Market Structure Only- keep your charts clean

rules for the thread
1. before asking silly questions like (hindsight is always nice) go read the full thread, quite often we post trade ideas and structure shifts before they happen and disguss our trades.
2. AFTER you have read the entire thread feel free to ask all the questions you want. as you progress on the thread pages, other members from the forum who trade a similar style may have proposed some more advanced or delicate technics alongide my structure and explained a lot of stuff.
3. i may have started this thread but i have found a lot of support from other members who either learned to trade like this in just a few months or already traded this system. they have helped this thread develop (koop, snail69, shcertzi are the one that come to mind, among others). respect them
4. please dont post pictures with silly indicators on the chart (if its below the charts, thats alright), the concept is prety simple, you dont need them and when asking for advice we like to see your charts clean

rules for trading
1. never risk more than 1% of your account in a single trade, EVER. if you think you do not have enough capital, go to a prop firm and get funded
2. with this system you can get 2 good and clean trades every day, you will look for them and them alone. if you win 1 of them (worst case scenario) thats +0.5% in a day. a year has 220 trading days. if you dream that with 1k you can become a millionare you can forget it
3. dont be gready you will loose it all
4.only 1 trade at a time or one swing and one scalp, never 2 swings or 2 scalps. all pairs are coorelated
5. for starters, focus on one pair and learn its behaviour. a lot of people here trade GU, i prefer eu, but you can trade eurnzd, it doesnt matter as long as you learn its behaviour witch is important, and what levels does it respect

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what is market structure? higher highs, higher lows, lower highs and lower lows
you've seen this on youtube i guess
now, i will not post signals or live trades, that is up to you to do it, i will not be held responsible for anyones fortune or demise.
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same rules can apply for breakout trades but they are not of interest in this thread, it requirs too mych screen time
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rules to buy,
1. we want to see a higher high, from now on refered as HH
2. we want to see a retest of the low
3. we either wait for confirmation or we just buy
4. stop below the previous swing low
5. tp at 1.5rr (DO NOT BE GREEDY [email protected] ) although you will see that with this system and patience constintent 3r trades are possible , sometimes even 7r+, but the 1.5r brings you to the game, when you learn the game you can target more

rules to sell
1. we want to see a lower low (LL)
2. we wait for the retest of the high
3. we either wait for confirmation or we just sell
4. stop above the previous swing high
5. tp at 1.5rr (DO NOT BE GREEDY [email protected] ) although you will see that with this system and patience constintent 3r trades are possible , sometimes even 7r+, but the 1.5r brings you to the game, when you learn the game you can target more

i will now let the pictures do the rest of the talk with some examples.

ps. this system is best for 5m-15m london session. you may use it as you see fit. on most pairs it is excellent on 4hrs timeframe but the setups are far and few in-between
ps2. i do not care about news and fundamentals, i only trade charts. news ussually (whatever the outcome, drive the trade in my direction)
ps3. try to focus on 1-2 pairs and master them. when you do, add more pairs to your arsenal
ps4. i will try to keep it as simple as possible and will not post unreasoneble for this system trades, no matter if i take them or not.
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to master this system, just go to tradingview and do replay mode, it is the only way.

i will be here to answer questions, not give signals.
dont use indicators, the only thing you need is a clean chart with the zoom i have.

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EDIT. IMPORTANT
The only tool you should ever need. the best in its category, i found it on another forum
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Trade Manager EA.ex4   232 KB | 2,315 downloads | Uploaded Mar 23, 2021 5:43pm

looks like this
and its an ea
you just choose buy or sell, (or pedning), drag the lines for sl and tp, set the risk you wanna take and press the button

It seems interesting the fact that you are not going to care about indicators. So, quite interesting from my point of view.

Required clarifications:

1.- I'm lost about the retest thing. How do you know which Low is the one being retested? Or the High being retested?
2.- What makes some HH or LL clean?
3.- Why that area was marked as crap?
4.- Is this strategy more suitable for trending or flat scenarios?

1. we only care about the low that preceeded the new swing high with a big volatile move
2. its visual, any chopy price action gets discoualified
3. because there are HH's and LL's but you really cant identify them, its really chopy
4. a new high signifies the start of a new up trend (at least one leg of it), in most cases
a new low signifies the start of a new down trend (at least one leg of it), in most cases

so basicaly, you just trade with the trend, but you dont buy while its going up, you buy when it retests its low after it has made a HH, or sell the retest of the high after it has made a new LL

Thanks, Can you print some mark in those preceding lows on a picture?

For me, the most challenging here is to identify crap areas.

its cool to draw on past candles on chart,on live market we dont know what next move will bring?

what you mean? we only need 1 LL to enter a long and 1 higher high to enter a long.
i do not understand what you want

we can only follow a system that we know it works and try to predict it.
as you saw i also posted loosing trades that accoring to my system in its simplest form were valid.

in live market personally i am good.

How do you identify the retesting area? Why do you know there is a retest?

well you did choose the one trade that is kinda different from the others.
but yes this is the low that was tested and it was a confirmation entry

i get the confirmation from the nature of price action. (that is a tottaly different subject)

There is too much distance to the low from the area at which you decided to entry. I can't select that exact moment myself. I would have waited some time to see if the price finally moves a little bit downwards, closer to the Low level....

I don't understand what everyone means by Price Action. It seems a very confusing term.

possible next buy area for EURUSD

WHEN price is accumulating (or ranging in a smaller timeframe) it could signify a reversal. if that is happening accorind to our system we can buy. if the system does not agree we move on

you can put any indicator there and you will see divergence, try it, i dont need indicators to spot it. it could help you at first.

but not every divergence is legit.

this could be your confirmation

live 1m example on EURUSD.
because it is 1m i have stop at break even already. i dont want price to spike up a lot of pips cause the loss will be big.
risk 0.2% 1.5rr

You entried too soon. 5 pips before HH retest.

I'm waiting for pull back between 1.1980-1.1950 then buy follow uptrend in TF Daily

we do not care about the pip count. we only care about the 1.5r. if we can get 1.5r then thats enough
easy 1.5r trade if the rules are followed. i got 2r from it but 1.5r is the safest option

195-198 would not be the entry on my system

the daily structure is trash, nothing clear

that would be ideal
ps. sells are not advised

Oops,, ok

mate you should really trade your system.
you can have an opinion and trade mine when you undersand it.

do what your system tells you, not what i, or someone else tells you.