The EASIEST ICT Market Structure Trading Strategy (FULL COURSE)

should I go long should I go short this is the question that most Traders sit in front of the markets when it opens and ask themselves and the reason why they're unclear on which side of the market they should be on is because they don't have a simple strategy to figure out which way the market structure is telling them price is going to go so in this video I'm going to teach you a simple strategy that you can use to immediately get results in your trading just by following a couple simple steps and it's mind-boggling

how many people are trading Market structure completely wrong so if you're trying to learn ICT and you're focusing on things like fair value gaps or daily bias or mechanical strategies or any of these other things that a lot of people tend to focus on but you haven't mastered Market structure well then all of your work is for nothing because without Market structure which is the foundation of price action trading then nothing else that you use will work in the last eight years I have went from consistently blowing all my accounts losing money to making millions

of dollars sometimes even over $100,000 in a single month and I can tell you with full confidence that one of the biggest and most pivotal moments in my career was mastering and simplifying Market structure because most of the people that teach Market structure it's in a really complicated way that whenever you learn on the video it seems simple but then you go try to apply in a live market and it's just mindboggling you can't can't figure it out so in today's video I'm going to teach you a very simple strategy that anybody can use that

will completely reshape the way that you look at Market Market structure now most of you guys have learned Market structure in some way shape or form but you've likely been lied to because people try to teach you strong highs or Advanced Market structure or all these different fancy terms that people have used to try to make their own way of doing Market structure but none of these ways are very practical and what I'm going to teach you today is going to blow your mind at how easy it is and it's going to change your trading

forever and I'm going to show you exactly how misunderstanding Market structure is making you fail I'm also going to show you a simple and super easy trick that will just immediately change the way that you look at any swing high or any swing low and then last but not least I'm going to give you a full stepbystep strategy that you can use immediately because one thing I see about a lot of trading education content is that it's there's value but it's not tangible value so you know a Trader might tell you oh well you need

to master your psychology and find your Edge but how do you find your Edge and that's what you're going to figure out in this video cuz I'm going to give you a step-by-step system that you're to walk away with that way you have something to actually Implement all right so without further Ado let's go ahead and hop right into it so the first thing that I want to start off and tell you is that 90% of highs and lows aren't real so what do I mean by not real well in the market one thing that

I see a lot of Traders do is they learn Market structure they learn okay highs and lows and then they plot every single high and every single low now if you've done this before you've probably figured out by now that it can get really overwhelming really fast to try to map out every single high and every single low and if you map them all out well how do you know which ones that are going to provide a reversal or which sets of structure are going to continue which fair value gaps would you pay attention to

or or all these things that can get really overwhelming really fast if you don't know how to weed out 90% of the structure that doesn't matter another reason why mastering Market structure is so important is you have to spot fake Market structure shifts so if trading were as easy as this this is is what a lot of people in ICT think they just learn the 2022 model and think that a simple Market structure shift is going to make them into a profitable Trader but how many of these Market structure shifts have to happen before a

proper one occurs and trust me if trading was that easy if you could just learn to spot a market structure shift and you going to become a profitable Trader from that first of all I wouldn't be here on YouTube talking to you you wouldn't even be looking for information because you'd probably be busy somewhere on a beach because you made billions of dollars as a Trader but trading isn't that easy is it it's not we all know that nobody believes at the end of the day if you really sit down and are real with yourself

that you're going to be able to be a profitable Trader at a high level trading something as simple as just every Market structure shift it's just not real so your job as a Trader is to weed out all of the bad trades that you take in between the good trades because you may be able to spot a market structure shift that works some of the time but then what about when you take a loss and then another loss and another loss in between until you find the next real Market structure shift and this just comes

from not understanding a simple way to map Market structure which I'm going to teach you today now another thing that I think goes without saying um of why Market structure is important is because it is the foundation of price action trading and if you trade ICT that is price action trading because we don't use indicators and everything that you're doing is going to revolve back to Market structure and I I think the reason that this topic gets ignored sometimes is because it's May it may not sound as fancy as some of the other ICT Concepts

and a lot of people that are learning ICT they Veer off the path that they should be on because of shiny objects there's some new influencer with some fancy way of doing things that just seems like if I learn this one thing this is going to make me profitable and I see this a ton a lot on Twitter really on YouTube and everywhere and this has just been something it's kind of like snake oil I don't know if you guys have heard of you know the selling snake oil a lot of influencers will just come

