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I trade for about two hours per day and
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so far that's added up to $280 ,000 in profits
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so far this year and this is while losing more than half of my trade.
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However, nine years ago when I started it looked nothing like this.
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I was frustrated losing money and wasting thousands of hours of time
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because I didn't have a proper plan and things only changed
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when I approached trading completely differently
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and built a simple repeatable system started with small risk around $25 per trade
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and worked on scaling that up once I could prove it worked.
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So in this video, I'm going to walk you through the complete process that I followed,
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starting with that $25 risk to now be able to risk $2 ,000 per trade
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and have my winning days anywhere from $10 ,000 to $20 ,000 in profit.
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So whether you're working full -time, you're in school, or you're already going full in on trading, this is the fastest way
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that I know to start trading with $100 without wasting a bunch of money and time the way I did.
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Okay, so let's get into it.
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Okay, so within one to two hours per day
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i'm going to show you exactly how to start trading with only a hundred dollars
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or less and before we hop into strategy
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or anything else the biggest thing to remember is having a game plan
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and actually following it is one of the most important things
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while you're learning to trade
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so we're going to go over first off what instrument to trade
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because there's a bunch of different options in the market whether it's futures crypto forex options
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then we're going to go into a simple repeatable trading strategy.
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And I'm going to show you the framework of exactly what I use each day.
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So you can look at it, get proof of concept and understand it.
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And then we're going to get into the actual game plan of how to start small
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and how to systematically increase that to be able to scale up to your actual dollar amount goal.
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Okay.
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A lot of people chase money right away in this process.
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And that's the last thing that we want to do.
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It's actually ideal to start small and only add fuel to the fire.
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Once you see the process working.
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Okay.
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In this process, I've deployed over the past four to five years of full -time trading.
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And right now, year to date, this is what I've been able to do with that.
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Like I said, with a 43 % win rate.
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Okay.
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And something with this to remember about trading is
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that it really has nothing to do with being right and feeling good that your call worked.
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The only thing that matters is whether or not the strategy in your execution is profitable over time.
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Anything else is a vanity metric, making you feel good that you were right about a trade.
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Professional traders don't think like that at all.
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It all comes down to two things inside of a system
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and by the end of this video you're going to understand
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that very clearly okay because in the beginning
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when i started this process this looked nothing like my trading
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it was very very different i would have loss after loss i would be afraid
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when i was actually in profit so i'd start taking trades off too soon
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and i was doing all of the wrong things
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that was holding me back until i had this exact strategy of scaling
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and treating trading like a professional
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that i'm going to share with you i'm going to show you what i would do
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if i could start completely from zero over again
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and how I would actually start
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this process to be able to scale up to this point of where I am right now.
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Okay.
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And keep in mind, this is not a get rich quick scheme.
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This is not something that's going to happen overnight,
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but setting the right foundation makes it actually worth it to work towards this goal and stay consistent.
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Whereas if you're completely doing the wrong things, it's hard to stay motivated because you don't even know if you're on the right path.
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This is going to secure you on the right path.
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And then the hard work pretty much comes down to you.
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So let's start off with step number one, which is picking a market to trade.
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Okay.
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Now different markets offer different advantages.
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The goal is to figure out based off of your monetary goals, how much capital you have starting to trade and when you plan on trading,
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which market is going to align well with that.
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Okay.
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So if we look at the stock market, the pros are it's a very liquid market,
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very well regulated and easy to understand why the market moves around.
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However, there's a high capital requirement, meaning you need a significant amount of money to be able to trade stocks effectively
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because they have limited leverage and also have limited hours between 9 .30
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and 4 o 'clock Eastern time for you to be able to trade the stock market.
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Futures, however, is very similar to stocks,
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has substantially better leverage, has significantly more open market time for you to be able to trade on a more flexible schedule.
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Some of the only cons are it's not ideal for long -term holding
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and you are somewhat limited to the instruments that you want to trade.
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Forex also has a lot better market open time for you to be able to trade when you want to trade.
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So you can start with a pretty small amount of money.
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However, with Forex personally, I find it very hard to read
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because the global markets are going to throw the price around so much.
