--- title: 'How I Earned +$20,000 with This Trading Strategy (Explained)' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=tCMIL7PGFbo' video_id: 'tCMIL7PGFbo' date: 2026-08-03 duration_sec: 1424 --- # How I Earned +$20,000 with This Trading Strategy (Explained) > Source: [How I Earned +$20,000 with This Trading Strategy (Explained)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tCMIL7PGFbo) ## Summary Benjamin, a trader with over 7 years of experience, shares the strategy that allowed him to quit his job as a security guard. He emphasizes that liquidity, not volume or trend lines, is the most important concept in trading. The strategy involves identifying liquidity pools at previous highs and lows and entering trades when price breaks these levels, using specific patterns and trading sessions. ### Key Points - **Introduction and Background** [00:01] — Benjamin introduces himself and his trading strategy that allowed him to leave his job. He was a security guard earning €1300/month working 12-hour days, and now trades full-time. - **Liquidity as the Core Concept** [01:14] — Liquidity is the most important concept in trading. It represents all the money in the market from institutions and retail traders. The market must balance buying and selling, and liquidity is where price reactions occur. - **Volume is Misleading** [03:07] — Volume indicators are unreliable because they only show data from a single broker (e.g., forex.com), not the entire market. The Forex market moves $6.7 trillion daily, and retail traders have negligible impact. Therefore, volume cannot be used to determine liquidity. - **Identifying Liquidity via Stop-Losses** [07:29] — Liquidity can be identified by where most people place their stop-loss orders, which are typically at previous highs and lows. When price approaches these levels, it often reacts because it triggers many stop-losses. - **Highs and Lows as Conflict Zones** [09:58] — All previous highs and lows are conflict zones because they contain many pending orders (stop-losses, take-profits, etc.). The market tends to react at these points, providing trading opportunities. - **Strategy: Sell Above Highs, Buy Below Lows** [13:47] — Instead of following trends, the strategy is to look for sales above highs and purchases below lows, because that's where liquidity is. This is the opposite of what most traders do. - **Entry Trigger: Three-Candle Imbalance** [16:13] — After price breaks a high or low, look for a three-candle sequence where the first and third candles do not overlap, creating an imbalance. This is the entry trigger. - **Recommended Timeframes and Sessions** [17:37] — Use daily, H4, and H1 timeframes to identify liquidity zones. Trade during London (9:00-11:00 AM Spanish time) and New York (2:00-4:30 PM) sessions for higher volatility and movement. - **Handling Stop-Losses and Re-entries** [21:38] — Even with a stop-loss, the strategy can fail. If stopped out, wait for another imbalance and re-enter in the same area, up to two more times. The example shows a -1% loss followed by a +3.85% gain. - **Result and Conclusion** [23:03] — In one London session, the strategy yielded +2.85% on the account (with 1% risk). The strategy is simple: liquidity, trading hours, and pattern recognition. ### Conclusion The strategy focuses on trading liquidity at key highs and lows, using specific entry patterns and trading sessions. It emphasizes that volume is unreliable and that most traders lose because they follow trends. By doing the opposite, traders can achieve consistent results. ## Transcript trading strategy that allowed me to leave my job many years ago. quickly. My name is Benjamin and I have been dedicating my time to trading for over 7 years . And yes, a few years ago, I obviously wasn't involved in trading full-time or professionally. I was a security guard and earned I was a security guard and earned approximately €1300 working around 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. Absolute madness. And that's why entirely on trading, because I knew that, of course, I didn't want that life until I was 67 or 70 years old when I retired. And it was all thanks to this strategy that I'm going to explain to you today step by step, so if you want to take your trading to the next level and finally see positive results and consistently make withdrawals from funding companies, stay tuned because I'm going to break it all down for you. The first concept I want to explain to you is liquidity, because we will use this very repeatedly in my strategy and for me it is the most important concept. within the strategy that I use and that I'm going to explain to you in this video. What is sure you've seen liquidity. Liquidity. What exactly is liquidity? Basically, that's where What exactly is liquidity? Basically, that's where all the money from all institutions and all retailers is located. What are retail stores? You and I, people with not millions and trillions in our bank accounts, so we can't move the bank accounts, so we can't move the price in a very abrupt way. understand is that liquidity is the money that moves within the market, whether it's institutions, banks, investment funds, retail people, your neighbor, the guy on the fifth floor, your brother, your cousin, your friend, we are all within the liquidity. So the price has to reflect all those reflect all those bank transactions, whether buying or selling, people, giving money to others due to their stop loss, their take profit, how far they want to assume the loss, all that kind of thing, all that money, all that monetary volume that is within the market, well, that's what brings together that is within the market, well, that's what brings together liquidity. This is the most important thing in the market, not strategies, not volume, not strategies, not volume, not and that you understand it clearly: liquidity, the money that is in the market and that is constantly moving. And the market has to balance all that money in buying and selling, buying and selling, because there are people selling, people buying, people selling, people buying, and all those transactions have to be