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The speaker introduces the updated trading course and explains that the lesson will focus on the simplest foundation of trading. He frames ICC as a way to understand market structure and price action, then begins discussing trends.
All right, chat.So, you guys love the trading course videos, which we are going to start back up because it is right around uh year.It's been a year since I dropped the first one.And now I think it's time to update pretty much everything and give y'all a 2026 review.Uh so, with that being said, I have in this video three different videos that I've recorded.One's a part one and the second one is a part two, but I honestly thought I wasn't recording.So, it's pretty much two of the same videos and then I'll also have a trade breakdown video that I want you guys to see as well.But, with all that being said, let's get into the video.Uh first one we're going to play is the first session, which is going to be about trends and market structure.After that will be the current trade that I'm in.
So, enjoy the video.Remember, you don't have to buy a course.I'll teach everything for free.All right.So, we are back to the basics, back to what we used to do.Uh it's been actually a year now since I dropped the course on YouTube for everyone to just learn from.Um so, yeah, a year later we are starting back up the same thing.Pretty much starting from ground zero to show you how to trade, uh especially in 2026.Uh the videos that y'all watched was 2025.Even though there hasn't been a significant change, still a good change for me to start going over some things that I do now, some of my psychology, um pretty much my trading in general because that's what you guysare here for, how to learn how to trade.So, with that being said, let's jump into it first.
So, pretty much, like I said before, nothing really changed dramatically at all.Um I'm still going to explain it in the way that makes sense for everybody.Um, once again, this is literally the most simplest way to trade.Anyways, let's get into it.So, first thing is first, the biggest thing that matters first is you have to understand that ICC is market structure, right?I'mma say that first because we're just going to stream this stream today cuz I don't feel like typing all that out, but I want you to know that market structure and price action is all you need.ICC is not some special strategy.It's not something that's going to like literally be a lottery ticket for you.It's just me explaining it in a way that you can comprehend.So, when I'm saying this, don't take everything so literally, right?Take it for what it is as in when I say indication, correction, continuation, that's higher high, higher low, higher high.
Lower low, lower high, lower low.Market structure, price action.We're looking for price action.All right?So, with this being said, let's get into the first thing that matters, trends, right?
This section explains how to recognize uptrends and downtrends by marking major highs and lows. The speaker emphasizes visual identification, buyer and seller levels, and the idea that price moves zone to zone.
Trends is the first thing that matters because this is going to show you what type of market structure you need to be looking for.Now, if you're on an uptrend, you're only going to look for higher highs and higher lows.So, in this scenario, you're going to look for only higher highs.So, if I'm on an uptrend, all I'm looking for is higher highs.And you may be asking, why, right?Because these higher highs provide you with levels that be that can become a indication level, right?These levels can become indication levels, which then you can use to your advantage to see because price moves a zone from zone.Now, I don't want to get too confusing.I'm explain it in a way that you can understand and I'mma leave you with this one so you're not confused.We're just going to talk about trends today.
We're going to talk about how to identify them and then what to do a little bit after.But, I don't want to put too much information in your face for like an hour cuz then you might may or may not get it.So, trends matter the most.You need to mark your higher highs and lows.Now, let's put it in this way because a lot of people say they sometimes don't really understand the higher high and the higher low part which I personally think that's the easiest part.Let's just say it like this.You mark your highs and you mark your lows.It You determine if it's the lowest higher than the previous one or the highest previous than the higher than the previous one.You determine that.But, all I want you to do is go on your chart and literally just mark every little pivot you see going in one direction and then it shifts super aggressive, right?
So, we're not talking about how it just comes here a little bit and does a little faint and then come down.I'm talking about major visual shifts in the market.You can visually see price moving
from that direction that it was just at, right?I can visually see that this went down and then proceeded to come up.I can visually see that.And then comes here and I can visually see it went to this level and then started heading back in this direction, right?Just take it for what it is.Don't try to be so technical in looking at this and these candles and this candle.Look at what you're visually seeing because what you're seeing in front of you is what you need to see.The first thing you see is what you need to mark.When you start overthinking, that's when you start adding stuff that's not even supposed to be there, right?So, next after I mark this one, I can visually see it go down.It's going down.It's going down.And then it boom, right here, it visually goes back up into a different direction.
Right?Now that it's going back up in a different direction, I can once again visually see it hits this level and then starts to head down.Now, the reason I'm saying all this is because right now, we need to identify the trend, but you also need to make sure that you're marking your highs and lows because this will help you with what I'm goingto say next.Now, with what we just marked up, I can see my highs.Right?I can see when price goes up.When price is buying, when price is green, when you see these green candles, that means price is buying.And then when it stops, that means sellers kicked in.Highs equals sellers, right?Let's just put it like this.Highs equal sellers.Lows equals buyers.In simple words, buy high I mean buy low, sell high.Simple.Buy low, sell high.
You want to buy something for the lowest price and sell it for the highest price.That's all.That's it.Nothing else.Keep it just like that.So, whenever you're looking at your charts, every time you mark a high, that's a seller.That's a seller.This is a seller, right?Sellers are strong here.Sellers are strong here.Sellers are strong here.Now, the reason why this is important is because you need to identify are the sellers getting lower and lower or they going higher?In this case, you really wouldn't see any sellers.Uh I guess you would say it I Ah, how do I explain that in a way that you can understand?The sellers, if you're on a downtrend, is your best bet that you need to look for because this is your protection level.We're going to call it protection levels.Right?If we're selling price, these are the levels that we don't want to see price go back above.
