In this YouTube video, The Art of Crypto walks viewers through four intraday trade ideas for Monday, a day that typically features low predictability but is made tradable this week by a scheduled high‑impact USD news release (10 AM). He explains the importance of the 9 AM‑11 AM window surrounding the news for liquidity‑driven moves. The four setups are: (1) Bitcoin – bearish daily and hourly bias, targeting a return to a bearish order block and a 2R profit target, with entry expected between 9‑11 AM after a 5‑minute CSD; (2) Gold – bullish daily bias but weekly bearish bias, looking for a liquidity sweep below a key level followed by a V‑shaped rebound, again timed around the news window; (3) Nasdaq – strong bullish trend at all‑time highs, entry on a bullish order block with a 2R target, emphasizing trend‑following as the core trading principle; (4) USD/CAD – solid multi‑week uptrend, bullish order block entry with 2‑3R targets, using new order blocks on the 5‑minute chart. Throughout, he stresses disciplined trade selection—limiting to 2‑3 trades per day, using 2R targets, and avoiding over‑trading. He concludes by promoting his coaching/funding program, citing an average 76‑day path to funding for students, and invites viewers to click the link in the description or follow him on X (Twitter).
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What's good guys, welcome back to another video. It's a new week and you know what that means, we're going to have some new trading on our plate. Now one thing to keep in mind about this Monday is that usually I do say that Mondays are not that great for trading because it tends to be the opening range of the week. Basically things are still just setting up and it's a little bit harder to predict what, you know, what is the exact movement here. In fact, there are also a lot of times where on Mondays we get setups that, you know, in terms of the technical analysis everything aligns but it doesn't play out. Why is that? It's because it's Monday, right? The same setup at, you know, different times of the week, or in the case of intraday trading, different times of the day, can greatly affect the probability of that trade playing out. So why do I tell you this? That's because this Monday is different, because we have red folder news. Remember that on the first Monday of every month, we are going to have high-impact USD news. That also means that the conditions for this Monday is actually tradable. In this video, I'm going to share with you the 4 setups that I see right now that have potential to make money Today, so without any further ado, let's dive right into it. Starting things off on Bitcoin since we are still a crypto channel first and foremost. Bitcoin daily bias is bearish. Hourly bias is bearish. Hourly order flow is bearish. Over here you have a bearish order block. So the setup for today is simple: return back into the bearish order block and then look for a continuation towards the downside. Where exactly? Well, this is the previous weekly low, but even beyond the previous weekly low, I'm sure. Once we zoom out a little bit, we're going to see some different targets. Now, $70,400 remains the target to be seen for this week. I just don't know if it's going to get hit for today. So in terms of the targets, what I would recommend is to just set a 2R target, whatever entry that you end up going with. You know, once you manage to secure, like let's say your entry's here, your stop loss here, literally just place your target 2R away. If you can secure the 2R, you're more than happy with that. Because truthfully speaking, there's just not a whole lot of prior liquidity points that I can use to kind of pinpoint some sort of a target here. And the timing that you're going to want to look out for this is going to be between the hours of 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Now, why that time specifically? Because news is going to be at 10:00 AM, which means the hour before news to the hour after news tends to be a high probability window for news trading. So an hour before to the hour after 9:00 AM, you look for a retrace, or the retrace could even happen before 9:00 AM. But what you want to look for specifically is that 5-minute CSD to happen sometime during 9:00 AM, obviously after tapping into that bearish order block. Now, there's also the chance that, you know, you could just hit this level right like just in one fell swoop from this point onwards. Now, if you do, that is going to be a little bit sketchy because it also kind of assumes that, you know, the intraday target is already done. So I would be a little bit cautious if, you know, by the time you watch this video or by the time the news window kind of rolls around, if this is already hit, then I would kind of monitor the market. In fact, follow me on Twitter and like I'll share my findings based on, you know, whatever's happening during the market. And I'll share like what I would, you know, kind of advise or at the very least what I would do. But Now, if this gets hit, chances are, you know, there is a higher likelihood that you could go for a bit of a V-shaped recovery there. But you know what's better than Bitcoin is that we have 3 other setups that are potentially really good and looking quite a lot cleaner compared to Bitcoin. Now, the first one's going to be gold. This is one of my more favorite setups for the day. Now, over here, you're already in some sort of a bullish order block, but the daily bias today is bullish. And the fact that you're so close to this prior liquidity level means that there is a very high likelihood that you're going to sweep that, then potentially go for a bit of a V-shaped recovery. Now, this is going to be your typical liquidity sweep followed by an aggressive move to the opposite direction. And obviously, we're going to