mitigated, balanced so that the price has a healthy movement. Therefore, that needs to be understood. Liquidity is more important. Something else that many people pay attention to, and in my opinion it makes no sense to pay attention to it, is the so- called volume. Many people don't; you can also see liquidity in the form of volume, right? Theory tells you that yes, obviously the higher the volume, the more money is moving around. What's the reality, mate? that neither What's the reality, mate? that neither you nor your neighbor on the fifth floor are able you nor your neighbor on the fifth floor are able to know the actual volume there is. It's impossible. Because? Because we don't have the right tools, the right information, or the right data. As you can see above, in this case this chart that I currently have open in TradingView, we are seeing the information that is being passed on to us by forex.com, a broker. In other words, if I put the volume indicator down here right now and it's telling me that there's more volume here than in the other candle, you can interpret that, well, there's more volume. The price is going to go up because there are a lot of people buying, because this volume has been buying. Wrong, my friend. That's the theory, and obviously that's the explanation for the volume. If the explanation for the volume. If the volume in the next candle is higher than the previous one, obviously there is more money here. What's going on? This candlestick, this volume that you're seeing on forest.com seeing on forest.com doesn't have all the information because this information is being given to you by this broker here where Pepito, Manolito, your neighbor from the fifth floor, your co- worker has his money. But hey, worker has his money. But hey, what impact does that volume have on the real market? We're talking about Forex moving around 6.7 trillion dollars a day. If you have 1000, 20,000, 30,000, 50,000 or let's even say you have 1 million in this broker, you have zero impact. Neither you, nor anyone else. In other words, if right now all of us watching this video were to join sell order in the eurodollar, it wouldn't move a single GDP because it wouldn't matter if we put a million into the sale. Imagine if we all put our capital into it. We're going to sell the euro, we're going to drive down the price. You're not going to achieve it, mate, you're not going to achieve it because we're mate, you're not going to achieve it because we're not moving anything. We are like little ants in the market. Therefore, we can look at the volume to determine what liquidity is available. The theory is obvious. Yes, volume is useful for this. Okay, mate, but all the information we have at our disposal is not the actual volume that exists. Maybe this broker is saying that there is $500,000 in this candle . . Okay, very good. And where are the other 6 trillion dollars? It is not known why we are obviously receiving the information from the broker delforest.com. We would have to gather all the information, whether from all the retail brokers we have or IC Market, all the brokers, Interactive Brokers, and then we would have to go to investment funds, companies, and institutions to find out if they are also putting volume into this candle, and if so, what the point of this volume is. Okay, yes, this candle represents 500,000 buy orders missing 6 trillion. Where are those 6 trillion? We don't have the information, neither you nor anyone in retail; only the insiders have it, the people who work within those institutions and those investment funds that move millions and millions and hundreds of millions a day. Therefore, do not determine liquidity based on volume, or any tool, or any indicator, because it's all a lie. Absolutely everything they tell you that is measured with indicators at the lie and it is something objective, it is not something I made up. How are we going to map the actual volume that an institutional bank like JP Morgan, for sending information to forest.com? He's saying, "No, I'm buying 6 trillion dollars worth of euros now." No, mate, neither this broker nor any other broker knows that, and we're not going to know it either. Therefore, liquidity is not measured by volume and is not measured by anything at all. I not measured by anything at all. I have only detected how to signal or identify where liquidity is based on something objective, and that is basically where most people's stop-loss orders are located. Where do most people experience stop-loss? in the highs and lows of the past. ? Enter into buying positions on a retest that has resulted in a price retest that has resulted in a price pullback and protect yourself at the last low. This is what the vast majority of people do; they protect themselves here. Therefore, if everyone or the vast majority of people place their stop-loss orders at a former low, protecting themselves from that purchase they have made, what might happen when the price is about to touch this point? That he will eliminate many people. There is a lot of money, a lot of liquidity. Therefore, most likely, the price will react at that low. Because? because it has removed, it has driven out a lot of people from the market, a lot of retail and a lot of institutions, because most of them place their orders there, whether for departure. The exit point doesn't necessarily have to be your stop; it can be your exit point. If you are looking to buy on this pullback, the most normal thing is that you will exit at the next point. What's the next point? the next stop. Therefore, we're back to square one. There's also a lot of liquidity at the lows and highs, because that could be your way out. caught a pullback, I'm going for those buys and I'll either exit up here or protect myself down here. So, what's going to happen up here too? institutions have placed their exit orders, buy orders, sell orders , stop-loss orders, profit orders, and purchase orders so that when the price rises, they buy at that price so that it continues to rise, or they place a limit sell order so that once the price exceeds that maximum, they sell. Anyway, what I want to explain is