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Full Day of Live Crypto Trading: $4,500 Profit Breakdown

0h 27m video Published Mar 2, 2025 Transcribed Jul 13, 2026 C Craig Percoco
Intermediate 14 min read For: Aspiring and intermediate crypto day traders looking to learn a structured trading process and risk management techniques.
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An experienced crypto trader documents a full day of live trading, sharing his process, strategy, and mindset. He aims for over $4,000 in daily profit, ultimately achieving $4,500 through disciplined risk management and selective setups.

[00:00]
Day Trading Goal

The trader starts the day with a goal of over $4,000 in profit, ultimately aiming for a $10,000 day. He emphasizes following the process and letting trades run.

[01:27]
Pre-Trading Setup

He checks high-impact news (UK inflation, FOMC), sets up multi-timeframe charts (1-minute, 1-hour, daily), and uses a trading plan on Notion to log trades.

[03:45]
Daily Bias and Key Levels

He identifies a discounted zone on Solana and a massive resistance level, expecting a potential bounce for a long trade or a breakdown for shorts.

[05:55]
Ethereum Setup Strategy

He looks for entries on the underside of a trend into a fair value gap (FVG) with a change of character (CHoCH) for high-probability trades.

[10:12]
First Trade Execution

He enters a long on Solana at an FVG with CHoCH, reduces risk to zero after a candle close, and locks in $3,151 profit after slippage and fees.

[14:36]
Second Trade Attempt

He sets a short on Ethereum at a bearish FVG retest but gets stopped out for a $53 loss, maintaining discipline.

[16:47]
Head and Shoulders Setup

He identifies a head and shoulders pattern on Ethereum but misses the entry by a hair; the setup would have been profitable.

[18:29]
Solana Discretionary Trade

He takes a long on Solana after a displacement, but the trade fails, resulting in a $619 loss.

[20:40]
Ethereum FVG Long

He enters a long on Ethereum at an FVG after FOMC news, reduces risk to zero, but price reverses, netting only $443 after a volatile move.

[23:39]
Final Trade and Daily Summary

He takes a long on Ethereum after a trend break and FVG retest, locking in $1,636. Total daily profit: $4,500, meeting his goal.

Through disciplined risk management and selective setups, the trader achieved $4,500 in daily profit. He emphasizes the importance of following the process, containing losses, and letting winners run to eventually reach larger goals.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 01:27 Check high-impact news on economic calendar (e.g., UK inflation, FOMC).
2 03:33 Set up multi-timeframe charts (1-minute, 1-hour, daily) to establish daily bias.
3 05:10 Add cryptos to watchlist and check for smart alerts activity.
4 05:55 Identify key levels: trendlines, fair value gaps (FVG), and change of character (CHoCH).
5 07:32 Set entry, stop-loss, and take-profit levels based on FVG midpoint and key resistance/support.
6 08:18 Use trading tool (e.g., Inevitable Trade on TradingView) to input trade parameters and calculate risk/reward.
7 11:11 Monitor trade; reduce risk to zero after a favorable candle close.
8 12:30 Take partial or full profit at target zone; log trade in journal.

Study Flashcards (10)

What is a fair value gap (FVG) in trading?

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A fair value gap occurs when three sequential candles have wicks that don't overlap, leaving a space in between, often a key area for price to react.

05:55

What does 'change of character' (CHoCH) indicate?

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A change of character is when price breaks a pattern of higher lows or lower highs, signaling a potential trend reversal.

06:09

What is the trader's daily profit goal in this video?

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Over $4,000, with an ultimate goal of $10,000.

How does the trader reduce risk on a winning trade?

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He moves his stop-loss to break even (reduces risk to zero) after a favorable candle close.

11:11

What is the trader's win rate at one point in the day?

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33% win rate after three trades.

20:09

What two high-impact news events does the trader check?

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UK inflation report and FOMC meeting in the US.

03:06

What pattern did the trader identify on Ethereum for a potential short?

