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COMPLETE TRADING RULES EXTRACTION

ICC Trading Strategy - 1H-4H Analysis for 5-15min

Execution
Source: 13-Day Trading Course (8-10 hours of content)
Focus: Price action trading using 1H-4H timeframes for swing structure, 5-15min for precise entries
Generated: December 8, 2025

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Core Strategy: ICC (Indication, Correction, Continuation)
2. Market Structure Fundamentals
3. Timeframe Correlation Rules
4. Entry & Exit Rules
5. Stop Loss Placement
6. Swing High/Low Identification
7. Chart Markup Guidelines
8. Trading Sessions & Volume
9. Risk Management & Psychology
10. What NOT To Do

CORE STRATEGY: ICC

ICC Definition
ICC = Indication → Correction → Continuation

This is a 3-step price action strategy that identifies trend direction, waits for pullbacks, and executes
on the continuation.

The Three Steps

1. INDICATION
Definition: When price breaks above a swing high OR below a swing low on 1H/4H timeframe

Rules:
- ✅ Indication ONLY happens when breaking swing highs/lows
- ✅ Always creates a new high or new low
- ✅ Mark on 1-hour or 4-hour timeframe ONLY
- ✅ Shows direction price wants to move
- ❌ NEVER trade the indication/breakout itself
- ❌ Wait for second confirmation (continuation)
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Quote: “Indications can only come from price breaking a swing high or swing low. That’s it. If it’s not
breaking either one, it’s not an indication.”

2. CORRECTION
Definition: The pullback after indication, grabbing liquidity from FOMO/breakout traders

Rules:
- ✅ Happens after indication
- ✅ Grabs liquidity from breakout traders
- ✅ Monitor on 15-minute timeframe (scale down from 1H/4H)
- ✅ Correction grabs FOMO traders, revenge traders, greedy traders
- ✅ Price normally does NOT go all the way back to previous level
- ❌ Do NOT trade during correction phase
- ❌ Avoid the “opening the Coke bottle” explosion

Purpose:
- Liquidity grab - market taking money from poor positions
- Shake out weak hands before real move
- “Market sees there’s money to grab, then comes back”

Quote: “Corrections happen after price makes a new high or new low. The market is taking in all the
FOMO traders, the greedy traders.”

3. CONTINUATION
Definition: When price breaks back above/below the indication level a SECOND TIME

Rules:
- ✅ THIS IS YOUR ENTRY ZONE
- ✅ Use 5-minute or 15-minute timeframe for entries
- ✅ Enter when price breaks back above (buy) or below (sell) the indication level
- ✅ Look for market structure alignment (lower highs for sells, higher lows for buys)
- ✅ Entry should be where indication level was broken originally
- ✅ More conservative: Wait for price to break the level again before entering
- ✅ Target the previous swing high (for buys) or swing low (for sells)

Quote: “The continuation is after the correction is over, you’re waiting for price to flip the trend and
take it back up. This is your entry model.”

MARKET STRUCTURE FUNDAMENTALS

Trend Identification
UPTREND
Components:
- Higher Highs (HH)
- Higher Lows (HL)

Rules:
- ✅ Each high must be higher than previous high
- ✅ Each low must be higher than previous low
- ✅ Price respects support levels (doesn’t break them)
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- ✅ If trending, price will NOT break support unless reversing

- ❌ If support breaks = trend changing or consolidating

Quote: “If price is on an uptrend, it should not break its structure unless it’s reversing.”

DOWNTREND
Components:
- Lower Highs (LH)
- Lower Lows (LL)

Rules:
- ✅ Each high must be lower than previous high
- ✅ Each low must be lower than previous low
- ✅ Price respects resistance levels (doesn’t break them)
- ✅ If trending, price will NOT break resistance unless reversing
- ❌ If resistance breaks = trend changing or consolidating

CONSOLIDATION
Definition: Price breaking structure both ways, no clear direction

Rules:
- ❌ DO NOT TRADE consolidation
- ❌ Price breaking rules = stay away
- ✅ Wait for clear indication above/below consolidation range
- ✅ Consolidation = “shaking up the Coke bottle” - accumulating money before breakout

Quote: “Consolidation is when a high and a low is being broken back and forth. It has no rules. You
don’t want to put yourself around something breaking the rules.”

