500. We then want to get a current long term read on the market. So go to the timeframes, and it make it a higher timeframe like the 4 hour.
It will instantly tell you how the current market is trending. If it s red, its downtrending.
Remember all of this for later, because we will be using it to optimize the strategy. It s even better if you get the specific sector the stock you re looking at. Which is in the tech sector.
We would want to see the market sentiment of that specific sector. Like xlk. You then would do the same exact same thing we just did, but with just xlk.
So that s how you can find the stocks to trade, but whats the actually itself. Its it a gradual down trend and we know that stock s sector specific sentiment.
Go to the indicators tab, and type in ema. Now, takeshai used very specific settings. So go to the settings of the ema and change the length to 25.
Next, go back to the indicators tab and type in rsi and that to the chart. Then finally, we are going to add one more indicator and that is the macd. We can keep these settings at default.
Now as said before, Takeshi was looking looking for a big gap between the current price and So we want to go to a larger timeframe like the 4 hour.
To do this, just go to the toolbar on the left. Now Takeshi said he would only looks at stocks with a gap bigger than 20%, and 35% being
But this is when the trader s judgement starts to come into play. So say if we were looking at the trendtable from before, and it said bearish. We can start to shoot for the larger percentage gaps like 30 or 35%.
But if the current market is bullish, we would shoot for smaller percentage gaps like 20 This is also when the sector thing comes into play. Same thing, if you are in a more volatile sector like tech or biotech.
If you were in a less volatile sector like utilities, you would shoot for smaller gaps. So, we found a gradual downtrend, we measured the sectors, and we found a suitable gap.
Go to a larger timeframe like the 4 hour or daily. You should only mark the very strong levels.
With very few lines only marking the major levels. It shouldn t like this, where you have tons of levels and marking weak levels. We then wait for price to hit one of these major levels.
If you are in a bear market, price can easily hit one of the higher levels and break right So we would want to wait for some of these lower more major levels.
If we are in a bull market, price is more likely the respect these levels and we can So again, theres some traders judgement with this strategy, but I personally think that
Next, We also want to look at our rsi indicator, and make sure the line is in the oversold So now that we have are chart setup, we are going to wait for price to hit these levels
Okay, so its been a couple days and price hit our level. So price hit our level and we are happy with the current conditions, we are now going to Takeshi himself used the 15 minute timeframe for this specific part.
What we are looking for is price to start bouncing, and we want confirmation that this So this chart you can see, right before this correction there was a big gap between the We are also seeing an uptrend starting to form on the smaller timeframe, showing a bounce
is starting to occur and the chart is starting to gain momentum. As some extra confirmation, we check our macd and it is also showing signs that the market is getting ready to turn bullish by this histogram turning green.
Once we get all of this confirmation on the lower timeframe, we can now enter the trade. Now, Takeshi said his takeprofit and stoploss would be dynamic depending on current market So in a bear market, we would obviously want smaller take profits.
In a bull market, we can have a slightly larger take profits. So we enter the trade right here, as its starting to retest this now made support on the lower What I found works really well is setting your take profit at the next highest resistance
we marked on the higher timeframe, and set your stop loss, right below the current low. A couple days past and as you can see this trade went perfectly as planned and price
bounced exactly where we thought it would and hit it our take profit with ease. I think this strategy works extremely well as Takeshi made his millions doing exactly And I think one of the major reasons it does work so well is because it goes off current
Not just a one size fits all strategy like most trading strategies are on youtube. Try it out, dm on Instagram and share it with me how its working for you. Thanks for watching and ill see you guys next time.