Choppy Market? Here’s How I Still Found a Winning Trade

23 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker advises traders to focus on buying dips that retrace into fair value gaps rather than shorting, emphasizing that such entries can capture larger moves (potentially $5,000‑$10,000) with higher probability. He reinforces the classic maxim “trade with the trend,” noting that the current market bias is bullish, and warns against counter‑trend “giga short” positions that have led to severe losses for traders like Il Capo, who is now at rock bottom. The overall message is to align with the bullish trend, use fair‑value‑gap retracements for entry, and avoid aggressive short‑selling strategies that have historically performed poorly.

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Which means every opportunity into any sort of PD array on the daily chart is an opportunity to buy the dip for higher prices, not to short. Okay, shorting right now, yeah, sure, you take your profit at the fair value gap. Cool. That's like a, what, $2,000 move? Wouldn't you agree that the better move here, wait for a retracement into the fair value gap and then ride a $5,000 or $10,000 move? Much bigger magnitude, much higher probability. Chances are you're not going to have to wait so long for this trade to play out either. Whereas here you could just chop around for days. And like, yeah, overall, just remember that there is a reason why the saying, oh, trade with the trend, or the trend is your friend, is so popular. It is true. That's what makes money. And if possible, don't counter-trend trade. Right now the trend is bullish. So just a gentle reminder to all of you that may be new to the markets at the moment, please do not have the— do not feel the temptation to start just going giga short here. We've seen a couple of very bad examples play out throughout the bear market. Il Capo is one of them. And look at where he's at now. Rock bottom.