The Simplest Way To Start Day Trading In 2026 (Full Course)

I've been trading for over 8 years, and in that time I've been able to help thousands of people go from complete beginners to consistently profitable. So obviously I know what works and I know what's just noise. In this video, I'm breaking down the easiest way to start day trading step by step, exactly how I would do it with no fancy setup and with just a few hundred bucks to start. So by the end of this video, you'll know my exact steps, what strategy I would use, and how I'd grow my account this smart way without risking all of my own money. So let's get into it. Before we get into this, I wanna get into my why and my how this even happened. So rewind back to 2017. I was a broke teenager just looking for a way to make some money, and I stumbled upon cryptocurrency. And me watching a bunch of videos on YouTube kind of just shifted my entire YouTube algorithm from like video games and workout stuff to now a bunch of old people like showing me how to trade. I had ended up finding this old white guy's YouTube channel. It was a video that was titled like how to make $200 in one day or something like that. Something like that. And I watched it and I got sucked in. Like, I literally watched almost every single video on his channel. And then obviously that made a whole bunch of other trading videos pop up on my YouTube, so I was watching those as well. And I just got sucked into trading. I watched every video I could find. I bought every course that I could find. I studied for an extremely crazy amount of time. And then I opened up my first demo account, and honestly, I did amazing. I might have had what you call beginner's luck because I was I think I had loaded up like a $100,000 demo account and I ended up making like $300,000 on it. Obviously I was just doing stuff. I wasn't, I was still not sure how to have proper risk management and things like that. I was just getting extremely lucky, but that went to my head. So I ended up loading up my first live account and I loaded it up with $20,000 'cause I was doing YouTube back then. So I had a decent amount of money and that was a huge problem. But I loaded up my first live account with about $20,000 and ended up blowing that. And then another $15,000, blew it. Another $10,000, blew it. Another $15,000, blew it. And before I knew it, I was down $60K within a matter of a couple weeks. Now I know that sounds bad, but it's probably the best thing that could have happened because me personally, I'm too stubborn to let the markets keep my money. So instead of quitting and giving up, I was like, I really need to focus up here and actually learn the skill versus chasing money because me chasing money, it's obviously not working. So I completely locked in with trading. I went and just mastered one strategy and I just kept trading that strategy over and over and over and over again until it got extremely boring. And that's honestly what got me to the point that I'm at now, because fast forward 8 years later, with that same system that I was trading, I've now been able to make multiple 7 figures from trading. And if you think about it, it really all started from one YouTube video. But because you're watching this, this is probably the start of your story, and I'm extremely excited to be able to be part of it. So without further ado, let's get into the exact steps that I would personally take right now if I was a complete beginner trying to get to the same level of profitability that I'm at today. So quickly, what even is day trading? This is your first time ever hearing of day trading. I'm gonna break it down very simple for you. So day trading is simply getting in and out of specific stocks or cryptos or whatever it is in a short amount of time. You've probably heard your uncles or your dad or grandparents talk about buy stocks and hold onto it. And when you become 8,000 years old, you'll be rich. Day trading is not like that. We're not buying stocks and, or cryptos or any of these things and holding it for years or weeks or months or even days at a time. We're getting in and out of trades with— it could be within a minute, it could be 5 minutes, 10 minutes, an hour, 2 hours. But most of the time as day traders, we're not holding trades longer than one day. What that allows us to do is, first of all, we don't need a bunch of money to get started. It allows us to be able to take multiple trades throughout the day that would allow us to compound and make even more money. And it gives us a little bit more control of the trades that we're taking versus just buying a stock randomly and holding it for the rest of our life, hoping that it goes up or hoping that we bought it at a good time. Now in day trading, there's multiple different markets that you can trade. You can trade the stock market, you can trade options, you could trade futures, which is what we're gonna talk about mostly inside this video. You can trade crypto, you can trade Forex, but realistically, a lot of the information that I go over in this video can be applied to all the different markets. But this is specifically for futures trading, which is what I primarily do. I personally would start with if I was a complete beginner. So now that you have a good understanding of what day trading actually is, let's hop into the juicy part. Let's hop into, okay, what do we need to get started? What are the platforms, websites, and how do we actually make money with this thing? Let's go on to the charts. All right, so here we are. Most people think you need like a crazy fast computer or 30 million screens and monitors and all that stuff to be a day trader. You don't. It's actually very simple. You really only need two websites. First one is Tradovate, and the second one is TradingView. Now the difference between these two is TradingView is where we go on to plan out our trades. We're basically just using TradingView to plan when we're going to enter a trade, when we're going to exit a trade, if it's a trade that we even want to take, and things like that. And then on Tradovate, that's where we're actually executing the trade. That's where we're actually pressing buy or pressing sell. This is called a broker. This is essentially what holds your money and where you're able to withdraw the profits off of. So simple. TradingView, we're planning out our trades. Tradovate, those trades that we planned out on TradingView, we're executing them on Tradovate. That's really the only two websites you did— you need. You don't need 30 million monitors, you don't need a freaking supercomputer. As long as you have Wi-Fi and a computer that does not lag into oblivion, you will be fine. So the first step is to come on to Tradovate. You're going to open an account, go on to TradingView and also open an account. Very, very simple. You've opened accounts on multiple different websites. All right, so once you have an account here on TradingView, you're going to hover over products and you're just going to press SuperCharts. We're going to dive into exactly how to actually use this