TFS Live 2025-07-18 Intraday Market-Structure & Trade-Execution Notes
Weekly Bias
Price action sits well above the weekly open ➜ strong bullish bias.
Market has displaced through the previous-week high; by structure the trend remains up.
No higher-time-frame reason yet to look for shorts.
Daily Structure
Session already swept the prior session daily (PSD) high during London.
Still trading above the daily open ⇒ current daily candle is expanding upward.
Analyst habit: always try to forecast where today’s daily candle can expand (ICT principle).
If the London sweep proves to be the High-Of-Day (HOD), intraday pullbacks may follow.
4-Hour (H4)
Clear bullish order-flow; noted a visible BISI/FVG block (“busy”) acting as support.
Until that imbalance is violated, H4 structure remains bullish.
3-/2-Hour (H3/H2)
No fresh information on H3; H2 shows similar bullish order-flow with potential pullback area.
Dealing range drawn low → high; the midpoint aligns perfectly with the H4 imbalance — high-confluence zone for any retracement.
1-Hour (H1)
Hourly chart shifted bearish after forming an ASD swing high.
Key hourly OB marked; if the recent hourly high is the HOD, expect lower prices first.
Despite bearish H1, price is already sitting inside a smaller bullish OB ⇒ could still continue higher without revisiting deeper zones.
30-Minute & 15-Minute (M30 / M15)
M30: still prints lower-time-frame bearishness.
M15: not yet committed; analyst stays neutral until a clean shift appears.
Rule: When M15 bias is unclear, remain flat.
• Watch price, maybe drill to M5, but do NOT force entries.
5-Minute (M5) & 2-Minute / 1-Minute
Early in stream we saw an M5 inversion (bull → bear) right after the NY cash open .
Guideline/model: An M5 order-flow shift after 09:30 often dictates the entire A.M. session direction.
First trade idea: long from M1–M2 inversion inside M15 bullish OB; skipped → price ran.
Second idea: short after fresh M5 shift, confirmed by SMT and breaker; produced a textbook RR win.
Trade Management & Execution
Always place stop, target, then allow market to work.
“We cannot control the market; we can control risk.”
Partial profits taken on displacement candles; stop aggressively managed once structure confirms.
Intraday Narrative Framework ("TFS" Model)
Top-down: Weekly → Daily → H4 → H1 → M15.
Define primary PD-arrays / OBs / FVGs.
Wait for NY open; look for M5 shift in line with M15 bias.
Confirm with SMT, breaker or micro-inversion (M2/M1) at a PD-array.
Execute; target liquidity or next PD-array.
Psychological & Practical Guidelines
Comment section is free for sharing ideas, NOT for teaching a different model.
Consolidation always precedes expansion. ➜ Wait for expansion, then retracement, then entry.
If M15 bias unclear, do nothing; stay patient until narrative clears.
Accept losses as “data points.” Quality losses > random wins.
Passing funded challenges is “easy”; withdrawing real profit is the hard part — be picky & risk-averse on funded accounts.
Protect payout capital; as soon as minimum withdrawable profit hits, request it.
Never chase losses; do not change models mid-draw-down. Stick to edge through 5–6 consecutive losses if needed (60–65 % hit-rate math supports survival).
Session Logistics & Lifestyle Notes
No major scheduled news today; expect potential “rainy/choppy” day after yesterday’s expansion.
Last trading day of the week → be extra selective; okay to leave the day flat.
Streamer battling late-sleep routine (bed 4–5 AM); plans to reset schedule for better performance.
Weekend plan: rest, finalize TFS PDFs & framework for the community.
Key Reminders & Quotes
“React to the market; do not predict.”
“Reading the price > using indicators.”
“When price trades at bullish PD-arrays, order-flow is bullish; at bearish PD-arrays, order-flow is bearish.”
“Your goal is to trade independently, not blindly follow Discord signals.”
“Losses happen; keep executing the same proven model.”
Weekly Bias
Price action sits well above the weekly open
This indicates a strong bullish continuation, as the market rejected lower prices early in the week and is sustaining gains.
Market has displaced through the previous-week high; by structure the trend remains up.
A clear break and close above the prior week's high suggests a continuation of the prevailing uptrend, often targeting higher liquidity.
No higher-time-frame reason yet to look for shorts.
Until a significant bearish price action pattern, such as a sweep of a major high followed by a strong displacement lower or a break of macro market structure, appears on weekly or daily charts, the bias remains bullish.
Daily Structure
Session already swept the prior session daily (PSD) high during London.
