How To Start Day Trading As A Beginner In 2026 (9 hours) transcript

Welcome to the beginners's complete day trading tutorial for 2025. If you guys are brand new to day trading or if you guys are just getting into day trading, this video is going to be for you guys because this is going to be my longest, biggest, and honestly just like full compiled thoughts on how to start day trading in 2025. It's going to give you guys every single thing that you guys need to know. It's going to take literally hours worth of content that I've produced and given out to you guys throughout the years of me being online teaching you guys how to day trade and putting it all in one place so that you guys can get started and understand day trading from A to Z.

If you guys don't know me, my name is Tyler. Everybody online knows me as TJR. And I've been full-time day trading for the past couple years now. And I've been able to change my life completely. Literally did a full 180 of my own life thanks to day trading. And I've helped others do the same. literally thousands of other people through free content such as this video that you guys are watching right now or through personal mentorship.

But that's besides the point. In this guide, I'm going to be breaking down literally everything when it comes to mindset, risk management, strategy, understanding confluences, understanding where price wants to go at certain times, understanding why the chart is moving at certain times, understanding where price wants to go. All of these things that are going to help you guys make money from the markets. And all of this stuff took me countless hours of trial and error.

And it kind of led to this one big culmination of all of these videos that I've put out online. Every single video that I put out online is to help you guys become a better day trader. Whether it's mistakes that I've made in the past, whether it's videos that I wish I had as an unprofitable trader back when I was starting. And the goal with this video is to put it all in one place so that you guys can just have this fast track to profitability so that you guys don't have to look anywhere else when it comes to finding any sort of day trading education.

This is essentially just going to be your guys's free course, free guide to becoming a profitable day trader in 2025. And that's exactly why the majority of traders fail. You guys always hear the statistic of day trading is too hard. Day trading doesn't work. And that's not the case. It's the majority of day traders actually end up giving up. They don't end up failing. Failing comes with any new skill. Every time I attempted to take my first trade or a couple first trades, I sucked at it.

Just like any other skill, if you try and pick up a basketball for the first time, you're going to suck. Every skill takes trial and error just like day trading does. And that's where a lot of people get caught up. They think that they're going to get rich tomorrow. They think that they're going to get rich within the next month. But that's not the case. And something that sucks with day trading and honestly all these other side hustles within the online money space is that it's very difficult to find all the right information and compile it into one single video or just put it into a playlist for you guys to be able to learn what you guys are supposed to and tune out all the noise and all the BS that's online because there's a lot of it that's circulating the web and you guys can get super confused.

You guys can mix up strategies. You guys can mix up confluences and in turn it takes you guys a lot longer to be able to turn profitable. So, the goal with this video is to put everything, all the good information in one video that you guys can just press play and watch it start to finish and have all the education necessary for you guys to turn profitable. And that is my goal with this video, just putting everything in one place for you guys.

I'm so excited for this video because it's going to be an absolute banger. I'm taking every little piece of knowledge that I've dropped throughout the years of me being on YouTube and just putting it in one place. And it's literally just going to be a full a toz guide on how you guys can crush day trading going into 2025. So, before we get into these first couple videos that we are going to compile for you guys to help understand what day trading really is, I need to readjust what your guys' headsp space is when you guys are going into learning how to day trade.

Because a lot of people kind of misconrue what they think day trading is. They think that they're going to jump right into it and they're just instantly going to make money. That is not the case. Just like how I was explaining before, day trading is a skill. Just like anything else, you guys are going to suck at it at first and you guys are going to be really horrible at it at first. But that's okay. As long as we are making these mistakes and then learning from them, never making those mistakes again.

That's how we're going to grow. So, I don't want you guys to come into this just thinking, "Holy [ __ ] this is going to turn me profitable today once I grind through however long this is going to be, like 15 hours or 20 hours worth of content." But you guys need to keep in mind that all of the education within here is going to help you guys stay on the right path towards profitability. And the problem with a lot of these other day trading gurus online or with all these other day trading videos online is they're saying like, "Hey, this one strategy will turn you profitable in 5 minutes." And then you guys go and watch that video and then you're like, "Okay, cool.

Let me go apply this." And then you guys lose your first [ __ ] 10 trades and you're like, "God damn it. Why didn't I turn profitable in 5 minutes like the video said I was going to?" So, I need to reshift you guys' headsp space and help you guys understand what day trading really is, how we can actually get good at the skill and put you guys in the correct headsp space when you guys are going into this education. So, first of all, what is the goal with trading?

It's not to make money. Every single one of you guys probably thinking, "Oh, day trading is to make money." No, day trading is about finding and being able to get into the marketplace and accurately predict with a high probability on a daily basis where price wants to go. So again, let's repeat that. What is day trading? Day trading is getting into the markets on a daily basis and being able to accurately predict with a high probability where price wants to go.

And the awesome side effect of that is making money. Now, if that's our main goal, there's two sides of this. Goal one, make money with trading. That is going to lead you guys to take actions to get results that you guys are not going to like, which is losing a whole bunch of money. Because if you guys get into the market every single day and just think, how can I make money? You're going to be placing trade after trade after trade after trade and you guys are going to end up losing money. versus if you guys go into the markets with the headsp space of how can I predict where price wants to go using the confluences and using the strategy and using the headsp space and using the risk management that I'm going to teach you guys in this video then that changes the game a little bit where instead of us thinking I want to make money right now you are thinking how can I predict with a high probability where price wants to go today it's going to help you guys avoid taking trades that you guys shouldn't be taking and it's also going to encourage you guys to be taking trades that you guys should be taking and then in turn what is that going to lead us to the awesome side effect of being able to predict price action which is money.

It's just like any other skill. But with trading, there's a super strong correlation with money where it's like you are risking money on this trade and you are either going to make money or lose money. We need to detach ourselves from that and instead be thinking when we get into the markets, we are not trying to make money. We are just trying to predict where price wants to go. And by thinking like that, it's going to help us stay away from taking trades that we shouldn't be taking and it's going to encourage us to take trades that we should be taking.

And on top of that, it's going to help us get over these speed bumps that we are going to face. Again, like I was saying, this isn't going to be help you guys get rich quick in one day or one week or one month. This is going to be a long time in order to grow and build this skill of day trading. And hopefully you guys can understand that. I'm not going to get on here and BS you guys and say that you guys are going to be able to get rich right after this video.

That's not the case, okay? I'm going to keep it real with you guys. You guys are going to have to digest all this content and then from there apply it, make mistakes, learn from those mistakes and that's how you guys are going to grow as a trader and that's how you guys are going to be able to accurately predict price action with higher probability instead of just thinking I want to make money today. There's no room for growth in that because it's either make money or lose money.

So if you're just getting into the market saying I want to make money or getting into trading saying I want to make money, you're in it for the wrong reasons because what is the core of day trading? It's predicting where price wants to go. Like I was saying before, that's going to help us avoid a lot of these early beginner mistakes that a lot of you guys are going to face. So, in order to get good at trading, we need to instantly shift that in our head.

And that's what I'm going to cover in all of these videos that we're just going to dump you guys straight into to be able to shift your guys' headsp space from I want to make money with trading and instead get into how can I predict price action consistently on a daily basis with a high probability. And then the side effect of that is money. It's just like any other skill. If I want to make a lot of money as a basketball player, what do I have to be good at?

I have to be good at putting the ball in the hoop. I have to be good at dribbling. I have to be good at passing. If you want to make money as a basketball player, you don't think, "How can I make more money playing basketball?" You think, "How can I get better at basketball?" And then in turn, what's the side effect of that? You make more money. So, it's the same thing with trading. So, we need to detach ourselves from thinking trading is about making money.

No, trading is about getting good at trading. Okay? And in turn, just like any other skill, once you get good at a skill, there's a high and awesome reward at the end of the [ __ ] rainbow. Okay? And hopefully this video is going to help you guys get to where you guys want to go. So, keep that in mind when we go into all of these videos. This is what your guys' headspace should be when you guys are getting into these first initial videos that I'm going to dump on you guys.

So, with that being said, let's jump right into it. This is kind of going to be like a primer to help you guys get your mind right and help you guys understand what it takes to become a profitable trader before we can even get into any sort of education because a lot of you guys are going to come into this thinking education is what I need. I I just need to learn more. I need to learn the strategy. I need to learn this.

I need to learn that. And it's not the case. Strategy is is honestly like far from the determining factor of you guys being profitable or not. And the real determining factor is going to be time and consistency in the way that you act, in the way that you operate. So what I kind of like to talk about is um skills. We can treat trading as a skill where I love using this analogy. If you tell a basketball player or sit sit someone who's never played basketball down uh before and tell them, you know, every single day for a month long, they have to watch an hourong video of basketball training videos.

So, they don't get a basketball, they just have to sit down and they just watch these training videos going over the basics, dribbling a ball, shooting a ball, and you know, between the legs, behind the back, layup, jump shot, three-pointer, whatever, right? And then at the end of that month, you give them a ball and you have them play basketball, right? They're going to be at a certain level after watching those videos.

And then on the contrary, if you give just another person who's never played basketball in their entire life, give them a ball and say, "Look, you know, you have an entire month and you have a single hour every single day and you just have to figure this out. Figure it out." You know, they've never played basketball. They don't know how it works, but they have to figure it out. all they know is the rules and you know what they're supposed to do.

Odds are the person that has the basketball and is able to practice and and just learn from mistakes over and over again is going to be a in a lot better position than the person who just sat on their ass watching basketball skill videos. Which now leads me to how this correlates to trading. It's the same thing. It's the same thing as a skill where if we sit down a trader and we say, "Hey, look, watch this monthlong, watch this month-long series or, you know, this literally year-long series of me um teaching you guys how to trade concepts on trading.

And if you guys don't apply it, if you guys don't practice it, you guys won't get anywhere. If you guys just watch it and like think that you're learning stuff by watching it and then like the next day you just like boom try and apply it and instantly expect success, you're not going to be successful. Versus if you guys were to just sit your ass down, sit in front of the chart and practice and drill. You know, maybe you guys don't even nec like again let's apply this to trading.

Let's say we sit someone down and say, "Hey, just watch again for a month. You have an hour each day and you guys are going to watch trading videos and then you know boom, see how they see how they act in the market and then we have another person who's never done trading in their entire life and the person just sits them down and says figure it out. You have an hour each day for a month long. I guarantee you without a doubt in my mind that the person who who has to actually be trading live trading is going to be a better trader because they're going to start seeing patterns, repetitions within the market, they're going to fail and they are going to learn from it.