because it's a lot of things that are going on. But first, let's just go to a chart. Here in the top left corner, we can choose what chart we want to look at, basically letting us choose whatever stock or crypto or item we want to see the price of. Here we'll just use, for example, gold. So I'll type in MGC, right? Let me remove all these. Um, so you'll see on your charts these red and green things, right? These are called candlesticks. We're going to dive into exactly what these mean because I know when I first started off trading this all look like freaking Japanese to me. I promise you, super, super simple, and I'm gonna break it down for you guys in a very simple way. But I just want to show you guys kind of all the things that you have here on TradingView itself. So here on the left side is really just a tool, a toolbar. You're able to draw lines, you're able to hit this dropdown and draw other things on there. It's really just, as I mentioned, TradingView, we're using these charts to plan out our trades, plan out when we're going to execute our trades, on Tradovate. So TradingView gives you all the tools to be able to do that. You can draw your charts, you can draw different items on your chart that basically just allow for you to, like I say, plan out your trade. That's what all these tools are over here. At the top left corner, you'll see basically the symbol that you're looking at. So here we're on MGC, which is basically just showing me the price of gold. As you can see right now, the price of gold is $4,267.01., or in 10 cents, sorry. So that's what is the symbol that we're on. If I typed in another symbol, we could have typed in Tesla, we could have typed in Bitcoin, we could have typed in really anything, and that would show right here. Then over here, you're gonna see numbers. Now it might look a little bit different for you, but these are basically, when you see 1M, that means we're on the 1-minute chart. If you see 5M, we're on the 5-minute chart, 15M, 15-minute chart, so on and so on and so on. When you see 1H, that means we're on the 1-hour time, 1-hour chart or 1-hour time frame. You see 4H, that means we're on the 4-hour time frame, so on and so on. Now when you see the letter D here, that simply means that we're on the 1-day chart or the daily chart. I'm going to get into exactly what those time frames and stuff mean in a second. I just want to run through kind of the rest of these things. So here you'll see we're on candles. You can hit this dropdown and we can switch from a candlestick chart to a line chart. We can switch to a columns chart. We can switch to Footprint chart. We can switch to a bunch of different things, but the main one that we're going to be using is candles. That's what majority of people end up using. We are going to show you another type of candlestick chart. I'm saying we— I'm going to show you another type of candlestick chart called Heikin-Ashi candlesticks a little bit later on in this video, and why I personally love Heikin-Ashi candlesticks and why it's great for beginners. But for right now, let's talk about regular candles because we need to understand that first before we can understand Heikin-Ashi. Now after that, you'll see indicators. Indicators simply give us help as far as to see specific things. On the chart a different way. There are literally thousands and thousands and thousands of indicators. We'll go over that in a second. I don't want you guys to get confused or even get reliant on using indicators, thinking that indicators are like a get-rich-quick scheme where it's like super, super easy to just make money using indicators. That's not how it works. It's more of a helping hand depending on which ones you use, and we'll get into the indicators that I personally use a little bit later on in this video. Um, then you have alerts, you have replay and things like that. Here you can have a watch list. So if you always trade specific things, like most of the time I'm trading NQ, which is the NASDAQ 100, or I'm trading ES, which is the S&P 500, or I'm trading YM, which is the Dow Jones US 30. That's mainly the 3 that I personally trade or day trade in the futures market. So I have it on my watch list here, so it's simple for me to click through each of these and actually go on to them and look at the charts for them. But that's basically all you need to know as far as the functionality of TradingView itself. Now let's hop into the real stuff that actually kind of matters is these candlesticks. So as you see here, they're all different shapes and sizes. You'll see these long skinny parts. Let me turn this into an arrow. You'll see these long skinny parts. You'll see these bigger parts right here, skinny parts on the top and the bottom. They're all different colors, shapes, and sizes. What the heck do these mean? So these are called candlesticks. When you see the skinny lines, that is the wick of a candlestick. Same on the top and the bottom. Those are the wicks of the candlestick. Now, the thicker part— if we're using this candlestick, for example— the thicker part is called the body of the candlestick. Now, the reason why this is important and the story that this is telling us, because you have to realize each candlestick is just telling us a story. It's just telling us where price has been, throughout the candlestick, where price started at and where price ended at. So I told you guys before, time frames— these, when we're on specific time frames, each of these candlesticks represents what happened in that amount of time. So because we're on the 4-hour time frame, each of these candlesticks represents what price has done throughout a 4-hour period. So I want you to look on the bottom of my screen here, down here, when I'm hovering over a candlestick, you see it says Monday 13th, which is Monday, October 13th, 2025, and it's 1700, which basically is 5 PM, right? Then if I drag my mouse over to the next candlestick, you're going to see that it's the same date, but now it's 2100, which is basically what, 9 o'clock. So because each candlestick represents 4-hour increments, every time this candlestick closes, another 4-hour one starts. Then after 4 hours goes, this candlestick starts. After 4 hours goes, this one starts, this one starts, and so on. Now it doesn't matter what, what timeframe you're on. If I went to the 1-hour timeframe here, it would be the same exact thing, except each of these candlesticks would represent what happened during a period of 1 hour. So if we look on this candlestick, it says 20. Look at this one, 21, 22, 23 o'clock. Um, yeah, so this is 5 AM, 6 AM, 7 AM, 8 AM, 9 AM, 10 AM, 11 AM. And you'll see it on the bottom of the screen here when you're hovering over it. That's because we're on the hourly timeframe. But as I mentioned, each of these candlesticks is simply just telling us a story of what price has done during that timeframe. Now, what is that story and how do we basically tell the difference of what it's trying to tell us or see exactly what it's trying to tell us? So let's actually go over this illustration that I drew