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A head and shoulders pattern.

16:47

How much profit did the trader lock in on his first trade?

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$3,151 after slippage and fees.

13:08

What was the total daily profit at the end of the video?

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Just over $4,500.

27:01

What tool does the trader use to log his trades?

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Notion.

01:54

💡 Key Takeaways

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Daily Profit Goal

Sets a clear, ambitious target that drives the entire trading session.

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Fair Value Gap Strategy

Explains a core technical concept used to identify high-probability entries.

05:55
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Risk Reduction Discipline

Demonstrates the critical habit of moving stop-loss to break even to protect capital.

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Win Rate and Loss Management

Shows that even with a 33% win rate, proper risk management leads to overall profit.

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Daily Profit Achievement

Proves that disciplined execution of a strategy can consistently meet profit goals.

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[00:00] as you can see we're up $2,600 risking $500 which is a really nice move so far and we were right about our idea but you have to be able to follow your process and let trades fully run our ultimate goal is to have an over $10,000 profit

[00:14] day in this video I'm going to take you through an entire day of my live crypto trading and I'm going to show you inside my entire process my strategy the profits and losses that I take each day so you can basically watch and learn

[00:28] from my trading been d trading for over 8 years now and I've been documenting to do to show you what's going on on our trading team and to show you the real videos so in this video if you're brand new to trading or you watch these videos

[00:45] everything on my monitors all the tech that I use what I look for each specific day to find setups me finding and taking these specific trade setups and the mindset when I'm actually entering and exiting the market and the goal today is

[01:00] to see if we can reach over $4,000 in Daily profit and our ultimate goal is to have an over $10,000 profit day so we're going to see if we can get that done and coffee and then we're going to look to try to find our first

[01:14] [Music] trade So lately in crypto there's been a lot of volatility so first thing I want to do is get my bearings on where the

[01:27] market is likely to move for the day also Alo what my ranges are so then I going to find those smaller day trading opportunities so I'm going to sort of start big and then zoom in first things first I want to show you what I have on

[01:41] I've done a little bit of analysis already on my Solana chart and I'm doing a second I also have my exchange pulled up over here which is where I'm actually

[01:54] trading plan on notion which if you follow me on Instagram in the the word tools I'll have the sent over and so this allows me to log my trades

[02:07] to follow depending on which system I'm trading so today I'm going to be trading market is likely to reverse and then make continuations in the opposite

[02:20] we're going to get into in just a second over here on the other monitor I just moved it over for a second I have what's called a multi-time frame View this is Dow Jones on Whatever frequency that I want so if I want to look at salana say

[02:36] for example here on a 1 minute time frame so each candle is 1 minute worth of price movement so it's really zoomed in I can also click on these other boxes where it can show me my daily analysis on Solana if I want to click to for

[02:48] example say a 1 hour I can have a 1 hour a one day and then a 1 minute all on before additionally I'm always going to be looking at my economic calendar so on high impact news is going to move the markets as day Traders we want to pay

[03:06] the high importance button here you can see the UK has an inflation report are looking for is at 2 p.m. we also have fomc in the US which is going to be

[03:21] trade into this news volatility hopefully it ends up in a gain but we have for high impact news for the day so whenever I'm sitting down at my desk

[03:33] I'm basically going to pop open all my resources and start on my pression checklist so first step is checking for high important news which we just did the next thing is setting up our daily bias and taking a look at the broader

[03:45] discounted Zone off of this overall move that we've just made up we're trading back down towards sort of the middle point of it so I would expect to potentially get a flip that we can play into on the long side additionally what

[04:00] I am seeing on a larger larger time frame is that we had bounce points off of this level this level broke under reclaimed it tested it again broke under it tested it and then failed so this is a massive resistance point right in here

[04:12] where we expected for the price to roll over now we're sort of Free Falling on strong right now so if we look at a slightly different view on the day right we also have these highs these highs these highs big pushup retest here