So what happens when we can combine the two? What happens when we can watch videos that are helpful that teach us skills that can hopefully get us over some of those beginner mistakes, some of those beginner failures that we have? And then along with drilling it and learning we are going to be a great trader. Similarly with the basketball analogy if we give them the opportunity to sit down during that month and watch an hourong of tutorial v videos on beginner videos of people playing basketball and then right after that they get an hour to practice it and to drill it.

They are going to be a lot better than those two people who only had one of each. And it's the same thing with trading. Okay? Okay. So, if I teach you guys a a strategy or if I teach you guys concepts or if I teach you guys or if I give you guys a lesson, it's not as simple as just sitting down and digesting the YouTube video and writing notes on it because that's just step one. Step two is actually taking action and practicing it and repeating it.

And I feel like that's what that's this hole that people get sucked into is this YouTube just black hole of information where they sit down and they watch every single two billion ICT videos and they never end up applying it. And the only time that they try and apply it is when market opens and they only get like one shot because they hear TJR or they hear ICT say, "Hey, only take one to two trades, one to two trades a day." And then it's like, wow.

So, we're consuming way more than we're practicing. And that's the biggest issue. We need to be practicing almost equally with consuming. And then we get to the point where we've consumed everything that we need possible because same thing with same thing with trading and basketball. Okay? If we think about basketball, the best basketball players in the world, the skills that they have, they're just really good at the basics.

We think, you know, what makes Stephen Curry one of the best players in the world? He's just really insanely good at shooting the basketball. If if we compare Stephen Curry to one of the Globe Trotters, the Globe Trotters are arguably have better, more crazy skills, but they're not as good at shooting as Stephen Curry. It's the same thing. I've heard this analogy before, as being healthy. If you want to get healthy, stop trying to look in the 1%s and look at the 99%.

If you want to get healthy, that special running shoe isn't going to make you healthier. That little Whoop bracelet on your wrist that tracks your heart rate, that tra that tracks everything isn't going to make you healthier. What's going to make you healthier? Four things: sleep, working out, hydration, and eating healthy. Those four things. If you do those four things really, really well, you're going to be one of the healthiest people ever.

And it's the same exact thing with trading. So, if you guys can just understand the basics, which is what I'm going to be teaching you guys here, and honestly, like throughout all of this, I'm going to be teaching you guys everything. But it's going to get to the point where you guys, again, like I was saying in the first video, where you guys can kind of pull away and be like, "Look, I think I have everything possible.

I think I have everything that I need where you guys have to step away and then just practice and practice and practice and fail over and over and over and over again. Another analogy that I like to use is a construction worker, a really bad construction worker versus a really good construction worker. If we give the really bad construction worker a toolbox and blueprints and all the tools necessary to build a house and it's their first time building a house ever in their entire life, they're going to build a really shitty house.

Versus if you give a really good construction worker who's built who's built millions of houses before that same toolbox those same tools and the same blueprint, they're going to build that house much better than that construction than that shitty construction worker. And the only difference is repetition. So if we think about that shitty construction worker, that first house that they build, it's going to be really bad and they're going to be like, "Man, that was horrible.

There's a bunch of things that I can work on and I can identify the things that I can work on. Maybe I sit down and I watch the really good construction worker and see, okay, what did he do here? What did he do here? Okay, got it. Got it. Got it. Boom. Build a second house. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. It's a little bit better than the first house, but it still sucks. And then he builds five houses and they're all and they continuously get better than that first house house that he built.

And then he builds a thousand houses and there and that thousandth house is going to be so much better than the first house that he built. And then the 10,000th house is going to be so much better than that thousandth h house that he's built. So it's not the tools that are the issue. It's not the concepts in trading that's the issue. It's not the strategy in trading that's the issue. It's the repetition and it's the practice that's the issue.

It's the time that's the issue. You guys are lacking time and you guys are lacking repetition within the market and that's your biggest issue. That's it. This video is going to be rather short because I need you guys to understand this concept because I'm going to continue trying to pro provide value because right now I'm a good construction worker and you guys are bad construction workers, right? You guys are unprofitable.

If you guys are watching this, you guys have never traded before. You guys are on your first house. I'm going to lay out tools for you guys. I'm going to give you guys your toolbox and then I'm going to give you guys your blueprint through strategy, through confluence. But I can only give you guys those pieces. I can't force you guys to build your houses. You guys have to take it upon yourself to build your houses. You guys have to take it upon yourself day in and day out depending on how much time you guys have within every single day and how how how bad you guys want it to see how many houses you guys can build.

So let's say again we take the super we take two people who have never built a house in their entire life and we give them the same toolbox and the same blueprint and the same tools necessary to build a house. And the first bad construction worker builds one house every single day. Will he eventually get to that good construction worker spot. Will he eventually get there? Yes. Okay. His timeline is going to be however long.

Let's say let's say for him to be a good construction worker, it's going to take 10 years for him to be able to perfectly make houses over and over and over again. And there's always going to be room for improvement for him. Now, let's say we have that second construction worker and we give him the same tools, the same toolbox, the same blueprint, the same materials, but he makes five houses a day. He is going to have way more time building houses.

He's going to have way more repetitions. He's going to have way more experience. He's going to have way more mistakes than the person who just builds one house a day. So, by the time that 5-year period is up, the person who built five houses a day compared to the person that built one house a day is going to be so much better. But again, with trading, this is why it's difficult with building a house. Are they leaving any of their tools out?

Are they go straying from the blueprint? No. If they stray from the blueprint, they'll never be good at building houses. If I or if we go back to that construction worker example, if we take a shitty, let's add a third one to the mix. That third construction worker, he has the same tools, he has the same blueprints, he has the same materials as those other two guys, and he makes 10 houses a day, but he leaves out pieces of the blueprints every single time he builds a house.

Every single time he builds a house, he builds it differently in the wrong way, and he doesn't apply and doesn't use all the tools necessary. By the end of that five fiveyear period, that guy will will be in a worse position than the person who built one house every single day for 5 years consistently doing it the right way. He will also be so much farther behind the person who built five houses a day correctly for 5 years straight.

So, how can we apply this to trading? A lot of you guys who literally know everything necessary in order to turn profitable are not profitable. And why is that the case? Because you're not doing what you're supposed to. You're not following the blueprint. You're not following your trading plan. You're not following your strategy. You're acting on emotion. You're you're trading not based on confluences. You're not trading the same every single day.

You're switching your strategy every single day. It's the same thing. Imagine if we throw another construction worker into the mix. We have four construction workers now. But the fourth construction worker, we give him different tools and different blueprints every single month. That's what you guys are doing with your trading strategy. You guys are implementing a new strategy every single month and you're pretty much putting yourselves back to square one. that person if he gets a new blueprint and new toolboxes and new materials every single month, he will be nowhere near again where that person who did five houses the perfect the right way, consistently for 5 years.

He won't be near them. He won't be near the person who built one house consistently, correctly for 5 years straight. And he'll probably be on that equal level of the person who skipped out on on on steps in the blueprint and somebody who who didn't use the tools necessary. So, we have to understand how we're acting within the market. We have to act with discipline and we have to act with consistency. And those are probably two of the biggest lessons and two of the hardest things to learn within trading.

So, before I wanted to get into any sort of tools or strategy or concepts, I need you guys to circle back to this video every time you guys feel yourself straying away. Because as you guys start straying away, you guys are giving your guys you guys are literally starting new. You guys are setting yourselves back to square one by watching a new strategy, by implementing a new thing that you guys saw on YouTube versus if you guys take just what you guys know will turn you profitable, the basics, just like how Steph Curry is the best shooter in the world.

Why? Because he shot over and over and over and over and over again. And he's really good at that one simple thing. He's also really good at other simple things. He's really good at dribbling the ball. Is Steph Curry one of the best basketball players in the world because he's good at a triple behind the back spin move reverse layup? No. So advanced. He doesn't need that. He needs the basics. It's the basics that make you good.

So that's my issue with a lot of these traders out here because they keep throwing different strategies at you guys and that's not what I want to do. What I want to do with it with this is not even necessarily give you guys a strategy. is just to lay out the tools and the blueprint and the materials necessary for you guys to learn how to build a house on your own, to learn how to become a profitable day trader on your own.

Because again, similarly with those construction workers, with those NBA players, Stephen Curry is really good at shooting the ball. Kyrie Irving is really good at dribbling. They're both really great players in the NBA, but their skills are on two different basic things. It's the same thing in trading. If you guys suck at a concept, you know, maybe you guys can take time out of your day to drill it, to get better at it, just like a basketball player who's bad at dribbling, but really good at shooting.

Okay, but what would they want to do while they are still bad at that skill? They're going to want to utilize their good skills. So for me, if I'm really good at executing on a single concept, why should I come through and try and add a new concept and add a new thing, add a new tool, add a new material that I've never used before, that I don't understand completely, that I'm really bad at, and try and build a house with it, try and make it a part of my game, try and make it a part of my strategy.

It doesn't make any sense. You have to utilize what you're good at. And that's what trading is. I'm going to give you guys concepts and I'm going to give you guys tools in order to become a profitable trader, but you guys are going to be good or better at certain tools than everybody else. Okay? There are some things that are going to click in your head that make sense to you. You have to use what makes sense to you because if it doesn't make sense to you and if it doesn't work for you, don't use it at all because it's not helping you.

And maybe you do want to get good at it because you know it's a fundamental and you know it's necessary to be a really good trader. Just like understanding what a candlestick is, like the open and the close. That's a really basic thing. If we can understand that, we have to understand that to be good at trading. And maybe it takes longer for you to understand that. So, what are you going to do? You're going to drill it in silence.

And I know I was just talking about that with a beginner concept, but we need to think about that with our strategy and with how we take trades. Because if I introduce order blocks and it really makes sense to your friend Jeremy, but it makes no sense to you and Jeremy's hitting a thousand winning trades on it every single day, day in and day out, and you're like, I want to be like Jeremy or I want to be like TJR who's trading this certain way, but you don't understand how it works or it doesn't make sense to you, you won't be a good trader.

