All language subtitles for 1. Trade Entries

so entries are pretty much one of the last things that we're looking at right

you know we spoke about this at the very start of the module in that introductory

uh to technical analysis lesson where you know essentially we need to build

the story right first so if i just kind of put up the

sort of main uh areas of confidence that we look at

right market structure as we know always comes first that in in my opinion when

you're starting to build a trade idea no matter well no matter what strategy you

trade market structure always comes first that is the main confluence then

we can look at our supply and demand zones right and we want to see where

they are positioned within market structure are we playing pro trend

counter trends et cetera et cetera then last we can kind of start to look

at uh not last but after that we can start to look at liquidity concepts

right the two main ways that we use that one being for those sweep zones and the

other one being do we have inducement um in front of our zone and then finally

probably the kind of last major confluence i would look at is pricing

how well priced is the area that i'm looking to trade from so you know that

was how we used our premium versus discounts all right so obviously spoke

about that in the market structure module but

we kind of view that as its own sort of separate uh piece of confluence and that

is essentially the order of importance in which i would use to personally start

to build a trade idea right so that's pretty much what we've gone through so

far uh in the technical analysis module and you've learned all of those

individual concepts but we've learned it in a way where we've kind of built uh

you know each of those concepts on the prior concept right and we've built that

story along and we've slowly put it together

throughout each sort of sub module and lesson and you saw trade examples kind

of the whole way through that so you should have a pre kind of you know good

grasp before even watching this lesson in terms of how we are looking to to use

all of that but also how you know we are looking to actually enter trades

so this lesson specifically isn't going to really be about that it's not going

to be about looking at all of those pieces of confluence and how we build

those trade ideas what this lesson is about is that once

you've already done that and you've done the hard work and and you've built the

whole story right the whole higher time frames how the piece together where we

are within structure you know etc etc and you and you've identified and

refined the exact same the exact zone that you wish to trade from in terms of

your hard time frame poi right your point of interest

then obviously there's a few options that are going to be available to you in

terms of how you specifically can enter that zone and execute that trade and

that's what this lesson um is going to be about so again it's not going to be

about putting all of that together so far

but more so once you've built all that story and

you've got the zone or the area in which you want to build a trade idea around

and when you actually want to start to execute a position

this lesson is going to be about kind of those options that are available to you

then when we get into the next section coming up which is about trade plans

right creating and building your own specific and personalized trade plan

that is where we will then talk a lot more around you know putting all

together what confluence you want to see and you need to see as minimum criteria

or what is just you know additional positive confluence but you don't

actually need it to execute a trade but more specifically

you know what time frames are you going to be trading from what constitutes a

higher time frame poi for you and then what lower time frame are you going to

use for execution because for some people

you know they'll be using four hour uh you know structure they'll be using m15

pois right to build the trade ideas around but then once the price is in the

m15 poi that's when they'll then be using say the m1 or maybe lower for

their actual execution whereas other people may be you know using the weekly

the daily and then the 15 minute for execution right so

all of that is pretty much irrelevant for this specific lesson because we're

going to get into that in a little bit coming up but this is like i keep saying

right this is just going to be about once you've done the hard work you've

built that kind of you know that that area in which you want to to look to

execute how can you actually get in right so let's dive into that and drag

this across so there's kind of two main sort of entry types a way to classify it

one being a risk entry and the other one being a confirmation

entry obviously there's three here so you probably think you're always saying

two but the double confirmation entry for me kind of just just gets looped in

with with confirmation entry but yeah let's just dive into it and talk

about it so the first one being risk entry so this is very very simple so

essentially you have your higher timeframe poi in this case the supply

zone right denoted by this gray box now like i was saying right a higher time

frame is any time frame is it's going to be specific to each individual trader a

higher timeframe for one person could be the daily for another person it could be

the m15 right and then your lower time frame is just uh sorry just put my phone

on silent there we go your lower time frame will then just be uh you know

whatever lower time frame is going to be lower than the higher time frame one

that you use at so in this case regardless of whether this

is a continuation zone or a reversal so obviously it was if it was a

continuation we would have price moving to the downside right forming a lower

low price would be pulling back up into the supply zone right that caused that

break of structure and we'd be looking to get short here to then try and

potentially catch this lower high right to then get that next break of structure

for price to form a lower low so that's the idea with that or of course if it

was a straight reversal so if price was trading to the upside and then price

came down we had that reversal and then we could be looking to trade in here to

try and catch that lower high so it's irrelevant of whether it's a reversal or

continuation what essentially makes this a risk entry

is that you were just looking for price to pull back up into that hard time

frame poi and you were looking to just whack a limit order on

right anywhere on or within the zone and then you're essentially hoping that

price isn't going to reverse tag you in and then go in your favor okay so we'll

talk kind of a little bit further on in this lesson about more a bit a bit more

about the specifics of exactly where you can enter within the zone but right now

i just want you to concentrate on essentially you're just identifying your

high timeframe zone and you're just looking to enter on it put your limit

order on it and that essentially is your risk entry so remember your stop will

always go behind the zone and then your entry can be anywhere on or within the

zone okay obviously the more refined you go the better the wrist reward you get

but the more you increase the probability that you may not get tagged

into a position so that's your risk entry

now a lower time frame entry will be sorry not the timeframe a confirmation

entry or a double confirmation entry is essentially where you would then drop

down uh to a lower time frame once price enters your higher time frame poi so in

this case the minute that price gets to here where this orange line is right the

very edge of our hard time frame zone i would have an alert that would ping off

i would then drop down to my lower time frame my execution time frame whatever

that may be okay and then i would start to wait for

price to switch bearish in line right with the hard time frame intention if

i'm looking to catch a low high price is fractal the lower time frames

will switch bearish first okay and we'll see that and then that way we're using

that little bit of extra confirmation the lower timeframes because we're

looking for you know that bearish order flow starting to kick in we're looking

for demand to start failing right supply to start taking control and we're going

to see that first on the lower time frames if this hard time frame zone is

likely to hold right so if there's supply in the zone

and we're going to look for that next boo to the downside we're going to see

that first on the lower time frames okay and that's essentially all we're doing

and that's you know this is why it's a bit riskier because price could

obviously just you know we don't have any confirmation price could come up

into here move a little bit and then just stop us out

and the same thing could happen here we could still have all of this

confirmation and price could still go and stop us out but at least we've had a

little bit more confirmation on the lower time frames and we're seeing that

fractal bearish order flow start to kick in

and this is why this can be useful okay so very simply confirmation

price comes into our hard time frame poi we drop down to our execution time frame