just so I can break these candlesticks down for you guys in a very, very simple way and to make sure you guys understand it. Then we'll come back on actual candlesticks and see it live in action. All right, so let's break down candlesticks. As I mentioned, green candlesticks are bullish candlesticks, meaning that price went up during that time period. Now we're on the 1-hour time frame, so let's for this example just assume each of these candlesticks is representing 1 hour since we're on the 1-hour time frame. So this would be the 9 AM candlestick, the 10 AM candlestick, 11 AM candlestick right here. Now with the 9 AM candlestick, I told you guys it's bullish, so that means from the beginning of 9 AM price ended up closing higher than it started at. So you see here, I wrote down high, close, open, and the low. So the wicks tell us where price has been all throughout that time. So during 9:00 AM, price could have been here, could have been here, here, here, up here, up here, up here. The highest point of the wick is the highest where price has been during that time period. Which for this example is 9 AM. And then the lowest part of the wick is where price has been throughout this candlestick, which is, uh, this 9 AM candlestick, which is obviously down here. Now the bodies, which is the thicker part of the candlestick, for green candlesticks or bullish candlesticks, the bottom of the body is where price started at. So right at 9 AM, the bottom of this body that's where it opened at. As you see, I have open written here, so that means the open price opened at this point right here. And then at the end of the 9 o'clock candlestick, meaning 9 o'clock, 9:59 and 59 seconds, right, that complete end of it before the new 10 o'clock candlestick starts, this is where price ended at. That's the top of the body of the candlesticks. But as I mentioned, the wick shows us exactly where price has been all throughout that time period, because just because at 9 o'clock price started here, and at 10 o'clock price ended right here. Price could have been right here at 10:30, could have been right here at 10:05, 10:13, 10:12, could have been all throughout this candlestick. And the wicks is showing us exactly where price has been throughout that period, as I mentioned. Now, as you see here on red candlesticks, red candlesticks are bearish candlesticks, meaning that when price started or when that, that candlestick started. So remember, this is the 10 AM candlestick. Price started up here and price ended, meaning the end of the 10 o'clock candlestick, it ended below where it started at. So that's why the candlestick is red and that's why it's called a bearish candlestick, because right at 10 AM it started up here. As you remember, this is the candlestick before it. If the 9 o'clock candlestick ended up here, that would mean the 10 o'clock candlestick also starts up here. Now, during that period, prices went all the way up here. Price was all the way down here as well, but price ended up ending right here at the bottom of a bearish candlestick. So it's flipped. With bullish candlesticks or green candlesticks, the bottom of the body is where price started at. The top is where price ended at. With bearish candlesticks or red candlesticks, the top of the body is where price started at, and the bottom of the body is where price ended at. The wicks mean the same exact thing. But as you see on the candlestick after that, so at 10 AM the candlestick closed down here, it ended down here. Then the 11 o'clock candlestick started and it started here and it ended up here. And all throughout that period it has, um, been up here, it's been down here, it's been here, here, here. It's been all throughout this candlestick. This is the highest point it went during 11 AM and the lowest point it went. This is the start and the end of that candlestick. So that's honestly all the candlesticks are showing you. If we come back to these charts, you can see all these different examples. We see, um, let's say right here, right? This is the 8 o'clock candlestick. If you look on the bottom of my screen, this is the 8 o'clock candlestick, meaning price started here, price ended up here, price had went up here at one point during 8 o'clock, and it was down here at one point during 8 o'clock as well. Then the next candlestick started, the 9 o'clock candlestick. It started right here.. It ended up here. It was all the way up here at one point. It was down here at this point. But going along this whole path, as you can see, it's all telling a story. This candlestick price started up here and it ended down here. It was up here at one point. It was also down here at one point. So all these candles are simply just telling us what price has done or showing us exactly what price has done throughout a specific time. Now that's important because when we are trading, we're simply looking at patterns of what price has done before. To help us predict exactly what price might do in the future. So it's very important to know when price started going away from specific areas or when price started buying up, going up versus when price started selling down. Because what ends up happening and what we're about to get into right now is price will most of the time reject at the same areas that it previously rejected at. Now that concept is called support and resistance. It's kind of like the foundation that every single trader needs to know. And later on inside this video, we're going to go over the strategy that I that I would personally use as a complete beginner. I'm gonna go over the stats of it so you guys see exactly how well it works for me and how simple it is. But we do need to understand support or resistance. Now, all support or resistance is, is support is a floor, right? Resistance is a roof. Now imagine this yellow line is price. Let's say we're looking at the price of gold because we're on gold right now. Every time gold gets up to this price, which let's say for example is $1,000, Everybody thinks that that's pretty expensive, so they end up selling their gold. And when everybody sells their gold, that makes price drop down. It makes price sell down. And then price gets down here, and let's say this is $1,000 and this right here is $500. When everybody sees the price of gold is $500, they say, wow, that's super cheap, we should buy it. So everybody starts buying it when it reaches $500. That causes the price to go up. Price shows in the middle, taps into that $1,000 price point again, and everybody's like, okay, it's time to sell again. And everybody sells, and then gets to $500, everybody buys again. These are called support zones, and this is called a resistance zone. You'll see this multiple times on your chart where you'll notice that at specific areas or specific price points, price will usually reject off those areas because the market finds that it's either too expensive or too cheap, and a lot of people will end up selling, or a lot of people will end up buying. So that's something you do need to understand when it comes to, um, trading, because you're