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This is Everything YOU Need To Know About LIQUIDITY

16:11801 summary words · ~4 min readEnglishBy Inter Equity TradingTranscribed Aug 2, 2026
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Summary

High-probability liquidity trades require waiting for retail 'early traders' to get trapped via a liquidity sweep before entering, rather than jumping into initial pullback structures. Once early buyers or sellers are purged, price expands violently toward engineered liquidity targets, moving in a fraction of the time it took to build the range.

Trading alongside retail trend continuation setups exposes you to liquidity engineering traps; waiting for the false move provides clear institutional directional bias and higher expansion velocity.

Section summaries

0:00-3:00

Defining Inducement and Market Psychology

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The speaker introduces the core mechanics of trader inducement, explaining how price movements to new highs or lows systematically induce retail traders to take momentum positions. When markets break structure to the upside, buyers get induced; when breaking structure down, sellers get induced. The speaker emphasizes viewing price action through market psychology rather than basic pattern recognition to anticipate where liquidity accumulates.

  • Price expansions past previous highs or lows act as psychological inducements for momentum traders.
  • Inducing traders in one direction builds up the opposing liquidity pool required for institutional reversals.

Lays the foundational conceptual framework for understanding how retail traders are systematically drawn into traps.

3:00-6:00

Engineered Liquidity and Structure Liquidity Mapping

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This section explores how market structure leaves liquidity pools behind for future targeting. When price respects a level and moves in a retail trader's intended direction, it leaves uncollected liquidity resting below higher lows or above lower highs. The speaker categorizes this as structure liquidity and demonstrates how traders can either sell or buy into these pools or use them as future target destinations based on overall market trend bias.

  • Liquidity rests directly below structural higher lows and above structural lower highs.
  • Unswept retail pullback entries create engineered liquidity that serves as future price targets.

Crucial for identifying exactly where retail stop losses sit on price charts.

6:00-9:00

The Golden Rule: Trapping Early Traders

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The speaker unveils the central execution rule of the entire framework: traders must only execute positions once early traders have been trapped. The section details the mechanics of waiting for a false move or trap run that purges early buyers or sellers who entered on basic pullback structure. Once these early participants are stopped out, a high-probability trade opportunity presents itself to expand toward opposing liquidity.

  • Never execute a trade until a false move sweeps out early structural participants.
  • Bearish setups require waiting for lower highs to be purged before selling down into low liquidity targets.

Contains the core actionable strategy rule presented in the video.

9:00-12:00

Chart Analysis 1: Bullish Sweep & Time Asymmetry

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Using real chart price action, the speaker demonstrates a five-day liquidity accumulation phase characterized by choppy, inconsistent low-timeframe fluctuations. Once the structural lows are finally swept and early buyers are purged, price expands sharply upward to target opposing liquidity. The speaker highlights the stark time asymmetry: five days of liquidity build-up were completely swallowed in just 18 hours of post-sweep expansion.

  • Consolidation ranges act as massive multi-day build-ups of early trader stop-loss liquidity.
  • Post-sweep expansion moves unfold dramatically faster than the slow accumulation phase.

Provides empirical proof of how liquidity sweeps trigger high-velocity expansion.

12:00-16:00

Chart Analysis 2: Bearish Liquidity Trap & Targets

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The final technical section analyzes a bearish scenario where price leaves multiple equal lows intact as engineered liquidity targets. The speaker illustrates how price sweeps liquidity above lower highs to trap early sellers before aggressively reversing downward to consume the engineered low liquidity. The entire 4.5-day build-up of buy-side liquidity is swept in a swift 19-hour move once the false upside expansion finishes trapping retail sellers.

  • Engineered lows act as high-probability targets once upside inducement sweeps are complete.
  • Waiting for lower-high liquidity purges guarantees alignment with institutional expansion cycles.

Demonstrates complete setup execution from engineered liquidity mapping to post-trap sell-side expansion.

