Hey traders and welcome to another episode. In today's video, we're going to show you the best technique for combining multiple time frames to perform professional technical analysis and build a clear, well-informed chart by blending price action with smart money and ICT concepts. You'll learn how to conduct a proper top- down analysis from the bigger picture down to the finest details and how to enter trades using powerful concepts like supply and demand levels, liquidity zones, and liquidity sweeps. We'll simplify multi-time frame analysis by breaking it down into easy to follow steps. By the end of this video, you'll have a simple step-by-step road map to confidently analyze the market and enter high probability trades. We always appreciate your support. So, please give this video a thumbs up and if you're new here, don't forget to subscribe. See you after intro. Welcome back traders. So let's get started. First, what is multi-time frame analysis? Multi-time frame analysis is the process of conducting technical analysis by examining price action from higher time frames down to lower ones. This method allows traders to see the bigger picture first, then zoom in to catch precise, high probability trade setups. When using multi-time frame analysis, there are three essential time frames every trader should work with. Number one, higher time frame. This is used to determine the dominant market direction. Who's in control, buyers or sellers? The higher time frame gives you the overall trend and context. Number two is analysis time frame. This is the most critical time frame. Here you assess market conditions, map out the structure, identify key liquidity zones, and define your bias. This is where most of your planning happens. Number three, entry time frame. Once your bias is clear, the entry time frame is where you zoom in to look for confirmation signals and execute your trades. Each mentioned time frame has different application. So now let's zoom into the details and break them down step by step from a microlevel view. The multi-time frame analysis starts with the higher time frame analysis. The first step before doing any chart analysis is to focus on 4hour or daily time frames. This is because these higher time frames provide a broader view of the market helping you stay aligned with the bigger picture and stay on the right side of the market. What we should do is identify the price's current dominant trend whether it's in an uptrend, downtrend, or rangebound. This helps you understand the market's overall direction. Along with that, you'll need to highlight key support and resistance levels on these higher time frames, especially on the daily chart. These levels act as critical points where price may reverse or break through, giving you important information. Identifying these areas is critical because the market is fractal, meaning patterns repeat across different time frames. A minor reaction or shift on a higher time frame like the daily or weekly, can lead to a significant change on lower time frames. Before placing any trade, we need to assess how much room we have before reaching a key level on the higher time frame. The next key factor to do for analyzing the higher time frame, especially if you choose the 4hour time frame as your main higher time frame, is to identify who's in control, buyers or sellers. What makes this important? Identifying which side is in control is crucial. Because if you don't know whether buyers or sellers are controlling the market, there's a high probability you'll end up on the wrong side of the market. Before we go any further, let's quickly recap. How do we identify who's really in control of the market? To see if demand or supply is in control, we need to check the 4hour time frame and look at the most recent price origin. For example, if the price is in a downtrend and comes from a fresh unmititigated supply zone, then supply is in control and we should look for selling opportunities. Supply remains in control until the price hits a fresh demand zone and reverses upward. At that point, demand takes control and we should stop looking for selling opportunities. So, identifying who's in control depends on how the price reacts to unmitigated supply and demand zones. Always remember that higher time frame fresh zones take priority over the time frame you're analyzing. This means if the price hits a fresh unmitigated zone from the opposite side on a higher time frame, it will shift control from demand to supply or vice versa. Every time the price breaks through a demand or supply zone, a new zone forms on the opposite side and one side loses control. For example, if the price breaks and closes above this supply zone, demand takes control and a new demand zone forms. If the bullish movement continues and the price breaks structures to the upside, each demand zone becomes a new buying opportunity. Since our bias is bullish, this bullish bias stays until the price hits a fresh unmitigated supply zone. Once the price reaches this zone, we no longer consider the market bullish as it has the potential to reverse the price and cause a temporary correction. At this point, there's a battle between buyers and sellers and the market might consolidate between supply and demand until one side takes control again. If the price breaks the most recent demand to the downside, it shows that supply has taken control, offering a selling opportunity. On the other hand, if the price breaks the supply zone to the upside, it indicates demand is in control, shifting the zone from supply to demand and giving a great chance to go long. Now, let's circle back to our main topic. The next step after completing the higher time frame analysis is to zoom into the analysis time frames like 1 hour and 30 minutes and 15 minutes time frames. These time frames are the most important parts of technical analysis you'll ever do. Because once you get the hang of it, you can avoid common traps and make better trading decisions. The reason we choose the 1 hour and 30 minute time frames for market structure mapping is that these time frames are mid-range. They don't produce misleading information like lower time frames do, making their data more reliable and understandable. Additionally, they provide signals more promptly than higher time frames. So to do proper technical analysis in this step, you need to identify the market's direction by focusing on major highs and lows to determine whether the price is in an uptrend, downtrend, or consolidation. This gives you a much more precise outlook for your intraday bias. Once you've identified the overall direction and major structural swing points on the chart, the next step is to mark any breaks of structure and look for market structure shifts or changes of character. After finishing the market structure mapping, the next step is to identify key areas like PD arrays within the analysis time frame. These PD arrays could be a fair value gap, an order block, a breaker block, or a mitigation block. But at this stage, the most important ones are order blocks and fair value gaps. For example, on this hourly Euro Dollar chart, we notice that the price formed a market structure shift by breaking through this major low and closing below it. We also notice that this bearish move created a fair value gap located just below an order block, making it an ideal supply area that could reverse price if it retraces back up into the order block. Once we've identified the key PD arrays, the next step is to mark liquidity levels and zones on the analysis time frame. But