Once we've came here already and price is sold down, it's going to make a lower high.This lower high is our protection.So, anything can happen under here, but we don't want to see anything above here if we're on a downtrend.Does that make sense?So, with this being said, in a downtrend, the only thing that you need to focus on is if price is making lower lows and lower highs.Lower lows, lower highs.Lower lows.Now, it's the same thing as it's the same thing as an uptrend.How an uptrend I said to look at the highs, in a downtrend, you would be looking at the lows because the lows provide you information of where price is heading.So, basically, what that means is I'm going to delete all this.This low, any action, price action, any action under here is signaling you that price is going to go from that level that it went under to the level that it stops at.
So, if you see price move, you you visually can see that price came to this level.Let's go ahead and mark it this way.See if I can find my tool.Right?If you can visually see price come down to this level, have a rejection and go back up in a different direction, anything under that level is telling you it's going to go from that level that it broke towherever it did it this again.Wherever you visually see that low again.Right?So, in all cases, this is what it's going to be.
Keep it as simple as this.When price breaks this low, it creates an indication, shows us where that indication is going to end, corrects, and comes back down.Price is going to move zone from zone.Let's explain it like that.Zone to zone.So, if it breaks out of this zone, it's going to the next zone.And if it breaks this zone, it's going to the next zone, which I'll get into later, but it's going into the next zone.Right?Price is moving zone to zone.That's all you got to know.So, if it breaks back under this level, it's going to that level that it made already.Zone to zone.So, this zone to this zone.This zone to this zone.All we're trying to do to get into this trade is identify when price is finally continuing.Because this first initial breakout is normally to grab you out of your trade or put gamblers into the market, so then they can later take the money.
But, like I said, I don't want to explain crazy too much in just one day, so let's get back Let's get back to explaining trends.Right?So, I want you to understand that the higher the time frame
The speaker explains that higher timeframes respect market structure more clearly and defines the four basic structure points: higher high, higher low, lower high, and lower low. He shows how these patterns repeat in both uptrends and downtrends.
higher the time frame
the more price respects the structure.Or we can just say market.Right?Or just say MS.Right?Price respects the market structure on the higher time frames.The higher you are, the more it respects.Now, once again, you may be asking, "What is What is What is price?"Or "What is the higher time frame?"Or you might be asking, "What is market structure?"Right?Market structure is only these four things.Four things that you need to know.Four things.This is it.This is all you need to remember.This is all you need to remember.Market structure is a lower high Let's go ahead and type that out for you.Lower high
lower low Right?And then we havehigher high
higher low.It's literally in the name.You don't even have to ask what the definition is.It's literally in the name.A high that's higher than the previous one.A low that's higher than the previous one.A high that's lower than the previous one.A low which is lower than the previous one.So, literally read it just like this from this low to this low lower.So, read it just like that from the second word to the first word.Low lower.The low is lower.The high is lower.The low is higher.The high is lower or higher, sorry.That's it.That's market structure just in itself, right?Now, there's so many different ways that you can name this, right?Cuz this higher high could also be a indication.This higher high could also be sellers level.This higher high could also be resistance.Right?
This low could be buyers.Correction.
Right?This could be buyers level, I said that, support.Some people would use supply and demand, same thing.All the same thing.Right?This could all be the names and terms.If you really want to get technical, this is all the terms that you could use it for.All the same things.What works for a lot of people is calling it buyers level and sellers level.Because remember, you're trading.Right?You're trading.So, there either has to be more buyers than sellers or more sellers than buyers in order for price to trend.And when price is more buyers than sellers, the buyers are heading to new sellers, and if they're selling, price is heading to new buyers.So, basically what all this means is let's say Let's just delete all this now.If it lets me.Okay, it won't let me.All right, there we go.
All right, let's say we was in a trend.
Right?And we had this.Basically, what I'm seeing is buyers just came into the market and made a new high.This correction is solely showing us that buyers are exhausted and needing some more gas and more fuel to pump back into the market.Now, to get back into what I was saying earlier, when price is on a higher timeframe, higher
the timeframe,
more respect.I got to use less words, so that way you can you can understand like higher timeframe, more respect.That's it.Higher timeframe, more respect.Higher the timeframe, more respect.Higher the timeframe, more the respect.So, if I'm on the 4-hour or daily timeframe, price is going to respect the rules.Now, what are the rules?If price makes a higher high, next is higher low.Let's just spell it out for you guys.Higher low.Literally just like math.If X or if HH
equals uh How do I How would I even put that?If HHis higher, I don't know how to put that in like a a math terminology, but in my head, I'm I'm like, "Oh, that makes sense in a math equation."But, if higher high leads to higher low then higher low leads to dot dot dot dot dot.You answer the question from here.From here, if HH leads to HL, then HL leads to So, in other words, if I made a higher high, this is a higher high because it's higher than the previous one.If HH, higher high, leads to HL, higher low, because this low is higher than this one, then higher low leads to higher high.And this is a trend, right?Vice versa, if it was a downtrend, it would be the same thing.If it was a downtrend, it would literally be the same thing.
Let's do
I'm pretty sure can I do it like Okay, there we go.So, in this case, let's just do LL leads to LH.So, once again, low, high, lower low, because this low is lower than this one, lower high, because this high is lower than this one.If LL, lower low, so right here where my cursor is at, leads to LH, which is where here is at, then oops, I forgot to change that part.
Let's change that.Then HL, then HL leads to HL leads to LL.Right?It's just a pattern.You're just trying to spot out where the pattern is at.The higher the time frame, the more it respects these rules.Right?So, it's always good to trade on the higher time frame because the rules are really respected.Let's delete this.
Using a trade example, the speaker walks through a daily and 4-hour downtrend to show how structure appears across timeframes. He closes by stressing that multiple timeframe analysis should align before making decisions.