going to see so many examples of that. For example, right here we see price was continuously just going up. It got here and price started going down. Now what happened when price came back in that same area? As you see, price sold all the way down. Now you can see on the flip side right here, this is an example of a resistance zone right here. And this is an example of a support zone where you see price got here, it sold down here and bought up. If we look what price did at the same exact area, price sold back down into this area and it bought up. It sold down into that area again right here and it bought up. This is a clear example of resistance zone, which is, remember, like I said, it's a roof. And then support zone, which is a floor. So you need to understand that because these are areas that you need to pay attention to in case you're trading around those areas. So you know how price could potentially react to it. Now you understand candlesticks, you understand what they mean, you understand what they're trying to tell you. You also understand the foundation of trading, which is support or resistance. Let's get into my personal strategy that I would use as a complete beginner. This thing has absolutely printed me money, and it's extremely simple. All of my students, no matter if they're complete beginners or they're experienced traders, they're able to use this strategy and replicate it very simply just by following the checklist that we're about to go over right now. Now, before we hop into this checklist strategy, I mentioned to you guys in the beginning when I was telling you guys my story of trading that I really, really had to focus in on trading. And one of the things that I learned in that journey is that when you find a strategy, stick to it. You should not be hopping from strategy to strategy to strategy. Because you're watching this video, you're probably gonna see 100 other trading videos pop up on your YouTube feed, and you're probably gonna see a video that says this strategy has 100% win rate and you're gonna win $100 million if you use this specific strategy. And maybe on that same day you had a losing trade on the strategy that you currently use, and what ends up happening is you end up switching from the strategy that you've been using for weeks or months or even sometimes years, and switching to this other strategy because you think it's so much better. I'm here to tell you that is not true, and that is the biggest trap that's going to force you to stay unprofitable for way longer than you need to be. That's why I tell every single one of my students, I say it all the time on YouTube, find one strategy and stick to it. Do not hop from strategy to strategy to strategy. I promise you, you're setting yourself behind. And honestly, if I'm being 100% truthful with you, majority of strategies work. If you're using the proper risk management. The part that gets people is they stop using the proper risk management, or they stop following the steps that the strategy needs you to take. Let's say this, the, the strategy has 10 steps that you need to follow, and they only take 8 steps out of it, and then they say it doesn't work. There's a reason it has 10 steps. But I'm saying all that to say, stick to one strategy. Do not switch from strategy to strategy to strategy. That's what made me take years to get profitable when I literally could have been a profitable trader within a couple weeks or a couple of months, honestly. But with that being said, let's hop into this checklist strategy. I just wanted to give you guys that heads up because obviously I've been able to teach over 24,000 people at this point how to start trading, and that's one of the main issues and problems that I see people go through. And as I mentioned, I also went through the same thing. Now, the strategy we're about to go over right now is one of the most used strategies inside of my inner circle. If you don't know what my inner circle is, 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 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'd 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 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 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 psychologist 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. All right, so this strategy is a simple 6-step checklist that when I follow this thing, it absolutely kills it for me. So I'm going to run through the steps, then I'm going to show you guys exactly what that looks like on the charts. I'm going to show you guys how to actually do it. And then we're going to go over the stats for this strategy if you had traded it the past 2 weeks or so. So the first step is the chart setup. We're going to be using Heikin-Ashi candles. I told you guys a little bit about that in the beginning of this video, but with this strategy, you need to use Heikin-Ashi candlesticks. And I'm going to show you guys exactly how to turn that on again. And then I'm also going to show you guys what to look for. Now, the next thing, you're going to need one indicator on your chart. We went over what indicators are, but I didn't dive too much into what indicators I use. We're going to use an indicator called the 100 EMA. I'm going to show you guys exactly how to put that on and the exact settings that you need. Now, the next thing we're going to look for is market structure, because the EMA is basically an indicator that tells us if price is generally going up or generally going down. If price is above, meaning the candlesticks are above the EMA, that means we're only looking for buys because that means that price is going up. If price is below, if the candlesticks are below the EMA, that means we're only looking for sells., and we're looking for market structure above that. I'll show you guys exactly what that means. Now, next thing is we're looking for a clean pullback. A clean pullback is 2 clean opposite color candles in the pullback direction. I know this might sound like Chinese to you. Trust me, super, super simple. I'm going to show you guys it in a second here. Um, and then we're waiting for our entry candlestick, which is a high volume doji candlestick. And that's just— that's a specific type of candlestick. As I mentioned, I'm going to show you guys exactly what that looks like. And then for step 5, after we've entered our, um, trade, We're going to have a stop loss in there. A stop loss basically saves us from losing too much money. I'm going to tell you guys exactly where I put that stop loss with this strategy. And then also I'm going to show you guys exactly where I put my take profit with this strategy. A take profit simply means that's where we're going to get out the trade with all the money that it gave us, and we're going to go about our day and live our lives. So that's the 6 steps. Very, very simple. Once you know exactly what you're looking for, like I said, it probably sounds like Chinese, but Let's fix up that Chinese view and teach you exactly what that looks like. So chart setup, the first thing is to click this dropdown