$11,000,000 With Day Trading at 25 (Just Copy Me)

By 25 years old, I built a net worth of over $11 million from day trading. But it wasn't always like this. I started off as a broke teenager who literally had to ask my parents for 50 cents just to buy 2 Honey Buns. I wasn't born with any special connections. I wasn't born with money or any huge advantages. I built everything from scratch. In this video, I'm going to share you the story of how I went from broke to a multimillionaire. And more importantly, I'm going to break down the exact system the lessons, the strategies, and mindset shifts that got me here. Because if I can do it, so can you. Let's get into it. So it all started back in 2016 as a broke and very skinny teenager. I used to watch these one-year transformation videos where basically these people would work out for a year and they were super, super skinny. And after a year, they'd be super muscular. And I vowed to myself that I wanted to do that same exact thing. So I started working out and taking pictures and videos of every single workout and pictures of my body every single day. Because I wanted to make that transformation video to inspire other people that were in my place back in 2016. So fast forward a year, I ended up making that transformation YouTube video and that was it. I was just going to make it, put it on YouTube and go with the rest of my life. But what ended up happening is that video absolutely blew up. It got like 400,000 views within a couple of weeks. And that prompted people to comment and message me and be like, yeah, keep posting videos. Like your videos are inspiring and stuff like that.. So they wanted me to keep posting fitness videos. So I did. And I was doing that for about like a year and my channel kind of plateaued at like 8,000 subscribers. Even though I had that one viral video, every other video I put out wasn't going as viral, but I'd fallen in love. And what I didn't know at that point is I'd fallen in love with creating content and inspiring people. Now fast forward like a year or a year and a half and I was on vacation with my family. It was, it was us, it was my cousins. And one of my cousins was on this app. It's basically like you can FaceTime random people across the internet, right? And I had an amazing idea. My videos were doing good. I was making the workout videos. They were getting a couple thousand views, but nothing too crazy at all. And I was like, what if I go on this app and like talk to other people and do like funny pranks and things like that? So as soon as I got back home from vacation, I ended up making a YouTube video titled Rating Me on a Scale from 1 to 10 with my shirt on versus my shirt off., and that video absolutely blew up. It got millions of views on my channel, and it changed the trajectory, trajectory of my life overall. It allowed me to not just make that one video, but then I started making all types of videos, picking up girls, doing pranks with these random people on my phone, just having these funny conversations with people, and that absolutely blew up my channel. My channel got to over a million subscribers, and in that phase, I decided to launch multiple channels and branches off of that. I had a gaming channel where I got over 70,000 subscribers on that one. I had a vlogging channel where I was just vlogging my everyday life. I had my main channel with over a million subscribers making the videos picking up girls and pranks and things like that. And I also had a reaction channel with over 80,000 or 100,000 subscribers at that point as well. I'm not sure, but either way, during that period from 2016 to about 2019, I was in my grind phase. I had multiple YouTube channels. I was uploading multiple videos every single day because remember, I had all these different YouTube channels and all of them had different type of content. So at one point I was uploading 3 to 4 videos every single day. I shot them myself, I edited them myself. I remember waking up early in the morning, I had to go work for my dad. My dad owns a printing business, so I had to go work for my dad from like 8 o'clock in the morning. I would get home at like 7 PM. I would go straight to the gym because remember I'm still in my fitness niche, so I would go straight to the gym and I love working out. So I'll go straight to the gym after work. Basically. I'd be there for about an hour and a half or 2 hours. I'd get back home at 9 o'clock at night, sometimes 10 o'clock at night. Maybe I would eat food or maybe I would just go straight into my basement and I'd shoot 3 to 4 videos every single day. And during my lunch break while I was at work, that's when I edited my videos and uploaded them. So this period of my life, those 3 years, was extreme grind mode. I was uploading a crazy amount of videos and I was doing all the work myself. I didn't have editors, I didn't have videographers, I didn't have nothing. I was doing everything by myself and still working a full-time job. And then in 2019, something tragic happened. I was leaving the gym, walking down the stairs, wasn't paying attention, and I fractured my leg or broke my leg or something. I don't know, but I couldn't walk for about 3 weeks. Now that obviously didn't stop me from shooting my YouTube videos because all my YouTube videos were just me sitting down and talking or doing pranks or talking to people. So that ain't messed that up, but I couldn't move. I was really stuck in bed for 3 to 4 weeks. And just so happened, I stumbled on a YouTube video by this one guy named Scott Hilsy, and he did e-com, which he basically like sold products online. Now at this point, merch was super big on YouTube. I didn't have any merch that I was selling, but I always wore durags. I was basically a durag collector. I'd go to these beauty supply stores and see which ones had the coolest durags, different colors. I had camos, I had rose prints, I had a bunch of things, and I would just buy them from the beauty supply store. And then in my YouTube videos, people associated me as the durag guy. And they always asked me where I got my durags from. So I had an amazing idea after watching this guy on Scott Hilsy, who basically taught people how to start brands online and do Facebook ads and things like that. I binge-watched his videos, 'cause remember I'm stuck in bed. So I binge-watched his videos for like 10 hours one day. I bought his course, it was like $30 or something like that. And it was 8 hours worth of content. I finished that in 2 days and I launched my own durag brand. And then taking the audience that I had on YouTube and promoting it to them, as well as the skills that I learned from his course with running Facebook ads and things like that, I was actually able to scale my durag brand to over $40,000 a month in revenue. So at this point, I'm