THE EASIEST GOLD STRATEGY FOR FOREX TRADERS BEGINNERS

70-80% of retail traders lose Furthermore, if you go to Wall Street, people still lose trades. those are people who have gone to school, invested a lot of money, and still lose trades, so who am I to never lose? That was my mindset: at some point I will lose and have to make peace with it with risk management, obviously, when you begin You're looking to make the most money first, there's a podcast I was watching. The Mind of a Trader podcast, where we outthink the market. If you're in a Trade right now, but take a pause if you haven't analyzed the markets—don't move. This might be what you need. This is the mind. of a trader podcast where we cut through the noise Focus on execution and break down the mindset behind it. Every move, this is where discipline meets strategy. I am your host, presenter. Ali and this is where real traders sharpen their edge welcome to the first episode of season three of The Mind of a Trader podcast I've missed you guys so much—I've got your messages, I've got your DMs, I've Seen the comments you guys said that the mind of a trader The podcast should be back and officially in July, we are back and today We're joined by none other than Louis, aka Stereo. When you get into the social media platforms just search s t e r o and you'll find This amazing guy, welcome to the Mind of a Trader podcast. How are you doing? Thank you very much, Ali. I'm very good. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to interact with everyone, and it's just a happy space to be here, yeah. Nice to finally meet you, and first of all, I'm very interested to know because your journey dates back two years and I've seen many people who've been in the game for like four or five years seven years and they're still saying like I'm not I'm still not able to consistently become profitable. What is it that you did that many people probably aren't doing? for me the best part and the saving grace, quoted in full, was the fact that I got to interact with experienced traders. My friends had been trading for some time already. I met new friends who had kind hearts and mentored me. And I learned from them, so the best part of it all was that I was with other traders. who were more established, wow, so the community you built while Starting is very important; exactly, it's good for your foundation. Now let's go back. When was the first time you even heard? about you know forex trading or trading in general and how did you even end up deciding that this is the I want to pursue a career in trading, so the first time I heard about trading was when form two in high school, and that was a few years ago So one of my friends used to tell me to remember getting money in high school. You used to have a canteen, so this guy always had money for the Canteen. I was like, "Hey, how do you get your money?" He was like, "I do this and this, so I trade," so I went to school, uh, after a few terms. I had saved some pocket money from three; I was like, okay, I'm Interested in learning this trading now, it was form three third term during the holidays since we're about to enter form four, yeah So I go and search up trading, and I'm like, hey, people make money from it. This thing—it's a lot of money. I saved my pocket money, I entered, I got an ad on YouTube, you know, when you like search for things on YouTube, the ads will be relevant to what you're searching for, so I got an ad for, I think, IQ Optional pocket option—none of those I didn’t have an ID, so I registered quickly. I was so eager because I was thinking, this is abstract gold, yeah, so I deposited around ten dollars twenty in a second, so that was pocket money that I've saved all this time It went in a second and I was like, okay, but this thing has money. Yeah, I borrowed my friend a thousand shillings. I deposited nothing, so the third time I deposited I tried to withdraw; I made three dollars. I tried to draw the three because I'm You don't have an ID, you can't withdraw. I was like, okay. If I can't withdraw now, let me wait for my brother to come from work. I'm using his ID so I can withdraw for now; let me try to grow this. Money, I lost everything, so I lost my initial investment. capital plus the money I borrowed, so going back to school for Form Four I had a debt and I was low on cash, so that was the Wow, interesting. What kept you going, like you've lost money? Uh, you know, that was like options trading. and you're still, you know, interested in this thing What interested me was that, now that I had finished Form Four I did a lot of side businesses; I sold boots. Sportswear—I used to play football a lot, so I'd sell boots. I'd sell them. shoes, just a wide variety of things, so but the profit was never enough, I'd go buy a jersey, sell it—the profit I'd make would be like A hundred bucks, so I'd go to a store and take pictures of the jersey. Market it and get five clients a week—that's 500 shillings. but right now I'm in town and all that so with that I decided I needed something that could bring me money in the long term at 18 there's not much you can do you don't have the skills in the traditional ladder you don't have the skills you don't have the experience to do something so the networks and everything exactly as I looked up online, I saw trading Now from a newer perspective after a few months I saw one of my friends, a guy who was in high school, posting stories. About trading, I was like, okay, I tried this thing. And I didn't work it out, so let me just wait and see. but I see the way they're doing it is different from what I tried, so I'm saying Since brokers were mentioned, I was like, okay, maybe this is different. Then at some point I saw a good friend of mine; he was a really big joker. I was like, "Hey, this guy made $5K in a day," I was like, "Wow." Five fifty dollars, yeah, it was around that time, it was 35 Oh okay, about five, because this guy can make 5K in a day. and I'm smarter than this guy, you know, I