right here and you're going to press Heikin-Ashi candlesticks. You're going to make sure you're on those candles and what you're going to see, you're going to see the candlesticks change a little bit. Now, as I mentioned before, with regular candlesticks, the wicks of the candlestick is where price has been throughout that candlestick. Same thing when it comes to Heikin-Ashi candlesticks, the wicks, that's where price has been all throughout that candlestick.. If you look at all these different candlesticks, you'll see wicks up here, down here, wicks here, here, here, here. Price has been here throughout this entire candlestick. The only difference between regular candlesticks and Heikin-Ashi candlesticks is that the bottom or the body starts in the middle of the candlestick previous. So this candlestick right here ended. You see the next candlestick, the body of it started in the middle of the body of the previous candlestick.. Now, the reason why Heikin-Ashi is good is because the top of a bullish candlestick, meaning a green candlestick, that isn't where price closed at. The top is actually the average of where price has been throughout this candlestick. So price could have been down here, up here, up here, up here. But the average of where price was throughout this entire candlestick was right here. Right. Same thing, vice versa with a bearish candlestick. The average of price where price has been throughout this entire candlestick is right here. Now it works the exact same. Right now we're on the 1-minute time frame, which is what this strategy is done on. We only need to be on the 1-minute time frame. But because we're on the 1-minute time frame, each of these candlesticks represents what's happened during 1 minute. So this is at 2:35, 2:36, 2:37, 2:38, so on and so on and so on. But we need to use Heiken Ashi candlesticks. You honestly don't really need to understand too much about Heiken Ashi candlesticks to use this strategy., but I did want to give you guys that breakdown of it. So we need to have Heiken Ashi candlesticks, which we have. The next thing is we need to put this indicator on our chart. So you'll press indicators right here and you're going to type in EMA. You're going to see this indicator right here pop up titled moving average exponential. You want to click that and you're going to notice this blue line comes on your chart and you're going to notice right here, you'll see this pop up, EMA 9 close. If it doesn't pop up, you might have a dropdown right here. So click that dropdown, then hover over the EMA and press this little settings icon. Just press it. And you're going to see here under inputs, click inputs. Right now, this is a 9 EMA. With this strategy, we need a 100 EMA. So we're going to change that 9, the length, we're going to change that to 100. And that's it. We're not changing anything else. You'll see the line changed a little bit. Um, it got a little bit away from the candlesticks because before it was just kind of riding on the candlesticks. But we need to just change the length to 100. That's all we need to do. Now you can come in style here and change the color of it. I personally just like changing mine to the color white. That's just a personal preference that does not affect the strategy at all. It's— I just personally like having a white line because my background is black. So I'll just press OK here. So we have our chart completely set up how we need it to be. We have Heikin-Ashi candles,, and we have the 100 EMA on our chart. The next thing we're going to look for is market structure above the EMA or below the EMA. And simply all that means is that we're seeing candlesticks above the EMA, meaning if we're— we have candlesticks above the EMA, we're only looking for buys. Now, if price is below the EMA, like right here where price is trading below the EMA, We're only looking for sells because as you see, when we're below the EMA, we're in an obvious downtrend and we always want to trade in the direction that the market is going. So if we know overall the market is going down, we want to be on the same side as the market. So that's why we use the EMA. But that's all that step means is we're looking for market structure. Next thing we're looking for is a clean pullback. Now, why is this important? This strategy is simply based off of the fact that we know that price never just goes straight up and price never just goes straight down. Price goes up, down a little bit, up, down a little bit, up, down a little bit, up, down a little bit. Right. And then it goes down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit, down, up a little bit, down. The strategy that we're going over, which is what I call the hybrid super scalping strategy, is simply being able to capitalize on these pivotal moves. So when we see prices obviously going up, that our EMA tells us that price is obviously going up. So that's why we're only looking for buys. We know that price is ultimately going to go up a lot, then it's going to have a small retracement. This small retracement to the downside, that's called a retracement. We're capitalizing off of when price retraces to the downside, and then we're looking to buy as soon as price is telling us that it's about to start going back up a lot. Because as I mentioned, up, down a little bit, up a lot, down a little bit, up a lot, down a little bit, right? We want to capitalize before that next big move to the upside starts. So we're waiting for pullbacks. This retracement is also known as a pullback. This is also a pullback. This is also a pullback. Same thing, vice versa. When price is selling down, this is a pullback. This is a pullback. And this is a pullback. So we're capitalizing on these pullbacks, waiting for price to go back up. So we're simply waiting for a clean pullback. Now, sometimes there are pullbacks that are not clean. What do I classify as a clean pullback? So we want at least 2 clean opposite color candles in the pullback direction. Clean simply means there's no wicks on the top. That's if we're looking for buys. There's no wicks on the bottom if we're looking for sells. Now, what does that look like on the chart? As I mentioned, we have candlesticks that look just like this. We're looking for buys, right? So we want to see a pullback. Let me draw this out for you guys. So you see we're going up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, right? These are pullbacks to the downside. We're ultimately going up because we're above the EMA. So we're just waiting for a pullback to the downside before price starts going up again. A clean pullback is us seeing at least at least 2 of these kind of candlesticks. The candlesticks right here that have no wicks at the top. As you see, this one has a wick at the top. We need to see at least 2 of these candlesticks. As you see, we have one right here. We also have another one right here, one right here, one right here, one right here. All these don't have wicks on the top. That's what we want to see. We want to see at least 2 of these happen, and that would signify as a clean