Key points

  • The Core Rule: Wait for Early Traders to be Trapped — High-probability entries only materialize after retail traders entering standard structural pullbacks (early traders) have their stop losses swept by a false move.
  • Structure Liquidity and Retail Inducement Mechanics — Every break of structure induces retail market orders (buyers above new highs, sellers below new lows), leaving pool liquidity resting directly beneath higher lows or above lower highs.
  • Engineered Liquidity as Future Delivery Targets — When price respects a structural level and moves in the intended retail direction without sweeping liquidity, it leaves double bottoms or equal lows as engineered liquidity to be targeted later.
  • Time Asymmetry of Price Expansion vs. Liquidity Build-Up — Liquidity accumulation takes days of slow, choppy price action, whereas post-trap expansion sweeps through that entire range in a fraction of the time (e.g., 5 days of build cleared in 18 hours).
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What's going on guys? Welcome back to a

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brand new Inter Equity Trading video.

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Today is going to be a very very

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important video. I'm going to be

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breaking down everything to do with

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liquidity. Who is getting induced, where

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the liquidity is, who's going to be

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getting trapped next, and of course one

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very very important rule everyone needs

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All right. So, you guys hear me talk a

0:43

lot about inducements. Who's getting

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induced? Now, what does that exactly

0:48

mean when I say who is induced? When I

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say this, when I use this word

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inducement, you have to understand what

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it means. Who is induced? Now, when the

0:57

market has all of these different types

0:59

of moves that occur, whether we're

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trading to the upside or we're trading

1:03

to the downside, you have to understand

1:05

that every single time the market has a

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move up or the market has a move down,

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it is an inducing traders a specific

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way. So, an example would be if we are

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trending to the upside, every single

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time we make a new high, right? This

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this bullish leg here from circle to

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circle, we are inducing buyers after

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taking out previous highs. Watch what it

1:26

does again. Sell off, we go bullish

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again. The intention behind this move,

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you have to think about this from a

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psychology perspective almost, okay? Not

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from a pattern, but from a psychology

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perspective. Big move to the upside

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trading above old highs, the market sees

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that as momentum, okay? So, it induces

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buyers to get into the market again. And

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the market goes down again. Again, low

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to high, taking out new highs, we now

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induce buyers. Once the market induces

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enough buyers in one direction, that's

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typically when you'll see

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that occur. And that's the that's the

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moves we're typically catching. On the

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flip side, we have the market trending

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to the downside, right? So, if I just

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leave this drawing on, we've taken out

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previous lows, low to high.

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Again,

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who is induced? Sellers are induced. And

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now we're going to plot some annotations

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on to make your guys' life a little bit

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easier here. We have a BOS to the

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downside. So, low to high Sorry, high to

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low, we induce sellers into the market.

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So, now typically, if there's a

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pullback, these are regions sellers are

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looking to enter the market, okay? And

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this is very important. You want to

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understand, you want to

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have a good idea of who is trying to get

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into the market. So, this is an example

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of sellers being induced in the market,

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and of course, the previous one would be

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buyers being induced into the market.

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It's not just that easy, okay? We all

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know that. If everything was just ABCD,

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we'd all be millionaires by now, right?

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So, things get complicated sometimes,

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and I'm going to give you guys some good

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examples. What typically happens

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sometimes is let's say the market,

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again, trends to the upside. We take out

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old highs, and we're printing new highs.

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We understand,

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after what we just went through, buyers

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have been induced, right? So, if the

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market

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pulls back into this region down here,

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we don't want to be buying in here,

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okay? Very important. We do not want to

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be buying. But typically, what can

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happen sometimes is the market can

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respect it and go long. Now, just

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because we have respected this low here

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and gone long does not mean we

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immediately have to look for sells back

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down. No. What you need to understand is

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buyers have been induced.

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Now, they have entered the market. It

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pushes in their intended direction, and

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we we now have left liquidity for later

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on. Very, very important. So, again,

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buyers induced here.

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We get a pullback into their area. This

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is where retail want to be longing. It

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goes long in their intended direction.