This means that price moved above the high of the previous day, likely to collect buy-side liquidity, and then potentially reversed or paused.
Still trading above the daily open ⇒ current daily candle is expanding upward.
Maintaining price above the daily open signifies buying pressure throughout the session thus far.
Analyst habit: always try to forecast where today’s daily candle can expand (ICT principle).
This involves identifying key liquidity pools or higher-time-frame (HTF) price arrays (e.g., Fair Value Gaps, Order Blocks) where the candle is likely to reach or react from.
If the London sweep proves to be the High-Of-Day (HOD), intraday pullbacks may follow.
A liquidity sweep early in the session that does not lead to further expansion can often precede a retracement or an intraday reversal towards lower targets.
4-Hour (H4)
Clear bullish order-flow; noted a visible BISI/FVG block (“busy”) acting as support.
A Buy-side Imbalance Sell-side Imbalance (BISI) or Fair Value Gap (FVG) represents an inefficiently traded price range, often acting as a magnet or support/resistance level. In this case, it's a gap indicating strong bullish momentum that price has respected as a floor.
Until that imbalance is violated, H4 structure remains bullish.
A violation would mean price closes below the lower extreme of this bullish BISI/FVG, signaling a potential shift in H4 order flow.
3-/2-Hour (H3/H2)
No fresh information on H3; H2 shows similar bullish order-flow with potential pullback area.
Dealing range drawn low → high; the midpoint aligns perfectly with the H4 imbalance — high-confluence zone for any retracement.
The dealing range is the most recent significant swing low to swing high, which defines the current price action. The (50%) retracement level of this range, often referred to as the equilibrium, is a common area for price to seek before continuing the trend. Its alignment with the H4 BISI/FVG further strengthens its significance as a potential support zone.
1-Hour (H1)
Hourly chart shifted bearish after forming an ASD swing high.
An Accumulation/Distribution/Swing (ASD) high, once confirmed by a break of an internal market structure low, indicates a short-term bearish shift on the H1 timeframe.
Key hourly OB marked; if the recent hourly high is the HOD, expect lower prices first.
An Order Block (OB) is a specific candlestick pattern representing institutional order placement. A bearish H1 OB suggests a potential resistance if price retests it. If this high holds, price is likely to move downwards towards identified liquidity or support.
Despite bearish H1, price is already sitting inside a smaller bullish OB ⇒ could still continue higher without revisiting deeper zones.
The presence of a lower-time-frame bullish OB within the H1 bearish structure suggests that the bearish shift might be short-lived or a shallow retracement, and buying pressure could resume from this internal liquidity zone.
30-Minute & 15-Minute (M30 / M15)
M30: still prints lower-time-frame bearishness.
The M30 timeframe shows continued selling pressure, potentially through bearish order blocks or continued lower lows and lower highs on shorter time scales.
M15: not yet committed; analyst stays neutral until a clean shift appears.
The M15 is critical for confirming intraday bias. If it lacks clear directional conviction (e.g., messy consolidation, failure to break key highs/lows), it's best to avoid trading.
Rule: When M15 bias is unclear, remain flat.
• Watch price, maybe drill to M5, but do NOT force entries.
Forcing entries in unclear conditions often leads to whipsaws and unnecessary losses. Patience is key.
5-Minute (M5) & 2-Minute / 1-Minute
Early in stream we saw an M5 inversion (bull → bear) right after the NY cash open .
An M5 inversion means that bullish order flow (e.g., respecting bullish FVGs/OBs) shifted to bearish order flow (e.g., respecting bearish FVGs/OBs or breaking bullish ones).
Guideline/model: An M5 order-flow shift after often dictates the entire A.M. session direction.
The New York cash open is a high-impact time with significant institutional activity, and the initial directional commitment on the M5 can provide strong clues for the morning session.
First trade idea: long from M1–M2 inversion inside M15 bullish OB; skipped → price ran.
This refers to a micro-inversion (bullish shift) on the 1 or 2-minute chart occurring within a higher-time-frame bullish Order Block, indicating potential entry for a long position. Skipping it meant missing the initial move.
Second idea: short after fresh M5 shift, confirmed by SMT and breaker; produced a textbook RR win.
SMT (Smart Money Tool/Technique) involves divergence between correlated assets (e.g., EUR/USD and DXY), indicating potential manipulation or reversal. A breaker block is a specific order block that forms after a liquidity sweep and a market structure shift. This combination provides high-probability entry criteria for a short trade, leading to a risk-reward ratio of (e.g., risking to gain ).
