e all right folks welcome back all right so today is January 12th 20125 and I kind of want to review and also segue into the next portion of the trading model I'm employing this year for the previous lecture was dealing with opening range gaps and midnight opening range gaps and blending of those things to night I kind of want to show you what I did on nonfarm payroll Friday so when we look at actually seeing how we can participate in these price moves now I'm not advocating that you should be trading with real money okay so just know that I'm showing you things that I've done with my actual money and you are encouraged to back test it and paper trade it with a demo account I don't want you thinking that you're going to have a Flawless victory every time you get into the marketplace and in fact you're going to see that I did in fact take a trade using this information and I took a loss initially and then recouped it and I was actually trading with real money in the nonfarm P role so I'm going to show you again why some of the folks that watch my videos before we get into it let me give me a moment for housekeeping on YouTube I don't like to show the comments because frankly there's a lot of advertisement for things that are not supported by me like I don't I don't look at crypto I could care less about crypto and there's a lot of scams and frauds and and people advertising that they're someone else that they're really not and also you like anything else I have very disrespectful people that don't really watch the videos and they just want to have a stage to perform and I'm the only one that can see you and when I see your comment I remove it so you think I'm leaving it there but I'm really not not and no one else can see it but for the sake for sportsmanship let you know uh the last video I posted where we were discussing opening range gaps and such a follower okay I don't know if it's a student I don't know if it's someone that just you know watches as the you know troll or whatever and mark my words I'm not bothered by this but I want you to understand why because I get so many people that aren't really followers of the channel they'll leave a comment saying saying why aren't there comments there's you can leave a comment but it's for me to read if you want to use the comment section as a journal that way when you post your comments about what minute marker you found something interesting or you want to have your own little table of contents of my lectures that's ad that's advised you can do that because no one else is going to mess your comment up I'm not going to delete it I'm not going to remove it and you're the only one who can see it so have at it but one of the guys that were watching the last video mentioned that there was nothing useful in the video now these are the types of individuals that frustrate me as a me as a mentor because for years I've been begged and pleaded to please please please make it simple make it straightforward giving me simple rules to follow 1 2 3 XYZ this is the result you should expect and that's exactly what I'm doing now I'm not going to apologize for the difficulty and the technicalities that are going to be required for someone that has never really studied my content so it's reasonable for someone that's brand new to trading or brand new to my smart money Concepts anything quote unquote ICT if you see things in this lecture series that seem complicated I promise you it's only because you haven't done any of the previous mentorship videos which are free you can go watch them on my YouTube channel but I'm outlining how I'm going to be implementing this information with a real account for 2025 okay so I just want to remind you that when I was going through all the content and I'm just briefly going through the slides and explaining that all this stuff was included you know these are all very specific things okay number of handles okay how many points filters out whether or not the Gap should close in or how I would use that information so I went through the the effort of trying to show viewers what it is specifically that the algorithm is going to do and how to use the rule-based ideas that the algorithm itself follows now it's one thing to come to a comment section and say you're a liar you're a scammer you're defrauding people you're scamming people okay and ignore everything I've told you in a pre-recorded video before the very next day the most complicated most manipulated day of the month which is non-farm payroll okay so just to show you just to show you inquiring minds just to show you that are always doubting always having some fault with me okay separate the man from the concepts go back to the rules that I showed okay you're getting distracted by the performer and you're not paying attention into the logic there's a there's a complete show that goes on when I'm educating when I'm teaching and when I'm actually executing if you aren't able to watch the videos take notes and then go back and test it or look and see what it does the very next day like I did on Thursday night before midnight going into Friday nonfarm payroll I told you exactly where the non-farm payroll was going to go showing you all these slides explaining all the opening range Gap the theory the logic and then I said right at this slide at the 17 minute and 48 second Mark go back and watch that video in fact I even left a direct link in the comment section of that video so you can click on that it'll take you right to the segment of that video that I cannot edit people download my videos as soon as I put them up they have that video in their hot little hands just like you did and you watched it right when it was delivered before nonpr priced in at 8:30 the very next day eastern Time or you watched it in review after the fact maybe on Saturday or or maybe even today on Sunday you watched it but I took everybody's attention to this level right here when the price was up in this area here we had yet to make the midnight opening range for Friday we have yet at that time