So, everything that I just went over, now I'm going to show you the trade that I got into for today.Or pretty much last week, but it played out today.So, in this scenario, you can see that we can already determine what trend we are on.Low, lower high, because this high is lower than this one.Lower low, cuz this low is lower than this one.So, if low, lower high, so if HL equals what?LL.And if LL is here, then it's going to do what?LH.And if LH is made, then it's going to do what after?Another LL.So, if LL is made, what is price most likely going to do?LH.And if LH is made, then what's next?LL.So, with all this being said, you have to remember to keep the trend simple.All you're doing, all I'm doing, in this case I was on the daily time frame to visualize and see these higher lows and lower lows and lower highs.
I was able to pick them out here more than I was on the 4-hour time frame.So, if we go to the 4-hour, it looks you can still see the downtrend visual like you can still visually see the downtrend.But, when I went to the daily time frame, it kind of cleared all this up into one big trend, right?Cuz these are multiple trends.This is a downtrend right here, as you can see.As you can see, all this structure is respected.Look at it.Right here, respected.Respected.Respected.Respected.Respected.And then here went on a correction, came back up, tested, and then came back down again, and started going back on that downtrend.So, the highest point is here, then it respected, went down more, came up a little bit, respected.Right?Respected, and then dropped more.So, you can see that the 4-hour time frame is definitely respecting everything.
The only reason we had that one break is because price on the daily time frame just made a new low.So, it needed a correction.Right here is where that new low was made.So, I'm going to draw this box right here.New low indication.Then we had a correction, which is all that movement on the 4-hour time frame right here.So, that was that indication right here.Price started correcting to go back up.And then we started to bring it back down under this level, which then we sold.So, first day, keeping it simple, talking about trends and how to identify them.Tomorrow we'll talk about getting looking for those corrections and how to get ready for our entry.But, today I just kind of wanted to go over just market structure is pretty much key to understanding anything else.You got to literally learn this first before you can even get an entry because if you get an entry without knowing this, then you're going to get freaked out because let's say this.
I actually entered right around this level right around here, like like right around this candle right here.And then, I got put into some drawdown.But, this drawdown didn't hurt me or phase me because I knew that this was our high.So, price has the literally it can do whatever it wants in between any of this.It could have came all the way up here and retested and sold down.Right?It can do anything it wants to as long as it respects the rules that it has to make a lower high.As long as it respects that rule, then I know that price will respect it, make that lower high, and then look to make the lower low.All this movement is just price trying to find out where it's going to make that lower high.Right?It's not trying to buy all the way up.
It's just trying to find a It's literally trying to find a parking spot.It's like price correcting is just trying to find a parking spot so it can get out and continue on with its journey of where it was going to go in the first place.So, with all that being said, I want you guys to really keep this as simple as possible.Like, I don't want trading to be super hard for you.I want it to be as easy and accessible as possible.Um as you can see here, I kept it pretty simple.If you have any questions, please let me know.Uh am I missing anything?Uh I trade off the 4-hour time frame mostly.Sometimes I jump on a daily when things are a little bit clear.As you can see here, you can you can easily identify what part of the trend we are on based off the daily time frame compared to going to the 4-hour time frame.
So, let's flip to the 4-hour.
So, as you can see, it's a little bit more trickier on the 4-hour, which is always good to have multiple time frame analysis.So, just kind of looking up and looking down on things.So, if I was on the 4-hour, I would always come up and look at the daily to see if they kind of match.See if I can get some type of feeling from the daily.Um if I'm on the 4-hour, sometimes I jump down to the 1-hour to see if I get a little bit more details.It's always good to have multiple um details and multiple analysis on different time frames as long as they all correlate in the end.So, you can't be on the 4-hour time frame saying, "Oh, price is on an uptrend."And then the daily time frame is saying, "Oh, price is on a downtrend."Cuz that doesn't make any sense.
So, with that being said, thank you for watching.This is uh pretty much 001 of the new year.And yeah, see you guys tomorrow.
The speaker reviews a long-held gold trade, including entries, partials, and losses. He explains why he trusted the daily timeframe and how alerts, support, and buyer demand influenced his decisions.
All right.So, this is actually my first time hopping on the charts in a bit.But, as you can see, the market has completely shifted and changed.Uh there's a few things that I'm going to point out, but first I'm going to completely clear my chart, clear all my alerts.As you can see, I set a lot of alerts, over 52 notifications, but hey man, you got it you got to set these.These are like my prime bread and butter to making money when it comes to trading.Like, I feel like without alerts, I wouldn't be where I'm at today, to be honest.But, anyways, let's get into it.So, for some reason, they're not deleting, but it's cool.Um let's first go back to like pretty much how everything is going.So, as you can see, I closed on Wednesday the 9th for $15.3 million.
As you can see, I have 11 trades with 50 like a 54% win rate.Like I told you, I ended up getting into um some more trades.So, as you can see, four trades right here, one trade here.These are me adding more positions to the current position that I was already in.So, as you can see, this is when I made uh partials.I took partials.And if we go here, we can see when I opened a trade in the first place.So, I opened this trade on July 29th.I took partials for $2 million on the 4th.And then I carried this all the way until the 9th.So, pretty much I was really holding this trade a month and some change.A month and some change, yeah.So, the 29th that's one one month.two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 days.
So, 1 month and 12 days is how long I held this trade.I was holding this trade since July the 29th and then pretty much took partials on August 4th for $2 million and then also closing this trade fully on September 9th.And also taking um extra positions on the 3rd and the 4th of September, which ended up coming up as a loss, as you can see over here.Um -500,000, -500,000, -500,000, which is pretty much where I lost at.So, with that being said, um this trade honestly everything was going exactly how it needed to go.I feel like when it came to this I was holding more on to the simple fact that I was trusting the daily timeframe, even though there were small things in the market that was showing like, okay, the 1-hourgo bearish or the 4-hour go bearish.I think I was leaning a little bit hard on that daily timeframe to continue to hold up.