Swing Highs and Swing Lows

Definition
• Swing High: Highest point before price reverses downward
• Swing Low: Lowest point before price reverses upward

Identification Rules
• ✅ Mark on 1-hour or 4-hour timeframe (primary)
• ✅ Use body closes not just wicks for key levels
• ✅ Look for dramatic change in direction (visual cue)
• ✅ “Previous push” - where did this momentum come from?
• ❌ Don’t mark every small fluctuation
• ❌ Don’t zoom in too much - keep higher timeframe perspective

Visual Cues:
- Price hits a level and sharply reverses
- Clear pivot point visible on chart
- Multiple rejections at same level
- Strong volume/momentum change

Quote: “Swing highs and swing lows is a visual cue. You can visually see it. Price comes up to a
certain highest point and then goes completely opposite direction.”
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Higher Timeframe Principle

Core Rule: The higher the timeframe, the stronger the level

Strength Hierarchy:
1. Daily > 4-Hour > 1-Hour > 30-Min > 15-Min > 5-Min

Rules:
- ✅ 4-hour levels are stronger than 1-hour
- ✅ 1-hour levels are stronger than 15-min
- ✅ Always default to higher timeframe if conflict
- ✅ Higher timeframe will always take back control eventually
- ✅ Use 4H/Daily for long-term swing trades
- ✅ Use 1H for day trading that can turn into swings

Quote: “The higher time frame is always going to take back control and it’s going to be way
stronger.”

TIMEFRAME CORRELATION RULES

The Framework
Markup: 1-Hour or 4-Hour
Monitoring Correction: 15-Minute
Entry Execution: 15-Minute or 5-Minute

Step-by-Step Correlation
Step 1: Mark Up (1H or 4H)
• Identify swing highs and swing lows
• Determine trend direction
• Mark indication levels
• Identify no-trade zones

Step 2: Wait for Indication

• Price breaks swing high/low on 1H/4H
• Creates new high or new low
• DO NOT ENTER YET

Step 3: Monitor Correction (15-Min)

• Scale down to 15-minute chart
• Watch price pull back (correction phase)
• Wait for correction to finish
• Look for market structure change

Step 4: Execute Entry (15-Min or 5-Min)

• Price breaks back through indication level
• Look for lower highs + lower lows (sell) or higher highs + higher lows (buy)
• Enter when price confirms direction on lower timeframe
• Place stop loss using lower timeframe structure
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Correlation Rules
RULE 1: Everything must align
- ✅ If 4H is bearish, 1H should turn bearish, then 15-min should turn bearish
- ✅ Each timeframe must confirm the direction
- ❌ Don’t trade if timeframes contradict

RULE 2: Scale down only for correction and continuation

- ✅ Do markup on 1H/4H
- ✅ Only scale to 15-min/5-min during correction phase
- ❌ Don’t do initial markup on lower timeframes

RULE 3: Entry clarity

- ✅ Use whichever lower timeframe shows structure most clearly
- ✅ If 5-min is clearer than 15-min, use 5-min
- ✅ If 15-min is clearer, use 15-min
- ❌ Don’t force one over the other

Quote: “Everything has to correlate with each other. If you’re using a one-hour time frame, everything
under the one-hour has to correlate with that one-hour time frame.”

ENTRY & EXIT RULES

Entry Criteria
For SELL Entries (Shorts)
Setup Requirements:
1. ✅ Indication: New low created on 1H/4H (broke swing low)
2. ✅ Correction: Price pulled back up (monitored on 15-min)
3. ✅ Market structure: Lower highs forming on 15-min/5-min
4. ✅ Entry trigger: Price breaks back UNDER indication level
5. ✅ Confirmation: Price breaking support on lower timeframe

Entry Location:
- Conservative: Enter when price breaks below support after lower high forms
- Aggressive: Enter as price comes back under indication level during session volume
- Best: Above indication level + New York/London session volume

Quote: “Under this level, I was looking for price to go bearish. All I’m doing is waiting for that
correction to happen, looking at it on the 15-minute time frame, scaling in.”