to make the open opening range regular trading hours for Friday we we haven't created either of those things and I pointed right to this level right here because that's exactly where my algorithm is going to take price period so that brings us to today here's what we had note the chart is over here regular trading hours at regular trading hours at 9:30 on Friday the market opened up right here and traded down how much of a range was that opening range got it was greater than 120 handles wasn't it so what does that mean it's not likely to fill in go back and watch the logic that there's nothing useful in the video I'm not dancing for people that leave comments okay just I'm just making sure you understand that I'm not going to give anybody a stage to troll or act stupid or be a comedian either you're going to come to the channel and learn or you're not going to come to the channel and learn and you're just going to waste your time leaving comments that I can see one time I laugh at you and then I delete it in fact I show these comments to my private mentorship students we have a fun and and laugh at all of you that think that this stuff doesn't work like I love it I absolutely love it but I'm not going to give you a state so you can get famous okay for being you know a blo heart about something that you don't even know so again annotation here see the previous lecture video and 17 minute 48 second minute Mark you'll hear me explain that that's exactly where the Market's going to go before non-farm payroll okay so knowing where the Market's going to draw to that's the most important critical thing because all of these gaps all these Concepts these smart money Concepts they're not going to help you unless you still can read where price is going to go now why did I pick that level why did I think it was going to go down there well it's obvious to you now if you've been a student of mine you can see it's a market maker sell model original consolidation rallies up accumulation reaccumulation smart money reversal lowrisk sell redistribution second stage distribution that's what we were at and then we gap down not going to fill the Gap because I gave you the logic that the algorithm is going to follow in the previous video and down she goes right below that 20983 75 level booah now this is our opening range gap for Friday's non far payroll we're going to have that information you can see it clear over here when I take the January 3D's opening range Gap off notice that I'm drawing the FIB down from that closing price to the open so you can see the FIB level upper quadrant is0 75 real important because that way without knowing that when I go through the commentary you're going to get tripped up because you haven't taken notes I'm not making mistakes in these videos I'm telling you the logic and I'm telling you these rules so that way you know what it is that I'm referring to incidentally when I talk about when I was on Twitter and I was doing Twitter spaces and whatnot and in 2022 when I first taught inversion fair value gaps and first presented fair value Gap uh that was in a lecture series just talking there was no charts about it and I was dropping bread coms in 2022 for people that were paying attention it was always put in the the deepest part of the 4H hour long you know Twitter space where nobody really has the longevity to stay with it unless they really want to learn well having these rule-based ideas and having these key levels I get question all the time can you show us your notepad because I don't like to have all this stuff on my chart and you'll see why in a moment you'll quickly see why in a moment I don't have all this stuff on my chart when I'm trading but I have a little yellow notepad Okay little small little notepad and every day I have all of these levels what levels the levels you're seeing right here the levels that were over here on the January third opening range Gap the opening price the midnight opening range okay the opening range of 9:30 to 10:00 all of the quadrants the consequent encroachment levels previous days high previous day low highest high and the lowest low the previous week the highest high and the lowest low last 3 days these are all things that I have written down now because I just told you this you can see now quickly that it would have been a dud if I just would have showed you the picture of the pad because it been like what's this but it's the secret it's the source code that's exactly what the price is going to do but in your hands having those numbers it's useless to you unless you know what I've already taught in my YouTube channel I've already taught you how to find the draw and liquidity I've already taught you how to do those things I've already taught you how to determine the bias so once you have that first critical thing under your belt then all these other things become useful to you like the rules I gave you when there's an opening range Gap how much is an opening range Gap that says nope I'm not going to look for a gap fill I taught you that I taught you that you think it was a like a coincidence that I taught you that the very next day I'm going to show you that I used it no it's not it's not a coincidence but let's go on we're going to take you into the one minute chart here you can see now this is the one minute chart of the NASDAQ March 2025 and this is showing the midnight opening range okay so midnight opening range it's not a gap it's just a range just like the opening range for 9:30 to 10:00 eastern time in the morning session or when regular trading hours start trading for indices I just reminded myself these things work in Forex okay but as I taught in told you at the beginning let me go through this portion of the content with indices because I'm going to be predominantly trading indices so I want to give all the rules and and get through all this stuff and then later on I'll put little bullet points on for the those that only trading Forex that way you can implement it and use it there but none of this stuff is different