Slow-cooked ham, cooked for 5 hours in dry cider with garlic, onions, oregano and black pepper.
Removed from the slow cooker, generously coated in our homemade BBQ & hot honey glaze, then finished in the oven until sticky, caramelised and glorious.
Served with a heroic amount of chips. 😂
Sharing my HTF read on NAS100 going into the new week.
Price swept PDH and sold off before moving into a corrective phase. We then reached a Daily Demand/POI and got a strong reaction.
Price has since pushed back into a daily FVG, and so far we’re seeing price hold from this area.
Because of that, I’ll be going into the new week looking for longs, but I’m not interested in blindly buying the FVG.
I’ll be waiting for my LTF confirmation before considering an entry.
If the confirmation isn’t there, there’s no trade.
Interested to hear how others are reading NAS100 going into the new week?
Thought I’d share this one because the biggest win from this trade wasn’t the R multiple, it was the execution and management.
I was actually on the night shift when this setup appeared, so this one started during the Asia session and ended up running through Asia, London and into the stronger NY move.
Price was showing strong bullish intent. We had a bullish H4 structure break, with price pulling back into a H4 FVG.
Before the move higher, we swept some internal liquidity and then gave the reaction I was looking for.
For entry, I dropped down to the M5. The FVG I was targeting lined up nicely with OTE, giving me the area I wanted to see price react from.
One thing I had to manage was execution. My notification didn’t go off, so I missed the exact entry I originally wanted.
Rather than chasing price, I waited for M5 confirmation and entered once the setup was still valid.
Management was probably the biggest lesson:
Trailed behind M5 swing lows.
Allowed the trade room to develop.
Didn’t panic during pullbacks.
Price eventually started slowing and we saw some rejection forming on H1. I also had to start getting ready for work, so I closed the final position.
Final result: +5.14R
Risk was only 0.3%, so around a +1.5% gain.
Interestingly, after closing, price started building momentum again and those highs may still get taken.
And I’m genuinely fine with that.
A while ago I probably would have been frustrated thinking I’d left money on the table.
But the reality is, I took a high-quality setup, followed the process, managed risk and finished the day up.
The goal isn’t catching every last point. It’s becoming the trader who can execute the same process consistently.
Still learning and refining, but this one felt like a good step forward.
EURUSD continues to rally towards a higher time frame area that has my attention.
The grey box marks a Daily supply zone, but what makes this area particularly interesting is its alignment with the horizontal level shown by the orange ray. Looking left, price has reacted from this level on multiple occasions, suggesting it has acted as a meaningful area of interest in the past.
At this stage, I have no interest in selling before price reaches the zone. My plan is simply to let price come to me.
If price trades into this area, I’ll drop to the lower timeframes and monitor how price behaves. Ideally, I’d like to see signs of buyers losing control before considering any short positions. That could include a liquidity sweep, displacement to the downside and a clear market structure shift before looking for an entry on a retracement.
If none of those conditions develop, then there is no trade. The higher time frame level simply provides the context, price action will determine whether the idea becomes executable.
For now, this is a level on the watchlist rather than an active setup.
Yesterday was a good reminder that trading psychology is something you never really “master.”
I had a bullish bias on GU with clear liquidity targets. SSL had been taken and my setup was there. The only thing that put me off was the price action. After the previous day’s news it just didn’t look as clean as I’d normally like, so I decided to sit it out.
The frustrating part, my original idea played out perfectly and would have hit my target.
Instead of accepting it and moving on, I let it get to me.
By the afternoon I was still thinking about the trade I’d missed. I wasn’t really seeing anything that fit my rules, but I convinced myself there had to be another opportunity. I forced a trade that wasn’t there… and lost.
Looking back, I knew I should have walked away from the charts.
It’s funny how you can think you’ve got your emotions under control, only for something like a missed winner to expose another weakness you didn’t know was there 🤦🏻♂️
Another lesson learned. Trading isn’t just about reading price. It’s about reading yourself.
I know a lot of people on here don’t like TJR. Personally, I do.
He’s funny, charismatic, and as someone who’s been teaching themselves to trade, I’ve found his videos informative and easy enough to understand.
People often say he’s a scammer or just another course seller. Whether that’s true or not isn’t really for me to say. But I look at it this way: if you become genuinely good at something and people want to learn from you, of course you’re going to sell your knowledge.
How is that any different from a personal trainer selling workout plans, or a maths tutor charging for lessons?
From what I’ve seen, he doesn’t come across as someone who was born into money. It seems like he put in the same long hours that many of us are putting in now to learn a difficult skill.