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Now, there is liquidity left for the

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future. And if I just draw this out on

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the flip side, just like we talked about

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in the in the past, this would be that

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BOS for retail. They want to be selling

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on the pullback. They enter positions

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here, and look, it goes in their

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intended direction. Now, we understand

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this is going to be future liquidity

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that we can target, whether we're going

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to be buying into it or, very important,

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selling out of it. So, in this example,

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we could typically sell into it or if

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the market is still bullish, we would

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buy out of it. In this example, we could

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buy into it. However, if the market's

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still bearish, we could sell out of it.

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Very, very important. Moving on to the

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next topic, which is going to be kind of

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relative to what we talked about, but

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still very important. That is going to

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be

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structure liquidity. So, going back to

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what we just spoke about, who is

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inducing the market, if I draw

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price like this, simple, highs, lows,

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highs, lows. From a structure

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perspective, this is where the liquidity

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is going to be, and that lines up

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perfectly what with what we were just

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talking about. Structure traders would

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be buying down here. They would have

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liquidity left at the lows down here,

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and of course, on the flip side, this is

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now known as our structure liquidity,

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right? We all understand, very similar

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to what we were talking about. So, now

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we understand who is induced. Now, we

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understand where the liquidity is. Okay,

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so to simplify this as much as possible,

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and I'm going to title this here,

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liquidity. If you guys come from a

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retail perspective, this will be very

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familiar to, but above

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liquidity above lower highs. So, this

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would be your lower high, lower high,

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liquidity above. And on the left side,

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we have liquidity below higher lows. Cuz

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again,

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when there's a trending market, you guys

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can call it. I don't look at the market

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from that perspective, but from a

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trending market, you have your high,

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higher low, high, higher low, right? So,

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there's going to be liquidity below the

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higher lows. So, that's why we call it

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structure liquidity. And on the flip

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side, lower high, low, lower high, and a

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new low, there's going to be liquidity

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above your lower highs. Every single

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time the market takes out new lows, just

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to summarize this, we have induced

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sellers. On the flip side, we take out a

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high, we have induced buyers. Take out a

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high, we have induced buyers, leaving

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liquidity to the downside, identifying

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it as structure liquidity. So, now we're

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piecing everything together. I'm

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actually going to leave these two

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drawings on right now, and we're going

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to talk more about this. How do we take

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advantage of this, and how do we trade

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this? So, with the understanding Okay,

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so with the understanding of we knowing

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now that price has left liquidity above

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this high, and price has left liquidity

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below this low. How do we take

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advantage? Right? That's what everybody

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wants to know. How can we take our

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trades based off this knowledge in front

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of us right now? If we can talk about

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the left side first. What everybody

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seems to make the mistake of doing is

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not waiting for that false move to

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occur. That's what I like to call it,

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that false move. If we don't have that

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false move, that trap move, then we

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don't have a trade. So, look at this.

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Price has left liquidity at the lows,

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otherwise known as structure liquidity.

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Now, we have to wait for, and sometimes

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this can happen Again, look, we left

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more liquidity at the lows. We need to

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wait for this. And that's what leads me

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to that very, very important rule we've

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discussed in the intro that everybody

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should have in their plan. And that is

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going to be we must only trade once the

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early traders are trapped. Now, let's

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talk about this once some more. We must

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only trade once the early traders are

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trapped. Now, what are the early

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traders? In this example in front of us

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right now, let's talk about this. Who

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are the early traders? The structure

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traders here, right? The people that

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have entered positions here, the people

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that have entered positions here. Those

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are going to be your early traders. On

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the bearish example, sellers stepped in

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the market here, maybe the market pulled

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back once more just like in the other

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example and sold off again. Where are

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your early traders going to be? Right

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here.

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In order for us to take a trade, what do

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we need to see? We need to see them get

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trapped. So, I hope you guys are

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starting to make sense of all this.

