Video summary
The video documents a trader's live session where he experiences significant frustration after being stopped out of two consecutive trades due to premature entries and market manipulation tactics known as "liquidity sweeps." In his first trade, despite identifying a potential setup based on lower time frame analysis, the price briefly dipped below support before rapidly reversing upward, triggering his stop loss just moments before it would have turned profitable. The trader expresses deep regret over entering too early rather than waiting for confirmation that the low had been fully swept and rejected, noting how often he gets caught in this specific pattern where prices blast off immediately after a false breakout or dip. He acknowledges his tendency to rush into trades out of fear of missing out (FOMO) instead of adhering strictly to his strategy of waiting for three distinct pushes before entering on the third one.
Following these losses, the trader shifts his focus back to analyzing price action and structural levels while visibly struggling with emotional control. He discusses various technical indicators he is using, such as Volume Profile, VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price), and Exponential Moving Averages, attempting to find a safer entry point on pullbacks rather than chasing momentum. Although the market eventually moves in his favor after rejecting key resistance levels like the Value Area High, he remains hesitant to take full profits because he is only trading one contract at a time, which limits his ability to scale out of positions for larger gains. He highlights how price action often defies initial predictions by shooting past expected targets or failing to return to anticipated support zones, forcing him to constantly adjust his expectations and stop losses in real-time.
Throughout the session, the trader openly admits that he is not yet a professional guru but rather an active learner trying to generate income through trading while simultaneously improving his investment skills. He invites viewers from all experience levels to critique his decisions, specifically asking for feedback on whether they would have waited longer for confirmation or used limit orders instead of market orders during volatile moments. The narrative emphasizes the psychological challenges faced by traders who know their strategy is sound but still succumb to impulsive behavior when emotions run high. By sharing these raw failures and near-misses in real-time, he aims to demonstrate that even experienced-looking setups can go wrong quickly if discipline lapses, urging fellow learners to stay calm and avoid rushing into trades without proper validation of market structure changes.
Ultimately, the video concludes with a candid admission that after losing two significant opportunities due to his own impatience, the trader decides it is best to stop trading for the day rather than risking further losses in an emotional state. He reflects on how "rushing" leads nowhere and reiterates his commitment to mastering patience by waiting for clear imbalances and confirmed rejections before entering positions again. Despite ending with a reduced account balance of roughly $172, he maintains a positive outlook toward learning from these mistakes rather than giving up entirely. The session serves as both an educational case study on the dangers of premature entries and a personal testament to the ongoing journey required to master trading psychology and technical analysis simultaneously without falling victim to common pitfalls like FOMO or overconfidence in one's own predictions.
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we're in. So, maybe I could have waited
for a little bit more confirmation on a
lower time frame, but I just went with
my move on a fivem minute chart. Uh,
comment below and let me know what you
would have done in this situation. It
ain't looking too good for me. We'll
see. We still got a minute and 24
seconds for this candle to close. Maybe
I could have waited for the candle to
close. I don't know. But we shall see.
Man, we just got stopped out. We just
got stopped out, guys. So, we lost that
trade. It was 8 and a half point stop
loss. We lost a trade. And you know what
happens sometimes? Look, look at look,
look at this. Look. And then sometimes
what happened is it stopped me out and
then it blast off. So, what I'm going to
do is erase everything,
have the charts clear to see what I'm
seeing. We're just ranging right now.
So, I probably shouldn't have been in
that trade,
but a lot of times what it does is it
sweep this low right here to boom, blast
off on me. So, I'm going to wait for
another setup and see if I can find
something good for us.
>> A few moments later,
>> this is exactly what I'll be talking
about. It stopped me out right here and
then it blast off. I'm talking about out
of yukin. Look, this one candle is
22 and a half points. that one candle
right after it stopped me off it blast
off. I don't know why I always get
caught in these trades every single time
for some reason. I don't know. Look at
it. Look. Oh my man. Look. Look at this.
Y'all watching it right here. Look at
it. Comment below and let me know. Does
this happen to you, too? Comment below
and let me know. It's like I be right
about the trades, but I always enter
prematurely. Let's see where we where we
entered at so we can see exactly where
it was. Where we got stopped out at
right here. We entered right here. We
got stopped out here. [snorts] So this
is I I am actually reading this book.
Let me take this off so you guys can so
it won't be in the way. I'm trying to
master these three pushes. Now I know I
had three pushes. Oh, just so you guys
know, my fault. I am actually on the
regular trading hours chart right now
instead of the electric electronic.
