⭐️ ICT Algorithmic Time & Price Grids

Date: 2026-07-30

[00:00]  Welcome, folks. Welcome back.

Just a quick review, and then I'm most likely not going to be doing anything on Friday, so just keep that in mind.

Here's the NASDAQ September futures daily chart. I want you to look at how we had this aggressive sell-off, followed by a complete overlap of yesterday's FOMC move. Pretty impressive, isn't it?

Let's add the annotations, because this will make more sense once we get into the lower time frames.

Price came down into the weekly BISI.

[00:44] As I mentioned in this morning's guidance before the market opened, I believed the weekly low was already in place. After everything the market has done today, I believe that even more strongly now.

I want to focus on the area between this blue-shaded buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency and this second buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency. Both of these are Suspension Blocks.

If you weren't following me on X this morning before the market opened, I posted a short video.

[01:35] It's only about five minutes long. I tried to fit in as much as I could while keeping it short enough to render quickly and upload to X. I kept it as concise as possible.

Now I want to give you a little more detail about why I believed what I said in that video and why the market delivered exactly the way it did.

Let's drop down to the 1-minute chart, and I promise we'll work through all of this.

[02:08] We're going to focus on the 9:30 open, right here. Let's zoom into this section.

This is the opening price. We opened in the lower portion of the space between the low of the upper daily Suspension Block (the blue-shaded area) and the high of the lower daily Suspension Block.

[02:57] Again, rewind the video for a moment and look at the daily chart. Those two shaded areas correspond to these two Suspension Blocks.

Now, notice what we had at the open. We had relative equal lows, and price opened just above this short-term high.

Think about what the market did first.

At the 9:30 Regular Trading Hours open, it opened above that short-term high.

That's the beginning of the narrative. And tonight, I'm going to teach you how to build that narrative.

[03:49] Notice again where the open is.

You can clearly see what I'm about to explain.

We opened above where the buy-side liquidity was resting. Price made a quick push higher, then within a single minute dropped sharply, leaving these relative equal lows right here.

[04:39] Then, a few minutes later—at 9:33—the market trades for the sell-side liquidity.

Now, when you already have an expected direction—and I shared my bias before the market opened, telling you I expected price to trade higher into this area—it gives you a defined space between two inefficiencies.

Whether it's on a daily, 4-hour, or 1-hour chart, that makes forecasting much easier.

I'll say it again:

We don't react to price. We anticipate it.

[06:04] We opened above the buy-side liquidity, so that was taken first. Then price came back for the sell-side.

But notice where all of this is happening—inside this white spatial area.

Once you understand that, you can begin predicting how price is likely to move as it transitions from one inefficiency to another.

Think about what happened beforehand. During the FOMC, price traded down into the lower gray daily Suspension Block, then rallied all the way back up through the overnight session.

I'll zoom out in a moment, but for now I just want you to understand the logic.

[06:52] We trap traders buying above these highs, expecting a continuation. Where do you think they place their stop losses? Right below these relative equal lows—exactly where the textbooks tell them support should be.

Then the market dives down and knocks them out.

Now look at what I'm doing here. I'm measuring and grading this wick with the Fibonacci tool. When the market prints a wick like this during a stop hunt, it's sending a very clear message:

"I'm not going any lower."

[07:35] Watch this midpoint level right here.

What I'm measuring is the close of this candle and the low of that wick. Notice what price does—it can't even come down and touch it.

Now, according to the order flow I teach, visually represented by the candlesticks, is this bullish or bearish?

It's bullish, and the market trades higher.

We're not looking at this simply because it's trading above the previous candle and calling it an engulfing candle.

[09:19] When price opens here and trades lower, you already know what you're looking for.

If the market is bullish, what do we want to see?

The upper half of the wick supporting the narrative. Price can wick down through it, but the candle body should stay above it—and ideally, it shouldn't even touch the midpoint. That's one of the strongest signatures of bullish order flow.

Then the market rallies above the previous candle. Everyone else calls that an engulfing candle, but I'm already focused on what happened down here at the low. That's what you're learning as my students.

It's a repeating phenomenon. Once you know what you're looking for, it gives you a front-row, VIP seat to the market. It repeats over and over again—but only if you're willing to look for it and accept what you've seen me demonstrate.

It fails to trade down to the Consequent Encroachment of this discount wick, even after the market first takes the sell-side liquidity and then trips the buy-side.