was, I was a school captain, so ideally Expectations are high; I was like, this guy can do it. I can definitely do it, so I contacted my friend. asked how to start this thing, and as I've said earlier, I have I had the privilege of meeting people who are willing to help. So I joined a group when the community started, and began learning from there. met more friends and I was like, "Yo, you guys have been doing forex all this time?" You're not telling, never tell anyone, yes, so like, yeah, that was good. landing point, and that's how I managed to get back to the market that was around mid-April 2024 towards early May wow interesting beginners usually have difficulty with many things psychology Escaping from one strategy to another, you know, revenge trading—what is it? the main thing you struggled with, the main thing I struggled with, in At the beginning I didn't have enough knowledge, but the People around me also didn't have the same knowledge, but we pumped ourselves up. That was the first thing you thought, you know, that was my first mistake. So I lost a lot, thinking I knew, because you can guess. Markets are very funny—you can guess and still make money. but not forever, yeah, so the first mistake I thought I was thinking that in a real sense, I didn't know anything. The market, I was just a newbie. After that, the next mistake came—I was impatient with the process in the sense that I was too greedy five dollars I've seen someone's story making hundreds I'm making five dollars, so to some point I made a list, I was like, I make five dollars a day I stop because that's actually if you look Very few people earn that amount of money. especially at a young age, sure, so after some time That was what hindered me the most, because I look at person X. I'm making five dollars, yes, now I've started gaining knowledge, but I'm Person X, making five dollars, has nearly zero knowledge. They're making a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars, and I'm like That's not fair, so when I enter my trade, I'm like, I must Get that hundred dollars too—that was the second biggest thing. That's the aspect of greed, as well as not focusing on a single journey. They say that comparison is the root of all joy, so that's the first mistake one makes. Yeah, how would you describe your psychology? has evolved since you started, up until now My psychology has improved; the sun sets. When I began, I didn't know anything; I could say I'm losing because I don't know when I knew things I was winning but you'd find that I was still blowing accounts So there was a problem there; it wasn't the scale gap—the scale was there. but in the trading market, we are predicting the markets We are not the ones setting the markets, so you have to be comfortable with the aspect of losing so My psychology improved from the sense that I am not predicting the market. This is something I'm not sorry I'm not controlling the market I'm predicting that this is something I will lose at some point and it's something I have to come to terms with So right now I know that I have a strategy, but I'm comfortable with it. The market is always testing you in different ways; there are times when you would get into, let's say, a good winning winning streak, and then you'd feel like I'm good Now my psychology is good, and then something something happens in the market, maybe a Trump tweet, or maybe Iran decides to wake up and you know the bomb. Israel, and it seems like you're being reset. every single time you thought that, like, your psychology was, you know You're really good, you know? I've already figured it out. You know how I play this game—I'm good. I don't know if you've been through something like this. Yeah, I went through that when I started picking up the scale. I went on a really good winning streak—I think for 10 weeks straight. Then after that, Trump came into office, okay. we sat loss by loss, one loss, second loss Third loss, and you're like, what's going on? I thought I was okay, I I thought I was a guru, I mean, for the first 10 weeks I've been killing the markets, but you come to learn that you make peace with the aspect of losing in mind, remember as you sign up to trade there is Risk warning: around 70 to 80 percent of retail traders lose Furthermore, if you go to Wall Street, people still lose trades. those are people who have gone to school and wasted a lot of money, yet they still lose trades, so who am I to never lose? That was my mindset: at some point I will lose, and I'll have to come to terms with that Let's talk about risk management over the past two years you've been In the game, how has your risk management evolved? because I know that most people when they start out are always You know, risking everything in a single trade and then the market humbles you and you're like, you don't even want to Tell us about that, exactly what you know about the trade. with risk management, of course, when you begin You're looking to make the most money at first, there's a podcast I was watching. once and they said trade like a rich not in what sense is someone poor when they need money You're no longer thinking logically; you're thinking I need this money now. I must get it now—the markets don't work like that. The markets require patience; they move at their own pace, not at ours. so with that I had to learn risk management in the sense that At the end of the day, this thing requires patience—first, you accept losing. A first option for risk management is to give up the right. Yeah, if I'm winning, I can't do 120 RR trades every single day. so I also have to consider what I'm losing vis-à-vis what I'm winning at the end of the day, the losses have to be less than the wins because you will lose at some points so the losses have to be less than the wins, and that's it the biggest factor in risk management is you need to master and accept thoroughly in terms of A percentage of your account may be how much you do is captured, so I This is what I developed through initially using problems so for example, if I get a 100k problem, my risk percentage for the week would be one percent the whole week the whole week Okay, because obviously you'd be given, for example, a six percent maximum maximum drawdown, so with that I started now applying it on my On my live account, I'd go for five percent. What does five percent mean? I have 20 tries on the market. Based on my data, I will win 70 percent of the time with 20 attempts. So that is another key aspect you look at: how many attempts will be made? In the market, I like looking at it from the worst-case scenario. In the worst-case scenario, I will need to lose 20 trades. in a row for me to lose all my money, my data shows me that That never happens to me, so those are two aspects you need data for. 