For BUY Entries (Longs)

Setup Requirements:
1. ✅ Indication: New high created on 1H/4H (broke swing high)
2. ✅ Correction: Price pulled back down (monitored on 15-min)
3. ✅ Market structure: Higher lows forming on 15-min/5-min
4. ✅ Entry trigger: Price breaks back ABOVE indication level
5. ✅ Confirmation: Price breaking resistance on lower timeframe

Entry Location:
- Conservative: Enter when price breaks above resistance after higher low forms
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- Aggressive: Enter as price comes back above indication level during session volume
- Best: Above indication level + New York/London session volume

Target (Take Profit) Rules

Primary Target
Rule: Target the PREVIOUS swing high (for buys) or swing low (for sells) that created the indication

Why: This is where sellers (for buys) or buyers (for sells) originally were

Example:
- Sell indication broke swing low at 100
- Correction happened
- Entry at continuation under 100
- Target: Previous swing low that was broken (where indication came from)

Secondary Targets (Advanced)

Scale down to 1H for better targeting:
- Look for NEW high/low being created
- If price breaks through primary target with strong momentum
- Trail stop loss to previous swing on lower timeframe
- Exit when market structure breaks (lower high for buys, higher low for sells)

Soft TPs: Don’t set hard limit orders at exact level - use alerts and monitor price action

Quote: “Your TP is going to be that one hour level because this is where everything started in the first
place. Target here because that is where that low was made.”

Exit Rules
Mandatory Exit Conditions
1. ❌ Stop loss hit
2. ❌ Market structure breaks (trend reversal)
3. ❌ Price breaks through previous support (buys) or resistance (sells)
4. ✅ Primary target reached
5. ✅ Lower timeframe shows opposite trend forming

Holding Trades (Swing Trading)

When to hold:
- ✅ Price breaks through primary target cleanly
- ✅ Market structure still intact (respecting higher lows/lower highs)
- ✅ Higher timeframe trend still valid
- ✅ No break of structure on 1H

When to exit:
- ❌ 15-min timeframe forms opposite structure
- ❌ Price makes lower high (if long) or higher low (if short)
- ❌ Break of 1H support/resistance
- ❌ Consolidation forms

Quote: “I try to take a trade on one day and then be able to hold for the week. You’ll make more
money that way. You won’t be having these consistent losses because you’re taking 30 trades a day.”
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Partial Profit Taking

Strategy: Scale out at key levels

Method:
1. Take partial profit at primary target (e.g., 50% position)
2. Move stop loss to breakeven
3. Let remainder run for trend continuation
4. Trail stop using lower timeframe structure

STOP LOSS PLACEMENT

Core Principles
Fundamental Rule: Stop loss goes where trade is INVALIDATED

For Sells:
- ✅ Place stop loss ABOVE the lower high
- ✅ If multiple lower highs, use most recent one
- ✅ Give room for wicks - use body closes
- ❌ Don’t place too tight - price needs breathing room (especially Nasdaq)

For Buys:
- ✅ Place stop loss BELOW the higher low
- ✅ If multiple higher lows, use most recent one
- ✅ Give room for wicks - use body closes
- ❌ Don’t place too tight - price needs breathing room

Stop Loss Location Examples

Sell Trade Stop Loss

Scenario: Downtrend with lower highs forming

- Previous high: 110
- Lower high 1: 108
- Lower high 2: 106
- Entry: Below 106 when price breaks down
- Stop Loss: Above 106 (above most recent lower high)

Why: If price breaks above 106, trend is broken = trade invalid

Buy Trade Stop Loss

Scenario: Uptrend with higher lows forming

- Previous low: 90
- Higher low 1: 92
- Higher low 2: 94
- Entry: Above 94 when price breaks up
- Stop Loss: Below 94 (below most recent higher low)

Why: If price breaks below 94, trend is broken = trade invalid

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Stop Loss Mistakes to Avoid

❌ Too Tight: Placing stop too close to entry
- Problem: Normal market movement stops you out
- Solution: Use support/resistance on 1H, not 5-min

❌ Too Loose: Risking too much

- Problem: Big loss when wrong
- Solution: Adjust position size, not stop distance

❌ Wrong Level: Using arbitrary number instead of structure

- Problem: Stop isn’t at invalidation point
- Solution: Always use market structure (higher low/lower high)

❌ Moving Stop: Moving stop loss away from entry after placing trade
- Problem: Violates risk management, emotional trading
- Solution: Set and forget stop loss

Quote: “Your stop loss should be at a level where if it hits your stop loss, your trend, your trade is in‐
validated.”

