0:01 Listen, I'm going to tell you something
0:03 right now that's going to save you years
0:05 of frustration, thousands of dollars in
0:08 losses, and countless sleepless nights,
0:09 staring at your trading screen,
0:11 wondering why the market keeps punishing
0:14 you. You ready? Here it is. The higher
0:16 time frame is always right, and you are
0:19 always wrong when you fight it. I don't
0:21 care how perfect that 5-minut setup
0:22 looks. I don't care if you got 20
0:24 confluences on the one minute chart. I
0:26 don't care if your favorite indicator is
0:27 flashing green like it's Christmas
0:29 morning. If the higher time frame is
0:31 telling you something different, you are
0:33 about to get your face ripped off.
0:35 Period. End of story. You know what
0:38 separates professional traders from
0:40 retail traders? It's not intelligence.
0:43 It's not capital. It's not some secret
0:46 indicator or magical entry technique.
0:48 It's the discipline to respect the
0:51 hierarchy of time frames. The
0:53 professionals know that price action
0:56 operates in a topdown structure and that
0:59 structure is absolute. The monthly tells
1:02 the weekly what to do. The weekly tells
1:04 the daily what to do. The daily tells
1:07 the 4hour what to do and so on all the
1:09 way down to whatever intraday time frame
1:11 you're trying to scalp on. Let me break
1:13 this down for you in a way that's going
1:15 to fundamentally change how you look at
1:18 charts forever. When you open up a
1:19 monthly chart, you're looking at
1:21 institutional positioning. You're
1:23 looking at where the smart money, the
1:26 banks, the hedge funds, the market
1:28 makers, where they've decided price is
1:30 going for the long term. These are not
1:32 short-term plays. These are structural
1:34 moves that represent billions of dollars
1:37 in positioning. When you see a monthly
1:39 fair value gap, that's not just some
1:42 random inefficiency. That's a magnet for
1:44 price that will draw the market back to
1:46 it, sometimes over the course of months
1:49 or even years. Now, the weekly time
1:51 frame breaks down that monthly intent
1:53 into more manageable pieces. Think of it
1:55 like this. The monthly is the blueprint
1:57 for the building, and the weekly is
1:59 showing you which floor we're working on
2:01 right now. The weekly time frame shows
2:03 you the intermediate structure,
2:07 the major swing points, and where the
2:08 institutional order flow is really
2:11 sitting. When you've got a weekly order
2:13 block that hasn't been tested yet,
2:15 that's a level that price will respect,
2:18 not might respect, will respect. The
2:19 daily time frame is where most swing
2:21 traders should be making their trading
2:23 decisions. This is where you can see the
2:25 daily bias,
2:27 the daily structure, and where the
2:29 market is likely heading over the next
2:31 several days to weeks. But here's what
2:33 most traders get wrong. They treat the
2:35 daily chart like it's independent of the
2:37 weekly and monthly. They see a daily
2:39 support level and think, "Great, I'll
2:41 buy here." Without ever looking up to
2:43 see that the weekly chart is in a
2:46 massive bearish trend with untouched
2:49 supply zones above. That's not trading.
2:52 That's gambling with extra steps. The
2:54 4hour and 1 hour time frames are where
2:56 you start to refine your entry timing.
2:57 But I need you to hear this. These are
3:00 not decision-making time frames. These
3:02 are execution time frames. You don't
3:06 decide your bias on the 4hour chart. You
3:08 confirm it there. You don't decide your
3:11 target on the 1 hour chart. You refine
3:13 your entry there. There's a massive
3:15 difference. And if you don't understand
3:17 that difference, you're going to keep
3:18 getting chopped up. And then we get to
3:22 the 15minute, 5 minute, 1 minute charts.
3:24 These are the time frames that most
3:26 retail traders live on. These are the
3:28 time frames where you think you're
3:30 seeing setups every 10 minutes. Let me
3:32 tell you what you're really seeing.
3:33 Noise. You're seeing algorithmic
3:36 movements. You're seeing stop hunts.
3:38 You're seeing liquidity grabs. And
3:39 you're seeing the market do exactly what
3:41 it's designed to do. Separate you from
3:42 your money by making you think you found
3:44 an opportunity when really you found a
3:46 trap. The intraday time frames are
3:48 useful for one thing and one thing only.
3:52 Precise entry execution on a bias that
3:53 has already been determined by the
3:56 higher time frames. That's it. If you're
3:58 using a 5-minute chart to decide whether
4:00 you should be long or short, you've
4:02 already lost. You just don't know it
4:05 yet. Here's a real world example that I
4:07 want you to burn into your brain. Let's
4:11 say you're looking at EURUSD.
4:12 The monthly chart shows you that we're
4:14 in a bullish market structure. We've
4:16 taken out the previous month's high.
4:18 We've got a clean bullish order block on
4:20 the monthly and there's a massive fair
4:22 value gap below that hasn't been filled
4:25 yet. That monthly chart is telling you
4:27 this market wants to go higher. Now you
4:29 drop down to the weekly. The weekly
4:30 shows you that we just had a retracement
4:33 into a weekly demand zone. We've swept
4:36 weekly lows, grabbed liquidity, and
4:37 we're starting to show signs of
4:41 reversal. The weekly is confirming what
4:44 the monthly is saying. This market is
4:46 getting ready to continue higher. Daily
4:48 chart, you see a daily bullish break of
4:50 structure. You see a daily order block
4:53 that prices tapped into. You see clean
4:54 bullish market structure with higher
4:57 highs and higher lows. The daily is in
4:59 complete agreement with the weekly and
5:02 monthly. Everything is aligned. Now the
5:05 4hour chart, you're watching price pull
5:07 back into the daily order block. And on
5:09 the 4 hour, you see a smaller
5:11 retracement that's giving you a fair
5:13 value gap to work with. The 4 hour is
5:15 showing you where your execution zone
5:18 is, not your decision zone, your
5:20 execution zone. And finally, you drop to
5:23 the 15minute or 5minut chart to time
5:26 your entry precisely. You wait for a
5:28 sweep of short-term lows. You wait for a
5:30 reversal pattern. You wait for whatever
5:33 specific model you use to time entries.