we wait for um you know essentially price to start breaking strokes to the

downside so confirmation entries when you get that first breaker structure

downside price then pulls back up in this case into a supply zone and we

would look to get short from that first zone there right and that would be your

confirmation entry and then as the name suggests a double

confirmation entry is then when we have that double break of structure so we

have that first initial break of structure we then see price pull back

tap into supply and then we get another break of

structure and then that secondary supply essentially is your double confirmation

entry right and then you know i guess technically you could keep doing that

right and then you'd get a triple confirmation uh confirmation entry so on

uh and so forth so yeah you can either enter on the confirmation entry or you

can wait for even more confirmation to get that double confirmation entry and

that could be your first initial position or of course you could enter on

both and you could use that to just scale in and really that's as simple as

it is okay it's just kind of a way of classifying

how you may want to approach you know that hard time for mpoi because

you could see this whether it be the four hour the m15 whatever time frame

you like to use and it's kind of essentially two options you either just

want to get it get in on that zone you just want to enter anywhere on or within

it stop always goes behind or you want to wait for a little bit more

confirmation you'll drop down to a lot of time frame execution uh your your

execution time frame and then you can look to either just take that first

break of structure to get the confirmation entry or that double

confirmation entry now one reason kind of why you may want

to wait for the double rather than that first confirmation entry is because what

can happen so if you just kind of imagine this bit of price action here as

price comes up into your hard time frame poi we then come down right and we get

that breaker structure here but then what can happen is this price can come

back up and you could be looking to get short from this zone but price could

just continue up right so then it ends up just grabbing that liquidity belief

that zone right to then fuel the move and then sweep the liquidity above this

high and then we get the real move going so that's why waiting for you know

another break of structure to the downside first can kind of boost your

strike rate or you may wish to do so um you know if you don't have a lot of

confidence in that specific poi then you may want to see more confirmation and

wait for that double break of structure just to stop you getting caught in a

potential liquidity sweep here right have you got tried to get shot from that

supply zone and then you get stopped out before the real move goes okay

so yeah that's pretty much it that's kind of as simple as it needs to be you

don't need to over complicate it any more so than that

now one thing i actually do want to add to

it um kind of just a very kind of nuanced

difference between risk entry and confirmation entries here on the lower

time frames is that when price comes into your higher timeframe poi so we

look at this kind of first entry model here uh just like we saw right price

comes into it on the lower timeframes right

we then get that break of structure price then pulls back now it doesn't

come up straight away to that first supplies and that's created because

remember if price came up to here that would be our confirmation entry right

but in this case it doesn't quite pull back up to that supply zone and then we

get that second break of structure so now we have that double break of

structure we now have our second supply zone now

we can definitely look to take this double confirmation entry here all right

and we can look to get sure now what can happen as you can see is price can then

come down it can break that low here right we can get another break of

structure but then price can come back up this would then stop us up for break

even but then what happens when price comes

back up well it has to switch bullish right because it has to break that lower

high which then forms a higher high in order to come back i'll get rid of

the orange line if in order to come back to the initial zone that we were looking

at right the origin demand zone of that move price has to switch bullish to get

back here so you definitely can look to enter here you know we've

had the especially if you know like for instance we get a sweep zone price

sweeps equity taps into a higher timeframe poi we get multiple breaks of

structure to the downside and then yes we could look to get short here as well

from that double confirmation entry pricing comes down we then move to break

even as we get a break at that low or we can pass it out to move to break even

again we'll talk about management in the next lesson

essentially price will come back up stop us for breakeven and then we can look to

enter from this zone here and we can put a limit order on here right but you have

to understand that price on this time frame on your execution time frame once

it breaks this high here it has now switched bullish again at this moment so

order flow is bullish technically that lower timeframe demand is now in control

so as you're trying to short here it's a bit more riskier right because you don't

have that confirmation but this is a valid trade i'm not saying you can't

take this we just have to understand that this is a risk entry compared to if

price came down here that first little break of structure then came into the

zone and then you got short from here that would be classified as a

confirmation entry okay because price is bearish it's in line

with the direction in which you were trying to trade but when price then

comes back uses that prior move as liquidity right forms as equal highs

then price comes back into it that is then your risk entry here

now this entry model over here is the exact same entry model that we have here

except once it actually comes back up to that zone where initially we'd be

looking to take a risk entry what you can do is you can wait for price to

switch bearish again on their execution time frame so then when it you know gets

that breaker structure against the downside price is now bearish supply is

back in control and essentially you're just using a confirmation entry of this

zone right to confirm that the supply is going to hold wait for that breaker

stretches the downside supplies back in control and now you can look to get

short from here with that confirmation entry

okay so you can do this on this exact same time frame so for instance let's

imagine that you know this hard time frame is a four hour chart and then you

were looking to enter on the m15 so that was a blue line here this would be an

m15 risk entry over here you would then wait for price to come into that zone

you would then wait for price to then switch bearish create a new supply zone

that would then be your m15 confirmation entry but you don't necessarily have to

use you know the m15 to see if this m15 zone is going to hold because price

could come up into your m15 zone here and then you could drop down to say the

m1 or the m5 or whatever you want to use wait for the m1 or the m5 to switch

bearish and then enter here on the m1 right so you've used that m1 to

fractionally confirm this m15 to fractively confirm right the four hours

so you can understand and see how we can use those different time frames together

