why I don't blindly enter trades

27 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this tutorial Roman Ceccardi explains his disciplined approach to entering trades during the New York "kill zone." He outlines two essential conditions that must be met before placing a trade: (1) price must have moved into a higher‑timeframe key level (or any significant support/resistance level) and (2) the 5‑minute chart must show upward momentum, indicating the market is willing to move higher. He stresses that an idea alone—such as spotting a bullish order block or having a bullish daily bias—is insufficient. Instead, traders need concrete market evidence, which he obtains through order‑flow confirmation tools like CISD. This evidence helps filter out false moves and prevents the habit of blindly placing limit orders based solely on personal conviction.

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And when you get into the New York kill zone, you generally just want to look for 2 conditions to be present. First of all is you have entered into some sort of higher time frame key level or just a key level in general. Secondly, you want to see that the 5-minute chart has now shown you indication that the price is moving towards the upside. Now the reason why you want this is because it's not enough to just simply come up with an idea. All right, this is a bullish order block. We are a bullish day. We have a bullish daily bias. Okay, I think this level is going to hold a support. Let me just place a limit order there and just call it a day. You don't want to do that ideally because that's just your idea. And for any trade idea to become a trade setup, you need 2 things to be present. First of which is that you need the idea. But the second of all is you need evidence from the market that, hey, the market's telling you, all right, you've come into this key level and there is willingness to go towards the upside. Assuming you're bullish on the idea, this is the evidence that you need. This is why that CISD or that order flow confirmation is so important. It prevents you from getting into too many false moves.