Risk Management with Stop Loss

Position Sizing Formula:

Position Size = Risk Amount / (Entry Price - Stop Loss Price)

Example:
- Account: $10,000
- Risk: 2% = $200
- Entry: 100
- Stop Loss: 98
- Risk per unit: $2
- Position Size: $200 / $2 = 100 units

Key Principles:
- ✅ Risk 1-5% per trade (depending on account size and experience)
- ✅ Aim for 1:3 or 1:4 risk-to-reward minimum
- ✅ Calculate position size BEFORE entering
- ❌ Never risk money you can’t afford to lose
- ❌ Don’t increase position size mid-trade

SWING HIGH/LOW IDENTIFICATION

Visual Identification Method
Primary Method: Look for dramatic changes in direction

Process:
1. Start on 1-hour or 4-hour chart
2. Scan for obvious pivot points
3. Look for where price “stepped on the gas” or “hit the brakes”
4. Mark levels where price made sharp reversals
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Key Indicators:
- Price shoots up/down rapidly, then reverses sharply
- Multiple rejections at same level
- Large candle bodies followed by reversal
- Clear “V” or inverted “V” shape formation

Swing High Rules

Definition: The highest point price reaches before reversing downward

Characteristics:
- ✅ Sellers sitting at this level
- ✅ Price rejected multiple times
- ✅ Created downward momentum
- ✅ Visible on 1H/4H chart

How to Mark:
- Use body close, not just wick (for precision)
- Look for where price “stopped” and reversed
- Don’t mark every small high - only significant ones

Quote: “This is our highest point. Like smoking weed, right? You smoke weed and you’re like, ‘Yo, this
is the highest I can get.’ Same with price - this is the highest you think price can get.”

Swing Low Rules

Definition: The lowest point price reaches before reversing upward

Characteristics:
- ✅ Buyers sitting at this level
- ✅ Price supported multiple times
- ✅ Created upward momentum
- ✅ Visible on 1H/4H chart

How to Mark:
- Use body close, not just wick (for precision)
- Look for where price “bounced” and reversed
- Don’t mark every small low - only significant ones

Common Mistakes
❌ Over-marking: Marking every tiny fluctuation
- Solution: Zoom out, only mark major pivots

❌ Using low timeframes: Marking on 5-min/15-min

- Solution: Always mark on 1H or 4H

❌ Ignoring wicks: Completely disregarding wick rejections

- Solution: Note wicks but use body for precision

❌ Going too far back: Using levels from months ago

- Solution: Focus on last 3-4 days (or 3-4 sessions)
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Practical Example
Looking at current price:
1. Scan back 3-4 days on 1H chart
2. Identify highest point - mark as swing high
3. Identify lowest point - mark as swing low
4. These are your key levels
5. Wait for break above high or below low (indication)

Quote: “Only need one to three sessions. Three sessions. This is all we need. To be honest, sometimes
you don’t even need that many.”

CHART MARKUP GUIDELINES

Markup Process
Step 1: Clean Chart
• Remove all indicators
• Clear old markings
• Fresh perspective

Step 2: Identify Current Price

• Where is price NOW?
• What’s happening in real-time?

Step 3: Find Closest Swing High/Low

• Look at last 3-4 days
• Mark swing high
• Mark swing low
• These are your KEY levels

Step 4: Draw Range (No-Trade Zone)

• Between swing high and swing low = no-trade zone
• Wait for break above or below

Step 5: Mark Previous Structure

• Where did this swing high come from? (support that pushed it up)
• Where did this swing low come from? (resistance that pushed it down)
• Mark these levels

Step 6: Set Alerts

• Alert above swing high
• Alert below swing low
• Wait for indication

What to Mark
Essential Markings:
- ✅ Swing highs (resistance)
- ✅ Swing lows (support)
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- ✅ Indication breakout levels

- ✅ No-trade zones (between high/low)

Optional Markings:
- Lower highs (in downtrend)
- Higher lows (in uptrend)
- Previous push levels (where momentum came from)

Don’t Mark:
- ❌ Every candle high/low
- ❌ Minor fluctuations
- ❌ Arbitrary round numbers
- ❌ Levels from weeks/months ago

Color Coding System

Suggested System:
- Yellow boxes: Key swing high/low zones
- Lines: Specific price levels
- Circles: Indication breakout points
- Arrows: Direction of expected move

Keep it Simple:
“Your chart should have gray boxes, maybe circles, maybe arrows and a line. That’s pretty much it.”

