Shadowing Practice: ICT Emini S&P 500 Review / January 03, 2023 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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All right, folks, just a quick little video.
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This is the area I was watching on this morning,
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and we were waiting for PMI number to come out at 945,
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and I was expecting it to likely whip up into that and then look for a sell -off, and I tweeted about that this morning as a potential scenario.
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We were waiting for 945 news, not just simply waiting for 9 .30 opening.
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This old high here, why this one is the highest one in the range from today's opening.
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Looking back, here you go.
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This is the first one you go to that would be higher than this one.
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And before we get to this, volume imbalance.
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So we're stuck essentially inside this range, waiting for it to come out of that.
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So we can obviously trade inside this range, as you watched me do today, but it takes a little bit more patience.
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So we can drop down into a 60 -minute chart.
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All right, here is the one -hour chart.
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You can see how we did not get up into that volume and balance on daily chart.
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We swept the buy -style liquidity twice, once, twice, broke down, fair value gap.
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sell -side liquidity, and the 30 -minute fair value gap.
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So notice we have this big run here, but if we drop down into a 30 -minute chart,
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now use the 30 -minute chart because you can clearly see that imbalance right there.
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So failure to get up above this high here and run for that, that's what we were waiting for, confirmation one way or the other, if it was going to run there not in a hurry
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to take a trade first trading day of the year everybody's going to be wanting to get in there
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and do something right away we have a fair value gap there
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and you can see all those tweets were mentioned before the fact
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and then i mentioned that we would draw down likely into this area here so let's go into a 15 minute
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okay and very clear 15 minute time frame fair value gap
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beautiful return into it repricing and then lower down to a nice start of 30 14 and a half
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five minute chart market trades above again where the buy side is nice round number 3900 there breaks lower
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this low here, we're going to look at that on a one minute chart.
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All right.
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On the one minute chart, you can see we had a run up into where buy side is.
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Market breaks down, takes out a swing low.
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Now, why do I like this low?
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It may be something like this one, not so much.
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Well, you could have used this one here where we went below it, right on that candle.
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Then we trade up inside this imbalance there that's more or less a institutional overflow entry drill
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it breaks lower really changes the market structure here and over here
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so this is going to be a little bit more of
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a quality type setup to have a fair value gap in here
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as it traded up into that that's an expectation of lower prices because this is also a breaker bearish ICT breaker.
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Okay, so inside this last down closed candle, it's returning back up into, notice the bodies of the candle, they're respecting half of that range from the candles high and low.
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That right there is mean threshold.
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Mean threshold is half of an order block.
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The market breaks lower, creates another imbalance.
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Here they got, and this candle's high, that candle's low, and that shaded area in here, right there.
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So I'm going to take these off as I talk about them because it's no longer important.
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And we have the up close candles here.
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Once we break through it, it's a bearish order block and institutional order for entry drill and a fair value gap.
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So there's lots of confirmation for wanting to be a short
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seller here on this candle as we trade up into it and trade lower.
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leaving that open, okay, leaving this range here open is what?
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Breakaway gap, okay?
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The market trades lower into our fair value gap on the 15 -minute time frame.
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It consolidates.
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I go short one more time and accelerates down into the 30 -minute fair value gap here.
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And as we went down below it.
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Limit order was filled.
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and then we retrace all the way back up to a perfect return to the 15 -minute fair value gap.
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Look at the precision there.
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Now, go back and look over here.
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Do you see any kind of classic support and resistance that would justify that perfect precision right there?
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No, but the algorithm does, and it sees the fair value gap that I've outlined on the 15 -minute time frame.
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That's real support and resistance, folks.
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The market trades lower down into the low end of our 30 -minute fair value got beautiful delivery
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and i more
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or less told you all to screenshot it on your own chart not just simply take my charts
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because it's that's a lazy person's approach to doing it you won't learn
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that way you want to get in here
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and get comfortable marking your charts up it takes a little bit of effort takes time
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and it's important for you to be able to do it
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and if you don't do it
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if you don't like doing it i promise you trading won't be a successful endeavor for You have to be involved.
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You have to do it yourself.
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And it requires a lot of effort on the part of the students.
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Market hangs around, works inside one more time.
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Consequent encroachment, which is the middle of an imbalance.
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Mean threshold is the middle of a order block.
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Consequent encroachment is the middle of a gap, okay, or an inefficiency, like a fair value gap, buy side imbalance, sell side efficiency, or sell side imbalance, buy side inefficiency,
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either or, and just write that down because we'll build on that as we go forward in mentorship.
