How I Would Learn Day Trading FAST (If I Could Start Over) transcript

This is the only day trading course I'd hand my younger self. It requires three pillars and one mechanical trigger and none of it involves predicting price. It comes down to this exact reaction right here. First, you'll learn to read what the market is actually doing, then where the real money enters, and finally the exact two candle trigger that tells you when. This is how you start day trading the right way. Think of price like a staircase.

In an uptrend, each step sits higher than the last. Buyers are climbing. As long as the steps hold, the trend is alive. But when price breaks through the most recent step, the one holding everything together, the staircase collapses. That's a market structure shift. One step breaks, trends over, price leaves footprints. Every chart is just a series of peaks and valleys. And those peaks and valleys follow a pattern. When each valley sits higher than the one before it, and each peak pushes past the previous one, price is climbing a staircase.

That's bullish structure. As long as the staircase holds, buyers are in control. Bearish structure is the same staircase flipped upside down. But most traders treat every wiggle like it matters. Watch this chart. See these tiny dips in the middle. Noise. Now look at this low. Price slammed into it, reversed hard, and launched the next leg up. That's a protected swing. The foundation holding the entire staircase together.

If this level holds, trend alive. If price breaks through it, the staircase collapses. Everything above it was built on a floor that no longer exists. This is the trade right here. I thought it was a pullback. Price dipped. I added to my position and then it kept dropping. Blew straight through the level I thought would hold. Here's what I missed. A pullback dips toward the floor, but holds. A market structure shift.

The floor breaks. Price doesn't just dip toward the protected swing. The candle body closes beyond it. Buyers tried to hold. They failed. The staircase crumbles. Pay attention to this. The candle body has to close beyond the level. Not the wick poking through and snapping back. This one filter would have saved me from half the fake outs I've ever taken. Works the same in both directions. Now, here's the thing. A confirm shift tells you direction flipped.

It does not tell you to enter. And what happens next is the difference between catching the move and getting trapped by a fake one. Three rules filter the fakes from the real shifts. If any one of them fails, I skip the trade. No exceptions. Watch this chart with me. Price just broke below this swing low. Most traders see that break and they're already clicking sell. But look at the candle, see that long wick shooting down.

The wick stepped way past the level, but the body barely closed below it. That wick grabbed the stop- losses sitting underneath and snapped right back. That's not a real break. That's a trap. And check which swing it broke. See this low way down here? That's the protected swing. the floor holding this entire uptrend. But the candle didn't break that one. It broke this smaller low up here, floating in the middle of the range.

A minor swing noise. I skip this and watch what happens. Everyone who entered that break got destroyed now. Same market. Two weeks later, price drops and this candle appears. full body driving clean through the level. No long wicks whipping around. This candle punched through and stayed below. And look where it broke. Not some random bump in the middle. The actual protected low. The foundation just crumbled. I take this trait.

The candle showed me conviction. The body closed clean and it broke the swing that actually mattered. All three line up. Clean body, strong candle, protected swing broken. Anyone fails, I move on. Now, seeing the shift and entering at the right price are two completely different things. And this is where the trade either pays you or punishes you. So, the shift is confirmed. Three filters passed. And this is the exact moment where I used to lose money.

Watch what most traders do. breakout candle closes. They enter right here at the break. Then price does what it almost always does after a hard move. It pulls back, runs straight through their entry, stops them out, and then look, it launches in the direction they were right about. Right direction, terrible price. I did this to a lot. Here's what I do now. After the shift, price almost always pulls back toward the level it just broke.

That level used to be support, now it's resistance. Or it used to be resistance, now it's support. The roll flipped. Watch. Price retraces back to the flip zone, touches it, and look at this candle. Hard rejection. Buyers stepped in right at the level that used to keep them out. That rejection is my entry. Stop goes just below the flip zone. Tiny risk target at the next structure high. Same shift as the guy who chased the breakout, but I got a better price, a tighter stop and 3:1 reward instead of one one.

Now, here's the precision version. Same idea, but a sharper entry. See this breakout candle that caused the shift? Now look at what came right before it. These candles opposite color sellers were pushing price down right here and then the breakout exploded through them. That zone, those last bearish candles before the bullish explosion. That's where big money loaded their positions. This is an order block or a demand zone.