um i know it can be a little bit confusing when you kind of first think

about it but really just when to kind of see the differences here between a risk

entry and a confirmation entry and kind of i guess the most simple way to define

it is that a confirmation entry is when the

time frame you were looking to execute on is essentially you're trading with

the trend you're trading you know that continuation rather than this kind of

being you know this would be a straight reversal because price is bullish at

this point as as you're trying to short it

okay so then let's take a look at essentially

the the kind of pros and cons between you know when to use a risk entry and

when you may want to use a confirmation entry now

kind of just laying this out here for you guys to think about it's going to be

different for every trader some people may only want to use confirmation

entries others may pretty much only use risk entries some may use a combination

of both depending on you know different factors

so let's kind of go through those and then you can kind of see you know why

you may we just wish to use one over the other or in specific circumstances so

a risk entry as the name suggests it is slightly riskier but that doesn't

necessarily mean you know the reward isn't there okay so essentially if i

could you know put it down into the simplest way you can use it is you would

identify your hard time frame point of interest

now what you can do then is let's say this was your four-hour zone is you

could refine your four-hour zone just to make it a little bit more smaller and

more accurate by jumping down a lower time frame looking and investigating

this section of price action on say the m15

and then on m15 you may actually see well this is where the actual true

supply came in you would use your confluence with the

to then identify the 715 zone that is stacked and nested within your hard time

frame zone right your four hour zone so now what you have done is you have you

know used multiple time frames to refine your hard time frame poi to a lower

timeframe poi and then that means you can whack your limit order with a

slightly smaller entry or a reward i should say right rather than you know

entering on the distal of the four-hour zone and obviously it's gonna you know

negatively affect your wrist to reward so

that's obviously optional you don't have to do that you can literally just stick

to the four hour zone and obviously once you're happy with it set your limit

order on the zone now this is best used

you know in my opinion when you were trading with the trend so essentially

you know those continuations because you you're increasing the probability that

price is going to hold right we know that it's more likely that structure is

going to hold that if price is turning to the downside and forming a series of

lower lows and lower highs that it's more likely that a lower high will form

here right so that's why you know without waiting for that lower time from

execution like we can with the confirmation entry this is why using

risk entries with the trend hopefully it's pretty obvious of why

that's why that you know you would be more inclined to use it this way

and best use when you can refine that higher time frame zone with

a lower time frame zone that's nested within it essentially just to increase

your risk rewards and decrease your accuracy of entering at the right point

right best use when you kind of just want to

be aggressive if it's a zone you really really like and price action is just you

know there's tons of positive confluence and you just want to get in you want to

be aggressive then just being you know whacking your

risk entry limit order um can be good and kind of finally i guess

your training personality or your your routine let's say you're busy with work

you have a nine to five or you're someone who just doesn't want to be on

the charts a lot set and forget you can identify a high timeframe poi it could

be the weekly the daily four-hour whatever even m15 you're gonna have

probably hours and hours if not days to sometimes spot these zones that you want

to enter from and instead of waiting for price to get back there then having to

jump down a lower time frame you know wait for all of this to realign then set

your entry order uh you have to be in front of the charts instead you could

see this you know the night before and the four-hour chat could then be trained

to the downside you know the next day or so it can pull back your entry orders

being there the whole time then you're trying uh you know tagged into the trade

ideally it runs into profit um it's a much more hands-off approach

and that's really kind of where risk entries um you know come into their own

so i guess the main kind of obvious

benefits to to using risk entries is that you can get into trades that

sometimes literally price can come into his own and it can just you know tap and

go very very aggressively is there if there's a massive imbalance within that

zone right an overwhelming amount of supply compared to demand obviously in

this area uh then this is where you know it can be beneficial sometimes you just

kind of miss that that confirmation entry and sometimes you will miss the

move uh you can obviously get a high risk reward

if you have managed to refine your poi to a lower time frame zone um yeah and

just more generally kind of that autonomous execution that independent

execution where it's a lot more hands-off um a lot more certificate

which yeah some people will definitely prefer that approach it can also be a

lot easier on your psychology as well for some people um because

you know you set your order and you walk away rather here you kind of have to be

a bit more active and you can kind of potentially talk yourself out of trades

or make a few mistakes in the heat at the moment as is kind of happening um

but other people find this find risk entries a lot harder in their psychology

because um you know you can take some losses if

you if you haven't identified you know high enough probability zones and some

people just prefer to always always wait for that bit of extra confirmation as

they just yeah it gives them a bit more confidence that the zones holding

they're saying what they want to see in the lower timeframes and they prefer it

this way so this is why you know there's a million ways to trade the markets to

make money um and obviously yeah we'll talk about this a lot more in in the

trade plan section but i just want you to start kind of thinking about the

benefits and the cons to to each there's obviously always you know pretty much

equal benefits and drawbacks right um you just got to figure out what is going

to work best for you and kind of what makes most sense to you

so the the main cons are yeah just like i was saying you don't really get any

confirmation right so price could literally pull back and just blast

straight through you and stop you out and also you can kind of generally get

uh lower risk rewards um if you haven't refined it to a lower timeframe zone or

of course you know if you're waiting for a confirmation entry you can you could

go down to a really small time frame to wait for that bearish switching trend to

then get a very very small stop-loss to give you a really high uh risk to reward

so yeah in terms of the confirmation entry

pretty similar you would obviously identify your high time frame poi using

all of the confluence that we've looked for in the in the previous lessons

market structure yadi rdr and then you can refine on lower timeframe again just

like we did here i haven't drawn on this case but you could if i drag it across

you could rather than just waiting for price to

come in to say your hard time frame zone and waiting for say the m1 to switch

bearish instead you can wait for the refined zone within your hard time frame