Um it held up pretty nicely.It just could not break above Let me see exactly what level that was.It could not break above the Oh, yeah.It was 4,500 that it just could not break above.It tried multiple times.Um also this level right around here, which is 4,450, it was having a hard time breaking above that level.Um like I'm a market right here.Right around this level, it just had a hard time breaking it.As you can see, it broke the first time, which is when I started to add positions.As you can see, this is September 4th right here down at the bottom.So, if you look down here, you can see the date.September 3rd, September 4th was when I added positions due to the fact that price pushed up above this level.So, everything I did was more logical on my end.
I wasn't just adding positions just to add positions.I was adding positions because above this level, we've already got the indication.So, we already got the signs that price was going to break above here and try to progress up to this level.The probabilities of that were really high, especially with it being on the 4-hour timeframe and overall everything just showing signs of bullishness.As you can see, price ended up coming all the way up, selling off.All this was in my head as a correction.So, if we go to the daily, you can see that the daily made a new high.It corrected, held above this level of support.So, as you can see, this level of support was being held.I'm going to draw this all the way through cuz we're going to use it later on.But, as you can see, this held up pretty strong.
And once it pushed off the daily, I was like, "Okay, the daily time frame is respecting this level."So, I'm going to just go ahead and uh start a new one.Okay.I'm going to just go ahead and show you how it was.This is what I seen.So, even prior to that, this is what I seen.So, I seen price come into the daily time frame support level, which is a level where all buyers are going to be sitting at.So, in trading, I always like to look at everything as buyers and sellers, because once again, you're trading.So, if I'm in buys, I'm taking my buys to sellers.If I'm in sales, I'm taking my sales to buyers, right?You wouldn't try to sell a TV to somebody else that's selling a TV.So, you wouldn't take a buy order to another buy order.
And how I like to look at it is lows is where buyers are at, highs is where sellers are at.So, always keep that in mind.So, I'll mark it out for you.Highs equalssellers.
And lows equal buyers.Right?And I always keep it like that, because it didn't help me understand if there's one of too many.Like, in order for a trend to happen, it has to have one of the other at the most, at the max potential.So, if you're in a uptrend, that means you have way too many buyers in the market, where price is just constantly pushing up.Every is is demand is literally infinite.Like, everybody wants it, right?The hottest product, right?So, in gold, it was like the hottest thing that everybody was getting into.And then for sellers, it's like once price gets to a point where everybody wants to either collect profits or they don't see any value in it anymore, they start selling it off, right?So, with all this being said, along with um the interest rates and all the things that was coming up, um they said that it was going to cut rates.
Cutting rates means that pretty much gold is going to go down in simple terms.Um with that being said,
This chapter covers the point where the trade began to weaken and the speaker realized the market was no longer cleanly trending up. He explains how conflicting signals across timeframes led him to close the position.
there was just overall like a mindset in me that I was like just focus on the daily.Just focus on the daily.Normally, I trade 4-hour and 1-hour, but I was so fixated on trusting that daily process to continue to do what I think it was going to do.Now, would you say that I was not paying attention to the market or would you say that I kind of had an ego?No, because I was overall looking at the structure still.I was going based off what the market was showing me on the daily time frame.But, what I did wrong was not pay attention to the smaller time frames building up for the daily time frames, right?So, let's just go ahead and keep walking through the process.So, mind you, my position is pretty much all the way down here.So, my position's like way down here.
So, all this is just profit.I'm still floating in profit.I could have closed that anytime.I could have closed at the high.I could have closed anywhere to make profit.My thing was, can I make this into a longer swing trade?Because normally, I'm just a swing trader.Like I I've been swing trading for 3 years now.This this is like my bread and butter.So, with that being said, as all this is happening, price comes to this support level and buyers end up pushing the market up.This was a good sign because that means that this level is strong and it has a lot of buyers waiting to buy price at this price, right?Buyers, right?So, that means let's say if I had like a shoe or let's just say I had this Goyard bag, right?Let's say if I had this Goyard bag for $2,000, right?
Let's say I had it for $2,000.Everybody wants this bag, right?Then, that way I can be like, "Okay, right now it's going for 3,000, but buyers are not going to buy it until it's back to 2,000."So, let's say I I am selling it for 3,000.If I say I'm selling for 3,000, some people might wait until the value goes down on it in order to buy, right?So, in this case, price was going down and buyers was ready to buy.So, then what did they do?They bought price at a good price.So, people thought gold was going to be good to buy at 4,325, which then an absurd amount of buyers came into the market and they started to buy price, right?So, as they started to buy price, price ended up coming back above this current level.So, in simple terms, when buyers buy above 4,440, so this level right here that I'm pointing to, normally there's an obscene amount of demand for price to continue to go forward.
So, there's an insane amount of people wanting to buy price now because it's above 4,440.So, that basically means
if I had this bag for $3,000 at first, it went back down to 2,000, people started buying a bunch of them, then the other people that see these people buying, they're going to be like, "Oh, I need tobuy the bag, too."It's kind of like how um influence works or like celebrities.Trends, basically.This is This is all related to trends.This is how a trend starts.When you see a celebrity wear some clothes, at first it was a low cost, right?It was probably like the shoe was probably like $100 or something like that.Like I'm just making an example.And then if you see Kim Kardashian wear it, it's like, "Damn, I got to get those shoes, too."So now they're going to mark up the value on those shoes.So now it's going to be $400 for the pair of shoes that was costing $100.
Right?That's with everything in the world.Everything in the world is like that.The things that you buy, some of the stuff costs literally $100, $50 to make.But since it's got a name behind it, people will buy more of it at whatever price they can get it.So, same way with the market.Whenever price is above a certain level, there's more demand for it, and now everybody wants it.So buyers got it at a good price, pushed it up for a while.Now, this is the thing that we have to pay attention pay attention to the most.Where I got wrong is I fully trusted the price to go above and keep going up from here.Cuz price has made it already indication, it corrected, showed that it didn't want to go down, and now it's coming back above this high.In my eyes, if price is doing that, it's going to look to come to this next high.