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The price action is very inconsistent and volatile, which can make it hard to trade sometime.
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Okay.
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And then you have crypto.
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Crypto is a 24 seven market requires low capital threshold to start up where you can trade or hold long term.
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Okay.
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The only con is you need to know the proper way to actually be able to get access to capital,
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which I'm going to show you in this video.
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Okay.
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And the reason that figuring out sizing is important is because that's how we're going to set up our positions.
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Okay.
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So looking at an example of a trade that I took, I was able to position myself here,
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set up a contained amount of risk and in a calculated amount of profit.
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And in about 1 .5 hours, I was able to realize this amount of profit risking $2 ,000,
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which proves that these movements in the market are not random if you know what you're looking for.
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But we still need to be able to take those ideas
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and put them into a sound framework that is going to allow us to be consistent and treat this like a business.
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Okay, so to do this, we need to figure out whether we're going to use stocks, futures, or crypto.
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Okay, so the question we need to ask ourselves is how much capital do we need for each?
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And how much are we looking to make from each as well.
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Okay, so in order to make this decision, you need to understand how we're figuring out the capital requirements behind each trade.
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Okay, so let's take a look at an example of required capital for stocks.
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To say we're placing an entry here at $64 .80, we have our stop loss at $64 .5 and take profit at $66.
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If we want to risk roughly our $100 per trade, $150, we need to figure out how many units to enter with
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if we're putting our stop level here where we're willingly exiting the trade if it goes against us and where we're entering.
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And if we would subtract those two amounts and divide by our $150 worth of desired risk,
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that's going to show us the total amount of shares that we're going to have to purchase at our entry price.
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And in this case, in order to risk our $500, the notional capital requirement is going to be $32 ,000.
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Okay, in some brokers where you're actually trading and executing these trades will allow you what's called margin.
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So they'll give you around 2x margin, which is still going to pretty much leave
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you needing $16 ,000 of your own capital to attempt to make $600 in profit while risking that $100, $150 on the trade.
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So a large capital requirement in order to start up this process.
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Okay.
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And if we look at futures, it's operating a little bit differently because we're operating with contracts.
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So each contract that you hold gives you a certain fixed dollar amount per point.
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So say we have our entry and then we have our stop loss, and that's a three point difference.
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If we hold one contract with $5 of risk per point, that's going to give us $15 worth of risk,
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which in this case means we need to operate 10 contracts in order to risk about $150 on our position.
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And most brokers require at least $50 worth of margin per contract that you're operating.
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Okay.
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So in order to put this trade on,
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you'll see now the capital requirement is going to be say around a thousand dollars this is substantially cheaper
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and gives us more buying power than
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if we're trading with stocks okay looking at crypto in the same example say
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we want to risk 150 dollars we have our entry minus our stop loss value okay we still need
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that 500 unit amount okay
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but with crypto you can use something called leverage where you can go to 10x leverage
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or 100x leverage where it's going to allow you to effectively use their capital
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so even if the notional value of the position costs $32 ,000, if we're using 100x leverage,
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the capital requirement for that position is now divided by 100 and only requires around $300.
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So even if we wanted to risk, say, $25 per trade, we could well be able to do this using leverage with
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a couple hundred dollars instead of needing tens of thousands of dollars to be able to do this.
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Okay, so for example, if we look at one of my trades, you can see the notional value is about $950 ,000.
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Okay, but you'll see the actual cost is around $39 ,000.
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Okay.
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And keep in mind, I'm trading with a substantially larger amount of capital.
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This trade, I was aiming for $6 ,000 to $7 ,000 in profit.
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So if you need that $39 ,000 and say you were risking $20 per trade versus $2 ,000,
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that same trade would have costed about $390 of actual capital.
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This is how you're able to start small.
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This is why I like to trade crypto.
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So you can effectively start with risking something like $15 in order to make $60.
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And the capital requirement is going to be $32 of your own capital, which easily allows you to start with that $100, $200 mark.
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But in order to actually do this, the next thing that we need to know is how to actually get access to this capital.