zone to be hit first before you look for your entry model because what could

happen is price could come up into your hard time frame zone like this it could

then switch bearish and then you could look to get short here right from this

zone but it could be a bit of liquidity grab price could go higher and then tap

into the actual refine zone right within your hard time frame zone

then you get the break of structure let's say this was a little high there

sorry a little low there then you get your break of structure here right now

that wasn't a full signal all of this was just a run on liquidity there

and then you have you know much higher confluence that price is likely to to

tag you in and go because it's you know mitigated that kind of last bit of

refined supply that you that you've done so um refining it's obviously optional

you don't need to do that and once you've got your zone that you

like you obviously wait for price to reach it and then you drop down to your

execution time frame so it's kind of denoted by this blue line here um so

let's say your half time frame zone was a four-hour zone you then drop down to

10-15 for instance you'd wait for 10-15 to switch bearish pull back into that

first supply zone that would be your first confirmation entry um yeah you'd

set your your limit order on that newly created fractal lower time frame zone

and then you've got a bit more confirmation that this hard time frame

zone is going to hold so this is going to be you know if you were going to use

both types of entries confirmation and risk then this would be better to use it

if you're kind of trading counter trends um because obviously there's less

probability compared to pro trend trades that this so may hold so you may want to

just wait for a little bit of extra confirmation and just to show that

bearish order flow starting to kick in if you're looking to get short um also

good if you have a large hard time frame poi so uh kind of what i mean by that is

imagine this is a daily or a four hour zone

generally those zones depending also going to be different for every pair but

generally those zones can be you know anywhere from 40 to 100 pips for

instance and if you're using the m1 for your execution time frame the minute it

gets into here like i was just saying and you trade that first break of

structure in that first flip your increase well it's a little lower

probability that necessary that first move is going to be a true signal and he

could take a lot of full signals as price moves deeper into that kind of 100

pip zone before eventually it goes um so this is kind of when it when it's you

know pretty decent to to use um you know there's extra confirmation

entries and to use those refined pois to make sure that you don't get trapped in

those full signals um but also to increase your risk reward because let's

say you wanted to take a risk entry on that 100 daily zone um obviously your

stop-loss is going to be much larger than when you can actually refine it to

your your your lower time frame um you know an entry zone which is going to be

much smaller than the higher timeframe zone uh it's also best used when price

is moving very aggressively into your hard time frame poi so you know if you

kind of get that v shape move where price moves down and it comes very very

aggressively with all momentum back into your zone um you may want to just you

know not take a risk entry with that and actually wait for that lower timeframe

confirmation to start switching bearish just to give you a bit more confidence

that price is going to hold um and then yeah another really good one

is if you have multiple um

pois to consider so for instance let's say um you know price

uh comes to the downside and then you have let's say your origins

aren't up here and then you may have a couple decisions right you could

literally have one around here and then you could have another one here

sometimes you can have even more and obviously this is the most well-priced

one and there may be decent confidence for all of them and you're not quite

sure which one is going to hold because price doesn't have to come to the origin

then what you can do is you could uh just trade any confirmation entries that

you get so maybe price just comes up into this one it blasts straight through

it and never switches bearish it comes into the second one and then you get

your entry model you could take that and then you're in right so what you were

doing is you set alerts on all three and you just trade your entry model once you

get your confirmation entry to confirm that zone is going to hold and then you

can get in and what you may also want to do is that

whole time is you may want to set your risk entry on the top one right because

you know if price is going to form uh that lower high then this is the last

point in which is going to do it to maintain that bearish trend right

because this in theory should be a strong high

so if you have multiple pois kind of one thing you can do like i was just saying

set your risk entry here and then trade confirmation entries um from the

decisional but yeah it will again be very dependent

um on kind of each individual trade setup and also uh you know what you have

in your plan so the main benefits of this is

obviously additional confirmation and higher risk to reward if you are

entering on a refined low time frame poi compared to just entering on the whole

zone as itself uh main benefit drawbacks are you can miss moves that do not pull

back that's what i'm saying here right sometimes pricing can just come in tap

fly and it's off and you won't always get pullbacks to those to those lower

time frame refinements and then finally um it can be where you

just can get trapped in full signals where price can kind of give you that

first initial confirmation tree and then push higher and deeper into the zone and

before you get that real move as it was just a liquidity grab um yeah and that's

kind of really it the main differences between risk entry and confirmation

entry but this was just something that you you'll get used to with time and

experience as you test more um and obviously it will depend a lot as well

on um you know your your own personal uh lifestyle constraints you know if you

have a job and things like that so kind of again if i could just kind of

simplify it trying to want to you know the way we can trade you can over

complicate things a lot and i think this diagram is kind of a good way to kind of

summarize what again we're trying to do here so

we have our higher time frame denoted by this black line we have price training

to the downside this is obviously a weak low because it failed to take out the

high this is a strong high because it's taking up the lows right so it should be

protected in that bearish trend so on and so forth price pulls back into our

supply zone here it fails to put in a lower low so then demand takes in

control causing that change of character on that break of structure right we then

get uh demand right so supply flipping to demand demand is now in control so

you could either literally just take your kind of hard time frame entry like

that essentially your risk entry and your hard time frame poi or you can wait

for price to come into your poi drop down to your lower time frames and then

you're essentially just waiting for the exact same thing to happen right price

is obviously bearish on a lower time frame coming into your hard time frame

zone then you're waiting for the lower time frame to start to switch bullish

and then you look to get involved and you have that confirmation that that

higher timeframe higher low may be forming right and then we can do what

target that weak high or even further then again price comes into your next

supplies uh your next demand zone in this case drop down to lower time frames

wait for all the flow to start to switch bush again to give you that confirmation