And instead, if you're really good at entering off of fair value gaps or spotting a liquidity sweep and that's what works for you, it wouldn't make sense for you guys to try and only enter off of order blocks if you guys know liquidity is your forte. You guys have to do what's best for you and what makes sense for you and what you're best at. And then if you want to add something new to the mix, don't add it in live trading scenarios.

Add it in back testing. add it in private until you get so good at it where it's literally so overwhelmingly obvious that you need to add it to your to your arsenal to your toolbox and then you'll have another tool that you're really good with and then that's what will make you a good trader. So, I'm going to end this video here and hopefully that changed your perspective on trading and maybe you know you you guys are a five-year long trader and this is was the missing piece for you and you guys can be done off of this because a lot of you guys so many of you guys you guys have already gone through my boot camp.

You guys have already you guys already understand the fundamentals of trading and I'm going to start with the fundamentals. I'm going to start explaining candlesticks. A lot of you guys already understand that. A lot of you guys are pros with that already. A lot of you guys really understand strategy. You guys understand you guys literally have the tool. You guys already have the toolbox, the tools, the materials and the blueprints in front of you and you guys just haven't been practicing.

You guys have just been watching. You guys have just been consuming. Or you guys have been consuming and not practicing enough. Or in some people's case where you guys are full-on beginners, you guys haven't consumed at all. And you guys haven't practiced at all. by putting you guys your you guys' head in the right spot, by understanding that trading is a skill and teaching you guys how skills are made. It's by consistently doing the same thing over and over and over again until you get really good at it.

So, with that knowledge, I will see you guys in the next video where we can start adding tools to our toolbox. A lot of times you guys just have problem solving issues. Ever thought of that? You guys need to work on your problem solving skills. And for whatever reason, I've gotten really good at problem solving. I had this seventh grade teacher in computer science and we had a problem-solving checklist and it was pretty much so he didn't have to answer dumbass questions.

What the checklist was was like literally just go down all of this checklist before you even ask him a question. It's like check all plugs and connections. Check if the Wi-Fi is good. Restart it. Do this. Turn the power off. Turn the power back on. Unplug it. Plug it back in. And then like it was just this this like sevenstep list that was a problem-solving list. And more often than not, you would go through that list and you would never have to ask him a question ever.

Obviously, there's more problems to solve than just like, oh, the computer's not working in like computer science class in seventh grade, but it's pretty similar where it's like if you guys can really work on your problem solving skills, then you'll be able to solve problems. Um, but anyways, my mastermind student asked me a question. Said, "Hey, what are good psychology books?" And I said, "This is a good psychology book.

I wrote it myself and I opened up a text box and wrote it down." And it goes like this. Learn a strategy. Perfect. I'm going to teach you a strategy. Don't ever change it. Don't change it. Don't change it. I'm going to strangle you if you change it. Go back to the construction worker example. Literally, I don't know how many times I'm going to have to yell at you for you guys not to change it because you guys are going to change it every other day because you're like, "Training's not working." Yeah, cuz you [ __ ] just learned it.

Understand that good things take time. You're not going to get rich quick from this ever, ever in your entire life. And if you think that's how it is, guess what? You're going to die unhappy because your life's going to suck dick. Okay? Good things take time. Learn a strategy. Don't [ __ ] change it. Do it forever. Trade it forever until you get good at it. Manage your risk. Meaning, you know, make it so you can live to trade another day.

Don't be a dumbass. That can be applied to all of you. Don't overtrade. Don't overlever. Probably one of the biggest ones here, circling back to never changing your strategy. Don't have multiple mentors. I was in my mastermind class again today explaining order blocks, how I mark them out, how I trade order blocks, how order blocks work for me. These people, they pay me a certain amount of money to teach them how I trade.

And somebody goes in there, TJR, this guy on YouTube, Mark, I'm Who? Is he me? No. You literally paid me money to teach you how I trade and you're saying this person I don't give a [ __ ] Because guess what? The second you say, "Well, the you're [ __ ] you screwed up, bro. You're already changing [ __ ] Make it as simple as possible." Have one single mentor. If your mentor is a good trader and knows how to trade and has a good strategy that works for them, that makes them profitable, guess what?

If you use that strategy, if it makes sense for you, if it works for you, and you continue to trade at it, and you get good at it, then it'll work for you, too. It's awesome how that [ __ ] works. But the second you guys start over complicating it, say, "Well, TJ, well, TJR trades marks out order blocks. You guys are so annoying. You guys over complicate trading for no reason, bro. for no reason at all. You guys are just overthinkers and underdoers.

Wow, that was a [ __ ] awesome quote. You guys are overthinkers and underdoers. You guys think way too [ __ ] much and don't do [ __ ] ever in your entire life, bro. So, stop saying like TJR, you mark out order block like this, but this one guy on Twitter who has 1,000 followers said he does it like this and it works for him. Then, then guess what? if it works for him and you want to trade like him, bet. Go do it with him.

But the second you start [ __ ] flipping [ __ ] the second you start marking out order blocks like that person does and then you're trying to use my strategy where I mark out mark out order order blocks differently and oh wait, now you're trying to pull in support and resistance, throw that [ __ ] into TJR's strategy and I don't even use that [ __ ] either. And then you say, "Oh no, I'm going to throw on some Ballinger bands." Next thing you know, you don't have a strategy that [ __ ] works.

Stop having multiple mentors. Have one single mentor. Have one single person that you learn trading from. Whether that's me, whether that's anybody, I don't I don't care. Choose one singular person and learn from them. It's going to confuse you guys way too much. It's going to cause you guys to hip hop from strategies. It's going to cause you guys to get information overload and start thinking, "Oh, well, price price came down, bounced off a support, but wait, TJR said this is a fair value gap, but wait, ICT said this is a PD array, but wait, there's a like, shut up, bro.

Like, shut up. Your brain is going [ __ ] berserk. tell it to shut up because if you look at how I present trading, I literally it's like a stepbystep playbook. It's like this happens, then this happens, then this happens, and you press buy or sell, and you take your hands, you shove them into your ass, and you don't do anything until stop-loss or take profits get hit. And oh, would you look at that? The next chapter in TJR's trading psychology book is don't overthink.

I didn't even read that far. Don't overthink. You guys sit down. This is what you guys do, bro. And for all beginners watching this, remember this video because this is going to be you guys when I start introducing concepts. Don't do what I'm about to do and it will benefit you so much. Well, on the weekly time frame, we got a breaker structure. Oh, wait. Um, okay. So, this is an order block right here. And then we tapped into this.

But then if we go into the daily, we're in an uptrend right here. And then there's a fair value gap right here. So, we're bullish right here, but bearish right here. And then the equilibrium, it came in here. And then, and then we had a higher high, higher low, but then we broke structure right here. So, I thought we should have gone down, and then we broke structure again, and then we actually went down, but then we we liquidity sweeped and then broke structure again.

And then we're ready. This is what I want you guys to do. Just like if you guys could do me a favor, if you guys are actually passionate about trading and and if you guys want to learn from me, if my concepts make sense to you, if the way that I trade makes sense to you, if you guys just like me as a mentor because I can teach [ __ ] [ __ ] simply to you guys, stop overthinking and just forget everything that you've ever ever ever ever, ever, ever in your entire life learned about trading?

And you know what's crazy? I went into the mastermind the very first lesson. I was like, yo, literally take everything that you've learned from trading besides the basics like what a candlestick is and what an uptrend is and what a high or what a low is and throw it out the window. And it's crazy because we when we were talking about [ __ ] that you would think is like a basic ass thing like literally what a high and low is these pe like that guys my mastermind's hardest subject to understand was how to identify highs and lows in the market, bro.

And I And this is as simp and this is as simple as I put it. I'll give I I'm going to teach you guys the same exact way that I taught them. Not like this is just a a shortened version of it because for them it took a full hour to get this. A high is a two candlestick pattern. A move up, then a move down. A green candle, then a red candle. A low is a two candlestick pattern. A move down then a move up. A red candle then a green candle.

That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. You would think that it would have ended there. There were questions for about 30 minutes. Let me try and find the example that somebody used. This is This was it. Again, I I know if you're new here, if you're just getting into trading, trust me, this will be beneficial for you. I know you don't quite understand what I'm talking about right now, but like trust me, we have to just throw out the garbage.

We have to stop overthinking because if we can stop overthinking and just take it for what the information is and stop thinking this is some [ __ ] hard ass impossible weird that you have to just wrap your brain around like it turns out it's pretty easy. This is what they said. I remember what did I say? A high consists of a move up and a move down. It's a two candlestick pattern. Two candles. What do the two candles have to be?

Green then red for a high. The guy said, "Well, what about this? Is this the high right here? Why isn't this the high? Do you see a a a down candle following it? It literally took like 10 plus minutes to explain that this is the high. And the awesome thing is is like if he was able if if we were able to like identify that money would have been made on this day. I made money on this day. It's [ __ ] like that where it's like you guys are just over complicating this for no reason.

For no reason at all. Stop over complicating it. The last line on the book, I know I just deleted it or it might be still be on here. I think I deleted it. But the last chapter in the book was just execute. My psychology can be broken down like this. Do what you're supposed to do and don't do what you're supposed what you're not supposed to do. Again, it's literally as easy as that. What are you not supposed to do in trading?

You're not supposed to overtrade. You're not supposed to overlever. And if you're doing either of those, you have an issue bigger than trading. You just have a life issue in general. That means that if you tried to stop any of your bad habits right now in life, you wouldn't be able to. Which means you have no hope in trading whatsoever. Ever in your entire life. Like ever. If you can't if if it's so if it's literally that hard for you where if you truly want to become a full-time day trader, it should be so easy to just be like don't overtrade, don't overleverage and execute on the strategy and just let time do its thing and you will get good.

It literally could be I could end the trading transformation here and you guys could use grab a strategy from the internet and get going, get started with it. The problem is some of you guys just must not want this [ __ ] enough because if you wanted it it enough, you would know exactly what you're supposed to do and you would do it and you would know exactly what you're not supposed to do and you wouldn't do it. So then it comes to an issue of like what are you even doing this for?

Are you doing this just like are you doing this because you it's you put in your head that trading is a get-rich quick scheme because trading is not a get-rich quick scheme. Anybody that says it is is a [ __ ] idiot. Because get-richqu schemes, there's no such thing as a get-richqu scheme unless somebody comes to you, which I'm not doing, and says, "This will change. You can make like $100,000 from this in a month." And you believing it and then you trying to do it and lose all your money doing it.