5:34 And then only then do you pull the
5:36 trigger. That's how you use time frames
5:40 properly. Top down, always top down,
5:42 never bottom up. But what do most
5:44 traders do? They flip this entire
5:46 process on its head. They're sitting
5:48 there on the 5-minute chart. They see a
5:49 little double bottom or some candlestick
5:51 pattern they read about in a book and
5:53 they go long. They never check the
5:56 daily. They never checked the weekly.
5:58 They never checked the monthly. And then
6:00 they wonder why their perfect setup got
6:02 destroyed. The market doesn't care about
6:04 your five minute setup. The market
6:06 doesn't even know your 5-minut setup
6:08 exists. The market is being driven by
6:11 orders that were placed on the daily,
6:15 weekly, and monthly time frames. Those
6:16 are the orders that matter. Those are
6:18 the orders that move price. Your little
6:20 5-minute long position is a mosquito
6:22 trying to stop a freight train. Let me
6:23 give you another way to think about
6:26 this. Imagine you're trying to swim in
6:28 the ocean. The monthly chart is the
6:30 tide. It's either coming in or going
6:32 out. And you're not going to change
6:34 that. The weekly chart is the waves.
6:36 They're moving with or against the tide
6:38 and they're powerful. The daily chart is
6:40 the current. It can pull you along or
6:42 push you back. And the intraday charts,
6:44 those are the ripples on the surface.
6:46 You can splash around in those ripples
6:47 all you want, but if you're swimming
6:50 against the tide, against the waves, and
6:52 against the current, you're going to
6:54 drown. It doesn't matter how hard you
6:56 swim. The hierarchy of truth in price
6:58 action is non-negotiable.
7:00 Higher time frames contain more
7:03 information, more volume, more
7:05 institutional positioning, and more
7:07 significance than lower time frames.
7:11 Always. This isn't up for debate. This
7:14 is market structure 101. When a higher
7:16 time frame contradicts a lower time
7:19 frame, the higher time frame wins every
7:22 single time without exception. You can
7:23 take that to the bank or more
7:25 accurately, you can save your bank
7:27 account by understanding it. So, here's
7:29 what I need you to do right now. I need
7:31 you to stop whatever you're doing and
7:32 pull up your charts. Start with the
7:34 monthly. What's the monthly structure?
7:37 Is it bullish or bearish? Where are the
7:39 key levels? Where are the fair value
7:41 gaps? Where are the order blocks?
7:45 Write it down. Then move to the weekly.
7:48 Does the weekly confirm the monthly or
7:51 contradict it? If it contradicts it, you
7:54 wait. You do nothing. Then the daily,
7:57 then the 4 hour. Work your way down. And
8:00 only only take trades where every time
8:02 frame from the monthly down to your
8:04 entry time frame is in alignment. You do
8:06 that and I guarantee your win rate goes
8:09 up. Your riskto-reward improves. Your
8:12 confidence increases. Your account grows
8:14 because you're finally trading with the
8:16 market instead of against it. You're
8:18 finally respecting the hierarchy of
8:19 truth that's been in front of you the
8:21 entire time. The higher time frame is
8:24 always right. Learn it, respect it,
8:26 trust it. Your trading account will
8:28 thank you. Now that you understand the
8:30 hierarchy, let's talk about what you're
8:32 actually looking at when you analyze
8:33 higher time frames. Cuz here's the
8:35 thing. Most of you are looking at these
8:37 charts completely wrong. You're seeing
8:39 lines and candles and patterns, but
8:41 you're not seeing what's really there.
8:43 You're not seeing the story. You're not
8:46 reading the institutional narrative.
8:47 Every single candlestick on a higher
8:50 time frame represents a battle between
8:52 buyers and sellers. But more
8:54 importantly, it represents billions of
8:56 dollars in institutional positioning.
8:59 When you look at a weekly candle, you're
9:01 not just seeing price movement. You're
9:04 seeing where banks placed their orders.
9:06 You're seeing where hedge funds
9:08 accumulated positions. You're seeing
9:11 where market makers provided liquidity.
9:13 This is the footprint of smart money.
9:15 And if you can't read it, you're trading
9:17 blind. Let me explain something crucial.
9:21 Institutions don't trade the way you
9:24 trade. They can't. When a bank wants to
9:27 buy a billion dollars worth of EURUSD,
9:30 they can't just hit the buy button and
9:32 hope for the best. that kind of volume
9:33 would move the market against them instantly.
9:34 instantly.
9:37 So what do they do? They engineer price
9:39 movements. They manipulate the market
9:42 legally, I might add, to create
9:43 liquidity at the levels they want to
9:45 trade at. This is where higher time
9:47 frames become absolutely critical
9:49 because the manipulation patterns that
9:52 institutions use are clearly visible on
9:55 the daily, weekly, and monthly charts.
9:57 They're hidden in the noise on the lower
9:59 time frames, but they're crystal clear
10:01 when you zoom out. Let's start with the
10:04 monthly chart. When you're analyzing a
10:05 monthly chart, you need to ask yourself
10:09 three fundamental questions. First,
10:12 what is the long-term trend? Second,
10:15 where are the major swing points? Third,
10:18 what inefficiencies exist that haven't
10:20 been addressed? The long-term trend on a
10:22 monthly chart tells you where
10:24 institutional money is positioned for
10:26 the macro move. If you got a monthly
10:28 chart that's been bullish for years,
10:30 making consistent higher highs and
10:31 higher lows, that's telling you that the
10:34 big money is long. They're holding long
10:36 positions and every retracement is an
10:38 opportunity for them to add to those
10:40 positions. When price pulls back on a
10:42 monthly chart in an uptrend, that's not
10:45 weakness. That's accumulation. That's
10:46 institutions using retail panic to buy
10:49 more at better prices. The major swing
10:51 points on monthly and weekly charts are
10:53 where you find the most significant
10:55 order blocks in fair value gaps. These
10:56 aren't just support and resistance
10:58 levels that you draw with a horizontal
11:01 line and call it a day. These are zones
11:03 where massive institutional orders were
11:06 filled and where massive institutional
11:08 orders are still sitting waiting to be
11:11 filled. When you see a monthly high that
11:14 got taken out, you need to understand
11:17 what happened there. Above that high,
11:19 there were stop losses from everyone who
11:21 was short. There were buy stops from
11:24 breakout traders. There was liquidity,
11:26 tons of it. And institutions used that
11:29 liquidity to fill their sell orders if
11:31 they wanted to go short or to push
11:32 through if they wanted to continue
11:34 higher. Either way, that swing point
11:36 tells you a story about what the smart
11:38 money did. Here's what separates
11:40 professionals from amateurs.