that this zone is holding and that that high low is in place and then target

that weak high and that's it that's that's really as simple as we need to

keep it right in terms of just thinking about what it is we are trying to do

here and kind of those subtle differences between whether you want to

just take that risk entry work your limit order on or whether you're happy

to then drop down to the time frames and look for your confirmation entry now

another thing as well i do want to kind of want to mention

uh if it kind of wasn't clear is that you can use confirmation entries within

your hard time from poi without actually changing time frame so for instance

let's say you were looking at this hard time frame poi uh you know risk entry

would just be whacking a limit order on there but what you can do is actually

wait let's say this is the four hour chart this back line if price was coming

back and had a bit of a minor pullback right a bit of a minor pullback and then

you can get that four hour change of character here right where you get that

minor breaker structure and then price comes into this four hour zone here when

it's minor for our zone you haven't changed time frame but

you've essentially used the four hour to give you that confirmation entry within

that four hour zone now price isn't always going to do that it's going to

depend on you know how it's setting up how big this actual range is right how

big these swings are in price um sometimes there's a very tight range

you're not going to get that much space in a 4-hour chart it's going to tap in

and go um yeah hopefully kind of yeah that makes sense of how you can

essentially just use this but without even changing time frames as well so

don't be afraid to kind of use that too and then finally what i was just saying

right this is kind of i guess the three in my eyes are three

main ways in um which you can enter that zone so whether you're using risk entry

confirmation entry whatever once you've actually picked that final last zone

that you've drawn on your chart i know you're ready to actually size up where

your entry is going to be and where your stop dust is going to be these are kind

of the three main options so main one being

essentially always entering on the distal so the distal is just essentially

the edge of the zone it's the very front edge of the box

and that is where you can put your entry order now no matter how you enter your

trades stop losses as i've been saying they always go behind the zone okay no

matter what now how much of a pip buffer you give between the end of the zone and

and your stop loss again it's going to be down to each individual

trader this comes with time experience and testing and it will depend on each

individual pair as well right with how volatile they are the average true range

depending on whether you whether you want to give it half a pip you want to

give it one pip three pips whatever or maybe some of you literally just want to

go straight to there that will also depend on on you know how good the

spreads are with your broker et cetera things like that i'm not going to dive

into this too much for now you're just going to have to test this and see what

works for you but in terms of the actual entry the

simplest way in the way i'd probably recommend all of you starting out to do

is just use a distal so always enter on the edge of the zone and the reason why

i say that is just because it's going to give you um well you're going to be

entering in a lot more trades if you get this way

because obviously if you enter on the edge of the zone once price comes in

you're going to get tagged in compared to if you always enter on the eq

sometimes price is going to come in and not tag you in

so this is the most unrefined way of

entering because risk reward is obviously going to be lower compared to

these ways because you know you your stop-loss is going to be bigger right

but i think when you're starting out i think it's useful to just always enter

on the edge just so you're getting experience of getting in trades getting

used to managing them um you're just going to learn a lot quicker that way

and then the refinements come with time okay so the next like a simple way to

always enter trades is you always enter on the eq of the zone the equilibrium

the 50 level and that's kind of why it's useful to draw um your zones rather than

uh drawing your entry zones with the box tool like this you can either use a gan

box so that's kind of a useful one just quickly show you the settings take a

screenshot of that if you want to use a gan box okay and i'll give you a line in

the middle i personally prefer to use um i believe it's called a fib channel i

have gone through this in the previous lesson let's have a quick look over here

uh where are you over here

actually no it's not a fib channel i believe it's the parallel channel isn't

it yeah there we go she's been blind the parallel channel which is in the

trendline section so that's what i personally use to draw my execution time

frame zones so just click on that sort of the higher

the candle right then if you hold shift it will draw a straight line then you

can draw it to the bottom of the zone wherever you want it to be and there you

go and then you've got that perfect eq in the middle so just double click on

that and you guys can see the settings there um if you wish to copy that

and in that way you can always enter on the eq no matter what and your stop-loss

will always go behind the zone so obviously the size of the zone that you

draw will determine how big your your stop-loss is in terms of pips and

obviously then your risk to reward and then the final way is essentially

using a fixed stop-loss so this of would only recommend for people

who are a lot more advanced and who have done a lot of testing you have yeah

essentially collected a ton of data and you're very because this will be very

specific to to what time frame you enter on um your

style of trading also specifically what pair your trade um it will it will

differ from pair to pair because they are all slightly more volatile or less

fortunate than each other um so yeah this is kind of the most refined way and

essentially all it means is that let's say that you find for your side of

trading or let's say you're a dollar you find that five pips a five pip stop loss