[10:24] Before the market opened at 9:30, I already told you I expected it to open and rally straight up into this area.

Specifically, I was looking for price to trade into the lowest octant of the daily buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency.

I wasn't expecting it to just tag this level and reverse. I believed the market was going to draw up into this entire area.

Moving forward, the market takes out this short-term high, and then we start getting all these wicks.

[10:58] What's actually happening is that this candle body is the Order Block. The algorithm is reaching back into the opening price of that Order Block, down to the body itself.

We'll extend this over.

So the longest wick—notice how it extends lower than this one and this one—sets the tone.

That's the wick I'm focused on.

It defines the level below which the candle bodies should not close.

We open, trade down into the Order Block, and then rally higher, leaving a small wick.

[11:47] Why is this important?

It's not simply because price didn't breach the midpoint of this wick.

The next wick goes lower than this one. In fact, let me say that again.

This wick trades below the Consequent Encroachment of the previous wick, and it even pierces its low.

So this now becomes the lowest wick. See how easy that is?

[13:35] Notice this wick. We don't get any candle bodies closing below it.

At the same time, we're digging down into this Order Block. Those repeated probes lower are simply accumulation. Smart money is accumulating here.

But notice what else price is trading into. It's also reaching the high of the lower buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency—the Suspension Block. Don't forget about that gray area. You probably did, because you're so focused on the individual candlesticks.

[14:09] What you're really doing is blending several concepts together. You have multiple layers of discount PD Arrays supporting the idea that price is about to explode higher—right to the level the old man said it was going to reach.

The overnight session also traded in a very systematic, slow grind higher. I don't want to zoom out and show you that just yet, but I promise I won't forget because it's important.

We opened here and went through everything I just explained. Then, because we're trading inside this white-shaded area between two daily inefficiencies, once price starts moving higher, it should do so quickly and efficiently.

[14:54] Price is going to move quickly into this area, then drive straight up into that lower octant. Think about that.

That's why price had such a clear pathway. This is how you identify low-resistance liquidity run conditions. It's also how you build the narrative for why price should move higher and how it should behave as it does.

We don't want to see price grinding higher like this... slowly... then slowly again... and then slowly once more.

Now let me zoom out and show you the difference by comparison.

If you look at what happened, price traded down into the area, then started working higher. Once it broke this high, it transitioned into an efficient buy program.

What is a buy program?

It's a series of very small candles that just keep stair-stepping higher. Trying to short that is murder. It's death by a thousand cuts because price just keeps grinding higher and higher.

[16:19] Every one of these quadrant and octant levels builds PD Arrays that continue supporting higher prices.

I'm not going to take that away from you because this is your homework.

Go back and grade every one of these turns, Order Blocks, Breakers, Fair Value Gaps, and Inversion Fair Value Gaps using the technique I've taught you. Each one has to anchor to an octant or quadrant level.

That's how you know an ICT PD Array is valid.

[17:31] Now look at what happens once we get to the 9:30 opening. At that point, we're outside the control area.

You guys want to talk about Point of Control? My daily Suspension Block was controlling this entire move higher. I know that sounds narcissistic, but it doesn't matter what you believe. It matters what I'm proving.

The market opened in the space between two daily PD Arrays. Those two daily areas—the blue and gray Suspension Blocks—don't overlap. That gap between them is a very specific area that I teach you to focus on.

[18:18] How is it possible that the market reacts off this area and then delivers such a clean price run?

That's low resistance. Big candles. Speed. Momentum. Everything you want when you're looking to go long.

And wouldn't you know it—it races straight into that level. From here to 9:41, count them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 candles in a row. For ten straight minutes, it just screams higher. Isn't that beautiful?

[18:57] That's roughly 200 handles in 10 minutes.

Once we get into this area, you start grading the octants and quadrants of the higher buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency.

We have this level here anchored to the lower octant. When price trades back into it, that becomes a valid bullish Fair Value Gap. Then an Order Block forms here.

[19:42] This opening price—I'm not going to draw it, but you can see it—is the Change in the State of Delivery. Extend that level across the chart.

Now look at how price dips back into the Order Block. More importantly, look at the candle bodies. They never violate the midpoint—the mean threshold—of that Order Block.

No candle bodies are doing anything near that.

So what does that validate?

It validates this as an ideal ICT Bullish Order Block, sitting inside a Bullish Fair Value Gap that's anchored to the lower octant.

Think about that. You have several bullish factors aligning in the same area.

