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title: 'Market Mechanics Ep 17: My Full Smart Money Trading Plan + Daily Routine'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=gECKHjUnEjU'
video_id: 'gECKHjUnEjU'
date: 2026-08-14
duration_sec: 2684
channel: 'The Trading Geek'
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# Market Mechanics Ep 17: My Full Smart Money Trading Plan + Daily Routine

> Source: [Market Mechanics Ep 17: My Full Smart Money Trading Plan + Daily Routine](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gECKHjUnEjU)

## Summary

The video presents a comprehensive trading system, emphasizing that profitability comes from a full process—preparation, risk management, execution, journaling, and psychology—not just entries. The presenter walks through a pre-market routine, a mechanical trade plan, and a post-market review, using the EdgeFlow platform as an example.

### Key Points

- **Full Trading System** [00:29] — A real trading system includes preparation, risk management, execution, journaling, review, and psychology. Most traders lose because they focus only on entries.
- **Pre-Market Routine Banner** [01:54] — The pre-market routine banner in EdgeFlow forces consistent actions to prepare mentally before trading. It can be customized with steps and a reset time.
- **Reset Time Setting** [02:32] — Set the pre-market routine banner to reset 1 hour before your trading window. For a 3:00 p.m. start, set it to 2:00 p.m.
- **Economic Calendar Check** [03:14] — Step 1: Check the economic calendar for high-impact news on your watchlist pairs. Use the block trading window feature to avoid trading during these times.
- **Review Trade Plan** [04:09] — Step 2: Review your trade plan, including charting process, entry criteria, and trade management rules, to get crystal clear before volatility.
- **Chart Analysis** [04:36] — Step 3: Analyze charts with your trade plan by your side. Mark up higher time frame ranges, determine bias, and set alerts at key price points.
- **Meditation/Breath Work** [07:44] — Step 4: Perform meditation or breath work to shift from analysis mode to execution mode, calming the parasympathetic system.
- **Pre-Trade Self-Check** [08:56] — Ask yourself: Am I calm? Am I clear? Am I following my trade plan? If not, do more preparation or meditation.
- **Focus and Ignoring** [09:34] — The hard part of trading is ignoring everything else. A pre-market routine helps spot A+ setups and know what to avoid.
- **Consistency Creates Edge** [10:30] — Consistent actions lead to consistent results. A pre-market routine creates consistency, which creates edge over time.
- **Charting Process** [11:51] — Step 1: Identify the 4-hour trend and structure. Look for lower highs/lower lows (bearish) or higher highs/higher lows (bullish).
- **Premium/Discount Tool** [14:35] — Step 2: Use the premium/discount tool (fib retracement with settings 0, 0.5, 1) to map out the swing range. Buy in discount, sell in premium.
- **Supply/Demand Zones** [18:25] — Step 3: Define supply and demand zones (institutional zones). The more extreme the zone (higher in premium), the higher the probability of respect.
- **Entry Criteria** [23:25] — Step 4: Entry criteria. Wait for price to mitigate a point of interest, then drop to a lower time frame (15-min or 1-hour) to look for entry models.
- **Entry Models** [25:42] — Two main entry criteria: liquidity sweep (price taking out swing highs/lows) and market shift (price taking out a structural low in a downtrend).
- **Entry Versions** [34:21] — Aggressive entry: enter immediately after liquidity sweep. Conservative entry: wait for a pullback to a supply/demand zone.
- **Exit Management** [35:02] — For aggressive entries, manage expectations: target the opposing demand zone, place stop loss above the supply zone. For conservative, similar but with market shift confirmation.
- **Post-Market Routine** [37:33] — Post-market routine: journal trades, document emotions, review daily data, and perform periodic reviews (monthly, quarterly) to improve.
- **Journaling and Review** [39:47] — Journaling provides feedback to understand mistakes and improve. Review high-level metrics like win rate, profit factor, and edge score.
- **Process Over Prediction** [42:49] — Trading success comes from process, not prediction. A mechanical trade plan reduces emotional mistakes and makes execution repeatable.

