ICT YT - 2018-01-03 - ICT January 03 2018.srt

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ICT: Well, Happy New Year, folks, welcome to 2018. This is the first episode,
the internal trader on YouTube. So we've been looking at the cables is British

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Pound USD. Now this pairs hindsight, I didn't do anything with this pair. But
this is what I do, I'm showing you how I do it. During the time of the year when

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I'm not active, I still am very much interested in what price has been doing. So
I always look at it after the day closes, mark up the charts and see what

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symmetry it all is in the marketplace. I use it for journaling, I use it for
staying connected to the price action, even though I'm not going to be actively

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trading with normal leverage or in normal capacity until usually the third week
of January. So I let the first two weeks of January in trade without me. And

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then around the third week of January uses Tuesday of that week, then on then
and only then I'll look to get engaged price action with with live trades with a

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little bit more meaningful leverage that took a very, very small position in the
euro dollar. I tweeted that earlier this afternoon. But you see what I'm

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referring to in chart form. But I showed you the details with the time of entry
and exit and such you can see what it was really, really small position. But I

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do that when I think there is something in the chart for me to engage with. But
because of the holiday rut that we're coming out of it, I don't trust the price

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action, and there's going to be times when the market is going to be screaming
and those individuals that hear me say those types of things. Well, you know, I

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CTS foolish because look what happened? Well, in my experience, I've been around
for a while. Even though being 45 year old and having a rather comfortable life.

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I've seen a lot of things go wrong this time of year when I try to trade it. So
it's up to you whether you want to listen to a person that's been doing a whole

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lot longer than you, okay, I'm just telling you, from my personal experience the
first couple weeks of January, it's generally not that predictable or precise.

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Now there's going to be times when it is and you're going to be lulled into
thinking well you know that rules no longer applicable. Well, you can do that

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under saying I'm not going to do that. Okay, so I'm trying to tell you how I
walk the walk and not just talk the talk. So I want to take your attention to

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this old high here. This is a daily chart for the cable rich on USD. And as
price started running through this was yesterday. And everyone obviously saw

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price go above these highs. And I'm sure everyone was thinking naturally this
high was going to be the one that day one run out because of the beginning of

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the year effect. Okay, so now we're it's it's the January start of a new year.
Okay, you can see here we're the time of this recording. It's little after 7pm

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New York time, or I am locally, and I live in New York, but I'm on the east
coast of the US. So this is my timezone and it's the third of January. So we're

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in a fresh year, fresh month. All the sentiment that is generally in play right
now tends to be challenged if not completely reversed. Or if it's going to

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continue usually there's a deep retracement that takes place before it starts to
resume. Then we've seen some bullishness on cable, we've now traded to an old

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high and through it, it did rather handsomely. But this was also one of the
reasons why I liked the euro dollar trade. Let's go down to a 15 minute chart.

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And we'll take a look at the cable on an intraday basis. Okay, so then we have a
15 minute timeframe on cable. And this is delineating today's price action. And

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I want to draw your attention to several things here. Number one, this is a
rather sloppy, but still nonetheless, a market maker sell model, the

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consolidation I see right here is what I'm going to mark out for you. Okay, so
it's a clear, obvious range. And yes, we have a drop down here, but I'm looking

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at price action, creating consolidation in the run out, it returns back to the
range, re accumulation know the area of accumulation, it runs out the area of

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accumulation and makes the high Smart Money reversal, low risk cell
redistribution and it trades back down to what right below the original

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consolidation. And just for good measure does trade below this low back here the
low on this candle and just you know, this is an actual Live account. So it's

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not like my forex Ltd demo account. So the data, you're gonna be comparing it,
it's going to be slightly skewed. So just be mindful that what I'm showing you

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Today is a Live account only because it has had seamless price delivery, the
demo account for forex Ltd, which is what I usually use for my teaching. It's

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missing some data

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because of the holidays, and they tend to get crappy and really sloppy or with
their data couple times a year, but it is what it is. So the logon on this

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candle comes in at 134 93.9. And the low on this is 93. Three, so it's
definitely went below or not by much, but certainly did exactly what the market

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maker model for selling. Okay, in other words, they ramp up price price in a
premium, and then sell it off. Okay, that's what we've seen. And this is this

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old daily high. Okay, so that old daily high that's at that level is here,
135 48 for this particular datafeed. And I want to draw in a couple things, I

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want to draw your attention to certain elements. And this is how I mark up the
charts. And this is how I print them. And it's not put them in my journal. Now I

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add other notes to them that are personal, which I think everyone should have
that measure of privacy in your charts. So I won't include everything in here.

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But I'll give you enough to give you an example. So we'll be doing this on a day
by day basis. And I won't be doing this much jawboning about it, it'll just be

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there. I'll talk about it. And it'll be a really short video. But since it's the
first video of the year, I got to give you something close to 30 minutes, right.