Even the Fair Value Gap—look at the candle bodies. They're staying in the upper half.

That's order flow. They can't hide it from you, folks.

You don't need subscriptions to all these gimmicks. You don't need any of that. You absolutely don't.

And all of this is happening during the 9:50–10:10 macro.

Now look at the lowest candle. 10:10.

[22:04] We get this large wick that drops back into the area. It stands out against these two smaller wicks, so that's the one we want to measure.

As soon as that candle closes, we're waiting for price to trade back down into the midpoint of that wick. If we're bullish, we do not want to see the candle body breach that level. A small wick through it is perfectly permissible, but the body should stay above it.

How do you know? You have to trust it.

You trust your bias. You trust the narrative. You believe price is going to continue higher.

There's a small buy-side liquidity pool up here. This is the buy signal right here, as price opens and trades down. It doesn't feel like a buy when you're watching it unfold live.

[22:38] I'm adding, building, pyramiding, and entering right into it. Then the market rallies, and we get this right here.

Now look at the structure. We have the low of the daily Suspension Block, the lowest octant, and then the lowest quadrant. That lowest quadrant has a candlestick anchored to it right here.

Now watch this. This is a small fractal of the time-price grid. And right about now, I know some of you are starting to zone out.

I know what the real levels are. I know how to see them, and I know how to determine where they're likely to form before they actually do.

I'm looking at very specific price levels through a very specific framework. Based on that, price is either going to behave the way I expect—or it isn't.

[24:35] And if it doesn't, then I'm probably on the wrong side of the market.

The market trades back down into the same inefficiency and the same Order Block, both anchored to the lower octant of the daily bullish Suspension Block. Remember, we're still focused on that blue-shaded area from the daily chart. We're operating in the lower portion of it.

So when price trades back into this area, don't think, "Oh, you're trading outside the macro time."

[25:09] No. You're trading in sync with the macro that initiated this entire move.

Look at the candle bodies. What are they telling you?

What have I taught you? In a bullish environment, the bodies should not touch the midpoint. Once price leaves the area, the bodies should stay in the upper half. Notice how price struggles to get back down into it.

Then price rallies to the lower quadrant, pulls back into the same Fair Value Gap and Order Block, and prints this wick.

[25:45] Watch what happens. The candle opens and trades down. Ideally, we'd like to see it fail to even reach the level—that's even more bullish. But here it opens, trades down, and that's a valid buy.

Your stop goes below Consequent Encroachment because this wick has already established the logic: price should tag the area and immediately reject it. That move down into the upper half of the wick is the buy signal. That's the setup.

You don't have to be trading inside the macro window. You just have to understand what the macro has already put in motion.

I promise you, if you spend time with what I'm teaching and simply watch, study, and weigh it out, you'll see these things repeat over and over again.

There's no borrowed logic here. Everything I just explained came straight from the source. I'm the one who put these concepts out there.

Now watch the time grid. We have 9:50, then 10:50. See how simple that is?

I've told you before that I can break the market down to nothing more than time and price.

[27:40] There it is. There's your grid.

These levels here—see this one and this one?

They're just like the multiplication table analogy I've used many times before. That's the horizontal aspect of the grid.

[28:22] The vertical axis is defined by the macro start time.

We have horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, and then vertical.

The vertical line marks the beginning of the macro. Now divide the macro at the top of the hour. Right there.

Now you have two primary functions working together. You're looking for a key price level based on an octant or quadrant. But first, you have to know what you're measuring and grading. Is it an inefficiency? An Opening Range Gap? A New Week Opening Gap? A New Day Opening Gap?

You're simply taking these very generic concepts I've taught you to focus on. But when you combine them in this framework, they're untouchable.

Now jump forward. We have the beginning of another macro over here.

That closes this time grid, and from there you simply carry it forward and repeat the same process I just showed you here.

Now watch what happens every single time price reaches an octant or quadrant level.

That's where you're looking for a PD Array to form. I've already pointed one out—the Order Block. It forms right at the octant during the first portion of the macro.

Then look at the second one. The lowest candle forms right at the close of the macro. And you think that's random?

Do you honestly believe that, by some lottery-level feat of randomness, the market just happens to create the lowest turning point right at the end of the macro window I teach you? That’s what you’re calling random?

Think, man. We're talking about trillions of dollars collectively across all markets. Come on now. Do you really believe they're just going to let all of that run amok and let the public influence it? No way.