like 18 or 19 years old and I'm making $40,000 a month from my durag brand and another $30,000 to $40,000 to sometimes even $50,000 a month from all my YouTube channels combined. But I knew that there was more. And the reason I knew that there was more is because Back in 2017, my dad has had Bitcoin for a good amount of time. And back in 2017, there was something that happened called a fork, which basically made everybody that owned Bitcoin also be able to get the same amount of Bitcoin in something called Bitcoin Gold. And back in 2017, it wasn't as easy as it is now. Coinbase wasn't a thing back then. There was none of these big platforms for crypto. Crypto was still kind of like a black hole. People didn't know much about it. So my dad asked me to figure out how to get his Bitcoin Gold because he owned Bitcoin, so he should've had Bitcoin Gold as well. So he asked me to figure out how to do it, and as I mentioned, it was not as easy as it is this day. So I had to spend hours on YouTube trying to figure out how the heck to get him his Bitcoin Gold. He said that he would pay me to figure out how to do it. I don't even think I've gotten paid to this day. But anyways, after weeks, if not maybe like a month or 2 months, I found out how to do it. I got him his Bitcoin Gold. But what had happened during that is my YouTube algorithm has gotten completely changed. It went from like pranks and funny videos to now suggesting all these videos about crypto and trading and all this stuff. And it made me stumble on a video by this old white guy. I don't remember his name, I don't remember his YouTube channel, but I just remember he showed in the thumbnail that he made $200 in a day day trading. I didn't know what the heck day trading was back then. I clicked on his video, I watched like 20 of his videos. I couldn't understand a single thing that he was doing, but it planted a seed inside my mind. I tried it out. I made a demo account at that point. But as I mentioned to you guys, coming from him, I don't know if he just didn't explain it good enough, but he just made it super complicated. It all sounded like Chinese to me, but I still tried it because I wanted to make $200 a day. Because remember, this is back in 2017. I wasn't making a lot of money from YouTube. I wasn't making— I didn't have my Durag brand back then. So $200 a day to me was fricking Jeff Bezos money. But as I said, I tried it out, I didn't make any money, but I was still stuck in that warp. I still had this trading thing in the back of my mind 'cause I saw it work for this guy, I saw it work for a bunch of other people 'cause I saw them all on my algorithm on YouTube, but it just wasn't working out for me. So I was just stuck inside the crypto space. I wasn't day trading, I was buying crypto, holding crypto, but I was just holding it for long periods of time. So I wasn't actually day trading. Now let's fast forward back to 2019 when I'm doing very well with my durag brand, I'm doing good on YouTube, and I stumbled across a video by this YouTuber where he showed himself making $12,000 in one day with day trading. And that seed I had planted in the back of my mind had grown, and I was very, very much intrigued. And keep in mind, I was in crypto this entire time. I was, I was still trading it. I wasn't day trading it, but I was buying and selling it every once in a while. I wasn't really making money, but I wasn't like doing horrible because I was just holding it and not really selling it at all. But I saw the video of the guy making $12,000 within one day. And to me, $12,000 was absolutely amazing. Even if I was making whatever, $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 a month, $12K in one day, I'm like, I'm doing something wrong. So that's when I went right back down the rabbit hole. I bought his course. I bought 300 other people's courses. I was hooked at this point. So hooked to the point that I would literally spend 10, 12, sometimes even 15 hours a day in front of my charts, whether it was backtesting, whether it was demo trading, whether it was watching YouTube videos, watching course videos. I was addicted at this point. It was really, really bad. I closed my eyes and I would see candlesticks everywhere just popping up. It was, it was sickening. But the truth is, when I find something, I kind of get very stuck in it, similar to how when I watched that YouTube video by the Scott Hilsy guy, I got sucked in that. And it paid off. So this time I was hoping that it would pay off, and it did. I was doing very well on a demo account. I had flipped like a $100K demo account to like $230,000 in like a week, and I thought I was the next Warren Buffett. And that was the biggest mistake that I ever made, because me as someone who had a decent amount of money from YouTube and my other businesses and things like that, I ended up taking $60,000 of my real money and putting it into a live account after I demo traded for only a week, and I ended up blowing that entire $60,000 within a matter of weeks. And that's when I realized that trading is not as easy as I thought it was. But losing that $60,000 forced me to stay consistent with my trading until I got profitable, because I am a sore loser. I could not let the markets keep my $60,000 and never get it back. So that was the chip on my shoulder to stay consistent with becoming a consistently profitable day trader. And it started happening in 2020. I was able to turn $1,000 into 6 figures 3 times. And at this point, I was very, very confident in my crypto trading abilities. But back in 2017, what the person was doing, and the person that I had watched on YouTube in 2019, they were trading Forex. And I still sucked at Forex. That's where I lost the $60,000. It wasn't in crypto, because crypto, when I was flipping it from $1,000 to six figures, I was still holding it for a couple days. I wasn't in and out day trading with it, and that was my goal. So yes, I was happy making money with crypto, but I still wanted to be a consistently profitable day trader, and that didn't happen until 2022. 