When price pulls back, it doesn't just retrace to the broken level. Sometimes it drops deeper right into the demand zone. And when it touches the top of those candles and rejects, that's my entry. Stop just beyond the bottom of the zone. I'm entering at the exact price where the big players committed. So, two ways to time it. The flip zone entry is simpler. Wait for price to test the broken level and reject. The order block entry is more precise.

Price retraces deeper into those last candles before the break. Both give you better entries than chasing. Both keep your stop tight and your reward white. Pick the one that matches what price gives you. Okay, you've got the structure, the shift, and the entry. But every one of those trades I just showed you would have lost if I'd ignored one thing. You see a bearish shift on the 5-minute chart. Textbook setup, clean break, strong candles.

Every filter passes, so you sell and it reverses straight through your stop. The 1 hour is trending up the entire time. You're selling into a freight train and you don't even know it's there. A shift on the five minute means nothing if the one hour is pushing the other direction. The higher time frame sets the direction. The lower time frame is just where you find your entry. If they conflict, there is no trade. Before any trade, I check the daily or 4hour.

One question, bullish or bearish? If the higher time frame is bullish, I only take bullish shifts on the lower time frame, bearish higher time frame, only bearish shifts below. Anything else is fighting the flow. But here's where the best trades hide when the higher time frame is in a pullback. Several candles pulling back against the main trend and the lower time frame gives you a shift back toward the bigger direction.

That's the setup I wait for. Higher time frame gives you the wind at your back. Lower time frame gives you the trigger. When they line up, the odds aren't just good. They're stacked. So, structure tells you which way the staircase points. The shift tells you when it breaks. The filters tell you if the break is real. The entry puts you in at the right price. And the higher time frame makes sure you are not fighting the current.

Here's everything working together. Daily chart, clear downtrend, lower highs, lower lows, staircase pointing down. But look at the last several candles. Green price pushing back up against the main direction. Most traders see these green candles and think the bottoms in. They start buying. But check the structure. Has the protected swing broken? No. The staircase is still intact. This is just a pullback. And pullbacks on the higher time frame are exactly where I start hunting.

I dropped to the 1 hour down here. That daily pullback created its own bullish structure. Higher highs, higher lows. On this time frame, I find the protected swing, the most recent low keeping this hourly uptrend alive. And I wait. There it is. Strong bearish candle punches through that swing low and closes below it. Fullbodied, minimal wicks, protected swing broken. All three filters confirm the shift. The 1 hour just shifted bearish right back in line with the daily trend.

Higher time frame says down. Lower time frame just confirmed. Everything pointing the same direction. When price retraces back toward the broken level, that swing low that was support is now my flip zone. I go short right here. Stop above the flip zone. Target at the next structure low on the daily. Everything aligned. Now structure tells you the trend is changing, but it does not tell you where the new trend will launch from.

You need to know the exact price level where big market players left their orders behind. You need to see the imbalance between supply and demand. See this zone. Price dropped into it and reversed hard. 4 hours later it was up over 50 pips. Now look at this one. Same idea. Same type of zone. Price hit it and blew right through. Every trader who bought that level got destroyed. Both look like support. Only one of them is real.

The difference is supply and demand. And there's one visual detail that tells you which is which before you risk a dollar. Let me show you exactly how I found that zone that paid 50 pips. I'm on the 1 hour Euro dollar. I see this rally here. Big candles, fast move, no hesitation. That explosive departure tells me something happened. So I trace back to where it started. This zone right here. Price spent two candles in this area then launched.

That's my signal. I mark the box and later price returns to my zone. Now I drop to the 5-minut chart. Structures breaking down. Lower high. Lower high. Sellers in control. Then this swing high breaks. Buyers just took over and I enter. Stop goes below the zone. Target is this structure level. Watch what happens. A 90 pips winner. That's supply and demand. It's where one side overwhelmed the other and left evidence on your chart.

And that evidence keeps working over and over. You've drawn levels before. You've marked every bounce. Your chart looks like a spiderweb and you're still getting stopped out. Here's what I see when I look at the same chart. Instead of marking every bounce, I'm marking the zones where an imbalance was so extreme that price couldn't stay in the area. Those are the only levels institutions can't hide. And the chart shows you exactly where they are.