[04:27] reclaim and then another retest so I wouldn't be too surprised considering we're reclaiming this overall area here to get a quick bounce potentially off of this which could open up a temporary long opportunity to buy into the market

[04:40] this level if we see a really really big break for it it's really bearish for the profit off of the market moving down so we're going to be looking for temporary

[04:53] Longs and then if it breaks this level shorts so I'm going to keep my mind on current Trend right here so what's coming to my mind immediately is first this overall trend right here so that's step two step three is going to be

[05:10] checking for smart alerts activity and adding cryptos to our watch list what I do when I'm day trading is effectively flip between ethereum and salana and see because I know how the price moves something that's really important that

[05:27] I've noticed as a Trader you want to know how your pairs move and just study potential opportunities so I do have eth and soul pulled up on this chart I actually want to take an approach on eth and show you what I'm looking at because

[05:41] ready to go if anything so with this strategy I'm basically looking for a levels where there's an entry on the underside of this trend ideally into

[05:55] a fair value Gap is basically when you have three sequential candles where the wick of the first candle and the wick of the third candle don't overlap leaving this space in between this is often times a really really pivotal key area

[06:09] something called a change of character you're going to see how this works as get a candle to push underneath one of these higher lows higher lows higher

[06:21] lows that's a change of character so having those three things in conjunction proprietary data on our private trading team this is going to get us close trades mind you this is on a 5-minute time frame so I'm actually going to go

[06:37] this key level so the next thing that I'm looking at is trying to find a Target Point basically if eth wants to come back up and retest this area right here notice how we do have a sell signal we now have a Buy Signal coming in right

[06:51] here as well but I would still be tempted to Target this fair value gap reason being that we have the sort of invisible resistance line where it was support support broken down and now it's going to test it guaranteed as

[07:05] resistance if we can want to pop up to this level and if I sort of Mark off this level you can see if we scroll out this is also a really key other level where we've gotten support consolidation Big Break resistance resistance support

[07:18] into now that the price has broken underneath it for it to come back into and roll down so I am going to be watching this as a critical zone so I'm going to set a marker here here I'm going to kind of set up a hasty position

[07:32] I'm just going to go into the midpoint of this fair value Gap and I'm putting my stop loss outside of this group of candles here right into this midpoint going to come up I want this to come up here and test this trend and fail off of

[07:50] this trend before my stop loss is triggered so if this takes too long to develop I might not actually take the trade because I don't want it to retest stop- loss nice and tight so that I can basically maximize the risk reward that

[08:04] I'm right about that level so I'm trying to keep this really tight into this get eight or 9x what I'm risking on the trade and that's how you're able to let

[08:18] Click into this indicator section I'm going to click on the inevit trade trading view it's in the tools as well so follow me on Instagram DME tools and

[08:30] going to click on my entry I'm going to click on my take profit and then I'm going to click on my stop-loss level then I can input the dollar amount that me my expected profit on the trade my entry as well as the quantity that I

[08:47] potential profit I have an alert set here on eth so let's go back over and key level again so you'll see if we look at these side by side this low was

[09:01] effectively the exact low that we tested off time and time again so if this is to make a nice reversal I wouldn't be surprised to see this sort of be a temporary bottom also considering that if I take a fib from this level I would

[09:13] ideally love for it to hit off of this key level which would be the 61.8 and sort of reading this trend to try to play a long into this so I kind of have opportunity so we kind of want to just put ourselves and positions where if

[09:30] areas where we think price is going to drop significantly or increase significantly say for example we get into this one and this one doesn't work we take netive -1 or $500 but in that same scenario say we're in on this one

[09:45] we get our positive move that's going to give us positive 5.6 which is going to net us out at 4.6 which is going to be over $2,000 in profit so it's okay to be wrong about your ideas we just want to set ourselves up with some ideas in

[09:58] general so we have our thesis on ethereum we have our thesis on Solana here we did start to get some momentum into the market so I snagged into a position here on our fair value Gap right at this change of character that