11:42 Professionals know that after a monthly
11:44 high gets taken out, price will often
11:46 retrace back into the order block that
11:49 launched that move. Why? Because that's
11:51 where institutions want to add more to
11:52 their positions. That's where they have
11:54 limit orders sitting. That's where
11:57 they're engineering the next leg of the
11:59 move. You see this pattern over and over again.
12:01 again.
12:05 Expansion, retracement, expansion. The
12:08 initial expansion takes out liquidity
12:10 and establishes the new range. The
12:12 retracement comes back to institutional
12:14 entry points, order blocks, fair value
12:17 gaps, breaker blocks, and then the next
12:19 expansion happens because institutions
12:22 just loaded up more contracts at optimal
12:24 prices while retail traders were
12:26 panicking about the retracement. Now,
12:28 let's talk about weekly charts because
12:29 this is where you start to see the
12:32 intermediate term narrative unfold. The
12:33 weekly chart shows you what's happening
12:35 quarter by quarter, month by month. This
12:38 is where swing traders should be living.
12:39 This is where you identify your trades
12:42 that you'll hold for weeks or months. On
12:44 a weekly chart, you're looking for the
12:46 same things as the monthly but with more
12:49 granularity. You're looking for weekly
12:50 market structure, a series of higher
12:53 highs and higher lows in an uptrend or
12:54 lower highs and lower lows in a
12:57 downtrend. But more importantly, you're
12:59 looking for where that structure gets
13:01 broken and why. When a weekly market
13:04 structure breaks, that's a massive
13:07 event. That's not noise. That's not a
13:10 head fake. That's a shift in
13:13 institutional positioning. When you see
13:16 price break through a weekly swing low
13:18 in an uptrend, that's telling you that
13:20 the institutions who were long are
13:22 either taking profits or reversing their
13:24 positions. That's information you can't
13:26 ignore. But here's where it gets
13:29 interesting. After a break of market
13:31 structure on the weekly, price will
13:33 often do one of two things. It will
13:35 either continue in the new direction
13:38 aggressively or it will pull back to the
13:40 break or block the area where structure
13:43 broke before continuing. This pullback
13:45 is called a retest and it's one of the
13:46 highest probability trading
13:49 opportunities you'll ever find. Why?
13:52 Because institutions know that retail
13:53 traders think the old trend is going to
13:56 resume. Retail sees the pullback and
13:58 thinks, "Great, I'll buy the dip." They
14:00 don't realize that the structure already
14:02 broke. They don't realize that what was
14:04 once support is now resistance. So, they
14:07 buy and institutions sell to them. They
14:10 provide the liquidity that institutions
14:13 need to add to their new positions. This
14:15 is the game. This has always been the
14:17 game. And it plays out on weekly charts
14:20 with stunning clarity and consistency.
14:23 Let me give you a concrete example.
14:26 Let's say you're looking at GBP USD on
14:29 the weekly chart for 6 months. It's been
14:32 in a bullish trend. Higher highs, higher
14:35 lows, clean structure. But then one week
14:37 price takes out the previous weekly low.
14:40 That's a break of structure. That's a
14:42 shift. Now, what do most traders do?
14:46 They panic. They close their longs. Or
14:48 worse, they see the pullback that often
14:50 follows and think it's a buying
14:53 opportunity. They buy right into what
14:56 was once a demand zone, not realizing
14:58 that it's now a supply zone. It's now a
15:00 breaker block. And then price rolls over
15:03 and destroys them. What do professional
15:05 traders do? They recognize the break of
15:07 structure. They mark the breaker block.
15:10 They wait for price to pull back into
15:12 that zone and then they short it.
15:13 They're selling to all the retail
15:15 traders who are buying and they're
15:16 positioning themselves for the next leg
15:19 down. The daily chart is where you
15:21 refine this narrative even further. The
15:23 daily chart shows you the short to
15:25 intermediate term positioning. This is
15:26 where day traders and swing traders make
15:28 their decisions about which direction
15:30 they're trading this week. But again,
15:31 and I can't stress this enough, the
15:33 daily chart must be in alignment with
15:35 the weekly and monthly or you're
15:37 fighting a losing battle. On the daily
15:39 chart, you're looking for daily market
15:41 structure, daily order blocks, daily
15:43 fair value gaps, and daily liquidity
15:45 pools. But you're not looking at these
15:47 in isolation. You're looking at them in
15:49 the context of what the weekly and
15:51 monthly are telling you. If the monthly
15:53 is bullish, the weekly is bullish, but
15:55 the daily just broke bearish structure,
15:57 what does that tell you? It tells you
15:59 this is likely a retracement on the
16:02 higher time frames, not a reversal. It
16:04 tells you that this bearish daily move
16:06 is probably going to hit a weekly or
16:08 monthly demand zone in reverse. It tells
16:10 you to be patient and wait for that
16:11 reversal before getting long.
16:14 Conversely, if the monthly is bearish,
16:16 the weekly is bearish, and the daily
16:19 just broke bullish structure, you don't
16:22 get excited about longs. You recognize
16:24 that this is likely a relief rally into
16:27 weekly or monthly supply. You wait for
16:30 price to reach those higher time frame
16:32 supply zones, and then you look for
16:34 shorts. This is how you read the
16:36 institutional narrative. You're not
16:38 reacting to every wiggle on the chart.