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But it goes halfway up into that and then clears the buy side, sell sides below here, attack it and run it down to a really beautiful turning point at 30, 14 and a half.
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And then now we've returned back up into
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that 30 minute fair value gap and now consolidating in around
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and working the top end of that 30 minute fair value gap.
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So we'll be looking to see an eventual breakout of, not that I'm a breakout trader, but we want to see a breakout of
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that daily range before my interest has really peaked on any sustainable price run for analysis purposes.
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Otherwise, in layman's terms, in easy language,
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we have to be an intraday scalper until there's a higher timeframe daily narrative at work
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so that way everything we look for is on a small time frame and not expecting big monster moves
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all right so we're watching price this morning first trading day of the year i went short on
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two fair value gaps and one at the top of the orange fair value gap at 38 .60
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looking for a continuation down into the levels i shared on twitter initially i thought
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that we would get 39 .20 as a run -up, aggressive run, as a Judah swing, like a fake rally aggressive during the PMI numbers at 9 .45.
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The market was not having that.
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So that's why I said we have to wait and see what the market does.
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It failed to run above the 39 .05 level.
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So I waited for the shift in market structure at just below 38 .72 and three -quarter 73.
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And then returning back into a fair value gap you can see the entries on the left hand side on
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that one minute chart
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broke down traded again another short entry into the fair value gap
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and also bearish order block
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and the third entry is at the top of the orange
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fair value gap at 38 .60 as it traded up into
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that looking for heaviness going down into the 38 .39 and a quarter level so I took one partial
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leaving two contracts on and i want to get below
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that 38 42 50 level that's where sell side is you can see
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that noted on the right hand side on a 30 minute
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chart now why am i using a 30 minute chart i want to see price remain below
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that pair of a gap here on the left hand side
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if it goes above
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that then i'll probably have to want to close the trades what i'm thinking but i want to see it remain heavy.
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Heavy means I want to see it go lower and have difficulty rallying higher.
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And if we trade down below 38 .42 .50, I will take one off, but rejecting that 38, I'm sorry,
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39 .20 level, like I was expecting that daily volume imbalance up there, right -hand side chart, the upper orange level,
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that to me was a likelihood of a draw on the news driver.
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Okay, but I'll take another partial off here.
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And we'll see if it wants to go down and take that.
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I made a low -hanging fruit objective now.
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And we'll see if we get that.
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Boom.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “ICT Emini S&P 500 Review / January 03, 2023”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: gap, fair, value, chart, trade. This video has 117 sentences and 1531 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:45. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| imbalance noun | The property of not being in balance. | |
| candle noun | /ˈkæn.dəl/ | A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin. |
| bearish adjective | Resembling or likened to a bear, typically in being rough, surly, or clumsy. | |
| breakout noun | An escape from prison. | |
| threshold noun | /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/ | The lowermost part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill. |
| consequent noun | /ˈkɑn.sɪ.kwənt/ | The second half of a hypothetical proposition; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q." |
| consolidate verb | /kənˈsɒl.ɪ.deɪt/ | To combine into a single unit; to group together or join. |
| encroachment noun | /ɪŋˈkɹoʊt͡ʃmənt/ | An entry into a place or area that was previously uncommon; an advance beyond former borders; intrusion; incursion. |
| inefficiency noun | Lack of efficiency or effectiveness. | |
| liquidity noun | /lɪkˈwɪdəti/ | The state or property of being liquid. |
| breaker noun | /ˈbɹeɪkɚ/ | Something that breaks (something else). |
| institutional adjective | /ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/ | Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution. |
| precision noun | /pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/ | The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate. |
| confirmation noun | /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | An official indicator that things will happen as planned. |
| drill noun | /dɹɪl/ | A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| break down verb | To stop functioning. |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
| break through verb | To gain popularity. |
| draw down verb | To lower (curtains, a portcullis, etc.). |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. |
| get up into verb | To move close enough to (someone or something) to guard them, stop them from scoring or passing, etc. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| hang around verb | To stay, linger, or loiter. |
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 outlined · we've returned · has really peaked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | were mentioned · was filled · be involved |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 20 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we'll, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: threshold /ˈθɹɛʃ(h)oʊld/, institutional /ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/, precision /pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, continuation /kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
- Long words — get the stress right: consolidate /kənˈsɒl.ɪ.deɪt/, liquidity /lɪkˈwɪdəti/, institutional /ˌɪn.stɪˈtju.ʃə.nəl/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, accelerate /ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/
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 imbalance, candle, bearish.
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.