## Transcript

made at the entry, but in reality, a huge part of profitability comes from what you do before the trade and after the trade. Most traders lose because they only focus on entries, setups, and the
charts, but real consistency comes from having a full process. A real trading system is not just about the strategy, the entries, or technical analysis. It also includes the
preparation, the risk management, your execution, your journaling, your review, and how you manage your trading psychology. You need the full package. And that is exactly what you're about to see in this lesson. I'm going to walk
you through my full trading routine, and along with that, I'm going to give you a simplified mechanical trade plan that you can use right now. So, you can see how all of this fits together in the real world. So, with that being said,
let's get into the lesson. So, up until now, I've shown you guys the concepts. I've shown you guys the framework and the logic behind my system, but now I looks like in real life. So, I'm going to step away from the slides for a
minute and walk you through my full trading routine on EdgeFlow. What I do before I trade, during the trade, and after I trade, because this is where I'm I'm going to give you the entire simplified mechanical trade plan, and
you the structure you need. It tells you exactly what to look for, when to act, and just as importantly, when to stay out of the market. So, in this lesson, pre-market routine that I personally use to lock in before I take a single trade.
to actually conduct your pre-market routine via this pre-market routine banner that we have right here. The reason why we have this pre-market enforce your pre-market routine. We want to make sure that you are doing the same
actions every single day to prepare yourself, to get into the right state of mind before you actually start trading. Right? Like I said, consistent actions And this pre-market routine banner is
when you go to settings, you go to pre-market routine banner, this is where you can select the steps that you want to be included into your pre-market steps you want. You can add any steps you want. Once you're finished
customizing your pre-market routine banner, you can just press save changes and it will be reflected right here. You can also choose the time in which you want it to reset on a day-to-day basis, right? So, we highly recommend you to
set it to 1 hour before your trading window. So, for me personally, I like to start trading at 3:00 p.m., which means I want this pre-market routine banner to where I'll come here and then I'll set it at around like 2:00 p.m. just like
this, so that it appears at 2:00 p.m. every single day, reminding myself that I should do my pre-market routine. And also like this banner persists until all of the steps are actually completed, right? So, this once again forces you to
complete the the steps that is on your pre-market routine banner. Right? So, will disappear, so you can focus on your own trading. Now, let me walk you step-by-step. The first step is obviously to check the economic
calendar, and I do so by going to the news feature on EdgeFlow. This is where I want to be filtering it by the currency pairs that's on my watch list. And then I'll also want to look out for the high impact news, all right? So,
a.m. there's a high impact news coming out for GB, and then around like 9:30 a.m. there's another high impact news coming out. So, this is where I'll tell myself, okay, cool, these are the times that I won't trade. And to take it even
easier for me to not trade during this timing, I will set my block trading window here, right? So, this is where I can block trading for high impact events in this regarding the currency pairs on my watch list, and I can choose to block
impact news release. So, that's the first step. Ta-da, done. Check it off. The second step is to review your trade plan in Edge. Right, so this is where, as you can see, second step, review my trade
banner over here, and I will open up my trade plan, and I will go through step charting process, go through my entry criteria, I'll go through my trade management rules, uh entry criteria, everything, and just
just get crystal clear on the process before volatility starts hitting, right? And then once that market review here, and then this is where I can check off like the second step of the pre-market routine itself. The third step is to
analyze the charts with my trade plan right by my side, right? So, this is feature that allows you to actually set a trade plan that you have created to active, just like this, and when you do so, it appears in your trading panel
right by your side. This way, you are able to analyze the charts, you're able right? So, for example, the first step is to mark up my higher time frame range. This is where I will mark up my swing range, you know, my swing low, my
swing high, so on and so forth. Uh just continuously like follow this charting and then once I'm done with all the chart markups, this is where I will end bias, you know, whether I'm bullish, whether I'm bearish. If I'm bearish,
where do I want to be entering the sell positions at, you know, where do I want to be trading from, maybe on the end of a sell right here, and why am I going to be selling at this price point here? Okay? So, yeah, this is where, you know,
here as well, like maybe at the edge of this zone here, set an alert at 0.705. this zone here, set an alert at 0.705. And then once price hit that 0.705 right a notification, it asks me to actually open up my charts to look for my
uh trading opportunity and then this is where I will wait for my entry criteria to appear in the charts, right? Wait for my entry models to appear on the charts itself. And then once I got the confirmation to enter for the trade,
that is where I will enter for the trade right there and then. Okay? Uh and also enter a trade, you review your exit criteria, you review your trade management rules, so you know exactly where to get out of if the trade idea
does not go well and also if the trade idea does go well. And then also just review your trade management rules to just know exactly how you're going to be managing the position once you are in the trade. Yeah, so this is where I do
my analysis, I do my preparation, I do my chart markups, I do my research just so that I can prepare myself so that I know exactly where I'm going to strike, right? So I know exactly what what I want to see the market do in order for
me to actually enter for a position, right? So this is once again just part of the preparation process. In the next lesson, we're going to be talking more about how to execute trades on the trading panel itself, you know,
on at flow. Here's a bonus thing that you can do, right, as part of a pre-market routine. I didn't put it in here, right, but this is like a little pre-market routine. What I like to do is to check my existing positions, right?