Now, the thing is here, what happened was was price ended up rejecting this level.Now, people are going to be like, "Well, what did you do there?Is that a fake out?"Me personally, I don't think that's a fake out.I think it's just the overall shift change.So in this way, I would look at this as like, "Okay, going down from the daily to the 4-hour to see what's going on."So we're going to go and see what's going on in the market.So as you can see, price did come up, it came high, and then it stopped at 4,450.So right around that level or 4,493.
Price stopped around here and then sold off.Now, this is the first sign, but it also could play two ways.This is why it's always good to wait for that second initial push cuz that second initial push will always tell you what price is going to do next.So, since price didn't go high, this was considered a This was considered a lot of things.So, let me let me try to explain this in a simple way.So, for the 4-hour time frame, this was price showing us that it was changing structures cuz remember that correction has to build a downtrend.So, on the daily, this was just a red candle, but as you can see the 4-hour, it was a whole downtrend.Right?For a continuation, so if price wanted to continue to buy, it needed to break out of that cycle.So, if you ever watched any of my previous videos, you will see that I'm talking about how a downtrend will be lower high, lower low, and you can only have lower highs and lower lows in a downtrend.
So, with that being said, price ended up breaking that structure on the 4-hour, and now there's a higher high.Right?So, right around here, now there's a higher high, which is signs of price being bullish, which is what I thought.Right?So, I'm still going based off everything that I'm seeing and what the market is producing to my eyes.Right?As you can see here, we have price breaking and making a higher high here.So, this, in my eyes, was simply a higher low because look, this is our lower high, this is our lower low.The next movement created a high, which was higher than the previous one, so this is our higher high.Price shot down, made a low, but this low is higher than the previous low, so this is a higher low.This is what initially got me to wanting to buy price because now price is giving me a higher high and a higher low.
So, I'm thinking the 4-hour is going to go back on a a uptrend which will turn into the daily being in an uptrend.But then, as you can see, we ended up coming here, making a support level here.Price ended up staying stagnant and not going anywhere.It didn't go anywhere for a couple of days and then it finally broke to the downside which is when I overall ended up closing my trade because now this is a lower low.We also have higher highs in the market and now everything is just completely confusing because how do we have higher highs and higher lows and lower lows and lower highs in the same market and I'm looking for anuptrend.The only thing I should see is creations of a higher high and higher low when it comes to an uptrend.So, now since I don't have that, we ended up closing the trade and price just started staying stagnant which then later on moved down and now we have indications to the downside.
As you can see, look at all this movement, this random movement for a couple of days, not staying not going anywhere and now we finally got movements under this level.But the only thing with this is price has already solidified that this is a ground level that buyers are sitting at.So, anywhere any anything that's happening now has to happen under that level.Right?We're going to put this back here.And then we're going to put this back here.So, right here, basically price is telling us buyers are sitting at this level.Buyers are sitting here, very strong here, and then we also have a sellers are sitting very strong here too as well.So, right around this level sitting very strong and in between these two levels, we really don't have any choice.We don't have anything that we can do outside the box.
We just have to take take what price is doing now and wait for it to break either 4,389.So, let's say 4,390 and then let's say it has to either break 4,248.Because in between here, there's a mixture of everything.So, if we go here and we look I'll clear the charts.Try to clear these alerts again.I think I have to refresh this page in order to in order to do this.Let's go back.
The speaker explains how he marks highs and lows using body closes rather than wicks, and how to choose the most relevant levels on the chart. He then summarizes the indication-correction-continuation idea and reinforces that trends repeat in patterns.
All right.There we go.So, we go back to the 4-hour time frame and we see what price is doing.We can see that we have our highest point here of the market and the reason why I'm choosing this is due to the fact that if I'm visually looking at the charts, I can see that one, let's justgo ahead and mark the easiest one.We can see that price is no longer going any further than this.So, from here, I can see that okay, I could have marked this.So, let me just give you the whole thought process.I have the low here, high, low, semi-high.So, we'll just still use this one.I can see that it broke above here, but then ended up selling off.So, I see that this is the high.This is now the low.I can see that these are both equal to all of this.
So, that's why I marked everything.So, right now we have this.Right?I can see that price created a high, higher low, high, and then ended up selling off from here.So, the last point that we went the highest was here.Right?And I like to mark the body closes when it comes to marking my charts.So, I'm always marking body close because I feel like that is a closed deal.Whenever you close at a certain point, it's a closed deal.Whenever it's a wick, it means that price attempted to do that but didn't settle with the price.It's kind of like explaining it in a way like, let's say if you was on an auction, like they'll be like, "$100 here, $200 here, $300 here, 300 300 here.""Nobody wants it for 300?All right, back down to 200, 200."And then they'll be like, "Okay, sold to the person in 200."
So, it's like it attempted to try to sell it for three but nobody wanted to take it, so it came right back down to three, I mean two, and sold for two.So, think of it in that way.So, I don't want to use the number that wasn't used, right?I don't want to use the number that wasn't used.It It tried to attempt to use it, but nobody wanted it.So, it's like, why would I go for something that nobody else want, right?Especially when you're in a market where everything matters based off how much people want it and how much people don't want it, right?So, that's why I use the body closes.And with all this being said, this is how I would structure my chart.From here, this is it.4-hour time frame, what is price doing?Um we could even utilize the fact that this could be a sign.