up and coin new terms and strategies because they know that people are desperately looking for something to learn and they Veer them off the right path and so many people have forgot that you have to master Market structure it's very simple but tons of people overlook this and most of the traders that I see struggling they're looking in the wrong places of how they should fix you know they look for daily bias or they look for you know how do I get a simple strategy but at the end of the day daily bias it all

comes back to Market structure and if you don't understand Market structure you are effectively building a house on stilts when it comes to learning how to trade now speaking of bias another thing that I see a lot of Traders do is they will get this bias stuck in their head from the beginning of the week and they just want to carry it out throughout the entire week or even having a predetermined bias at the beginning of the day and being stubborn on thinking that you know we're going to stay in that bias or another thing

I see people do is they get the bias on their higher time frame they'll say oh well my daily chart is bullish but that doesn't mean that your lower time frames or that session's price action is going to be bullish because guess what in a daily chart there is a lot of retracements that occur that don't look like much on a daily chart but whenever you're trading on a lower time frame this can be sessions or days of price action that you're sitting there waiting or taking trades on the wrong side of the market because

you've determined that the market is bullish but in reality it's in a retracement yes it might be bullish on one time frame but you need to understand how to spot what the market is doing on the time frame that you're actually trading and that's what you're going to learn today which is how the market can be bullish and bearish at the same time because it's very easy for you to look at one chart like let's just say if the market is bullish on one chart well let's just say this is the daily in this leg

down this whole leg down and this leg down you know you could look at and say oh we're we're bullish overall but this on a lower time frame is going to be a downtrend so how do you actually make money consistently well it's by catching all these moves and knowing where they're likely to turn around and where they're likely to reverse so I'm going to teach you how you can be bullish and bearish at the same time and make way more trades and have a whole new world of opportunity than whenever you sit there and

are stuck in a bias just waiting on your higher time frame to unfold something else that I see a lot of Traders talk about is the market maker model the market maker model as well can be visualized by understanding structure and if you don't understand structure then you're probably just looking for every time the market makes this pattern for there to be a market maker model and let me know how that's worked out for you this far if all you're looking for is a pattern to spot that market maker model because this right here happens

a lot of the time and guess what the market doesn't actually end up reversing or doesn't end up actually being in a market maker model but understanding Market structure is going to help you understand Market maker models who would have thought Market structure Market maker models who would have thought that the entire Market everything you're doing relies on Market structure all right so let's talk about how to find real and quotes Market structure whenever you're looking at the market the market whenever people teach you how to draw Market structure they're just going to say you

know this easy high oh higher highs higher lows well I mean okay obviously we know that's bullish but in reality what does this look like in reality this looks something like this lot more highs and lows than those fancy PDFs you see on Twitter or or wherever you know this isn't how the markets actually work in terms of this very easy higher high and higher low structure that a lot of people want to act like you know that's how the market works it's not so in this example there are actually only two areas that I

want you to focus on now I want you to pause this video right now and take a guess at which areas are the actual swing point or which highs and which lows are the actual swing Point all right time's up the only highs and lows that you should be paying attention to in this example is this one right here and this one right here now yes notice how there are a lot of highs all throughout we can see there are the market is making highs or lows but all of these little moves are inside of

this move think about these high and lows as just navigating this range in price the one thing that you always need to focus on is what is the most recent displacement displacement means a big move in the market so let's just say if the market is kind of consolidating and then we get a massive pushup and we push through a level of structure with a lot of force likely creating a fair value Gap in this example the market is likely to continue on that direction even if the market retraces back down and then has a

lot of noise before it moves up to the high side because if the market displaces like this if it pushes through rapidly then all of this little internal price action to that range all that is is navigating back down to the lower half of this range which is also called a discount so if you have a you know swing leg in price and you just draw and I'm going to show you guys chart examples of this in a second but if you just draw a fib tool the lower half of it the lower half of

the range is just discount these little internal moves you see making all of these highs and lows all that's doing is telling you where the market is going right now so notice how you could be bullish right here but if the market is displacing down right here then there is a trade that you can catch in that move down but you just have to understand where it's going to reverse and you're going to use that by using the original Market structure all right you're just wondering okay well those nice fancy drawings are cool and I