you know, that I held it overnight, this is where I come in here and just check how is it doing. And then this is where I might even want to like move my stop actually allow, right, based on the new information that is reflected on the
So, that's done. Analyze the charts, right? Like I said, this is the step You determine what is the price point in which you want to enter the trade on and then you just wait for price to get to that price point. And then once it does,
you trade. If it doesn't, you don't trade, as simple as that. The next step is some form of meditation or some form of breath work and that That where I do it in the sanctuary, right? so this is the last step of the pre-market routine
because I want to shift my state of mind. I want to shift from going into from analysis mode to execution mode. Right, because like I said, you want to Right, you want to make sure that you get into a state where you are going to
be trading like an absolute machine. Uh this is where I can downshift. You can calm down your parasympathetic system. You can calm down your anxiety or any emotions that you are facing and overall just reset back to a mental equilibrium
where I will do like a quick little 15 minutes meditation, right, to clear my mind, to ground myself in the present moment so that later on when I go on to what it is. Right, and I do that through this meditation timer right here. Okay?
I can sit right in both, just come in here, sit down for like 15 minutes. Once this is where I will check off the last step of the pre-market routine itself. routine, right? And you can see, notice how the pre-market routine button just
completed your pre-market routine and now we want you to focus on execution. We want you to really just get into execution mode, get locked in, and just start trading, I want you to ask yourself these three questions, right,
just to check yourself. Am I calm? Am I clear? Am I following my trade plan? Would I still take this trade if I was up big today? If the answer is no, if the answer isn't clean, if you're like, "Mhm, I don't
know, you know, maybe." Then you need to do more preparation. You need to do more that you calm your inner state. And you do that by performing some form of meditation or even like checking out
like the 60-second reboot box breathing exercise that we have given you here in the sanctuary feature itself. Now you know exactly what you're looking for and what you're ignoring, right? Like I said,
the hard part about trading isn't spotting A+ setups. it's in ignoring everything else. And when you perform this pre-market routine, this allows you to spot A+ setups better, right? Because now you're preparing your charts, you
know, okay, if price comes up here and it does this, okay, this is my A+ setup. That's a confirmation, that's the my trigger to actually execute the sell position itself. And most importantly, you also know what
want to avoid. What are the scenarios that you just want to stay out the market and do nothing? Because the most profitable position in the market is present itself, this just allows you to have
people who just trade for the sake of trading, for to to just trade for the of gambling. And that's how you you're able to recognize the
go out there, do your pre-market routine because your pre-market routine creates is consistency, and consistency is what creates edge over time. Consistent actions leads to consistent results. So, if you're doing the same thing over and
over every single day, you're going to get a pretty much like a much more you will not guarantee you win, right? But you will increase the likelihood of you winning. You will increase the likelihood of you actually catching the
A+ setups, catching the outside returns because now you have done the market that I am ready to spot the opportunities when they do appear. So, now I'm going to move on to the entire trading plan. So, the next part is very
important because this right here is going to be a simplified mechanical trade plan that you can use. And when I say mechanical, I mean there are rules. There are rules that actually govern the entire trading system. This is not based
emotion, this is based on tried and tested rules. just eyeballing it. I'm not just relying on gut feeling. I'm actually trading it based on the rules that I have in my
So, now I'm going to go through the entire trade plan right here, step by step, and just walk you guys through the entire thought process. First step is to actually do your charting process. The reason why we do this is so that we can
make sure that we know where we are trading. This is so that we can know whether price is bullish or bearish, and whether we should enter for All right. So, if you look at a 4-hour time frame just like this, this is where
will know that when price is creating lower highs, lower lows just like this, we are actually in a bearish downtrend, which means that the sellers are in control, supply is in control, and price is going to continue going down. And
higher highs and higher lows just like this, then we know that price is going up, okay? Literally as simple as that. You might think, "Okay, price has shifted bullish, right?" So, does this mean price is actually going up right
now, or is price actually going down? So, this is where the structure to really figure out what is my trade bias. Okay, so if I look at frame I can clearly see price is creating lower highs, lower lows, right?