2022 is the year that I discovered the trading strategy and system that completely changed my life. I finally found a system that I could not only trust, but one that I could replicate day after day, week after week, month after month. And once I discovered that system and had my set of rules and finally mastered my trading psychology, I was actually able to become a consistently profitable day trader, not just swing trading these crypto trades. I was able to go in the forex market and generate profits consistently. Now you have to remember, at this time I'm making money with crypto, a good amount of money with crypto. I'm now consistently profitable trading every day with that system that I finally discovered and I was able to stick to. I'm also still uploading every single day on multiple channels and editing all my videos on all those channels. I'm still running my durag brand. My durag brand, I wasn't focused on it as much because I had so many other things going on, so it went down to about $10K a month that I was making. But I'm still doing all these things. And then one day I posted a picture of me, like a screenshot of me making like $400 or something like that on trade. I post that on my Instagram story and everybody slid up and was like, bro, what are you doing? How'd you make $400? Teach us, whatever, whatever. Because you have to understand, I'm still known to the world as this funny guy, the guy that does pickup videos, the guy that does reaction videos and things like that. So they had no idea that I was trading because I never talked about it. I didn't talk about it to anybody. So when I respond to people, I would send them YouTube videos that I had watched, or I'd send them people's courses that I had bought before. But then I realized, after people just kept replying to my story every time I posted anything about trading, I was just like, why don't I just make my own videos? I already have a YouTube audience. I already know how to make YouTube videos. I'm already helping other people learn how to trade, so I might as well just make my own YouTube videos. And that's when I decided to change one of my YouTube channels into my trading channel, and I started posting all trading content on there— strategies, mindsets, the trade recaps that I would take. I started giving away all the education that I had learned over the past 4 or 5 years or so of me being in the trading space and just helping other people learn the skill that at this point was drastically changing my life. Now fast forward to 2023, that's when I actually claimed that millionaire status. I had made millions of dollars, but I never saw a million dollars in my bank account because I would always take the money and invest into something else. So I never really saw the million dollars in my bank account, but I was probably a millionaire much before then, but like seeing liquid $1 million in my bank account, that was back in 2023. Now that year was very monumental for me, not because I'd seen $1 million in my bank account, but because I'd been able to have enough time trading that strategy that I'd learned in 2022. I had enough time to trust it more, and it allowed me to scale to other things. So I would take my trading money, I would take that money and invest into crypto, I would take it and invest into real estate. I We were buying like freaking 10 houses a— not, I was about to say a day. We were buying like 10 houses a month. We were buying commercial real estate. I was trusting my trading system, using the profits to then put into other investments because I didn't need the money from day trading 'cause I was still making money from YouTube and still making money from my other things. So I was just taking all of my trading money and investing it into real estate or crypto and things like that. And that's what's allowed me now at 2025 to have a net worth of over $11 million at 25 years old, and it all is because of trading. Yes, I was making money with YouTube, but day trading and trading overall is what allowed me to go from just making money to generating real wealth. So that's how I went from being a skinny and broke teenager asking for spare change to building an $11 million net worth by the time I turned 25. But here's the thing, My story doesn't matter unless you can take the exact lessons from it and apply it to your own journey. Because it wasn't luck, it wasn't chance, it was a specific system that I used and followed diligently that's allowed me to scale my trading to build not just income like we just talked about, but to generate actual wealth and honestly change my life. So now I'm going to break that exact system down to help you skip years of failure years of blowing accounts, years of wrong trading, and teach you how to do it the right way. The system is composed of 6 simple steps, and it all starts with understanding exactly how the market moves. So before we hop into me breaking down that exact system that I just talked to you about, the one that completely changed my trading and allowed me to generate consistent profits, as I just mentioned, you need to understand how the market moves. Now I want you guys to remember back in 2017 I told you I learned from somebody, he overcomplicated things. Trading is not that hard. You have to understand, imagine this drawing right here, right? Imagine this, this yellow line is where price is. That's where the price of something is. And let's say for this example, we're talking about Bitcoin, right? So everywhere this yellow line goes, that, that's where Bitcoin goes. So sometimes Bitcoin is up here, sometimes Bitcoin is down here, sometimes up here, down here, up here, down here, up here. Now, if you'll notice, a lot of times Bitcoin, which is the example we're using, Bitcoin will stop at the same places a lot of times. It'll stop, let's say, up here in this range. It'll also stop in this range. And what I mean by stop is that it'll get in this range and then it'll reverse where it's going. These are what we call resistance and support zones. Resistance is at the top and support is on the bottom. And this is the simple concept that I use to trade every single day, because no matter what you're trading, You could be trading Bitcoin, you could be trading Forex, you could be trading stocks, you could be trading options, you could be trading anything you want. Everything is going to have this same concept and respect the same concept, which is support and resistance. And that's because if I give you a simple example, you will understand it a lot better. Let's say you right now always know that iPhones should sell for $1,200, right? And let's say Best Buy has a huge sale and they're at $900. And if 100 people buy it at $900, then it's gonna shoot the price back up to $1,200. So what would you do every time Best Buy has that $900 sale and iPhone's at $900? Imagine this is iPhone's at $900. You're gonna buy it, right? And then let's go vice versa. Let's say that every time you buy it for $900, that every time it goes to, Every time like iPhones are overpriced and somebody's selling it for $3,000, you find someone on eBay that'll sell it for $3,000. You're like, dang, that is way too expensive. There's no way anybody's gonna buy that. If people are buying it at that price, I'm gonna just sell it at $3,000. So then you sell it and when 100 iPhones sell, it causes the price of iPhones to go down. That's a simple analogy of basically the same thing that happens here. So let's say for Bitcoin, let's say Bitcoin is at $100,000 here. And Bitcoin is also at $120,000. If