Tools & Helpers

Pivot Points Indicator:
- Use as a guide, not gospel
- Helps identify potential swing levels
- Verify manually - don’t rely solely on indicator
- “High and Low” pivot point setting on TradingView

Sessions Indicator:
- Mark London and New York sessions
- Helps identify when volume comes in
- “Junior FX Addict” sessions indicator (2.2k users)
- Shows when to expect movement

Quote: “Indicators: turn on sessions. Gold trades in London and New York. Turn on your sessions so
you know when volume is coming.”

TRADING SESSIONS & VOLUME

Critical Volume Times
Most Important Rule: Trade during session opens for volume

New York Session

Time: 9:30 AM EST (bell open)

Characteristics:
- 🔥 Highest volume for USD pairs, Nasdaq, Gold, Indices
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- 🔥 Strongest momentum moves

- 🔥 Best for day trading entries
- 🔥 Continuation moves happen here

What to Trade:
- Gold
- Nasdaq (NAS100)
- US30 (Dow Jones)
- SPX 500
- USD pairs

Strategy:
- ✅ Enter trades during 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST
- ✅ This is when indication continuation happens
- ✅ Volume drives price in intended direction
- ❌ Avoid trading after 4:00 PM EST (low volume)

Quote: “New York session for me starts at 9:30. That is when the bell opens. This is when the New
York Stock Exchange is opening.”

London Session
Time: 3:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Characteristics:
- Strong volume for European pairs
- Can see indications form
- Good for GBP, EUR pairs
- Gold has movement

What to Trade:
- GBPUSD
- EURUSD
- Gold
- Some crypto (Bitcoin, Solana)

Strategy:
- ✅ Can catch early momentum
- ✅ Good for swing positions
- ✅ Watch for indications during London
- ✅ Often see corrections during London before NY continuation

Asian Session
Time: 7:00 PM - 4:00 AM EST

Characteristics:
- ⚠️ Low volume - avoid trading
- Consolidation often forms
- Price movement is choppy
- “Out of session” - fake volume

Strategy:
- ❌ Generally avoid trading
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- ✅ Can be used for analysis and planning

- ✅ Set alerts for London/NY open
- ❌ Don’t make trading decisions based on Asian movement

Quote: “This whole time it’s out of session, that’s what price did. Price ended up finishing off and
became bullish. So now the one-hour is aligning with the four-hour.”

Volume Principles
Rule 1: Volume = Movement
- More volume = stronger, more reliable moves
- Low volume = chop, fake outs, consolidation

Rule 2: Trade what people invest in

- Nasdaq, Gold, indices - people constantly investing
- Strong volume drives these
- Forex pairs (EUR/USD etc.) more stable, less explosive moves

Rule 3: Avoid out-of-session trading

- After NY close, volume dies
- Weekend gaps unpredictable
- Wait for session open

Things Driven by Volume:

- ✅ New York Stock Exchange open
- ✅ Economic news releases
- ✅ Trump tweets (market-moving events)
- ✅ Earnings reports
- ✅ Federal Reserve announcements

Quote: “Trading things where it has more movements will normally come down to investments. Are
people investing their money into this?”

RISK MANAGEMENT & PSYCHOLOGY

Position Sizing
Core Principle: Risk only what you can afford to lose

Recommended Risk Per Trade:

- Beginners: 1-2% of account
- Intermediate: 2-5% of account
- Advanced: 5-10% (only if proven track record)

Example:

Account: $10,000
Risk: 2% = $200 per trade
Stop loss distance: 100 pips
Position size: $200 / 100 pips = $2 per pip
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Rules:
- ✅ Risk consistent percentage each trade
- ✅ Calculate position size BEFORE entering
- ✅ Never risk more than you can lose
- ❌ Don’t increase risk after losses (revenge trading)
- ❌ Don’t overtrade to “make it back”

Quote: “When you’re trading, or when you’re working a job and you’re trading, some of you guys are
probably making around 60 to 90 dollars a day. That should be your mindset. You only need two solid
trades a week to make your paycheck.”