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Everyone who does, now let's get back to today's Conversation: There's one thing I normally tell beginner traders, anytime you get into a trade and you start feeling some the kind of way you start checking the charts every time You're on the empty five; you're trying to move your stop loss. that is a very good sign that you did not apply proper risk management, because if You do, and you'll be at peace of mind, so that is one. things you should look out for when you're trading If you see yourself, you know you're praying for the market to move in your favor. just know that you haven't applied proper risk management Mentioned one thing which is very important and it is data being able to obtain data from your trades Something that many beginners do is avoid it. How was your process? What tools might you have used or are still using? You know, just to get your data, okay? For me, data was The biggest fact when I was six to seven months into my journey when I had that long winning streak, after the long winning streak, you start to lose now that time you start doubting Everything you're doing is filled with doubt. It's hard to get into the mindset to enter a trade because you'd find that You have a good setup; your strategies are well underway, but you have doubt. They say that confidence is built through actions, and the best way you can build it is by taking action. Confidence in the market comes from having as much data as possible. in the sense that at some point something will go wrong but are you confident enough to believe that this is just all part of The process, so for me, I began with that, after that winning streak then turned back to some sort of a brief downturn losing streak, I was like, okay, I need to get my Confidence backup, I need to know if this thing actually works You started journaling your trades, so I started journaling the trades as well. backtesting the trades over time so that you realize that At different points in time, the market behaves differently—it's all a pattern. With that, you now know at this point this thing was most effective, I had to Look at this; at this point, this is most effective. With that, you gain data, and with the data, you're more assured when you walk. into a trade, for example, um, I use this analogy to my students, when you're learning how to walk, you didn't just stand up and walk—you had to go for steps, for steps, for steps First, you need to use a stool to move. And at some point you're confident enough to let go of the stool and take the steps. The same applies to life, and in trading you need to gain confidence. first buy actions, yeah, amazing, and if you're Looking for ways to journal, not just, you know, sit Write down your wins and losses; I think it's very important for you. for traders to actually, you know, sit down and write How was I feeling before I got into this trade? Was I confident? Was I in fear? I was overconfident, you know, and what was mine What was the mindset behind entering this trade, and what was the logic? And did I get all my time frames right? Did I get the bias right? Was I happy with the trade? Was I thinking? Was I thinking that this stop loss is the right one? I think it's very It is important to journal all these things so that you do that. and you will finally start seeing something that Many people don't see you, but once you start, you begin to see patterns in the trades you take. Maybe it's a session that favors you, maybe it is a Specifically, you know which currency pair favors you, and you can actually do that. using TradeZilla, which is one of the platforms I personally use to You know, journaling my trades gives you Your win rate gives you your profit factor; it shows you where You made a mistake, and why would you want to do that? Check out TradeZilla—the link is also in the description, and right now we are about to get into talking about your strategy because I'm sure many people are impressed by the fact that you've been in the game for Two years ago, and right now you would say you're profitable, how? Many months since 2025, around July, wow, so you clocked a year of profitability, so one year you aren't consistently profitable, and then the following year I became more profitable, and the turning point was psychology. Wow, yeah, that's the main thing for me. I look at trading as a pyramid, and at the base I place psychology. I built a pyramid with fundamentals at the base and technicals on top; the base is the strongest. aspect, because if you remove the psychological as the pyramid collapses, everything about it becomes irrelevant, so for me The turning point was psychology, yes, so beginners should work more on it. the psychology, would you say, spending more time on the Charts also help in a way, yes, spending most of the time on the charts. helps because at the end of the day you can have the right mindset and Still don't know what to do—that's the key thing, and also you can know. What to do but not have the right mindset The thing is, when you're beginning, you'll learn psychology over time. That's the key thing—we are humans, after all. We're not robots. cannot be programmed; we have