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2 | |1 |00:00:07 ~-~-> 00:00:13 |ICT: Back folks, where we looking at the focus on index futures. I'm not going to | ||
3 | |2 |00:00:13 ~-~-> 00:00:19 |do the forex and Dollar Index. It's pretty much crummy technical day Dollar | ||
4 | |3 |00:00:19 ~-~-> 00:00:26 |Index pulled back into that inner middle of the version. Provide you cap, as I | ||
5 | |4 |00:00:26 ~-~-> 00:00:30 |was indicating last night, and just hanging around there. So we'll see if it | ||
6 | |5 |00:00:30 ~-~-> 00:00:36 |gives up, the goes there, or it finds some discount sensitivity there. So | ||
7 | |6 |00:00:36 ~-~-> 00:00:42 |we're playing it by ear, at least that's what I'm doing. September 23 2025 for | ||
8 | |7 |00:00:42 ~-~-> 00:00:46 |focus on the next futures. And this is December contract, Christmas, NQ | ||
9 | |8 |00:00:47 ~-~-> 00:00:48 |nasdaqi, mini futures. | ||
10 | |9 |00:00:53 ~-~-> 00:00:59 |If you recall last night, I mentioned that we were near a intermediate term | ||
11 | |10 |00:00:59 ~-~-> 00:01:04 |high here, I want to kind of teach that tonight, as to, you know what led me to | ||
12 | |11 |00:01:04 ~-~-> 00:01:09 |believe that it was going to do this today? So we had this nice volume | ||
13 | |12 |00:01:09 ~-~-> 00:01:13 |imbalance I mentioned when we were trading back here and trading down to | ||
14 | |13 |00:01:13 ~-~-> 00:01:17 |that made the low rejected off of that. And then it started going parabolic, | ||
15 | |14 |00:01:17 ~-~-> 00:01:24 |going straight up, covering a lot of ground. And one of the, I guess the | ||
16 | |15 |00:01:24 ~-~-> 00:01:31 |easiest way to describe it is when it's breaking out to all new, all time highs, | ||
17 | |16 |00:01:31 ~-~-> 00:01:37 |and it's doing it in a lot of strength, leaving inefficiencies open, not coming | ||
18 | |17 |00:01:37 ~-~-> 00:01:45 |back down into the volume and balance here, it just keeps powering higher. And | ||
19 | |18 |00:01:45 ~-~-> 00:01:49 |if it feels like if you were a brand new trader, you would just chase that going | ||
20 | |19 |00:01:49 ~-~-> 00:01:55 |long any anywhere during the day. That's usually indicative of when a blow off | ||
21 | |20 |00:01:55 ~-~-> 00:02:01 |type move or a intermediate term high is likely to form, because the public | ||
22 | |21 |00:02:01 ~-~-> 00:02:05 |seeing this, okay, when Street Money sees these types of tearing higher in | ||
23 | |22 |00:02:05 ~-~-> 00:02:09 |price, they just want to accumulate whatever long position they can and just | ||
24 | |23 |00:02:09 ~-~-> 00:02:14 |hold on to it and think they can make a lot of money off of it. So we're gonna | ||
25 | |24 |00:02:14 ~-~-> 00:02:17 |take a look at the one minute chart, because that's what the intermediate | ||
26 | |25 |00:02:17 ~-~-> 00:02:21 |term high is going to form. We're using the daily chart for bias and direction | ||
27 | |26 |00:02:21 ~-~-> 00:02:27 |and key sensitive levels, but the structure is inside of the intraday | ||
28 | |27 |00:02:27 ~-~-> 00:02:30 |chart, and since I'm taking you into the one minute chart on and Q all the time, | ||
29 | |28 |00:02:31 ~-~-> 00:02:37 |we're going to be looking at this overall market structure here, once you | ||
30 | |29 |00:02:38 ~-~-> 00:02:43 |take advantage of Having these levels on your chart, not just on my visual | ||
31 | |30 |00:02:43 ~-~-> 00:02:49 |representations here. So put your quadrant levels on this premium wick, | ||
32 | |31 |00:02:50 ~-~-> 00:03:00 |and note the levels in here and now just showing the upper quadrant and the | ||
33 | |32 |00:03:00 ~-~-> 00:03:05 |consequent encroachment of this premium wick. So I did not highlight the high. | ||
34 | |33 |00:03:05 ~-~-> 00:03:10 |Did not highlight the lower quadrant or the low of that premium wick. You can | ||
35 | |34 |00:03:10 ~-~-> 00:03:15 |see that being showcased down here. So we have cell solid liquidity, relative | ||