Electronic shows you all this. shows you
everything, pre-market, all that stuff.
Regular trading hours. Sometimes I'll
switch to this and check out what's
going on on the regular trading hours.
There's less stuff going on. So, boom.
So, I'm trying to master these three
pushes. Now, I know you have three
pushes, but I think when you come to a
area, you're supposed to have three
pushes down. One, two, three. And for
some odd reason, I always get caught. I
probably get on the second one. I should
be beginning on the third one after the
sweep up there because I noticed that on
the third push it goes under then it
goes up. So I have to learn how to one
two three blast. I have to I have to
learn how to get better at that guys. So
that's something I'm working on. Just
trying to master my trading style and
master everything I'm doing and learning
because I just got stopped at or we
could have had 22 points. Just that one
little trade right there. 22 points.
That was like a one to two and a half
because we wished eight and a half
points. So, let's try to see if we're
going to close above here.
Man, this is this this this be look this
right here is what be happening, guys.
This stuff be blowing me. I don't know.
Maybe I held on too long. I did round I
did uh I got in here. So, it went up,
came back down. I should have just took
it to here. See? Took it to right here.
From here to here to that imbalance
right there. And that was it. Look at
this. Y'all watching it right now. This
is what happens to me all of the time.
And then it just blast off and it and it
don't come back. It don't come back. So
you can try to get in. No, it's gone. So
hopefully we can get a pullback
somewhere here. I'm not sure though.
I'll keep you guys updated. Y'all see
what's going on. I can't make this up.
Y'all see it, man. This this this is
what be blowing me right here because
I'll be right about the trade, but then
this is what happens, guys. For all the
tourists out there, you know exactly
what I'm talking about. It's not the the
market maker. None of that. I don't
know. I got in too early. Um I should
have waited. I don't know. I should have
waited. Now it's going right to where I
said it was going to go to. I guarantee
it happens every time. This is what
always happens every time. And I was
saying that it was going to go to even
if we go on a regular chart like the
same chart that's going on the regular
chart. So I can show you guys where I
was saying it's going to go to right
here. That's what I was going This I was
going to try to take a TP at right
there.
That area right there. There was an
imbalance here.
Price never touched none of this. So
that was my TP.
But now it just out of yuk it on me. So
it's like hopefully it come back. If it
don't I mean maybe we take it back down
here because we did break structure. So
we could trade it either way. But I have
to wait to see what happens when it get
there. That's another thing. Let's see
what the volume profile talking about.
So they saying this is the volume area
high right here.
So that's probably why I stop it right
there. If it comes back, I'mma get in
down here if it comes back because let's
also turn on the VWOP. We got the VWAP
ski right here is up there kind of in
that area and the EMAs,
they're pushing this up. So, if it comes
back down to this imbalance right here,
I'm taking it up because we did change
character right here. We closed above
this high right here. So, this would be
considered a change of character,
which means it should go up now after
that. So, we got a change of character
right here. That's what I see. Now, we
need at least a 50% pullback, but I
don't know if it's going to be we could
maybe do it on the 3m minute cuz it
might not come all the way back down.
Sometimes it don't do it. So, the 50%
pullback will be right here at this
imbalance right there. It's like, do we
wait for the to go to the full
imbalance? I think that's what we should
do. That's the safest play. So, we're
just going to see what happens. I ain't
going to lie, I'm salty. See, this this
right here was a decent trade right
there from down here
to there.
43 points right there. I think it also
came to this imbalance. Let's see.
Maybe we go on the five minute chart
here. It'll be a little bit better. We
can see it a little bit better cuz the
candles are a little bit bigger. Nope.
Didn't come there. So, that's the plan.
Try to get in on a pullback. I'm salty,
man. We was in that joint, too. Y'all
saw us get in and it just swept this low
right here. And that's what it does. It
keep doing this to me, man. Dang. Off
the back. I'll be salty. I ain't going
to lie. I'll be salty when this happens
because it's, as I told you guys before,
like it's kind of like I know what I'm
doing. It's just that I'll be getting in
prematurely.
I should have waited and said it swept
the low before I entered. And I noticed
that on the third push, it always push
higher than it's supposed to. Even right
here when I say we could have got in on
this imbalance. Let's go on the
five-minute chart. Could have got in on
this imbalance right here.
Look, it swept that high first. I guess
they call them equal highs and equal
lows.
But that joint off to the races.
[snorts] Look at it. When we get here,
we're going to see what happens. I'm not
going to put in a limit order right
there because they might try to take me
up top.