16:39 You're reading the story that's being
16:41 written by the big money and you're
16:43 positioning yourself to trade alongside
16:45 them. Fair value gaps on higher time
16:47 frames are another critical piece of
16:49 this puzzle. When you see a fair value
16:50 gap on a weekly chart, that's an
16:52 inefficiency that represents millions or
16:54 billions of dollars worth of orders that
16:56 didn't get filled. The market has an
16:58 algorithmic tendency to return to these
17:00 gaps and fill them. Not always
17:03 immediately, but eventually. I've seen
17:05 weekly fair value gaps get filled 6
17:08 months, a year, even two years after
17:10 they were created. And when price
17:12 finally reaches them, the reaction is
17:14 often explosive because that's where
17:15 institutional limit orders were sitting
17:18 the entire time waiting to get filled.
17:20 You need to mark every single fair value
17:23 gap on your monthly, weekly, and daily
17:25 charts. You need to understand that
17:27 these are magnets for price. And when
17:29 price is moving toward one of these gaps
17:31 on a higher time frame, you don't fight
17:33 it. you trade with it. You look for
17:35 entries on lower time frames that align
17:37 with price reaching that higher time
17:39 frame objective. Order blocks on higher
17:42 time frames work the same way. A monthly
17:44 order block is a zone where institutions
17:47 entered positions with massive volume.
17:49 When price returns to that zone, you can
17:52 expect a reaction, not a hope, not a
17:56 maybe, an expectation based on years of
17:58 observing this phenomenon play out
18:00 consistently. But here's what most
18:02 traders do wrong with order blocks. They
18:04 treat them like they're brick walls.
18:06 They think price hits the order block
18:08 and immediately reverses. That's not how
18:10 it works. Institutions need liquidity to
18:12 fill their orders.
18:14 So, what happens when price approaches a
18:16 higher time frame order block? Price
18:18 will often sweep just beyond the order
18:21 block to grab liquidity before
18:23 reversing. It'll take out the stops of
18:25 retail traders who were protecting their
18:27 positions. It'll grab the stops of
18:29 traders who place them just below the
18:31 obvious level. And then after that
18:34 liquidity grab, the real move happens.
18:37 The reversal from the order block occurs
18:39 and institutions get filled at optimal
18:41 prices. If you don't understand this
18:44 mechanism, you'll get stopped out right
18:45 before the move you were expecting
18:47 actually happens. You'll place your stop
18:49 just below the order block. It'll get
18:51 swept and then you'll watch in
18:53 frustration as price reverses exactly
18:54 where you thought it would but without
18:57 you in the trade. The solution? Place
18:59 your stops beyond where the liquidity
19:01 grab would occur. Give your trades room
19:03 to breathe. Respect the fact that
19:06 institutions need to engineer liquidity
19:07 before they can move price in the
19:10 intended direction. This is especially
19:11 critical when you're trading off higher
19:14 time frame levels because the liquidity
19:16 grabs are larger and more violent.
19:18 Here's the bottom line. When you're
19:21 analyzing higher time frames, you're not
19:23 looking at random price movements.
19:25 You're looking at the footprints of
19:28 institutional trading. Every swing high,
19:31 every swing low, every gap, every order
19:33 block, these are breadcrumbs showing you
19:35 where the smart money is positioned and
19:37 where they want price to go next. Your
19:39 job is to read this narrative correctly
19:42 and position yourself accordingly.
19:44 Trade with the institutions, not against
19:46 them. Follow the higher time frame
19:49 structure. not the lower time frame
19:52 noise. Trust what the weekly and monthly
19:54 charts are telling you. Even when the
19:56 daily or intraday charts seem to be
19:57 saying something different because at
19:59 the end of the day, the higher time
20:01 frames contain the truth. They show you
20:04 where the real money is positioned. And
20:06 if you align yourself with that truth,
20:08 you'll find yourself on the right side
20:10 of the market more often than not.
20:12 Understanding the hierarchy and reading
20:13 the institutional narrative is one
20:16 thing. Actually implementing that
20:18 knowledge into your trading decisions is
20:20 where most traders completely fall
20:22 apart. They know they should respect
20:25 higher time frames. They nod along when
20:27 they hear it. They might even believe
20:29 it, but then they open their charts, see
20:31 a setup on the 15minute, and they throw
20:34 everything out the window. Let me be
20:36 brutally honest with you. If you cannot
20:40 align your trading decisions with higher
20:42 time frame bias, you will never be
20:44 consistently profitable. You might catch
20:46 a few winners here and there. You might
20:49 have a lucky week or even a lucky month.
20:52 But over time, over hundreds of trades,
20:55 you will lose. The math is against you.
20:58 The institutions are against you. The
21:00 market structure is against you. You're
21:03 fighting a battle you cannot win. So,
21:04 let's talk about how to actually do
21:07 this. How do you take a higher time
21:09 frame bias and translate it into
21:11 executable trades on lower time frames?
21:13 How do you maintain discipline when
21:15 every fiber of your being wants to take
21:17 that counter trend trade because it
21:19 looks good? How do you filter out the
21:20 noise and focus only on the
21:22 opportunities that truly align with
21:25 where the market wants to go? First, you
21:27 need to establish your bias before the
21:30 trading day even starts. Not during,
21:32 before. This is non-negotiable. If
21:34 you're sitting down at your trading desk
21:35 and you don't already know what your
21:37 daily bias is based on higher time frame
21:39 analysis, you shouldn't be placing any
21:42 trades. period. Here's how you establish
21:45 that bias correctly. You start with the
21:47 monthly chart. What's the monthly trend?
21:49 What's the monthly market structure? Are
21:51 we bullish or bearish on the monthly?
21:53 Where are the key monthly levels, order
21:57 blocks, fair value gaps, swing points?