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Again, early traders are in the market

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here. Early traders are in the market

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here. We need to wait for them, again,

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to get trapped. So, what does that look

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like on the sell example? The market

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goes bullish, traps the sellers out, and

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then take advantage of this move right

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here. So, if the market is still

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bearish, and this is very important,

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right? So, I'm going to write this here,

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bearish market. We can be taking the

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sells above the highs, okay? As long as

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the market is bearish, of course. So,

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what does that mean? If we still have

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liquidity to the downside here, okay?

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I'm going to draw that line and we're

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going to mark this on as liquidity. So,

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we still have, again, liquidity to the

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downside. So, this is a bearish market.

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You want to be taking that sell above

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the highs once the sellers are trapped.

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Now, if we talk about this on the

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bullish example, if we are still in a

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bullish market here, we have liquidity

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to the upside, basically with this line

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we have at the highs here. So, again,

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liquidity to the upside. We can be

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taking longs below these lows and,

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again, targeting that liquidity to the

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upside. So, it's very important to

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understand that this false move, we need

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to wait for this false move to occur.

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So, I'm going to circle it here from the

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high

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to low.

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And on the sell side, you need to wait

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for this low

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to print this high here. And again,

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that's when we are looking for the

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sells. Once the early traders, and

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that's a rule. I need everybody, if you

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trade how I trade, you need to write

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this rule down. We must only trade once

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the early traders are trapped. No if,

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ands, or buts. All right, here in front

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of us I have a piece of price action.

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The pair, it's irrelevant, but I'm going

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to be talking about everything we just

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spoke about in the diagrams, okay? So,

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understanding structure, liquidity, who

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is induced, all of these good things.

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So, with this chart we have in front of

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us right now, if we can just backtrack,

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follow my cursor, look how all of these

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lows being respected here. This market

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this low respecting lows to the

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left-hand side all the way up until

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which point? This point here. So, if I

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can circle this, actually know what? I'm

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going to put an arrow to this piece of

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price action right here. That piece of

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price action is simply just this,

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leaving liquidity to the downside. Okay,

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so you simply want to mark on this low.

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Now, this is where again everybody

10:04

screws up. You want to wait for these

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lows to go. Okay, cuz look, after we

10:08

take out this high, we understand buyers

10:10

have been induced. This is a level of

10:12

structure liquidity. Look at the market

10:14

does. Once respects it and then goes

10:17

long leaving even more liquidity to the

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downside. So, this whole price action,

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look how inconsistent. This is very

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important, guys. Look how inconsistent,

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look how rangy it is. This is

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accumulating liquidity. If we understand

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where the liquidity is, aka the

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structure liquidity right here, we want

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to wait for these lows to get taken out.

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Okay, cuz once they get taken out, the

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early traders, remember we spoke about,

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we must wait for early traders to get

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trapped. And that would be right here.

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Your early traders stepped in here,

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liquidity is going to be below the lows.

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Okay, this is just going to be a massive

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range, a massive build-up, okay, of

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early buyers essentially. And as soon as

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these lows go, that's when you want to

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start looking for your buy back up. And

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of course, remember, if we are in a

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bullish market, that buy below these

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lows remain valid into the next level of

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liquidity. And look what we have at the

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highs here. Sellers stepped in the

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market here, all right? And to make this

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as easy as possible, look at this circle

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respecting this area to the left-hand

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side. So, we have left a level of

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liquidity. So, this is a bullish market

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once we trap the early buyers still,

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which means we can take that buy back

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up. And look what happens if I play this

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price piece of price action out.

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Again, we struggle here, induce even

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more early buyers. Finally, look at

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this. The liquidity has take taken out

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from the left-hand side, that structure

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liquidity is trapped and taken out. We

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get a nice sell-off here, and look at

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that sharp reaction out. And look at the

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swift again, we want to be involved in

11:49

these type of moves here. And if I just

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look at that. So,

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again, avoid this kind of price action.

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You don't want to be trading this kind

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of price action. This is the price

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action you want to be involved in. And

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just to put this into perspective for

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you guys, this is very, very important.

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From the point where we started building

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liquidity, look at this. 5 days of price

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action. And then all it took was 18

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hours for us to swallow all of that

12:13

price action up. So, imagine you're in a

12:15

position down here at the lows.