[sighs]
I'm salty. I ain't going to lie, y'all.
I'm super salty. But we got to prepare
for the next trade. Um, they're saying
this the value area high, but I think
it's going to go past that.
That's another reason why sometimes I
don't like to like add different
indicators and stuff on there. I just
like to look at price and what it's
doing because it change car and it broke
down. So if it pushes all the way up
here, we could probably take it back
down to down here. That's the next plan.
Um so we'll see what happens. We have to
wait for it to get there first to see
what it does. Maybe I'll go to the one
minute chart to see if he have a lower
low on the inside on the one minute
chart. But I think this joint about to
just blast up there. So if not, we get
in down here. If it if it depends on
what it do, whatever it does, we just
got to have a plan for it. So if it
comes back down,
I kind of want to get in down here. I'm
not going to lie, cuz all this is an
imbalance right there. All this is
imbalance. Price just shot past that. So
we'll see what happen if it goes up here
first. We do have the imbalance up here.
But I want to see what happens, man. I
don't want to be the first one to run in
as you guys can see what happened to us
last time. So, so what y'all think about
this? So, we have an imbalance right
here. We at the value area high. Um,
also from this top right here, let's
move this. Maybe this all our range for
the for the rest of the day. I might be
missing out on the trade. From this top
right here to the bottom, this is the
618.
Maybe we take it back down here. What
y'all think about that? It's It is
rejecting right there, too. So, if we
can take it back down, then that'll be a
decent trade, too. I'm just don't want
to rush in here. Let me go look on the
one minute chart, see what's going on,
because I'm not I'm not doing it, buddy.
You ain't about to get me again.
So,
we got the trend line right there. We're
still pushing up though.
So, let's let's turn on the EMA on a one
minute chart to see what's going on. The
9 and the 20 still pushing up. We need
to get a lower low on the inside or
something. It's rejecting that joint
though. I ain't even going to lie. Let's
see the VWAPski.
VWAP up there.
That could be more assistance that we
need.
Let's see on the two minute. It's
rejecting right there, guys. Should I
take this trade, man? That's the thing.
Look at it.
And then this is what happens, right?
I'll be wondering should I take the
trade and then next thing you know when
I do see this this is what happened the
mind of a trader it's like I'm like okay
cool I really want to take the trade
from up there but if it's going to
reject right here and go back down then
push back up then I'm cool with taking
that trade but then it get here then
start rejecting rejecting and then I'm
like man should I take this trade next
you know boom that joint just go down
this is what be happening this is what
happens every time guys so for all of
you out there that's trading y'all
already know what I'm talking about this
is what happens. That is the value area
high though. So we have some good
information about that.
We got the VWAP ahead of us above us. I
don't know if it's going to hit the V or
not. We are rejecting.
So like comment below and let me know
what do you guys use for confirmation.
Do you wait for confirmation or you just
in this joint? Comment below and let me
know. Are you in this? Are you in there?
You in there like swimwear? Are you in
there? Are you just getting in?
But I don't know what to do at this
point. I know we're rejecting right
here. It's the volume area high, so it
makes sense. Um, this profile has been
going on since uh 9:30. So, it's been
over an hour. So, it's it's pretty
decent. Would that be the zone? That
could be the zone right there on a one
minute chart. Tighter stop loss. If we
take it, how many points would that be?
It's five points. Not bad.
But I don't want to be the first mouse.
The first mouse never gets a cheese.
Remember that. Look at this. Look, look,
look, look, look. Okay, this what we
going to do, right? So, let's zoom to
the two-minute. Okay, we rejecting.
Rejecting on two minute. Hey guys, we in
this joint, man. I ain't going to lie.
We in here. Market order. We in there.
We in there. Stop loss above a high
stop.
Y'all get to see what I really do in
real life and real in person. Right now,
y'all seeing it. This is what I do.
I see the rejections. I'm like, man, let
me just go ahead and get in and stop
playing and then we're going to see what
happens. My stop loss really needs to be
up there. I ain't going to lie.
What would that be? I'm already in
though now. Y'all seen Y'all seeing this
in real time?
Yeah. The stop loss stand right there.
I'm not moving it. It is what it is.
We in
um we'll see what happens.
Go back to the one minute. This is what
this is what start happening guys. I
start jumping around. Oh, let me look
right here. Let me look right here.
Y'all seeing it? Everything that happens
to me. Y'all are seeing it live. Y'all
never really got to see it live. This is
real price action real time. We are
rejecting. We're getting under that
ning. This is the nine the nine EMA.