That's what a get-richqu scheme is. I'm telling you guys right now that trading is a skill and it's not a get-richqu type of thing. And I told you before it's going to take a long time to get good at this skill. So if you truly want it bad enough, you will literally start today doing the [ __ ] that you are supposed to and stop doing the [ __ ] that you're not supposed to. And it re it like it really shouldn't take more than that for like it shouldn't take more from me than that because if if you're unable to do that, you don't want to be a trader.

Like simple as that. Or you don't want it bad enough cuz if you wanted it bad enough, you would have been doing the [ __ ] that you were supposed to do and you wouldn't be doing the [ __ ] that you're not supposed to. It's as simple as that. And some people genuinely just don't want it bad enough. So, I'm glad that I made this video today. This can be kind of like our filter of who wants to be good at trading. And the question that I'll leave you guys with this with this video, hold on, Chug Jug.

The question that I want to leave you guys with is why do you want to trade? Do you want to trade for the money that you see on the internet that comes from trading? Or do you want to trade because you genuinely enjoy being able to come into the markets day in and day out and predict where where price wants to go. If you said the first answer, thank you for coming to my trading transformation. Take everything that you applied and apply it to another business that you genuinely enjoy.

And I just saved you thousands of dollars on courses, on live accounts, on funded accounts, on Discords, which you guys shouldn't be joining anyway, on signals, which are useless. I saved you a bunch of money. You're welcome. Because if you sit down on the chart and if you look at the chart in the morning and think I cannot wait to make money today, you are doing something wrong. Versus if you come into trading and you sit down and you're genuinely excited because you cannot wait to be able to predict where price wants to go or you just love being able to be I'm like look bro I'm a [ __ ] narcissist.

I'm I'm a hotthead. I'm stubborn. I love being right. And you know what the best thing is? Being right in a market where everybody else is wrong. And that's why I love trading. Literally today or the other day, I talked about this Bitcoin chart. Everybody on crypto in crypto Twitter was bearish within this area. I think it's going to go lower. 30K. 30K. I said, "No, I expect dick-sized candles within the next one to three weeks." Said that at that green line.

Boom. That is what makes me happy. And my bank account, my crypto wallet is just part of that because you guys can only imagine the money that I made from that move. But that's not what makes me happy. Again, it's not I love being right. I love it. It's the best feeling in the world to me. [ __ ] love being right and I love helping people. Let that kind of sit with you for a bit before you guys go on to actually start learning concepts.

Because if you start learning concepts and you're like, "This is boring. I don't like this. This is lame." Choose a different business. The best business that you can be in is a business that you can work on forever. And and what can you work on forever? Something that you love. Because work won't feel like work. It'll feel like fun. When I was learning trading and when I am trading, I'm genuinely having fun. When I'm making these YouTube videos teaching you guys, I'm genuinely having fun.

I'm enjoying myself. It's awesome. I love it. And And I can work I can do this forever. I can literally I It's crazy, bro. I can do this [ __ ] forever. Forever, bro. I love it. It's awesome. Like, that's what you guys don't understand. I love this. I love this. I love teaching. I love teaching people about this. It's like two passions in one. It's awesome. I'm I got a Kimbo passions, bro. And some of you guys, trading is just not your passion.

And just get lost, bro. You're welcome. I saved you a bunch of money. And I swear I swear some fe some people are going to get through this and be like, "He doesn't know what he's talking about. I got to make a million dollars. And then like months from now, you guys are going to be thinking back to this video and being like, damn, I should have listened to to that one dude, TJR Trades. Because the only way you're going to be really good at something and make a ton of money from something is if you love doing it, bro.

Swear. That's the only That's the only way. The only way that you're going to make ridiculous amounts of money. Money that you can't even imagine. money. Money where it's just like everywhere is not by pursuing money itself. It's by pursuing your passion. Because how do you make money? You work. And if you love your work, you'll be able to work forever and you'll be able to make insane amounts of money. So sit with that.

Drop in the comments if you guys genuinely like are like me and you just love being right. Love being able to predict where price wants to go day in and day out. If that's you, awesome. We're nerds. We're nerds together, bro. Love it. If that's not you, dip out. No hard feelings. I'm glad that I could help you. Akimbo Passions. Anyways, I appreciate you guys. I'll catch you guys in the next one. Peace out. I wish there was like a way for us to touch lips after these. sucks.

Focus. Okay. So, what I want to talk to you guys about today, I want to talk about how trading can be really easy if you just simplify it. And I know I talked about that a little bit in the videos at the very beginning of this whole thing, but I'm just going to continuously hammer home the mindset that you have to be in when you get into trading and the things that you have to be doing when you're getting into trading and the things that you should not be doing.

Okay? Because again, successful people, it's not necessarily what they do that makes them successful. It's what they don't do that makes them successful. Because I've even seen it within my mastermind where I grilled them for like the first week, everything, psychology, just rewire their brain and they were like, "Boom, we got it." And I was super hyped. I was like, "Awesome. Y'all are going to kill it." And then I start laying out the tools.

I say like look here's candlesticks you know like or they already know candlesticks but you know like here's break of structure here's liquidity here's fair value gaps here's order blocks and after all that I start seeing in the chat and it's like they're doing everything that they're not supposed to be doing they're taking too many trades a day they're over risking they're over lever like they're just [ __ ] up and I'm just sitting there Like, bro, what did we even talk about for the first week then?

It's almost like I need to do a psychology mastermind where it's just like a full month where if you like already know a strategy that works for you, like let me just grill you for a full month until you get that [ __ ] through your head. This is how easy trading can be. Don't overthink. Don't over complicate. and let's lay out what we shouldn't be doing and what we should be doing. Okay. So, I'm kind of going to put you guys onto the charts here and we're just going to make a little text box.

Okay. Talk this one out. Let's see. Bet. So, we're going to make a little box talking about what we should not be doing. Okay. And this is going to apply to life. And this is going to apply to trading. And if you can't apply it to your life, you'll never be able to apply it to trading because that's just how this [ __ ] works. If you're undisiplined in one area, you're going to be undisiplined in every other area. So just how life works.

If you fold in one area, you're going to like you're going to fold all over again. Okay? So I want you guys to kind of do this along with me or write this down with me. I'll give you guys time to pull out your notebooks, pull out a pen and paper. And you guys should be doing this honestly like every single day until you get it through your head and until your subconscious is like just knows exactly what to do. Literally just write this [ __ ] out every single day.

Okay, so number one, even though we haven't got there yet, or first of all, let's just talk about what this is. Whoa. It's your trading mindset shift. Can't type at all today. This is going to be your trading mindset shift. Okay. And what we have to know and what we have to understand about changing how we trade is we have to do pretty much everything that you guys are not. We have to stop doing everything that you guys are currently doing right now.

Okay. So, if we think about it, what are you guys currently doing right now that's causing UDIS to be unsuccessful within the market? Let's just write out what unprofitable traders do in the first place. We'll set this to the side. Unprofitable mindset. Okay. So, let's start off on this one. several strategies. A lot of you guys, Oops. A lot of you guys are trading, multiple different strategies every sing every single day.

You'll take one trade with TJR's strategy. The next trade, you'll watch a YouTube video on Mamba FX's five minute strategy. You'll take that one. The next trade, you'll take Lambo Raul strategy. You guys have like 20 different strategies that you're trying to work at all together and you're never going to be successful doing that in trading. You know why? You're stretching yourself thin. It's like saying, "Hey, I'm going to try this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, all at the same time." And you're going to suck at all of them all at the same time. and you'll never get better at all of them at the same time because you're trying to do them all at the same time.

So if you want to get good at a skill or get good at a strategy, you have to have one single one. So unprofitable mindset number one, a lot of you guys have several different strategies. Along with that, a lot of you guys have several mentors. Choose one. You have to choose one. A lot of you guys watch my videos. A lot of you guys watch ICT videos. A lot of you guys watch, you know, other people's videos. I don't care who you watch.

Even if this means you guys stop watching me. All I want is for you guys to turn into profitable traders. I'm fine with you just saying, "Look, TJR, I [ __ ] with you, but this guy's strategy works better for me." Awesome. We'll dap up. I did my job. I did what I needed to do. You can step out here and and then boom. Okay. just have one mentor because again with several strategies I teach certain confluences a different way.

Your other mentors have different strategies. Your other mentors, sorry I'll boogie. Your other mentors trade differently than me and they teach things differently than me. If you guys want to be successful in trading, you need one single mentor and you need one single strategy because it's the same thing. You're stretching yourself too thin. If you learn trading from me, you learn trading from Raul, you learn trading from ICT, you learn trading from somebody else.

Again, it's like input one, input two, input three, input four, and all of them are just little trickles instead of just one boom full power faucet. So, have one strategy, have one mentor. moving forward. You guys overthink and you guys over complicate trading way too much, bro. Way too much. You guys get into trading and think you need to be able to solve the [ __ ] like the cure for cancer in order to be able to be successful in trading.

It's not the case. Simple simplicity is better within trading. Guess what I taught my mentorship students, okay? And I'm going to keep bringing them up because th these people are are going to be killers after this [ __ ] And I I taught them. I said, "Look, I'm going to give you guys a strategy. You won't be able to take a trade every day. You probably won't be able to find a trade every single day, but I guarantee you if you stick to these rules 100% of the time, stay disciplined, don't over risk, and obviously don't overtrade because you're sticking to the strategy, you will be profitable straight out of this because I gave it to them." So simply, it's literally step one, step two, understand what you're looking for.

Step three, step four, execute. And and it's like the e like I gave them literally one. It's just a checklist and then it's execute hands off. And I guarantee you they will be profitable if they follow that checklist. The problem with a lot of you guys with trading is you guys are looking at 20 different time frames. You guys are looking at 30 different confluences. You guys are looking having 10 different strategies in your head and you have three different mentors giving you their daily bias for the day.

We need to stop that. My mentorship students, they're only looking at four time frames and it's three confluences off of those four time frames. It's as easy as that. You don't need to be looking at some bull like bro trust me right now another basketball analogy for you guys when you guys are looking into these advanced ass concepts which is one of the reasons why I'm not necessarily a huge fan of like these people who are teaching like 30y year plus complicated ass concepts to people who are just trying to get into trading today.

You're one giving them the opportunity to overtrade and two giving them the opportunity to over complicate the [ __ ] and overthink everything. If you guys just keep it simple and just say like, "Look, I understand that right now my strategy is simple, but I know I'll be successful with it." Just do that. Right? If you just learned how to play basketball and you know for a fact you'll make that layup every single time.