is the most optimal way for you to trade then what you would do when you've

identified the zone that you want to trade on is you would just

for instance like let's say i would go okay here's my zone i know i want to

fire pip stop so what i would do is i would just move the wrist to raw tool

knowing okay i want my stop to be about that far behind the zone and because

it's a fixed five pip stop wherever the entry ends up that's just where i'm

gonna enter so for instance if this zone was like a larger zone or you just do

the same thing right you just size up your five pip stop it has to be just

behind the zone that's where i want my stop to be okay that means i'm now

entering near the eq and obviously if it was a smaller zone you may end up

entering on the distal right um and that's kind of quite a useful way to

trade okay but this will come with just

essentially testing figuring out kind of what average strike rate you have what

average risk reward you need to achieve and kind of playing with the numbers a

little bit more that way but yeah it's definitely not one i would recommend for

when you're first starting out when you're first starting out i keep it very

very simple and either always enter on the distal always enter on the eq and

the stop loss is always going to be obviously just behind the zone um that's

kind of yeah your three kind of main ways in which you guys can start to

experiment and test with uh as we dive into it so

yeah that wraps it up in very very simple terms we have either risk entries

or confirmation entries we've kind of gone through the pros and cons of those

risk entry is literally just entering um on the zone confirmation is obviously

using those lower time frames and those fractal refinements that just kind of

help you wait for the trend on those time frames to switch in favor to just

show you that that higher timeframe poi is going to hold and in these three ways

here is literally just whether you you know you can just bring that refinement

of that zone uh even further so now let's take a kind of a quick look at an

example of using what we just learned in the actual market

so we're just going to look at a couple of trade examples really just kind of

showing you the difference between risk entry confirmation entries and double

confirmation trees in the live market and then of course

the kind of those three main ways in which you can actually

enter on that zone once you've kind of built the story and picked the zone that

you wish to execute your trade on so kind of just going to do a quick kind of

rough and ready analysis on your dollar literally just analyzing uh today's

price action um it's currently tuesday the 21st of september 2021 um so yeah

you know i'm not going to kind of go back and find the most utopian perfect

trade example for you literally just showing you literally every single day

the the same you know patterns occur the same way we can trade the market um yeah

and just kind of show you that so daily chart uh reasonably similar to the

examples that we've been building throughout the lesson so far we know

that we've been uh trading within this larger big bullish weekly range price

currently is tapping into this liquidity sweep zone right there's going to be

some demand left within this wick which we initially had a reaction off but we

failed to take out that weekly high price then came back down and took out

this weak weekly low here and tapped into some remaining demand within this

sweep zone down here so the daily chart if we kind of simplify even more has

been in a clear bearish trend forming those swing lower highs and lower lows

then price did take out this weak load right sweeping that liquidity tapping

into the remaining demand that is left within this wick and it did have a

pretty decent bullish reaction uh taking out this more minor high here and it

tried to form that clear higher high breaking this more major swing high up

here however it literally whipped that high

by about a pip or so it barely you know broke it obviously didn't go above it

and we didn't get that type one breaker structure so no higher high there for me

um essentially just tapping into that external range liquidity and then

retracing pretty aggressively um to the downside so the daily chart is kind of

coming down into this um extreme zone here so there is the potential that

price could um you know form a decent reaction from here and actually go on to

make car highs because it did take out this high here um but for me that's kind

of more of a minor high than the true swing high um i would have really wanted

to have seen this high get close and broken above and to be a lot more

convinced that price was going to go and push on higher um which obviously could

happen right we could react from here and go i have no idea i don't have a

crystal ball but based on my analysis i would say that the higher probability is

that this low here is a weak daily low because it failed to create a higher

high it failed to take out that swing high for me it failed to get a true

close above it so we may just see a bit of a short-term reaction here and then

we could see a run of that low there to form a much clearer lower low so based

on that as price comes down into here um you can

look to trade this reaction and look for some short-term longs to trade a bit of

a pullback there so let's have a look on the four-hour chart and see if we can

refine our daily zone even more so we kind of had two main areas i would say

on the floor chart you could either take that whole range there right that four

hour range just draw this box on for the for our chart or refine it to that

single pivot created demand down here drag these across a little bit

all right well the next one which price is near

approaching is this more decisional uh demand zone here

where we can take that single candle or you can of course just take the whole

range not a massive difference there and i'm going to be kind of using lower time