[31:36] So now we have horizontal and vertical reference points. The way you get your match is just like the multiplication tables you learned in school.

Once price reaches an octant or a quadrant, you have to know your bias. You have to know what you're looking for.

If you believe the market is likely to draw above this high—or, in the opposite case, draw down to the low of the daily Suspension Block, the low of that blue-shaded area down here—then that's the framework you're working from.

[32:22] If you think the market is going to retrace into that area, then you work through the same process of looking for timing.

We have a quadrant here, and look at what forms. This candlestick becomes a buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency.

Now think about the logic. If price can't even trade down to the Consequent Encroachment—the midpoint of that entire blue-shaded area—what does that tell you?

You want something that's simple. One, two, three. Push the button. No overthinking. No worrying about whether you're following the rules or the logic.

[33:44] Precision is not achieved through randomness.

Only God can achieve that. From our perspective, things appear random. God moves in mysterious ways, but they're not mysterious to Him. Our perspective is what's skewed.

Once you understand why this candlestick forms right here at the octant, before price even reaches Consequent Encroachment, things start to make sense. If the market is going to move lower after rallying straight out of the open into this area, then look at what it's doing now.

It's failing to reach that Consequent Encroachment level.

[34:21] And we're fast approaching what? A new macro. 10:50.

Now look at where price is. We're sitting at the lower quadrant, with the lower octant just below it. We also have a small gap here.

If we're expecting the market to fail because it can't push any higher, then that's exactly what it's doing—it's failing.

Retail traders look at this and say, "Oh, it's a bull flag, bro. I'm just a momentum trader." Then the market breaks down.

[35:02] Once we get this close outside of it—outside of what?

Outside of this buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency, which is anchored to this octant.

Failure. Breakdown. Close outside of it. That validates it as an Inversion Fair Value Gap.

Its first utilization was buy-side delivery. In a bullish market, it should provide support. But why isn't it doing that here?

For a while, it looks constructive. The wick trades through it, but the candle bodies are still holding up here. It looks good... until it doesn't.

It fails to push any higher. It looks bullish for a moment, doesn't it?

[35:40] Once we get that qualifying close, it becomes a bearish Inversion Fair Value Gap.

Now shift your focus to its midpoint. The candle bodies should stay out of the upper half. The wick can trade into it—as it does right here—and if it does, that's a valid place to short.

Notice this happens just ahead of the macro. You don't have to take trades only during macro time. The macro simply gives you a powerful indication of how time influences price.

Now watch what happens. Price trades lower... and then comes right back up.

It's the beginning of the new macro. Selling short here at the Inversion Fair Value Gap, price breaks down and trades into this gap.

If the market were bullish, this gap should support price. But it doesn't. Instead, the candle closes below it.

Do you see the repeating phenomenon here?

When you understand the source code, you can see what price is telling you: it's failing to go higher.

I'm watching this area and predicting that the move is going to fail up here. This is not going to become a bull flag. Then price breaks lower and closes below the level.

That's the little telltale sign—the crack in the structure. It's like the black cat and the déjà vu scene in The Matrix. When you see déjà vu, that's the signal that something in the Matrix has changed.

I'm showing you the yellow brick road. Is it really that simple? You can choose to wander off and do your own thing, but I'm following these paths because once you understand what they look like, they can't hide from you.

[40:25] Right here, the rule is simple: the candle body should not trade into the upper half. It doesn't. The wick reaches into it—short. Price drops lower. Then, down here, anticipate this area becoming an Inversion Fair Value Gap. Price trades down, closes below it, then the next candle opens and trades back up into it—short again.

Why can you be confident there? Because of this wick.

Grade it. Once price trades below it, any rally back up should form a wick, not leave a candle body above that level. You've watched me outline this same logic over and over again in recorded sessions.

[41:09] I've also shown it during live tape reading, where you watched and listened to me call every single 1-minute candle. The rules are the same. I'm not constantly changing or morphing the logic into something different.

It's the same framework every time. But some of you don't want to commit to studying it. You want me to perform some kind of stunt for you.

I'm not a genie. You're not going to rub me and get three wishes. I'm going to do things the way I want to do them. I'm entertaining myself.

This is why I'm here. I want you to learn this language. I want you to be able to do it yourself so that one day you never have to watch another one of my videos again.

[42:02] That's what I'm trying to create in you: independent thought.

