one of the questions I get asked the most on social media is Justin how do I trade turtle soup I'm not sure if it's because of the weird name or the overly complicated videos on YouTube but people honestly just don't seem to get it since it is one of the most powerful ICT strategies out there if applied correctly I want to show you the path in this video I'm going to give you guys a no fluff breakdown of turtle soup with real examples of using this concept in my own trading and one of those examples I actually took this morning now turtle soup is an entry model that is based around internal to external range liquidity in this drawing I want you to focus on this here we have an accumulation area and above us there could be resting buy side below us there could be resting sell side currently like this now in the middle of this range is what we consider dumb money right people that are getting chopped up in this range constantly fighting back and forth because they don't know what they're looking for now below all these lows is resting sells side liquidity where smart money is looking to buy and above this is resting buy stops where smart money is looking to sell so the basic definition of turtle soup is selling above old highs and buying below old lows but it's not just that black and white in turtle soup we are looking to align an intraday model with the overall bias as you can see in this chart there's a buy side and a sell side which means this is internal range liquidity and this is external range liquidity so when we're using turtle soup we have a bigger time frame draw on liquidity existing so what normally would look to happen is is let's say the drawn liquidity is sell side in this example what we are looking to do is sell above old highs and look to continue to Target new lows and then continue to Target external cide liquidity and this here becomes turtle soup now it's the same thing for the buy side if the draw on liquidity is buy side and we have an internal range where we are generating liquidity to the lows we are looking to buy those sell stops where Market comes down takes all those sell stops and then continues towards the external draw and again this becomes our turtle soup entry one thing that also pay attention to is above these areas of buy side and sells side liquidity in this range you should be looking for key levels that the market can bounce off of for example a lot of the times I'm looking for a fair value Gap either Below sell stops or above buy stops and what that does is it gives me conviction and another reason for price to actually bounce at those areas so if we were looking to take a long in our external draws buy side liquidity we're looking to take Longs Below sell stops but also see if there's a reason for us to bounce here if there's a fair value Gap let's say we're back in OT of this previous price leg right all of these are possible reasons that we could look to see in continuation higher one of my favorite things to add conviction to turtle soup is an smt for example if this is what we're looking at buy side liquidity is the draw we end up selling off taking these sell stops and Es does not for example let's say this is NQ we then form an smt going into the soup so not only are we souping the lows bouncing off of an imbalance but also having an as in favor of the external draw you get a very very high quality entry model and one of the biggest reasons why I like taking turtle soup entries is because it's one of the best risks that you can possibly have for an entry model because you're buying Below sell stops a lot of the time your risk is going to be significantly increased meaning if I'm looking to take an entry below cell size and I end up buying putting my stop loss in place and then targeting the external draw I get really good risk reward with these types of entries so just in overview turtle soup is only turtle soup number one when you have an external draw you are buying or selling internal range liquidity to external range liquidity when you already have an existing draw in liquidity we're looking to sell above old highs and buy below old lows here's a less complicated drawing of what the last one was I guess if you didn't understand that this would just be a bullish turtle soup where we have a move the upside continue to generate liquidity on both ends buy side sell side we take sell stops we're looking to buy sell stops and then have the expansion towards the external draw and again of course bouncing off of some sort of key level and again it would be the same thing reversed for sell now let's take a look at the actual trade that I took today and compare them and see if you guys can see the relationship so this was the chart going into the day this morning and my first thing I want to recognize is again what's the draw in liquidity so going into the day my bias was overall bullish I was really expecting to see an expansion move to these buy side levels in the morning we had two generated liquidity levels here as well as a 15-minute F Val Gap if we zoom out sell side to the left of us will taken it also was kind of looks like an AMD where we had a lot of accumulation a manipulation and then expecting distribution back to the upside but now just want you to focus on number one drawn liquidity is bullish buy side when Market opens we get displacement to the upside a market structure shift and now this is when I want to zoom in and I want to recognize if they're possible could be a turtle soup opportunity so what has to happen first for turtle soup to happen well once we get displacement or once we're in an a range and The Bu model or the sell model is already playing out this is why also recognizing models are very important I'll link the market maker video that I have down in the description but your goal is to First recognize the model going to the morning I can recognize it is going to be a market maker buy model and we're going to look to run up to these buy side levels once we get displacement I'm expecting structure to start to build out what happens we put in a swing low this becomes my turtle soup low so I'm looking for the market to come down to this low take it again what happens here we come down we generate more sells side liquidity and then we expand to the upside so this is when a lot of people are starting to jump in and chase this trade now what also happens here though when we have this expansion move you might be questioning why did we not take the low right here and instead we add an expansion move two reasons we generate more sside liquidity and when we have this move to the upside this low brings this entire range back into discount in oce so now now that we had this expansion move turtle soup is now back in OT of this range which is an area which again we already expect a balce so we're overlapping a key level with the turtle soup as well as again a fair value Gap as the key level too so Market comes back down the low gets taken I enter long put my stop right below here and again this becomes the turtle soup entry now another thing too I won't over complicate you guys but do keep in mind what time price starts to move 950 macro aligned immediately gets reversed 950 opens up right here which is the macro and we get a big expansion move to that high and this was the trade in the turtle soup I ended up taking this morning now turtle soup is one of those things where it takes a lot of experience and it takes a lot of time to actually see it happen live so my biggest recommendation is start back testing go into the charts start looking for it see if you can find it and when you're actually trading journal constantly even if you don't take a trade look at the chart and say hey I think this is going to be turtle soup take a screenshot Journal it after that trade ends up playing out Journal hey did this end up playing out or did it not end up playing out and why when you actually take the time to reflect on your thoughts in your day you actually start to improve because you're soaking in your knowledge when you simply just go about every day looking at the market and then not questioning your decisions or you're not questioning why you thought that you're not improving those thoughts don't change you don't get better so look at the market start questioning these ideas constantly Journal constantly be looking to improve if you found this video helpful you also might like my daily bias video that I just dropped whether daily bias is brand new or just a refresher to you highly recommend just to go check it out and if you're someone who's still constantly struggling with your trading you keep making the same mistakes you can't seem to get out of your head and honestly you just don't know what's wrong because trust me I've been there I recently just opened up my mentorship I spent the last 3 months making 60 videos of pretty much everything I know out of my 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