Pay attention to this next part because the difference between a zone that holds and a zone that gets obliterated comes down to one thing. How fast price left. Watch this move. Price shoots up. Big candles, momentum, no hesitation. That explosive departure tells me there was a serious imbalance. Buyers stepped in with force. Now I trace back to where that move started. See this area right before the explosion? That's my zone.

That's where the orders were sitting. I draw a box around it, just marking the origin. The last opposite colored candle before the big move. Here's the detail that changes everything. How long price stayed in this zone before exploding. Not long. One or two candles. That's what you want. Quick departure means the imbalance was extreme. Buyers overwhelmed sellers so fast that price couldn't hang around. There was no battle.

One side dominated. Now look at this one. Price chops around for 20 candles. Wicks everywhere. Overlap everywhere. That's a dead zone. Orders are getting absorbed. Buyers and sellers reaching equilibrium. Here's a trade I took on a fast departure zone. Price spent three candles here, launched, came back, I entered 60 pips profit. That's the power of a clean departure. This one, slow, choppy. I skipped completely. 2 days later, it failed.

Price walked straight through. The character of the departure tells you everything about the zone's strength. But even a perfect zone with a fast departure can destroy you if you pick the wrong type. And there's one type I avoid almost completely. Watch this. Price rallies, pauses here, then rallies again. That base in the middle is your demand zone. Rally base rally. This is a continuation zone. You're trading with the move.

Now here price drops hard, forms a base, launches into a rally. That base is a reversal zone. You're betting the trend changes direction. I trade continuation zones almost exclusively. Cleaner, higher probability you're not fighting momentum. Reversal zones can work, but they fail far more often and I skip them. Now you know how to spot zones and which type to trade, but if you trade all of them, you'll lose money. What separates profitable traders is knowing which zones to skip, and there are three filters that do that.

So, you found a zone with a fast departure. Here's what I check before I risk a dollar. I'm looking at this demand zone. Price bounced. Did it push through a previous high or just hover? Watch this one. Price bounces and smashes through the high. That break took real force. Institutional money was behind that. I marked the zone. 2 days later, price came back. I entered. Now this zone price bounced but went nowhere. Didn't break a thing.

I ignored it completely. 3 days later blown through. If the zone didn't break structure when it formed, it's not on my radar. Now, how many times has this zone been tested? See this one? Price tested it once. That's when I want it. Maximum orders still sitting there. I took this trade on the first return. This zone got hit three times. I see traders calling this strong support because it held twice. That's the exact opposite of strong.

Every test absorbs orders by touch three. You're trading a ghost. Watch what happened. I only trade first touch. The zone is fresh or I'm not interested. One more thing I'm checking. What's sitting in front of this zone? See that swing low? Retail traders who bought higher have their stops just below it. That's liquidity. Institutions need those stop-loss orders to fill their positions against. Watch what happens. Price drops through the swing low, grabs every stop, then immediately reverses out of my demand zone. 60 pips in 4 hours.

They hunted the liquidity, then traded from the zone behind it. No swing low, no liquidity pool, no reason for big money to use that level. I skip it. Even if everything else looks perfect. Break something when it formed. First time it's been tested. Liquidity sitting in front. Those three checks tell me if the zone is real or if I'm about to donate money to someone smarter than me. What used to look like random support levels now looks like institutional order flow.

You're seeing where real money is stacked, not where price happened to bounce. But I learned the hard way that even a perfect zone can destroy you if you ignore one thing. I found a demand zone right here past every filter. Break of structure fresh liquidity sitting below textbook setup. I bought price gave me a small bounce then rolled over and destroyed the zone completely. Took my full stop. $600 gone in two hours.

The zone wasn't the problem. Direction was that zone was sitting inside a hard downtrend on the 4hour chart. I was buying into a freight train of selling pressure. The zone was real. The imbalance was real, but it wasn't strong enough to reverse the entire trend above it. Always check the bigger picture first. If you're buying a demand zone, you want the higher time frame pointing up. going against the trend requires everything to line up perfectly and even then the next with trend setup is cleaner.

So breakoff structure tells you institutional money was there. First touch tells you the orders are still live. Liquidity tells you they'll actually use the level and direction tells you whether you're fighting a war you can't win. Now the only question is how you get in. And this is where most supply and demand traders leave money on the table. The obvious play is a limit order at the zone. Price returns, hits your order, you're in.