That's the 20. So, we'll see. So, let's
try to we short it right there. Put the
stop above the high
at seven points.
Okay, we're going to take it to the next
imbalance, which is
where that 50% mark would be. Right
around here. See if we can get it right
around there. What is that? 1 to 2
point. I mean, yeah, 1 to 2.6. Right
around there. We get some rejection. We
getting some rejection. Y'all see? Y'all
see the rejection now. We are getting
some rejection. or should I be TPing at
the PC? Comment below and let me know.
At the PC, can we get some Can we get
some major moves, some major back down?
I'm talking about can we get a very hard
push down?
Let's check the five. We're rejecting on
the five. We're rejecting on the five.
We're rejecting on the five. We need We
need a smooth quick push down.
I don't want it to be doing too much. I
just want to Let's go ahead and go down
there, baby. So, the smartest thing I
think to do is
let's see. Let's measure this move from
here to up here.
Okay, 50% of that will be here. Right
there. So if we just take it to here to
this imbalance
that would be
one to 2.45 which is not that bad.
So
we're just going to see what happen
guys. Should I put my TP right there or
should I try to go for the gusto? See
this is another thing that I'm only
trading one contract right now. So with
trading one contract is like you kind of
like you just got to take what you can
get. You can't really like, you know,
cut some off and keep some on. You can't
really do it like that. So,
um, I need a hard push down. Pause. We
are reject. We did reject, reject,
reject, volume area high. So, the the
the point the thing made sense. Value
area high.
Rejection, rejection, rejection. We
waited a little bit. We could have
waited longer. I did enter in with a
market order, which sometimes I do that
because I'll be like, man, what if this
don't I get FOMO? Y'all saw me get FOMO.
Y'all saw it. So, we are going to see
what happens. Y'all going to see. I'm
just going to leave it on here. We going
to see. I could have waited for the bare
entry.
This entry wasn't wasn't my best. Let's
just go ahead and say that. So, I'll
just be targeting one to three.
This is this is these are all you what
you guys are hearing is exactly what I'm
thinking in my head. Exactly what I'm
thinking in my head. And these are
things that us beginner traders go
through. I'm sure you guys have went
through this before and you like, "Okay,
where I'm going to take profit at then?
What about this and what about that?" I
know the real what I really should get
busy at is the PC. Like that's that's
like the main like if you get once you
get there, the jig is up. It could go
all the way down to this this imbalance,
but that PC you don't want to play
around on the PC because that's going to
be a major support level. So
that's what I'm thinking.
What do you guys think? I need y'all to
comment below and let me know. Y'all
seeing what happened? This is what
happens when I'm trading. This exact
thing. So, y'all seeing the good, bad,
and the ugly. We did go against the EMAs
again. We wicking, wicking, wicking. We
steady wicking up there. Let's check out
this three minute. See what's going on
over here. Okay, on the threes pin bar
engulfing. This is where I should have
entered. I should have entered on this
candle. The third candle. This is the
first one. Boom. Second one engulfing.
Third one. This where I should have
entered. should have put a stop order. I
mean a buy a limit order right there.
Boom. That should have been my entry.
Third times a charm. That's what they
say, right? So, we're [music] trying to
Oh, dang. I got to turn my thing on.
Hold on. Okay, we back in motion. See,
this the thing, right? You guys are
seeing what really happens. I need you
to comment below and critique me, too.
Comment below if you're a trader, you're
a successful trader. Comment below and
critique what I'm doing. Tell me, am I
tripping? Tell me what I should have
done or what I shouldn't have done. I
need to know your input on it. I'm not a
professional as of yet. I'm just
learning every day just like you guys um
that plan to start trading as well. So,
I'm no expert. I'm no guru. I'm no
nothing. I'm just a person trying to
make me some money. That's it. And learn
this and master this so I can u shout
out to my guy DoubleM. I was just
talking to DM yesterday. Uh Mark the
mentor. I was telling them that the
reason why I've been trading is because
I'm trying to um I'm really trying to
make more active income so I can invest
more. And I also believe that trading is
going to make me a better investor. But
I still have to continue to work on my
emotions because while we're in this
trade, you guys just saw me hit with
that market order. And I usually try to
use limit orders.
But
that drone was rejecting. And I'm like,
I'm about to get in this joint. See, we
had an imbalance. We had the value area
high right here. So, I don't think it
was a bad trade. I'm going to for sure
put our It might melt through here, but
that's okay. Before that, PC cuz I don't
want no smoke. I just want to say that.