Trade Management & Execution
Always place stop, target, then allow market to work.
This emphasizes the importance of predefined risk and reward levels before entering a trade, enabling disciplined execution.
“We cannot control the market; we can control risk.”
A fundamental principle in trading, highlighting that managing position size and stop-loss is paramount, as market direction is unpredictable.
Partial profits taken on displacement candles; stop aggressively managed once structure confirms.
Taking partial profits on strong, fast-moving candles (displacement candles) secures gains. Aggressively managing the stop-loss (e.g., moving to break-even or into profit) once the trade moves in your favor and market structure confirms a continuation, minimizes risk and protects capital.
Intraday Narrative Framework ("TFS" Model)
Top-down: Weekly → Daily → H4 → H1 → M15.
This systematic approach ensures alignment with higher-time-frame biases and identifies key levels before drilling down to execution timeframes.
Define primary PD-arrays / OBs / FVGs.
Identify significant price action concepts (e.g., Proprietary Data Arrays, Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps) on higher timeframes to mark areas of interest for potential reactions or entries.
Wait for NY open; look for M5 shift in line with M15 bias.
The New York session tends to be highly volatile and directional. Waiting for a clear M5 order flow shift, preferably in the direction of the confirmed M15 bias, provides a high-probability entry signal.
Confirm with SMT, breaker or micro-inversion (M2/M1) at a PD-array.
Utilize additional tools like SMT divergence, a breaker block, or a small-timeframe (M1/M2) internal shift within a pre-identified PD-array, to build confluence for the entry.
Execute; target liquidity or next PD-array.
Enter the trade based on the confluence, placing the stop-loss at a logical level. Target either obvious liquidity pools (e.g., swing highs/lows) or the next significant PD-array on the higher timeframes.
Psychological & Practical Guidelines
Comment section is free for sharing ideas, NOT for teaching a different model.
Maintaining focus on the established trading model within the community fosters consistency and avoids confusion.
Consolidation always precedes expansion. ➜ Wait for expansion, then retracement, then entry.
Price action typically oscillates between periods of tight range-bound movement (consolidation) and rapid directional moves (expansion). The optimal entry often occurs during a retracement after an expansion has confirmed direction, allowing for a better risk-reward.
If M15 bias unclear, do nothing; stay patient until narrative clears.
Emphasizes the importance of sitting out when conditions are not optimal, preserving capital for high-probability setups.
Accept losses as “data points.” Quality losses > random wins.
Viewing losses unemotionally as statistical outcomes, rather than failures, helps maintain psychological composure. A
Weekly Bias
Price action sits well above the weekly open
This indicates a strong bullish continuation, as the market rejected lower prices early in the week and is sustaining gains.
Market has displaced through the previous-week high; by structure the trend remains up.
A clear break and close above the prior week's high suggests a continuation of the prevailing uptrend, often targeting higher liquidity.
No higher-time-frame reason yet to look for shorts.
Until a significant bearish price action pattern, such as a sweep of a major high followed by a strong displacement lower or a break of macro market structure, appears on weekly or daily charts, the bias remains bullish.
Daily Structure
Session already swept the prior session daily (PSD) high during London.
This means that price moved above the high of the previous day, likely to collect buy-side liquidity, and then potentially reversed or paused.
Still trading above the daily open ⇒ current daily candle is expanding upward.
Maintaining price above the daily open signifies buying pressure throughout the session thus far.
Analyst habit: always try to forecast where today’s daily candle can expand (ICT principle).
This involves identifying key liquidity pools or higher-time-frame (HTF) price arrays (e.g., Fair Value Gaps, Order Blocks) where the candle is likely to reach or react from.
If the London sweep proves to be the High-Of-Day (HOD), intraday pullbacks may follow.
A liquidity sweep early in the session that does not lead to further expansion can often precede a retracement or an intraday reversal towards lower targets.
4-Hour (H4)
Clear bullish order-flow; noted a visible BISI/FVG block (“busy”) acting as support.
A Buy-side Imbalance Sell-side Imbalance (BISI) or Fair Value Gap (FVG) represents an inefficiently traded price range, often acting as a magnet or support/resistance level. In this case, it's a gap indicating strong bullish momentum that price has respected as a floor.
Until that imbalance is violated, H4 structure remains bullish.
A violation would mean price closes below the lower extreme of this bullish BISI/FVG, signaling a potential shift in H4 order flow.
