you're ignoring half the market

16 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the presenter stresses that most traders focus solely on price movement (the Y‑axis) and overlook the chart’s time dimension (the X‑axis). He explains that the timing of price behavior significantly influences the probability of a trade’s success. Specifically, when price retraces back into an order block during a news event, it creates an exceptionally high‑quality timing window, offering a superior entry opportunity. The overall message is that incorporating the X‑axis into analysis can dramatically improve trade outcomes.

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But the reason why we want to be taking our trades within a certain time window has to do with the fact that there is an axis on the chart that most people tend to forget about. A lot of the times people just focus on the price action, which is the Y-axis of the chart. But what people tend to forget is the fact that there is a whole other axis known as the X-axis, which is time. And what you need to understand about the markets is that certain behaviors of price happening at certain times increases or decreases the probability of that trade playing out. If we get a retracement back into the order block at literally like news, it's the highest quality kind of timing window that you could possibly have.