I just want to say that. I just want to
say another thing that I'll be using
too, guys, is this. This is a great
indicator that I use. Um, this right
here,
shout out to my guy Mike. He the one
that put me on this. This guy right
here, he has a YouTube channel as well.
He does structure. But these candles
right here, it like change the color of
the candles. So, you know where the
imbalance is at. The imbalance is really
here.
When it's green, it's the imbalance
right there. So, that's where we can
have our final TP at if we have multiple
contracts. But right now, you know,
that's where the imbalance is at for
sure.
So, let's go ahead and show you the
indicator. See, up imbalance is green.
The candles turn green. When you have a
strong candle, it turns blue. Um, a down
imbalance is red. And then you have the
down power candles. Those are yellow.
So, this is something that helps me out,
too. So, when I start seeing these
strong candles closing like powerful
candles, that means that we should
continue to melt down more. That's what
I'm seeing. But, just go ahead just melt
this. Hey, y'all seeing it? Go ahead and
just Hey, baby. Don't come back. I don't
want no problem. Just go ahead and get
through there. See, that was a strong
cannon. Y'all saw that. Just go ahead.
Just go ahead and don't even don't even
pull back. Don't just go. Just go. Just
go. Just go. Just go. We don't want no
problems. No smoke. We don't want no
heat. We want to go straight through
here. Take us straight through there.
Just go on ahead and come on. Just go.
Just go on ahead. See? And this. So now,
mind you, this is another imbalance
right here to me, the way I look at
things. And this would could have been
another entry if it pulls back again,
which I don't even want it to do that.
We only got one contract. We ain't
trying to add nothing. We trying to just
get in. We trying to get out. We don't
want no problems, market makers. All we
want to do is get us a little cheese and
go head on. That's it. That's it. Now, I
really want to take this all the way
down to the TP right here. I really want
to take it down there. But see,
we got to run into this PC and I don't
know what's going to happen when we get
there. So, we have to kind of
just let it do what it's going to do.
This when I started getting skeptical,
you know,
uh, but you guys are watching it here
live, so I'm not turning it off. You
guys are going to see me take this
trade. You saw me lose that. Well, you
you didn't see me lose other trade, but
you saw what happened with the other
trade. You saw me enter that trade. You
saw me with this trade with my emotions
involved. You saw that the trade is
going our way right now, but I don't
still don't feel that we're Oh, we see
it's going to this imbalance right here.
Watch. Watch this. It's going to go
right here. See, that's the imbalance
right there. It just filled it. Now,
don't you already filled it. We don't
want no more problems. Just go on head
on. Look, you already filled that
imbalance.
Just keep on. Your job is done, right?
Just gohead. Come on. See, man. You
playing now. See, this my emotions start
getting involved. Y'all
don't do it to me. Just go on head on,
man. Because this could have just been a
pullback too. This when my mind start
wondering like what's going on.
Is we gone or is we gone?
So you guys see hitting the good, bad,
and the ugly.
I could have got a better entry on that
trade. And see now
this make you just want to get out,
don't it?
We already in, guys. [snorts]
Stop with these gangs, man. Just go on
head on.
Just don't do it. See, I have multiple
better interest I could have had.
Good, bad, or ugly, we in it, guys. So,
it's what it is, man.
Don't do it to me, though. Do got that.
We do got that VWOP up there, too. I
hope it ain't trying to just go there
cuz that's what happened. It go there
and it just hit the VWOP and then turn
back around. Man, I don't want no
problems. Just go on head on. You
already hit the imbalance. You It's
already balanced. Just come on down,
baby. Just come on down. We don't want
no problems.
I shouldn't have See, I said in I should
have wait. Oh, that was a strong candle.
Okay, that was an imbalance. Oh, dang.
[clears throat]
[snorts]
Hurry up and rushing.
Hurry up and rushed.
Hurried up and rushed.
And if I lose this trade,
guess what?
The jig is up.
I'm done for the day, guys. I hope you
guys enjoyed this video. You guys got to
saw me lose two trades.
Getting into Look, look. Watch this.
This what happened, right? It's because
I be rushing. But watch, but watch but
watch the price, y'all. Watch it. Just
watch it. It's going to probably go to
the VWAP. Russian.
Russian, man. Russian, rushing, rushing
to go nowhere. Well, let's check the
account.
Getting ugly for us.
$172.24.
Well, I hope you guys enjoy this video.
So again, if you're not subscribed, make
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me a thumbs up cuz we need it. I'm
salty, man. Dang. [clears throat] See
you guys on the next one.