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How To Trade Both Sides of The Market - Market Structure Cheat Code

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Finance-Focused Summary (Markets, Strategy, Risk/Metrics)

The speaker presents a market structure–based trading approach designed to capture both long and short opportunities within the same day. The key claim is that you don’t need a directional daily bias (bullish vs. bearish). Instead, the method focuses on identifying pullbacks and expansions within an ongoing market structure (uptrend or downtrend) by using prior swing points—often around 50% retracement zones—and reacting at specific structure levels.

Core Idea: “Buy and Sell the Same Day” Without Directional Bias

  • Claim: Even if tomorrow is expected to be bullish (example given: EURUSD), price often does not simply produce only bullish candles.
  • Observed intraday cycle (as described):
    • Expansion → Pullback → Expansion → Pullback … until the day closes.
  • Practical implications:
    • In a broader down move, you can short pullbacks.
    • You can long when a pullback ends and a new expansion begins.
  • Framework for alignment (as described):
    1. Identify when the pullback starts
    2. Identify when the pullback ends
    3. Trade in the direction of the next expansion

Method / Framework (Structure-Based)

1) Mark Up the Chart First

  • The speaker emphasizes that the first step is to mark highs and lows on the relevant chart.

2) Determine Structure Direction Using Swing Points

  • Downshift to bearish: a lower low forms, confirmed by body closure below the prior low.
  • Upshift to bullish: a higher high forms, confirmed by body closure above the prior high.

3) Understand Expansion vs. Pullback Behavior

  • Expansions tend to occur after price returns to the previous swing point (the “return to previous swing point” is repeatedly described as a setup).
  • Pullbacks occur after an expansion hits or targets a prior structure level.

4) Key Level: The 50% “Rejection” Zone

  • The speaker repeatedly highlights the 50% level of a prior swing/segment as a key zone.
  • The claim is that the 50% level “most of the time will give you a rejection.”
  • Confirmation concept:
    • After price taps the level (often the 50%), it should show reversal behavior (e.g., rejection from the zone).

Instruments / Markets / Timeframes Mentioned

  • Primary example: EUR/USD (EURUSD)
  • Timeframes discussed:
    • 1-minute
    • 5-minute
    • 4-hour
    • Daily
  • The speaker uses fair value / fair volume language (e.g., FVG / fair value area/gap), but does not provide a formal definition in the subtitles.

Key Numbers / Metrics

  • 50% retracement is the main quantitative level emphasized.
  • No explicit prices, returns, yields, or performance percentages are provided.

Explicit Recommendations / Cautions

Recommendations

  • Do not rely on a daily bias. Trade both directions based on pullback vs. expansion structure.
  • When trading expansions, look for entries after price returns to previous swing points (often near 50%).

Caution/Disclaimer (as stated)

  • The speaker repeatedly warns viewers not to rely on their videos to learn/understand another person’s concepts.
  • The video is not presented as complete instruction on someone else’s full method.

Disclosures / Source Attribution

  • The speaker credits another creator’s concepts and states:
    • They are not teaching that person’s concepts fully.
    • Viewers should not rely solely on the videos to trade.
  • No explicit “not financial advice” wording appears in the subtitles.

Presenters / Sources Mentioned

  • Dave (Dave Teaches FX): credited source of the concepts.
  • Main speaker/YouTuber (unnamed in subtitles): claims they personally apply Dave’s concepts.

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