"What's the best trading strategy to get me profitable in 90 days?"
I spent six months googling that question every day.
because of that, it took me about two years longer than it should've.
instead of locking in to build one approach, my eyes always wandered to the shinier setup.
trading youtube is like the playboy mansion for strategies, so there were plenty.
this is a common mishap.
nearly everyone goes through a phase where they're in a situationship with eight different strategies.
somehow you convince yourself that they're all mid or not "the one."
so you refuse to commit to any single approach and proclaim every strategy is bullshit!
the other day, I met a trader with possibly the worst case of shiny object syndrome i'd ever seen.
first he told me about his scalping system with seventeen indicators.
then his "AI breakout bot."
then his price action method.
then his funded account strategy.
then he showed me a demo where he allegedly turned $1k into $100k.
oh, and then he asked if i knew any prop firms that would fund him with real money.
I politely declined to help.
but watching him reminded me of myself three years ago.
jumping from strategy to strategy like a drunk at a casino.
until I finally stopped.
and someone told me three words.
bias, sweep, entry.
that's it.
everything else is noise.
you don't need seventeen indicators telling you the same thing in different colors. you don't need to understand every market theory ever written.
you need to know where the market wants to go, when it's lying to you, and when to step in.
most traders overthink this into oblivion.
they're analyzing chart patterns from 1987, drawing trendlines that would make picasso jealous, waiting for the "perfect" setup that never comes.
meanwhile, the money is moving.
and you're not.
here's what i learned the hard way...
the market only does three things:
it picks a direction. it hunts stops. it moves.
that's your bias, sweep, entry.
bias
this isn't about being bullish or bearish because your favorite guru said so.
bias is reading the institutional footprint.
where is smart money positioning? what does the market structure actually tell you when you strip away all the retail noise?
you look at higher time frames. you see if we're making higher highs and higher lows, or the opposite. you understand if price is in premium or discount.
most importantly, you understand that the market always moves from liquidity to liquidity.
institutions don't care about your support and resistance lines. they care about where they can fill their orders without moving price against themselves.
so when you're determining bias, you're not asking "will this go up or down?"
you're asking "where does the smart money need price to go next?"
completely different question. completely different answer.
sweep
this is where most traders get destroyed.
they see price break a key level and think "breakout!"
wrong.
that's exactly what you're supposed to think.
price doesn't break levels. price sweeps them.
it goes slightly beyond where all the retail stops are sitting, triggers them, absorbs that liquidity, then reverses.
you've seen this a thousand times. EUR/USD hits 1.0850, breaks to 1.0855, then immediately drops 100 pips.
that wasn't a failed breakout. that was a liquidity sweep.
the big players needed those stops to fill their real positions.
this is where FluxCharts becomes invaluable. it actually plots these liquidity zones and sweep events in real-time. you can see exactly where the liquidity is pooling and when it gets taken.
no more guessing if that move was a real break or just a stop hunt.
the chart tells you.
entry
here's where patience pays.
you don't enter on the sweep. you enter after the sweep.
wait for the rejection. wait for the engulfing candle, the pin bar, the wick that shows institutional money stepping in.
this is your confirmation that the sweep is complete and the real move is beginning.
most traders are already in their positions by this point, hoping and praying.
you're just getting started.
because you waited for actual evidence instead of acting on hope.
your stop goes below the swept level. your target is the opposite liquidity zone.
simple. clean. profitable.
the thing is, this isn't complicated.
it's actually the simplest thing in the world once you understand it.
bias tells you the direction.
sweep tells you when they're lying.
entry tells you when they're done lying.
everything else is just market noise designed to separate you from your money.
i used to trade with seventeen different indicators open, three news feeds, and a constant state of analysis paralysis.
now i look at three things.
bias, sweep, entry.
that's it.
and the results speak for themselves.
if you're tired of the complexity, tired of the guesswork, tired of being on the wrong side of every "breakout"...
Iron forged gives you 10 specific entries with PDFs walking you through each setup. No guesswork, just fast track profitability.
the framework is simple.
the execution is even simpler.
the results change everything.
every time you chase a breakout without waiting for the sweep confirmation, you're funding someone else's real trade.
Atif
