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2 |1 |00:00:18 ~-~-> 00:00:25 |ICT: I'm happy new year, folks, so I want to start this 2025, lecture series
3 |2 |00:00:25 ~-~-> 00:00:30 |with a little bit of housekeeping. See these are the things that you are not
4 |3 |00:00:30 ~-~-> 00:00:38 |entitled to see anyone that trades and shows their their skill online unless
5 |4 |00:00:38 ~-~-> 00:00:43 |they're offering a signal service, which I don't do. You're not entitled to have
6 |5 |00:00:43 ~-~-> 00:00:47 |this information, okay? And when people ask, show me this, show me that, show me
7 |6 |00:00:47 ~-~-> 00:00:55 |this. You know that's something that you're not entitled to see. But just to
8 |7 |00:00:55 ~-~-> 00:01:01 |be a good sport, we were supposed to see a lot of stuff happen in 2024 and it
9 |8 |00:01:02 ~-~-> 00:01:07 |didn't happen, did it? So as a consolation prize, I'm going to show you
10 |9 |00:01:08 ~-~-> 00:01:15 |in 2025 what you can do with what I taught in this YouTube channel, and I'm
11 |10 |00:01:15 ~-~-> 00:01:21 |showing you actual broker statements. Market Replay never offers this and they
12 |11 |00:01:21 ~-~-> 00:01:26 |don't send you broker statements for a demo account. Okay, so I want you to
13 |12 |00:01:26 ~-~-> 00:01:31 |understand that this brokerage firm, I'm not repping them, I'm not suggesting
14 |13 |00:01:31 ~-~-> 00:01:35 |that you open up an account with them, but I do enjoy the service they offer
15 |14 |00:01:35 ~-~-> 00:01:42 |me. I haven't had any real major issues with them and their commission costs and
16 |15 |00:01:42 ~-~-> 00:01:49 |fees are pretty reasonable. It costs $10 for one mini contract to be cleared with
17 |16 |00:01:49 ~-~-> 00:01:55 |NFA fees and whatnot. So everything that you would expect to pay for a round turn
18 |17 |00:01:55 ~-~-> 00:02:00 |commission whatnot is 10 bucks per contract. And you can see the running
19 |18 |00:02:00 ~-~-> 00:02:04 |tally at the bottom. And I'm not going to go through every single one of these
20 |19 |00:02:04 ~-~-> 00:02:10 |things, but I'm going to show you how I'm going to break down the content of
21 |20 |00:02:10 ~-~-> 00:02:16 |what I taught in 2024 so if you have not watched the 2024 mentorship videos, this
22 |21 |00:02:16 ~-~-> 00:02:22 |is an opportunity for you to go through that in the month of January. My actual
23 |22 |00:02:22 ~-~-> 00:02:28 |trading doesn't really kick off until around the second week of February. And
24 |23 |00:02:28 ~-~-> 00:02:33 |the the teachings really aren't going to be teachings in the sense that I'm
25 |24 |00:02:34 ~-~-> 00:02:39 |redoing the 2024 mentorship. But what I am doing, as you can see, I'm not
26 |25 |00:02:39 ~-~-> 00:02:43 |trading every single day. So take a look at those dates. I'm scrolling through
27 |26 |00:02:43 ~-~-> 00:02:47 |this so you can see it. And unfortunately, because this broker has a
28 |27 |00:02:47 ~-~-> 00:02:54 |huge issue with sharing broker statements online, which, you know, I
29 |28 |00:02:54 ~-~-> 00:02:58 |can respect that I do have to block out a lot of things. But the things that are
30 |29 |00:02:58 ~-~-> 00:03:02 |pertinent, like how many contracts I've traded. You can look at the commission
31 |30 |00:03:02 ~-~-> 00:03:06 |costs and just divide it by $10 and you'll give you how many times I traded
32 |31 |00:03:06 ~-~-> 00:03:10 |to get the numbers that I'm showing. But you can also see I'm not trading a lot.