love your Smartboard hopefully you do cuz I love it but you maybe little bit not clear on how to actually do this well let's take a look at a chart on this screen right here this is very similar to what we just looked at in the sense that there are these displacements and then internal moves in between them so if we look right here look right here we have this big push down that takes out some structure strcture there's also another low right there so this move right here takes out a lot and it creates

a range so we're going to say from this high to this low now everything in that range everything that is occurring to the right of it until this high or I'm sorry this low is broken or this High all of this is just internal anytime we start to make all these little higher highs and higher lows all we're waiting for is the market to come up into a fair value Gap and then give us a displacement to the downside to confirm that the Market's going lower now this is also how Market maker models work so

Market maker models are going to be found on the retracements of any leg in Market structure that leaves fair value gaps now a fair value Gap is just a gap between one candle's Wick and then you have a very large middle candle and the candle before it the Wicks didn't touch on either side there's that Gap any time the market makes a big displacement down what you're waiting to see is a manip ation or a displacement the way you're going to tell when the Market's retracing or moving back up into the range that you made

is when you start to get manipulation of lows so let's clean up this screen a little bit we'll just draw our overall range so notice this Wick right here notice how the market comes under these lows but it doesn't displace anytime that the market hits a structure point and it doesn't push through it rapidly expect a reversal so notice right here the market reverses but but we're only expecting it to come up into the second half of this range likely into this fair value Gap and then we're going to look for another displacement down now

this is your precious Market structure shift and this is how you spot the real Market structure shifts if we look in this point of structure we're expecting the market to move back up so we've made our move down we're expecting the market to move back up into that area and then as soon as we get a displacement down we're looking at the market as if it's trading down towards this low so let's take a look at this screen so not only do we get this displacement right here that leaves a fair value Gap that the

market then trades into before moving down towards these lows but also you get a manipulation now this is where you get that fake out and a lot of Traders look to go long on this candle because maybe in the morning session there was a liquidity raid right there and you get a big push up but if you're in Awareness that this is the true range and the market is likely to go down then you know as soon as you get that shift to the downside that fair value Gap that is the one that you want

to trade and take lower and that is exactly what the market did right here now this happens again numerous times and there are also some other tricks in this same price example and we're going to get back to this in just a second so we've talked about how you can identify real structure and how you can filter out a lot of the noise that occurs when you're looking at a chart now another term that people seem to misunderstand is daily bias for those of you who don't know daily bias is just are you bullish or

bearish it's just another way of saying that but so many Traders get sucked up in their bias they think that if they get their bias in the morning that they already know what the Market's going to do which I think this is one of the biggest pitfalls that ICT Traders fall victim to because we all know we're trading the markets for what they are as they're happening we're reading price otherwise you would just pick your daily bias and then just enter a trade and you know so be it obviously that wouldn't work too well so

what are you waiting on you're waiting for an entry model or a confirmation of that bias and what is that confirmation going to consist of well in some way shape or form Market structure is going to help you navigate the market because bias gives you your overall game plan where the market might be headed how it might get there but Market structure confirms each step along the way and gives you an actionable plan of how you can actually make money so many people get sucked up into analysis without easy step-by-step systems on how they're going

to actually execute which is what I'm about to teach you today and we talked about how price action can be short-term bullish while being overall bearish so let's just say if the market puts a huge leg in price down the market may be making higher highs and lows and you can trade this you can go on your lower time frames and look to trade each one of these legs but if the market is retracing all you should look to trade is from the discount up to the next area of price so you're just catching these

little micro trading right here taking profit so what you're going to wait for is the first sign of the market to really push down and be aligned with that overall direction and as soon as that happens that is when you're going to get those explosive trades that you're going to want to hold for longer and you're also going to be able to risk more understand that these trades are going to be moving more rapidly and this can help you a lot whenever you're in these kind of Trades expecting the market to make big moves and

then the market really just turns around and takes your profits or whenever you take your profits too early and the market makes a huge move so understanding the context of the market is going to help you avoid both of these common mistakes that most Traders make and my guess is if you could eliminate even half of the mistakes that you make based on those two pitfalls alone that you would be a profitable Trader something else that you need to understand is that these fake Market structure shifts occur during retracements let's just say the market is