Capital Building Strategy

Don’t Start Trading With:
- ❌ Last $100
- ❌ Bill money
- ❌ Borrowed money
- ❌ Money you can’t afford to lose

Proper Approach:
1. Work job/jobs to build capital
2. Save $1,000-$3,000 dedicated to trading
3. Learn while saving (demo trading)
4. Once capital saved + proven on demo = go live

Why:
- Removes emotional pressure
- Allows proper position sizing
- Can absorb losses without devastation
- Clear head for decision making

Quote: “You need at least $2,000 to $3,000. You don’t want to trade your way out of your job that
same week trying to flip $500.”

Psychology Rules
Rule 1: You Are NOT a Genie
• ❌ Don’t predict the market
• ✅ Follow what price shows you
• ✅ React to price action, don’t forecast

Quote: “Stop trying to be this fucking genie, bro. You don’t have a crystal ball. Just follow what price is
doing.”

Rule 2: Position Yourself Correctly

• Think in terms of “positioning” not “trades”
• Put yourself in high-probability situations
• Like chess - position for advantage

Example:
- Bad: Enter late with tight stop
- Good: Enter at key level with room for stop
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Rule 3: Patience & Discipline

• ✅ Wait for full setup (indication + correction + continuation)
• ✅ It’s okay to miss a trade for more confirmation
• ❌ Don’t FOMO into breakouts
• ❌ Don’t revenge trade after loss

Quote: “It’s okay to miss out on one trade. You can catch the rest if the higher timeframe is building
that trend.”

Rule 4: Avoid Common Psychological Traps

FOMO (Fear of Missing Out):
- Trading the breakout without waiting for correction
- Entering without full confirmation
- Solution: Wait for continuation, follow ICC

Greed:
- Overleveraging position
- Not taking profits at target
- Holding too long
- Solution: Stick to plan, take profits

Revenge Trading:
- Trying to “make back” losses immediately
- Taking random setups to recover
- Increasing position size after loss
- Solution: Step away, follow plan, consistent risk

Fear:
- Not entering valid setups
- Exiting winners too early
- Second-guessing analysis
- Solution: Trust your analysis, follow rules

Quote: “Trading has truly made me build this mindset and eliminate greed and eliminate false hope in
a trade. It made me leave so much behind.”

Trading Journal Requirements

What to Track:
- Entry price and time
- Stop loss level
- Target level
- Timeframe used (1H/4H for markup, 15-min/5-min for entry)
- Reason for trade (setup type, indication level)
- Session traded (NY/London)
- Outcome (win/loss, R:R achieved)
- Emotional state
- What you learned

Why:
- Identifies patterns in your trading
- Shows what works and what doesn’t
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- Reveals psychological weaknesses

- Proves your edge over time

Building Trading Discipline

Daily Routine:
1. Morning Analysis (Before Session):
- Mark up charts on 1H/4H
- Identify current swing highs/lows
- Set alerts above/below key levels
- Note potential setups

1. Session Trading (9:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST):

- Wait for alerts to trigger
- Confirm setup on lower timeframe
- Execute entry if all criteria met
- Set stop loss and target
- Walk away

2. End of Day Review:

- Journal the trade
- Review what worked
- Note any mistakes
- Plan for tomorrow

Quote: “I set alerts on TradingView. When I set alerts, the alerts would come up on my watch. I would
pull out my phone. Click buy, set my stop loss, get off my phone. It takes one minute.”

WHAT NOT TO DO
❌ NEVER Trade Consolidation
Why:
- Price breaks rules
- No clear direction
- High risk of whipsaw
- Unpredictable movement

How to Identify:
- Price breaking both swing high AND swing low
- No clear trend
- Equal highs and equal lows
- Choppy, sideways movement

What to Do:
- ✅ Wait on sidelines
- ✅ Set alerts above/below range
- ✅ Only enter when indication breaks out

Quote: “Consolidation, don’t trade it. I’m telling you now, don’t trade it.”
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❌ NEVER Trade the Indication/Breakout

Why:
- “Opening the Coke bottle” - explosive but temporary
- FOMO traders get liquidated
- Correction will shake you out
- Low probability entry point

What to Do:
- ✅ Wait for correction to happen
- ✅ Enter on continuation (second time)
- ✅ Better risk-to-reward

Quote: “Most people will see breakouts and there was some that I profited on, but what I like to focus
on is not what just makes me profitable, what makes me consistent.”