it's up here, we can look at this and be like, okay, this is the normal— this price right here, let's say in the middle of $120,000 and $110,000, that this is a normal price for Bitcoin. $110,000 is normal price for Bitcoin. So anytime it drops below that, let's say goes to $100,000 per Bitcoin, you buy it because you know that this is cheap for Bitcoin. So when you buy it, everybody else buys it because everybody knows that it's cheap. So it's going to go up. Same thing vice versa. If Bitcoin goes to $120,000, you know, okay, Bitcoin is pretty expensive at $120,000. I should sell my Bitcoin while it's at this super overpriced price, right? So you sell it and everybody else sells it because they all agree with you, and that causes price to go down. And this ping pong just keeps happening, this back and forth just keeps happening, going from what's considered expensive to what's considered underpriced. People buy when it's underpriced and people sell when it is too expensive. This is what we see on the charts— price going in between support and resistance zones. That's what we're looking at. We're looking to see where price is making heavy rejections off. We don't need to know what's considered expensive for Bitcoin. We don't need to know what's considered cheap for Bitcoin. We can look at a chart and the chart will show us when there's strong moves away from places. That means that people think up here is too expensive. And if there's strong moves from below places,, people will think that this is way too cheap, I need to buy it right here. And that's how we're determining these support or resistance zones. Now keep in mind, I'm going to show you guys all of this on the chart, how you actually see this on the chart. But as I mentioned, you need to understand the concept of what we're doing. We're buying things when they're cheap, we're selling them when they're expensive. And in order to find out when something is cheap and when something is expensive, we're just looking at the charts. All right, so here we are on an actual Bitcoin chart. You're going to see this chart and you see a bunch of different candlesticks on here. These are candlesticks right here that you see, these green and red things. Green candlestick means price is going up, red candlestick means price is going down. And let me break this down for you really quickly. The body, which is the thick part of a candlestick, the green one, the bottom of the body is where price started at, and the top one is where price ended at. And then the skinny line at the top and the bottom that you see on all these is telling you where price has been throughout this entire period of time. There are things called time frames. Right now you see we're on 4H, which means we're on 4-hour time frame, which is telling us that each of these candlesticks is telling us where price has been throughout the span of 4 hours. So if we look right here and we look on the bottom of the screen, it says Sunday, uh, the 13th of July, 2025. This is at 2300. This is in Army time, or whatever it's called. I think it's called Army time. Um, so this, this candle, and then the next candle after that is the 3 o'clock candlesticks. That's 4 hours after So each of these candlesticks— we can go to the 1-hour time frame as well and it'll do the same exact thing. So we can go and look at any candlestick. So we can look at this big green one and on the bottom it says 21:00, that's the time. Then we go to the next candlestick, it says 22:00. Um, we can come over here, it says 5 AM, this says 6 AM, this is 7 AM, 10, 8 AM, 9 AM, 10 AM. So each of these candlesticks is just telling us what happened in a specific amount of time, whatever time frame we're on. You could do the 1-minute time frame, 5-minute time frame, 15, hour, 4-hour, daily. It doesn't matter what time frame you're on. The candlestick is just going to show you what price has done throughout that time frame. The bottom of the body of a green candlestick is where price started at. So this is at 9 AM. So price was down here at 9 AM. Then at the end of 9 AM, which at 10 AM, price ended all the way up here.. And the wick, which is the skinny part, that's where price has been throughout this time. So all throughout 9 o'clock up until 10 o'clock, price could have been up here, it could have been here, could have been down here, down here, down here. Um, it just so happened that it started right here and it ended right here. So candlesticks are just telling us the story of what happened during whatever time frame we're on. And then it's vice versa with red candlesticks. So the top of the body is where price started at with red candlesticks, and the bottom of the body is where price ended at with, um, red candlesticks. Then the wicks mean the same thing. It just means that price was up here, over here, over here, over here, all throughout this candlestick, which in this instance is the 11 o'clock AM candlestick. But back to what I was saying, if we draw a box around a specific area, right, we saw price had gotten up here, we saw all these candlesticks go all the way up here, and then it just sold down, right? And then look at it the next time it went up there. Price got up here, sold down. Price came up here again, sold down. Price came up here again, sold down. Up here, sold down. Price got up here, didn't get directly inside of my box, but I didn't draw the box too big, but it got generally inside this area and sold down. This is that same analogy where I told you guys we can look at a chart and see that price continues to get to a certain point and goes in the other direction. Because to the market, Bitcoin at this price or Bitcoin in this area is considered expensive. So people just sell here and that forces the market to go down. So how can we use this? We can be like, okay, next time price goes into this area, we can look for a sell. We could take this example for analogy, for example, it sold here, sold here, sold here, sold here, sold here. Now imagine we're looking at it and prices over here. We can be like, okay, next time it gets in this general area, we can look to see if we can sell, right? And then what ended up happening? Price got in this general area and it ended up selling down. Now you'll see this multiple times. You can see it down here. Price got in this general area and bought up. So it got here, bought up. It came back down into that same general area and bought up. It came down to that same general area again right here and then bought up. Now this is literally the exact same thing that we just went over where I was showing you guys the drawing, but the only thing we're seeing now is that we're seeing it on the actual charts. And this doesn't matter if you're trading Bitcoin, Ethereum, you could be trading Tesla stocks, you could be trading, you