Wide open layup. That's the only shot that you know you can hit that you know you're successful with and then the coach puts you in the game and then you try and hit a behind the back 360 reverse layup, you're obviously going to miss. You're obviously going to be unsuccessful. Versus if you have that open layup and you just shoot the ball, you're probably going to make it. you have a much higher probability of making it with a simple shot compared to just as like a twomonth in basketball player.

You guys have to think about it like that. You guys are like literally several months into trading like barely even into this [ __ ] and you guys are trying to do [ __ ] that people who have been in the market for 30 plus years. I'm not going to name any names, but there's somebody in in here on on YouTube that is doing this to you guys and he's teaching you guys [ __ ] that he understands because he has 30 plus years in the market, but you guys have no [ __ ] clue what he's talking about and you guys think you know what he's talking about.

It's like LeBron being like, "Yo, peep this super advanced [ __ ] basketball move." and you're like two months into trading or two months into basketball and you barely know how to dribble with your right and your left hand, you're never going to be able to make that shot ever until time catches up with it. You know, once you have time, that's okay. You'll be able to get there. But for now, let's focus on the easy [ __ ] And trust me, with the easy [ __ ] we'll be successful.

So, let's make it easy first and be successful with the easy [ __ ] So, stop overthinking and stop over complicating. Keep it, y'all know the saying, kiss, keep it simple, stupid. K I S S. Keep it simple, stupid. Okay, that's what I need you guys to do. So, you guys have several different strategies, several mentors, and you guys overthink and over complicate. You know what else you guys do? you try and get rich quick.

You need to understand that this is a skill and this is going to take a long time to be successful in and it's going to take take a long time to get rich in it. Right now you guys have super low starting capital. Okay, funded accounts can help with that, but you also don't know how to trade yet. So, one, you should not be trading on a live account right now. Okay? Why would why would a coach if a coach sees, hey, man, you're two months into playing basketball.

You've never played in a game before. We don't know if you're going to be good. Matter of fact, come join the NBA. You're going to be starting. That's pretty much what you guys are doing by jumping into a live account and putting like $5,000 on the line. You're going to get eaten alive by this market. You have no experience. You have no clue what you're doing yet. Bro, get on demo and get some reps in first. play in games that don't [ __ ] matter before you go into the [ __ ] playoffs and in the NBA championship.

This is not a get-richqu scheme. You guys make it up in your head that it's a get-rich quick scheme. You guys think you're going to get rich quick by doing this. It's not the case. You will never get rich quick doing something. I will tell you, if you follow all my rules, all of my steps that I'm going to give you guys throughout this trading transformation, you will be able to make money quicker than other professions where you have to clock in, clock out, climb up the corporate ladder.

But you guys have to understand, it's not going to happen in a month. You're not going to make 100k a month in a single year. You probably won't even make 100K in a single year after like two or three years of trading. But again, eventually you will be able to get to that point. It's just not as quick as you dream it up to be. Okay, moving forward. What else do you guys do? Let me think. What else do horrible traders do?

You guys have a bunch of different strategies. You have a bunch of different mentors. You guys overthink everything. And you over complicate everything. You really do think you have to be [ __ ] Einstein to solve this [ __ ] You really don't. It's lit. Like literally, if you guys keep it as simple as possible, bro, you'll be able to be profitable. You won't be able to take a trade every day, but that doesn't matter, right?

If the shot's not there and you you only know that you're going to be successful on that simple ass shot, just don't take it. It's as simple as that. Just know your time is coming. Okay? Might as well just take the successful shot so we can get better right now. You guys think you're going to get rich quick. It's not the case. What else do you guys do? Moving on from the get-richqu, you guys give up way too quick because when you don't get rich quick, you give up and you move on to the next get-richqu scheme.

What you guys put in your head that's going to get you guys rich rich quick? You guys think it's going to be drop shipping? You guys think it's going to be Amazon FBA? You guys think it's going to be growth operating? You You guys think it's going to be a bunch of this [ __ ] All of those, it's the same process. Same [ __ ] You got to work hard for a long time, get good at the simple [ __ ] then advance to the advanced [ __ ] and then boom, eventually you'll get there over the course of a long ass time.

So, you guys get into trading and you're like, "Oh, I can't wait to make a bunch of money." You have all these different strategies. You try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try try for like one day on each of the strate on each of the strategies you fail consistently and then after two months you say I didn't make 100k I'm out of here if that's your mindset get the [ __ ] lost you'll never make money ever in your entire life swear you'll make money but not the way that you want you'll never make a lot of money all you guys have probably the shortest attention span ever in the entire world.

Wow. Attention span. You guys have short attention spans. You guys think this one little plugin is going to change your life and it's not. You guys need to think long term. And we talked about this in these earlier videos where if you guys can think long term, five years down the line, I know that sounds like a long time, but think about how old you are right now. 5 years isn't that far down the line compared to how much more life you have to live after that.

Right? If you're under 20 and you're watching this video, bro, you are even if you're above 20, 25, 30, everything after that, you have this skill that is lifechanging. Now, we need to understand that skills are life-changing. And we also have to understand that skills take a long time to learn. And we have to have that long-term vision. It like it it won't probably won't even be five years. It'll probably be a little bit less than that.

But you guys have to kick that little [ __ ] short dopamine [ __ ] short attention span to the curb, bro. You got to kick that [ __ ] out because if you don't, you're you're not going to make it in entrepreneurship, in business, in trading. Because in order to be successful in these, you have to have a long-term vision. So kick your short attention span to the curb. Whether that means you take away TikTok, whether that means you take away social media, whatever it may be, you guys need to take it away.

And then last but not least, what the hell? You guys over learn what I'm going to teach you guys in this trading transformation series. We're going to start you guys off at the very beginning. A lot of you guys are going to be [ __ ] Remember, I want you guys to throw away everything that you think you know about trading before coming into here, okay? A lot of you guys are going to learn [ __ ] and then be like immediately jump ahead, bro.

And I I'm going to [ __ ] knock you out, bro. It drives me [ __ ] nuts. I teach you guys a concept. And then instantly it's like boom. Let me apply this with some [ __ ] that I learned from somebody else. And my other strategy happened in my mentorship literally the other day. I teach them the stepbystep four time frame strategy on how they can be successful. And we get into the call and I'm like, "All right, everyone share the trades that they took.

We're going to go over them. I'm going to critique them." This and that. People are taking trades off of one minute liquidity sweeps off of like, bro, we weren't even supposed to go on the one minute time frame. People were talking about I went on the weekly. Bro, did you not even [ __ ] listen? Keep it [ __ ] simple. There's a there's a point of diminishing returns with overarning. You guys try and you guys try and overlearn and underpractice.

Wow, that was hard. All you guys do is overlearn and under practice, bro. And it drives me [ __ ] nuts. You guys think the the cure to your unprofitability is going to be watching another ICT or TJR YouTube video. Eventually, you know everything that you need to know about it, and you just have to get to [ __ ] work and practice it. I know YouTube videos are entertaining, but guess what? They're doing no [ __ ] good for you at all. in terms of your trading journey, in terms of your success, okay?

You you just have to get into the charts and practice what you've already learned. The simple [ __ ] you guys literally get in and then you start learning like 20 different concepts and then you're like, "Bet, I'm ready to apply all of them." No, bro. Let me just give you one piece, two piece, three piece, four piece. Okay? We apply all these. We learn how to do our layups. are easy [ __ ] Our easy little jumpers. We get really good at those.

Bet. Again, this trading transformation transformation series. This is my entire YouTube channel from here on out. There's going to be more advanced stuff down the down the line. Bear with me, bro. I'm trying to teach you guys the right way. But first, we have to learn the simple [ __ ] We have to get insanely good at the simple [ __ ] Then we add more concepts. Boom. something else. Boom. We're in something else. Boom.

We get really good at that something else. We just keep adding little pieces and we keep upgrading. But right now, you guys don't know [ __ ] You're unprofitable. Admit that you're unprofitable. All you guys think you're hot shot [ __ ] best traders in the world. You guys don't make [ __ ] from the market. Get real with yourself. Start with the simple [ __ ] You guys can't You guys literally are not profitable. You guys can't even get the simple [ __ ] done yet.

That says a lot about you. You guys literally are not successful making a [ __ ] layup and you guys are trying to hit a half court shot currently. Let's start on the easy [ __ ] All right. So now, what does that mean for a profitable trading mindset? You have one strategy. You have one mentor. Again, I don't give a [ __ ] if it's me or somebody else. It doesn't matter. Choose one singular person. And I know for a fact you guys aren't going to listen to me and it's going to drive me [ __ ] crazy because I'm trying to help you guys with this [ __ ] I'm literally saying if my [ __ ] doesn't work for you, go to somebody else.

You guys have to understand that this is for you. I'm like, understand that every single one of these videos, listen to the like what I'm saying because I know for a fact you guys aren't going to listen. And it drives and like I'm thinking about it right now and it's pissing me off because I genuinely want what's best for you guys. And some of you guys just have [ __ ] no brains, bro. And it makes me want to let me help you.

Have one strategy. Have one mentor. >> Simplify everything. Get rich in a long period of time. Stay strong for a for a long time. Long time frame. Long time frame, bro. Come on. These people are [ __ ] yelling outside. Give me a second. Long time frame mindset. Seven over practice and learn one step at a time. Okay. I need you guys to have one strategy, one single mentor. Simplify everything. Make everything as simple as possible.

Understand that if you guys can do this, you guys will get rich in a long period of time, not quick. You guys will genuinely make money over a long course of time. Be consistent with this for a long period of time. You have to have, again, look at look at the majority of this stuff. It's all simplicity and long-term mindset. It can literally be boiled down to those two things. Keep it simple and understand that it's going to take a long time to be able to do this and you have to be okay with that.

Stay strong for a long period of time. Be consistent for a long period of time. Think in years, not days, in in decades, not months. And overractice and learn one step at a time. Don't go in and learn five different confluences and then try and apply all of them at once. You're going to suck dick at all of them. Get into the market. Learn step one just like how we've been doing on here. I'm giving you guys one piece at a time and then I'm giving you guys homework.

