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Full chart process - July 5 - gxt anomaly course content

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Main ideas / concepts taught (GXT anomaly course: “Full chart process”)

The speaker presents a mechanical trading framework for predicting and validating daily/4H expansion and reversal behavior using:

  • Invalidations (when the idea is wrong)
  • Equilibrium (EQ) of the previous day’s range
  • Refined key levels inside that EQ region
  • Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) and swing higher-lows / relevant lows
  • A required sequence of market structure (“swing formations”) to confirm reversals/continuations
  • Session-based logic (Asia → London → New York) for where reversals are expected
  • Draw liquidity as an important “what are we trading toward?” filter
  • Alerts for monitoring refined key levels and reversal/continuation triggers

Step-by-step methodology (detailed)

1) Prep before the day/session

  • Look at the previous day’s range before the new day/session opens.
  • Determine whether the day is likely to be:
    • Continuation day
    • Reversal day
  • The initial anchor for invalidation is:
    • Mark the EQ invalidation level derived from the previous day’s range
  • The highest-probability area is framed as:
    • Trading within a swing formation structure on multiple timeframes (referred to as “candle 2/3/4” concepts)

2) Define continuation vs reversal behavior (initial invalidation logic)

Continuation day

  • Set equilibrium invalidation from the previous day range.
  • Expect price to trade inside the swing formation probabilities:
    • Candle 2 = reversal/resumption context
    • Candle 3 & 4 = continuation context
  • When reversal candle behavior is implied by the previous day:

Bullish reversal case

  • Mark continuation from the upper half of the previous day’s range wick.

Bearish reversal case

  • Mark continuation from the lower half of the previous day’s range wick.

  • If dealing with continuation behavior from a bearish candle:

    • Mark the relevant lower-half support area.

3) Refine the invalidation/key level (instead of using the whole prior range)

The speaker emphasizes that using the whole big range leads to losses.

  • Choose a refined key level inside the:
    • upper half range (or other relevant portion)
  • This refinement is tied to expected candle phases:
    • Protraction phase: wick formation into the refined key level
    • Expansion phase: body expansion away after reversal

Key claim: There are “only two key levels” used for refinement:

  1. Fair Value Gap (FVG)
  2. Swing higher-low (relevant swing low)

4) How to find the refined key level

A) Refined key level via Fair Value Gap (FVG)

  • Go to a lower “aligned” timeframe based on expected expansion.
    • Example logic:
      • If trading weekly expansion → find FVG on daily
      • If trading daily expansion → find FVG on 4H
  • Mark the FVG level inside the previous day’s range.
  • Expect price to:
    • Open/low into this level
    • Reverse in the wick
    • Then expand away to continue
  • If price does not react from this level:
    • The idea is invalidated

B) Refined key level via Swing higher-low (relevant low)

Two ways are referenced; the first way is emphasized:

  • Within the previous day’s range, identify the relevant low that is the only level that reversed.
  • When price engages that relevant low:
    • It should produce a wick and a reversal
    • The reversal should then allow continuation

5) Full continuation/reversal sequence when a refined key level is engaged

This is described as a “move the goalpost” invalidation refinement process:

  1. Step 1: Mark EQ invalidation from previous day range.
  2. Step 2: Mark the refined key level inside that range.
  3. Step 3: Wait for a required reversal/swing structure (“swing formation”) on an aligned timeframe.
    • Timing rule:
      • If the refined key level is meant to produce the daily swing/high-low, then the high/low day should be created using a 1H or above swing formation.
    • Example:
      • If using an hourly refined key → wait for a 1H/30-min+ swing low structure.
  4. Step 4: When price creates the swing formation (“C2” formation):
    • As soon as the C2 candle forms, the invalidation anchor tightens:
      • the real invalidation becomes the C2 candle’s tiny range, not the original big EQ.
  5. Step 5: After the swing forms:
    • Expect expansion away (candle 2 → 3 → 4 behavior).
    • Continuation is also linked to:
      • FVGs that print after the low/high day is formed being respected.

If continuation fails at the FVG/swing stage

  • If the FVG or swing formation is “solved” in candle 3 instead of producing expansion:
    • A relevant low may form as a new invalidation level.
  • If the candle consolidates instead of reversing:
    • That consolidation implies price must “manage lows” and the cycle continues.
    • You may need a new C2-level and EQ-marking again.