pullback. And then it's vice versa if we were looking for sells. So we'd look for something— let me find you guys an example really quickly. We look for something like this. Since we're looking for sells, we want to see bullish candlestick pullbacks with no wicks on the bottom. We have one right here, we have one right here, and we have one right here. This isn't considered clean because it has a wick on the bottom. So that's what I mean when I say we're waiting for at least 2 clean candlestick pullbacks. That's what we want to see before we see our entry signal. Now, what is our entry signal? When are we actually pressing buy? We want to be pressing buy as soon as we get any indication that that pullback is over. And a great indication of that is a doji candlestick. Now, what is a doji candlestick? A doji candlestick is simply a candlestick with a small body, with long wicks on the top and long wicks on the bottom. Simply just looks just like this. Small body, long wick on the top and the bottom. Now, what this tells us is that there's indecision, meaning price got to this specific area and it made an indecisive candlestick. Now, when I see indecision after we're ultimately going up and then we have a small pullback and we have those two clean candlesticks, then I see price being indecisive. Most of the time that means that price is about to reverse to go back to the upside. So that's why as soon as I see a doji candlestick and that doji candlestick ends, remember, we're doing all this on the 1-minute timeframe. That's simply telling us that there's indecision in the market and price is probably going to start going back up. As soon as I see a doji candlestick that looks like this, I'm hopping into the trade. As you see, we're looking for a high-volume doji candlestick. Now I want to break down the difference between a high-volume and a regular doji candlestick, but I want to show you guys examples of doji candlesticks. And seeing you guys, letting you guys see that work. So you see here, price sold down, and then we got a doji candlestick right here. And then what, what ended up happening? Price ended up buying up. We can see multiple examples of this. Price sold down, we got a doji candlestick right here, price bought up. Price was actually going up right here, we got a doji candlestick right here, and price sold down. We can see this time after time. Price went up, We got a doji candlestick right here. Price sold down. Then we got another doji candlestick right here. Price went up. Another doji, price went down. Another doji, price started going up. So that's why I look for doji candlesticks for my entry criteria. So what's the difference between a high volume doji candlestick and a low volume doji candlestick? Because it's very important that I don't just enter on any doji candlestick. I need to have a lot of volume.. Now, how I determine if it has a lot of volume is if the size of the doji candlestick— that's including the wick and the body. So let's say this one right here. If that doji candlestick is bigger than the candlestick before it or the candlestick before that one, it's considered high volume. If it isn't, then it's considered low volume and I don't take that trade. So in this instance, we had everything. We were above the EMA. We had our pullback of at least 2 clean candlesticks., but then we got a low volume doji candlestick, I would not have entered the trade. Now, as you see, this trade did end up playing out, but we can't skip those rules because more times than not it won't end up working out the same rate that it would if you're following the rules, or if I'm following the rules that I am taking with this strategy, or that I have with this strategy. So this is a low volume doji candlestick because it's not bigger than the candlestick before it or the candlestick before that one.. But if we look here, we see we were selling down. We got a doji candlestick. This candlestick is bigger than the candlestick before it and is bigger than the candlestick before that one. So this is considered a high volume doji candlestick, and that is a candlestick that I would have entered on. Same thing in this instance. This doji candlestick is bigger than the candlestick before it and the candlestick before that one. In that instance, I would take the trade. But if the doji candlestick is little, just like this one, I would not take the trade. So let's go back to our checklist once again. So let's say we do end up getting our high volume doji candlestick. We would then enter the trade as soon as that candlestick ends. If we enter for a buy, we place our stop loss below the candlestick that we entered on. If we entered for a sell, we place our stop loss above the doji that we entered on. So remember, stop loss is getting us out the trade as soon as it touches that. It's basically saving us from losing too much money. Now take profit, we're just going to go for a 1:1 risk-to-reward ratio, and I'll show you guys exactly how you find that and how, uh, what that looks like. Let's hop into some actual examples though so you guys can see this in work and see all of the things actually play out. All right, so here we are right now. We're on a, the NAS 100 chart. Keep in mind This strategy works across basically every single market. I've had success with it in crypto, stocks, options, futures, forex. Like, I've used this strategy to trade basically every single thing that I could possibly trade, and it has worked very well for me. But in this instance, we're just on NASDAQ 100, which is NQ, right? So we're on our Heikin-Ashi candlesticks, we're on the 1-minute time frame. We're above the EMA, which means we're only looking for buy opportunities. Now we're just looking for clean pullbacks and then our doji candlestick and an entry. So if we look here, we went up, then we sold down. We had at least 2 clean, um, bearish candlesticks, basically candlesticks that have no wicks on the top. We had at least 2 of them. As you see, we have multiple in this pullback here, and then we got our doji candlestick. And as you can see, this doji candlestick is bigger than the candlestick before it, and it's not bigger than the candlestick before that one, but it's fine because it's bigger than the candlestick right before that, that candlestick. Now we would enter right on this trade. Now, as I mentioned, TradingView is simply where we plan out our trades, and one of the options that it has here is a trade planner. So if we hit here, this dropdown, you'll see long position and you see short position. Long position simply means that we're entering for a buy Short position simply means that we're entering for a sell. So in this instance, we'd be entering for a buy. So I'd click long position, and then at the top of the doji, I would click because that's exactly where we would enter at. Now you'll see this box pop up, and simply what this box is, is this is playing out and showing us visually our stop loss, which is the red part, and our take profit, which is the green part. So what you'll do is you'll drag your stop loss because