So, price create a new high, push back, create a new lower high, goes down lower high, and then create a new lower low before price continue going down even further. So, this is where this is the most recent bearish break of
structure. And since that's the most recent bearish break of structure, this means that technically this right here is our 4-hour swing range. you what that would look like. So, if this is the most recent break of
high, which automatically means that this is the 4-hour swing low. So, this most recent break of structure, and this is the lowest point that led to the pullback. So, 4-hour swing high and 4-hour swing low right here.
Okay, so just by doing this alone, what I've done is that I have narrowed my I've done is that I have narrowed my focus to just the most recent four-hour swing range. Right, the most recent high, the most recent low, that's it.
this is because we don't want to focus on what price is doing right here. Okay, doing right here. We only want to focus on the present moment. We only want to see what price is doing right now. Okay, so that is why that's always going to be
direction whether it's bearish or bullish so that we can understand who's buyers or the sellers. And in this case, since price is know that sellers are in control of price. So by right, we should enter for
a sell, right, to trade in alignment with that higher time frame trend. And next thing is to identify the swing range, right? What is the range in which you want to focus our energy on, our attention on? And when you do that, you
high and four-hour swing low. That's it. That's the first step. really fully focus on what price is doing right here. here instead of focusing on what price is doing right here. Okay, so that's the
first step. The next step is what I like to do is to premium and discount tool. And this is premium tool just like this, this helps us understand whether the market is in
the discount phase, right, whether the market is cheap or whether the market is expensive. Because if the market is expensive right now, if price is quite high right now, then I duly we should expect price to come down back to fair
expect price to come down back to fair value. And if price is cheap right now, then we are expecting demand to step in the market to cause price to go up. this premium and discount tool. So if I draw this tool right here, by
just going to share with you guys the settings. It's basically the fib retracement tool on the screen right here, right? So what you can do is to TradingView or Edge Flow, whatever tool that you're using for charting, go to
fib retracement, and this is where you can copy these exact settings. Right? So, you can just put 0 0.5 right here, 1, and this is the background. Yeah, You guys can take a photo of this right now or take a screenshot, or you can
always like rewatch the recording and just copy these exact settings. Okay, so to do when you're using this tool is to actually map it out from the swing high Okay, so this was another reason as to
and swing low in the first place. It's to so that we can actually narrow our focus to this swing range right here, and then also so and discount tool. Okay, so that's the next step right
here. Okay, first step was to identify 4-hour trend and structure. Second step is to make sure that we are buying in 4-hour discount and selling in 4-hour premium. Right? Which means that we need to map out our premium discount tool.
So, basically, very simple, you want to place this at the swing high just like this, and then place the other end of the tool at the swing low just like just like this. That's it. Okay? It's a very simple
tool. Anybody can use it. But but yeah, like like that's just it, okay? And how it works is that this upper 50%, right? Above this 50%, which is what we call equilibrium, this is where price is within premium territory.
And below the 50%, this is where price is within discount territory. And like I said earlier on, if price comes down to the discount zone, then it's cheap, which means institutions are more likely to enter for large buy
more likely to enter for large buy orders because it's cheap, which cause price to go up. And similarly, if price is actually within the premium pricing, this is where institutions within price as
expensive, and they will short it, which cause price to go down. That's how premium and discount works, as simple as that. Which means that if price is actually in a downtrend just like this, we want to be shorting when
price is within premium pricing. Okay, because this is where price starts can expect institutions to get interested in price for them to continue They are not interested when price is down here.
Okay, because when price is down here, this is where it's cheap, right? It's actually enter for shorts at. So, they're much more better off pushing price all the way up here, and then once price get a new lower high here,
dumping the sell orders and causing price to continue in the bearish high just like this. So, in this case, you want to make sure that you are selling at your 4-hour premium.
Okay? Selling at 4-hour premium. Okay, where exactly do we actually sell at the 4-hour premium zone?
this is where you want to determine the optimal location to trade. And this is the same location in which you want to be identifying your entry models. You want to be getting your entry confirmation and your entry trigger.