[10:12] market Trend we get a change of character we get a fair value Gap into this critical level here which was the last touch point before a massive run up some momentum into the market for the rest of the day if this wants to start

[10:29] pretty substantial profit if this is to break down and make new lows we'll look game but I did want to allow ourselves to play into a momentum shift in the

[10:43] level and this level if we are to be able to hit it we're going to be able to this level and break through it so now it's either we take a $5 $600 loss or we

[10:58] get to reduce our risk to zero so we are starting to get a move that looks good I need to see a candle close we have 10 seconds left on this candle I want to see it close Above This

[11:11] High here and I can reduce my risk so we're going to see get there and we are okay so now I'm reducing risk down to my entry Zone okay so really starting to situation because you can see we're up $2,600 risking $500 which is a really

[11:27] nice move so far and we were right about our idea but you have to be able to follow your process and let trades fully run I have a take-profit Zone I want to capture this move and really let it fully exhaust so it is tempting to take

[11:39] profitable you really need to let trades run fully so I'm fighting the urge obviously as a human being to lock in $2,500 which is basically five risk factors in order to allow this trend to really fully push through and if I'm

[11:55] able to make you know closer to $55,000 then I lock in a basically 101 10 losses going to build me that buffer and allow me to be a little bit risk on to be account basically this is a risk-free trade if this comes back down and wants

[12:12] to stop us out for break even that's just the reality of trading and letting into this fair value Gap resistance here so I'm going to go ahead and take off higher that's fine this is my first trade and I was basically able to lock

[12:30] in 6.4 risk factors off of the first trade so if this continues to run that's $3,200 nearly on the day we haven't really got any sort of pullback on this

[12:42] resistance Zone on multiple time frames in multiple charts so I did take profit off of here if this continues to run that's fine but beautiful beautiful

[12:54] Journal now today is Wednesday so I'm going to start putting all of this information 1 minute time frame this was a long nice juicy wind to start off so after slippage and fees we ended up making 3151 I also like to have a little

[13:08] confidence meter here that shows me how I was feeling when I got into the trade initially I wasn't super confident about this entry just because it was a small two out of five it wasn't the best perfect setup by any measure so now I

[13:22] have the first trade log $3,100 in the bank I'm going to go eat some breakfast number two too all right so I'm super lazy to cook breakfast cuz when I'm working I don't want to stop so as a day trader if you just use liquid egg

[13:36] scrambled eggs in like 3 minutes and you can just get back to your desk and keep trading I'm a sicko a lot of people think it's disgusting so then I just throw this into the microwave watch how good this comes

[13:50] [Music] out this trade that we just took off the table actually reversed exactly from my position and would stopped us out for off the table too soon and then it's run all day sometimes things like that are

[14:07] the table ended up being right it's not always right but I'm happy that we locked in the $3,200 the more you trade and the more you get the Reps in the realistic and what you want to sort of sit around for and wait for and what you

[14:23] hopefully find the next trade soon and get into trade number two all right so and retest the underside of this trend come into this fair value Gap now it did

[14:36] touch basically into the midpoint of this fair value Gap and have a response on the underside of this trend this is where we got a sort of bearish fair short have it fail off of this level and take a crack down so hopefully we are

[14:52] I have to get into in like 5 minutes so I'm basically setting this order up as a background hopefully we have a nice trade number two so we're going to see

[15:05] what [Music] happens all right so looking at this eth trade we did get a little bit of a reaction off of our fair value Gap and a run down which is great we really need

[15:21] this level to break down and from what I'm seeing just Instinct wise price action wise we're following this low level and we have our next line here that is fighting so price is either going to coil through here and push up

[15:33] trade to get stopped out at this point it's looking likely however if it's not breaks this level this is going to be a big big big level to be able to be short

[15:48] tradeoff because I of course want to lock in like $700 $800 but for that reason I think I have to let this play out and I going to stop out right in my