frames here to look for different entries so i guess yeah risk entry from

a four-hour perspective you could literally just set one on on that

four-hour zone there stop just below the lower of course you could set it on the

eq or you could set one down here right and essentially would be your risk entry

but for the sake of this example we're going to drop down to lower time frames

to see if we can get those low time frame entries to essentially just play a

reaction from this daily zone in these four zones to see if we can get a bit of

a pullback um counter trend training obviously we'll talk about management in

the in the upcoming lesson uh but obviously we wouldn't want to push it

too far because we would really kind of expect this bearish autoflow to to to

stay until it doesn't and potentially looking for a price to come up in

towards these supply zones and continue the overall bearish movement we can

clearly see looking at before our recent price action right how corrective and

and slow those pullbacks are and sharp aggressive movements down right supply

is clearly in control so what i would be doing in live market save my alerts in

this zone and wait for price to come into there but yeah let's see if we can

kind of wait for the 15 minutes to give us that change of character and start to

switch british as it comes into our zone so i'm just going to kind of pay this

slowly forward so price is starting to build a bit of liquidity you can see we

had those relatively equal lows right there and again equal those there

building activity coming into our zone so now i'll just be waiting for

price to switch bullish and give us a bit of a change of character so nice bit

of momentum there and now we clearly have uh that minor break of stretch to

the upside there with that change of character giving me a very nice uh

zone down here which you could pretty much classify as a sweep zone as well

in my opinion took the liquidity from those there nice aggressive you know

move in aggressive move out showing the clear that demand was filled and causing

that change of character with that minor break of structure there so now what i

would do well one thing you can do is you can literally set your limit order

here right and trade that m15 so kind of it can get a bit confusing then if when

you're jumping through time frames and how you define confirmation or risk

entry because essentially if you're trading the

four-hour zone your your your four hour if you're

trading a four hour poi and then you use this m15 zone as your execution time

frame this essentially would be your m15 confirmation entry because you're using

them 15 to confirm your four-hour zone right so if you were to set your limit

order here that essentially would be kind of your m15 confirmation entry but

what i'm going to do is i'm going to drop down a time frame to the m1

and i'm going to essentially trade the m15 poi that's obviously nested within

the 400 daily but i'm directly trading the m15 poi it's blue zone here

by using an m1 confirmation entry so what that means is that i want to trade

the m15 poi but i'm waiting for the m1 to confirm that the m15 poi is going to

hold right so i want to see that switch bullish ideally get that flip zone

within there as well that structural zone right so then look to trade and

then see if we can use that confirmation on the m1 uh to essentially confirm the

m15 poi but like i said you don't have to do that you could literally just

enter on the m15 um zone if you wish to do so so just going to kind of fast

forward this until price comes down to our zone if it does so

let's see

so just dropping around kind of coming into let's see what the time is now so

12 15 on the time that's coming just into new york sort of 1 p.m

all right so now let me zoom in we've literally just tapped the zone so if you

had your alert on the zone that would now have gone off we've set liquidity

into that zone so now i just want to see the m1 start to switch bullish so we're

just trapping around at this moment it hasn't formed a lower low or a lower

high so i'd be essentially looking at this

as my m1 supply zone right so i want to see this fail and m1

break higher up above this high here so that would give me my

m1 change of character

so typing into that tapping into that and then we break up above it but on the

m1 we fail to close above that uh high there and then we start to shoot

off let's see does it come back

no not really so in this case the m1 is getting pretty ugly there wouldn't

really be anywhere i kind of want to set an entry order there but what i can see

and guess is that on the 15 second there was probably a clean entry because if

you remember what i was saying the difference between

using type 1 or type 2 for your sd flips is with a type 1 which is where we just

get the wick break i you know it's not as kind of confirmed if you were to then

enter as price comes back to the zone and because you fail to close above but

the reason why some people are happy to use a wick break like with this candle

here bang on one o'clock is because on a lower time frame it would have closed

above and then it would have come back right here and then tapped you in and

then you'd be in the trade so if i kind of show you let's see if the 15 second

will load for me uh here we go

yeah so you can see how clear that is now if i zoom in

so what would have happened if you were looking at this on the on the 15 second

is price went up obviously clearly closed well above that and then you

would have been looking to uh enter

essentially within the cell to buy obviously you could refine it to that

and one inside bar and then that would be your entry order there and then

you're gonna set your limit or enter up markets price and returns you can get

away with a one pip stop probably be a bit more lenient 1.5 pips um or you can

obviously take the whole range two pips there right and then you would be in the

trade that way if you took the second time frame entry obviously on the m1 it

doesn't really give you an entry there so let's fast forward this a little bit

more and see if we do get an m1 confirmation entry so next kind of area

of supply be looking at is this range here

right you can take the whole range or you can refine it to kind of you know

this candle area here which we can see prices coming into while having a bit of

a reaction so this now should form a lower low let's see okay so now we've

closed oh no we haven't closed but we've spiked up above that high um so let's

wait for it let's see if we can get an m1 close so now we have an enclosed

above the reaction right so we have a confirmed failed reaction so now what

that means is you can technically enter anywhere on that cell to buy price

action right anywhere within this candle here so this is where you kind of have

your options open right so let's say this is a zone you want to enter on you

can either enter on the distal and then that will

you will put your stop behind there right so

probably you want to give that a bit of a buffer i'd say two and a half pips um

or you can enter on the eq or you could say well i'm a type of trader who always

wants a two pip stop so in that case you would then just do that and now

essentially determine where your entry point is right or you can potentially

move it a little bit closer so let's see if you get tagged in so then you get

tagged in that case and then you'd be in the trade so let's see how this plays

out so you yeah you still be in the trade at

this point again we'll talk about management in a bit but you'll see in

the next lesson that running at 2.5 definitely wouldn't really want to move

that to break even a point you'd want to let it run a little bit more but yeah

we'll talk about management in the next lesson and then you'd be in that trade

so essentially what you've done here is we are playing essentially that daily

and four hour pullback right remember from this large daily zone we were

refined to two four-hour zones so the decisional and then the origin extreme

down here we then waited for price to come in and we're essentially using the

m15 as confirmation of which zone is likely going to hold first so we can

play a reaction from here so that's one we got i'll show you on the m15

all right that's why we waited for the m15 to switch british we got that uh

change of character we created a sweep zone right that demand zone price came

into it which we could have traded directly so that would have been an m15

confirmation entry of a four-hour zone or maybe you know the m15 is the just a

time frame that you use pois from so this would be your main time frame to

look to build trade ideas around then you would then essentially that would

classify as a risk entry i guess and then you would be jumping down to the m1

for your confirmation entry if that makes sense so you wait for them one to

tap into it you wait for the m1 to switch british for demand to get in

control there wasn't really a clean m1 entry there for me

much clearer under 15 seconds if you use that time frame otherwise for me this is