could be trading anything. The same thing is going to happen. You're gonna see in this analogy right here, price got up here, sold down. It came back in that same area and sold down again. This is called trading support and resistance. Now my strategy refines this. It makes it a little bit simpler, a little bit easier to see. So let's hop into my 6-step checklist that I look for that allows me to see these things happen, know when it's an actual real support or resistance zone, and also tells me, okay, should I actually sell here or should I not? Because you'll see also sometimes in this same range right here, we can drag it across. Yes, it sold off multiple times, but then there's also times where it went up. And if we had sold here, we would have lost out on money or we would have potentially lost money. So how do we stop this from happening? And the system that I developed back in 2022 that allowed me to to be able to generate wealth, it tells me what times will be the most likely for it to actually respect these support or resistance zones and when I should actually enter into a trade versus when I ignore it or when I should ignore it. Let's hop into that checklist. So here's my simple 6-step checklist that I use every day in the markets. I'm going to run through these and I'm gonna show you what it looks like on the chart so you guys know exactly what to look for and you're not just confused. So the first step is to identify the direction. And how we do that is we're gonna go on the hourly timeframe and we're gonna check to see if price is trending up. If price is trending up, we're gonna be looking for buys, or if price is trending down, we're gonna be looking for sells. Now what I mean by trending, so we all know that the market doesn't just go straight up and the market doesn't just go straight down. It'll go up, down a little bit, up, down a little bit, up, down a little bit. If it's trending up, this is trending up, then we're only gonna look for buys. But if price is going down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit, we're seeing that price is trending down. So in that instance, we're only going to look for sells. And the reason why this is important is because we always want to trade in the direction of where the market is going. We never want to go against where the market is going. And how we're going to look to see if the price is trending up or trending down is we're going to go on the 1-hour time frame. I'm going to show you guys what that looks like on the charts. So, um, the next step after that is to be on our 1-hour time frame, same time frame we're on when we're identifying our direction. And we're going to look and find recent support or resistance zones. We're going to draw the zone and then we're going to wait for a candle to come back into that zone on the same time frame. I'm going to show you guys exactly how to draw those zones, what it looks like, what you're looking for, um, and all that in a second here. But that's the second step, is to identify the zones and draw it. The next thing is to drop down to the 1-minute chart. The 1-minute chart is where we're actually going to look for our entries because we don't just want price to let's say, go to our area. Let's say this is our area down here, and we don't just want to buy as soon as it taps into our area. We want to make sure that price is actually going to respect that area. If you remember the example I showed you before, it respected it, what, 5 or 6 times in a row, and then the 7th time it broke through it. We don't want to get caught in the move where it breaks through it, so we want to get in and make sure that price is actually respecting our support or resistance zone before we actually get into the trade. And I'll show you what that looks like. But in reality, we're just going to be looking for price to— let's say this is our zone right down here. Let's say price bounced off of it. We're going to look for price to come back down into it, and then we're going to look for price to start changing the direction that it's going in. We want to see a market structure change. I'm going to show you what that looks like on the 1-minute time frame, and then we're going to enter as soon as that happens. And that's, uh, step 4, is we're going to enter on the break of a recent high or low. And basically all that is going to tell us is that we're having a market structure change, as in the direction that the market was going, it's now flipping. So that's probably a good signal for it to— for us to hop into the trade. And then step 5 is stop loss. If you don't know what a stop loss is, stop losses stop us from losing too much money. Later on in this video, we're going to go over why risk management is the most important part. I don't care if you memorize this 6-step checklist. I don't care if you get it tattooed on your forehead. It doesn't matter if you follow this checklist if you don't have proper risk management. We're going to get into why it is so important and how— what that even means or what that looks like. But stop losses is a huge part of it. It basically gets you out of a trade that basically says, okay, if I enter for a buy here and it gets down to a certain level, I'm just taking out the trade at a loss because the trade was probably wrong and it's probably going to continue to go down. But take me out before it goes too far down and I lose too much money. That's basically what a stop loss is. But we're placing that stop loss below the most recent swing high for if we entered for sells, or placing above the most recent swing low if we're looking for buys. And I'll show you all an example of that as well so you know what to look for. And then step 6 is our take profit. Take profit is the opposite of a stop loss. Our take profit takes us out in profit when it reaches our profit target, when it reaches the point where we think price is going to go, it's going to take us out of the trade automatically, and we get to capture those wins and take that money. So, um, we're gonna— our take profit is always going to target a next key high or low on the 1-hour or the 4-hour chart. Like I said, I'm going to show you exactly what that looks like. So let's go into the charts now and go over an actual example. All right, so the first step, as I mentioned, is to go on the hourly time frame, and we just want to zoom out. So we can drag this this, uh, just down a little bit, drag this to make the candlesticks look a little bit skinnier. Or you can scroll if you have a wheel, you can scroll and it makes it skinnier or fatter. But we just want to see an overall picture. We just want to see, okay, is the market looking like it's going up or does the market look like it's going down? In this instance, we obviously see that the market looks like it's going