21:59 Write this down. Actually, write it
22:02 down. Don't just glance at it and think
22:04 you'll remember. Your brain will lie to
22:06 you in the heat of the moment. Have it
22:07 written down in front of you. Then you
22:10 move to the weekly. Does the weekly
22:11 confirm the monthly or are we in a
22:13 retracement phase? If the monthly is
22:14 bullish, but the weekly just broke
22:17 bearish structure, you note that. That
22:19 tells you we're likely in a pullback
22:20 phase on the monthly, which means you're
22:22 looking for the weekly to find support
22:24 at a monthly or weekly demand zone
22:26 before resuming the larger trend, then
22:29 the daily. What did the daily do
22:31 yesterday? What's the daily market
22:33 structure? Did we break structure? Did
22:36 we respect a key level? Where's the next
22:38 draw on liquidity on the daily? Where's
22:40 the next fair value gap? Where's the
22:42 next order block? By the time you've
22:45 done this analysis, you should have a
22:47 clear picture of what the market wants
22:49 to do. You should know whether you're
22:52 looking for longs, shorts, or if you're
22:54 sitting on your hands because the time
22:56 frames are conflicted. And here's the
22:58 key. If the time frames are conflicted,
23:00 you don't trade. You don't try to pick
23:03 tops or bottoms. You don't try to catch
23:06 reversals. You wait for alignment. Let
23:08 me give you a real world workflow. Let's
23:11 say it's Sunday night and you're doing
23:15 your weekly analysis. You pull up EUR
23:19 USD. Monthly chart is bullish, strong
23:22 uptrend, respecting structure, well
23:24 above key monthly support. Weekly chart
23:26 just pulled back into a weekly order
23:28 block and showed signs of reversal on
23:29 Friday. Daily chart broke bullish
23:32 structure on Friday, taking out the
23:34 previous day's high. What's your bias
23:36 for the week? Bullish. You're looking
23:38 for long opportunities only. You're
23:40 looking for price to continue higher.
23:42 Targeting the next weekly or monthly
23:44 draw on liquidity. You mark your key
23:46 levels. The weekly order block you just
23:49 tapped. The daily order block from
23:51 Friday. Any fair value gaps below that
23:53 could be retested. These are your zones
23:56 of interest for entries. Now Monday
23:59 comes, you drop down to the 4hour chart.
24:01 You're not deciding your bias on the
24:03 4hour. You already know your bias is
24:05 bullish. You're just looking for how the
24:06 market is going to give you that long
24:09 entry. Maybe price pulls back into the
24:11 daily order block you identified. Maybe
24:13 it fills a 4hour fair value gap. Maybe
24:15 it sweeps overnight lows before
24:16 reversing. You're watching for these
24:18 patterns cuz you know the higher time
24:20 frame wants to go up. Then you go to the
24:23 1 hour or 15-minute chart for execution.
24:25 You wait for price to reach one of your
24:27 predetermined zones. You wait for a
24:29 liquidity sweep. You wait for your
24:32 specific entry model to trigger and then
24:35 you execute. Your stop goes beyond the
24:37 invalidation point of the higher time
24:40 frame structure. Your target is based on
24:42 the next higher time frame objective.
24:44 Maybe the weekly high, maybe a weekly
24:46 fair value gap above, maybe the monthly
24:48 swing point. That's how you align your
24:50 trading with higher time frames. You
24:52 decide your bias on the higher time
24:54 frames. You identify your zones on the
24:56 higher time frames and you only execute
24:58 on the lower time frames when price is
25:00 doing what the higher time frames said
25:01 it would do. But let's talk about what
25:04 you don't do because this is where I see
25:06 traders sabotage themselves constantly.
25:08 You don't take counter trend trades. I
25:10 don't care how perfect they look. If
25:13 your higher time frame bias is bullish
25:16 and you see a perfect short setup on the
25:20 15-minute chart, you ignore it. You walk
25:23 away. you let it go because even if that
25:25 short makes money, you're training your
25:27 brain to fight the higher time frame and
25:29 that's going to cost you far more than
25:30 any single winning trade could ever make
25:32 you. You don't override your analysis
25:36 midsession. This is huge. The market has
25:37 a way of making you second guess
25:39 yourself. You come in with a bullish
25:41 bias, price starts dropping, and you
25:44 start thinking, "Maybe I was wrong.
25:47 Maybe I should look for shorts now." No.
25:49 If your higher time frame analysis was
25:51 sound, temporary volatility on lower
25:53 time frames doesn't change that. Price
25:55 can pull back. Price can consolidate.
25:57 Price can even sweep the lows you
25:59 thought were protected. But if the
26:01 higher time frame structure is still
26:04 intact, your bias doesn't change. The
26:06 only time you change your bias
26:08 midsession is if the higher time frame
26:10 structure actually breaks. If you're
26:13 bullish based on daily structure and the
26:15 daily structure breaks, bearish actually
26:17 breaks, not just pulls back, then and
26:19 only then do you reassess. But you don't
26:22 reassess because of a 15-minute move.
26:24 You don't reassess because of a 1 hour
26:26 consolidation. You reassess when the
26:28 time frame you based your bias on tells
26:31 you to reassess. Here's another critical
26:34 point. You don't trade during time frame
26:36 conflicts. If the monthly is bullish,
26:38 the weekly is bearish, and the daily is
26:40 chopping around, you have no business
26:43 placing trades, you're in no man's land.
26:45 You're in the zone where both bulls and
26:47 bears can make arguments, and that's
26:50 exactly where you get chopped up.
26:52 Wait for the time frames to align. Wait
26:55 for clarity. There's always another
26:56 trade. I want to talk about something
26:58 that's going to save you an enormous
27:01 amount of frustration. understanding
27:02 where you are within the higher time
27:05 frame structure because a bullish bias
27:07 doesn't mean you're buying everywhere.
27:08 It means you're looking for specific
27:10 zones where the higher time frame
27:12 structure suggests you should be buying.