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Okay, so there's two main ways that we can do this.
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The first is going to be through prop firm.
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And effectively, what a prop firm is, is it's allowing you to use simulated capital where they give you,
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say, for example, $100 ,000 of theoretical size, you're not using any leverage on this.
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So this is the actual size of your account.
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You pay say between 80 and $150 to be able to use
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that 100K and they set up rules that you have to follow.
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So for example, if you start with 100 ,000, say you can't lose $3 ,000 before you're able to make $6 ,000 in profit.
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If you're able to systematically consistently earn $6 ,000 in profit, the money that you make past that point,
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the firm now has to credit so long as you're inside of those rules
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and you can request them to actually send you payouts where they pay you the profit that you earn over that.
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That allows you to not need your own upfront capital
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and the only risk to you is pretty much the cost of actually buying that account and then going through the rules.
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In the private side of our trading team, this is what a lot of our traders are using to be able to get the size
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that they need to be able to earn these payouts.
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Okay, And you can see we can design strategies to do this pretty quickly.
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For example, one of our private team traders, three weeks in, got his first funded account,
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which means any profit that he now makes off of that, he can start pulling profit out and actually paying himself.
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Okay, the second option is using leverage.
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Now, there's some pros and cons with this.
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Say, for example, you put $200 into an account and you use 50x leverage.
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That's going to allow you to take positions with a notional value of, say, $10 ,000.
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And now you don't have to follow any consistency rules or profit targets.
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Any money that you make immediately, you can now withdraw and pay yourself.
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However, there's increased risk with that because as you start to use more and more leverage,
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your account needs to go down a lot less in order for you to lose that entire amount.
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Okay.
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So say for example, you're using 2X leverage.
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Now you only need a 50 % drop in your capital to lose the entire thing.
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Say you use 4X leverage, you only need a 25 % drawdown in order to liquidate your entire position.
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And whatever you put into that account is the full scope of the risk
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and the amount of capital that you could potentially lose.
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Okay, so there's trade -offs with both.
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I personally like to trade cash accounts with leverage
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because I don't have to follow any consistency rules
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and I've been able to scale my capital up to the
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point where I don't mind putting a decent amount of capital in in order to be able to facilitate these trades.
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But starting off, this prop firm method, because it keeps that risk contained and gets you used to having risk on the table, is super beneficial.
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Okay, in the description, I put access to what I trade on, both exchanges and prop firms
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so you can check both of those out below moving into step number two now
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that we understand the market
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and the approach as far as capital requirements i'm going to show you the framework to my simple repeatable strategy
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that i've been deploying for the entire year of 2026 again keep in mind
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this is going to be a framework
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and my goal with doing these youtube videos is to give the framework to prove to you
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and give you a foundation of what works
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while still being able to be fair to the private side
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of my trading team where we go over all of the data analysis have proprietary indicators
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and things that we look at that significantly
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increase the win rate where I'm trading it live with the team and sort of taking it to the next level.
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But I always want to make sure that I'm providing value here on YouTube to you guys as well.
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So this is going to be the framework.
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And the first step of the framework that I like to look for is finding the first, what's called change of character of the session.
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Now, if you start to get confused with any of this terminology, I'm going to add a card at the end of the video
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that's going to explain a lot of these general concepts that I'm referring to.
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Just try to absorb as much of this information as you can right now.
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And if you're still confused at the end, watch that video and it's going to tie all of this together a lot better.
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But basically what a change of character is, is if we have our trend where we have a lower low, lower high, lower low, lower high,
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lower low, and then we have price breaking above one of these lower highs.
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This is the first indication of a new trend direction.
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So you can see in this chart example, we have price pushing down, putting in a new low down here.
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And then we have a candle close above this high.
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Now, each one of these candles is on a one minute time frame
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and it's showing us the net change over that period.
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For these black candles, this is the open, the close, the high and the low.
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And then for a white candle or a bullish candle, this is the open, this is the close, and this is the high and the low.
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So white candles are showing us a net gain over time
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and the black candles are showing us a net loss over that one minute period.