emotions—the grade is automatic. Everyone, yes, fear is automatic for everyone. that's programmed with time, and also, as I said, data but get the skill first; with the skill, you will now start working on the psych yourself slowly, slowly, at some point you need to implement the lesson is hard, but without the skill you can never First of all, know how to interact in the markets. So acquire the skill, then work on the psychology. And you have the perfect piece, okay, tell us about it. Uh, the pairs you trade, so I trade gold—that's a commodity—I trade crypto, BTC. USD and I trade currencies on currencies I Yeah, GP, GBP, GPY sometimes have very strong pullbacks—how do you handle it? That's right, with GBP GPY, the biggest factor is I trade according to fundamentals. What I say, the market is, fundamentals show you what is. happening because at the end of the day the charts are a representation of real-world data; without the real-world data, we have none. so the first key thing I look at, especially when trading currencies, is fundamentals, for example with GBP, I know for The longest while GPy GPy has had uh eased interest rates So in most cases, it's weak; right now, it's weak. but a currency GPY is a high importing country, Japan; Japan is a high importing country. country, so if the currency becomes weak to some extent point becomes too expensive to import, that's that's something I look at how these currencies work without a Hell of a bias, I know what from the charts I look at, where I look. at the moment when it will take place because In a real sense, for example, right now I'm sure Japan is going to intervene. but I can't just take my phone and list it for sale on GBP GPY because it doesn't make sense for liquidity to go up or be manipulated So I need to know where that's where technicals come in So I'll get my word from fundamentals, my where from? technical issues, and I'll be patient—that's the only way you can avoid the Manipulative wounds. Interesting. What are some of the sources? that maybe you used to, you know, try and figure out The fundamentals. So with fundamentals, the first thing I used to use was Forex. factory, but you'll realize Forex Factory doesn't have an in-depth analysis of each pair, for example, it'll have only the news and some headlines, but you can't click on GBP to see Everything that happened with GBP over the last month With that, I now went on to research it on Google. On Google, you'd find that most of the articles you get are outdated here. For example, if you get something three years ago, you'll get something. One year ago from that, I started using AI now JPT I have a specific prompt I'll state as an expert. Fundamental market analyst, provide me with all the data. For example, GBP am I USD am I Euro am I GPY from this time frame to this time frame, from that, in my fundamental analysis, I Look at what happened in the past, then from what happened in the past, I'll Also look at what is forecasted to happen in the future So I'll search using JPT Mama Cloud AI, I'll research, I'll ask it to give me Compile all the news for me with my knowledge, I'll but from my knowledge, having done this for a long time now, I I already know this news; this matter is outdated. I'll filter the news to something more recent. From that, I will have a certain bias regarding how we are progressing. because for example if we have high interest rates, it reduces the bordering on it, if you have high interest rates, inflation will reduce the right if you have high inflation, we'll have to Raise interest rates and tighten monetary policy, so from that I'll develop a future bias, then if you check next week's news, you'll see, okay You have news regarding interest rates and inflation. How do you know from the forecast and also from the previous conditions? You'll have a clear bias in the news from what you know this week. You look at key zones where you can sell off; I'm a buy-off, you know that market. will have to come here to obtain liquidity to sell or market will have to come down here to get liquidity to buy so with that, you're able to even know or let me use the word project or predict where the market might be heading like in exactly one week, so from next week onwards Next week's perspective: I will now look at discount in premium. zones I look at the best discount zones and the best premium zones, so after I've done my analysis of the past and the forecast of the future, it becomes easy because I said The charts are merely a representation of what is happening. so in the end, the charts have to align What's happening? Wow, interesting. Let's talk about gold. Gold is one of the most beloved things on the internet, every guru Every beginner, every trader says, "I trade gold, I love gold, gold makes me" Money, my experience is different—I'll say that. Gold brings me money, but gold does not give me peace of mind. I think I told you that I don't know what your experience is like. With gold, I realized people trade gold because they want money—that's the The biggest factor came at my early stages of trading I started with gold because everyone was doing gold. But I realized that with my small account, I couldn't trade gold. Because I wasn't going to be right all the time, I wasn't good. I wasn't going to get the exact entry all the time, so If I have a hundred-dollar account and I put in 0.1 The hundred-pip account is gone, so gold is very volatile. And if you're a beginner, it can hurt you extremely badly. even as an experienced trader, if you try and Use a higher lot size; I might use more leverage—you can get hurt easily. So I realized that in reality, I'm trading for peace—I'm not trading, losing my money every time I enter a trade I'm Sweating, and another thing I came to realize Most international traders will trade currencies. Why are these currencies easy to predict in their movements, and why doesn't it hurt you? As much as that's what I'm saying—if you want money Now you're a high-risk individual, go