27:15 If the daily chart is bullish, but price
27:17 is at the top of the daily range
27:20 approaching a weekly supply zone, your
27:22 bullish bias doesn't mean you start
27:26 chasing longs. It means you wait. You
27:27 wait for price to either break through
27:29 that weekly supply convincingly or you
27:31 wait for a pullback to a better entry
27:33 zone. Just because your bias is bullish
27:35 doesn't mean every price level is a buy.
27:37 Context matters. This is where most
27:39 traders mess up with higher time frame
27:41 analysis. They think higher time frames
27:44 bullish means buy everything. No. Higher
27:45 time frame bullish means you're only
27:47 looking for long opportunities, but
27:48 you're still being selective about where
27:50 those opportunities present themselves.
27:52 You're still waiting for optimal entries
27:55 at key levels. Let's talk about targets
27:57 because this ties directly into higher
27:59 time frame analysis.
28:02 Your profit targets should be based on
28:05 higher time frame levels, not arbitrary
28:08 risk-to-reward ratios. I see traders all
28:09 the time who will take a trade off a
28:11 daily order block and put their target
28:14 at 2:1 or 3:1 riskreward without even
28:15 looking at where the next significant
28:18 level is. That's backwards.
28:19 Your target should be the next logical
28:22 draw on liquidity on the higher time
28:24 frame. If you're longing from a daily
28:27 order block, your target should be the
28:29 next daily high or the weekly high or a
28:32 fair value gap above or a monthly level.
28:34 Wherever the market is being drawn to
28:37 next based on structure,
28:40 sometimes that's 2:1, sometimes that's 10:1.
28:42 10:1.
28:43 Let the market structure determine your
28:46 target, not some arbitrary ratio. Same
28:49 with stops. Your stop should be placed
28:52 at the invalidation point of your higher
28:54 time frame thesis. If you're trading off
28:56 a weekly order block, your stop should
28:59 be placed where if hit, it would
29:01 indicate that the weekly structure has
29:03 actually failed, not where you feel
29:06 comfortable risking, not at some
29:09 arbitrary percentage of your account at
29:12 the structural invalidation point. This
29:14 is risk management based on market
29:16 structure, not risk management based on
29:19 fear or greed. And it's far more
29:20 effective because you're allowing the
29:22 market to tell you when you're wrong
29:24 rather than taking yourself out
29:25 prematurely because price did some
29:28 normal volatility within the structure.
29:30 Now, let me address something that's
29:32 going to challenge your patience.
29:34 Waiting for higher time frame alignment
29:36 takes time. Sometimes you'll do your
29:37 analysis on Sunday and you won't get a
29:39 trade all week because the setup never
29:41 forms. Sometimes you'll wait days for
29:43 price to reach your entry zone.
29:44 Sometimes price will reach your zone but
29:47 won't give you your entry trigger. And
29:49 that's okay. Actually, that's better
29:52 than okay. That's professional trading.
29:54 Professionals don't trade every day.
29:55 They don't need to be in the market
29:58 constantly. They wait for their setup
30:00 and when it's not there, they do
30:03 something else. They study. They review
30:05 past trades. They work on their
30:08 psychology. They live their lives, but
30:11 they don't force trades. Retail traders
30:12 think they need to be in the market
30:14 every session. They think if they're not
30:16 taking trades, they're missing
30:18 opportunities. But the reality is the
30:21 market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a
30:24 week. There are literally thousands of
30:26 opportunities every week across all the
30:28 pairs and instruments you could trade.
30:30 You don't need to catch all of them. You
30:32 don't need to catch most of them. You
30:34 only need to catch the ones that align
30:36 with your methodology and your higher
30:39 time frame bias. One highquality trade
30:42 per week based on solid higher time
30:45 frame alignment will make you more money
30:48 and save you more stress than 20
30:50 mediocre trades based on lower time
30:52 frame noise. One trade where everything
30:55 lines up. Monthly bullish, weekly
30:58 bullish, daily bullish, 4 hour, giving
31:01 you the entry. One hour timing, the
31:03 execution that one trade can run for
31:06 days or weeks and give you profits that
31:08 dwarf what you'd make scalping around on
31:10 five-minute charts. Here's your
31:12 practical takeaway from this. Create a
31:16 checklist before every single trade. You
31:18 go through this checklist. What's the
31:21 monthly bias? What's the weekly bias?
31:24 What's the daily bias? Are they aligned?
31:26 If not, where's the conflict? And can I
31:29 explain it? What are my key levels?
31:30 Where's my entry? Where's my stop?
31:32 Where's my target? What's my trade
31:34 management plan? If you can't answer
31:35 every single one of those questions with
31:38 confidence, you don't take the trade.
31:40 It's that simple. Your trading should be
31:43 systematic, not emotional. You should be
31:45 following a process that starts with
31:47 higher time frame analysis and ends with
31:50 precise execution on lower time frames.
31:52 Stop fighting the market. Stop trying to
31:54 predict reversals. Stop taking trades
31:55 because you're bored or because you feel
31:57 like you need to be doing something.
31:59 Start respecting the higher time frames.
32:01 Start trading only when everything
32:03 aligns. Start being selective and
32:06 patient. Do that and you'll see your
32:09 consistency improve dramatically. We've
32:10 covered the hierarchy. We've covered
32:13 reading the institutional narrative.
32:14 We've covered aligning your decisions
32:17 with higher time frame bias. But none of
32:19 that matters. Absolutely none of it if
32:20 you don't have the discipline to
32:23 actually follow through when it counts.
32:25 And that's where most traders fail. Not
32:27 because they don't understand the
32:29 concepts, not because they can't read a
32:32 chart, but because when the moment comes
32:34 to pull the trigger or stay patient,
32:36 they fold. Let me tell you what's going
32:37 to happen. When you start trading with
32:38 higher time frame bias, you're going to
32:41 be in a trade sitting on a nice profit
32:42 and the lower time frames are going to
32:45 start flashing warning signals. The
32:46 5-minute chart is going to form a
32:47 reversal pattern. The [clears throat]
32:49 15-minut is going to break structure
32:52 against you. And every instinct in your
32:53 body is going to scream at you to close
32:56 the trade and take your profit. But your
32:58 higher time frame analysis says the
33:00 trade has room to run. The daily target
33:03 hasn't been hit. The weekly structure is
33:05 still intact. The monthly is still
33:07 pointing in your direction. What do you
33:10 do? You trust the higher time frame. You
33:13 hold. You ignore the noise because this
33:15 is where the real money is made. This is
33:16 where professionals separate themselves
33:18 from amateurs. Amateurs get shaken out
33:20 by lower time frame volatility.