at all it's all the same thing everything I've taught thus far still applies to Forex okay so just hold your horses okay some of you are very very insistent that I talk about Forex every time I get on YouTube and that's simply not going to happen but when it's Salient or when it's applicable I'm going to tell you this is what it is and you're going to see me trading Forex this year okay you're going to see me doing it with a real account with forex.com so please let me go through the curriculum the way I want to go through the curriculum okay no one's going to make me go through it faster and you're not going to deviate and change the way I'm going to do it so just stop wasting your time leaving comments that I don't ever care to hear from you ever again because you're too demanding like my wife is the only one I give that authority to and she's nowhere near as the meaning as some of you folks are so um if you look at the opening range this is the lowest low in that range between 12 and 12:30 and here's the highest high of the range in 12 to 12:30 if you use the levels I gave you in terms of projection it's 0.5 and 0.1 or 0.1 by having that it gives us it's a rough idea what the algorithm is going to do and it's in close proximity to this extreme at negative-1 that the daily high will form now simple caveat here okay if there's ever a day like nonar payroll we already know that non-farm payroll is going to have an enormous amount of manipulation it's going to have a lot of extras in there because the market is GNA be pushed around and intervention is going to go through the roof so because of that these numbers won't be as precise on a fomc day or a nonpr payroll day so just know that and and like a CPI day too so those are kind of like heavy hitter days and you just got to be aware that it might not be as perfect as it would be on other days so with that caveat introduced we we're going to look at it now right so you can see how the market did in fact rally up just went beyond the negative one standard deviation of the midnight opening range then broke lower create a fair value Gap right there and notice how that delivered to consequent encroachment of that Gap and negative 0.5 level and then it drops off precipitously and trades down into predetermined ranges that I've already taught you how to use now and here is the later in the morning session you can see all of that uh that drop down I just showed you in the previous slide we went to here then we went up into the midnight open range or opening range and worked all the levels in between the high and the low it and shaded in the purple and then in here right before non-farm payroll at 8:30 eastern time Friday morning the market does in fact does its little stop run and anyone short and I was short initially with one contract and then or micro and then it stopped me out and then I went in again after getting stopped out because I understand what it's likely to do and that huge pool of liquidity I outlined on Thursday night ahead of narm payroll uh was absolutely going to be delivered and I was going to aim for that but I don't want to ride through the 8:30 all the way to 9:30 so I'm just going to take something that makes sense to make a a nice little chunk of change without risking a whole lot of money and it was with real money when I did it so make sure you understand that but it was a really really nice drop and you can see here now notice it this says micro okay micro means it's $2 per point I went short here trading in a fair value Gap and then it ran up above here taking my stop rallying a little bit higher and then I wanted to see it Go short from there after taking my stop I felt confident that okay I was premature it wasn't much money it was literally like 60 bucks or not even that really and then it breaks aggressively lower after entering three contracts of the micro and then I took my profit down here just in the same one minute interval so in one minute it was like $1,000 just like bang just like that using micros now I'm not telling you to do this with your real money I'm not telling you to do this with your funded accounts I'm not telling you to do this with your demo account I'm not telling you to do this at all I'm just showing you the things that many of you have asked for all the time show me show me show me you can't do this you're a liar you're a scammer you're a fraud you don't trade with real oh I forgot to show you that's a live account by the way I was a little off in my timing sorry but clearly you can see you we're dealing with a real account here so if you don't know what that means right down here it says amp live they don't give you that for a amp demo okay so at the time of this recording you can see that that little Dash right there says that the market has not opened up because it's Sunday if you look at the time down here okay I'm making the video before 6 o'cl now by the time you watch it it'll probably be after 6 o'cl but everything is being recorded here on Sunday all right so uh for the folks that say you can't make money with micro contracts there they're a liar uh they don't know what they're talking about and if you do want to scratch that itch and you want to trade nonfarm payroll and you don't want to listen to Sound Logic and there's a lot of you apparently in the comment section is living like that so if you want to do those types of things trade with one micro contract that way when you're wrong and you're going to be wrong more times than you ever thought you would be it won't hurt you that bad okay don't look at these types of moves and think man if I'm right and I could do 30 contracts of the Mini I can make so much money times that by 20 accounts linked up on a funded account and I could be the next Legend no you're not you're not you're going to hurt yourself you're going have to pay more reset fees and pay these Jokers that run these companies okay so that's what you're really going to do and I'm just here to remind you that's exactly what's going to happen to you so to save