3-/2-Hour (H3/H2)
No fresh information on H3; H2 shows similar bullish order-flow with potential pullback area.
Dealing range drawn low → high; the midpoint aligns perfectly with the H4 imbalance — high-confluence zone for any retracement.
The dealing range is the most recent significant swing low to swing high, which defines the current price action. The (50%) retracement level of this range, often referred to as the equilibrium, is a common area for price to seek before continuing the trend. Its alignment with the H4 BISI/FVG further strengthens its significance as a potential support zone.
1-Hour (H1)
Hourly chart shifted bearish after forming an ASD swing high.
An Accumulation/Distribution/Swing (ASD) high, once confirmed by a break of an internal market structure low, indicates a short-term bearish shift on the H1 timeframe.
Key hourly OB marked; if the recent hourly high is the HOD, expect lower prices first.
An Order Block (OB) is a specific candlestick pattern representing institutional order placement. A bearish H1 OB suggests a potential resistance if price retests it. If this high holds, price is likely to move downwards towards identified liquidity or support.
Despite bearish H1, price is already sitting inside a smaller bullish OB ⇒ could still continue higher without revisiting deeper zones.
The presence of a lower-time-frame bullish OB within the H1 bearish structure suggests that the bearish shift might be short-lived or a shallow retracement, and buying pressure could resume from this internal liquidity zone.
30-Minute & 15-Minute (M30 / M15)
M30: still prints lower-time-frame bearishness.
The M30 timeframe shows continued selling pressure, potentially through bearish order blocks or continued lower lows and lower highs on shorter time scales.
M15: not yet committed; analyst stays neutral until a clean shift appears.
The M15 is critical for confirming intraday bias. If it lacks clear directional conviction (e.g., messy consolidation, failure to break key highs/lows), it's best to avoid trading.
Rule: When M15 bias is unclear, remain flat.
• Watch price, maybe drill to M5, but do NOT force entries.
Forcing entries in unclear conditions often leads to whipsaws and unnecessary losses. Patience is key.
5-Minute (M5) & 2-Minute / 1-Minute
Early in stream we saw an M5 inversion (bull → bear) right after the NY cash open .
An M5 inversion means that bullish order flow (e.g., respecting bullish FVGs/OBs) shifted to bearish order flow (e.g., respecting bearish FVGs/OBs or breaking bullish ones).
Guideline/model: An M5 order-flow shift after often dictates the entire A.M. session direction.
The New York cash open is a high-impact time with significant institutional activity, and the initial directional commitment on the M5 can provide strong clues for the morning session.
First trade idea: long from M1–M2 inversion inside M15 bullish OB; skipped → price ran.
This refers to a micro-inversion (bullish shift) on the 1 or 2-minute chart occurring within a higher-time-frame bullish Order Block, indicating potential entry for a long position. Skipping it meant missing the initial move.
Second idea: short after fresh M5 shift, confirmed by SMT and breaker; produced a textbook RR win.
SMT (Smart Money Tool/Technique) involves divergence between correlated assets (e.g., EUR/USD and DXY), indicating potential manipulation or reversal. A breaker block is a specific order block that forms after a liquidity sweep and a market structure shift. This combination provides high-probability entry criteria for a short trade, leading to a risk-reward ratio of (e.g., risking to gain ).
Trade Management & Execution
Always place stop, target, then allow market to work.
This emphasizes the importance of predefined risk and reward levels before entering a trade, enabling disciplined execution.
“We cannot control the market; we can control risk.”
A fundamental principle in trading, highlighting that managing position size and stop-loss is paramount, as market direction is unpredictable.
Partial profits taken on displacement candles; stop aggressively managed once structure confirms.
Taking partial profits on strong, fast-moving candles (displacement candles) secures gains. Aggressively managing the stop-loss (e.g., moving to break-even or into profit) once the trade moves in your favor and market structure confirms a continuation, minimizes risk and protects capital.
Intraday Narrative Framework ("TFS" Model)
Top-down: Weekly → Daily → H4 → H1 → M15.
This systematic approach ensures alignment with higher-time-frame biases and identifies key levels before drilling down to execution timeframes.
Define primary PD-arrays / OBs / FVGs.
Identify significant price action concepts (e.g., Proprietary Data Arrays, Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps) on higher timeframes to mark areas of interest for potential reactions or entries.
Wait for NY open; look for M5 shift in line with M15 bias.
The New York session tends to be highly volatile and directional. Waiting for a clear M5 order flow shift, preferably in the direction of the confirmed M15 bias, provides a high-probability entry signal.