to gold. If you want peace of mind, go to currencies. Of course, that is a very key factor because I think gold could easily move many pips and take you out. 80 pips, 100 pips, and then goes the opposite direction, and if you think about it as someone who's just starting out or perhaps someone who doesn't have sufficient capital in the first place, I don't think Anyone would put a stop loss of around 200 pips, you know so keep an eye on that, I know many people want to trade gold because Everyone is trading gold, but I think a few things matter. that is account size, your experience, and also I'd say your psychology because This pullback might sometimes force you to move your stop loss. it might make you close the trade early, so if you're good, you're like, you can set and forget is fine and dandy, but if you can't do that or maybe you're just starting out, go for simpler things like EUR/USD, I've been trading this pair for a while now and It's beautiful once it starts trending—it's just really good. But if you're just starting out, I know you need money. Just be extremely cautious with gold now we're going to get about his strategy, but before we do that, let us hear a word from our Sponsors, I'm here to tell you about the broker. that I personally recommend when it comes to execution Transparency and withdrawals really matter. Zealand's Markets offers raw spreads plus just three dollars commission. giving you the best spreads in the market, no broker ever goes lower than this you get fast execution, stable trading conditions, and instant deposits and withdrawals through M-Pesa and crypto: no waiting, no unnecessary delays This is a broker built for serious traders who value efficiency. and trust no hidden games, no excuses when it's time to withdraw just a solid trading environment If you're looking for a broker you can rely on, Zealand's market is worth it. Checking out the link is in my description and pinned in my comment. Section. Now let's get back to the video, so. You're about to show us your swing trade swing trading strategy. Let's take a look and first of all, you said you're looking at six months, 12 months—just that—that's like the general market Look, and then now you go to the weekly time frame What are you looking at on the weekly time frame? So on the weekly time frame, it's still the same aspect with the six months in the 12th month, but in this sense the weekly time frame You'll easily secure a long-term move within the 12 months it takes. A long time before you can get one candle and the weekly period is just five days, so you'll have a longer-term bias but It's easy to detect the long-term bias in the sense that it occurs within a few period of days, okay, yeah, so let's begin with I trade in two ways; I'll trade with a swing strategy. but the best thing is the swing strategy—why is this the case? My day trading strategy will be based on the long-term trend. that's the essence of trading, because as I said before, we're working with a long-term picture in mind so that the swing strategies are most effective important, not everyone can swing trade because not everyone will have the patient account size, but from that bias, it is now easy Okay, yeah, okay, so let's have a look at it. This is the weekly time frame, okay? If I look at gold I will look at the 12-month timeframe; last year we were bullish. Yes, this year we realized that we went up, and then we started now. Backtracking, let's go to the sixth month—we're just looking over here. We'll say that we were bullish for the longest time, but we have some unfilled orders. zones here, right? Yeah, the first quarter was Bullish at first, then ended with a bearish close in this immediate zone below the monthly closing We had a structure here; let's look at the most immediate structure—it's a Over here, so here I'm not looking, I'm not forming any bias. I'm just looking and highlighting the key areas, okay. So I've noticed there's a fair value gap on the six-month time frame. Let's go to the three-month time frame; I'll see what an engulfing candle and this engulfing candle will end in a Fair value gap, yes. Below here, we have another fair value gap. So I'll just note, in the three months we had an engulfing candle. And we're in a fair value gap here; I'm just taking notes. Let's go to the monthly candle, monthly candle I'll see that there was a fair value gap here, this small fair value gap here. But you broke it; let me use an arrow so people can see there was a fair value. There's a gap here on the monthly, but this candle broke that. Fair value gap we closed below it, okay, so from the monthly perspective I can't help but develop some minor biases as the sunset unfolds. We can have this fair value gap working in the opposite direction This fair value gap here can work in the reverse direction; we've broken it. The next strong zone on the monthly chart is this fair value gap here, okay. so I would mark out this point and this will be my target, and if you look at On the three-month and six-month charts, there are fair value gaps here, but now We have narrowed it down to a specific zone. So just by looking at this, I can anticipate a move. Already I can anticipate the price going back to The price can return here depending on the fundamental zone. The price can go back there and then come down to this point to begin with. Okay, this is one fair value gapokit here, this is another fair value gap here. Let me delete that. Let me do it properly. So, the price, from where it is, it can go back. to this inverted fair value gap, come back to This fair value gap down here—this is the first point. We'll see how it reacts to that, or go deeper into this fair value gap here. I have not conducted an in-depth analysis; I have merely observed. From that, we move on to the weekly. Now our major trading biases begin from this point. the weekly time frame from the weekly time frame what do we See the weekly time frame looks like this we We had our market here, and