36 | |35 |00:03:15 ~-~-> 00:03:19 |equal lows. And as I mentioned, that's my intermediate term high. So if it's | ||
37 | |36 |00:03:19 ~-~-> 00:03:23 |going to be an intermediate term high, what could it likely draw down into on | ||
38 | |37 |00:03:23 ~-~-> 00:03:28 |that premium wick here? Okay, now classic support resistance would say, | ||
39 | |38 |00:03:29 ~-~-> 00:03:33 |just take that old high, draw that out in time. And when it trades down there, | ||
40 | |39 |00:03:33 ~-~-> 00:03:39 |it should bounce. It didn't do that. Did it? So we want to look inside these | ||
41 | |40 |00:03:39 ~-~-> 00:03:43 |inefficiencies, because they're just like gaps, and by having the upper | ||
42 | |41 |00:03:43 ~-~-> 00:03:47 |quadrant and consequent encroachment, which defines whether or not this is | ||
43 | |42 |00:03:47 ~-~-> 00:03:53 |going to be a attenuation of a deeper retracement, or if it's just coming back | ||
44 | |43 |00:03:53 ~-~-> 00:03:58 |down in here to consolidate and send it even higher. So we're going to take a | ||
45 | |44 |00:03:58 ~-~-> 00:04:05 |look at a question that you might have. So where is the intermediate term high | ||
46 | |45 |00:04:05 ~-~-> 00:04:11 |once you take a look at the chart, pause the video I've done in this past, and a | ||
47 | |46 |00:04:11 ~-~-> 00:04:14 |lot of times, many of you just go real quickly through it. You don't take | ||
48 | |47 |00:04:14 ~-~-> 00:04:18 |advantage of the opportunity to try to study it. So pause the video and take a | ||
49 | |48 |00:04:18 ~-~-> 00:04:21 |look at what you might think the intermediate term high is on this time | ||
50 | |49 |00:04:21 ~-~-> 00:04:23 |frame the one minute chart. | ||
51 | |50 |00:04:28 ~-~-> 00:04:33 |Right for those that didn't want to pause, you missed the opportunity, | ||
52 | |51 |00:04:34 ~-~-> 00:04:38 |there's your intermediate term high. Okay, so I'm going to zoom in a little | ||
53 | |52 |00:04:38 ~-~-> 00:04:45 |bit and scroll over to the right side of the chart, and that same high is here. | ||
54 | |53 |00:04:45 ~-~-> 00:04:51 |So we have a high, a lower high and a lower high, and as a smaller little | ||
55 | |54 |00:04:51 ~-~-> 00:04:58 |high, here and here and here and here. So using what I learned from Larry | ||
56 | |55 |00:04:58 ~-~-> 00:05:03 |Williams and. This is his market structure application. It's very | ||
57 | |56 |00:05:03 ~-~-> 00:05:12 |simplistic. It's very easy, it's visual. I would admit that there is some measure | ||
58 | |57 |00:05:12 ~-~-> 00:05:17 |of subjectivity to it, but over time and experience, you'll you'll see how they | ||
59 | |58 |00:05:17 ~-~-> 00:05:23 |use the right swing highs and swing lows. And I'll kind of like Mark this | ||
60 | |59 |00:05:23 ~-~-> 00:05:27 |out with you, to kind of draw the narrative on what I see here, what I saw | ||
61 | |60 |00:05:27 ~-~-> 00:05:37 |today. So we had high, low, high, lower, low, and that high there. So these are | ||
62 | |61 |00:05:38 ~-~-> 00:05:42 |short term highs, intermittent high, intermediate term high is any high that | ||
63 | |62 |00:05:42 ~-~-> 00:05:48 |has two lower short term highs to the right, left of it. We also have it in | ||
64 | |63 |00:05:48 ~-~-> 00:05:53 |those smaller scale here, because it's fractal. But now when this price leg | ||
65 | |64 |00:05:53 ~-~-> 00:05:57 |starts to break lower and takes out these relative equal lows when I'm | ||
66 | |65 |00:05:57 ~-~-> 00:06:01 |looking for enemy term high, as I indicated I was last night, this is a | ||
67 | |66 |00:06:01 ~-~-> 00:06:06 |shift in market structure. So the market goes up into this consolidation right | ||
68 | |67 |00:06:06 ~-~-> 00:06:12 |before the 930 opening. So it creates this, like real smooth edge. And it's | ||
69 | |68 |00:06:12 ~-~-> 00:06:17 |tricky, because you might expect it to run up there and wipe out the buy side | ||
70 | |69 |00:06:17 ~-~-> 00:06:22 |and then break lower. You have to wait. You have to wait for it to just tear off | ||
