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This video delves into market structure and reaction levels in trading, focusing on how to identify trade setups by understanding the interplay of buyers and sellers at key price points. The speaker emphasizes the fundamental concepts of highs and lows, explaining that sellers are dominant at high points, driving prices down, while buyers are dominant at low points, pushing prices up. He clarifies that his approach differs from traditional support and resistance or break-and-retest strategies, viewing these levels more as "brick walls" where one side (buyers or sellers) has the most control.

The speaker provides a crucial rule: anything above a swing low has potential to be bullish, and anything below a swing high has potential to be bearish, particularly when observing higher time frames like the one-hour and four-hour charts. He illustrates how price movements, such as breaking past seller-dominated highs or buyer-dominated lows, indicate a shift in market control and momentum. He uses the analogy of a "Chanel bag" to simplify the concept of liquidity, explaining it as the market's need to gather more money before making its next move. He also touches upon the psychological aspects of trading, such as FOMO and revenge trading, which can influence market behavior.

The video concludes with a practical application of these concepts on a live chart, where the speaker identifies a high and the subsequent sharp decline, indicating a broken structure. He reiterates the importance of understanding the origin of these highs and lows to predict future price movements. He stresses that an entry should occur when bullish momentum is initiated, with stop losses placed strategically below higher lows. The speaker repeatedly encourages viewers to rewatch his previous videos on entries and fundamentals, underscoring that while the concepts appear simple, successful application requires thorough analysis and understanding of the markets.

Key Takeaways

  • Market structure revolves around understanding buyer and seller dominance at high and low price levels.
  • Sellers are typically active at highs, driving price down, while buyers are active at lows, pushing price up.
  • The speaker's strategy deviates from traditional break-and-retest, focusing on levels as "brick walls" indicating control shifts.
  • A key principle is: anything above a swing low is potentially bullish, and anything below a swing high is potentially bearish, especially on 1-hour and 4-hour timeframes.
  • When price breaks a seller-controlled high, it indicates buyers have taken control, creating new selling points.
  • Liquidity is simplified as the market "grabbing money" to facilitate further price movement.
  • Entry points should align with the initiation of bullish momentum, with stop losses below higher lows.

Topics Covered

Market StructureTrading StrategyPrice Action AnalysisTechnical AnalysisTrading Psychology
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[0:01]So today we're going to get into talking about market structure and overall reaction levels.
[0:01]So market structure is going to play along into reaction levels, but I want to show you everything, um just first firsthand of how my mindset is.
[0:01]Um I'm just going to show you how you can look at the market from this way and you know, find those setups.
[0:01]The entry's easy, I already explained that, knowing when the correction is over, I've already explained that.
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[0:01]All right guys. So today we're going to get into talking about market structure and overall reaction levels. So market structure is going to play along into reaction levels, but I want to show you everything, um just first firsthand of how my mindset is. I'm not really going to look too far back. Um I'm just going to show you how you can look at the market from this way and you know, find those setups. Cuz a lot of people ask me how do I find my setups? Everything else is super easy. The entry's easy, I already explained that, knowing when the correction is over, I've already explained that. So you need to go back and watch those videos over and over and over and over and over and over until it clicks in your head. Later on down the line, I'll give more examples as the day progress, but I kind of like to show you what's happened. What trades have I taken, so that way it makes more sense. So right now I haven't taken any trades because what I'm going to explain in this video, right? So the first thing I want you to remember is the fundamentals. So if we have a high and we have a low, so if we have a high and then we have a low, right? These levels have buyers and sellers, so in this case, up here in this level, there are going to be sellers, right? Sellers because this is the highest point that price can get to, that's why it's called a high, the highest point it can get to. And remember, fundamentals, you have a high and then you have the higher high, and then you have a higher high above that, right? And then you also have a lower high, which is meaning that bears are coming into the market, right? So we have buyers and then we have sellers to as well, so right here, and then we're going to put buyers, right? And what this essentially means is that when price gets to his lowest point, that's letting you know that buyers are stepping into the market to drive price back up. It wants to drive price back up because this is the level that they feel like purchasing their stocks and then taking it back up to the highest point, right? And if people are, you know, if it's getting lower and lower, that is the amount of sellers that are coming into the market selling their shares at certain levels, or selling their stock at certain levels. I trade Nasdaq, um pretty much every, that's pretty much what I've been doing for four years. Cuz I know people ask what am I trading, what are you trading, what are you trade. I guess some people don't have common sense like once again, I know I'm going to go off topic, but a lot of people don't have common sense to kind of think for themselves. So there's some questions that I see that you can easily Google, you can easily chat GBT something. I'm just simply showing you how I trade. You can figure out, oh, how do I calculate pips or how do I do this, or how do I do that in terms of like, oh, should I get trading view premium? Like, bro, you're asking the wrong questions. You're asking the wrong questions. So, anyways, um, back to this. Buyers at a certain level, they're going to drive price back up and then sellers, they're going to drive price down because they're selling their shares. With this being said, how I like to use the high and low levels, most people think I'm trading breaker retest or just support and resistance. I don't, I don't think in that mindset. You might view it as that because we look at the charts differently, you might view it as support and resistance, break and retest, but there's things that I've seen where break and retest, how I've seen it and how people project it is not the same way with how I trade. Because break and retest is coming back out to that same support, so let's say price breaks and then it retests this level and then goes back down. That's break and retest. What I've seen is price liquidates everything, comes back and then later on down the line, it'll come back below that level. That's not a break and retest for me. I don't see that as break and retest from what I've learned, right? So anyways, we have buyers and sellers. What I like to do is I like to think of it in a sense of at this level, buyers have the most control and it's like a brick wall in a sense. Price is price has a brick wall and it's not letting it go any lower than this. So, if this is the case, anything above a low, a swing low, so anything, okay, we can write this down. anything above a swing low equals potential bullish, right? Potential bullish. Right? Vice versa, anything below a swing high equals potential bearish, right?