up overall. So we've identified, uh, that we're only looking for buys in this instance. The next thing is we want to mark off some areas where price has, bounced off of aggressively, where we saw prices at areas and it bought up. We can see a couple areas right here where we see price was— got over here and it bought up very aggressively. So how I like to draw my zones, I come over here on TradingView and go to the drawing tool, the rectangle drawing tool right here. I have it up here as well on my favorites list. And what I do personally is I go from the wick of the point. So let's say this is my area that I'm looking at. I'm going from the wick, the bottom of the wick, which would be right down here, to the body of the lowest point. So it would be from the wick right here, and I would drag the box to the body of the point, so right here. And then what I'll do is just drag that across. I'll drag that across, and at that point I'm just waiting for price to tap back into that area. So right here we have another example where price got in this area and it bought up aggressively. So I draw it from the wick of the candle, the lowest candle, to the body of the lowest candle. So it's the wick from this candle to the body of this candle. I just drag that across. So we have this zone to look at. We have this zone to look at because remember, we don't know where price is going to end up rejecting at, or we don't know where price is going to end up bouncing off of. It could bounce off of this one. It could drop down and bounce off of this one. We don't know. So we're just drawing off all of our zones. And that's what's step 2 on our list, which is identified zones. So we want to mark off as many zones that we see that are near We also have this zone below right here that kind of overlaps with this one, so we could draw this one out as well. And we're just waiting to see as price goes forward to see if it taps into any of our zones and give us any entry criteria. So let's fast forward this and see if we can get price to tap into here. Remember, we're not drawing out resistance zones because we've already established that we want buys. We're not going to look for price to come here and then enter for sales. We only want buys because when we zoomed out we saw that we were in an uptrend. So let's fast forward here and we see price tapped into my zone here. Let's actually rewind so you guys see exactly what I'm seeing. You see price tapped into my— this zone right here. Now when price taps into my zone, remember on my checklist we now go to the 1-minute time frame and we're looking to see a change of structure. Now what I want you guys to see is, and as I mentioned before, price never just goes straight up or straight down. It It goes down, up a little bit, down, up, down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit. What I want to see is a change of structure where we then start going up, down a little bit, up, down a little bit, up, down a little bit, breaking that market structure to the downside. And how I identify if market structure is broken to the downside is when price breaks a recent low or a recent high. In this instance, we're going for a— we're in a downtrend. So you see overall we're in an uptrend. Remember, we chart on the hourly time frame. But trending down into our zone here on the 1-minute time frame, we can see that we're selling down. We're in a downtrend. Price is going down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit. We're seeing this price action right now, down, up a little bit right here, right? So what I'm looking for is a break of a recent high on this market structure, which would then tell me that price could potentially start going up up, down a little bit, up, down a little bit. So as soon as it taps into my zone, I'm marking off recent highs. So this is a recent high right here, this is a recent high up here, we have recent highs up here. And what I want to see after price taps back into my support or my resistance zone— in this instance it's a support zone— I want price to break that. And as soon as it breaks it, I'm entering into a trade. So let's fast forward. Let's see if it gives an entry here. So we broke it right here. I would have entered right here as soon as it broke that white line because this will solidify that where we got into this area that we want a rejection off of. And we— it's breaking a recent high, which is telling us that the market structure is shifting. So I'd enter there, and remember, I put my stop loss below a most recent swing low. The most recent swing low is right here. So if you remember, we're going down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit, down right here. Then we went up. So the most recent down point is right here. So I put my stop loss, and this tool right here that I'm using, this is just practicing— we're not practicing, this is drawing out your, your trade. So it just helps you visualize your trade as far as your entry. The red is your stop loss, which if price gets below here, it would take me out the trade automatically. Then the green is my take profit. So remember, for my stop loss, I'm putting it below the most recent swing low, which is right here. And my take profit, I'm targeting a most recent swing high. So I can target a lot of places. I can target right here because this is a recent swing high. I can target up here, that's a recent swing high. I can I can target all the way up here if I wanted to. That's a recent swing high. Keep in mind, the longer you hold your trade, the more money you obviously make. Most of the time I go for at least a 2:1 risk to reward ratio, which simply means right here you see this risk/reward ratio says 3.63. That basically is telling me that I'm risking $1 to make $3.63, or I'm risking $1,000 to make $3,630, or I'm risking $10,000 to make $36,300 or whatever it is. It's just whatever you're risking, you're gonna make whatever this number is in, multiplied. So in this instance, let's say we target this most recent high up here. We would've entered here, most recent high would be up here, and let's see if this trade plays out. We can fast forward. As you see, it's buying up here. Got very close to our full TP. And as you can see, it ended up hitting full take profit here, and we would have won this trade. Simple as that. Recapping, on the 1-minute time frame, we drew out our recent support zone here. We had a bunch of zones, but as you see, price didn't tap into it. We drew it out. Once price tapped back into our support zone, we went down to the 1-minute time frame, and then I'm looking for market structure to change. I'm looking to see instead of price creating a trend to the downside, I want to start seeing a trend to the upside. Once I see that, I enter into the trade, put my stops where I'm supposed