be taking advantage of that aggressive move to the opposite direction. Now, so far for today, we have a bullish daily bias, as I've already mentioned. But the thing you want to keep in mind is that the weekly bias is bearish. And also, when we talk about this liquidity sweep right here, we genuinely need it to be a liquidity sweep. Because if you get a candle close, okay, if you get a candle close beneath this Like 4491.34. This is the gold spot US dollar chart. If you get a candle close on one hourly chart before that, if you get a one hourly candle close beyond that level, that signifies a bearish change in state of delivery, which means that our bullish thesis gets completely invalidated. But if we only have a week by the time you watch this video or by the time that news event rolls out, then you're going to be looking at an expansion just like that, right? So liquidity sweep followed by a pump. Now, the other setup that I'm going to talk about is going to be a little bit more clear. Unfortunately, I don't think the like. Just compared to gold alone, like you're dealing with a much you know kind of bigger order block overall. Like which is this one? Nasdaq. Nasdaq is at all-time highs. The there is no indication whatsoever on the weekly, on the daily, on one hourly, on the five minute that it is dumping or like the top is in. So for now we assume that the trend is going to continue because again there is nothing indicating that the trend is over. And this is one of the core things that I hope you guys can you know kind of get into your mind because the Way that you succeed as a trader is to follow trends. When the trend is in place, it doesn't matter where price currently is because well all the way back from here, people were saying oh yeah it's the war or like you know for various economic reasons or whatever. Yeah the fact that Nasdaq is at all-time highs, you know it's over right? The stock market cannot continue going up because it's already too expensive. And look where they are now. And this has been proven time and time and time again with Bitcoin bull markets, with crypto bull markets, with stock market bull markets, whatever. The market can pump. Way longer than what you think is rational, because the market is fundamentally irrational. So the thing you want to keep in mind is that as long as the trend stays intact, you buy high and you sell higher. This is one of the reasons why even last Friday we took advantage of— and I called this, by the way, on Twitter if you guys were following, and also I mentioned this setup on the video— and, you know, it played out. And this was basically a move targeting an all-time high. Now, did I have, you know, solid targets for this? No. But I targeted 2R, and that was, and that was that. So like right now you're coming back into a bullish order block. Again, the setup for today is super simple. As long as this order block does not get kind of invalidated, and by the time you watch this video, and between the hours of like 9 AM all the way to 11 AM, and you can even kind of refine this to 9:30 AM, once you have that, and if you see that bullish CSD towards the upside, then this is going to be an easy continuation trade. It just so happens that you have relatively equal highs over here. On the Nasdaq at 30,600, and so yeah, super easy continuation trade. Now the last one that I do want to talk about is going to be USD Canadian. Now this is one of the more solid setups as well, where overall you're in a strong uptrend, at least starting from a couple of weeks ago. Now in this case, starting from a month ago actually, because you have 20 trading days. But anyways, this is a this is in a very strong uptrend. In terms of the one hourly, you're also in a strong uptrend. Now so far you formed this bullish order block. Recently, in the last five minutes since I've been recording this, you have kind of started retracing into the order block. So literally, you're just going to be looking for continuation towards the upside, just like that. By the time you watch this video, as long as the uptrend remains intact, you are more than welcome to. For example, on the five-minute chart, as price trades higher, you're going to validate new order blocks that you can take advantage of. And it's as simple as taking advantage of these new order blocks, placing an entry at the start, placing a stop at the end, and just targeting for two or three R. It's completely up to you. But so far, U.S.A. Canadian gold and Nasdaq. NASDAQ looks to be really strong. Now the rest that I did not mention simply because they are looking less clean compared to these 3 assets that I've shown you, as well as Bitcoin, right? Bitcoin's actually pretty decent today. One thing's for sure though, one thing that I will caution you against is picking all 4 of these setups at the same time. Ideally you want to pick the ones that look the clearest. In fact, feel free to narrow it down to 2. That's what I tend to do in my trading days, which is I'll list out 3 to 4 different ideas that I think are worth considering. On some days there are not 3 to 4 ideas. Some days there might just be 1, some days there might be 2, some days there might be 10. But regardless, I will never take more than 2 or 3 trades within the same day because I don't want to be like, you know, going full Rambo and potentially just overtrading out of my brain. And so I narrow it down to the highest quality setups. I try to make an educated guess on which 1 or 2 are most likely going to give me a return on my money, and that's the ones that I take. And that's the one— that's the advice that I would recommend for you as well. 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But if you don't want to, absolutely no pressure. I'll just see you later on X. But otherwise, I'll see you in tomorrow's video. Ciao ciao.
