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Aug 29 13 tweets 4 min read Read on X
A+ setups will be the majority of your PnL.

But most traders miss them without even knowing it.

I kept wondering why my best trades turned red…

Until I discovered the 4 key factors every setup needs to actually work.

Here’s how to finally nail them and get paid:
Most traders look for reasons to enter a trade.

But that’s backwards.

The real question is:
“Why wouldn’t the market move the other way?”

You’ll never know the exact move
But you don’t need to
If you get the direction right, you’ll get paid no matter how messy the path looks.

Direction starts as a 50/50 guess.

Stack just a slight edge above that… and your PnL will explode.

Here are the 4 factors I use to tilt the odds:
1) Level

Your setups can’t be random.

They need to start at supply or demand - areas where liquidity pools, volume, and the market decides its next move.

Without this first filter, every trade becomes 50/50 at best

With it, you tilt the odds massively in your favor. Image
A move will always head toward the next supply or demand level

The market needs liquidity, and these zones are where it finds it.

Your only job is to figure out which level it wants first.

That’s where the next 3 factors come into play: Image
2) Trend

The trend steamrolls anyone fighting it. Your job is to join it.

The EMA cloud makes it simple:

Up slope = only look long
Down slope = only look short
Flat = don’t touch

Filter trades like this and your win rate jumps overnight Image
If we zoom out to the higher timeframe cloud, the story is the same

The slope is still pointing up, with a thick cushion of support beneath price

That confirms the uptrend is backed by structure across all timeframes.

Bulls are in firm control. Image
3) Price action

Pay close attention to the highs, lows, and market structure.

Which side is “softer” and easier to break?

By identifying this, you can determine which side tilts the odds in your favor.

Price will always follow the path of least resistance. Image
4) Momentum

Watch how price travels.

Speed + consistency matter more than “perfect” candles.

If the cloud is holding and price keeps respecting it, momentum is alive.

That’s your confirmation the trend has fuel Image
In this case, all four factors point bullish

This means we’re safe to take a long & target the next supply level - with a stop under the swing low

This is an A+ setup Image
You’ll never know exactly what the market does.

But you don’t need to.

Stack all 4 factors, and you’ve already won before the trade is even placed.

Then it’s just a matter of collecting. Image
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I used to beg the market for just $1000 a month profit

Now I easily make that in a day

And the secret to it is embarrassingly simple...

Steal this no bs guide if you want to grow from $0 to $1k/day:
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The market doesn’t care how hard you work.

You can have the best win rate, clean charts, discipline, etc.

But if you’re risking peanuts, your returns will always be peanuts.

& if you start oversizing, your results collapse into pure gambling.
How much you make in trading boils down to ONE thing: your risk per trade.

That single number controls how much money you’ll make

But everyone gets it wrong.
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The cleanest money I make is from ONE setup:

A breakout that prints $1–3k within minutes almost every day.

But 95% of traders botch it.

Here’s how to nail it every single time:
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Breakouts have built entire trading careers

But if not traded correctly, you’ll catch tons of fake breakouts and grind breakeven (at best)

This is how you skip the traps, and catch the real ones:
How would you trade this?

We see a few attempted breakouts on both sides

If you tried trading any of these breakouts, you’d be deep in the red. Image
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Scaling is the only way to take trading from “side income” to life-changing wealth

But most traders are stuck recycling the same few thousand dollars & never take off

Here’s the foolproof way to scale until your account goes parabolic:
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Two traders start trading on the same day.

Same account size, same skill level.

5 years later:

Trader A: multiple 5-figures every month
Trader B: same results as day 1

Why the massive gap?
The difference boils down to this:

Trader A simply put himself in a position to scale his account… and he did.

Trader B never did, so he never grew.
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Aug 5
Hitting $10k/mo only takes one setup you can execute without thinking

Don't need anything else to be profitable

Trading everything got me stuck in breakeven jail for months

Until I discovered this ONE setup & easily cracked 5-figures/mo

Here's how to trade the cloud flip:
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First, we need to set up the cloud indicator on Tradingview

1. In the indicators tab, type “ema cloud” and select the 2nd option
2.  Go to the EMA cloud’s settings and change the values to 20, 50, 50 Image
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Second, ONLY trade it at supply/demand levels

Cloud flips happen often, but most of them are garbage

We only care about flips that occur inside institutional price zones

No level = no trade.
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All A+ setups this week - using LCE model:
$ES $SPX
For a proper A+ setup, all factors need to align:

- Lower timeframe (ltf) cloud
- Higher timeframe (htf) cloud
- Market structure
- Price action

Once we get the right direction, we use LCE (level, confirmation, execution) to enter
Jul 29 - Tuesday

Quick LCE short setup:

- ltf cloud bearish
- htf cloud neutral (but starting to turn bearish)
- heavy overhead market structureImage
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If someone claims to have a 75%+ win rate,

Chances are it’s either bs or they’re risking $100 to make $20

But there’s a legit way to push your win rate past 75%+ and still keep a high R/R

Here’s how to become ridiculously profitable - the real way:
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I logged hundreds of trades before admitting that my win rate was consistently bad.

Some hit, most didn’t, and I had no idea why.

I blamed the market, the timing, price action, etc.
I kept tweaking entries & forcing “meh” trades

But my win rate got worse…

Then I discovered something called directional confluence

When every timeframe says the same thing, your odds go vertical.

This is how it works:
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