And that is the location. So, where exactly do we want to be selling it? which is to define your supply and demand zones. inside my YouTube videos, inside my mentorship program, which is this
concept called institutional zones, which is pretty much the point of in. I'm talking about supply and demand zones, but like institutional supply and demand zones,
flip zones, flip plus sweep zones, liquidity zones. Okay, so there are different point of interest in the market, which as the best location for you to actually look for your entry models and your entry
confirmation. How do you actually define where is the price point in which you want to be shorting from? So, since we have identified the fact that we want to short at a premium pricing just like this, then this is
where we want to make sure that we are selling at a supply zone. So, in this entire move to the downside, where is the most obvious origin point? It's high just like this. Right, so this is where you can use like
a box tool just like this, and what you can do is to map out the entire range, right? You can see this entire consolidation just like this. Or if you want to be even more precise,
Which is pretty much the candlestick that caused this entire reversal to happen, which is somewhere around here, right? This green candle right here. this huge red candle that caused price to absolutely collapse.
Okay, so that's one supply zone. Is there other supply zones? Yes, there came down here and pulled back to this supply zone, it continued going down. So, this is where I can identify perhaps another supply
Okay, and then you can potentially see another supply zone right here. Because another situation where price did a pullback just like this and then continue going down even further. And so on and so forth, right? Maybe
So, right here, there are four supply zones, right? I've mapped out one supply zone here, another supply zone right here, and another supply zone right Okay, so what I'm going to do right now is that I'm going to name these supply
zones. So, the extreme supply zone is A. The next supply zone that I've mapped And the next supply zone is C, and the supply zone do you guys think is the most high probability, right? That has a
higher chance that price is going to respect. A, B, C, or D? This is where it something that perhaps people don't really understand. Is the more extreme the zone is, the higher the chance of it getting
respected. What I basically mean by that is that if B, C, D, if it's C and D, guess where it's located at. It's located near the equilibrium level right
And if you look at D, it's completely within the discount pricing, which is exactly why it didn't work, right? You can see when price respected D, it made just blast right through it. Because of the fact that there is not
enough sell orders at that point of interest because it's at the wrong location, because it's at a discount pricing. And then if you look at C, price continued Price did get a stronger
reaction at C, but then eventually still blast right through it because price is blast right through it because price is moving towards premium pricing. Okay, so in this case, C and D is automatically eliminated because price
is already like disrespected it, right? So, all because of the fact pricing, which is not where we want to sell from. And that leaves us with A and B. And this is where it gets tricky because
this properly. What I basically mean by that is that here, people doesn't know which point of Some people say that they should enter for a sell right here. Some people say
they should enter for a sell right here. But they don't have a clear mechanical rule that tells them exactly when they should enter for a sell, whether that's A or B. And when you don't have a clear mechanical rule, you are relying on
guesswork. The truth is, I have absolutely no clue whether price is going to respect A or B. I'm not a fortune teller. I don't have a And the best part is you don't need to predict
what's going to happen next in order to make money from this market. All you need to do is to find the point of interest in which you get your entry confirmation from.
And when it appears, you take the trade without hesitation, without guesswork, without emotions. That brings us to the next part, which is the entry criteria. at this right here, I don't know whether I should enter for
Because this supply zone is high probability because it's quite high up in premium pricing. This one right here is also quite high up in premium should is price going to respect? Well, the truth is I don't know.
I don't know. And I don't care. Because all I want to do is to see the entry confluences appear at either point of interest A or B. So, when price mitigate a point of interest, this is where I jump down to
that's the next step right here. Okay, listen. frame until price mitigated at the point of interest. So, at this point of time, this is where, you know, price have came up to
Cool. I'm going to jump down to the lower time frame right now. But if price it hasn't mitigated my point of interest A or B, I'm not jumping down to my lower because a lot of you guys keep on going
your sniper entries, even though price is not in optimal location. So, now that price has touched point of interest B, right, my 4-hour point of mitigation. So, this is where I'll jump down to my lower time frame, which could
frame, depending on your trading style itself. Right, so let me just remove this right here. Just make things a little bit clearer right here. Okay, so what you guys can do is to also
add like an additional time frame, which is the 1-hour time frame if you guys want, right? If you guys feel like the gap between 4-hour and 15 minutes is way too much, you guys can always add like the 15-minute time frame as well. Uh no,
time frame as well because it's like it's like the perfect sweet spot. So, point of interest just like this, I jump down to my 15-minute time frame or my 1-hour time frame depending on where is your lower time frame. And the minute I
entry criteria, right? So, let me just like close the charting process and I There are mainly two things that I look trade. This right here is one of the 10
different entry models I have in my arsenal and it's the most simple one, It's the one that anybody can understand. of interest, this is where I look for my entry
minute price beep touch it just like this, go down to your lower time frame, look for entry model. Two things, liquidity sweep and easy one, which is market shift. So, if you look at the lower time frame,
what happened was that price has shifted bullish. Now, does this mean price is reversing and becoming uptrend right now? No, it just means that it shifted actually facilitate the pullback to the premium
pricing. To the supply zone that is within the premium pricing. That's why it actually, you know, shifted bullish. Which means that this bullish move is a short term move, right? It's not the real move.
