Structure Shift System - Trading Plan

Reversal of recent structural trend strategy.

Pairs: CADCHF, EURGBP, EURUSD, GBPCHF, GBPUSD, USDCAD, USDJPY, XAUUSD.

Personal Trading Times used: 9:00 - 14:00 UK time.

Risk Management:

- Maximum loss of -3R loss on a day and you must stop.

- Take every set up that fits the plan, using pending orders (sell limits and buy limits) as much as
possible.
- Stop loss is set between 1 and 2 pips below/ above stutter zone.
- See below for rules on setting Take Profits.
- See “Profit Taking/ Setting TP” for Trade Management rules.

Strategy Process:

- Using the 1m time frame ONLY.

- Pair must have some form of trending recent structure, i.e. minimum 2 structure breaks in 1
direction.
- Need to see price break structure in line with this short term trend.
- When structure breaks, price must pullback, stutter clearly ONCE, and then break structure back
the other way, breaking the start of the structural push from the first break.
- We then draw a Stutter Zone over the stutter, as this pushed price to break structure the other
way.
- Set a pending just above/ below the Stutter Zone (0.5 pips from the zone). Sell and Buy Limits.
- Place Stop loss between 1-2 pips above/ below Stutter Zone for every pair, except Gold. For
Gold set stop loss between 2-3 pips above/ below Stutter Zone. For example, if the top of the
Stutter Zone on USDCAD is 4.5 pips away, your SL would be 6 pips, as that is 1.5 pips above
the Stutter Zone, and 1.5 is between 1 and 2 pips.

Profit Taking/ Setting TP:

- For USDJPY, set your TP at 3R and move your SL to break even at 2R.
- For EURUSD and XAUUSD, set your TP at 5R and move your SL to break even at 2R.
- For CADCHF, EURGBP, GBPCHF, GBPUSD and USDCAD, when price reaches 2R in profit,
change your SL to a Trailing Stop, set from break even, and let the trade run. This will mean you
have a trailing stop of 2R from current price. For example, if you entered a trade with a 5 pip
stop loss on USDCAD, once price reaches 2R (+10 pips), set a trailing stop loss of 10 pips and
let your trade run. This allows for some huge wins to be caught without taking on extra risk. It
also means that we catch some profit if price instead returns back towards our entry.

Stutter Zone Notes:

- Draw the Stutter zone over the whole stutter candle area, including the wicks.
- The stutter zone should be between the Start of structural push and the maximum point of the
breakout, but should not be touching either of them.
- Price must not have touched the Start of structural push before a stutter forms.
- The stutter zone should be a 1 candle or few candle SIDEWAYS movement, not a new wave in
the structure.

Notes on Set Up Formation:

- There must only be 1 stutter.

- The push from the stutter to break the SOSP must not have any opposite bias candles.
- Before price shifts in structure, structure must have had some form of short term trend, e.g. we’d
like to see minimum 2 trending structures in one direction before the Structure Shift pattern.

Set Up Invalidation:

- If price doesn't come back to test your Stutter Zone at all, and instead continues off, this is self
explanatory as invalid.
- If price instead forms a new set up in the opposite direction, the original is invalid.
- The clearest set ups move cleanly out, back to the Stutter Zone, bounce and then
continue.

Notes:

- Set up numbers per day can be pretty high, so stay patient but also focused.
- You will likely forecast a lot of set ups that don’t appear, so don’t get attached to getting an entry.
- Make sure you still adjust the SL for the spread.
- There are no extra little rules, no discretion - follow these rules exactly as they are. Trading in
this way is essentially data collection with managed risk.