in this video I'm going to show you a simple and effective way to use time frame alignment and top down analysis not just to get a high win rate but also massively benefit your risk reward And most people use it the wrong way They over complicate it And so first let's go over how exactly you should be using time frames in your trading So all time frames actually show the same thing but just in different amounts of detail Uh you should already know by now that higher time frame candles are just made up of lower
time frame market structure So just think of time frames as showing you different resolutions of price action The higher time frame you go the lower the resolution you're looking at the more simple that price action will seem For an example we are currently on the one minute chart with an hourly candle overlay So we can see on this Ali bearish candle here that there is um one minute structure making a new high into breaking uh this structure here to making a new low Um but this is just a simplified version on the hourly chart So
we can see the clear high and the clear low um as a kind of simplified version of these one minute highs and lows So as all time frames show the exact same thing just in different amounts of detail Time frames are almost kind of like meaningless Um you shouldn't really be focused on oh I'm looking for direction based off the 4 hour or the daily and then entry based off like 15 or 5 minute You should be thinking about duration of price action When you're taking a trade you shouldn't be thinking about I'm taking a
a 20 pip 30 pip move I'm taking this move You should be thinking about trading that duration of time So for me I don't focus on a 10- pit move I focus on trading the next 5 to 10 minutes The most important factor in trading is timing So time frames are kind of second to that Um I think about you know the duration of price So lower time frame for me would be the past 15 20 minutes of price action Middle time frame is the past 4 to 5 hours of price action High time frame
would be the past days of price action I'm not focused really on those time frames as they all show the same thing I'm focused on the durations of those time frames to then you know build my bias uh and align different time frames for entry So quickly before we go into how to align different durations of price action u in you know aligning the lower time frame direction with high time frame direction or middle time frame let's go over how do we actually identify what direction is because a lot of people have a big misconception
around actually how to identify that is simply direction is just defined by highs and lows If you're making higher highs and higher lows you're making bullish market structure If you're making low highs and low lows you're making bearish market structure Pretty simple pretty easy Um but then how do we shift in between bullish and bearish structure well simply by looking for those shifts where you go from you know breaking a low into breaking a high and vice versa Um so I'm simply just looking to trade This is my favorite entry model a shift in market
structure Very simple very easy I just look to enter after a pullback when market structure is shifting shifting from you know bearish to bullish for bias and vice versa for sells So we're going to go over how I just use one simple entry model a market structure shift and look for that across different time frames not just to find direction on higher durations of price but entries on lower durations of price So you can use one pattern one entry model um across all different time frames to have an extremely high win rate and extremely high
risk reward So just a quick example of what this kind of looks like It's just a shift within a shift You're aligning uh different durations of price action You know low time frame with middle time frame with high time frame just by looking for one simple um entry model or pattern So uh looking for a low time frame shift with a high time frame shift It's really nice uh to refine entries and to stack probabilities in your favor So we'll go over some trade examples of exactly how this plays out in real market conditions Okay
So for a trade example here we can see we are overall higher time frame bearish but we've had this middle time frame shift in market structure in the past uh couple of hours 4 to 5 hours of price action we've went from pushing you know bearish creating lower highs and lower lows here So lower highs and lower lows to uh breaking this high here uh and then coming back So this is a middle time frame market structure shift in the in the last 5 hours of price action and we can refer this to look for
buys even though it's against higher time frame Um the only time frame that should banish to you is the one that's most relevant So because I'm trading low time frames um the next 5 to 10 minutes of price action high time frame is less relevant than middle and lower time frame So uh trade the time frames that are most relevant to your duration of trading Um so yeah we have this overall type three shift on middle time frame and we right now uh in a bit of a pullback phase where we're making lower highs and
lower lows Uh now we have another market structure shift here So a shift within a shift uh where we go from breaking a low to breaking a high A nice clean type three shift And this also aligns up with this previous hourly close bullish So nice hourly close bullish We can just look for you know where would we want to enter uh there's a previous hourly open close There's some lows here around here So we'll just say around this sort of area we would like to enter for a buy with this shift within a shift
What we can actually do is with a new hourly candle open uh we can wait for it to come into this area of interest and have a shift within a shift in that reaction So we come into this area of interest We're creating that bottom wick Um and we have this previous high here So previous one minute candle high where we can look for it to you know we've broken this low So we can look for a market structure shift um for a shift when a shift with a shift It's a simple alignment using one