moving down we'll use the same example we' made this big move down if the market is moving up to the upside and then let's say you've already moved down you've already showed yourself and notice this is for for those of you who are a little Advanced you're seeing the market maker model here but notice you've seen this shift in structure and then you get a push down so then what happens you start consolidating what a lot of people see is this and they're going to say that is a market structure shift the price is going

to go higher but if you understand what side of the curve you're on or you understand that the retracement is over the market maker model is over then you know that this move is just a manipulation because once you identify what side of the market you're on anytime you see a sharp push you know that that is going to be a run on liquidity a trick that I like to use is that if you're bearish what you're going to want to do is sell above highs so we'll just say sell above so what does that

mean well in a bearish Market meaning you have this overall bearish leg of price action you've gotten your bearish Market structure shift confirming that the Market's moving down that is a bearish market so anytime you pop above highs even if there's a displacement you're going to know to sell above because in a bearish market what does the smart money do the SMART money sells above highs and vice versa in a bullish Market you're going to buy below so if the same thing happened in a bullish market like let's just say well erase this example let's

just say the market had a overall bullish Trend like we had moved up to the upside Market had moved down Consolidated and we came into a discount shifted up and then let's say along the way it shifted down and gave a sharp Spike well instead of looking to sell right here you're actually looking to buy under any of these lows and that is Market maker model logic right there and that is the power of Market maker models and the power of understanding Market structure because when you are truly bar bearish you're not going to freak

out above highs you're not going to change up your plan you're going to sell above them and when you're truly bullish and confident in it you're going to buy below lows and that alone can change trading for many of you guys and that is the power and the importance of Market maker models is the understanding of structure on a deep level that's going to give you confidence to stick to your guns and stay consistent and like we just explained you can trade these fake Market structure ships but you just have to be aware of surroundings

because in a market like let's just say if we have a bullish market and you come back down you have this move and you get a big sharp push down guess what you're going to be able to trade that you're going to be buying right here to take the market up higher instead of looking at this as a sell you're going to understand when the Market's likely to reverse and instead of being in fear and panicking like you did before watching this video you're going to be ready to catch an opportunity and how many times

have you been stopped out or have you changed your plan went short and then the market ended up being a huge buy think about all those times and I guarantee that almost all of them if not all of them could have been solved by this simple trick now we've talked about Market maker models in a you know nice drawing let's talk about them on a chart so if we look right here the market had moved up now a lot of people may have said okay well you know here was the down move the Market's now

bullish we've came up and the market has this bullish structure that's what a lot of people would have looked at but simply by understanding how to look at a higher time frame that would have saved you from not only losing a trade but being able to catch a massive one reviewing what we just talked about once the Market's truly bearish we know to sell above highs so in this example here we'll go ahead and go to the next screen for just a second this is what the market look like this right here this leg in

price right there that is what we're looking at on this previous slide just on a lower time frame this retracement is this little move up so looking at this time frame you can obviously see the market was bearish and any move up was to retrace that bearish move so as soon as you get that market structure shift on the lower time frame then you could be confident to sell now if we're looking back at this example so we've came back up into that area and notice the First Market structure shift we get which is right

there the very first one that changed the tide of the market and after you crossed that level now you are bearish you've confirmed your bearish in your higher time frame and your lower time frame so what happens every time the market comes above a high comes above a high right there sells off comes above highs right here sells off these are the areas where you're going to look to your lower time frame and look for those Market structure shifts that you so preciously want to trade but you're understanding where to look for these and when

to look for them and you have an actionable strategy of how to apply this and actually have an edge so you notice how earlier a lot of trading influencers will tell you you need to have an edge but how do you find an edge simply doing things like this and that is what I always create is content with my younger self in mind because I know I used to be so frustrated just watching educational content that had no real value so go ahead and subscribe to my channel I post two to three videos every single

week teaching you everything that you need in order to be a profitable Trader all for free here on YouTube now if that wasn't enough to get you to subscribe I want you to take a look at what it feels like to subscribe to my channel that right there all right so now that I have taught you the tricks and reframe the way that you look at Market structure let me give you a simple step-by-step system on how you're going to implement this into your trading so you walk away from this video with something that can

actually make an impact how do we Implement now if you guys have been on my channel for any amount of time you know that the biggest thing I always Yap about is just implementation because a lot of people think they're being productive by watching YouTube videos but guess what just because you intok information it doesn't mean that you learned anything because learning it's similar to let's just say if a kid touches the stove you'll say oh well that'll teach him not to do it again and does he touch the stove again no because he learned