You only need to stay with me long enough to learn it. I'm not hiding anything, and I'm not withholding anything. I'm teaching the same concepts over and over again—I'm just adding more detail each time.

If I had given you all of this at the beginning, before you were ready for it, you would have forgotten it by now.

Price trades below it, opens, and that's your short. It runs all the way down, stopping just shy of that low. Then, one more time, where does it rally back to?

[42:36] The Inversion Fair Value Gap that you can predict as it's forming. It's ironic. It's almost mystical.

The final candle prints exactly 10 minutes after 11:00.

That's the close of my macro.

I want you to become so confident in your ability to apply these concepts that you no longer need me.

[44:32] The goal isn't for you to keep watching my content forever. The goal is for you to reach the point where you unfollow my social media and never feel the need to watch another one of my videos.

That's how you graduate.

When you no longer feel tethered to me, you've made it. You're not meant to stay in the nest forever.

And sometimes... I have to kick a few of you out of it.

So we get the Inversion Fair Value Gap here, and the market starts selling off. Look at that—it trades straight down to the low of the daily Suspension Block.

[45:07] Isn't that crazy? It's wild, isn't it?

Then the market reacts, rallies right back up into this area, and now we can start anticipating the formation of another PD Array.

Then we get this wick, and we grade it.

If a candle body closes below it, that's a sign we can probably go a little lower—and that's exactly what happens.

Then the market rallies. Now we have a Fair Value Gap.

[45:37] "Wait a minute, bro. That's not on a key level. How can you call that a Fair Value Gap?"

What do you mean it's not on a key level?

It's sitting at the low of the daily Suspension Block. That's the lowest boundary of the range. That's a key level. That's exactly where I expect a PD Array to form.

Look what happens. The market rallies, creates a Fair Value Gap, then trades right back into it.

[46:05] What is that? Institutional Order Flow Entry Drill.

You have to learn to cut out the noise. Some of you think ICT teaches too many concepts and that it's confusing. No. If you truly want to become elite at reading the tape, you're going to learn all of my PD Arrays.

Then you'll be able to read every single candlestick. You'll know what it should do and what it shouldn't do.

If you haven't picked up on that yet, you missed it.

The logic is simple. Start by learning one PD Array. Let that become your model for entering trades.

Then, over time, learn the others. Eventually, when you reach a top-tier level of analysis, you'll know all of the PD Arrays—or at least the ones I've made public—and you'll understand where each one belongs as price develops.

[47:25] That's what gives you more criteria. It gives you more precision and helps you understand why price should or shouldn't do something.

That's where confidence comes from.

You're asking me questions that I can't answer in a way that will make sense to you because you don't yet have enough experience applying the things I've already taught for free.

I want you to rewind this and listen to it again because it's the truth. You simply haven't spent enough time with the material to appreciate it.

You think it should be easy. You think that because I've been doing this for so long and understand it so well, I should be able to make it effortless for you to understand.

[48:02] I have. You can't simplify it any more than I already have.

But the moment you step outside the rules I've established, you're no longer learning what I'm teaching. You're looking at a bastardized version of it that's being presented to you as some new way of doing the same thing.

So back to this.

This Fair Value Gap is anchored to the low of this candlestick. Here's candlestick #1, candlestick #2 creates the inefficiency, and candlestick #3 leaves this gap.

[48:43] This Fair Value Gap is valid because it's anchored to candlestick #2, the candle that creates the inefficiency. That candle has to be touching an octant, a key high or low, another inefficiency, or whatever range you're measuring and grading. In other words, it has to be anchored to a key level.

The market rallies, and we get the same thing again. We have a small volume imbalance here, another one here, and then a buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency.

Why is this a valid buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency in the form of a Suspension Block?

[49:15] Because it's anchored to the lower octant. Do you see the pattern? Do you see the rhyme and reason?

Of course you do. It's coded this way.

The buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency trades right down to the low... and stops.

[51:50] That's random, right?

Then the market rallies. Look where the candle bodies are.

Where are they?

Exactly where the old man tells you they should be.

If it's bullish, the candle bodies are going to stay in the upper half.

[53:35] Before the week even started, I told you we were going to open, trade up into that daily volume imbalance, and then sell off for a short-term trade—not a day trade. I also told you which daily imbalances and inefficiencies I expected price to reach, and it actually went much further than I originally thought.

Then today, before Regular Trading Hours opened, I told you we were going straight up into this level. More specifically, I said price would trade into the upper half of this area—all the way up to this level.