33 |32 |00:03:10 ~-~-> 00:03:16 |Okay, the dates are what they are here, and I want you to think about how in
34 |33 |00:03:16 ~-~-> 00:03:29 |2025 all the content that I taught. How would ICT me, Michael, how would I use
35 |34 |00:03:29 ~-~-> 00:03:33 |that information if I want to sit down and create a model just to start trading
36 |35 |00:03:34 ~-~-> 00:03:39 |and work with income only, not trying to beat competitions, not trying to be, you
37 |36 |00:03:39 ~-~-> 00:03:46 |know, the big head honcho on the block, but just to make money, and I want you
38 |37 |00:03:46 ~-~-> 00:03:56 |to think about how you could change the way you've been doing things. Start
39 |38 |00:03:56 ~-~-> 00:04:00 |focusing on just trying to be in your own little bubble. You're not trying to
40 |39 |00:04:00 ~-~-> 00:04:04 |impress anybody else. You're not trying to show your broker statements online,
41 |40 |00:04:05 ~-~-> 00:04:08 |because when you do that type of stuff, it creates a competitive mindset, and
42 |41 |00:04:08 ~-~-> 00:04:13 |you're competing with yourself. And I'm I'm of the opinion that there's no other
43 |42 |00:04:13 ~-~-> 00:04:19 |competition out there, so I'm completely content with a lot of you not liking the
44 |43 |00:04:19 ~-~-> 00:04:24 |fact that I'm not willing to do what most of you want me to do, but I think
45 |44 |00:04:24 ~-~-> 00:04:27 |if you watch the numbers here, and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
46 |45 |00:04:28 ~-~-> 00:04:32 |But with that said, I want you to think about how this is not a promise that
47 |46 |00:04:32 ~-~-> 00:04:36 |what I taught on my YouTube channel is going to make you money. It doesn't mean
48 |47 |00:04:36 ~-~-> 00:04:39 |that you're going to be able to be flawless in your trading. It doesn't
49 |48 |00:04:39 ~-~-> 00:04:42 |mean that you're not going to have losing trades. It doesn't mean that you
50 |49 |00:04:42 ~-~-> 00:04:48 |won't blow your account. Just means that this is how I would use the information
51 |50 |00:04:48 ~-~-> 00:04:54 |that I produced and shared for free on my YouTube channel in 2024 if I was a
52 |51 |00:04:54 ~-~-> 00:05:00 |brand new student and I did due diligence of going through the 20. Four
53 |52 |00:05:00 ~-~-> 00:05:07 |content. How would I sit down and flesh out a model using that information? And
54 |53 |00:05:07 ~-~-> 00:05:12 |I'm going to share my own opinion on how I would use the resources that I made
55 |54 |00:05:12 ~-~-> 00:05:19 |available to you in 2024 and I'm going to go through every single component
56 |55 |00:05:19 ~-~-> 00:05:23 |during the month of January, and how I'm going to implement those individual
57 |56 |00:05:23 ~-~-> 00:05:29 |components. So that way you'll see how this jigsaw puzzle fits together, which,
58 |57 |00:05:29 ~-~-> 00:05:34 |in my opinion, is a better way of simply outlining my trading model. Now this is
59 |58 |00:05:34 ~-~-> 00:05:38 |not my trading model that I've always been using, but what you're seeing here
60 |59 |00:05:38 ~-~-> 00:05:42 |is the results of the very thing that I'm going to outline during this month,
61 |60 |00:05:43 ~-~-> 00:05:49 |and I'll be implementing it again throughout the entirety of 2025 the
62 |61 |00:05:49 ~-~-> 00:05:53 |focus is not to make millions and millions of dollars. It's to show you
63 |62 |00:05:53 ~-~-> 00:06:00 |how you can start with a very gradual, low expectation in the beginning of the
64 |63 |00:06:00 ~-~-> 00:06:06 |year and just start carving out a really nice return each month. Let it grow a
65 |64 |00:06:06 ~-~-> 00:06:11 |little bit. You're not trying to go crazy with it, but you're trying to grow
66 |65 |00:06:12 ~-~-> 00:06:20 |into a trader that can consistently take money out of the marketplace. That
67 |66 |00:06:20 ~-~-> 00:06:23 |should be your goal. It should not be. You're trying to get the biggest wins.