yourself a whole lot of drama and heartache and financial loss just trade with one micro and you if you're being sober minded you will see quickly that this is a carnival ride unless you have Insight that I'm never going to fully divulge to the public so that's why I tell you don't trade it but I know what I'm doing I know what I'm doing but I know that you're not going to follow my rules the folks that were leaving comments in the previous video didn't even notice that I told them exactly where the nonform perial was going to go how it was going to behave the gaps won't close because it's moved this many handles all these things all these things okay but now we're going to segue and leave this part because these are the parts that the folks that don't really follow the channel but they want to leave comments I'll say you talk too much okay no I'm answering lots and lots of questions okay some of these questions you don't you don't ever see and I'm addressing all of them and just because you never thought about it or you don't think it applies to you you're not the only audience member okay so I don't care about your comments when you say you talk too much I see your comment but I'll never see your comment again you're welcome to keep leaving more though all right so later in the day okay later in the day when we get through 9:30 opening bell and we start working inside of that opening range between 9:30 and 10:00 now this is the part where I use the next participation phase of this model which is first presented fair value G I taught this in audio lecture in 2022 you're welcome to go through YouTube because there's a a number of people that would record them because I didn't want those Twitter spaces on my YouTube channel so I gave permission for anyone that wanted to upload it and they can run an ads on it I don't care um there was a lot of things that I didn't want that content on my YouTube channel because number one I spoke with really blue collar language I was performing as like the Stone Cold Steve auson of of trading um it's kind of like my always been my character and I'm not really that guy I'm really this guy like I'm just the dad okay the internet dad that likes to make dad jokes and sometimes it sounds like narcissism but it's just me twisting that knife in the people that really don't see through me and the first presented Fair bag Gap that I introduced in 2022 and in verion Fair b g was introduced in 2022 you can find all those Twitter spaces if you just search on YouTube um not to be ignorant there's so many of you that do it I I just know that if you do a search on Twitter spaces from ICT you'll find them okay and just know that you probably shouldn't listen to them with children around because I'm going to be using language in them because I was performing as a character as a character okay and it's meant to get people's attention so that way you listen to me okay but I want to leave that that Persona because it's not necessary because I have almost two million people here soon and that's enough people so I don't need to build a crowd anymore but the first presented fair value Gap is the first presented fair value Gap that forms on a woman chart from my model and a lot of this has to do with Caleb's model so really what I'm showing you here is a lot of things I was never going to teach you from Caleb's trading model okay so all the things that we've talked about up to this point they're all part of what he was learning that you were never going to learn from me but because if I'm going to sit down and trade with real money show broker statements you I kind of like want to have a full documentation of what it is I'm doing right so that's what we're doing here so if you look at the Gap right here can you see that what that also overlaps with is if you see this Wick this is a discount Wick but when price is below it that discount Wick becomes an inversion premium now right so the market trades up into even if there was no Gap there I would use that level in and of itself I would never do that well that's you that's not me because I'm trading for this level down here that I told you Thursday night before Friday even began before non-front payroll Friday ever even happened I told you this is that level that purple level is that little 17 minute 48C minute marker of the video teaching about opening range gaps so here this is the very first presented fair value gap of the morning since 9:31 it can't be the Gap if it forms on 9:30 candle you have to wait that was the rules for Caleb well you can see this here too early this is the first one so in this little shaded area here that's my first presented fair value Gap now you might look at this and say well you got that drawn differently I'm drawing it like that because I'm not going to just use that Wick High I'm going to use these this overlap of these two candles bodies because I want to get as close as I can to these relative equal lows but still use the framework of the fair value gap which is why I said all these people said I found the secret the fair value gaps on YouTube and I'm going to teach it to you you don't know what you're talking about okay you had a personal Epiphany that's fine but you don't know what you're talking about you don't know the logic you have no idea what you're talking about and has all those little catchphrase you know uh clickbait titles those things will eventually hurt you over time because when I'm releasing my real content in the depths of where I'm going to go with it it answers your stuff as equipped not informed and frankly just incorrect so it just be careful because if you think you found something and you're going to put it out there I'm probably going to run over top of it this year and I'm not really aiming for anybody I'm just teaching my content but it's probably going to hurt a lot of you guys out there that want to be heroes on YouTube or social media Facebook T Tik Tok whatever instagrammers so you can see that I wanted to go short here and now because we're not trading