But the internal order flow is bullish right now. Okay? That's what matters. bullish right now. So, at this point of time, higher time frame is bearish, internal order flow is bullish, but because it's like really
just bullish right now to facilitate the pullback. What you want to do is to wait for this internal order flow to shift bearish. Okay, I'm pretty sure that makes sense, right? You don't want to enter for all
sell when the internal structure is still bullish because what can potentially happen is that price can continue bullish just like this swing high and just continue creating higher highs and just continue causing
the entire market to reverse. So, what you want to do is to wait for this internal structure to shift from bullish to bearish so that you can actually got a confirmation that the market has officially done
bearish and right now it's going to continue with the higher time frame trend. So, this is where we we can potentially expect a new lower high to be formed and then later on price come down and take out structure right here.
trying to catch. We are trying to catch the lower high. And you're able to identify the lower high to your highest degree of precision by waiting for it to come up to a premium pricing and a supply zone that is within premium
pricing. Okay, so that's the location. Timing is pretty much your entry confirmation. When exactly do I want to enter for a sell if I'm looking at this entire move right here.
the internal market structure and this is where you can see on the lower time higher lows like I mentioned earlier on. And this is where you can also map out all of your internal break of structure, right? So, price creating higher highs,
internal break of structure, another internal break of structure, another one right here. And since this is the most recent internal break of structure, you want to identify the lowest point that led to the break of structure and
then this right here is going to be your swing high. Okay, so maybe I'll just put that in. Swing high or internal high, right? However you you deem it as.
And now the market shift will only happen after price take out the 1-hour swing low. So, if I'm looking at this right now, this is the internal structure, yeah? So, market shift means what? Means
there's a shift in the trend direction of the market. And since right now the internal structure is actually bullish, if the market were to shift bearish, we downside. We need to see price comes down and take
out the last higher low just like this, giving us a market shift, which indicate to us that right now price is indeed shifting price. Sellers have overwhelmed the buyers, and right now we are shifting
So, that is the market shift, right? You basically want to see price take out the last low just like this. So, here's where price is at right now. So, this means that the internal structure is still bullish until price
If price take out this low, then we got our market shift, and this is where we can expect the entire internal structure to start shifting bearish. If price respect this low right here, comes down, mitigate this low, maybe
continue bullish, this means that the intact, which means we have more room to go. up. So, that's the market shift, right? The
market shift happens when price take out a structural structural high or uptrend, you want to see it take out a structural low, and in a downtrend, you high. Okay, so at this point of time, if I
want to enter for a sell to know for a fact that the entire structure is shifting bearish, what I do need to do is to see later price comes down, take out this low right here. Take out a swing low, giving me a market
And what I also want to see, which is the second criteria, is my liquidity sweep. Okay? So, liquidity sweep is pretty much professional institutions hunting stop losses. That's it. And what you want to do is to identify
the price point in which retail traders are placing their stop loss. And that is going to happen. Basic concept right here. Below a swing Above a swing high, there's going to be liquidity. Because if a retail trader is
right here because they want to trade the reversal, they're going to be placing their stop loss below the swing low. Similarly, if they enter for a sell their stop loss above the high, and that's where liquidity is sitting.
Okay, so liquidity is usually found above a swing high or below a swing low. Okay? Basic concept. There's other fancy patterns like double top, double highs. those. You can check out my liquidity concepts video if you want to learn more
about liquidity. You want price to take out the most recent liquidity. Okay? So, over here, you want to see the liquidity sweep happen at the point of ideally. Okay? Ideally, you want to see some form of liquidity sweep happen
So, the minute price mitigate a point of interest, next thing you should automatically look for is whether price have a liquidity sweep. So, you look and you try to identify where is all the available liquidity.