it went fair. value gap here sold from the fair value gap and we've been bearish for the past four weeks, so currently in the weekly timeframe We tapped a fair value gap here; there's a small fair value gap if you go to a a lot of time frame you'll see it stop, then go down, tested it here then We continued selling, but we engulfed it again. means that we need some additional liquidity because if you look at the immediate Here, there's not enough liquidity to break. down, so we need some more liquidity to push So if I'm swing trading, let's take it point by point. Using what I said, I said we use three things; we use supply and demand, supply and demand, value gaps, and liquidity supply and demand FVGs and liquidity of course plus market structure, liquidity, and market structure is a foundation But these are the technical aspects, so my entry is based on three of them. FVG supply and demand and liquidity, so if you look at this zone, the most The immediate zone here is Friuli Venezia Giulia; if you look here, I'll mark it. This will be my supply zone; this has been my supply zone. but the price did not retrace back to that level The next point I have of high volume is an FVG. So here, I realized the price came back into this FVG. and tapped it but it didn't break all the way through it the closest we came to disrespecting the FVG was when We closed above the midpoint; this is the midpoint, the midline here. We closed above it by closing above it in most cases. You find that the FVG is usually disrespected. but in this case we closed above it, but the next candle was means that there was selling volume that caused us to engulf this candle broke a strong zone, so with that, you'll also look at the fundamental aspect, and during this period of time There was also the beginning or the hitting point of the U.S.-Iran conflict. so from that, after we engulf this zone here The next thing you look at is this; I will draw. a rectangle on the body of this candle that No, no, that broke above the midpoint of the FVG Here at the bottom part, I look at this bottom line here. So what am I looking at? I'm looking at how price interacts with this one. Why is this? Because this is a high-volume candle. For it to break a strong zone like a FVG, it's a high-volume candle. okay, for it to be a high volume candle means the orders The pending orders over here, so we've absorbed them, but I'll anticipate the market. to go back to this one so when the market comes down here I'll Still be patient while I'm looking for swing trades; I'll wait for the market to move. Come back to this zone when the market returns to this zone Here's what you notice once we light the zone with this candle first we closed below it, tapped it again, closed below it, and engulfed, yes, okay, does that uh now become your confirmation that becomes my confirmation because before you enter Confirmation if we tap here and close below The next candle could possibly close in this zone and in most cases this disregards the trade, so you have to wait for confirmation to ensure that your bias is correct Okay, so after the confirmation, I'll come here after the engulfing. I will take a short position; I've placed it over here. The stop loss will be placed at the high of the newly formed candle. Okay, my risk-to-reward ratio is one to two. You'd find I have a profitable trade, oh, this is using uh, plainly for valley. gaps one time frame a swing trade a swing Trade? Oh, interesting. So with this one, I have made my bias based on fundamentals I've been bearish based on my fundamentals; secondly, this is a strong zone of a valley gap I look at how price interacts with the key points of The strong line, okay. Secondly, after that, I'll look for If I receive my confirmation, I will enter. I will not enter the trade unless I receive confirmation. Okay, simple as that, so I will choose one, which is to rr. That's how I trade; I look at a sure trade. the sense that I can get a 10 RR but the market might only reach 5 RR then go in the opposite direction and as a trader we have the ego to wait for the price to hit our full take profit in most cases, so I try to psychologically avoid that by only targeting two RR. In most of my trades, it's like a war that's always going on. the win rate versus the risk to reward, and I normally tell people you you can rarely have both if you want to have a Very high win rate; I think your risk-to-reward ratio will be lower. and if you have a very high risk-to-reward ratio, your rate will definitely be low because it's very rare to You know you can never get a one in ten every day. Exactly, yeah, that's literally what you teach your students. For the swing trading strategy, yes, yes, this is exactly what I teach my students. For my students, I conduct classes; my class program lasts four weeks. Over the four weeks, I will teach the first introduction. To those who may be new, after the introduction, I'll teach technical analysis so that someone can grasp the essence of it charts because this is the part that makes trading fun Looking at charts is like solving a puzzle, yeah. After looking at the charts, you now turn to fundamentals—you begin to learn. the deeper aspects of it, why is my chart moving like this After the fundamentals, you'll start encountering some losses. So we look at psychology now—why am I losing despite having the right strategy, having the right trades, so It's a four-week program after doing a introduction, technical fundamentals, then psychology We conduct a two-week testing period, so I will provide you with a demo account. and we test for two periods, okay, yeah, so guys That was the swing trading strategy, and I feel like Looking at one time frame is such a unique aspect that I haven't seen many People do it, so ideally I'll go and try it out you guys should also do it, and if you want to learn from him, you You can check him out on social media, and later I'll share his number. For now, we are supposed to look at day trading. strategy for those who want to make quick money You know, start trading today before the end of today. You make your money, but before that, here's a word from BMM, our sponsor. 