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Okay, stop below, targeting the highs.

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That price action that took 5, 6 days to

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build up got taken out in less than a

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day. Okay, think about that for a

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second. So, all the early traders are

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trapped, that's why the market has that

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expansion to the upside. Okay, now I

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have another piece of price action in

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front of us right here. Okay, so check

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this out. Remember we talked about

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leaving liquidity for later. Remember we

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spoke about that in the very beginning

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of the video. Now, look at this piece of

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price action down here. I'm going to

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circle it. Very simple, don't

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overcomplicate this. Look.

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We take out a high, price comes back,

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and look at all these lows left intact.

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Price comes back, and we go long. See

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this? Price comes back, and again, we go

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long. So, let's remove these drawings.

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Let's make this the simplest possible. I

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circled this up so that we have left

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liquidity here. We have left liquidity

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here.

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Right? So, this is going to be a future

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target. Okay, yes, we couldn't take

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longs in this current moment, but the

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market has simply engineered liquidity

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for us to now, what? Sell into. Remember

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how I talked about we can usually sell

13:19

into it, or if the market's bullish, you

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could buy out of it. In this example,

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the market is bearish, so we're going to

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be selling into it. Talking about the

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current price action we have in front of

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us. Who is induced? You want to ask

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yourself that. After we take out this

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low,

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we have sellers induced. The market

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pulls back, respects the level on the

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left-hand side, and sells off again. So,

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we spoke about the we literally had

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diagrams talking about this piece of

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price action. But, look at all this

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liquidity we've now left to the upside.

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These are what? I hope you guys are

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saying this in your head. Your early

13:52

sellers. And remember that rule I told

13:54

you guys about? You want to wait for

13:56

these early sellers to get trapped

13:58

before looking for your sells. This

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requires patience. And this talks about

14:03

and this goes back to what we were

14:04

talking about before, how you need to

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wait for that false run to occur. So,

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what do I mean by that? You want to wait

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for price to come back up, trap out the

14:12

sellers, and of course, if we are in a

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what? Bearish market,

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this could possibly provide us an

14:19

opportunity to sell back down, okay?

14:21

Into liquidity here. And then of course,

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liquidity on the left-hand side we

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previously spoke about. So, let's see

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what happens here. We take out lows. So,

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I'm going to copy and paste this cuz

14:30

sellers are induced, aka the early

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traders. Then the market goes long, and

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look at this. Where do we hunt for? Big

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surprise, we come all the way back to

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trap out the early sellers. Don't

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forget, we're in a bearish market, so

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price could be delivering us an

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opportunity to sell back down. We're not

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talking about entries here. We're not

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talking about how to actually enter the

14:49

market. That's in previous videos. We

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have all of our We have all over the

14:53

YouTube channel already. This is

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specifically going to be a what we are

14:56

speaking about in the beginning of the

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video, which is going to be early

14:58

traders. So, again, the early sellers

15:00

and early buyers, waiting for them to

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get trapped. We had that move to the

15:03

upside, so I'm going to circle it. You

15:04

guys are going to see a little pattern

15:06

here about what we spoke about in the

15:08

diagrams, low to high

15:11

opportunity to sell back down into the

15:14

lows. And look what happens. If I zoom

15:17

out, remember, from when we started

15:19

building liquidity, I'm going to show

15:20

you guys the perspective on this

15:21

quickly,

15:22

To where when we took it out, 4 days and

15:25

13 hours. Okay? So, 4 and 1/2 days

15:28

basically, we had a build-up of

15:29

liquidity. And then,

15:32

rapid move back down from when the highs

15:34

got taken to when the lows got taken, 19

15:37

hours. So, 25% of the time, a quarter of

15:40

the time it took for price to build,

15:42

build, build. Again, we don't want to be

15:43

trading this price action. This is when

15:46

we want to trade. After the sellers have

15:48

been taken out, aka that rule we've been

15:50

speaking about this whole video, waiting

15:52

for those early traders to get trapped.

15:55

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