to put them, put my take profit where I'm supposed to put them, and I just let the trade play out. Now this specific trade was actually taken inside of my inner circle. If you don't know what my inner circle is, it is where I take you and I handhold you and mentor you to be able to trade exactly how I trade. You don't only get mentored and get all of my educational resources and material and courses, but you also get to trade live with me every single day, meaning that when I enter a trade, you can enter that same trade. When I exit a trade, you can exit that same exact trade. We also have 4 other profitable coaches in there as well who live trade and share their trade ideas as as well. We also have a dedicated trading psychologist, meaning I mentioned in the beginning of this video that the mental part of trading is the hardest part. And that's why in my inner circle, I wanted to equip everybody with everything that you need to become an extremely profitable trader as fast as possible. So we have a dedicated trading psychologist that will help you on your trading journey to make sure that the mental issue and problem and the the mental challenge of trading is never a real challenge for you. In my Inner Circle, it's literally built for people who actually want to take trading serious. It's not for people who just want to make a couple hundred dollars. It's not for people who want to make, um, take this as a hobby. It's for serious people who want to be able to turn this into a full-time income and make 5 to 6 figures every single month with day trading. No matter if you're a complete beginner, no matter if you're experienced and you're just not profitable, no matter if you're profitable and want to scale from just making a couple thousand dollars a month to being able to make 5 to 6 figures potentially a month with trading, that's what my inner circle is for. I'll leave a link for it inside the description down below, but it's only for serious people. And you're probably going to notice if you've seen any of my other YouTube videos, if you go to the comment section, there's going to be a bunch of people complaining about that there's no spots left. And that's because I don't take on everybody. Like I mentioned 30 times at this point, my inner circle is only for people who are actually serious, people who want to take this serious. You can be a complete beginner that doesn't know anything, but you have to have the drive and the mentality to want to take this serious to actually see results with it. So if you actually want to trade and be able to generate consistent profits, I suggest you click the link inside the description down below to have the opportunity to join my inner circle, to trade live with me, to take the same trades that I take and 4 other profitable traders take every single day, get access to our trading psychologists and all the other resources that I give to you guys to help fast-track your journey to becoming a profitable trader. Like I said, hit the link for it inside description down below. Now you're going to notice that there are multiple opportunities. As you can see right here, we had price reject strongly off of this area right here, so we draw a box there. We have price respect this area very strongly. This is the big zone right here. Um, we have price respect over here as well. We can draw this out. On our hourly time frame, then we can just wait to see if price taps into either of these zones and gives us our entry criteria. So here it does. We'll go down to the 1-minute time frame as we just talked about, and in this instance we'd be waiting for price to give us a market structure shift. So we see prices trending to the downside here. We sold down, bought up, sold down, and we actually broke a most recent high. This is that most recent high. This part right here. So we would have entered on the break of that most recent high, stops below the most recent swing low, and we could target, let's say, up here, right? We can target there and we can see how this trade plays out. And as you see, this trade ended up winning as well. This trade would have made me 4 times as much money as I had risked. So you're going to see this setup happen a lot. This is the strategy that I have been able to put print millions of dollars with across all markets, no matter if I'm trading stocks, if I'm trading crypto, if I'm trading futures, which is what I trade most of the time, from trading Forex, which is what I started and when I got profitable with. So as you can see, as long as I follow my 6-step checklist, this strategy has proved to me for the past 3 years, almost 4 years, that it can consistently generate me profits as long as I stick to the checklist that we just went over. Now, as I just mentioned, a strategy is nothing if you don't have the right psychology behind your trading. And I had to learn that the hard way when I first lost my $60,000 and when I spent years trying to become profitable. But I'm going to give you guys the 5 key things that, if you follow these principles, can cut years out of your journey of becoming a profitable trader. And the first one is to stick to your strategy. I don't care if it's the strategy that we just went over. I don't care if you saw another strategy that you feel feel like fits your personality and trading style more, just stick to it. The main thing that kept me unprofitable for so long was I'd do great with a strategy, then I'd have 2 losing trades in a row, I'd go on tilt and feel like my strategy absolutely sucked and it was broken and it didn't work anymore. So then I went and learned a whole new strategy, and that's not the way to go. It's like you going and taking 100 lessons to become good at basketball, and then you have one bad game and you switch and go try learning soccer. Like you never put in the time to actually learn this skill before switching to something else, that way making you never be able to actually master anything. So get one strategy that you can feel confident in and trade just that one strategy. No matter if you have a bad day, a bad week, you could even have a negative month, that's fine. You need to learn and optimize the strategy because it's something that you could have done to turn that same strategy that you were using into a profitable strategy for that month, regardless if you had a negative month that month. There's always ways you can optimize your strategy, but the key point is to not switch from strategy to strategy to strategy. And this goes into the next lesson, and that is that backtesting is a necessity. It is not something that you could do as a trader. You have to think of backtesting as practice is to a basketball player. A basketball player only plays basketball when he has a game, it's going to suck compared to someone who practices and