that all, I'll put it here so you understand, put it here so you understand, all the highs and lows of the past all the highs and lows of the past are conflict for the price and I'll are conflict for the price and I'll put it here, okay? These are price conflicts. Because? Because, as a general rule, the market balances out the price. Therefore, if there are many sell orders, many stop-loss orders, many profit orders, and many buy orders at those points, what It will react. That's what we're looking for, a price reaction, that we're looking for, a price reaction, that when it surpasses a high or a low, the price reacts. whether it's a little, which we can perfectly profit from here price drop when it surpasses a high or definitely to fall. How many times have you experienced prices going up? You small pullback and it ended up falling many times. I'm sure. Because? Because it has happened to me too, and that's why I discovered this way trying to go with the trend, which most of the time is very difficult to trend and I end up missing out on the movement, I don't know when to get in. I'm sure you've often tried to join that trend, which I 'm also very much against , because if it were really that easy to buy on a or down, everyone would be a millionaire. What is the reality? that the vast majority of people lose money trading. If it were that easy to trend line, everyone would make money trading. makes money in trading. So, something's wrong here. Something's something's wrong here. Something's wrong here, okay? Search for purchases or sales structure, based on all that kind of thing. The rule is telling us that if period. And that's all. It's objective, isn't it? people lose money because of this, because they follow these kinds of strategies. In fact, for me, let me explain something so you understand, below to erase this so you can see it much better, below this trend line there are better, below this trend line there are many lows, right? This, many lows, right? This, we would have this, we would have this, many we would have this, we would have this, many minimums. What does the price usually do I'm sure you've experienced this too if you've been told, "No, buy every time the price retests the trend line and many occasions the price has been a little too high and has said to you, "Yes, yes, I'm going up, mate, buy me." Boom, down. Because? Because, again, what I've explained here is money, money, and money. And on that trend line and started to rise. And here it has indeed regressed. I'm rise. And here it has indeed regressed. I'm sure you've experienced this many, many times, and it's not because I'm divine, but because I've been in the market, analyzing charts, and studying for many years, so I know that this happens practically every day. And if you haven't experienced it, believe me, you will sooner or later. And I'm understand it perfectly and can replicate the gasback test and come back here and say, "Hey, Benjamin, well it's true, at every high, at every low, the obviously I'm not telling you that this is going to have a 90% win rate, obviously not, nor 100 or 200, nor are you going to become a millionaire, but it will give you a very good win rate and the price will often react to you at each high and each low, as I have clean this up a bit and I'll explain how to operate it, and then we'll look at an example. To avoid all of this that I've mentioned, falling into those traps that the vast majority of people unfortunately fall into, what we're going to do is look for sales above highs and purchases below lows. Because? Because, as I mentioned, this is where all mentioned, this is where all the market's liquidity is found, absolutely all of it. This is where the price has a high probability of reacting, therefore this is where we will look for our positions. It's a bit say, "Hey, if it's broken a previous high strongly, the price should go up, right, Benjamin? Or if it breaks a low strongly, it'll probably keep falling, right?" Benjamin, what are you talking about? No, we're going to do the exact opposite of what most people do. It's like everything else in life. If you put effort into your university studies or your job, into your physique by going to the gym, you're going to get better results than most people, who are sedentary or don't study, or whatever. Obviously, if you do the exact opposite of what most people do, which unfortunately is usually the harmful, bad thing, you're going to get completely different results. It's not the same as you going to the gym every day, having a good diet, eating well, and taking care of yourself. And to be honest, how many people in the world do you think do that? Very few. So So, if you don't do that, if you don't do something different—in this case, comparing it to going to the gym, taking care of yourself, eating well , exercising, and so on—if you do things differently, you're obviously results as those people. Therefore, you have to look for another alternative. I 'm showing you this alternative in this video. And again, my results speak for themselves, okay? Dozens and dozens of payouts in funding companies. Dozens and dozens of payouts. So, what I want you to a strategy I'm just pulling out of thin air, that I discovered yesterday, no, my friend, this has been a long time in the making. And now I'm going to explain an example of this type of strategy so you understand it perfectly, because obviously when the price surpasses this point You might be input pattern?" How do I enter a trade when someone is selling, and how do I enter a trade when someone is buying? The trigger, right? Many people call execution on a shorter timeframe the trigger. Well, I'm going to explain it to you now. Once the price breaks through a low or a high, you have to consider some very repetitive patterns that the price tends to exhibit when it surpasses those points. And it's basically showing you that it does n't want to be in that area. It's demonstrating this in the when your dog barks at you for food; it's exactly the same thing. It does the patterns that, historically, in the past, have repeated themselves very frequently, and we're going