um sort of pattern So break a low break a high That's what we're looking for So we break a high here Not the biggest break but we do have it you know break this one minute candle high Uh so we can now look for a buy with this shift Um so if we go zoom in we even can go into even more detail uh where we've broken this low We kind of be looking for it now to break this high and we can put our stop maybe just a little bit below there u for a
nice trade So we have that we break a low break a high Um and we can kind of you know test out maybe some recent highs around here uh for you know a pretty nice simple easy trade Um so this is a lot of refinement Um you can you know just put your I'd recommend putting your stop below the previous one structure candle low Um but you know we refined it So these trades tend to be really simple really easy to take uh just by looking for that uh shift within that shift within that shift
So a simple easy way to align different durations of price action just by using uh one simple like pattern or entry model So um this middle time frame entry model can be used for direction uh for this like lower time frame uh entry I guess So uh all time frames all durations of price will move the exact same way Uh and you just want to trade that accordingly Okay for the next trade example here we can see that we've actually had now a bigger shift in market structure So the previous trade we took was kind
of around here that little buy but that's ended up being an overall bigger shift in market structure We were making lower highs lower lows Now we're making higher highs We've broken this high here So just like how we'd be looking for for a usual you know shift in market structure we first want to wait for it to pull back into around you know previous lows or previous highs to then continue push bullish So waiting for it to pull back into around this sort of area to then you know react off that and push bullish So
simply uh we want to you know have a shift here uh in that overall bigger shift for an entry So okay so now that we've pulled back into our area now we're going to look for an entry So we are still making lower highs on low lows on lower time frame High time frame is bullish but we want to wait for the lower time frame to align with that So we have this break at this high here shifting bullish We've taken out a low taken out high It's a pretty clear market structure shift to the
upside What we can look to do is wait for it to pull back into this little area here So you not always going to pull back but hopefully it does Okay we've had it pull back into this area or that little lower time frame market shift Um but we've also had this lower time frame shift bearish here So um lower lower time frame had this bearish shift So when we have these one minute candle highs we've broken a low We're waiting for that to shift bullish So yeah we have that we've you know gone from
breaking a low to breaking these highs and we can look for an entry Maybe just add this one minute candle and put a stop behind the previous low We've waited for one minute structure to shift bullish It's no longer moving bearish here And so let's see how this moves So pretty nice simple easy because we're aligning lower time frame with higher time frame Um it you know tends to move with that volume And pretty nice simple easy trade Uh we still have middle time frame moving bearish Uh you'd only really have middle time frame pushing
bullish if you broke this high If you had this big oval type three shift here So we can go on to our last trade example where we wait for lower time frame middle time frame and higher time frame to align So this past trade was just uh lower time frame and high time frame We're still waiting for middle time frame um here to align with this overall high time frame push bullish So let's wait and see if we can get a nice middle time frame shift in market structure Here we go We have a big
shift here where we broke this high Now we're just waiting for a bit of a pullback So um exactly how we're looking for on the higher time frame Waiting for it to pull back um into this area we have it uh a pretty nice decent reaction here where we go from breaking a low to breaking a high here Um so we can look to take an entry around this sort of area here Um and we could you know refine that into a bit more detail but you know you can take an entry we can put
a stop below maybe this one minute candle Um I'm thinking around here actually we have a middle time frame shift here So middle time frame shift we have a higher time frame shift um here and then we also have our lower time frame shift here Um this is looking like a really nice easy trade um for it to expand upwards because we have all three time frames align You can hold this trade a lot longer um instead of just having low time frame and high time frame align So um plays out pretty nicely Uh even
here we can see you have this little bit of a structure shift where you go from like breaking a low to breaking a high You could have entered that It's pullback and we go from you know breaking a low breaking a high with that shift So you can go into as much detail as you want a shift within a shift within a shift because price action is fractal Um it moves the same all different time frames And I find the best trades is when I'm using the simple entry model but you know aligning that across
different durations of price Um we'll see how this you know continues going Um and yeah it moves pretty nice pretty like uh you know you're not always going to get this This will it takes a long time for these trades to you know set up and play out It's very rare that you're going to get you know low time frame with middle time frame with higher time frame Um but this is just an example an extreme example just to show you that um if you just use one simple basic pattern a shift in market structure
but you align that across all different durations of price action you can get a really nice trade to play out uh in your favor So hope this helped If you want anything else covered in the next videos just drop a comment