to non-farm payer roll that's after this is after that 8:30 so we're we're inside of the opening range between 9:30 and 10:00 so between 9:30 and 10:00 that 30 minutes I'm waiting for that first fair value Gap but what direction am I trading in that purple line that's that level I told you on Thursday night so that's the draw on liquidity I'm not interested in going long I'm not interested in just seeing the market trade below these relative equal lows that's I'm not interested in that I'm interested in the market dropping aggressively into that purple level at 20983 75 that's what I'm aiming for that's the very thing I'm anticipating price deliver too I'm not trying to be long I'm not trying to buy I'm not trying to go long okay I'm not trying to look for reversals I'm not expecting these moves just to go below these relative equal lows and Peter out and go higher I'm not looking for it to go below this low and be done I'm looking for it to have a sustained price run to that purple level there and that's why my entry is here at 21,1 123.2mi as it breached at 20975 75 which is below 98375 and of course this is not micro it's these are mini contracts now so the it's a little bit different just a little shy of 12,000 if you had taken that trade that's what you could have scratched the itch with so I want you to think about how we just Blended all these things things in a very simplistic manner it may not feel simplistic it may not sound simplistic to you because you're probably brand new or you probably casually watch my videos and you don't really didn't take notes you didn't go through and do back testing you didn't forward test it you didn't walk forward and see do the things I'm teaching in these videos hold up because if they don't hold up you're quickly going to see that and you're never going to have to waste any time here that's why I tell you to go through the content and hold the logic to the task of does it hold up it's not not me cherry-picking anything it's me showing you what I'm using when I'm looking at the chart when I'm anticipating it I'm looking for these things to deliver because it's based on the source code of the algorithm you can think there ain't an algorithm all you want but the bottom line is it is it's going to use these levels over and over and over again when the Market's no longer respecting these levels or if I'm looking at pre-market and there're just simply not paying any mind to those levels I'm going to sit on the sidelines and wait for the opening range to complete then I'll trade silver Bol at 10:00 that's how I'm trading this year folks if you want to real quick and don't have to worry about watching any more videos and you just want to wait until I start showing executions and whatnot you don't need to watch any more videos because I just basically explained everything but it's not going to feel like that because if you haven't gone through my content you have no idea what I just said sound like word salad but buttons are being pushed here folks the logic's repeating in the future after I've divulged and told you the very specific elements about what the price is going to do when the price is going to do it how far it's going to go when is it not going to fill a gap all these things I'm teaching you the real algorithmic principles that repeat every single week now there's going to be deviations when that intervention comes in and I will fall victim just like you will I don't know when when they're going to Simply say well what we're just to teach some humility today and rip the market 150 handles the other direction for no unknown reason that can happen that's the unexpected risk that we all assume if we're going to trade with real money that's the real thing that's the real thing that is underlying with everybody's content my content is no exception just because I have stuff that is superior to everything else proving it beyond a shadow of a doubt the most profitable students the most documented number of people that have gone through even prop firm companies you it comes out of their mouth their most profitable students the most consistently profitable Stu not students but uh patrons and customers are out of mind fold they're all ICT based Michael hon logic and you can't deny that but these are Concepts that I had never ever wanted to teach I didn't want to teach these things this isn't it this isn't the Panacea be all and all of ICT or Michael but these are just really simple things I'm going to apply in 2025 you watch me show you in a amp account showing you the broker statements and you're going to see it again this year but you're going to see it also with a very very small shoestring budget imagine if you will that you couldn't come up with $1,000 say you couldn't come up with $1,000 and you you just really want to trade and you you listen to me and you said well Michael said that if I'm going to trade with real money I should trade with a micro for a while first and I should have at least $1,000 but I don't have it so what should I do you wait you wait but do you do you need a lot of money once you know what you're doing what does that mean like 5 years into your trading you know your mind model you know your way around yourself you're not Reckless when you see these things occur in price you know there's opportunity so you don't really need $1,000 so what I did was I I ran the uh amp account up to a point where I could take out $60,000 did a withdrawal on that and then I had $600 I think it was a little bit over $600 after the wire fees and whatnot and I have did a little bit of scalping and that account is where I'm going to grow that $600 account up to you know whatever I want to do before I close this lecture series out hopefully this is a more direct way of showing you how all these things are implemented and you can see the executions are being done and we're going to move further into this content and the model itself throughout the course of this coming week until I talk to you next time Lord willing good luck and good Trading e