71 | |70 |00:06:22 ~-~-> 00:06:27 |and go lower. So we're going to look at all this price action in here. Zoom in. | ||
72 | |71 |00:06:29 ~-~-> 00:06:33 |Here's that enemy term high, and here's those relative equal highs. And look how | ||
73 | |72 |00:06:33 ~-~-> 00:06:38 |the market was just stabbing up air, very volatile, just punching up air, | ||
74 | |73 |00:06:38 ~-~-> 00:06:42 |punching up air, punching up air, and then ripping lower, tearing off into | ||
75 | |74 |00:06:42 ~-~-> 00:06:46 |that sell side liquidity pool there, and then creating the first presenter fair | ||
76 | |75 |00:06:46 ~-~-> 00:06:50 |value cut, which we'll look at in a moment. We're going to scroll forward in | ||
77 | |76 |00:06:50 ~-~-> 00:06:56 |time. So here's those relative equal highs, and the market breaks lower, | ||
78 | |77 |00:06:59 ~-~-> 00:07:06 |creates a little bit of an imbalance in here. Now you might look at this small | ||
79 | |78 |00:07:06 ~-~-> 00:07:11 |little gap right there and call that your first presenter fair value gap. And | ||
80 | |79 |00:07:11 ~-~-> 00:07:18 |if you did, there's nothing wrong with that. Okay, but I like to use the more | ||
81 | |80 |00:07:18 ~-~-> 00:07:26 |pronounced, the obvious displacement one here. Okay, so while I'm showing you | ||
82 | |81 |00:07:26 ~-~-> 00:07:30 |this, don't be discouraged if you see this small little section, because I | ||
83 | |82 |00:07:31 ~-~-> 00:07:37 |told you it can be one tick, but I'm going to be more likely to pick a | ||
84 | |83 |00:07:38 ~-~-> 00:07:43 |inefficiency that's much more protracted. In other words, it's it's | ||
85 | |84 |00:07:43 ~-~-> 00:07:48 |done more of a displacement in my direction being lower, I want to see it | ||
86 | |85 |00:07:48 ~-~-> 00:07:52 |be, you know, very strong, like it's shown here. So this is how I've | ||
87 | |86 |00:07:52 ~-~-> 00:07:57 |classified my first sense of fair value cap. Today, the market breaks lower | ||
88 | |87 |00:07:57 ~-~-> 00:08:01 |after touching into it. Here, bodies respecting it creates relative equal | ||
89 | |88 |00:08:01 ~-~-> 00:08:05 |highs when it trades down here, consolidates, digs right back up into | ||
90 | |89 |00:08:05 ~-~-> 00:08:10 |that first participatory backup, and the buy sides taken here breaks one more | ||
91 | |90 |00:08:10 ~-~-> 00:08:14 |time, leaves these relative equal highs, comes right back up into first Pacific, | ||
92 | |91 |00:08:14 ~-~-> 00:08:20 |right back up and breaks lower, and then breaks below this low as well. And we're | ||
93 | |92 |00:08:20 ~-~-> 00:08:24 |going to see going to see going forward now we're going to jump a little bit | ||
94 | |93 |00:08:24 ~-~-> 00:08:29 |more in the future of the day in the chart now, after the sell side is | ||
95 | |94 |00:08:29 ~-~-> 00:08:35 |annotated. So now we can have our reference point here. So those two suit | ||
96 | |95 |00:08:35 ~-~-> 00:08:39 |lungs rather as well, just showcasing and the market breaks slower comes back | ||
97 | |96 |00:08:39 ~-~-> 00:08:46 |up into another reclaimed fair value gap there, and the market creates relative | ||
98 | |97 |00:08:46 ~-~-> 00:08:50 |equal lows again, trades right back up into the reclaimed fair value gap breaks | ||
99 | |98 |00:08:51 ~-~-> 00:08:55 |low, relative equal lows in the old sell side of the coding pool and trades up | ||
100 | |99 |00:08:55 ~-~-> 00:09:01 |into a bearish fair value gap breaks Lower. Consecutive of closed candles is | ||
101 | |100 |00:09:01 ~-~-> 00:09:06 |your bearish order block and change the state of delivery at that candles open, | ||
102 | |101 |00:09:06 ~-~-> 00:09:14 |it accumulates more shorts by Smart Money breaks lower again, bearish order | ||
103 | |102 |00:09:14 ~-~-> 00:09:19 |block change in state delivery. Smart Money would accumulate new shorts in | ||
104 | |103 |00:09:19 ~-~-> 00:09:24 |there, adding same thing on this up close candle, bearish order, block, | ||