33:22 Professionals hold through it because
33:23 they know the higher time frame is in
33:26 control. I've watched traders take
33:28 perfect entries off weekly order blocks,
33:31 see the trade move in their favor, and
33:33 then close it at the first sign of a
33:35 pullback on the 4hour chart. They make
33:37 20 pips when the trade had 200 pips of
33:39 potential, and then they wonder why
33:40 they're not making money. You're not
33:42 making money because you're not letting
33:43 the market pay you what it wants to pay
33:45 you. You're taking scraps when the
33:47 higher time frame is offering you a
33:50 feast. Here's a hard truth. The market
33:52 is going to test your conviction every
33:54 single time. It's going to pull back
33:57 just enough to make you doubt yourself.
33:58 It's going to consolidate just long
34:00 enough to make you think you're wrong.
34:02 It's going to do exactly what it needs
34:04 to do to get weak hands out of the trade
34:06 before it makes the real move. This
34:09 isn't random. This is deliberate.
34:11 Institutions need to shake out retail
34:13 positions before they can push price
34:16 further. Why? Because retail traders are
34:18 their liquidity. when you panic and
34:21 close your long, somebody has to take
34:24 the other side of that trade and that
34:25 somebody is the institution that wants
34:27 to add to their long position. You're
34:28 literally handing them your money
34:30 because you couldn't handle normal
34:32 volatility within the structure. The way
34:35 you combat this is by having absolute
34:37 clarity on your invalidation point
34:40 before you enter the trade. Not a mental
34:44 stop, not a vague idea, an actual level
34:46 on the chart where if price reaches it,
34:48 the higher time frame structure has
34:51 failed and your thesis is wrong. And
34:54 until price reaches that level, you
34:56 hold. You don't care what the 1 hour is
34:58 doing. You don't care what the 15-minute
35:01 is doing. You hold because the higher
35:03 time frame structure is still intact.
35:05 Let me give you a real world example of
35:07 what this looks like in practice. You
35:08 take a long entry off a daily order
35:12 block. Your stop is below that daily
35:15 order block at the point where if hit it
35:17 would indicate the daily structure has
35:19 failed. Your target is the next weekly
35:22 high which is 150 pips away.
35:26 You risk 30 pips to make 150. That's a
35:29 5:1 trade based on solid higher time
35:32 frame structure. You enter the trade and
35:35 within the first few hours price moves
35:37 up 20 pips. You're feeling good. Then
35:39 the 4-hour chart forms a bearish
35:41 engulfing candle. Price starts pulling
35:44 back. The 15-minute breaks structure
35:46 bearish. You're watching your unrealized
35:50 profit shrink. 20 pips becomes 15, then
35:53 10, then five, then you're back to break
35:55 even. Then you're down five pips. What
35:59 do most traders do here? They panic.
36:02 They think, "I had a profit and now I'm
36:05 at a loss. I should close this before it
36:08 gets worse. So, they close the trade
36:12 with a small loss. And then what
36:13 happens? Price bounces right off the
36:15 4-hour order block within that daily
36:17 order block and proceeds to run 150 pips
36:20 to the target. Without them, what should
36:22 you have done?
36:24 Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Your stop
36:27 was 30 pips away. Price only pulled back
36:29 five pips against you. The daily
36:32 structure was completely intact. The
36:34 weekly structure was completely intact.
36:36 You were experiencing normal volatility
36:38 within a valid trade setup. But because
36:41 you let the lower time frame noise get
36:43 in your head, you talked yourself out of
36:46 a winning trade. This is why I hammer
36:48 home the importance of trusting higher
36:51 time frames. Not hoping, not wishing,
36:54 trusting. When you do your analysis
36:56 correctly, when you identify valid
36:58 higher time frame structure, when you
37:01 enter at the right zones, you need to
37:02 have the conviction to see the trade
37:05 through. Otherwise, why are you even
37:07 doing the analysis? Why are you spending
37:09 hours studying charts if you're going to
37:11 ignore what they're telling you the
37:14 moment you face any adversity? Now,
37:16 let's talk about the opposite problem
37:19 because it's equally destructive. Some
37:22 traders take trust the higher time frame
37:25 and use it as an excuse to hold losing
37:27 trades way past their invalidation
37:29 point. They're in a long trade. The
37:31 daily structure breaks bearish. The
37:33 weekly is rolling over and they're still
37:35 holding because the monthly is bullish.
37:38 That's not discipline. That's delusion.
37:40 Trusting the higher time frame doesn't
37:42 mean ignoring when that time frame tells
37:44 you you're wrong. When the structure
37:48 breaks, you get out. When your thesis is
37:50 invalidated, you exit. You don't move
37:52 your stop. You don't give it a little
37:54 more room. You don't rationalize why
37:56 this time is different. You take the
37:58 loss and move on. The difference between
38:00 holding a trade through volatility and
38:02 holding a trade past invalidation is
38:04 everything. One is discipline based on
38:07 structure. The other is hope based on
38:09 denial. Learn to distinguish between the
38:12 two or you'll blow up your account
38:13 trying to prove the market wrong. Here's
38:15 what proper trade management looks like
38:18 with higher time frame bias. You enter
38:19 based on higher time frame structure.
38:21 You hold through lower time frame
38:23 volatility as long as higher time frame
38:25 structure remains intact. You manage the
38:27 trade based on higher time frame levels.