Look, spot these pieces. Oh, we're good at that. Boom. Perfect. Checked off the box. Now we can add something else. We have to over practice and learn one step at a time. Not learn five steps and then practice it once and then give up. Practice for weeks. get insanely good at it and then move to the next step. And that is how you guys are going to be successful in trading. Write all this [ __ ] down. Reread it every [ __ ] day.

Do whatever it takes. This is it, bro. This will turn you profitable. Period, bro. Like, this is it. Let's get the drip out for y'all. Nah, I'm playing. Tuck that. Tuck that [ __ ] But anyways, today I wanted to make a little video um not necessarily covering any concepts because what I wanted to cover is that trading is like building a house or like a skill, okay? And everybody, right? Like I can be really good at trading for and I can be really good at let's say identifying liquidity and somebody else can be really good at trading because they trade off of like bowlinger bands or they're trade off of like indicators and that's their thing.

And what you guys have to understand is that this [ __ ] isn't just going to be like a copy and paste ass strategy. I'm going to give you guys a super duper systematic strategy that you guys can really like try and apply by your do and see if it works out for you. Okay? But for some of you guys, it just might not make make any sense. For others, it might make complete sense and it might turn you profitable along with all the discipline and all the psychology stuff.

Okay. But what I got what I want you guys to understand from this video is that every single trader is going to be different. So I'm going to do my best to explain how I trade and I'm going to do my best to explain concepts to you where you guys can take those concepts and pretty much create your own strategy out of it. Okay? And that's my main goal and that's what I wanted to kind of get into in today's video. Even though we've kind of already covered it, today's going to be short as [ __ ] okay?

But I need you guys to understand that like when I introduce liquidity and when I introduce strategy and when I introduce all of these concepts, I need you guys to understand like I'm pretty much just laying out tools for you guys to use. You don't necessarily have to use them. Some of them will be more beneficial than others. I'm going to lay out these tools for you guys which are going to be pretty much confluences.

Okay, so like break of structure is one tool. I'm going to lay out liquidity. I'm going to lay out order blocks. I'm going to lay out fair value gaps. I'm going to lay out equilibrium. I'm going to lay out breaker blocks. I'm I'm going to try and just give you guys a bit. Damn. I'm going to try and lay out like a complete toolbox for you guys so that you guys are able to be like, I want this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, and then bing bong boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

You guys can work with it because it makes sense to you. Some of these confluences and tools, you're just going to suck dick at them and they're just not going to make sense to you. Cool. If that makes if that's the case, bet. leave them alone. Okay. So, before I wanted to like start introducing these concepts and these things where I'm going over these confluences and these tools, I needed to make that clear where if it doesn't make sense to you, don't [ __ ] use it.

And if the way that I teach some [ __ ] doesn't make sense to you, either rewatch it and try and make it make sense or just pick a different mentor. If like my strategy doesn't work for you, then like go and find somebody else's strategy that works for you. Does that make sense? And when I say that works for you, it doesn't mean that instantly turns you profitable. Okay? Because there's no strategy that's going to do that.

Okay? Turning profitable is a combination of a bunch of [ __ ] It's a combination of, you know, being disciplined. It's a combination of risk management. It's a combination of time. Nobody talks about that [ __ ] Time and experience. Literally, I saw a tweet the other day or I saw a tweet today where somebody was like, "Oh, you want to get good at trading or you want to get good at crypto?" Like, just start clicking random buttons and see what happens and get better from there.

Like, it's as simple as that. Like, experience is by far the best teacher. That's what I want you guys to understand is experience is the best teacher. Some of the [ __ ] that I explained to you might not make sense. And if it doesn't make sense, kick it to the [ __ ] curb, unless it's like literally necessary to trade the way that I trade. And if the way that I trade doesn't make any sense to you, either make it make sense by re-watching the videos over and over and over again or just find a different mentor because strategies are everywhere on the internet for free.

Okay, this is full like disclosure. When you join like any sort of mastermind or any sort of course, including my own, your mentor is not going to get in there and be like, "Tday one, the secret key of profitability that I've been keeping from you for this entire time that no trader is allowed to see or post for free on YouTube, and they only keep it in their $2,000 mentorship." Like, it just doesn't exist. So if you guys join like a mastermind like my mastermind or like mentorship or somebody's course, you're going to see essentially free information that you've seen everywhere on the internet.

But the benefit well okay like courses me personally like the pre-recorded [ __ ] I'm not that big of a fan of because again it's literally free information that's everywhere on the internet. I like the way that I do my [ __ ] because I'm going to explain my [ __ ] to you guys and then it's like bet y'all can ask questions and then I can actually fix the [ __ ] that you guys are doing wrong. But that's besides the point.

Every single strategy is for free on the internet, okay? There's no little [ __ ] hocus pocus magic key to success. So you guys just have to find one that works for you. And we know that strategy is not the the differentiating factor of turning profitable or not. So like if my strategy doesn't work for you, bet, choose a different one and then learn from all of my psychology videos and learn from my risk management videos.

And if my risk management doesn't make sense to you, bet. Watch somebody else's video on it. You know, like all that I can say is the best teacher is going to be experience. So, and then on top of that, every strategy is for free online. So, like don't like again the pre-recorded [ __ ] isn't necessarily the best, okay? Like the [ __ ] that will really benefit you will be like active live asking questions. I'm going to lay out a bunch of tools for you and if they don't make sense and if they don't mean [ __ ] to you and if they just like you try it for literally months on end and you're like I'm not profitable and I'm actually using good risk management and I'm actually using good psychology and like you just see negative progress.

You see your win rate go down. You see your [ __ ] just go down. And I don't mean like in a week and I don't mean like in two weeks. I mean like over the course of a couple months. then you can just say like, "Bet, scrap that shit." Because experience is the best teacher. Okay? So, learn from these tools that I give you. I'm going to give you a [ __ ] ton of tools throughout this entire thing and then you guys are going to grab them and you guys are going to try them and choose the ones that work for you.

And the ones that don't, throw them away. Okay? Simple as that. All right? That's really all I wanted to make this video on. I wanted to make sure you guys like understand that my strategy isn't the end all be all. ICT strategy, even though he has like a billion, isn't the end all beall. Your favorite mentor's strategy isn't the end all beall, it's not going to be the thing that turns you profitable. You guys just have to use what works for you.

And then you guys have to get experience doing the [ __ ] that works for you. Because if it makes sense to you, like it makes sense why you're entering. That's the best thing. That's the biggest and best thing where if you guys fully understand why you're entering and you understand why price is moving and reacting the way that it is at that point in time of your entry and your exit and your take profit. Boom. Now just time.

That's all you need. Cool. That's going to be the title of this video. Time. Time is the secret little orb. Wow. Game changer quote. Time is really what's going to turn you profitable. It's like a Fushig commercial. Y'all remember that she? No way. Look what I literally have on my desk. This is what time is in trading. Fushigi, get time, get experience, use a strategy that makes sense to you. I'm going to lay out a bunch of building blocks and if they don't make sense to you and if they don't work, cool.

That's what this [ __ ] is here for, to turn everybody profitable. That's my goal. So, like, if my [ __ ] doesn't work for you, bet I'll be able to turn you profitable by taking you guys away from me and at least giving you guys the right headsp space and like understanding what you're supposed to do and then take it somewhere else for somebody strategy that works for them. Cool. Cool. So, now that you guys know how to properly think about day trading, now that we know that this isn't some get-rich quick scheme, and that this is a skill that you guys are going to have to build over a long period of time, and we understand that, we are now going to get into the fundamentals of trading.

So, if you guys are brand new to day trading and you guys don't even know what a candlestick is, what a time frame is, these next videos are going to be super useful for you guys to help actually start understanding the charts. So again, whenever you guys get on YouTube, you're seeing these crazy charts of price moving up and price moving down, and you're like, "What the [ __ ] does this even have to do with trading, and how do I even understand this?" That's what I'm going to be covering in these next videos.

So, if you guys are an absolute beginner, this is going to be super useful for you guys to understand the Japanese candlesticks, which I know sounds like weird, like, oh, we have a little candlestick and we're going No, that's Well, I mean, it's kind of like that. We have a little candlestick and we're going through the dark to be able to predict where price wants to go. Okay, but this is going to be the absolute base and fundamentals of how you guys are going to be able to analyze the charts moving forward.

And this is going to be literally the base of the pyramid that you guys are going to be establishing all of your day trading knowledge on. Okay? So we need to be able to understand the base fundamentals of the charts like candlesticks, like time frames, like highs, like lows, like uptrends, like downtrends, like consolidation, and things such as like break of structure. These things are going to be super beneficial for you guys to help build this foundation that again is not going to necessarily teach you guys how to day trade just off rip.

You guys aren't going to be at that point in time to where you're like, "Yes, I'm ready to predict with high probability where price wants to go off of this." No, but this is going to be our basic absolute fundamentals that we have to understand these things in order to be able to build off of this to get into strategy to get into certain confluences. So, with that being said, let's jump right into it. And I think I've done a good job of putting you guys heads in the right position so that you guys can be successful moving forward.

So for everybody that is a trader, we're talking about the anatomy of candlesticks. We're going to talk about just candles, where the open is, where the close is, the highs and the lows of candlesticks, and we're going to talk about highs and lows within the market. And then we're going to talk about trends. Pretty basic, pretty boring stuff. But without further ado, let's get started. So, if you guys come across a chart that looks like this, might as well understand what's on the chart first and foremost, right?

Honestly, we'll get into this first. On on Trading View, there's several different types of chart. There's um candle uh Japanese candlestick chart, which is usually what most people use. Um there's a line chart. Um and there's like hyenashi. There's all there's all these different types of charts. Um, the most normal one is a Japanese candlestick chart, which looks like this. And I have special little colors. If you guys want to see my colors, this is what they look like.

If you copy them, it will instantly make you profitable. You know what's crazy? When I first started trading, I would literally copy my mentors chart colors because I was like, "His chart looks so clean." like and I and I thought it would make me profitable. Um, far from the truth. So, I don't even know why I showed you guys that. But anyways, these little guys right here are called candles. You know why they're called candles?

Because they look like candles. If we put a little flame on it, boom, look, it's a candle. We have the the waxy part of the candle and then we have the candle wick. And believe it or not, these little tails to the downside and to the upside are called wicks because these are candles. Crazy. So, I'm going to explain the anatomy of these candles. We'll draw one right here. Boom. Look at that little guy. Look at that little candle.