[5:06]And I like to think in this way because then ICC plays a huge part in how I should be thinking now. If I know price at this level has potential to be more bearish and I know above this level, price has the potential to be more bullish, think about this, right? So, pause, take what I'm saying in, take what I've just said. I'm going to repeat it one more time. Anything above a swing low, higher time frame, one hour, four hour, daily. Anything a swing low, swing high, you should be looking for your swings on your one hour, four hour or daily time frame. Really, you can do one hour and four hour, those are the keys right there. Those are keys right there, use that one hour, use that four hour, watch how it changes, right? Watch how it changes your trading, but take what I just said. Anything above a swing low and anything below a swing high. They either have to the potential to be bullish or bearish. The exact way I have it right here, so screenshot it, whatever the case might be, do it how you need to, however you need to learn it, right? And then this plays a part because then when we look at actual price, oops, sorry.

[6:31]When we look at actual price, everything will start to align with you and it should make sense. If it doesn't make sense right now, man, I don't know, bro, cuz I'm explaining it on a kindergarten level, right? So, if we have this swing high, price comes up, resistance, sellers kick into the market, right? Sellers kick into the market, they're trying to drive price down.

[6:59]But then price is like, no, I don't want to go down, I want to keep going up, so it makes higher support levels, right? And then we have this push up, right? Remember, at this high level, there were sellers holding price from going any higher than this. There's sellers that were sitting at this level, same right here, that same push down. Sellers were sitting here trying their best to drive price down, but once again, go back to the fundamentals, like episode number one. Remember, if price is on a uptrend, it's going to start creating higher higher lows in this situation because the supports are getting higher, which means price is getting bullish, right? So now this is our next support, so this is telling me buyers are trying to drive price up at this level, right? But that's the least of your worries. You need to focus on the sellers that were here at this point, and now look at this, price has broken out and pushed up and made new highs. So this lets me know that sellers at this level are no longer in control of the markets at this point. They've gotten swept out by the new buyers in the market and the new buyers are coming into a new point of sellers. So, the market will then, the market will then liquidate, liquidity, liquidity just means grabbing money. Keep it simple, don't fucking use all that extra BS to understand liquidity. Liquidity is just grabbing more money. They they see this fucking Chanel bag, they can't afford it right now, so what are you going to do? You're going to go find some fucking money, you're going to make some fucking money and then you're going to come back to the store and buy the bag. And then another bag comes out and you're like, shit, I don't have enough money for that bag, so what are you going to do? You're going to go grab some more money, go make some more money and then come back and get the bag. It's the same thing, right? So the market sees there's more sellers, they are they're at a higher level of price. What is price going to do? It's going to liquidate the market because there's so many new traders. You can't even see what I'm pointing at. There's so many new traders at these levels, there's so much money at these levels that people might not have stop losses, might have a short stop loss. There's so many stop losses that it can take out to liquidate the markets because when you make money from the markets, you're actually stealing from it. The market doesn't want you to steal from it, it wants you to lose, so they can collect that money because they're going to collect the money that you lose. So, it's trying to push down and liquidate these people, make them lose. Make them think, oh, price is going to sell off now, so let me sell, so now they're selling too, so once price reaches a level, it starts selling off. And then people didn't think, oh, price is selling, so let me get in sales and then they get into sales and about the time they get into sales, remember, that that higher low level, right? Price is not trying to, price, if price is truly in an uptrend and we've already seen the signs, right? We've already seen this breakout, this shows us the signs that price is getting bullish, right? Price is not going to break this level though, but most people are not going to know that, they keep thinking in the mind of greed, a mind of of abstinence, abstinence, a mind of uh deficiency. Because they're like, I need to get money, I need to get it now, so they are going to try everything without using the proper, um, the proper knowledge, the proper mindset of future terms of where price is going to go. So both of these, both of these areas right here are normally people that formal, greed. This is FOMO and greed, this first move up is FOMO and greed. And then this the second move down is revenge trading.