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So when we see a candle fully developed, that's closing over one of these lower highs, which gives us that change of character.
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So right at 930, I'm looking for these change of characters to happen.
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And I'm going to show you chart examples after we go over the model here.
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Okay, the next thing that I'm looking for is something called a fair value gap.
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Now, a fair value gap is pretty much where the market starts to get momentum
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and then as
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that momentum starts to temporarily die off
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this momentum area left behind an area where this three candle
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sequences first wick high doesn't overlap with the third candles wick low
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and inside of that leaves behind that fair value gap
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and typically what will happen is as the momentum temporarily dies price will pull into this fair value gap
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and determine whether or not that momentum was justified
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and typically will retrace into the inside of these gaps before continuing to move in
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that direction if it is going to confirm.
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So it's either going to fail or most of the time it's going to respond off of this key area and continue.
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So we can use these as hotspots to be able to start positioning ourselves into the market.
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Okay, so we need to see that change of character and then that fair value gap.
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Okay, in step three, what I'm waiting for is to actually position myself into the 50 % midpoint of
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that gap for my entry.
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Okay, so you can see I'm setting up my entry to go
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here my stop loss is going to go underneath the most recent swing low
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or a critical point on the chart okay
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this is where some of the nuance comes into it where it requires some practice
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but I'm looking to take that entry right at
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that 50 percent midpoint okay
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and step number four is going to be how I'm actually going to be managing this position okay
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so after I have my entry here the next thing
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that I'm waiting for is taking this swing point before a pull down into my entry.
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Whenever price is going to make another close above this high, which you can see right here,
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that is where I'm going to be reducing my risk on my position to break even.
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And then all I'm doing from there is targeting between one to three
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and one to four times the amount of risk that I have on the trade.
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So for example, if this is my one unit of risk, say in this case, it's $25, I'm targeting four times that amount,
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which would give me $100 in profit
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and the ability for me to be able to reduce risk to zero once
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I start to get a move in my direction.
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Okay, and the goal with this, as you're going to see here in a second, is to really want to allow these trades to run.
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Because we're going to be right a lot less, usually around 30 to 40%,
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when we are right, we need to make sure that we're extracting 5,
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6, 10, 15 times what we're risking on the trade in order to get that edge over time.
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Okay, And there's different ways we can go about trailing this, but starting as a rule of thumb for me is always that one to three,
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one to four amount in order to keep me in the profit.
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Okay.
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Because again, we're not looking to be right and feel good that we made the right call on the chart.
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It all comes down to looking at profitability through the lens of this table.
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So up top, we have here our winning percentage, the amount of times that we are winning the trade versus losing,
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and then how much we're subsequently making on those winning trades by risking one unit of risk, that's a one -to -one risk reward.
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So $25 of risk for $25 of potential profit.
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Okay.
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$50 worth of profit for $25 of risk, $75 in profit for $25 risk, and so on all the way down to one to five,
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pretty much as far as we want to go all the way down.
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So these are our risk reward amounts.
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So say for example, whenever we risk $25 on average, we're making $75 in profit.
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That means as soon as we cross into this threshold of winning 30 % of our trades,
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that is going to put us into this profitable stage here.
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Okay, so imagine you're losing 70 % of the trades that you're taking.
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So out of 10 trades, you're losing seven of them and you're wrong about seven of the directions,
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but you're still able to make profit on the other side.
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That's what happens when you start looking at something called expectancy, which is what this is.
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Okay, if you're just going off of wanting to make the right call
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or to feel good about the trade that you predicted,
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that's going to lead you into trouble because the numbers don't care about your feelings or your emotion.
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And that's one of the biggest things to remember with trading.
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Okay, so with this strategy, in that example that I just showed you, if we're making between one to three and one to four,
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we only need to be right about picking those areas between 30
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and 40 % of the time in order for us to be extremely profitable with the strategy.
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And you'll see with some of these trades that I'm taking, I'm getting 10 units of risk sometimes,
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which is going to add to boosting this average risk reward even
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if my winning percentage is still staying between those 30 and 40 percent.
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Okay so now let's pull up the trading view chart and take a look at a few of these examples recently.