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Click the link in the description and On your screen and get started with BMM today BMM Trade smarter and more effectively. So let's now take a look. into the day trading strategy, so as you said, most people will change the day trading why is this because not everyone has the the ability to swing trade or the patience required for swing trading So we need money now, so we need to trade. using a strategy that will give us money today, tomorrow, and the day after So this is my day trading strategy; let me clarify everything from the swing trading one, so this time we used the weekly, the weekly, and used for value cups, let's try something else, let's try Two things, let's try liquidity and also Let's try supply and demand as an example, so Let's go to our timeframe. The first thing we have is market structure. So, based on the higher time frame, we will establish our market structure. we look at, for example, the daily chart—it's bearish; we'll mark our highs and lows, so We'll see, but this was our lowest. Came to a high, came to a low, came to a high. In the highs we've been coming down to lows, so what's the essence of this? We need to map out how smart money is moving the markets That's the essence of analyzing market structure. After analyzing the market structure, we establish our technical bias. what's our technical bias? We're bearish, so whenever I'm looking for a trade, I will look for a sell trade because our structure is After that, we can mark zones on the daily. Just to point them out, let's take you, for example, here. There's a value gap here on the daily. You'll also see that I usually mark my value gap. with color codes so a bearish value gap is red for value gap and that's for easy understanding, you know, instead of writing then you also notice here we have a demand zone Yeah, this demand zone was mitigated; it has now become our supply zone. My demand zones I mark them with blue, okay. So for beginners, how do you know that your demand zone was mitigated? So for people learning trading, this is how I take my demand zones a demand zone I look at one I look at some manipulation, to what extent This candle here, this red candle, signals a sell, yes. signals that you're going to sell immediately after I will look for volume in the opposite direction, so if you're I'm going to sell; I'll take a look at the price. moving in the buy side direction with a sequence of three candles or more Why do I say the three-candle sequence? This is based on data. You can get a two-candle sequence, a one-candle, a big one-candle but from how I've tested it, a sequence of three candles or more is the best indicator of higher volume in a specific direction So this here was a demand zone, price came back to this demand zone here. but did not respect it; yes, the price disregarded it and sold exactly mitigated it and created a fair value gap in the process So every day we have two conferences. One, we're at a fair value gap zone; two, we're at a demand zone. so if I'm looking at the market today and we've gone all the way down here and Noticed I can get a trade easily here; I can get a sell trade when we tap the demand zone here, yes, because when a demand zone is mitigated it becomes a supply zone, so when a strong zone is mitigated, it favors the other direction, okay, becomes a zone for the other direction So we have a fair value gap combined with a demand zone, forming a strong bias. So I'll place my entry here at the bottom of the demand zone. At the bottom of the body, the demand zone, I'll place my stop loss. In our fair value gap, it's a three-candle sequence, okay? So on the first candle of the sequence, the high of that candle if I'm selling I'll place my stop loss over there; my risk-to-reward ratio will be I have a trade on the daily chart using the lower time frame. It's just the same thing. Let's use another concept right now. Let's use liquidity, but that would also be a swing trade Yeah, that would be a swing trade, okay? In essence, I'm trying to say. With the strategy I use, supply and demand fair value gaps liquidity it should apply for All time frames are okay. We'll now look at how to see which exact zone, because you can have a fair value gap up there and down here, but why take the fair value gap down here and not the fair value gap? up there, so let's go to the four-hour mark, for example Let's use a strategy like the liquidity sweep, so with the liquidity sweep I will look at three things in one sweep. What do I mean by sweep? Over here we have our high right; I'll look for the price to come and take. up this high but not close above it, yes, so that's a The next thing I look at is candle closure. So, candle closure—what am I looking for, in a sense? candle close if this candle this is the the highest point of the high in terms of the body So this candle that swept this high should not close above this point. the highest point of the high, so I'll draw a horizontal line So the price swept the candle closed over here. The next thing I look at is an engulfing engulfing. I look at one thing: high volume zones. What do I mean by high volume zones? For the price to reach here, it required high volume. for us to get here, so the nearest high volume zone is this fair value gap So I'll wait for the price to close this fair value gap. over here, so at this point, once I have those biases I've placed my entry here so that when the price closes below this zone Yes, I'll have a bias, yes, for cells, so there are two entries to this entry. number one, you can enter when This engulfing closes entry number two, you can enter when This after the closure we retest this zone, so for example Entry number two, we just set a limit here, yes, stop loss, I think on the lower time frame you would see that, yeah, exactly, on