❌ NEVER Trade Low Volume Times

Avoid:
- Asian session (7 PM - 4 AM EST)
- After NY close (after 4 PM EST)
- Weekends
- Holidays

Why:
- Fake volume
- Price manipulation
- Gaps and spikes
- Unreliable price action

Quote: “You really just want to be careful and trade that 9:30, 8 o’clock. Those are the times you
really just kind of want to be in the markets.”

❌ NEVER Use Lower Timeframes for Markup

Wrong:
- Marking swing highs/lows on 5-min chart
- Using 15-min for trend identification
- Building strategy off lower timeframe structure

Right:
- ✅ Always mark up on 1H or 4H
- ✅ Use lower timeframes ONLY for entries
- ✅ Structure comes from higher timeframe

Quote: “Do not come on, do not wake up in the morning and mark your charts up on the 15-minute
time frame and the five-minute time frame. No.”

❌ NEVER Trade Without Stop Loss

Why:
- One bad trade can blow account
- Emotional decision making
- No defined risk
- Can’t calculate position size
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Always:
- ✅ Set stop loss BEFORE entering
- ✅ Place at invalidation point
- ✅ Calculate position size based on stop
- ❌ Never move stop away from entry

❌ NEVER Revenge Trade

What is it:
- Trading immediately after a loss
- Trying to “make it back”
- Emotional trading
- Overleveraging to recover

Why it fails:
- Not following strategy
- Clouded judgment
- Higher risk
- Often leads to more losses

What to do instead:
- ✅ Step away after loss
- ✅ Review what went wrong
- ✅ Wait for next valid setup
- ✅ Keep consistent risk

Quote: “Revenge trading, FOMO, greed - trading has made me leave so much behind.”

❌ NEVER Trade Low Volume Pairs

Avoid:
- AUDNZD
- CHFJPY
- Exotic pairs
- Pairs without major economy involvement

Why:
- Low movement
- Wide spreads
- Unpredictable
- Strategies don’t work as well

Trade instead:
- ✅ Gold
- ✅ Nasdaq (NAS100)
- ✅ US30
- ✅ Bitcoin, Solana (crypto)
- ✅ GBPUSD, EURUSD (if must trade forex)

Quote: “The people that really make a lot of money in trading, they don’t trade no fucking AUDNZD.
They’re trading gold, they’re trading Nasdaq, they’re trading US30.”
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❌ NEVER Overtrade
What is it:
- Taking 10+ trades per day
- Trading every tiny movement
- Forcing trades when no setup
- Day trading on 5-min structure

Why it fails:
- Transaction costs add up
- Mental exhaustion
- Not following plan
- Missing quality setups

Proper frequency:
- ✅ 2-3 quality trades per week
- ✅ Hold trades 1-3 days (swing trading)
- ✅ Focus on 1H/4H setups
- ✅ Quality over quantity

Quote: “I only take maybe like six or seven trades, maybe a month. Trades like this, they go on for
two, three days.”

❌ NEVER Use Complex Systems

Avoid:
- Multiple indicators
- Complex chart patterns
- Advanced mathematics
- Proprietary “secret” systems

Why:
- Analysis paralysis
- Conflicting signals
- Overthinking
- Not sustainable

Keep it simple:
- ✅ Price action only
- ✅ Support and resistance (swing highs/lows)
- ✅ Market structure
- ✅ ICC strategy

Quote: “Trading is easier than what you think it is. People always make it seem like trading is like this
super hard thing to get into, but honestly, it’s not.”