Um I personally wouldn't just use this one because there is this level here that looks like it was a big influence to all that push.Like it was pushing good at first and then stopped here and then we started to trend down.Right?It tried to attempt again, but then started to trend down.So, this is the strongest one.If you want, you can mark this one up, but the chances of this being very strong is not going to be likely because let's say this happens.Price comes up into this level, it it it does good, breaks above here, and then we get stopped here.Right?We get stopped here because that is the last level that we went from a high.So, I would rather buy price above this level.So, let's go ahead and make this a little bit thinner.I would love to buy price above this level because I know that this is the last high that we had in this area.
Right?A lot of people would try to look all the way back instead of looking at what needs to be broken and what needs to be done right now.What task, what high, what low do we need to break in order for price to say, "Hey, I'm moving."A lot of people are trying to figure out things over here when you have enough information here to go off of.You have enough information in the past 3 to 4 days.So, this is like This is September 23rd, September 22nd, September 21st, September 18th.You have 1 week of information right here in your eyes on the 4-hour time frame.And that's all you need right here because it gives you highs, it gives you lows.Right?We got a low here, we got a high here.So, all we have to do now is wait for these levels to get broken and provide us with indications and corrections so that way we can profit later on.
But, this would be my literally exact thought process.Okay.From here, set an alert.We'll set an alert right around here.We can even set it on the on the line.We can set an alert right here.And we can set an alert here.And we can set an alert here.So, on these lines when price breaks above or below any of these levels, price will alert us or TradingView will alert us to basically say, "Hey, price is breaking that level."And then from there, we start making our game plan on how we're going to enter.The first break is just to confirm, to let you know price is breaking that level.The correction is basically to grab liquidity, so that way you can get into the market and then the continuation is basically you getting into the trade and confirming that price is moving in that direction.
In simple words, indication.So, let's do it this way.Indication, correction, continuation.In other words, lower low, lower high, new lower low.That's it.Vice versa.Higher high, higher low, higher high again.Indication, correction, continuation.That's it.Nothing else.Keep it simple.Keep it smooth.Just pay attention to what the market is doing because it always moves in trends and the rules of trends are if price is making a higher high, it's making a higher low.Once it makes the higher low, it's looking to make a new higher high.Downtrends.When price makes a lower low, it's looking to make a lower high.Once it makes that lower high and confirms it's a downtrend, it's going to go back for the lower low.That's it.It's all trending.When you see a trend, what happens?You see the same thing over and over.Pattern, pattern, pattern, pattern.
Two things makes a pattern.Three things can make a pattern.Four things can make a pattern.But, it has to happen over and over.Lower high, lower low.Lower high, lower low.Lower high, lower low.It's a pattern.That's a pattern.Higher high, higher low.Higher high, higher low.Higher high, that's a pattern.When you know what is most likely going to come next, that becomes a pattern.Trends move in patterns.So, with that being said, if you look at the whole chart, we'll delete all this.If we look at the whole chart, let's pick a Let's pick a spot.
Right?Even even back in prime gold, look at this.Oops.Higher high, higher low, lower high, lower low, small correction, then we go back up, higher high, higher low, higher high, higher low, higher high, then we have a small correction again, and then it builds back up, higher high,higher low, higher high, higher low, higher high, higher low.I don't know why I counted that one, but higher low, small correction again, lower high, higher low again, and then we have a another continuation back up to the upside, which was really astronomical.Higher high, higher low, and so forth, so forth.Higher high, higher low, higher high, higher low, higher high, higher low, higher high, higher low, higher high again.Higher low, builds back up, higher high, higher low, higher high, higher low, higher high, higher low, higher high, lower low, lower lower high, and then downtrend.
Right?It's the same thing.It's the same thing.You just have to literally make it simple for yourself.Literally make it simple for yourself.But, with all that being said, that is what is currently going on in the previous market or the market now, and as I said, we are sitting right around We are sitting right around Let's see here.We're sitting right around um $149 million with pretty much a profit factor of 8.7, a win win rate of 85.7%, and overall, it's been a good month.It's been a good year.And 72 trades, win 12 trades at a loss.And yeah.That's it.Let's get back into the video.
He restates the core rules of market structure and how higher highs lead to higher lows, while lower lows lead to lower highs. The speaker also introduces indications as breaks of key levels that point toward the next zone.
All right.So, last year I pretty much did a YouTube course on how I traded in 2025.I pretty much still trade the same way in 2026.It's been a year, literally a year now since I made those videos.So, I'm going to redo everything once again, pretty much explaining how I trade, uh my psychology behind it, my thoughts, and my pretty much analogies with personal life and trading.Cuz I think everything relates to trading in this world to be honest in every simple form.So, with this being said, we're going to start with market structure and trends first.That is the most important part.Like, this video is literally the most important one because if you don't understand this part, you're not going to understand anything else.Like, it's not Like, you literally I can't stress it enough.Like, you have to learn market structure first.
You have to learn this first.This is the easiest too.Like, this is like
I got to take a take a Red Bull for this one, but you guys literally have to understand this first.It's all visual.Don't dig too deep into something that's all visual.Like, go based off what you see and trust your gut.Just trust your gut.Because people get too technical, they look at it too deeply when everything is right in front of your face.So, with this being said, I want to go over some rules that I like to use.First and foremost, I would love to say that ICC is not a strat.Like, oops.It's not a strat.It's just an easy way for me to explain market structure and price action to you.That's all it is.Nothing else, nothing more, right?I'm just trying to explain market structure to you cuz ICC is really indication, correction, continuation.But, it's really lower low, lower high, lower low.
Right?So, with this being said, let's step into it.So, the first rule that I would love to explain to you guys is higher the time frame, more oops.More respect.That's it.I I got it.I feel like I got to say less words.I'mma say as less words as possible, but make the most sense.Higher the time frame, more respect.Right?Cuz we're talking about rules right now.So, let's go ahead and put this above there, too, so you don't forget.Rules.Higher the time frame, more respect.So, it respects the rules way more the higher the time frame you are.So, you may be asking, what are those rules?Okay.When, oops.Let's go ahead and take this.When price makes a higher low, it makes a higher high.When it makes a higher high, it makes a higher low.Kind of similar to like a math equation.