[16:02] face all right unfortunate so a little break even trade on eth ended up losing $53 after everything so it's a little bit of a negative balance on the day but put it as a three I am now going to basically put this over in a folder as

[16:19] well so I'll take all the analysis that I've done hit this little folder section that I took and then I can mute all this stuff save it for my analysis erase that taking a move but anyways good start of the day I'm going to finish up some work

[16:35] number [Music]

[16:47] three so checking the chart we missed our original entry up here price kind of something called a head and shoulders formation sort of setting up right here

[16:59] where we have shoulder head potential other shoulder coming down to this area so I am seeing this as still a potential viable short position so I'm going to set up another position here into this area hoping price is able to come up I'm

[17:12] going to risk over this High still hoping that we get a touch point off of this Underside retest higher up into the Head and Shoulder Zone and get a 12:45 right now so we're going to see if we can catch this head and shoulders for

[17:27] a trade into fomc if fomc brings bearish news for crypto then we're going to see into something that can run for the remainder of the day so I'm okay with that's sort of the name of the game so I have my order set up here price wants to

[17:44] hopefully we have a nice move up into our entry to play into the [Music] afternoon little bit of an annoying update you can see ethereum came

[17:59] beautifully up to that exact level that we called poked through technically filling my order missed it by a hair and we would be currently up what three risk factors so 1,500 around 2,000 in profit so I am going to dead this idea

[18:15] unfortunately good setup good execution Head and Shoulders did actually come to this analysis and we're going to look for another trade coming off of this salana move right here we've had the market basically bleeding off for a good

[18:29] period of the day we failed to go below this break of structure here and then we there was a displacement area Left Behind which is signal by this green zone here so I took a discretionary entry right in this area put my stop

[18:44] loss below this last low so if it does want to come down and produce a new low that's fine but it looks like it already swept sort of that clean level and had a least have a position here fairly wide stop loss so this isn't going to be any

[18:59] sort of massive trade even if we do get a pushover but I am going to try to Target a little higher of a level see if we can play this into our fomc meeting volatility in the market either down or up so I'm going to hopefully be able to

[19:15] able to get a nice 2K win out [Music] of so we took a loss on that first trade idea here but we did get get a clean

[19:29] change of character so if it wants to come in retest the same exact area into trying to tap into an order block right now and see if we can play this trade to

[19:42] the upside looks like fomc is causing some volatility in the market here so loss but while this is moving I am going to key in my trades long took a loss

[19:55] 619 negative which brings us down on the day 2400 off of that $3,100 win so obviously the losses are eating into us a little bit but we're looking to take another trade to the upside we have a 33% win rate today so far so up $22,400

[20:09] so far is good now we just got to see if this trade is going to fill for us so I took this trade off for flat this price action does not look like the market could keep dropping maybe I'm wrong about that but I got to find a

[20:25] direction and establish some new opportunities from myself and then we'll try to find another proper trade so looking at ethereum here we did have a setup in this fair value Gap with a big displacement off of resistance

[20:40] resistance resistance we had the fomc news come in push through here now we're break down lower I was going to get out but I do have a nice little position here it's a nice size position so if we are to get any sort of momentum to the

[20:54] extremely volatile so I'm going to be looking to reduce risk pretty quickly so session but once again just nailing a nice entry on this overside retest into

[21:08] the fair value Gap we caught support on that lower candle inside this fair value Gap so hoping for some momentum now on this chart so we are starting to get a really nice move on this eth trade here so I am

[21:22] going to go ahead and put my risk to zero if this wants to come back down and probably going to Target equal highs here which is going to get us a 1 to break even at this point or we're going to get a nice momentum push up into our

[21:40] [Music] [Applause]

[21:52] run all right so this is going to happen with trading we had a beautiful setup on ethereum so we were exactly right about this exact critical level we broke over take profit up there basically failed off of this key level I could have