Yes, there is liquidity right here because this is a swing high, there is Yes, there is available liquidity right here as well. But, what you guys fail to take into account of is the fact that there is
also liquidity all the way right here as well. well. This swing high is also liquidity. they're going to be placing their stop loss above these highs right here.
Ideally, I want to see price take out the liquidity right here that is formed during the pullback phase, and also the liquidity that is formed left-hand side. Ideally, I want to see price take out
both of these liquidity. I want to see price come up, take out this liquidity, out this liquidity and cause price to reverse. Ideally, I want both. Okay, so that's the liquidity sweep itself. So now,
what I do in this case is that if I'm entering for shorts today, and I want to shifting bearish, I want to see price comes down, take out this low here, and it also swept the liquidity above
V-shape reaction just like this, and also swept the liquidity above this high That's the ideal scenario. Okay, that's generally the ideal scenario. If I get that, then I got my liquidity
shift, I got my market shift, and this gives me the confidence to actually gives me the confidence to actually enter for a sell position. enter for this trade. You can either enter after price swept the liquidity,
liquidity from this high and this high, you straight away enter. version of the entry model. Super duper aggressive because you are assuming that If you are using this form of entry model, I would recommend you to actually
place your take profit at a place where it's actually reasonable. Okay, so this is where we get into exit. So, where should you exit, right? So, Which is the aggressive version of the entry model, right? Is you can enter
conservative version. My bad. So, the aggressive version of the entry model is liquidity sweep. The minute price take out this higher, take out this higher, right here. Aggressive version of the entry model.
Conservative version of the entry model requires you to wait for price to pull back to a point of interest, a supply or demand zone, maybe just like this, the liquidity sweep. Wait for price to pull back and then you enter for a sell
at the supply zone that was formed at the liquidity sweep or created the And this is where you want to enter for a sell from. Okay, so once again, aggressive or conservative,
it depends on your personality, depends on your trading style. Now, based on which entry model you choose, you want to make sure that you are choosing the right way to actually exit the trade.
This is where you want to make sure that if you are using the aggressive version your expectation, right? Because at this point of time, price has not officially shifted bearish yet. It's just you assuming that price is going to go down,
yet. Remember, we don't trade the market for market for what it is, we trade the market for what we are. assumption onto the market. So, you want to manage your expectation.
If I'm entering for a sell right here, I'm going to be targeting this low right low is going to get taken out because price has not taken out the low yet. expectation. This is me trading the market for what it is.
placing my stop loss above the high or above the the supply zone right here. supply zone, I'm going to be placing the stop loss a few pips above the supply zone just like this. And then I'll place my take profit at
opposing demand zone. Okay, just like this. Manage my assume that price is going to take out this low. entry model. That's how you manage the trade. You place your stop loss at a
ideal and you manage your expectation when it comes to your TP. Okay, cool. Now, next up is the conservative version. Conservative version, same exact thing, right? So, if you're entering for a sell at like a
Let's say a supply zone right here. Same thing, you want to place your stop where you want to place your take profit at the opposing supply and demand zone well. If you want if you already got a market
shift right here then you can go ahead and maybe move it to the next opposing you don't want to assume right? I'll much rather off you guys manage your is reasonable that you can expect price to gravitate towards next.