remember, for buys our stop loss is always right below the candlestick that we entered on. So we drag it right below the candlestick that we entered on. And then you'll notice here risk/reward ratio. As I mentioned on the checklist, we're always going for a 1:1 risk to reward ratio. So all we're doing is we're going to drag our take profit down until that number says 1:1 right here. Risk to reward ratio, now it says 1, meaning the amount of money that we risked that's also the amount of money that we're going to make. So let's say if price hit our stop loss, we'd lose $100. If price hits our take profit, we'd actually make $100. Now there's ways later on, uh, it gets a little bit more advanced where you can hold the trade a little bit longer to end up making more or double the amount that you risked or triple the amount that you risked. But to start off as a beginner, I would just stick to hitting 1:1 risk-to-reward ratio trades and getting in and out of these trades. So as you see, this trade, we would have entered right here at 11:10 in the morning, and we actually would have hit full take profit at 11:14. So we would have been in the trade for 4 minutes, and we would have executed the trade and won the trade in a matter of 4 minutes simply by following that checklist. Now we're going to go over a couple more examples just to make sure you guys fully understand it. So here we are with a selling opportunity. We're below the EMA. We've had a clean pullback to the upside. We've had at least 2 clean candlesticks to the upside. 1, 2. Then we got our high volume doji. This doji is bigger than the candlestick before it, so we come over here, hit short position. We put at the bottom of the candlestick since we're looking for sells. We drag our stop loss above the candlestick that we entered on, and then we're just dragging our take profit until this says 1 to 1, simply like that. And as you see, we've got entered into the trade right here at 5:38, and we would have won the trade at 5:42. So we would have been in the trade for about 4 minutes. Now, this strategy, it's called the super scalping strategy because most of the time you're in and out of trades within a couple of minutes. I mentioned to you guys before, this is not— day trading is not trading how your parents used to trade, holding stocks for years or months or decades. We're getting in and out of trades very, very fast. But that's another example. Let's hop into another one just to make sure that you guys understand what you guys are looking for. So here's another example. We're below the EMA here. We had at least a clean— two clean candlestick pullback to the upside. Then we got a doji candlestick. This candlestick is bigger than this one, and it's actually bigger than the candlestick before that one as well. So in this instance, we'd be looking for a sell. So we'd hit short position right here. We press on the bottom of that candlestick. We drag our stop loss right above that, and then we drag this until it says a 1 to 1. And it's simple as that. This trade, we would have entered in at 6:21 and we would have won the trade by 6:24. So we would have been in and out this trade in a matter of 3 minutes. Now you can kind of see how simple this is and why this would be the only strategy that I would use if I was starting off as a complete beginner. But let's hop into some stats over the past 2 weeks of how this strategy has actually worked for me personally. All right, so here we are just looking at the stats of taking 20 trades over the past 2 weeks. The account balance started at $100,000 and the total P&L is $7,212. Now, you might be looking at this and saying, I don't have $100,000. I told y'all in the beginning of this video, you do not need a whole bunch of money to get started. And you might be looking at this like, dang, $100,000 is a lot of money. You don't need that. There are these things called funded accounts. Now, these funded accounts, AKA Prop firms are basically when companies will fund you with money. They will let you trade their money, and when you make money, you keep a percentage of it. If you lose money, you don't owe them anything. So how it works is you'll pay a fee, let's say $500, and you'll get access to a $100,000 account to trade with. Now, if you make, let's say, $10,000 on that account, you get to keep most of the time like 80 or 90%, depending on what prop firm you actually use. So you can leverage $500 to be able to trade a $100,000 account. And then if you're able to make $10,000 on that account, then you are able to withdraw or they'll send you $9,000 or $8,000 to your bank account. Because remember, you keep 80 or 90% of the money that you make on that account. And then you're able to just kind of keep repeating that. And that's one of the things I wish I had when I was first starting off as a trader. I wouldn't have put in my own $20,000 in the beginning. I would have just paid $500 and gotten access to $100,000 to trade with without risking any of my money. And the good part is, let's say with that $100,000 account, let's say you lose $3,000, $4,000, you don't owe them that money. The only money out of pocket for you ever is that initial amount that you paid, whether it's $500, $600, whatever it is. It's just that initial amount. You don't owe them anymore no matter how much money you lose on the account. Now, there are multiple different types of prop firms, and some of them, if I'm being honest, are kind of shady. They make you pass these ridiculous, like, challenges and have these crazy rules that basically make it impossible to ever get paid out any money because they're making a lot of money by you losing accounts or you blowing accounts and then keep having to buy it or keep having to pay that $500 fee and things like that. So you really need to be careful what prop firms you do use. I personally do have my own prop firm called The Edge Funder where I fund traders. The cool thing about my prop firm though is we have no challenge phases, which basically means you don't have to prove to us that you know how to trade. You can purchase an account, and as soon as you start making money on that account, obviously following our rules— and our rules are very trader-friendly— you can request to withdraw 90% of the profits that you make on the accounts. I'll leave a link for my prop firm inside the description down below. We've paid out thousands of dollars to traders already, and obviously me being a trader myself and being able to help over 20,000 people learn how to trade. I know exactly what actually helps traders and hurts them. So that's why I built my own prop firm to be able to cater to traders, to actually give them leverage to be able to make money without them having to have hundreds of thousands of dollars for themselves. Like I said, I'll leave a link for it inside the description down below. And just because you've made it this far, you can use the code START20 on the screen right here and you'll get 20% off your account that you do purchase. We have $25,000 accounts, $50,000 accounts, $100,000 and $150,000 