goes in the gym every single day regardless if they have a game or not. Same thing when it comes to backtesting. You need to put in time to backtest. There are multiple videos on my YouTube channel that go over backtesting that will show you exactly how you should be backtesting, but it is very important that you put in time to backtest. I was telling you guys before during my story that I used be looking at the charts for like 10, 11, 12 hours a day, and I'd be backtesting for majority of that. And that's just what you're doing to perfect your strategy, get used to your strategy, get used to finding these support and resistance zones, get used to finding these changes structures, get used to your entries and exits and things like that. It is very, very important that you backtest. Now, lesson number 3 is that trading is a mental game. It's very, very easy to learn candlesticks. It's very, very easy to learn a strategy. The hard part is sticking to it and trusting your strategy over your emotions. I just made a YouTube video, I want to say 2 weeks ago before recording this video, that talks about how important it is to focus on your mental game when it comes to trading. Because what most new traders don't know is that trading really, really affects your emotions to the point where if you lose a trade, a lot of people go on tilt and they end up trying to revenge trade to make that loss back. And in turn, they're taking bad trades or taking trades that don't follow the checklist or don't follow the strategy. They're just buying or selling randomly just to try and make their loss back because they're upset that they lost. And trust me, this happened. I, as I mentioned, I've helped thousands, tens of thousands of people at this point learn how to get good at day trading, and this happens to 90% of people. So you need to be aware of this so you stop and don't go on tilt, because that's what I did in the beginning of my journey and how I lost the $60,000. I went on tilt. To try and make my money back. But that's all the mental part of trading. You need to be very, very controlled. There's no space for being emotional in trading. There's no space for being impulsive in trading. There's no space for doing any of that. You need to be as systematic as possible when it comes to trading and leave your emotions at the door. And that brings me on to the fourth point. We hinted at it earlier, but risk management. You need to live to trade another day. And how you do that that is by having proper risk management. And proper risk management looks like having a set amount of money that you're risking per trade. If you have a $1,000 account, you should not be risking $200 per trade. You're not at that point to be able to trust yourself to risk 25% or 20% of your account size on one trade. The reason being is because no matter how great your strategy is, there can be a losing streak, and you need to be able to, like I said, live to trade another day. And the only way we can do that is by managing our risk. Managing your risk also means that you have a cutoff for the amount of trades that you're allowed to take per day. You can't just take 100 trades per day. You can say, okay, I can only take 3 trades per day and they have to be high quality trades. So having things set in place that stop you from being able to go on tilt, from revenge trading, from overtrading, from risking too much on your trades is very, very essential. Because we have to live to trade another day. Today you might have a losing day, and you have to be fine with having a losing day. It's part of trading. You cannot go and try and win every single day or win every single trade. We do not control that as traders. No matter how amazing your strategy is, no matter what you guys see on social media about people telling you they have a 100% win rate or they win every single day or win every single trade, it's a lie. That's not what actually happens as a profitable trader. You have losing days. The thing that holds you accountable to make sure that you don't go from having a losing trade to then blowing your account and losing all your money is having proper risk management and sticking to that risk management. So please listen to me when I tell you that having risk management is extremely important. And trust me, I was in your shoes 8 years ago hearing people say the same thing about risk management and psychology, and I was like, that don't got nothing to do with me. I'm good up here. Uh, I'm just here to make money. Trust me, it's not like that. You need to be very, very aware of your emotions and have strict risk management rules. And lesson number 5 is don't even use your own money when you don't have to. There's things called prop firms or funded accounts. I can leave a link inside the description of this video for the one that I personally recommend. But what it allows you to do is it allows you to trade with other people's money. That way you don't have to risk your own money. If I had known this before, I wouldn't have loaded $60,000 of my own money into an account. I would have just used other people's money to trade with. Now, I'm not gonna go into depth about what prop firms are. I have multiple videos on my channel about prop firms, but simply put, you'll pay a fee of like $500, and what will happen is these prop firm companies or these funded account companies, they will give you a $100,000 account to trade with, and when you make profits on that $100,000 account, you get to keep a large percentage of it. So let's say you make $10,000 on that $100,000 account, then you get to keep $8,000 or $9,000, and that goes directly into your bank account. And all you had to do was pay that small $500 up front, and then you'd be able to use this company's money to trade with as if it is yours. As I mentioned, I'll leave a link inside the description of this video for the funded account and the platform that I personally recommend. But it's a cheat code to be able to leverage other people's money. Same way with real estate, you don't go and buy houses cash, you don't go buy your car cash. It's best to use leverage when you are trading so that you don't have to risk your own money, you don't have to risk your rent money, your college tuition, and it allows you to make more money with less money. And that's another reason in the beginning of this video I said that it's a complete myth that you need a whole bunch of money to start day trading. You don't. So you've heard my story from broke to a multi-millionaire, and you've got the the same exact strategy that I used and the same exact lessons that helped me to master trading and honestly build a life that I never thought possible. But here's the truth: hearing these lessons really isn't enough. 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