68 |67 |00:06:24 ~-~-> 00:06:30 |It should be. Am I able to make my ends meet? And I worked diligently this year
69 |68 |00:06:32 ~-~-> 00:06:38 |trying to make sure that I was able to teach my kids how to focus on building
70 |69 |00:06:38 ~-~-> 00:06:45 |income. Not get rich, but build income. And I think that around 50 to $60,000 a
71 |70 |00:06:45 ~-~-> 00:06:52 |year is a pretty respectable amount of money for your first year. And if anyone
72 |71 |00:06:52 ~-~-> 00:06:57 |wants to argue with that, you know, I'm not interested. So you probably noticed
73 |72 |00:06:57 ~-~-> 00:07:00 |that the comment section is turned off because I don't want to hear your
74 |73 |00:07:00 ~-~-> 00:07:05 |opinions, I'm not on X anymore. My Account sits there in IO but I'm not
75 |74 |00:07:05 ~-~-> 00:07:08 |going to be looking at people's opinions, because these are people that
76 |75 |00:07:08 ~-~-> 00:07:11 |don't know what I do. They don't know anything about me, and they only know
77 |76 |00:07:11 ~-~-> 00:07:16 |what I show and the showmanship stuff ends on this video. ICT is done, and
78 |77 |00:07:16 ~-~-> 00:07:20 |then now you're just going to have Michael, okay, so there's going to be a
79 |78 |00:07:20 ~-~-> 00:07:24 |whole lot of grandstanding, and Tom fuller in 2025 it's just the nuts and
80 |79 |00:07:24 ~-~-> 00:07:29 |bolts. And here it is, but I wanted to walk through and show you with a real,
81 |80 |00:07:29 ~-~-> 00:07:33 |regulated broker. This is real money, okay? And commissions are being paid.
82 |81 |00:07:36 ~-~-> 00:07:42 |How can this information be used in a setting that's not demo that's not paper
83 |82 |00:07:42 ~-~-> 00:07:49 |trading, okay, and it's real money. And by running up an account with the
84 |83 |00:07:49 ~-~-> 00:07:53 |mindset that you're not trying to get rich, but you are trying to carve out an
85 |84 |00:07:53 ~-~-> 00:07:58 |income consistently. You're not trying to expand and pyramid and go crazy just
86 |85 |00:07:58 ~-~-> 00:08:03 |going in there and taking out surgical strikes that make sense winning and
87 |86 |00:08:03 ~-~-> 00:08:08 |moving to the sidelines and being content. You're not trying to be the
88 |87 |00:08:08 ~-~-> 00:08:15 |best trader in the world, but so many of you want to do that because most of you
89 |88 |00:08:15 ~-~-> 00:08:21 |are male. Okay? So instead of trying to be the apex trader, the top of the heap
90 |89 |00:08:21 ~-~-> 00:08:26 |trader. Let's just focus on 2025 on being consistently profitable. And if
91 |90 |00:08:26 ~-~-> 00:08:30 |that means you only make $5,000 at the end of the year, guess what? That's
92 |91 |00:08:30 ~-~-> 00:08:33 |$5,000 that you didn't have at the beginning of the year. And that's what I
93 |92 |00:08:33 ~-~-> 00:08:39 |want to foster in terms of a mindset. So I think if you pay attention to the
94 |93 |00:08:39 ~-~-> 00:08:42 |numbers here, they'll add up very handsomely. You.