the lower time frame you'd See that it'll break and retest, let's go to the one hour. for example, as you're saying, we're looking at liquidity now and show the liquidity aspect So in the four hours, let's go back to the four hours. We swept, we had a candle close and an engulfing. So over here, what I'll do is I'll put my entry; I can go with step number one, I Put it here, my stop loss will be at the high of the Engulfing candle, so my surplus would be here, I'll target One is to two hours—purely that's entry number one; you're done. Entry number two, I will look at it; it's more detailed entry in the sense that I will look for price to retest this zone where we were supposed to engulf, okay, if the price retests We'll have a good trade; I'll place my stop loss high in this case. because you can make it so I'll set it to high, that you swept the highest point, so this is entry number two Entry number two, you'll actually need more patience because it's not every time that price will come back sometimes the Volume is too much, yeah, so those are the two methods what has a higher win rate is entry number two because it is more precise and you can easily see it, but for those who intend to skip it Trade entry number one is okay. The win rate for entry number one is 65. The win rate for entry number two is 89 percent. percent okay yeah now interesting now in four weeks someone is able to understand all this What feedback do you receive from the students you teach this strategy to? So the feedback is for them; I handle the technical aspects first. to help them become eager to interact with the markets because Other, as I've said, we all love this—it's the fun aspect. The fundamental aspect is the so-called boring aspect, because you Need news and data for those who wish to do so, so the feedback is Good, because after this I've simplified trading for them the sense that we'll now focus on three things they'll focus on one of my fundamentals, which most people Don't do that—this is the eureka moment for most. people because everyone will always have a technical strategy, but they won't know what happens around the world, this is where you have to put in the reps That's why you need to know and understand—yes, this is the eureka. moment for most people when trading, sorry, sorry so most of them, this will be the eureka moment from then on The supply and demand entry is another key aspect, in that You can find many supply and demand zones, but most people don't. Don't wait for confirmation, okay? Two, they don't know whether the price is at a premium zone or discount zone, three fair value caps—it's different because the same thing, most people can enter at any value gaps you learn for value gaps on YouTube now when you see three kernel sequence enter by or enter sell but the exact The value gap for entry is based on whether it is at a premium or a discount. I also have the exact confirmation number four liquidity liquidity is a broad aspect if you go to videos on You'll see on YouTube that supply and demand traders categorize it as liquidity. Fair value gaps, people categorize them as liquidity. but the way I break it down is a simple three-step process—it's It's very mechanical and very efficient, so the feedback on my end is good. because I break it down into simple concepts but the biggest eureka moment is knowing what moves a market—something that most traders fail to understand, yes, and of course one of the main things that we always mention in this podcast Is it true that no strategy works every time? There are days when you will follow all these strategies. and still lose, okay, but the point is you followed your strategy, winning when you follow your rules and your strategy It is something that happens, but losing is also something that happens. and you'd better lose and learn from it than Just gamble your way in and make a lot of money. So don't be, you know, mesmerized by people who are gambling and making a lot Of money, they don't have a plan, they don't have a strategy. They don't have data; they haven't box tested the strategy; they don't even Know the win rate? They don't even know where to put it. The stop loss, so these are some of the things that you need to know if you're a I'm a beginner in trading and really appreciate your time. to come and break this down because uh this uh is something that You know, go out of your way and try these strategies. that I see in these videos, so this is another one that I'm going to Try it, but I'm going to try it on something else—can it work on Euro SD? Can it? Work on GBP GPY GBP SD so SMC strategies the supply and demand for value gaps and liquidity the way I It works on currencies as well because two Volume and confirmation are okay with my strategy; those are the major aspects. volume and confirmation so they function correctly in all other pairs as well At the end of the day, the backbone of trading is volume. Many people buy GBP, so it will appreciate in price, right? That's Secondly, I get that the market is very manipulative, so the next aspect that you need to know because I can convince you very well that I will go in your direction but then I take the next candle, I sweep low and go up Yes, break a zone, so many times I've seen technical zones being broken. that I've appreciated the use of confirmation, yes Wow, interesting. So how do people reach you on your social media? your phone number and any other possible way to reach me should be very simple First of all, on Instagram I'm referred to as Stereo. On TikTok it's the same username, on WhatsApp my number is 0791370596. That's my business number;ึนี่คือหมายเลขที่เข้าถึงได้โดยฉัน community members as well, so if you contact me there Hi. The purpose of this message is for me to reply. I'll assist you in good time. Wow, thank you so much for coming, really. I really appreciate you taking the time to come. Break down this strategy—this is what people missed. 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