Kardec Trader explains why pros start with a predetermined expectation based on key levels and price action, not by hunting for setups. He uses a multi-day example (Friday through Tuesday) showing how prior-day highs, lows, fair value gaps, and opening price proximity tell you whether to expect bullish or bearish moves before any trade appears.
This is your 15 minute and you see this level is any of these previous day's highs, previous day's lows. You need a predetermined expectation on the day so you'll only favor this when you're bearish and I'll give an example so let's say Friday fair value gap Monday usually does this right we like to see a small range day you'll get maybe a sweep on this candle Tuesday what I like to do is I'm only considering days where we open closer to one of these key levels. This is going to happen from Tuesday's opening price so we should open up and then we trade down like this we don't have to take the next candle this is this do you see my point? So this right right all of this candle is that price action. Now this expectation is all you need but the only thing is this right you need one of these key levels to key off of.