PRACTICAL APPLICATION CHECKLIST

Pre-Trade Checklist (Use Before Every Entry)
Timeframe & Markup:
- [ ] Marked up on 1H or 4H
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- [ ] Identified swing high

- [ ] Identified swing low
- [ ] Current trend direction identified
- [ ] No consolidation present

ICC Setup:
- [ ] Indication happened (new high or new low)
- [ ] Correction occurred (monitored on 15-min)
- [ ] Price showing continuation back through indication level
- [ ] Market structure aligning on lower timeframe

Entry Criteria:
- [ ] Entry on 5-min or 15-min timeframe
- [ ] For sells: Lower highs formed + breaking support
- [ ] For buys: Higher lows formed + breaking resistance
- [ ] Trading during New York or London session
- [ ] Volume present (not out of session)

Risk Management:
- [ ] Stop loss level identified (above lower high OR below higher low)
- [ ] Target level identified (previous swing high/low)
- [ ] Position size calculated
- [ ] Risk = 1-5% of account
- [ ] Risk-to-reward ratio at least 1:3

Execution:
- [ ] All criteria met - ENTER TRADE
- [ ] Set stop loss immediately
- [ ] Set alert at target level
- [ ] Walk away - let trade work

If ANY box unchecked = DO NOT TRADE

SUMMARY: THE COMPLETE TRADING SYSTEM

1. PREPARATION PHASE
• Open 1H or 4H chart
• Mark swing highs and swing lows (last 3-4 days)
• Identify current trend or consolidation
• Set alerts above/below key levels

2. WAITING PHASE (Most Important)

• Wait for indication (break of swing high/low)
• DO NOT trade the breakout
• Watch for correction on 15-min chart
• Be patient

3. EXECUTION PHASE
• Correction finishes
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• Price comes back to indication level during session

• Scale to 5-min or 15-min
• Check market structure (lower highs for sells, higher lows for buys)
• Enter when price breaks through level again
• Set stop loss above/below recent structure
• Set target at previous swing level

4. MANAGEMENT PHASE
• Let trade run
• Don’t micromanage
• Take profit at target or when structure breaks
• Journal the trade
• Repeat

5. DISCIPLINE PHASE
• Only 2-3 quality trades per week
• Risk 1-5% per trade
• Follow the process every time
• Don’t revenge trade
• Don’t overtrade
• Keep it simple

FINAL QUOTES FROM THE COURSE

“Trading is not as hard as people make it. I will stand on that until somebody shut me down.”

“If you successfully watch one through 13, I would definitely say you’re ready to start actually getting
into the markets and trading.”

“You only need two solid trades a week. Two solid trades, not 20, two trades.”

“Trading has truly made me build this mindset and eliminate greed and eliminate false hope.”

“Stop trying to predict the markets. Follow what is working. Follow the trends.”

“The higher the time frame you are, the stronger that trend respects itself.”

“Price action and market structure is basically what I’m teaching you. ICC is just a way to explain it to
people that don’t really understand it.”

“Keep it simple. Don’t let these people fool you into thinking trading is super hard.”

GLOSSARY
ICC - Indication, Correction, Continuation (3-step trading strategy)

Indication - When price breaks a swing high or swing low, creating new high/low
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Correction - Pullback after indication, liquidity grab phase

Continuation - When price breaks back through indication level (ENTRY ZONE)

Swing High - Highest point before price reverses down (resistance, sellers)

Swing Low - Lowest point before price reverses up (support, buyers)

Higher High (HH) - New high above previous high (uptrend)

Higher Low (HL) - New low above previous low (uptrend)

Lower High (LH) - New high below previous high (downtrend)

Lower Low (LL) - New low below previous low (downtrend)

Market Structure - The pattern of swing highs and lows forming trends

No-Trade Zone - Area between swing high and swing low before indication

Consolidation - Price breaking structure both ways, no clear direction

Liquidity Grab - Market taking money from poor positions during correction

FOMO - Fear of Missing Out (trading breakouts emotionally)

Reaction Level - Price level where buyers or sellers react strongly

Session Volume - Trading activity during NY (9:30 AM EST) or London open

Timeframe Correlation - Alignment of trends across multiple timeframes

Risk-to-Reward (R:R) - Ratio of potential profit to potential loss (aim 1:3+)

END OF TRADING RULES EXTRACTION

Generated from complete transcription of 13-day trading course (504MB audio, 8-10 hours)
Focus: 1H-4H timeframe analysis for swing structure, 5-15min for execution entries
Strategy: Price action trading with ICC methodology