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Okay so what you'll see on my chart is I have this gray area here
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that is showing me where the New York stock market is
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opening as well as I have these fair value gap markers already automatically drawn on my chart.
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If you want access to this directly on your chart go in the descriptions into the tools
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and you're going to go ahead
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and add something called the IT foundation indicator where you can customize all of these inputs and add them to your chart.
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And you should be able to have a chart that looks something like this.
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Okay, so once you have all these indicators up on your chart, really what I'm doing is looking for this 8am start to the day,
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and I'm expecting for increased volatility as that 930 mark starts to happen.
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Okay, but just like the diagram, what I'm waiting to see happen is for price to put in a higher high,
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higher low, higher high, higher low, higher high, and then break to create that change of character value.
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Then I'm finding the midpoint, so that middle point of the fair value gap, setting up my stop loss,
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placing my position to get at least that one to four value.
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And then you'll see if we wanted to risk something like $25, I can set up my entry right at that midpoint,
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let price trade into it.
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And you'll see this is oftentimes that last point before the market starts to move in a completely new trend direction,
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comes down to that one to four.
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And that one to four level is pretty much just the bare minimum of what I want to see,
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because oftentimes what will happen is market will continue to move down in my direction
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and can allow me to get seven times 10 times 12
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times what i'm risking just by making one single right decision
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and then that allows me to substantially increase the amount of average r
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that i'm getting okay
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so let's take a look at another example the next day
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you can see the market starts to break down again we find
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that area okay we play this forward into 9 30
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this is where we're getting our structural shift
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we have our gap here okay we set up the position price starts to push up
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and immediately comes through that stop loss.
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So that's one full loss of $25.
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Okay, so now we have the same thing in the opposite direction where we have price moving down, creating that change of character level.
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Okay, so again, we find that bullish fair value gap, we would set up our entry here.
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And you can see that's exactly the key area that price pulls down into and makes an immediate response to the upside.
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Okay, so at this point, this is where I would be reducing my risk to break even once we cross over this threshold.
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Okay, and you'll see if we're able to really capture these key areas in the session and allow them to trail out,
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it is not that difficult to get a huge asymmetry in the risk that you're putting onto the trade.
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That combined with being able to reduce risk
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when we do start to get
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that first initial move in our direction is exactly how I'm able to keep the losses contained
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and allow the winners to run and have
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that disproportionate result by just being selective and understanding how to read this price action.
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Now, there's different things that I am looking at to be able to hold these positions longer.
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And I'm looking at multiple timeframes as what are called confluences.
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Okay.
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So for example, if I click on this button here on my trading view and open up two panes,
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I can set this to show me a 15 minute timeframe.
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And what you'll see is that price actually came down and responded off of a bullish 15 minute fair value gap,
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and then immediately had this response off of that zone.
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And what I've come to find out is
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if I can aim for these 15 minute fair value gap responses and then take entries that align with that, those are really high conviction trades.
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And then I can scroll out and look to target things like previous day high or different fair value gaps,
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which can allow me to extract a lot more than just one to four on these positions.
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Okay.
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So for example, if we look at a trade like this, I'm aiming for the response off that higher time frame fair value gap.
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And then all I'm doing is basically allowing the trade to breathe, gradually moving the take profit up.
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You can see I'm up $11 ,000, $12 ,000 on this position.
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Okay.
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And on the private side of our trading team, this is what we're also showing to our traders.
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You can see our team members, 5R, 6R, 18R on this trade, which means if they're risking $100, that's $1 ,800 in profit.
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Okay.
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But now that you have the framework, the question is how do we systematically scale this up over time
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and slowly increase the per trade risk to be able to get to those dollar amount goals that you're shooting for.
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So after nine years of doing this, if I could start from the beginning,
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this is the exact strategy that I would follow in order to implement my learning,
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my testing, and then be able to get to a point where I'm scaling my strategy.
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Okay, because the mistake that most people make
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when they're starting off is they learn the information and then immediately try to trade it in the live market.
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In trading, there's no barrier to entry, if you wanted to, you could just take as much money as you want,
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go directly into the market and try trading it.