I think people are sometimes too quick to label trading YouTubers as scammers. Some absolutely deserve criticism, but I don’t think it’s fair to assume they’re all frauds simply because they charge for education. If someone has built a skill through years of work and people are willing to pay to learn from them, I don’t really see an issue with that.
Genuinely interested to hear both sides. If you think TJR is a scammer, what evidence convinced you?
What’s the one trading rule that genuinely made you more profitable?
Not your favourite indicator or strategy.
I’m talking about a single rule that changed the way you trade.
For me, it’s waiting for confirmation instead of anticipating the move. I miss some trades now, but I avoid far more bad ones.
Interested to hear what rule made the biggest difference for everyone else.
Today was one of those frustrating days where every pair I was watching just seemed to dump without me. I’d have a level marked out, price would get close… then it’d just carry on without ever giving me an entry.
A year ago I’d probably have talked myself into chasing one of them.
Instead I just left them alone.
Eventually NAS100 gave me exactly what I’d been waiting for.
H1 was bearish, I’d already marked out a M15 supply zone, so once price pulled back into it I dropped to the M1.
From there it was pretty much textbook.
Displacement.
MSS.
FVG.
Small sweep of internal liquidity.
Entry.
The funny thing is, actually taking the trade was the easy part.
The hard part was watching the markets move for hours and convincing myself that no setup is still information.
Not every move is my move.
I managed this one exactly how I’d planned. Took some off, moved to breakeven, trailed the rest and called it a day.
Could it have gone further?
Probably.
Am I bothered?
Not really.
I’m starting to realise trading isn’t about finding more trades.
It’s about waiting for your trade.
18 months ago I thought trading was all about learning entries.
Now I’m starting to think the real skill is learning when not to enter.
Today was a frustrating one.
I was short GBPUSD and the trade was developing exactly as I’d planned. Unfortunately, I started losing phone signal, meaning I couldn’t reliably monitor or manage the position.
I’m currently trading a funded evaluation, so protecting the account comes before squeezing every last pip out of a trade.
I made the decision to close early for around +0.27% rather than risk being disconnected while the trade was open.
A couple of hours later, price continued almost exactly to my original target.
Of course, it’s tempting to think, “I should’ve just left it.” But that’s outcome bias.
At the time, I had two choices:
• Stay in a trade I could no longer manage and hope everything worked out.
• Bank a profit, protect the evaluation, and live to trade another day.
I’d make the same decision again.
For me, passing an evaluation isn’t about proving every analysis is perfect. It’s about protecting capital and surviving long enough for your edge to play out over hundreds of trades.
Sometimes the market will keep running after you exit. Sometimes it’ll reverse and you’ll be glad you got out. You don’t get to know which one it’ll be beforehand.
Today I’ll take the small win, keep my funded account challenge healthy, and wait for the next A+ setup.
I’ve been learning to trade since January 2025, and it’s been one hell of a journey.
I’ve studied market structure, support and resistance, supply and demand, Fibonacci, Fair Value Gaps, inverse FVGs, Smart Money Concepts… and plenty more. Like most people starting out, I was constantly searching for the missing piece.
Along the way I’ve failed funded evaluations, had winning streaks that made me think I’d cracked it, got cocky, been humbled by the market, made it to a funded account, and then lost it before seeing a payout.
Every mistake has taught me something.
I’m still not consistently profitable, and I’m still very much on this journey. But for the first time since I started, I genuinely feel like I’ve found an approach that makes sense to me.
I’ve stripped everything back and built my own process - the Precision Liquidity Model (PLM). It’s not about predicting the market; it’s about following a structured plan based on higher-timeframe bias, liquidity, areas of interest, market structure shifts, and disciplined execution.
The chart I’m sharing is actually a trade I didn’t take.
Everything lined up. Price reacted exactly as I expected from my point of interest, but by the time I was ready to execute, it had already started dumping. I’d missed my entry.
A year ago I would’ve chased it. I’d have convinced myself I could still catch the move, jumped in late, and more often than not paid the price for it.
This time I let it go.
Watching a move play out without me wasn’t frustrating. It was proof that my discipline is improving.
That might not sound like much, but to me it’s a huge victory.
I’m enjoying the process more than ever, and when I compare myself to the trader I was on day one, I can honestly say I’ve come a long way.
I’m under no illusion that there’s still a long road ahead, but today I’m allowing myself to appreciate the progress.
Sometimes the biggest win isn’t catching every move. It’s having the discipline to stick to your rules, even when the market leaves without you.
Good luck to everyone else on the same journey. Keep putting in the work. 👊