to see this now in an example so you understand it perfectly. By the way, below you have a completely free lesson where I go into much more detail about this strategy, about this way of seeing it. So, if you want to see it completely free, below in the description it says " free lesson," click on it and you'll find it there . Now let's go through the example. Let's Mark the zones, the entry point, and everything so you understand it perfectly and don't miss a single detail. This way, also recommend so you can see that it's completely effective. We're talking about the euro/dollar currency pair. I personally only trade it, in any field you want: cryptocurrencies, forex, indices, anything, because the market tends to behave the same way. We're going to look for these liquidity points, these highs and lows, especially, I recommend, on the especially, I recommend, on the daily, H4, and H1 timeframes. That's where the price usually accumulates the most pending orders, the most liquidity. Therefore, these are the timeframes I recommend. And another thing you have to keep in mind, which I also recommend, is to have specific trading hours. I personally focus mainly on the London session, which runs from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Spanish time, and the session of... New York, from 2 and the session of... New York, from 2 PM to 4:30 PM. Why? Well, basically, firstly, the vast majority of price movements and hours. And secondly, I'm sure this has happened to you, if not still happening spend a lot of time in front of the screen—your phone, your an entry opportunity, wondering whether to enter, whether to stay out, and in the end, you spend a lot of time in front of the screen, the computer, the phone, or wherever you trade from. Therefore, what I recommend is that you also use these hours to know when to enter, when not to enter, and when not to look at the chart, because that's harmful; it will create a bad habit of being constantly watching the market to see what it's doing. It 's not healthy. And besides all that, as I said, most price movements usually happen during these hours. Therefore, it's pointless to spend the rest of the time staring at What is the What are we going to look for in these timeframes? We're going For me, the closest to the price we find here would be this low. The next point would be this high, and the next point this high. At these points, we're going to look for buys below this point, sells, and more sells. zones the price shows us, we're going to try to find that type of entry if it gives us everything. Now we're also going to look at entry confirmations, and I'll explain some of them. This time, we're going to wait for the price to simply eliminate that point, see if it does so within the trading day, and look for our entry trigger, however you want to call them. Basically, how do we enter on a higher timeframes—daily, 4-hour, one-hour—and then I go down to a lower timeframe to have a tighter stop loss and gain more risk- I'm looking for. It has a small stop loss and very, very large profits. Here, we're going to wait for the price to eliminate that point. Meanwhile, you You sit down to drink coffee, read a book, play video games, do whatever you want, and wait. What are we waiting for here? Basically, for the price to create an imbalance in a three-candle sequence. What is an understand that the market is usually balanced; it strives for equilibrium. to offset that with sales. So , the price always has to maintain a balance. When, in a three-candle sequence (one, two, three), first and third candles of a three-candle sequence don't touch—there's an imbalance, a gap, a gap, call it whatever you want . This is where we're going to look for our entry. We click here, and you have meaning you place your order there pending until it's time to buy or when it's your turn to enter the market. I usually just enter the market. Why? entries due to the spread. If you don't have your spread properly measured, you'll miss out. Keep in mind that the price might just barely touch the target, move away, and miss your order. Okay? I chose this example specifically to also includes a stop loss. Many people, many internet gurus, won't show you this. Most people will present the perfect scenario, everything perfect, to make you think the guy is a demigod, like Goku—he's not. chose this particular example, so you can see that this also fails. Here, in the first entry, they set a stop loss, as simple as that. What do we do here? Hey, Benjamin, man, what do I do now? I don't care at all. I'm still looking for buys. The price has broken this low. We're in the hours. It's giving me confirmations. I'm looking for buys. I don't care that the price has already pushed me out once. I'll give the same area up to two more chances. It breaks out strongly again, creates another imbalance, and it's exactly the same thing. imbalance, and it's exactly the same thing. 1 to 1 ratio Two. Or if you want, you can extend it to the next 10 points. That's another possibility. If you're starting out, I don't recommend being too aggressive and looking for a short one, one or two, some cash in your pocket to take home. Here we see that it enters and we see that the price finally gives us STP in this case up to the next liquidity point, 3.87, almost 1 to 1. Well, more than 1 to 1 finally, okay? Although since we're not fortune tellers, we which would be this point we marked earlier, that H1 high. And there we had that little buy. Therefore, here in summary we would have a SL and then it would be -1% and here it gave us 3.85 + 3.85%. Therefore, in London, in one session we Therefore, in London, in one session we would have obtained, well, 285% of our account. If you go at 2%, little more, but you would also have gained much more depending on the risk you use per account. This is how it works—very simple, very practical: minimum, maximum, liquidity, trading hours, PIN— that's all there is to it. By the way, you'll find also follow me on Instagram; I post content there almost daily to help you understand my strategy more fully. 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