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Whereas a lot of other professions kind of force you through a learning process
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that prevents you from trying to do something really difficult at the end without the proper training.
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So you as an individual have to discipline yourself to do the same thing in trading.
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And that's exactly why we've designed something called the four pillars.
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So the first pillar is where you're learning the information.
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Second is where you're actually testing this information to have proof of concept to yourself that it works.
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Then you're performing it in a simulated environment before
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you get to the end result ever using a single dollar in the market.
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So that by the time you arrive at that point,
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the only thing you're trying to do is figure out the differences when you're executing it in the live market.
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And you can prevent yourself from wasting a bunch of time, effort, energy, and money trying to jump directly into the live markets.
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So for example, step one, we have our strategy, our framework.
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Okay.
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And keep in mind, this is a framework, not every single thing that I'm looking at,
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but this is an example of a strategy that you want to start off with.
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Okay.
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Step two is going to be actually inputting this data and testing it over time to see the result.
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Okay.
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So what you want to do is achieve something called statistical significance.
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And typically this is going to take at least 30 trades,
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but I would recommend something closer to a hundred trades without ever using a single dollar of risk, because this is in a completely simulated environment.
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And all you want to do is execute this strategy over, say, 100 trades, say all of these red trades are losses,
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all of the greens are winners, we can calculate the total amount of R
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that we would potentially make over this process and start to use
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that to design our goal
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and our starting point of how much money we want to risk depending on what we're trying to achieve.
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Okay, and the second thing that we want to look at is something called losses in succession.
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And what that's going to show us is how many losses we're taking in a row
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so that we can account for that when we're designing our initial sizing.
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Okay so for this example say we have a 44 % win rate on average
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when we're making a correct trade we're making 4R
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and the most amount of losses we take in a row is five trades statistically.
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We can now take this and do this via a journal
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and have this entire model to then be able to move on to the next steps to base our entire plan on.
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Okay so this is a journal that I use in Notion to track
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and analyze my data this is also available to you guys
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if you go in the tools in the description okay what
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this allows us to do is pretty much input all of the trade information
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that we're looking to test as well as whether we have wins
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or losses and our p l on the trade
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and you'll see this is going to sum the amount at the bottom
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and also show us how many units of risk we're making
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or losing and the cool part about this is
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that we can flip over to our wins
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and look at all of the winning trades
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and all of the losing trades and be able to analyze
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and improve our performance over time before we ever put a single dollar to work in the market.
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Okay, so by using this replay feature in that journal feature,
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you're basically enabling yourself to dry run this process and figure out how it's going to work before,
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again, you're moving to the live market and putting money on the table to risk.
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Okay, so that's going to be your third phase of performing to see how the tests come out,
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whether or not you executing your process results in positive or negative R outcome over time.
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Okay, once you get to stage number four, this is where you can start with anywhere between, say, $10 and $20 of risk per trade,
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which in futures in crypto is well feasible by getting access to capital with either prop firms or leverage.
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And the only thing
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that you want to do at this point is stay as consistent as possible with your final optimized process to figure out,
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did you stick to the rules?
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What was your win rate, your average risk reward?
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And once you can get to a point where you have positive outcome on this plan,
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okay, and what doing this in phases allows you to do is identify where your actual problem is.
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So for example, say when you're testing, you have a 44 % win rate, performing is 42.
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And then when you go to live, you have a way lower win rate.
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And say you also have a way lower average amount of R.
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This is where you can try to identify what behaviors you are directly changing
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when it comes to putting money on the line.
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And all you have to do is focus on handling that one thing.
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If you do this completely randomly, and you never go through a structured process,
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it's going to be really hard to identify where your gaps are and how to improve them.
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Whereas this is the process that I wish I followed from the jump
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because it basically allows you a straight path of improvement.
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And once you have profitability with that small dollar amount, the key is to use something called percentage scaling,
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not just jumping to putting a bunch of money on the table as risk,
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because that is going to affect your mindset whether you realize it or not.
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I remember jumping from $25 risk to $100 risk.