And yeah, that's pretty much the entire trading process. Once you do that this is where you can actually do your full take profit right here. You can actually set a stop loss set a take profit and this is where my personal trade
and forget. I just make sure that I hold a trade all stop loss place my take profit I don't do partial profits I don't trail my stop loss I just take profit all the way through. Okay? So yeah, that's pretty
much the entire trading plan. So let's move on to the next part. Right, let's move on to the next part itself. The next part is pretty much going to be the post market routine. How do I
trades and all that stuff to ensure that I improve my trading performance at all I enter for like a bunch of trades right here and then let's say I decide to close a trade over here. By the way like the minute you actually
that allows you to document your emotion right? So this way we actually record your emotion and this gets synced straight to the trading journal. So you you're entering for the trade and then the minute you close the position just
like this you will also get a way to actually journal in less than emotion in there let yourself know whether you actually notes that you want to like type in here and you can even like do like a voice
and you can even like do like a voice reflection over the trade itself. that's pretty much like let's say today I've actually gotten a bunch out of a like $242 right here. This is where I will move on
to my post market routine which is journaling and reviewing. Okay, so first thing first is to go to journal and this is where I would want to make sure that I actually start to take the time and space out to actually introspect. Right,
able to find out whether you actually follow your trade plan or not. Okay, so what was your result for today? What was your win rate? What was your average How many trades you win? How many trades
guardrails. Right, guardrails is pretty much the rules that we have set earlier on. If you violate any of these, it will be documented right here. Right, just to give you an example on what that looks like, you can see if you actually
right here as well. Okay, so like this is where here, I traded outside my allowed trading window. Right, so this is where And you will also see like whether you actually completed your pre-market
routine right here as well. And this is also where you are able to see like the journaled. So let's go on to like this trade right here and this is where I will complete my actually my journaling. All right, so this is where you will
higher time frame, medium time frame, lower time frame. Right, maybe let me just give like a quick example right here. Copy this image over here. Go back Boom, boom, boom. Okay, so the reason why I actually journal is because
journaling is what allows you to actually get feedback. Okay, this is what allows you to actually understand how exactly to No, this is what allows actually improve your trading performance. Right, so this is where I
follow my trading plan or not. Right, I look at my trading data in here, actually follow. Right, in this case I follow the market mechanics trade plan, actually enter the trade on. Right, liquidity sweep, market shift, whatever,
and forget, or whatever, and put in the mistakes that I commit right here, add like a tag over here, and then put in my entry emotion and my exit emotion, and just overall add a note or voice reflection. Once again, the reason why
more aware, so that you can be more conscious of your unconscious patterns. is where you get the data points you need to actually improve. said, go and review your daily trading data. You can also review it on your
your high-level metrics, all the most important metrics at a high level like bought, your profit factor, even your edge score, so you can see how you're qualitative-wise, but also quantitative-wise as well.
And also, I like to go and perform some form of like reviewing, right? This is where I actually come here, and this is where I go a monthly review, quarterly review, annually review, and I can see like this
is just like an example on how it works, right? And there's these templates right go through that. Okay, there's a bunch of templates in here that you can Uh, but yeah, this is just an example on what I do at the end of each period, at
each quarter. I like to sit down with a cup of tea and just review the trading many trades I lose, how many trades I break even, and just overall look at my trading data, and actually get the feedback from here, right? Do like a
huge process audit, do a huge reflection, so that I can make less mistakes, and I can understand more of what works, right? The goal of doing and weaknesses. So, like I said, you can do more of what works and less of what
doesn't. So, after that, I'll also do like a quick little meditation, right? like a quick little meditation, right? Just so that I don't carry my losses like to do like a overall mental reset. You can do this like breathing exercises
in here as well, just to get you back to a mental equilibrium, so that you can approach the the session with a logical and rational mind. So, that's what my full trading routine looks like. Before the trade, I
prepare myself mentally and also my charts as well. And just build context. When I am trading, I follow a mechanical trading plan with clear rules on when to enter and when to exit. And after I'm done trading, I journal my trades, I
review my trades, and I use data to continuously improve and refine my trading plan. That is what professional trading looks like. That is what consistency actually is. It's not guessing, not gambling, but
having a real process, a real system, a real framework. Because at the end of the day, trading success comes from process, not And like I said, most traders do not need more information. They need more
structure. And when your system is clear, discipline just becomes a whole lot easier. That is the purpose of a mechanical trade plan, to reduce the emotional mistakes, to make your execution more repeatable,
and turn trading into something you can actually measure and improve. So, hopefully this lesson has shown you that EdgeFlow is much bigger than a trading journal software, a [ __ ] trading signal group. It is
indeed a full trading operating system that is built to help you plan your that is built to help you plan your trades, prepare for the market open, to execute trades with god reals, to journal your trades, and to review your
trading performance with more structure and discipline. trading actually looks like. It's not sexy, it's not exciting, but it's methodical, repeatable, and extremely powerful when you do it
And when you combine the strategy, the routine, the rules, and the software to gather. This is when trading starts to feel simpler, clearer, and more repeatable, and more profitable.
lesson, let me know down in the comments what is the biggest gap in your current process right now. Is it your trading plan? Is it your Is it your trading plan? Is it your execution? Is it your journaling? Or is
it your reviewing? Right, what's the missing piece for you right now? And with that being said, hope you guys enjoyed this lesson, and I look forward to seeing you guys in the next lesson. And as always, remember you're just one
And as always, remember you're just one trade away.