[22:10] probably taken more risk factors off the table so maybe brought my stop loss up to here or at least up to here price comes down tags it and then now would have gone up to full profit that's trading anyways frustrating but then

[22:22] price basically came down retagged that critical level and then just turned ridiculously volatile so all said and done I ended up locking in 443 after such a nice big trade but that is okay all right so win is a win 50% win rate

[22:38] today so far like I said 443 confidence was I would say a two on that not the see if we can find another trade idea all right so I'm really not going to be

[22:50] taking any short positions into Soul it actually looks relatively strong right now at least for eth I would say it also looks fairly strong so I'm going to fish before I head to the [Music]

[23:12] gym once I came home I wasn't able to find any good setups so I basically just ended for the day to start in the morning all right so coming home from dinner last night this trade didn't live for very long I was looking to get in on

[23:24] a break of this trend line here price started to move roughly in our direction as soon as we broke underneath that low I reduced the risk to zero and then losing $54 on that break even trade and it was really tempting to sort of force

[23:39] so I was able to find this trade setup here so I noticed that our overall uptrend on eth had broken down we've had a response off of this area so I sort of

[23:51] let the trend play out a little bit and then notice how here we got a big enough another run up at high so I knew that this would be a critical area of came down into that area that's where I was able to get my entry we got a

[24:08] reversal right off that sort of midpoint of that fair value Gap we didn't reduce level notice how it broke over these high points and then finally made a nice move up then I took profit off here at like a 3.73 risk reward so I was able to

[24:22] $1,663 so once again you can see position was built price dipped nicely table all right so after all said and done the first trade on Solana was

[24:36] really promising into the day we had our overall five wve structure being formed beautifully out of the gate I got a nice Buy Signal here got a really nice retest into this fair value Gap and got a beautiful push up to our take-profit

[24:48] level and was able to lock in $3,151 in total off of the first trade reacted beautifully off of this had a sell off with a retest into the fair

[25:01] value Gap so I took that sell price started to come down we're up like $2 $3,000 so I reduced risk to break even and then price ended up coming up and reattempting that same level later on we tried to get in on a head and shoulders

[25:13] into this fair value gap which we missed by a hair would have also been an amazing trade opportunity maybe a couple thousand in profit and typically how it out to try to hit my daily profit goal so we had Solana break this trend level

[25:28] here here break above make a push up to this price action leaving behind a fair value Gap I got in on this midpoint it failed to ever break over this high and then ended up stopping us out for really a $500 risk but it ended up being up -

[25:40] 619 on that trade okay this was another really nice trade on etherum Trend level fair value Gap So I entered my long in here we trended up all through the

[25:52] afternoon made a really really nice push I was targeting equal highs over here few minutes came all the way back down to this swing low which I had moved my stop loss into profit and I took this off the table for after all slippage and

[26:07] fees only $443 whereas up here this was an over $3,000 gain so some of these trades like I really was hoping that the market would just play out in that direction allow the trade to sort of carry after a

[26:19] trade so had this have just made this move over here and got me out for full profit that would have been 4,000 so it would have been closer to 7,000 a little trade we contained our risk before dinner was looking to get into this

[26:35] failed the breakout end up stopping me out for another $50 loss but basically Break Even trade then of course beautiful retest of this fair value Gap after our signal to buy entry here took profit comfortably into this Zone at

[26:47] nearly a 1 to four risk reward this would have carried out and probably got me closer to$ 67,000 for my daily goal but I didn't want this to turn into you and me taking basically a whole other trading day so I did close this out a

[27:01] $1,636 for a total on the day of just over $4,500 so once again we're treading on that goal I really want one of those

[27:13] that we're being selective about the trades keeping the downside contained and letting the upside run we will eventually get this I'm just waiting for the notion tracker or any of the on chart follow me on Instagram in the

[27:27] description deson DM me the word tools and I'll send everything over to you if more videos out okay you can check out other live trade videos right here but until next time guys I'll see you all in the next one

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