105 | |104 |00:09:24 ~-~-> 00:09:28 |change in state, delivery trades up into it. There. Smart Money would be | ||
106 | |105 |00:09:28 ~-~-> 00:09:32 |accumulating more shorts, bigger meeting, adding, breaking, lower. Then | ||
107 | |106 |00:09:32 ~-~-> 00:09:36 |we have a fair value gap here. It's bearish trade up into it. Notice all | ||
108 | |107 |00:09:36 ~-~-> 00:09:43 |this to wicks, just very, very heavy as it's reaching for the upper quadrant of | ||
109 | |108 |00:09:43 ~-~-> 00:09:49 |this premium link. The check marker is indicated. It touches down on the daily | ||
110 | |109 |00:09:49 ~-~-> 00:09:55 |objective of that upper quadrant. You see that happening here as well. After | ||
111 | |110 |00:09:55 ~-~-> 00:09:58 |that, we have a little bit of a bounce up, and there's inefficiency that did | ||
112 | |111 |00:09:58 ~-~-> 00:10:04 |not note and. And showing more data, we just hammered it one more time. Let me | ||
113 | |112 |00:10:04 ~-~-> 00:10:08 |look at this. This is what you expect to see when you read books about classic | ||
114 | |113 |00:10:08 ~-~-> 00:10:14 |support and resistance. This is not classic support and resistance. Okay, so | ||
115 | |114 |00:10:14 ~-~-> 00:10:18 |these are my concepts that I've gifted to the community, and you're you're | ||
116 | |115 |00:10:18 ~-~-> 00:10:22 |learning more about them and how to utilize them in this portion of my | ||
117 | |116 |00:10:22 ~-~-> 00:10:26 |lectures, but the when they're used in concert with what everything else | ||
118 | |117 |00:10:26 ~-~-> 00:10:32 |taught, it really gives you an x ray view of what price is likely to rebound | ||
119 | |118 |00:10:32 ~-~-> 00:10:38 |off of or draw to. And you can see this, the beautiful respect over here with the | ||
120 | |119 |00:10:38 ~-~-> 00:10:42 |bodies. The bodies here, yes, he had errant wicket in here, but the bodies | ||
121 | |120 |00:10:42 ~-~-> 00:10:48 |are accumulating around that same quadrant level. And if I'm just pulling | ||
122 | |121 |00:10:48 ~-~-> 00:10:53 |back off the lows of the day, hopefully you'll get some more movement in $1 | ||
123 | |122 |00:10:54 ~-~-> 00:11:00 |index and the forex pairs tomorrow or on Thursday, and I'll resume talking about | ||
124 | |123 |00:11:00 ~-~-> 00:11:04 |them, but until it breaks out of where it's at. Now, it's not that I'm worth | ||
125 | |124 |00:11:04 ~-~-> 00:11:08 |spending any time, you know, doing anything with it, so I'll keep my focus | ||
126 | |125 |00:11:08 ~-~-> 00:11:13 |on the NASDAQ for now, and I appreciate all the very kind sentiments you are all | ||
127 | |126 |00:11:13 ~-~-> 00:11:21 |sending me by x and on my comments on the video or an email, I don't have time | ||
128 | |127 |00:11:21 ~-~-> 00:11:25 |to reply to everybody, so I'm just going to blanket respond to all of you. I am | ||
129 | |128 |00:11:25 ~-~-> 00:11:30 |very thankful, and I appreciate it. I know a lot of you don't look at dogs as | ||
130 | |129 |00:11:30 ~-~-> 00:11:36 |anything else that particular, but I am a pet lover. I'm a dog dad, and I've | ||
131 | |130 |00:11:36 ~-~-> 00:11:42 |looked at her like like one of my kids, and it's very hurtful to see that she's | ||
132 | |131 |00:11:42 ~-~-> 00:11:46 |not in my home anymore. I had the two little ones here, and they're running | ||
133 | |132 |00:11:46 ~-~-> 00:11:50 |around the house, sniffing and looking for and it just feels like there's a big | ||
134 | |133 |00:11:50 ~-~-> 00:11:55 |hole punched in my heart right now, and I'm just working through it. So I | ||
135 | |134 |00:11:55 ~-~-> 00:12:00 |appreciate it. You. | ||
136 | |135 |00:12:06 ~-~-> 00:12:09 |Thank you again for your continued interest, and hopefully you found this | ||
137 | |136 |00:12:09 ~-~-> 00:12:13 |one insightful I'll talk to you next time. Wish you good luck and good | ||
138 | |137 |00:12:13 ~-~-> 00:12:14 |trading. |