38:29 Maybe you take partial profits at the
38:30 first higher time frame target and let
38:33 the rest run to the next. And you exit
38:35 completely when either your target is
38:36 hit or your structural invalidation
38:39 point is breached. simple, clean, unemotional,
38:40 unemotional,
38:42 based entirely on what the market is
38:44 doing, not what you want it to do or
38:45 what you hope it does or what you fear
38:47 it might do. The market doesn't care
38:49 about your feelings. It doesn't care
38:51 about your bills. It doesn't care about
38:53 your profit targets or your account
38:54 balance. It's going to do what it's
38:56 going to do based on institutional order
38:58 flow and market structure. Your job is
39:01 to read that structure correctly and
39:03 trade accordingly. Let's address another
39:05 form of discipline that traders struggle
39:07 with. Staying out of the market when the
39:09 higher time frames aren't giving you
39:12 anything. This is actually harder than
39:14 taking trades for most people. Sitting
39:17 on your hands, watching the market move,
39:19 seeing other traders posting their wins
39:22 on social media and resisting the urge
39:24 to jump in just because you feel like
39:26 you're missing out. But here's reality.
39:28 You're not missing anything. Those
39:31 traders posting their scalping wins, the
39:33 majority of them are either lying about
39:34 their results or they're showing you
39:37 their winners while hiding their losses.
39:40 And the few who are actually making
39:42 money consistently scalping, they're not
39:45 fighting higher time frame structure.
39:47 They're working within it. When the
39:49 higher time frames are conflicted, when
39:51 you don't have clear alignment, when the
39:53 market is chopping around in a range,
39:56 the discipline response is to do
39:58 nothing. You don't try to trade the
40:00 range. You don't try to pick the
40:02 breakout. You don't try to catch every
40:06 wiggle. You wait. You study. You
40:08 prepare. But you don't risk capital in
40:10 low probability situations. I've seen
40:12 traders have incredible months where
40:14 they take maybe five trades total. Five
40:17 trades in an entire month and they're up
40:21 10%, 15%, 20% on their account. Why?
40:23 because those five trades were high
40:25 quality setups with perfect higher time
40:28 frame alignment, optimal riskreward, and
40:31 room to run. Compare that to traders who
40:33 take 50 trades in a month and end up
40:35 break even or down. They're working
40:37 harder and making less because they're
40:39 taking lowquality trades based on lower
40:41 time frame noise instead of highquality
40:43 trades based on higher time frame
40:47 structure. Quality over quantity always.
40:48 This is not about how many trades you
40:50 take. It's about how good those trades
40:52 are. And the only way to ensure your
40:54 trades are good is to demand higher time
40:56 frame alignment before you ever think
40:57 about clicking the buy or sell button.
41:01 Here's your final discipline challenge.
41:02 Accepting that you're going to miss
41:04 moves. You're going to miss them all the
41:06 time. You're going to do your analysis,
41:09 identify a potential setup, wait for
41:11 your entry, and price is going to take
41:13 off without you. You're going to see a
41:15 pair run 200 pips in a day, and you're
41:17 not going to be in it. And that's okay.
41:21 Actually, that's expected. You cannot
41:23 catch every move. The market is not a
41:26 buffet where you sample everything. The
41:28 market is a shooting gallery where you
41:30 wait for your shot, take it when it's
41:32 there, and let all the other targets
41:34 pass by. The trader who tries to shoot
41:36 at everything misses everything. The
41:37 trader who waits for the perfect
41:39 alignment hits their target
41:41 consistently. Your edge in this market
41:43 isn't your ability to predict what price
41:45 is going to do next. Your edge is your
41:47 ability to recognize when the conditions
41:49 are right for a high probability trade
41:51 based on higher time frame structure and
41:54 your discipline to only trade in those
41:56 conditions. That's it. That's the entire
41:58 game. Everything else is noise. So, let
42:00 me leave you with this. Every time you
42:04 sit down to trade, ask yourself, have I
42:06 done my higher time frame analysis? Do I
42:08 know what the monthly, weekly, and daily
42:10 are telling me? Am I trading with that
42:13 bias or against it? Are the time frames
42:16 aligned? Is this a high quality setup or
42:19 am I just bored and looking for action?
42:21 If you can't answer those questions with
42:23 complete confidence, you have no
42:25 business placing a trade. Close your
42:28 trading platform. Walk away. Come back
42:31 when you have clarity because trading
42:33 without clarity based on higher time
42:35 frame analysis is not trading. It's
42:37 gambling and you're going to lose. The
42:39 market rewards patience. It rewards
42:41 discipline. It rewards traders who
42:43 respect the structure and wait for their
42:46 setups. It punishes impulsiveness,
42:48 greed, fear, and traders who think they
42:50 can outsmart institutional order flow
42:51 with clever tactics on the 5-minute
42:54 chart. You already know what you need to
42:56 do. You've learned the hierarchy. You've
42:58 learned to read the institutional
43:00 narrative. You've learned to align your
43:03 decisions with higher time frame bias.
43:05 Now, you just need to do it day after
43:09 day, week after week, trade after trade.
43:12 Trust the process. Trust the structure.
43:14 Trust the higher time frames because at
43:16 the end of the day, the higher time
43:18 frame is always right. And the only
43:19 question is whether you're going to
43:21 trade with it or against it. Choose
43:23 wisely. Your trading account depends on
43:25 it. Now, get out there and start trading
43:27 like a professional. Respect the higher
43:30 time frames. Wait for alignment. Execute
43:32 with precision. Manage with discipline.
43:35 And watch your consistency transform.
43:38 You've got this. The knowledge is there.
43:40 The tools are there. The only thing left
43:41 is your commitment to actually
43:44 implementing what you know. Stop making excuses.
43:46 excuses.
43:48 Stop looking for shortcuts. Stop hoping
43:51 the market will give you what you want.
43:53 Start doing the work. Start following
43:55 the process. Start trusting the higher
43:58 time frames. That's how you win in this
44:00 game. That's how you build wealth.
44:02 That's how you become the trader you
44:04 know you're capable of becoming. The
44:07 market is waiting. Your opportunity is coming.