[54:04] Go back and watch that five-minute video on X. It's all there.

Price trades into this area, leaves relative equal highs and a small buy-side liquidity pool. From where we were trading down here, it was reasonable to anticipate a move into those highs. What was it going to run into? Short-term, there would be formidable resistance.

[54:41] But the market only traded down here to accumulate,

showing you all along that it wanted to continue higher.

It rallies, sells off, accumulates, then runs straight through.

At that point, it reverts back to its first utilization.

A buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency in a bullish market should provide support.

An Inversion Fair Value Gap should behave a certain way if it's truly an Inversion Fair Value Gap.

The candle bodies should stay in the lower half. The wick can trade into it—even all the way up to the high—but no candle bodies should be buried in the upper half.

[55:33] As long as the bodies remain in the lower half, the story is still intact.

Then look what happens. The market breaks lower into the lower quadrant. We get a nice sell-side imbalance, buy-side inefficiency, price trades back up into it,

and then drops right back down to the Order Block. This is intraday pinball. You've seen me do it.

[58:35] The Inversion Fair Value Gap trades back down into the discount PD Array.

Do the candle bodies breach the Consequent Encroachment of this buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency? No.

Is that bullish or bearish? Bullish.

The market snaps higher. Then we get another buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency right here.

[58:59] One single candle. Why? Because it's anchored to the lowest octant. Do you see the pattern, folks?

[59:35] The market trades back down. Look at it. Is it bullish or bearish?

The wick trades down to Consequent Encroachment—just barely piercing it—but the candle bodies can't even touch the midpoint.

Based on what the old man teaches, is that bullish or bearish? Bullish.

The market rallies. What's it doing? Trading right back into this area.

We're in a bullish buy program. It sells off a little, but all it's really doing is coming back into this buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency.

So what's going on here? It's blending two concepts.

First, this level was originally a bearish Fair Value Gap. Then, once price traded back above it here, its first utilization changed, and it became an Inversion Fair Value Gap.

[01:00:20] If the market is bullish, this should support price. So you tell me—is it bullish?

The candle bodies aren't touching it. The wicks are, but the bodies aren't. At the same time, we have this buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency. Both of them are anchored to the lower quadrant of the blue-shaded area—the daily Suspension Block.

Once you've mapped out your daily chart properly and identified the key PD Arrays, you have an entire universe to work with. It's a smorgasbord—an all-you-can-eat buffet of opportunities.

[01:00:55] I can buy and sell all day long using this framework. And some of you think you know me.

You don't know anything. You don't know nothing.

A bullish Fair Value Gap and an Inversion Fair Value Gap blend together... and the market stops dead right there.

It rallies up, and from there it starts generating all this consolidation as we head into the afternoon session. It's building an area that retail traders are going to look at and call resistance.

[01:01:32] Well, resistance is futile. The market trades back down.

Look closely. Really look. Is this candle body touching the inefficiency here? No.

Does the wick trade into it and react from it? Yes.

So if the market is bullish and we see these signatures, should we anticipate higher prices or lower prices? Higher.

What should price be targeting? The relative equal highs.

So it should blow right through them like SWAT—rally, pull back, and then rally again.

[01:02:17] Here we go. We have this wick. Grade it. Split it in half.

All right, let me take these other levels off so you can see it more clearly. It's all math, folks. I promise you, it's just math. Math.

Let's do it one toggle at a time. Look at that, folks.

[01:03:01] Wick. Consequent Encroachment.

If the market is bullish, the candle bodies are not allowed to breach it.

You shall not pass.

Look at what it's doing. If price behaves like this, then opens up here and trades back down into the wick, that's a perfect buy.

Anywhere from here to here is an excellent entry,

but this area down here is a bonus.

*"Well, how do you know it's not going to trade all the way down here?" *Where is price?

[01:03:35] What level is this? It's the lower quadrant of the daily Suspension Block.

Everything is telling us the market is going higher. And does it? Sure it does. Price rallies.

Now, this right here is simply me using this inefficiency. Watch what I do next.

I'm going to borrow this larger inefficiency over here and place a Fibonacci tool on it. There's nothing magical about the Fibonacci itself. All it does is show you where the algorithm's reference points are likely to be.

[01:04:18] Now I'm only going to use the upper levels.

[01:05:14] There's your key level within this entire range.