account that you can get starting from only around $200. So like I said, I'll leave a link for inside description down below. As you see here, this is with an account balance of $100,000. So let's say for example, I had a prop firm account and I paid $500 to trade with $100,000. I would have made in the past 2 weeks trading this strategy. Now obviously Past results do not guarantee future results. Like, none of this is guaranteed. This is just based off the stats that I've used and that I've seen and the stats that I've gotten with actually trading this strategy. And honestly, the past 2 weeks trading this, the win rate has actually been a lot lower. Usually it's around 70 to 74 win rate, meaning I'm winning 74 out of 100 trades. But over the course of this testing right here. It was a 60% win rate, which obviously, as you see, is still profitable. I was still able to make $7,200 simply by using a $500 funded account that I bought where I was able to trade, um, $100,000 account. But as you see here, ended up taking a total of 20 trades, 12 wins, 8 losses, 60% win rate. Here you can see it tells you your average risk-to-reward ratio, um, the amount of winners I had, the amount of losers I had. All the things like that. It breaks it down into days as well, showing that, uh, on these days, as you see, the, the losses are very small compared to the wins here, which is why I do love this strategy, because it just provides enough consistency as a beginner. And it's very simple, you're just following a checklist. That's why I would personally, if I was a complete beginner, I would start with this strategy and I would stick to using just this strategy, because honestly, the results speak for themselves.. But as I mentioned, past results do not guarantee any future results. Test this for yourself. I want you guys to go back on your charts, try and find these setups, see how it works out for you guys, understand it for yourself. But for me, this thing has been absolutely killing it. But as I mentioned, practice is the most important part of all this. Same with every single skill. So if I was starting from scratch today, I would really prioritize practicing as much as possible. I would memorize that checklist that I just went over. For the strategy. I would look at the charts every single day. I would probably spend— well, I did spend multiple hours in the beginning of my trading, like 5, 6 hours a day looking at charts. It was pretty bad. I would get to the point where I'd close my eyes and candlesticks would just pop up. But anyways, I would put as much time into practicing as possible, looking at that strategy, practicing seeing those high-volume doji candlesticks, practicing those entries, practicing stop-loss and take-profits. All that, I put so much time into it because once you do that, that is truly when it's going to start clicking inside of your mind. And then the next step that I would personally do is I would journal everything. It's important that we know exactly what trades we took on this day, why we took the trade, how much we planned on losing that trade, or how much we planned on making that trade, what we were actually trading. If we were trading crypto, if we were trading stocks, if we were trading Bitcoin, Tesla, whatever it is, you want to journal all that. Because it's so important to have the data. I told you guys earlier on inside this video that trading is really all about patterns and seeing what price has done before to help you determine what price might do in the future. And we need that data in our own trading to know, okay, we've taken 100 trades. Out of the past 100 trades, we had 30 losses. And out of those 30 losses, if we had just not done this, we could have avoided that whole loss. So us having that data to know, okay, we can look back on 100 trades and see that this is a huge part of our losses. So stop doing that. That will help us grow as traders. So that's why we should journal everything. What journaling looks like is writing down what you traded, writing down what time you entered the trade, if it was a buy, if it was a sell, if you won or lost the trade, what you actually traded, whether it was like NQ or crypto or whatever it was, you want to write that down. Write down the strategy that you traded as well, and you want to keep all of that and include in there why you think you won or lost that specific trade, because you'll start seeing patterns and that will help you grow as a trader. Or at least that's what helped me grow drastically as a trader. And I'll be honest with you, trading is a you versus you game. It's you sitting in front of the charts for hours at a time. It can get very lonely. That's why I do suggest for people to get a community, whether it's you have a friend that trades with you, whether you're in a Discord community, whether you're in my inner circle, you just want to be around a community of people who are like-minded. Because most of the time you're not going to be able to talk about this type of stuff to your parents or just your friends at school because they're not going to understand any of it. So what I would personally do is I would probably send this video to all of my friends. I'd put inside the group chat, I'd send it to my cousins, I'd send it to everybody to hopefully get somebody else hooked on trading. That way I have somebody else to talk to because This journey of becoming a profitable trader can get pretty lonely sometimes because it's just you and the charts, like I said. But having somebody else to be able to understand it with you is a huge benefit. And that's why— another reason why I created my inner circle. As I mentioned, I'll leave a link for inside description down below. But you don't only get access to me trade live and copy my trades and the other coaches and the trading psychologists and all of my live trading and market breakdowns and Q&As., but you also get access to a community of like-minded people, people who are beginners, people who are just becoming profitable, people who are already making 5 or 6 figures a month. You get access to that type of community to be able to then have relatable people and also people that you can learn from. That's like I said, another reason why I created my inner circle and set it up in the way that I did. Like I said, I'll leave the link for it inside description down below if you are trying to be actually super serious about trading. And turn this into something that could potentially not just change your life, but as it's done for me, changed my family's lives, changed my kid's life, my kid's kids' lives as well. But anyways, this is the exact path that I wish that somebody gave me when I started to understand the basics, master one strategy, and honestly use somebody else's money to trade with so I don't have to risk my own money. Now speaking of that, click the video right here and watch my video where I break down in depth exactly how to use all the information that we just went over and leverage it truly with prop firms to turn it into real income. I'll see you in this video.