that his hand will get burnt now in that example did he learn by the actual burn or did he learn by not doing it because if he did it again they would say well he still hasn't learned so many of you guys still haven't learned anything from all the the trading education that you've watched because you haven't changed your behavior and the boy that burned his hand on a stove he actually changed his behavior in order to have learned so if you don't Implement anything if you don't take action and execute then you didn't learn

anything from watching any video so we're going to talk about how you're going to implement that way you're not burning your hands on stoves because to be honest trading it kind of hurts worse than burning your hand on a stove I've been there so what you're going to do is choose a set of time frames to map structure now I want to be very very clear do not and do not try to use every single time frame that is a Surefire way to get confused and then not take any action and end up right where

you started so I want you to pick just one of these sets of time frames now on the left this is where you're going to be actually finding your bias using structure so let's just say on the weekly if you have a very big displacement down you're going to then be looking on the 4our for a market maker model to appear that way you are a bble to execute and confirm that Weekly bias so if you're a swing Trader use one of these two time frames there's the weekly to the 4 Hour or the daily

to the 1 hour or if you're trying to short-term trade which is a 4 hour to the 15 minute or for most of you guys who are day trading you're going to be using one of these two sets of time frames but please only use one so the 1 hour to the 5 minute or the 15 minute to the 1 minute personally I use this last one it gives more opportunities but if you're a newer Trader and and you still have the tendency to overtrade I think that it's great to trade the 5 minute but

as soon as you have the composure and the discipline to scale down I highly recommend the one minute especially if you're trading Futures just based on the risk reward that it gives and the frequency of trade entries and every time you go up this scale it's going to be a little bit more time that you're waiting for trades to form which when you're newer you know it can be a little more difficult because you guys are are you guys are degenerates that's why you're here no I'm just kidding but you guys are newer so I

it's easier to focus on one of these and step number two is going to be using premium and discount now I handled this earlier so you're going to use these settings on trading view you go to the left hand side of your chart click the Fibonacci area and then you're going to put exactly these settings just the one the 0.5 and the zero now all this is going to do is it's going to give you this nice tool that's going to split a range in half not every single time the Market's going to come all

the way up to that midpoint line like if you notice right here it didn't this is that same example we had ear but you can notice that the market when it does come up into those areas and it gives those Market structure shifts those are higher probability so you see over here we have the same thing occurring the market comes up above highs and then gets your Market structure shift here before making a move to the downside so with those two time frames that I gave you you're only going to look either in premium if

you're trying to sell or in discount if you're trying to buy now I'm not saying that that is the only place the opportunities present themselves but I am saying if you're new to this and you want a simp simple strategy that way you can get the hang of things and see results then just focus on one thing at a time baby steps but we all know that all Trends come to an end so how do you spot when the market is likely to negate this strategy or when is it likely to fail and not only

am I going to teach you that but I'm going to teach you how to make money when that happens so we expect at higher time frame key levels so let's just say if you using the weekly down to the 4our you would expect if you come to a weekly level that the 4 Hour is likely to reverse so if you notice here we were putting in a lot of bullish structure right higher highs higher lows and it was working out everything was fine and then till it wasn't and this is where a lot of you

guys freak out you don't know what to do oh my God the strategy that c for Tommy doesn't work oh my God but it does so the way you're going to figure out when this is likely to happen is if you come to this higher time frame key level you're going to look for the market to have a lack of dis placement so notice how the market comes up to the key level and then it fails to displace and then that shifts so you're going to look for a combination a fake out and then a

big reversal when that happens that you likely has set the tone for a new Direction and you're going to trust that direction until you do what hit the next higher time frame key level because you will find that higher time frame key levels you're just going to use that lower time frame to confirm the moves from each one to the next who would have thought using the higher time frame was good for you so many people get stuck just staring at the low time frames I'm talking to you if you're anything like I was whenever

I was still earning to trade you'll watch this video go out and try to execute it in the live markets and whenever you're in front of live price action you'll sit there like oh this isn't as easy as I thought it would be I wish I could just ask him questions because that's how the markets work there is just Nuance to things you have to learn by doing which is why I'm going to trade live with you three days a week I'm going to review every single one of your trades and I'm going to do

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