@XYJtrades@SpeculatorFL Exactly, you don't need to avoid everything below the 15-minute timeframe if you have the context and narrative of HTF, in fact short-term timeframes below 15 minutes help you to get Good position and Good RR
Anticipate one daily candle
let the wick form, don’t catch it
now you can anticipate the lower timeframe trend while it forms its body
let the wick form, trade the body
IF a reversal HAS occurred prior to a driver
THEN expect driver continuation
IF a reversal has NOT occurred prior to a driver
THEN expect a driver reversal
IF there is 8:30 manipulation
THEN expect 9:30/10:00 continuation
IF there is 9:30 manipulation
THEN expect 10:00 continuation
That's how to use Driver Pairing.
@GxTradez@TTrades_edu
Profiling the Daily candle
through a 4H swing.
Profiling the 4H candle
through a 1H / 30m swing.
Aligning multi timeframe expansion candles in the same direction.
GxT is a complete model.
The most logical in the game.
When I released this,
I knew it would take over.
Lots of questions in my dms about how I passed the topstep combines so quick, so I’ll answer all in one tweet.
Why most people don’t consider about futures firms is that you need to be more aggressive in your approach. Not risk, your approach.
Being aggressive in my approach looks like this:
If I’m predicting a daily candle to expand, if I’m actually right then there literally has to be at least a few hourly candles expanding in that direction as well. I can capitalise on this.
It’s the same for a 4 hour candle expanding.
Time is fractal.
If a 4 hour candle expands (10am/2pm I look at mostly), then there has to be multiple m15 candles expanding within that too. That means multiple opportunities.
So I take my model and how I engage with an expanding candle, and fractalise it.
Because price is also fractal, so anything that works on one timeframe for me, will work on another.
Hence the more aggressive approach.
I’m only trying to get inside with a candle’s expansion, sometimes it’s multiple candles expansion but it all stems from one.
the biggest mistake traders make isn't bad entries.
it's trading without knowing where price actually wants to go.
let me break down the 3 things you need to know before taking any trade:
a thread on bias, narrative, and DOL 🧵
the hardest part about becoming profitable wasn't learning to trade.
it was unlearning everything else.
trading rewards the exact opposite of what made you successful in the real world.
in business, more action gets you more results.
in trading, more action blows your account.
at the gym, consistency means showing up daily.
in trading, consistency means being selective about when you show up.
in school, more study time meant better grades.
in trading, more screen time means worse decisions.
this is why smart, successful people blow accounts.
they take the same habits that built their career and apply them to the charts.
work harder. stay ready. never give up. always be consistent.
but the market doesn't care about your work ethic.
you can watch charts for 10 hours and make nothing.
or watch for 20 minutes and make $5k.
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i had to completely rewire how i thought about "doing well."
most profitable days look like 15 minutes of work and one trade taken.
most losing days look like 4 hours glued to the screen, 6 trades taken, and account blown.
more screen time didn't equal more profit.
it created more opportunities to mess up.
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practice doesn't make you better if you're practicing the wrong thing.
taking 10 random setups doesn't improve your trading.
it just makes you better at taking random setups.
i became profitable when i went from studying 20 different concepts to using 4-5 simple concepts.
simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
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everyone talks about trusting your gut in trading.
your gut says "take this trade" because you're bored.
your gut says "skip this one" because you're scared.
those aren't instincts. they're emotional decisions masked as "gut feeling"
if you track what happens when you listen to your gut, you'll see most of your "gut feelings" lose you money.
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the market isn't a puzzle to be solved.
it's a game you play by strict rules.
you don't "figure it out."
you define your edge, wait for it to appear, and execute when it does.
trying to catch every price move is how you end up losing money.
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i also had to unlearn the idea that "winners never quit."
holding a loser because you "believe in the trade" isn't conviction. it's ego.
cut it and move on.
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and the biggest shift - i stopped trying to catch every move.
NQ moved 500 points last Friday. i caught 79 points.
made my money. closed charts. done.
the other 420 points? not my setup. not my problem.
new traders think they need to be in the market ALL the time.
profitable real traders know how to catch a piece of the pie and move on.
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i stopped trying to be a good analyst.
i started being a selective trader.
the good analyst knows everything.
selective traders do one thing extremely well.
the good analyst analyzes all day.
selective traders wait for their one A+ setup.
the good analyst are always learning.
selective traders are observing & executing.
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if you're stuck right now, you probably don't need more concepts.
you need to strip away the habits that worked everywhere else but destroy you in trading.
i'm running an early black friday offer for my community.
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