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I had to go back to $25 risk because I couldn't emotionally handle it.
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And what I've realized through
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that is just using a percentage of your account as your risk per trade allows you to gradually scale up
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when you're making profit and scale down when you're losing.
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So for example, if we have a $500 account, we want to risk 2%, which is going to give us that $10 per trade risk.
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Say if we can make four R in a week, that's $71 in profit.
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Now we're adding that $41 into the 500 balance and then slowly
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that will work its way up to a thousand where
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that two percent will now be twenty dollars of risk per
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trade where you're making eighty two dollars in a week
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and then the same result with the five thousand dollar account is four hundred dollars a week
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and so on and obviously you can inject capital into this process as you're seeing it's working
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but this allows you to start relatively small
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and then be able to work up to your ultimate goal okay and
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if we take a look at an example from one of
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my previous trading weeks even though i was able to to make 8 .2k that was risking $2 ,000 per position.
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So it wasn't even that crazy of a week, but even doing this with a hundred dollars worth of risk executed properly is $410 a week,
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about $1 ,200 a month, and then slowly scaling that up.
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Okay.
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So risking 200, $300 per trade is how you start to get to
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that three to $5 ,000 a month in trading profit.
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If you know exactly how much are you're expected to make over that month,
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and then pretty much just divide that amount by the dollar amount you're trying to make for the month.
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And that shows you how much you need to risk in your system per trade to get to that result.
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So for example, last month in September, risking $2 ,000 per trade, I was able to make a little over $60 ,000 in profit.
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That with $150 risk per trade, same exact performance would be equal to $4 ,500 in profit.
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So you can pretty much apply a framework once you master that framework to any size account.
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And it's mostly about mastering that process and then adding fuel to the fire
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and injecting capital once you see proof of concept that it's working.
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And again, this is the exact framework that we're focusing on on the private side of our trading team.
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When we're live trading with the team and everything that we focus on is always process first,
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focus on the R and then let those proxy goals end up delivering the end result of consistent profitability.
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If you're still here, make sure you hit the like button on the video.
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Subscribe to the channel if you want to know when I put other videos out.
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As promised, If you want to learn more about market structure and other concepts, I'll put that right here.
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If you're interested in trading live with us and learning the full in -depth strategies and joining our private trading team,
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I'll put a link right here.
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But until next time, I will see you all in the next video.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “How To Start Day Trading With $100 In 2026”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: trade, risk, trading, profit, capital. This video has 466 sentences and 6276 words to shadow. The speech runs for 29:11. The speaker talks fast, about 215 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| leverage noun | /ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot. |
| framework noun | /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/ | A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size. |
| chart noun | /t͡ʃɑɹt/ | A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon. |
| candle noun | /ˈkæn.dəl/ | A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin. |
| crypto noun | /ˈkɹɪptoʊ/ | A secret supporter or follower. |
| requirement noun | /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/ | A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory. Its adpositions are generally of in relation to who or what has given it, on in relation to whom… |
| momentum noun | /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/ | Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its… |
| execute verb | /ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt/ | To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime. |
| prop noun | /pɹɑp/ | An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports. |
| consistent adjective | /kənˈsɪs.tənt/ | Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature. |
| percentage noun | /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/ | The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. |
| reward noun | /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ | Something of value given in return for an act. |
| substantially adverb | In a strong or substantial manner; considerably. | |
| trader noun | /ˈtɹeɪdɚ/ | One who earns a living by trading goods or securities. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
| come down to verb | To reach by moving down or reducing. | |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| leave behind verb | To abandon. | |
| make over verb | To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them. | |
| start off verb | To begin. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- This is how you're able to start small.
- What was your win rate, your average risk reward?
- I'll put a link right here.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've deployed · I've been · I've come |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | one, which is · volatile, which can · margin, which is |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was frustrated · is now divided · was justified |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 148 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, breathe /bɹiːð/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, withdraw /wɪðˈdɹɔ/, theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: momentum /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/, indicator /ˈɪn.dɪˌkeɪ.tə(ɹ)/, systematically /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like leverage, framework, chart.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.