So, in this case, if HH, higher high, equals higher low, then higher low equals HH.That's it.That's it.So, whenever you're in a trend I I don't know why I drew a downtrend.One second chart.Let's go ahead and reverse that.
Right?Let's go ahead and reverse that right there.
Hello.And higher low equals higher high.Right?So, if we're looking at an uptrend, we know that when a high is made, it's most likely going to make a low.When a higher low or higher high is made, it's going to make a higher low.And that's a trend.The higher the time frame, the more the respect of this.So, if LH, lower high equals lower low, then lower low equals lower high.Same thing.Same rules.Right?So, in this case, if I was looking at the chart, price would make a low, make a lower high, make a lower low.When it makes that lower low, it's looking to make a lower high.When it makes a lower high, it's looking to make a lower low.When it's looking to make a lower low, it looks to make a lower high.When it makes a lower high, it looks to make a lower low.
That's it.Nothing else.That's it.Nothing else.So, when you have these rules, then you're not so scared of what current position you're in.And I'm going to help you break down pretty much what to do afterwards because identifying the trend is all visual work.Some people understand it, some people don't understand it.I personally think this is one of the easiest parts, but it also sets you up for a lot of things.Because one, we are talking about trends today, but just a little bit of information of indications, indications come from when lower lows are brokenand when higher highs are
broken.So, basically what I mean by broken is I mean that it just comes above that certain level.So, if we had a low, this is our low right here.So, let's just mark this out.If this was our low, anything under this becomes an indication.Which means that is a new lower low.When price makes something new, that is your indication.Right?And what is it indicating, you may ask?It's indicating you that from wherever it just broke out of, so if this was level 200,whenever price goes under 200, it's going to go to let's say this level is 500.It's going to go to level 500.So, every time it goes under two, it's going to go to five.Let's going to do that the other way.Let's just say 50.Right?Cuz it's going down.So, the numbers should be going down.
So, whenever price goes under 200, it goes to 50.That's an indication.It's letting us know, it's giving us information, it's giving us that that it's literally finishing your homework for you.It's telling you exactly from what level it's going to go to what level.Zone zone to zone.Zone to zone, that's it.One zone to the next zone.All you're trying to do is figure out when can you get in for that zone.Right?So, with that being said, that's the indication side of everything.
The speaker breaks down his current gold sell position and shows how the market respected a lower-high structure before selling off again. He uses the example to reinforce that higher timeframes provide the clearest structure and the most reliable context.
Later on in a different video, I'mma explain pretty much the rest of everything, the continuations, the corrections that you have to look for, but I really want you to understand trends, right?I know it might sound simple to a lot of people or some people are still confused, but this is like one of the most important parts cuz this makes up everything else that we're going to go over prettymuch in this whole series again.Uh just like the last time, I stressed this a lot that structure helps a lot.Structure helps a lot.So, to break down the trade that I'm currently in, if you follow me on Instagram, you know that I'm currently in gold sales.I got into gold sales a couple of days ago right around this level, and it's actually a perfect example on why higher time frames respect structure more.
Cuz even though I got in a little bit late than where I should have, I got in a bit late.I got in a bit late, and price ended up Actually, I really got in a little bit early, but price ended up respecting structure, still creating a lower high, and then coming back and giving us another sell-off.So, basically, for the new newcomers, what I mean is there was a point where price was going up, of course.Then, we made a low.Then, we made a high, but this high is lower than this one.So, this high is way bigger than this this one down here.This high right here is under this one.So, that makes this a lower high.So, if LH
LHequals LL.
So, this is our LL.Then LH LL should equal LH.Which then it does.LH.So, then if LH equals LL, tell me what should happen next.Price should make an LL.That's it.We're not doing no complex math.We're not doing any crazy order blocks or we're not doing any patterns, chart patterns.We're not using bots, indicators, nothing.We're just looking at what price is giving us and we're breaking it down.That's all we're doing the whole time.If this is our high, when we hop on the chart, this is our high.Then this is our low.
Right?This is our low.And we start here.We start here in this level.We have our high and then we have our low.Then price comes here and it makes a lower high.And a lower low.Mind you, let's go ahead and put this rule in here cuz I didn't I don't remember saying it at all.Actually, I I definitely did.But, let's just do it again.In a downtrend,
there's only two different structures.A lower high and a lower low.That's the only two things.So, when you see one of these, it's most likely a downtrend.So, when you see a high, that's under a previous high, and this is a lower high, it's most likely a downtrend.If you see a lower low under a previous low, it's most likely a downtrend.You can only see LH and LL in a downtrend.That's it.Nothing else.So, when you see a LH, point at it, say downtrend.That's it.Keep it just like that.Downtrend.Right?Whenever you see
HH and HL, you identify it immediately as an uptrend.That's it.Nothing else.We don't need anything else.That's it.So, if you see an HH, so if you see a high that's higher than the previous one, you say, "Hey, that's an uptrend.We're starting an uptrend.Let's start identifying where we can get in for an uptrend possibly."Right?That's it.Nothing else.You don't need to do anything crazy.All you need to do is identify where you're at in a trend.So, in this case, let's say we have that.So, in a downtrend, we can only have HH Ls or LH and LLs.In an uptrend, we can only have HH and HLs.So, higher highs and higher lows.