And let's say this is a green candle. Oops. [Music] How do I How do I Here we go. This is a green candle. Okay. An up candle or in my case a blue candle. Don't ask me why. I just made it. No, don't ask me why I have my candles blue and black and just think it looks cool. Literally as simple as that. Okay. Wow. This is more so an art class than it is a trading class at this point. And we're going to turn all of these red.

[Music] And then we're going to color this guy in red. Boom. This one looks a lot better than the first Picasso one that we got. Okay, so we have an up candle and we have a down candle. With an up candle, a blue candle or a green candle for most of you guys, if you guys are fresh on Trading View, there's four things that these candlesticks tell us. Okay, with an up candle, this line right here, we call this or actually, wow, there's a lot to learn here.

We might just talk about candles today, not even highs and lows and trends. I think we'll save that for tomorrow. So, this solid filledin part of the candle is called the body. Okay, so if we scroll down here, right, everything that's blue and up, it's the body. Okay, everything that's green and up is the body. And the body tells us two things. It shows us where price opened and it showed us where price closed. So with a green candle, the start of the body, because we know green means up, the start is going to be down here.

And that is going to be where price opened. Okay. So in this candle's instance it's right here. This is where price opened and then it's along with that the body also tells us where price closed. So up here is where price closed. You know why? I I don't know why I said you know why. Um, but you know why I they probably made it where price closed because that's where the color stops and it's like boom ended there. Okay.

So this line right here is the candle close. Closure close. Boom. So boom. The candlestick has already told us two awesome things about price. These candlesticks tell us a lot about price, four things. And the body tells us two things. Where price opened, so the start of it, and where price closed, where the end of this closing area is. You know what else these candles show us? They show us the highest point that price went during that time period.

And we'll get to that. And it also shows us the lowest point that price went during that time period. And you know what? You know what those are? Those are seen through Wix. So this guy right here, just to make this look better. So this up here is the highest point that price went to. Hi. Hi guys. Hi. Boom. This is the high. So that means price went was able to push up here. And think of wicks like a snail trail or like a skid mark on your underwear.

You know something's been there before. Similar with price. Price opened right here, pushed all the way up to this point, and then came down and closed here. Okay? Ended that time time frame right here. You know what else these wicks show? It shows the low. So, same as the high. Oops. I don't know why I typed that. Okay. It shows us the lowest point that price went. So, price opened. Who knows which came first, the high or the low, but price opened.

We pushed down. Leave a little snail trail down to this low. That means price got all the way down here and then pushed all the way up here and then came all the way back down here and then closed here. So the highest point of this candle is right here and the lowest point of this candle is right here. And then it's the same thing for a down candle just the inverse of the open and the close. Because if price moved down then the open is right here, the close is right here.

The highest point of that candle is still right here and the lowest point of that candle is right here. So that means price opened the time frame right here. Maybe it pushed up first, left a little snail trail all the way up at this price and then pushed all the way down to this price at some point in time and then came right here and then closed. Pretty cool. Okay, now you're probably saying, "Well, how long do these candles last?" Well, that's what these cool things up here dictate.

So, if we scroll down to the candlestick chart, let's actually go on Bitcoin because Bitcoin is a 24-hour market. You can see right now we are in on the 1 hour chart. And you can see within here, right, price is moving. The the close is moving currently, right? Right now, we're in a green candle or a blue candle currently. Okay. And we're moving up and down. Notice how like up here was the high. And notice how it leaves that little wick, that snail trail, that history, that footprint of where price went.

It's to help us understand price. And if we look at the the candlestick before there, what happened to it? Where did price open? Okay, it opened right here. And within an hour's worth of time, price at one point during that hour came all the way down here to $47,992. And also within that hour, price came all the way up to $48,147. And then at the end of the hour, it closed at $48,125. So price opened right here on the hour and closed up here on the hour.

And we can see this current candlestick or actually we let's move back and talk about this one because this is a down candle. So boom. This was 1 hour the hour before this one. So what time is it right now? It's 6:17 my time. Okay. So at 6:00 p.m. this candle closed right here. And at 5:00 p.m. this candle opened right here. And at 400 p.m. this candle opened up here because it's a down candle, right? So this is where the candle opened.

Okay. Right at 4 p.m. price started here. Think of the open as like the starting point from the hour. And during that hour, price came all the way up to $48,377. And also during that hour, price came all the way down to $48, $7. And then at the end of the hour, it closed at $48,62. Okay? And I don't really want to confuse you guys anymore. The only thing we'll talk about some more is time frames. So, I was just saying that that was an hour's worth of time.

What happens if I click boom 1 minute or what happens if I hit boom the five minute time frame? Now, we're seeing the same chart, right? If we go back to the hourly time frame, we can see, oh, look, boom, big c like big candles, right? Representing a lot of price movement amongst hours of time. And then if we hit the five minute, we see that same price movement but in shorter clumps, right? But each candle represents five minutes of price action.

So now when we see boom, this huge leg up, we can see it in fiveminute candlesticks. And when we see this leg down, if we go to the hourly time frame, that to us just looks like one down candle, two, three, four, five, six, seven down candles in a row. Versus if we go on the five minute time frame, we'll see, oh, we can see price moving up, moving down, moving up, moving down, moving up, moving down, all the way down to here.

Still showing the same price action. still showing exactly where price went, but now we're able to show where price went just in smaller smaller periods of time. Okay, so if we look at this, this candlestick's about to close, right? We know it'll close because we can see the time right here. It's going to close in four 3 2 1 boom. We see that's where price is going to close. We're going to wait for the next c candle to open if it's going to happen.

Boom. The next candle opens and now is starting to create itself. So this fiveminute candle, what did it do? It opened right here because it's a down candle. The open is always going to be on the top and the close is always going to be on the bottom. And it's inverse for up candles. This candle opened at 48,169. And during that five minute period, price was able to get all the way up to $48,178. And also during that five minute time period, price was able to go down to $48,120.

And then by the time that five minute period came up, it ended right here at $48,147. And you're going to be trying to figure this out, saying, "TJR, let's take a trade. I'm going to shoot you. You're not even close to being ready yet. We just have to understand." Literally internal thoughts speaking in this one, bro. Um, we we have to understand this first because this is pretty hard to understand. I we're literally just going to keep forget highs and lows and trends.

I thought again, man, I'm jumping way too far ahead here, okay? We're just going to focus on candles. And if the one thing that you guys can take away is that whatever time frame you're on represents the amount of time that the candle has to close, okay? From the open till the close is the amount of time that that the candlesticks on that chart represent. And then if you're also able to identify the open, the close, the high, and the low within every single candle, then you're on a good track.

And I think I did a relatively good job of teaching you guys that today. Let's try and drill a little bit more out. We'll go to the 15-minute. Now, these candles represent 15 minutes worth of price action. So, if we go in here and we'll do two more and then I'll let you guys go for this little Super Bowl Sunday thing. Okay, if we look at this up candle right here, where did price open? It opened right here, right? Because it's the bottom of the shaded blue part, the bottom of the up candle.

Okay, it opened at And if you guys don't know where I'm getting the prices from, it's on the right hand side, right above me, right there. Okay, so we can see price opened at $48,422. At some point in d time time during those 15 minutes, price came all the way down here to $48,364. And also within that 15-minute period time, price came all the way up here to 48,470. And then at the end of that 15-minute time period, price closed right here.

Ready? Last one. This next candle, price opened right here at $48,446. [Music] And sometime during that 15-minute time period, price was able to push up to $48,481. And then also during that 15-minute time period, we had a tiny little wick, tiny little poke down, but for the most part, we just ended and closed that 15-minute time period right here at $48,374. And the the last thing I want to leave you guys with is the cool thing about this is you guys can see the the reason why these candlesticks are so awesome and so important and so beneficial to us is because we can see a month's worth of price action in candles.

We are able to see a week's worth of price action in candles. We're able to see every single day worth of price action in candles. And then within those days, we're able to see 4hour chunks of those days in candles. And within those four hours, we're able to see hour chunks within those 4hour chunks within those days. And within those hourly chunks, we're allowed to see 15 minutes, 15 minutes worth of price action. And within there, we're able to see five minutes worth of price action.

And within there, we're able to see one minute. every single minute worth of price action, whether price is going up just the tiniest bit or down just the tiniest bit to help us figure out where price is going. And I'm just going to leave that with you guys here. So you guys now understand two things. Candles and the anatomy of them. Open, close, high, low. Open, close, high, low. And time frames. One minute time frame shows how many minutes worth of price action?

Five minutes. Dumbass. No. One minute. The 15-minute time frame shows how many minutes worth of price action. What? 15 minutes. Yeah. Lesson one checked off. You guys are killing it. I'll see you guys tomorrow or whenever the next video comes. I get like horny making these cuz I love teaching people. All right. Peace out. All right. What's going on, guys? or as promised, we are going to add on to our candlestick anatomy and we are going to talk about highs, lows, and trends within the market.

We're going to start off with identifying highs and lows, and we're going to start off by drawing them out. And we'll do the same with trends, and then we'll go ahead into the actual candlestick chart so we can start outlining these uh market structures, okay, within the market to help us understand this, okay? And again, we're not trying to put anything together. um we're just learning anatomy of candlesticks and being able to identify some basic things that is necessary in order in order for us to be successful within the market.

So without further ado, let's talk about highs and lows. So highs and lows are a two can okay, I'm not even going to try and write that, but it's a two candlestick pattern. And I'm not a pattern trader, but what is a pattern or what creates a high is two candlesticks. And if you think about a high, what does it need? It needs a move up. And then what what else does it need for it to be considered a high? Because if it just keeps moving up, then there there's no high.

Okay? We need the high to be identified with a move up then a move down. So, it's as simple as green candlestick followed by a red candlestick and you take the highest point of those two candles. Now, what's the low? It's the inverse. A move down, then a move up, red candle, green candle, and you take the lowest point of those two candlesticks. Boom. You just learned how to identify highs and lows. Now, believe it or not, when I was teaching my mastermind this, this was one of the hardest things for them to consume, for them to digest because they just couldn't wrap their head around how easy and as simple as it could be.

Stop trying to over complicate things. Let's think back to our very beginning videos where I said, "Look, I'm going to make this as simple as possible to make you guys successful." That's all I want to do. Stop trying to get in and do all this crazy [ __ ] from somebody who's been trading the market for like 30 years and teaching you guys [ __ ] that takes 30 years of experience to understand when we can keep this [ __ ] simple and and get you guys off to the right foot.