why do we need to do this? Because liquidity areas act like magnets for price. The price always tends to move toward them in the market. Also, smart money and market makers use these areas to fill their positions and move prices in their favor. By including liquidity areas in your analysis, you can avoid getting trapped by having the ability to predict the market's next move. There are many types of liquidity areas, but to simplify the concept and create a clear road map for multi-time frame analysis, let's focus on the most practical and main ones. But before we continue, if you're looking for a reliable trading platform with unique services, register with our trusted brokerage, markets.com, a cuttingedge platform for trading forex, stocks, crypto, and more, all in one place. Built for traders of all levels, markets.com offers top tier security, user-friendly tools, and a wide range of trading pairs. All designed for an exceptional trading experience. As a regulated and authorized broker, Markets.com secures your assets and funds and is trusted by nearly 5 million users with 17 years of experience. New clients can receive up to $2,000 as a welcome bonus, making it even easier to get started. So, if you're after a platform with excellent service, register with markets.com using the exclusive link in the description. Number one, equal lows and equal highs. Static liquidity usually builds up beneath equal lows and above equal highs because many stop-loss orders are stacked around these areas. These zones become prime targets for liquidity sweeps before the market makes a reversal. Number two, sellside side and buyside liquidity above or below major swing highs and lows. Similar to equal highs and lows, liquidity also collects just beyond major swing points where stop orders are hiding. For example, inside this range, this swing high acts as a buyside liquidity pool that we can target for future exits or profit taking. Number three, dynamic trend lines and channels. Dynamic trend lines and price channels attract liquidity as well. When price approaches the outer edges of a trend line or channel, liquidity tends to gather just beyond these boundaries, creating potential opportunities for smart entries or exits. The next important step on our analysis time frames checklist is identifying recent liquidity sweeps near the current price. We want to carefully look for signs of liquidity grabs and stop hunts around key static liquidity areas such as major highs, major lows, or important supply and demand zones. Catching these sweeps gives us a huge edge because it shows where the market has just collected liquidity and is likely to shift direction. The core idea behind identifying liquidity sweeps in our daily bias is simple. When sellside liquidity is cleared out through a sweep, the price often moves towards buyside liquidity and vice versa. This understanding helps us predict the next likely move of the market, especially when we're analyzing the 30 minute, 1 hour, and 15-minut time frames. The second reason liquidity sweeps are so important is that they add extra confirmation to our trades. Here's the logic. The market needs liquidity to build momentum. If price doesn't sweep liquidity before reaching a key level, it often uses that area to gather the liquidity it needs for the next major move. For example, look at this case. The price swept the buy side liquidity above this major high with a strong green candle. But notice the very next candle quickly closed back below the range. So what does that tell us? It signals that since the buyside liquidity has already been taken, the price is now likely to move lower towards sellside liquidity sitting below. If this behavior aligns with the overall market direction, it can give us a high probability selling opportunity. Even if it doesn't match the dominant trend, a liquidity sweep can still suggest a potential reversal, even if only temporary. Now, after completing all these key steps on the analysis time frame, you should have a solid understanding of the overall market sentiment and a clear idea of what price is more likely to do next. If everything looks perfect, meaning you've identified a highquality setup that aligns with your trading plan and both your micro and macro time frames are in agreement, then it's time to move to the next step. At this stage, we start searching for an entry point. This is where the entry time frames like the 5-minut or 1 minute charts come into play. Here you zoom in even closer to look for confirmation signals and finally execute your trade. The main reason we zoom into the lower time frames for execution is simple. It gives us a clearer view of the price action and offers a higher risk-to-reward ratio when we take positions on the micro time frames. Now, first things first. After zooming into the entry time frame, you need to wait for the price to tap into your analysis time frames area of interest and show signs of rejection. Once you see rejection, the next step is to look for a market structure shift or a change of character. After a market structure shift is confirmed, the next move is to identify a PD array. This could be a fair value gap, an order block, a breaker block, or a mitigation block. Which one you focus on will depend on your trading model and personal preference. And finally, after identifying the PD array on the entry time frame, we can use it to open a position and execute our order. Additionally, the entry time frames can be used to add extra confluence and confirmation to our trading setup, helping to increase its probability of success. You can also strengthen your setup by looking for VSR patterns or using tools like the volume profile or the fixed range volume indicator on the entry time frame. Now here on the Euro Dollar 1 hour time frame, we have an unmitigated bearish order block created by the bearish market structure shifts move presenting an ideal area to look for short opportunities if the price taps into it and shows rejection. At this point, I zoom into a lower time frame, typically the five-minut chart, to closely monitor the price action and watch for signs of a market structure shift. With the 5-minut chart on the screen, the next step is to patiently wait for the price to form both a market structure shift and a 5-minut PD array. Once these conditions are met, we can look for an entry to go short from the 5-minut PD array. Now we can see that price has created a market structure shift by breaking and closing below this swing low. This indicates that buying momentum is fading and sellers are once again taking control. Now our bias shifts to bearish on the 5-minut chart and we can confidently look for short opportunities. Also we can see that price has created a breaker block represented by these down close candles. The price formed a swing high, then a swing low followed by a higher high before immediately reversing and breaking below the down close candles. So, we have our 5-minut PD array that we were looking for. So, we can set a sell limit at its lowest point, aiming for the next clean swing low as our profit target. This shows how truly combining multi-time frame analysis with a clear road map on the chart can lead to well-informed trades and simplify the way you approach trading. That's it traders. Thanks for watching. I hope you found this video valuable. If you did, hit subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an update. Drop a comment below with your thoughts or topics you'd like to see next. Your support means the world to us. See you in the next