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So we're going to take a look at the Fibonacci on a few things in here, I want
you to take a look at this range here. Okay, and I'm going to introduce a

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concept that you if you're new to me, there's going to be something neat.
Alright, so what we're looking at here is a measurement of the highest and

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lowest point of this consolidation. And what makes us a consolidation. It should
be obvious when you look at price, when price is creating a box, or a rectangle

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in consolidation, and it leaves it it'll be obvious many times after the fact,
when you're new. Over time, you'll see these formations and they create

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equilibrium. Okay, equilibrium is the midway point in here. So that's what I'm
measuring. So I'm measuring the lowest low and the highest high Now usually, you

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see me using the Fibonacci, placing it on the highest close or open, near swing
high, or near its lowest close or open on a swing low. That's for entry

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purposes. Now when we're looking at equilibrium, we're looking at the entire or
total range, the total range is the highest high and the lowest low. So that

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element right here for equilibrium, that's going to be important. So we're gonna
draw a line on it, so that we can remove the Fibonacci and work with it in other

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parts of the chart. So we have our level here, I'm just going to descend this up
a little bit. And give it a different color, something to draw different

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contrast. So let's do that. So it's a little bit different. So we're drawing a
distinction between the old daily high here, and now we have an equilibrium

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measurement, which will be used momentarily. So now we have two reference points
that are important. We have an old daily high, which we're thinking maybe is a

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run above, they're building this premium in or pumping it before they dump it
above this daily high. We can also see the element of equal highs in here and

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another consolidation, we would expect to see a run above that. Here's the
midnight candle. New York time says the New York opening price. Again, it's not

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the New York session, it's the ICT, New York open price, okay, what we sit for a
trigger mechanism for buying and selling for the daily range for power three

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concepts. So we have the opening price here, you extend that out across the day
until around one closer so you can see the Judas swing here, curse it rallies

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up, takes out equal highs, breaks down comes right back with it retest. The
opening price sells off, consolidates right ahead of the equilibrium price point

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of this range, okay? And then slices through it aggressively and does not waste
any time. Immediately guns for the liquidity resting below the consolidation are

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here. And for good measure, it runs out the low here just by a little bit, but
any orders that are at that level or just below it spread would get you. Okay,

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so we see the market going consolidation again, we'll probably see a trade a
little bit lower just for good measure. And I want to talk about a few elements

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to how you can project this low. Not that this isn't enough because we can use
the market maker sell model for specific price levels. But I want to draw your

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attention back to this consolidation here. And we can see that one third 552 and
a half, if we draw a fib, okay, from the hi appear.

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Again now because we're working with equilibrium and ranges, you have to use the
highest and the lowest price points, these are not entry points, okay? I used

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the highest open or closed and the lowest open or closed in a swing point for
measuring my actual price entry points. That is not the same thing here. And

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please don't be confused or listen to people that don't really have any interest
in what I'm teaching, they're going to say, I'm changing the rules. Now I'm

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teaching you something entirely different. And amplifying why it's important to
use the total range the highest high and the lowest level words, when we're

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using equilibrium reference points, you have to use the wicks. Now if you're
looking for entry price points, you're only focusing on volume, where the most

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buying and selling is where you're going to be measuring that with the bodies of
the candles, we're not doing that here completely different animal altogether.

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So we're using the highest high, and we're going to drag it down. So what I'm
looking for is the equal equilibrium price point level on the Fed, which is this

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one right here, keep your eye on that. I'm going to drag that down until it
lines up with this blue line. And I'll explain it in a minute.

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Okay, so now what we have done, we've measured the high and projected all the
way down until the equilibrium on the fib lays rate on the equilibrium of this

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consolidation, so that we can get a measurement of market symmetry. When this is
done, you get a totally different appreciation for market precision that you

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can't get from books. Okay. So what you're not getting is the actual low of the
day, it doesn't deviate by one, Pip. It doesn't deviate. Short of it, it goes

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right to it. These are the elements I like to see come the third week of
January. Now, they will not always be this precise, they will not always give

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you this measure of symmetry. around these couple days right after the holidays.
It just so happens that the things would be there today to warn these types of

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deliveries. Now, there are elements in crypto, which is the interbank price
delivery algorithm, okay, which creates the high low of the day, all these

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things are factored in mathematically. And they have an overlap with fib. There
is an application of Fibonacci that I use. And it's not the same thing you see

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that's regurgitated among other retail educators and such. Look at a Fibonacci
book, study Fibonacci, and you find this in there. Okay, it won't be there. This

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is what I do. This is what I teach. Because I have studied it, I've looked at
it. I've studied the algorithmic price movement that takes place in forex, and

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other markets. And all these things are at salutely. Pre determined, okay. So
when you see hallmarks like this, it gets fascinating, you start reaching and

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digging in deeper and deeper and deeper. And because I'm obsessively compulsive,
I have what would otherwise be viewed as a impediment by other people. It's

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actually a asset for me, because I won't let go of something. When I have it.
And I smell blood, I'm going after it. So these elements I look for in price

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action, I look for points of equilibrium, I look for the models to be there at
right now we've outlined enough to justify why this market should have acted the

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way it did today. Now, I did not trade this particular pair. I was studying this
one. But I wanted to participate in the euro dollar. So let's take a look over

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at the euro dollar now. And we'll mark this one up as well. All right, so the
euro dollar, same premise we saw yesterday, a big run up in price. Okay, we're

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well above this old high here. And I knew in my gut that everyone would be
expecting this high to be taken out. What in this run here, we have the high at

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120 80.3. And then we have the high here at 120 91. One, okay, so we fell short
of it. Everyone else would have been expecting this market high to be taken out,

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not me. So what I was looking for. And this was what gave me the the impulse to
want to be a seller. What I'm measuring here now because we're looking at entry

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points. Now we have to look at this element of the open in the high. In the low
arts. What we're looking for is the lowest open or close and the highest open or

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close relative to the swings. What I'm measuring is The most volume the actual
buying and selling that's occurred by looking at the bodies not the wicks Okay.