[11:28]And FOMO. And the reason is because most people FOMO on the breakouts, they don't want to wait for a clear direction of where price is going to go and then they're super greedy because they feel like they need to be in on this breakout. They feel like they need to do this, they feel like they need to trade off this breakout. They're not thinking long-term, they're not thinking in an aspect of an actual trader. The people that you see on Instagram that are taking these small little scalps, yeah, they're making a little bit of money, but I'm telling you the game will change for you when you switch this higher time frame and start thinking of your plays longer term. Like taking it day by day, but also you can take a trade in one day and then be able to hold for the week and then you'll make more money that way. You won't be having these consistent losses because you're taking 30 trades a day, bro, or 30 trades a week. So, you don't need every movement shouldn't be your movement. Every movement should not be your trade, bro. You need to take the movement in and understand that this is a part of the trend long-term. You need to understand that this is how price is going to move long-term. If you're trading that higher time frame, it avoids all the noise that people are showing you on Instagram and social media in general. It avoids all that noise, you avoid all the noise and you make more money when you switch to a mindset where you're thinking long-term of where the market is going long-term. We are trading economies, we're trading governments and all types of news, we're trading how the world is working. So, you think something is going to happen in the world long-term and you're looking at your charts and you're seeing it long-term, why are you trading every 15 minutes? Shit happens every other month, something new happens that you could capitalize off of, right? So why are you trading in a way where you feel like, oh, just I'm going to just trade this one day and then I'm going to trade the next day. And I'm looking for something different. You trade on Monday, you're looking for buys and then you trade on Tuesday and then you're looking for sales. No, stick with one thing, trading that higher time frame and the higher time frame will show you. You're trading buys and sales every single other day, but long-term, I'm just going straight down and you're just trading me up and down, right? Sorry, I get a little angry because because people like, bro, like the people the things that y'all see on social media is not true, bro. And it's so annoying because it's just not true. But anyways, FOMO and greed, which causes the market to push up in these levels. And then the revenge trade because they've lost off these buys. Sellers kick into the market and kills out their trades and then they start revenge trading and then FOMO because they think price is going to sell long-term or however they're thinking. And then price reaches a level where it cannot break because it's holding up strong using those higher time frame levels. And if it does break, that just shows us that the trend is changing in another direction or most likely trying to grab liquidity out of the market even more to kind of stop you out or, you know, to stop the other people out. And then we have that second move up.

[14:41]Remember, since we're talking about reaction levels, I want you to remember above this level, remember who was here, right? So under this level, we don't want to trade under this level, right? So we don't want to trade under this high. The reason why we don't want to trade under this high because it does have the potential. Once it's back under here, it does have that selling potential to sell off. It does have that potential. So we don't trade that, we don't we don't try to touch that. We wait for that market to get back above a level where we know price is going to have that momentum back to another level that it came from before. So we know price is going to have that same momentum, we see that price is going to have that same momentum. So whenever we trade, we're going to trade based off the momentum and the reactions that we have. Price is going to move with that volume and you're going to look for price to, this is just an example, you're going to put it under that higher low, but remember, back in the last video about entries, I showed you exactly how to get an entry, so you should not be asking me how to get an entry. I've already explained it, go back and look at the other video, I explained exactly how you can get an entry, right? So, with this being said, I want you to look at this this way. And remember, reaction levels come from those highs and those lows. The highs and lows falls back into this. Here's your high.