6) How continuation is expected to behave on the 4H timeframe (daily-to-4H linking)

The speaker repeatedly links:

  • Trade 4H expansion candles away from the low/high of day

When price engages the refined key level:

  • A 4H candle should reverse with a small wick into expansion.
  • After the 4H close, continuation should proceed.

Then repeat the same structural logic at the next layer:

  • Mark EQ of the prior range
  • Find refined key level (possibly the gap created after reversal)

7) Handling cases where there is no refined key level

If the prior-day range lacks a clear refined key level—or price engages and consolidates without reversing:

  • Wait for a swing-created refined level within the same candle’s range.
    • The candle open/low creates a swing low that becomes the effective reversal reference.
  • Invalidation becomes stricter:
    • The idea is invalidated when EQ of the previous range is disrespected and there is “nothing left” to reverse from (described as too deep / not enough time left in the daily).

8) Session-based expected behavior (London/NY structure)

Asia → London reversal logic

  • If looking for an Asia reversal:
    • Expect London consolidation first.
  • Best reversal setup described:
    • Previous sessions consolidate or retrace, and the next session reverses/expands.
  • When London reverses and expands:
    • It creates gaps/key levels.
    • New York should respect those gaps/key levels.
  • When New York is continuing:
    • It should create swing formations from those levels.

If Asia/London do not reverse properly → New York “last line of defense”

  • If Asia or London:
    • hits/refines key level but doesn’t reverse as required,
  • Then require reversal from:
    • Asia or London highs/lows
  • If that doesn’t happen:
    • continuation/reversal expectations are invalidated

9) “Formation of the daily candle” used as an additional bias/expectation check

At chart time, the speaker suggests checking:

  • Has price engaged a key level and reversed?
    • If yes → you know where continuation should come from next.
    • If no → reversal location candidates include:
      • session highs/lows
      • relevant swing points
      • gaps
  • Whether the daily candle is forming:
    • Open high first implies bearishness expectations (scenario depends on prior session profiles)
    • Open low first implies bullishness expectations (scenario depends on prior session retracing rather than reversing)

10) Draw liquidity requirement (to avoid “pattern trading”)

Before committing to trades, the speaker emphasizes:

  • There must be open draw liquidity (a target where price is “going to”).
  • Without draw liquidity:
    • trading becomes “blind pattern trading” (undesirable)

11) Alerts (how to operationalize the system)

The speaker provides “when and how to set alerts”:

  • Alert at the refined key level
    • When price engages, wait for closure confirming the next required structure.
  • Use time-based checking
    • For high/low formation, monitor 30-min or hourly closures depending on required structure.
  • Alert at the “future opposing candle” that must be reached
    • So a reversal structure can be produced (example given references CSD/relevant closure conditions).
  • For continuation:
    • Set alerts at the gap level expected to be respected.

Other practical rules / concepts emphasized

  • Swing formations are required for reversals/continuations (you cannot force expansion).
  • V-shaped signatures and “small wick” behavior are used as filters for higher-probability expansion.
  • Goalpost shifting
    • invalidation moves from broader EQ to tighter C2 candle ranges once C2 forms.
  • SMT / PSP / strength-switch style confluence
    • discussed as second-stage SMT-like confirmations, with some limitations by timeframe/structure.
  • Trading frequency/bias
    • the key is whether you engage with price properly, not whether your bias guess was correct.

Key speakers / sources featured

Main speaker

  • The instructor delivering the lecture (name not explicitly stated in the subtitle text).

Mentioned sources/mentors (names appearing in subtitles)

  • ICT Concepts / ICT
  • Teaches / TTrades
  • Kiko
  • Udon
  • Euro
  • Cash FX (mentioned as a scam/fake mechanical strategy server owner)
  • He Trades
  • Jacob (credited with terminology related to “asset synchronization,” but not teaching how to trade it)
  • MXM Trader
  • Mint FX
  • Albi
  • Jacob / “asset synchronization” (terminology credited to Jacob)

Platform / organization references

  • IM Academy / IML (described as pyramid-scheme style webinar)
  • FTMO
  • Discord server (multiple community mentions)

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