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Then what I do is I duplicate that range and I add it to the lowest open or
close again over here during this retracement and that gives me this high up

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here and we saw that high be pierced yesterday so I know we are really really
overbought and I didn't need to do any overbought indicator and RSI no Williams

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percent are no stochastics MACD, none of those things are necessary. We are
absolutely overbought, okay, we're overbought in relative terms to this high. In

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this low we are right at the top of the range. So I don't need an indicator to
tell me that we are overbought. So if we are overbought from a purely technical

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standpoint, not an indicator standpoint, a technical standpoint, and there is an
element of wanting to see that cable trade lower as well, I have two things

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going for me both cable wanting to suggest lower prices. Now euro dollar isn't
an area where it should look to sell off, I got a pretty good deal in terms of

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odds. So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna drop down into a 15 minute time
frame for the euro dollar, and do some analysis on that as well.

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Okay, so we're looking at the euro dollar to the 15 minute time frame. And I'm
gonna give you an idea what I acted on last night. And I did not want to stay up

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overnight, I didn't want to participate in London, I didn't want to do any of
those procedures that would otherwise lead well to entries, what I did was

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measured the highest body and the lowest body reference point relative to the
open or close. And that gives me an optimal trade entry rate in here. Okay, and

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admittedly, I was acting on this swing high right here. So we had a high, a
lower high and a lower high to the right of it. Okay, and then, on this candle

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right here was my entry. Okay, so as price was going up, because I'm having to
sell short when prices moving higher. That is a filter for me, I have to be a

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seller only when prices moving up. And I was using it as the middle of this
order block words. It was an upclose candle, I was anticipating a break down. It

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just so happens that it traded up higher. my stop loss was 35 pips. Okay, anyone
that understands my power three concept, I was using an early entry technique

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going around the Asian open and with the expectation that we have already made
the high the day before. So it should not trade through that. If I'm allowing

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myself to have a 35 PIP stop loss. I'm not concerned about anything. You can
just want to take some pips out I will look to mitigate the risk in that stop

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loss around the New York open. So we had price trade up, knock out this swing,
low swing high here. Come back into a bearish order block trades lower going

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Asian range comes back up here is the opening at midnight as the New York
opening price. We have our Judas swing here rallies back up to what 62%

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retracement level. Okay. Now had I been up, I would have sold short right here.
And then price breaks lower and ultimately reaches down into target to now let's

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draw a line out. You can see how that overlaps rather handsomely. Right there.
It's it, boom. Okay. So late in the day New York does in fact, hit that level.

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If you are not paying attention to this over here, which is something that you
shouldn't be doing if you're following my work. But you may have seen just this

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one. Again, because we're looking for entries, we're using the body's open highs
or closes the highest one and or the lowest open or close in the swing low.

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Again, beautiful symmetry 79% retracement level kicks off the swing trades
lower. What I was looking for was a move below this low. Okay, so I was looking

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for movement below here. And we know what's going to be resting below that cell
stops in the form of a 1020 and 30 PIP swing or sweep below that. And price does

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in fact go from here we have a low of 2025 and a half and the low comes in at
24. So basically about 20 pips, a swing below that let the run out stops. Now I

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don't personally think that it's done. I think we'll probably leave this
consolidation and go a little bit lower. Probably clean out the low we like

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below here. I don't know if we're going to go any lower than that yet. But this
is certainly enough. For me to do an exercise on, and I took and put a very,

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very small amount of leverage on it, it was a Live account trade, I tweeted The,
the results of it, something like $54 and some change. But just to show that 30

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some pips or so, which is what I teach is an objective. It's still possible. But
just because it's possible, I don't teach you or encourage you to go in there

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and do this. During this time of the year. I do it as a mode of practice. And I
still engage sometimes with a demo account in this time of the year. But I do

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not actively go in with my normal leverage, or with a Live account until around
the third week of January. Okay. So hopefully this is, you know, gave me some

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more clarity about what we can do with Fibonacci and elements about Fibonacci in
equilibrium, and still finding precision. It just so happens that these two

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examples are pretty precise, but I don't like to anticipate or expect that. This
immediately after the holidays. Generally, the markets can be rather fickle, and

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have really no symmetry whatsoever. But as you see here, it's relatively
symmetrical. Even though it's sloppy in here, a lot of reaching low or lower, it

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ultimately goes to where we would reasonably expect it to go to.

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Okay, so until next time, I wish you good luck and good trading.