[16:05]Right? And then here's your low. Right? So, if price is above a high, that lets you know that sellers are not in that market, they're not above that level, right? Sellers are not under sellers are not at that level. So, take it take a screenshot of this if you need, right? Take a screenshot, I'm going to pull this over a little bit, take a screenshot of this if you need. I'm going to move this out the way, I'm going to give you a couple seconds, right? I'm going to go ahead and put entry so you can kind of understand. Entry level. Your entry should always come from where price initially initiates the bullish momentum. So that means the bullish momentum starts as soon as price is above this level. So when we take our entry, it should only be where that bullish momentum kicked in in the first place, right? And then your stop loss should be at a level where it has that, so you see here where we have that higher low. Price is going to make another higher low based off the based off the trend. It's going to make another higher low, once again, go back to the fundamentals, look in an uptrend fundamentals and then you can see that price will build that higher low and I've already showed you guys. I've already shown you guys how to take an entry, so once again, go back and watch that video over and over and over and over until it makes sense, right? Um, but yeah, you will scale down to that 15-minute time frame to find that entry and you will take price back up, right? And it's not that simple. It looks simple, but it's not that simple because you really have to analyze and understand the markets itself, right? Before you can just make it look like this, right? So, I'm going to show you what my mindset is right now on a current chart and then I'm I'm going to get out your hair, right? So, go ahead, once again, take a picture of this if you need. Move this out the way, I'm going to give you a couple seconds, right? So, remove this and then we're going to bring my chart back. Yeah, I get so angry thinking about just everything that you've learned, right? So, one hour time frame. First thing that I notice is that price has this high area and then it starts sharply going down, so now I'm pretty interested because in my head, I know this big move down has caused something to break. It's broken something. And I'm not saying that just because I can see it already, I'm seeing I'm saying it because this is the first thing that points out to me, this is the highest point. Also this low over here, but I can see that current price is all the way up here, so I'm not too focused on it, right? So the first thing that I'm going to note is that price has this high. And then I'm going to ask myself, what caused this high? How did price push up and cause this high? So then obviously, I know now that I have this low level right here. So now when I'm thinking about this, this goes back into my entry that I had last week, this high and this low. So now we have this high and we also have this low. Right? And obviously we have this one that was a high too, so this was that indication for price to be bullish, right? So once again, this is that indication for price to be bullish, but the reason why we didn't get into that trade is because why, we didn't have our second push back above that level, right? Even here, right? Price shot the push up here, why why why didn't it push up there? Why didn't it push up there, or why didn't it push above? Because remember, sellers are in control, I mean below this level, at all highs. You can draw this at any high that you have. Sellers are at that high and then it's trying to push price down. And remember, buyers are at this low, so now we have buyers sitting at this low. Let me make sure I'm recording, bro, cuz sometimes like I'll be talking, yep, video still on, okay, good. Buyers are sitting at this low, so they're trying to push price up. You can see price have that momentum to get driven up, but the moment price breaks this. Remember, there are no buyers at this point because price is obviously breaking through it and causing a new, a new move.

[20:51]A new momentum, a new reaction back down to these levels, right? So now we know anytime price is under this level, it has the potential to drive down to this level. And if we drag this over here, look at the, oh my God, bro. Bro, there's no way that you don't understand this after the 60 days. If you don't, bro, I'm sorry to say this, I'm actually sorry to say this, but if you don't understand this, after all 60 days, you are a fucking dumbass. I'm sorry to say this, right?

[21:27]So, all we did was mark up the high, understand where that high has came from, so here, understand where that high has came from, and then we looked over here and we've seen price break that structure. So this lets us know under this level, price has the potential to sell back down to this level. This is our indication. Here's our correction and the continuation back under this level to take out that to take out this low. Cause a new indication. This indication has a correction, it has a continuation that stops right at these levels, even though price was here, stopped here, but it's still good cuz there's buyers at this level. They must have came in a little bit stronger, came in a little bit stronger, they take out now this is, this is this is the part where you need to start thinking more about reaction itself. So, look at this same level that we're going to drag all the way through this high, right? This high, remember, sellers are sitting at this level trying to push price down, right?

[23:00]If if sellers are pushing, oh, I don't know why I said up, it's holding price down. So sellers are sitting here pushing price down, even this, this break here. Everything was this right here was all because the previous news that has came up and all the fake news and all that. That's just the markets, you're not going to get it right 100% of the time, but if you think about it in a market structure perspective, look at this, right? Look at this. We had a new low, price pushed up, price pushed up, made a lower high, pushed down and then broke it. So now we can think in a mindset of like, okay, now there is on the four-hour time frame a higher higher high, I guess you could say, yeah, a higher high. Price could potentially be making a higher low to to progress later on or you can just sit on your hands, wait for price to do his thing and then later on show you, okay, this is the direction I'm going. But that's what the four hour looks like, when we jump on the one hour, we can see that price is getting lower. The lower highs are getting lower and we can see that price is progressing down under those levels that we've already established at price being where the sellers are going to be in full control of the markets under. So notice how under this level, price has full potential to sell. Price under this level has full potential to sell, price comes into this level, full potential to sell, and then here, we're back under this level, so it has full potential to sell. Same way with this level, there's buyers that were sitting here, they pushed the markets back up, and then the moment price broke through, it made a new low. The moment price broke through, it made a low. The moment price breaks through this level, where do you think it's going to go? Where do you think this low is going to go? And with that being said, I'm just going to keep it as that. I really hope you guys understand it and, you know, just be able to take trades based off what my knowledge that I'm teaching. It's very, very simple, you just really have to watch the videos over and over and over and over, and I'm telling you, bro, I've actually been doing this for four years. I haven't, bro, like, bro, I've been doing this for four years, I haven't clocked in four years and I don't sell a course, so make that make sense to you.

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