Confirm with SMT, breaker or micro-inversion (M2/M1) at a PD-array.
Utilize additional tools like SMT divergence, a breaker block, or a small-timeframe (M1/M2) internal shift within a pre-identified PD-array, to build confluence for the entry.
Execute; target liquidity or next PD-array.
Enter the trade based on the confluence, placing the stop-loss at a logical level. Target either obvious liquidity pools (e.g., swing highs/lows) or the next significant PD-array on the higher timeframes.
Psychological & Practical Guidelines
Comment section is free for sharing ideas, NOT for teaching a different model.
Maintaining focus on the established trading model within the community fosters consistency and avoids confusion.
Consolidation always precedes expansion. ➜ Wait for expansion, then retracement, then entry.
Price action typically oscillates between periods of tight range-bound movement (consolidation) and rapid directional moves (expansion). The optimal entry often occurs during a retracement after an expansion has confirmed direction, allowing for a better risk-reward.
If M15 bias unclear, do nothing; stay patient until narrative clears.
Emphasizes the importance of sitting out when conditions are not optimal, preserving capital for high-probability setups.
Accept losses as “data points.” Quality losses > random wins.
Viewing losses unemotionally as statistical outcomes, rather than failures, helps maintain psychological composure. A
Weekly Bias
Price action sits well above the weekly open
This indicates a strong bullish continuation, as the market rejected lower prices early in the week and is sustaining gains.
Market has displaced through the previous-week high; by structure the trend remains up.
A clear break and close above the prior week's high suggests a continuation of the prevailing uptrend, often targeting higher liquidity.
No higher-time-frame reason yet to look for shorts.
Until a significant bearish price action pattern, such as a sweep of a major high followed by a strong displacement lower or a break of macro market structure, appears on weekly or daily charts, the bias remains bullish.
Daily Structure
Session already swept the prior session daily (PSD) high during London.
This means that price moved above the high of the previous day, likely to collect buy-side liquidity, and then potentially reversed or paused.
Still trading above the daily open ⇒ current daily candle is expanding upward.
Maintaining price above the daily open signifies buying pressure throughout the session thus far.
Analyst habit: always try to forecast where today’s daily candle can expand (ICT principle).
This involves identifying key liquidity pools or higher-time-frame (HTF) price arrays (e.g., Fair Value Gaps, Order Blocks) where the candle is likely to reach or react from.
If the London sweep proves to be the High-Of-Day (HOD), intraday pullbacks may follow.
A liquidity sweep early in the session that does not lead to further expansion can often precede a retracement or an intraday reversal towards lower targets.
4-Hour (H4)
Clear bullish order-flow; noted a visible BISI/FVG block (“busy”) acting as support.
A Buy-side Imbalance Sell-side Imbalance (BISI) or Fair Value Gap (FVG) represents an inefficiently traded price range, often acting as a magnet or support/resistance level. In this case, it's a gap indicating strong bullish momentum that price has respected as a floor.
Until that imbalance is violated, H4 structure remains bullish.
A violation would mean price closes below the lower extreme of this bullish BISI/FVG, signaling a potential shift in H4 order flow.
3-/2-Hour (H3/H2)
No fresh information on H3; H2 shows similar bullish order-flow with potential pullback area.
Dealing range drawn low → high; the midpoint aligns perfectly with the H4 imbalance — high-confluence zone for any retracement.
The dealing range is the most recent significant swing low to swing high, which defines the current price action. The (50%) retracement level of this range, often referred to as the equilibrium, is a common area for price to seek before continuing the trend. Its alignment with the H4 BISI/FVG further strengthens its significance as a potential support zone.
1-Hour (H1)
Hourly chart shifted bearish after forming an ASD swing high.
An Accumulation/Distribution/Swing (ASD) high, once confirmed by a break of an internal market structure low, indicates a short-term bearish shift on the H1 timeframe.
Key hourly OB marked; if the recent hourly high is the HOD, expect lower prices first.
An Order Block (OB) is a specific candlestick pattern representing institutional order placement. A bearish H1 OB suggests a potential resistance if price retests it. If this high holds, price is likely to move downwards towards identified liquidity or support.
Despite bearish H1, price is already sitting inside a smaller bullish OB ⇒ could still continue higher without revisiting deeper zones.
The presence of a lower-time-frame bullish OB within the H1 bearish structure suggests that the bearish shift might be short-lived or a shallow retracement, and buying pressure could resume from this internal liquidity zone.