Oof.Y'all stressed me out, man, already.It's only day one.All right.So, with this being said, from here, uh should I get into that right now?Let's Let's keep talking about Let's keep talking about trends.I want to get into indications so bad, but uh I really want you guys to knock this one knock this one out.If Let's Let's go ahead and give some some tips.If you do need um indicators, you can use pivot point high and low.So, I have these up here for teaching wise.If you really need help with putting on highs and lows, you can use this to pretty much get you to where you need to be.Right?And basically, what this is doing is marking out your highs and lows.I personally don't use this anymore cuz sometimes it's not marking up as you can see, it's not marking up certain highs.
So, you kind of got to like keep going down cuz this is going based off the candles.So, let's go to three.It should give us a lot more, especially on a daily time frame.I forgot we're on a daily, but on the 4-hour it'll be a lot more.Yeah.That's what I thought.So, if you want to use pivot point high and low, you can definitely use that to help you identify the highs and lows if you are a beginner.As you can see, we put it down to three and it marked out pretty much everything I already had.High, low, high, low, high, and as you can see, it's most likely making a low.So, in simple terms, if these numbers are getting lower, that means price is going down.If these numbers are getting higher, that means price is going up.Uh let's see if I have any more tips.
So, we have that one.Higher or high, low, higher low.Okay, I'm at lower high.I'm over here saying uptrends.I love buying price so much.People always be like, "You never sell."Hey man, look, now I'm selling.But, uh let's go over a little bit of the position that I was in.So, I ended up selling price at this level, a tad bit late than what I normally would do.But, as you can see, price ended up respecting the fact that this is the lower high.Price can play up in anywhere of this direction.So, if this is our lower high, this is our low, price indicated us, it corrected.It could correct all the way back to this level if it wanted to.It can correct it here.It could have corrected a little bit.As long as it doesn't break the structure, then everything is okay.
Nothing to be afraid of.As long as price is respecting structure and not creating a higher low, you should feel 100% comfortable with trusting the time frame.So, higher the time frame, more the respect.Higher the time frame, more the respect.I only trade on a daily and 4-hour time frames for the most respect.
The final section gives practical advice for spotting highs and lows by stepping back from the chart and looking for obvious turning points. He closes by explaining that indications come from first-time breaks of key highs or lows and urges viewers to keep the process simple and visual.
You can trade on anything higher, but I I obviously like to trade, you know, every like once a week.So, daily time frame, 4-hour are like bread and butter.Um let me see if I'm forgetting anything else.I pretty much explained everything.When it comes to looking at highs and lows, everything is visual.Everything is literally visual.Don't try to overcomplicate looking at these tiny bitty candles here rejecting or this tiny bit of Literally just take your crosshair.Let's delete all this.Take your crosshair, go up until you see one direction where it just came into that and stopped.I can visually see that price came into this level and stopped.I can visually see that price came down to this level and stopped and went into a whole different direction.I can visually see it.If it helps you, take like 10 steps away from your screen.
Literally, take a step back.Put your screen all the way somewhere else.Take 10 steps back and just look at the chart from from that distance.And then come back and mark what you see from a distance.I see this.I see this.I see this.Right?Take 10 steps back.Literally 10 steps step all the way from your chart and then look at price from the distance and tell me the points that you see.You should literally see theselike this.You should see a V here.You should see a V here.Right?A V here.It should look just like this.All just like this.You should literally see price come to a point and aggressively go in a different direction.Come to a point, aggressively go in a different direction.Those are your highs and lows.Those end points are your highs and lows.
And these are very important because then once you mark them up you ask yourself are the highs getting lower or are the highs getting higher?Are the lows getting lower or are the lows getting higher?In this case, we can visually see that the highs are getting lower.So, that means these are lower highs because it's getting lower.All you're doing is doing this.Lower high.You're going from high to ask is it lower?That's it.Is the high getting lower?Is the high getting lower?So, if we had this higher low are the lows getting higher?Right?That's how you ask.Is the lows getting higher?And if you want to do it, you can do it this way to kind of signal uptrend if you want.Or actually, we could do it this way cuz this is going up.So, is the low getting higher?
Boom.Matter of fact, I think I had it the right way, but hey, you get what I'm trying to say.Is the high getting lower or the low getting higher?So, pretty much this would be an uptrend.
And pretty much this would be a downtrend.
Right?And that's all we're looking for when it comes to trends.We're just trying to identify what this is first, so that way we can make a decision on where we need to be.Now, just a little I guess you could say sneak peek for the next lesson, that you identifying this will help you determine what part you need to play.Let's say price hasn't made any highs yet.That most likely means price does not have a lot of buyers in the market, and it is not the right time to buy anything.Right?So, that means we stay away.So, price comes to a level and it doesn't break a high.The moment it breaks a high, we're in our indication phase.The indication phase is normally going to come, or not even normally, indications can only come from breaking a higher high
or
breaking a lower low.So, both of the double letters.It can only come from breaking those, right?An indication is only classif- An indication is only identified as an indication if it breaks a lower low or a higher high.So, if you mark something up and this is your higher high, or if this is your high, or if this is your low, and price breaks it, you have to say, "Hey, that's an indication."But, to help you determine this, if it already broke this level before, it is normally a continuation.So, an indication is when it breaks for the first time.Let's go ahead and I'm not supposed to be telling y'all that.But, yeah.Indicate I'm not supposed to tell y'all this in this video cuz people might get confused.Indication breaks once.
Let's say indication is when it breaks for thefirst time.Right?Breaks for the first time.But, like I said, I wasn't going to confuse y'all guys with any of this.Uh the biggest thing is to understand trends, understand how to identify them.Everything is visual.Literally, step away from your computer, take 10, 15 ft back, and look at your computer screen, look at your phone screen, and tell me exactly what movements that you see from a distance.Not the small little wicks, or not the If anything, you can even turn off the wicks, go to settings, come here, turn the wicks off, tell me what you see.Tell me what you see without the wicks.Tell me the jagged points that you see that are most likely highs and lows.With that being said, I'll see you guys tomorrow.