Best possible entry price, maximum reward potential. But if the zone fails, you're underwater instantly. No warning, no confirmation. You trusted the zone completely and the zone didn't hold. So, you think, "Fine, I'll wait for confirmation. I'll watch for a rejection signal, a strong wick, or an engulfing candle, something that shows the zone is holding before I commit." That fixes the confirmation problem, but now you've got a worse entry price because you waited and your reward to risk just got cut in half.

Both of these force you to choose between a good entry and a confirmed entry. Here's how you get both. I'm on the 4hour of pound dollar. This is my demand zone past all three filters with the trend. Price drops into it, but I don't enter yet. I drop to the 15-minut chart. On the lower time frame, price looks bearish. Lower high, lower low. Sellers in control. If I didn't know the zone was there, I'd think this is going lower.

But then this swing high breaks. That's my entry signal. Buyers just took control on the 15minut inside a 4hour demand zone. I enter here. Stop below the zone. Target is the next 4hour structure level over 3:1 reward to risk. Watch what happens. Target hit the next day. So, higher time frame zone, lower time frame shift, minimum 2:1 reward to risk, or I don't take the trade. That means I can be wrong half the time and still grow the account because I'm positioned at the extreme of the move, not chasing in the middle.

But even perfect zones fail. And if you don't know how to handle that, this strategy falls apart. This zone passed every filter with the trend and price drove straight through it. That's not a loss. That's information. The imbalance shifted. Something bigger is happening. Don't revenge trade. Take the loss and look at what just happened. Because that violent break just created a new zone. See it. The move that destroyed your zone left its own origin behind.

That's a fresh supply zone. And the traders who got trapped at the old demand level are now providing liquidity for the next move down. Here's a trade where I got stopped out of a demand zone, then flipped short on the new supply zone it created. Took a 20 pip loss, made 40 pips on the reversal. Now you have the trend and you have the zone. But entering blindly just because price touches your box is how you catch a falling knife.

You need a mechanical trigger that proves the big players are actually stepping in to defend that level. You need to see momentum shift back in your direction before you risk a dollar. And to see that shift, you only need to look at two candles. Watch this. Price spikes above these highs. Every breakout trader just bought. Now watch where it closes back below the highs. That's candle one, the trap. Now watch candle two.

It doesn't just pull back. It breaks this swing low right here. That's price closing below a level that was holding. Sellers just proved they're in control. Two candles, trap set and trap confirmed. Now watch where I enter. Price pulls back into this zone and I enter here. Stop above the wick target at the next low. Candle one sweeps the liquidity. Candle two shifts the structure and you enter in the discount zone. Look at these highs.

See how they're almost equal. Every retail trader sees this as a ceiling. A level price can't get above. So they're watching this level and right above it. That's where their stops are sitting. All clustered together. That cluster of stops is money waiting to be taken. When those stops trigger, traders have to buy back or sell out. That creates liquidity. And smart money knows exactly where that liquidity is sitting.

Now watch this candle form. Price pushes above the highs. Breakout traders see momentum. They buy because it looks bullish. But look where it closes back inside the range below the highs. It just broke. That's not a breakout. That's a sweep. That's what the sweep does. It creates trapped traders. And those trapped traders become fuel for the move in the opposite direction. Here's what you mark. The wick extreme, the very top of that spike.

That's your sweep level. When you take the trade later, your stop goes above this level. If price gets back above the sweep, the setup is invalid. But here's the thing. A sweep alone isn't a trade. I've seen hundreds of sweeps that keep running higher. The breakout looks fake. Then it becomes real. If you short every sweep, you'll get chopped up. You need confirmation. You need to see the market actually shift. That's candle two.

The next candle confirms the setup. After the sweep, I am watching for one thing. Break of structure. Look at this chart. The sweep just happened. Price wicked above the highs and closed back inside. Now I need to see price break a recent swing low. Watch this candle. See what it does. It closes below this swing low right here. That's not a wick. That's a full body close below structure. That's what I call a BOS, breakoff structure.

The market just proved sellers are in control. Here's why this matters. The sweep traps buyers, they're holding long positions, hoping for a bounce. The BOS tells you the bounce isn't coming. Sellers just proved they can push price below a level that was holding. The trapped buyers are about to panic. Watch the sequence. Candle one sweeps above the highs and closes back inside. Candle two breaks below the recent swing low.