30-Minute & 15-Minute (M30 / M15)
M30: still prints lower-time-frame bearishness.
The M30 timeframe shows continued selling pressure, potentially through bearish order blocks or continued lower lows and lower highs on shorter time scales.
M15: not yet committed; analyst stays neutral until a clean shift appears.
The M15 is critical for confirming intraday bias. If it lacks clear directional conviction (e.g., messy consolidation, failure to break key highs/lows), it's best to avoid trading.
Rule: When M15 bias is unclear, remain flat.
• Watch price, maybe drill to M5, but do NOT force entries.
Forcing entries in unclear conditions often leads to whipsaws and unnecessary losses. Patience is key.
5-Minute (M5) & 2-Minute / 1-Minute
Early in stream we saw an M5 inversion (bull → bear) right after the NY cash open .
An M5 inversion means that bullish order flow (e.g., respecting bullish FVGs/OBs) shifted to bearish order flow (e.g., respecting bearish FVGs/OBs or breaking bullish ones).
Guideline/model: An M5 order-flow shift after often dictates the entire A.M. session direction.
The New York cash open is a high-impact time with significant institutional activity, and the initial directional commitment on the M5 can provide strong clues for the morning session.
First trade idea: long from M1–M2 inversion inside M15 bullish OB; skipped → price ran.
This refers to a micro-inversion (bullish shift) on the 1 or 2-minute chart occurring within a higher-time-frame bullish Order Block, indicating potential entry for a long position. Skipping it meant missing the initial move.
Second idea: short after fresh M5 shift, confirmed by SMT and breaker; produced a textbook RR win.
SMT (Smart Money Tool/Technique) involves divergence between correlated assets (e.g., EUR/USD and DXY), indicating potential manipulation or reversal. A breaker block is a specific order block that forms after a liquidity sweep and a market structure shift. This combination provides high-probability entry criteria for a short trade, leading to a risk-reward ratio of (e.g., risking to gain ).
Trade Management & Execution
Always place stop, target, then allow market to work.
This emphasizes the importance of predefined risk and reward levels before entering a trade, enabling disciplined execution.
“We cannot control the market; we can control risk.”
A fundamental principle in trading, highlighting that managing position size and stop-loss is paramount, as market direction is unpredictable.
Partial profits taken on displacement candles; stop aggressively managed once structure confirms.
Taking partial profits on strong, fast-moving candles (displacement candles) secures gains. Aggressively managing the stop-loss (e.g., moving to break-even or into profit) once the trade moves in your favor and market structure confirms a continuation, minimizes risk and protects capital.
Intraday Narrative Framework ("TFS" Model)
Top-down: Weekly → Daily → H4 → H1 → M15.
This systematic approach ensures alignment with higher-time-frame biases and identifies key levels before drilling down to execution timeframes.
Define primary PD-arrays / OBs / FVGs.
Identify significant price action concepts (e.g., Proprietary Data Arrays, Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps) on higher timeframes to mark areas of interest for potential reactions or entries.
Wait for NY open; look for M5 shift in line with M15 bias.
The New York session tends to be highly volatile and directional. Waiting for a clear M5 order flow shift, preferably in the direction of the confirmed M15 bias, provides a high-probability entry signal.
Confirm with SMT, breaker or micro-inversion (M2/M1) at a PD-array.
Utilize additional tools like SMT divergence, a breaker block, or a small-timeframe (M1/M2) internal shift within a pre-identified PD-array, to build confluence for the entry.
Execute; target liquidity or next PD-array.
Enter the trade based on the confluence, placing the stop-loss at a logical level. Target either obvious liquidity pools (e.g., swing highs/lows) or the next significant PD-array on the higher timeframes.
Psychological & Practical Guidelines
Comment section is free for sharing ideas, NOT for teaching a different model.
Maintaining focus on the established trading model within the community fosters consistency and avoids confusion.
Consolidation always precedes expansion. ➜ Wait for expansion, then retracement, then entry.
Price action typically oscillates between periods of tight range-bound movement (consolidation) and rapid directional moves (expansion). The optimal entry often occurs during a retracement after an expansion has confirmed direction, allowing for a better risk-reward.
If M15 bias unclear, do nothing; stay patient until narrative clears.
Emphasizes the importance of sitting out when conditions are not optimal, preserving capital for high-probability setups.
Accept losses as “data points.” Quality losses > random wins.
Viewing losses unemotionally as statistical outcomes, rather than failures, helps maintain psychological composure. A