the first valid and one entry where we get that uh flip occurring that exchange

right that reaction the reaction fails price pulls back into it you get another

opportunity to get back in here right as it fills up more entries or more demand

i should say more orders within lowering the zone um and then we go there would

have been another 15 second entry here as you can see right price comes back in

um it would have been a lower timeframe confirmation and then you could have

traded this move um off and away so yeah hopefully you can kind of see the

differences there between the the time frames and kind of how you can classify

that as risk entry or confirmation entry um i wouldn't get too caught up on it

and too confused about it it's confusing um it's more just kind of trying to

separate those out in your mind of really what those mean so then if we

kind of fast forward this see how far price

plays out so this is kind of around asian sessions so i wouldn't be trading

around this time to kind of bring this to pre-london

see so around 7am it's frankfurt so around this time here

so we've had another m15 break of structure right so we're getting that

bullish order flow starting to kick in but remember it's counter the four hour

and daily trend so we don't be pushing uh this too fast so at this point it's

kind of a couple areas i'd be looking at this being the most obvious zone here

uh

right and then the only thing i don't like about this is this pretty obvious

liquidity sitting below it right all of those uh equal lows here if we can get

the line to work there we go so be a bit cautious of that and we may come a

little bit lower before we go so what do we have kind of have this

orange origin demand zone that's being unmitigated down here

all right if you just follow the series of mitigations and kind of another

obvious one i would see is this is a flip zone let's see so that candles

are mitigated but did it react uh so what i'm essentially looking at is

this whole range here right this by-to-cell range on m15 so we drag it

across all right and we can see that price pulled in

oops so it moved in and then that uh cell to

buy range right cause a reaction and then that's where the demand came in to

kind of break those highs and take out that zone there so obviously price did

come back into the top of the zone reacted and pushed away but we do have a

mitigator zone below which has nice inducement above so i'd look to trade

from either uh of these zones so then what we can do is obviously you can set

limits on auto on either of them right take those kind of risk entries or you

can drop down to your execution time frame so let's take a look at the m1 and

then just wait for price to come into those zones and let's see if we get

entries so price comes in

okay so now we're looking to see if one switch is bullish okay nice big

aggressive move away swept all of this liquidity here big movement in and out

um so then i would essentially be looking at this

uh and one entry here now this isn't really a flip zone for me this is more

just a structural zone um so yeah i do prefer flip zones but yeah it's still

got decent enough confidence to look to trade from so let's see let's see how

big you know this would be so if you're entering on the distal bit of a safe

buffer again two and a half pips or whether you're entering the eq or

whether you're let's say you're a two pip stop trader then you would enter

there right because it just depends on where your stop-loss is will determine

where your entry is so let's see if we get tagged in so no tag there doesn't

break the highest you leave your order on

and then that ends up being a loss okay absolutely fine just trying to show you

here right losses are more than valid this was a decent area in my opinion yes

there's liquidity below that looks like price is now looking to sweep but we

never know where the price will sweep it or not so we always react to it and not

predict so let's see if we can get a decent reaction from the lower zone

um let's see what happens even when price reaches there so a pretty

aggressive move in and a pretty aggressive move out let's just wait if

they want to switch bearish so kind of have this whole m1 range here

drag this out the way

okay um so there's our m1 zone

so let's see if supply is going to hold so we're getting a reaction

and then we're going to closure above and that change of character so that

would be your m1

shock and then this would be where the

reaction is all right those inside bars so that would be the reaction failing

so then you can enter anywhere within here

i've not drawn that actually at all let's get it on there there we go

and then down to here and then that would be

essentially your confirmation entry of the lower m15 zone so again if you were

to enter straight on this m15 zone whack a limit on the distal

right it was just an m15 trader trading in 15 poi directly stop below the low

probably seven pip stop that would be your position there that would be

essentially your m15 risk entry maybe you want a confirmation entry so

drop down to the time frame execution wait for the m1 shock and the flip

there's your entry there let's see if we get tagged in or not

so we've got another minor breaker structure prices come back in and then

boom there's your nice movement away so there's your confirmation entry what do

we get we're getting on the breaker structure there's no exchange between

demand and supply there so there's no flip we kind of just smash straight up

through but we do have these kind of pretty clean m1 um in fact

i'll draw this zone here right on these two candles here where then you can get

your double confirmation entry so this would be your first initial position on

the confirmation entry now whether you took this you can scale in here or look

to scale in or now you've got double confirmation right you're seeing demand

starting to hold we've had a double break of structure um we've seen this

supply to demand flip here we've created another area of demand so then this

would be my double confirmation entry here all right so then let's just say

you take a two pip stop nice and conservative below the low there and

then that can be another entry there and then let's see

kind of still part of why not move so i personally view that kind of as one just

big push and looking to see if price can come back to the origin or not

leave your order on let's see and you don't get tagged in so yeah

that's the kind of the thing right you can get extra confirmation but

you run the risk of potentially price not pulling all the way back and tagging

you in in this case okay so that would be your risk entry down here

that would be your m1 confirmation entry and then that would have been your

double confirmation entry down here um but yeah you end up not getting in there

um yeah is what it is the only thing you

could potentially have done i'm just looking at this now to see how you could

have got in is let's say you're looking at the extreme but price starts to move

away it starts to break to the upside what you can do is realize that um

actually price might not come back to mitigate that exact refined m1 um level

of demand and actually it's just you know reacting to this whole cell to buy

region because if you were to jump up to the m5 essentially this would be like an

m5 demand zone right but then if you see and one starting to react to move away

we get those minor breaks of structure then potentially you know you may want

to enter on that next level of demand which should be here and that's how you

could have got into the trade if you entered on the distal so not necessarily

saying that will be in your trade plan or a position you may want to take you

may always want to wait for price to come down to the extreme i'm just kind

of showing an example of here of potentially if price starts to move away

right break structure to the upside here it creates another level of demand that

is how you can get in rather than always waiting for price to come in and tag you

in but yeah that's kind of as simple as you need to keep it

risk entry on the m15 zone m1 confirmation entry and that would have

been a tiny double confirmation entry if it entered you in but it didn't in this

case and obviously how you enter on the zones distal eq or have a fixed stop

loss um but yeah when you're first starting out i definitely recommend just

always taking it on the distal just to kind of get in more trades get more

experience more exposure you get to journal more you get to you know just

yeah for obvious reasons right refine it a bit more to the eq um it's very very

simple and you just instantly double your rr for when you do get tagged in of

course and then yeah then you can really start to refine and play around with

fixed stop-losses losses only once you've collected a ton of data

on what kind of is the most optimal for you for your style for the time frames

you execute on and obviously for each individual specific pair

because a two pip stop loss on your dollar is going to be

well it can work out okay maybe for you but if you put that two pip stop loss on

a pair like pound yen you will quickly see that that is tiny and it's not going

to cover you at all because pound yen has a much higher average true range um

yeah i'll leave it there before i write down about any longer hopefully that

makes a lot more sense about entries and then we'll talk about this in a lot more

depth of how you can tailor this and personalize this to your own kind of

style as we look to create our trade plans