Two candles trap and confirm. That's your setup. Now I mark the BOS level. That swing low that got broken. I draw a line there. Price needs to retrace back to this area for my entry. But first, let me show you when this doesn't work. Look at this chart. Same setup starting. Price sweeps above equal highs. Looks like a trap. I'm waiting for candle two to break structure. Watch what happens. The next candle is green. And the next one, price never breaks the swing low.

It just keeps grinding higher. If I had shorted after the sweep, I'd be destroyed right now. No BOS, no trade. That's the rule. The sweep is the setup. The BOS is the confirmation. Without both, you're gambling. The sweep alone means nothing. The Bos is what makes it real. But where you enter, that's what separates chasers from snipers. After the Bos, most traders make the same mistake. They chase. They see the break of structure.

They see the momentum. They market order in immediately. Then price retraces past their entry. Now they're losing despite having a good idea. Don't be that trader. Let price come to you. After the BOS, price almost always retraces. It pulls back into the move. That's where you enter. Look at this chart. Sweep happened here. BOS happened here. Now, watch what price does. It pulls back up into the area between the sweep and the BOS.

This is the discount zone. Here's how I mark it. I take a GAN box or a Fibonacci tool. I click on the high of the candle that swept liquidity, the top of the wick, and drag it down to the low of the candle that broke the structure. Now, look at these levels. The 0.5 level, that's the halfway point. The 0.75 level, that's 3/4 of the way back. The zone between these two levels is where I enter. Why this zone? Below 0.5 means price hasn't pulled back enough.

You are still chasing. Above 0.75 means price has retraced almost the entire move. the setup might be failing. Between 0.5 and 0.75 is the sweet spot. That's where institutions add to their positions. Now watch this setup. Liquidity sweep here. Break of structure here. Where do most traders enter? Right here at the BOS. They see the break and they jump in. Watch what happens. price retraces past their entry. Their stop gets clipped on the pullback.

But you you enter here in the discount zone, lower price, better riskto-reward. Your stop doesn't get touched because you gave the trade room to breathe. Same direction. One wins, one loses. The difference is patience. So stop goes below the sweep wick. If price gets below that level, the whole premise is broken. You're wrong and you get out with a small loss. Target is the next liquidity pool. This swing high right here, that's where stops are sitting.

That's where price wants to go. That's your target. Or if you want to keep it simple, just use a 2our profit target. And now you're not chasing anymore. You're waiting like smart money waits. But this setup doesn't work every time. Let me show you when to stay out because knowing when not to trade is what keeps your account alive. Now, this strategy works, but not every time. Here's what kills it. First week break of structure candles.

Look at this setup. Sweep looks clean. B confirms. I draw my fib and wait for the retrace and enter in the zone. Watch what happens. Price blows through the sweep level and my stop gets hit. Now look at the BOS candle. Small body and long wick. That's hesitation. Compare it to this break of structure candle from a winning trade. Strong body closes near the low. No hesitation. Strong setups have strong BOS candles. If the confirmation looks weak and uncertain, the reversal might be weak and uncertain.

I'm more selective with those. Second, higher time frame conflict. Listen, I trade it on the hourly chart. That's my preference. But look at the daily chart here. Strong uptrend, higher highs, higher lows. Price is climbing. Now we go back at the 1 hour chart. Sweep above the highs. Boss to the downside. Looks like a short setup. I take it and I get stopped out because I was fighting the daily trend. My little one hour short trade was going against the bigger trend.

Before you take any setup, check the bigger picture. If the daily is making higher highs and higher lows, that's bullish structure. Don't short against it. Trade with structure, not against it. So, sweep, shift, and enter. You see it clearly. Candle one sweeps liquidity, creates the trap. Candle two breaks structure, confirms the reversal. You enter in the discount zone with your stop above the sweep. The other traders who chase breakouts will keep getting trapped, but you're not chasing anymore.

You see the trap, you wait for confirmation, and you enter where smart money enters. Now, what if you could spot where the liquidity sweep is going to happen before it forms? What if you could predict the trap before it's set? That's what I break down in this video right here. And if you're ready to fit this into a full A toz trading system, that's what our academy is