Look where we are. We're trading right inside this area, sitting at that key level. The market trades down to this wick, to its Consequent Encroachment, and at the same time reaches the midpoint of this inefficiency.

That was an Inversion Fair Value Gap, but now it's reverting back to its first utilization.

If I were using my teaching color scheme, it would look like this.

Well... let me change that to a darker blue.

[01:05:51] We're in the upper half, but we also have this wick. That's why it's acceptable for the candle to close below the midpoint.

You have to know how to measure these things. Even so, it's confirming that the market wants to continue higher.

Then it does exactly that. It rips straight out of the gate, pushing higher and higher.

Eventually, we get the retracement back into the same Order Block. Here we're using the wick high and the opening price. That's a nice little sweet spot.

Why is this an Order Block? [01:06:31] Because it's sitting on an octant.

Price trades perfectly down into the Order Block, rallies, then comes right back down. Once again, it tags a key level that's part of the same inefficiency and rallies higher.

I know there are a lot of layers to this, folks. Not everyone's going to get on my level, and I told you that from the beginning.

But if, every year, you can move up just one level of understanding from where you are today, you're going to become very, very good at this.

[01:07:03] The market rallies and stays in the upper half of this buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency. We also have a key upper quadrant level here.

Price continues to rally, and things start getting a little disorganized. That's perfectly fine because, in reality, the market is just painfully crushing everyone trying to short it.

We have relative equal highs up here, and underneath them this buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency. Here's the Consequent Encroachment of that inefficiency, and we also have another small Fair Value Gap right here(white).

Price trades into it here, rallies, then comes back to support it before moving higher again.

[01:07:40] There we are at the high of the daily Suspension Block. Price trades back down into it...

and that's where we are now.

Now think, folks. Is this really guesswork, or is it simply beyond your current reach? That's all it is. You just can't apply it in your own hands yet—but the logic is absolutely there.

We have this small buy-side imbalance, sell-side inefficiency that wasn't even on the chart when I started recording this video.

[01:08:21] There's the gap. It's touching this upper octant—that level right there.

So we take these two points and project them forward. If the market is bullish, it should not touch or leave a candle body below the midpoint.

Look at it. It can't even put a body on top of it. Price comes down, doesn't even touch it, and gets incredibly close.

Watch. See that tiny separation?

This candlestick's low is 28,431.75... and this level is 28,432.00.

It's one tick above. It can't touch it. Is that bullish or bearish? **Bullish. **There you go.

[01:11:16] None of you know how to get to the land of consistency. But I'm showing you a path to get there.

The way you thrive is by learning the language that's spoken here. Once you understand that language, the market starts making sense. If you don't want to do that, I can't help you.

[01:11:47] If we zoom back out to the daily chart, I'll wrap this video up. There were a couple of places where I could have ended it and made it sound dramatic, but I really want you to appreciate what's happening here.

Look at that. It's pretty hard to figure out when you look at the market this way, isn't it? I can't tell you how many times I cried—twenty minutes before leaving for work—hating life and everything around me because I believed these candles were hurting me.

[01:12:24] The truth is, these candles can't hurt you unless you hand them the weapons. Think about that.

The moment you decide, "I'm going to make friends with you. I'm going to align myself with what you're doing," everything changes. You can't change what the market is going to do. The combined buying and selling of all of us isn't going to influence it. It's going to do what it's going to do because it's scripted. So what's your job?

Align yourself with what the market is going to do. Don't fight it. Learn the language I'm teaching you because it's the source code. It's the very thing that makes these markets behave the way they do.

[01:12:59] Does that mean you'll be right every time? No.

But what if you're right only half the time, never over-leverage, stay faithful to your model, and use sound money management?

You could completely change your family's financial future. Not only could you remove the necessity of having a job, but you could build generational wealth that most people can't even imagine.

[01:13:40] You don't find that by chasing competitions, climbing leaderboards, or becoming the most popular influencer online.

You find it by staying in your lane, focusing on your craft every single day, and refusing to let anything distract you. Don't let anyone else's opinion derail your pursuit. This is your journey, and if you're willing to put in the work to truly learn it, then you deserve the reward.

[01:14:22] But if you don't want to work for it, you don't deserve it.

And I don't feel sorry when people complain because I told you from the very beginning that this was going to be hard. I told you it would take longer than you wanted it to. There is no shortcut.

When you live with the mindset that there is no Plan B—that you've burned the ships, you're not turning back, and nothing is going to deter you—that's when everything changes.