I would love it if you guys just threw out everything that you've ever learned about trading and just restarted with this series. Okay, a high is a move up, then a move down. You take the highest point of those two candles. A low is a move down, then a move up. Red candle, green candle, green candle, red candle, lowest point and highest point of those two candlesticks. Cool. Let's go and identify it in the chart now.

Cool, cool, cool. Let's actually just go ahead and do this on I'll find a fresh chart. Where are the highs on this? Within here. Okay, I see four. Move up, then a move down. Bet. Highest point of those two candles. Move up, then I move down. Bet highest point of those two candles. Move up, then a move down. Bet highest point of those two candles. Move up, then I move down, bet, highest point of those two candles. Simple.

Now, let's find lows. I see two within this chart. Move down, then a move up. Lowest point of those two candles. Move down, then a move up. Lowest point of those two candles. And if we scroll all the way back down here, move down and a move up. Boom. lowest point of those two candles. We know how to identify highs and lows. We are awesome at this, guys. Good job. Clap it up. But wait, some people might get confused in my mastermind.

Somebody was asking, "Well, TJR. Well, look, this candle goes up and then this candle's up, but then there's a move down and and this was the highest point and this was the highest point right here. What is the next candle? It's up. So, I don't give a [ __ ] about that. What's a high? It's as simple as a move up and then a move down. I don't care how anybody else teaches it. You guys want to learn from me? Awesome. This is how I teach it and this is what works for me.

So, this is how I'm going to teach it. I'm not going to give you guys no [ __ ] I'm not going to Look, it's a move up then a move down. Don't get [ __ ] confused. This doesn't apply to me. This does. If this candle's wick went all the way down here, but it still followed with a a black candle, I don't give a [ __ ] I don't care at all. Ever. This is the low. Move down, then a move up, and you find the lowest point of those candles.

Move up, then a move down. Bet. You find the highest point of those two candles. Look in here. Move up, then a move down. You find the highest point of those two candles. Boom. Move up, then a move down. Find the highest point of those two candles. Move down, then a move up. You find the lowest point of those two candles. Simple enough. Don't try and do no. Whatever you're thinking right now, shut up. Shut up. Shut up, bro.

I don't want to hear it. Stop overthinking. Sh. Like, turn your brain off. Green then red. Green, red, high, red, green, low. Simple caveman, bro. That's all we need. Awesome. We know how to identify highs and lows. Now, let's talk about how we can identify trends. Uptrends and downtrends. That's how the market moves. The market moves in three different ways. Up, down, and sideways. Okay, we want to talk about how we can identify all three of the ways that the market moves.

An uptrend, which is why we have to learn highs and lows. First, consists of higher highs and higher lows. So, we see a high and then we see a low and then we see another high and then we see another low. And would you look at that? Oh, there. This high. This high. Oh, this high is higher than this one. And this low is higher than this one. Wow. It keeps going. Oh, higher high, higher low, higher high, higher low. And that's an uptrend.

You know why? Because it continues going up and it's trending. Oh, craziness. Isn't that insane? So crazy. Now, take a wild guess what a downtrend is going to look like. Lower highs and lower lows. Why does this looks so shitty? There we go. Lower highs and lower lows. There's a high right here. There's a low right here. There's a lower high right here. There's a lower low right here. There's a lower high like right here.

There's a lower low right here. Lower high right here. Lower low right here. Lower high right here. Boom. That's a downtrend. So, we covered up down. Now, let's cover sideways. What does market do when it moves sideways? Bing bong bing bong bing bong bing bong bing bong. Where there's no sense of direction. When we're literally moving sideways. We're not going up and we're not going down. We're going side to side and that's just called consolidation.

Okay? And these trends and these movements can be found on every single time frame. Right? If we go to the one minute, I'll be able to find uptrends and downtrends. If I go in consolidation, if I go to the five minute, I'll be able to find uptrends and downtrends. If I go to the 1 hour, I'll be able to find uptrends and downtrends. If I go to the weekly, I'll be able to find uptrends, downtrends, consolidation, all of that.

So, let's go ahead and do that right now. And this is when it's going to get scary. And my homework for you guys is to be able to identify, literally just get into the chart and just mark out high, low, high, low, high, low, higher, high, higher, low. be able to identify these highs and the lows and these trends and these market movements because if you're able to do that, we're one step closer. Another skill learned.

Okay, so let's go into the 4 hour right now. 4 hour time frame where each candle represents 4 hours worth of price movement. Let's not pay attention to what price was doing before this. I'll give you guys a cheat sheet. Price before this was in an uptrend. Okay. Why? Well, if we look at it, where was price going? It was going up. That's another really easy way to identify an uptrend versus we see what price is doing right now.

Where is price going? It's down going down. And if we want to scale in and see this, okay, what do we do? We start just identifying the highs and lows within the market. So, boom, this is a high. And boom, this is a low. Move down, then a move up. We take the lowest point of those two candles. Move up, then a move down. We take the highest point of those two candles. Then we look closer. Move down, then a move up. Wow, this low is lower than this one.

Move up, then a move down. Wow, this high is lower than this one. Lower hose. Lower lows. Lower lows and lower highs. We're starting a downtrend on the 4 hour time frame. Now, if we get in here and look, unfortunately, the past couple weeks, super sloppy price action. Let's actually zoom out a bit. It'll be easier for us. Okay, let's just start. Let's ignore this. Let's just start right here because I don't want you guys to get confused.

An uptrend move up, then a move down. Boom. High. Move down, then a move up. Boom. Low. Move up, then a move down. Boom. High. Move down, then a move up. Boom. Low, move up, then a move down. Even this classifies as a high. If the candle is so minuscule that it looks like this, where you can't even identify the color within it, just ignore it. I don't even want to see it. Move up, then it move down like this. You can see the color.

I'm talking about when the candle was literally flat. There was no gain and there was no loss. Like, it opened and closed at pretty much the same exact price. Okay, so we see a move up, then it move down. higher high. We see a move down, then a move up. Boom. Higher low. We see a move up, then we see a move down. Boom. Higher high. Let's ignore what price is doing right now. So, we just identified an uptrend. Let's scale down into the 15minute.

And now you'll start to see, okay, wow, there's a lot there's smaller trends within these bigger trends. And again, I don't want you guys get to get overwhelmed by this. I don't want you guys to even look into it. I don't even want you guys to get confused by it. Let's just focus on identifying trends. Okay, we have a move up, then a move down. We take the highest point right there. We have a move down, then a move up.

We take the lowest point right there. We have a move up, then a move down. We have the highest point right there. Lower high. We see price move down lower. We see a move down, then a move up. Boom. Lower low. We see a move up, then we see a move down. Boom. Lower high. We see a dogey candle we don't give a [ __ ] about. Boom. We see a move down. Then we see a move up. Lower low. We see a move up then a move down. Boom.

Lower high. This was a downtrend. I don't want to get confused with, you know, when these trends break or when that we'll get into that later. We'll talk about breakout structure later. We'll talk about structure and all of that later. But right now, we just want to be able to identify these trends. You guys are going to start seeing trends within trends where on the 15minute you see a break of structure. Ah wow we're getting way too far ahead.

Hands off. That's it for today. That's all I want. Just for you guys to be able to identify these trends, higher highs and higher lows to be able to identify highs and lows. I need to remember you guys are just starting out which is what I'm here for. We'll keep today nice and short, nice and simple. Highs, lows, uptrends, downtrends. In consolidation, what is it? we don't necessarily have much of a direction, you know, it's just kind of going sideways.

And the easiest way to see an uptrend or a downtrend, look at where it's going. If it's going up or down on every single time frame, is it moving up or is it moving down or is it moving sideways? So, boom. You guys just figured out how to identify trends. And you just guys you guys just figured out how to identify highs and lows. Awesome. Drill it as many times as possible and then we'll circle back for tomorrow. Okay.

Focus. So today we are just going to be talking about breaker structure. Okay. And we are going to be applying everything that we learned from highs, lows, and trends. Wait, highs, lows, trends. So we're going to cover break of structure today. And I'm not going to tell you guys how to use it as a confluence. I'm not going to tell you guys I'm not going to tell you guys [ __ ] I'm just going to explain it to you guys.

And you guys are just going to have to live with that and understand that we're not here to learn strategy yet. Almost eventually, just not yet. Okay, so without further ado, let's jump right into this bit. The S&P 500, we're not looking at that [ __ ] today. We're going to be using our favorite tool, the brush. Okay, so let's get started and quickly recap what we need to know in order to in order to identify a break of structure.

What's a high? Up, down. Candle move up and a candle move down. What's a low? Down, up, move down, then a move up. We take the lowest point of the move down and the move up. That's the low. We take the highest point of the move up and then the move down. That's the high. Cool. Quickly identify it within the chart. Move down, then a move up. Lowest point of those two candles. Boom. Move up, then a move down. Highest point of those two candles.

Boom. Low. High. Do we give a [ __ ] about two consecutive blue candles or green candles in your guys' case? No. Do we give a [ __ ] about two consecutive black candles or red candles in your guy's case? No, we do not. Okay. So, if this candle's wick was lower than this one, we do not give a [ __ ] because this is move down then a move up. This would be the low. Cool. Cool. Now that we did a little recap of highs and lows, let's get into breaking structure.

So, we know that trends move in higher highs and higher lows and lower highs. Wow, that was horrible. This was good. This was a good uptrend. Let's start with the down. Damn. Come on, man. You would think that I've done this so many times. There we go. That's good enough. kind of a steep ass downtrend if you guys ask me. And I can't hit the highs when I hit the lows perfectly. Wow, aim is off. But anyways, we noted that an uptrend moves in higher highs and higher lows.

And a downtrend moves in lower highs and lower lows. Okay. So, if we're in an uptrend, boink boink, what happens when price does this? Boom. Boom. And we end up making boom a lower low. Boom. And then a lower high after an uptrend. Break of structure. And we're typically able to spot this even before the lower low and the lower high gets put in because within an uptrend, if we see a low get closed underneath, that's a break of structure.

And the same thing in a downtrend when we see a high closed above breakup structure. Okay? And you're probably thinking closed. What does that mean? It means the candle literally closes underneath that lowest point. So when we're in an uptrend, we're ident we're looking for lows for breaks of breaks of structure. When