GxTradez | Phases of Price & Profiles For Expansion

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How's it going everyone and welcome back

to another episode. Today we are joined

by Garrett who is going to discuss daily

profiles and aligning that with a daily

expansion candle. I hope you enjoy the

video. What's up guys? Hope you are all

doing well. Thank you T for having me. I

don't want to waste any time. So, let's

start with a short introduction. My name

is Garrett or GX Trades. I've been

trading for about six year and got

introduced to ICT about 2 years ago

where I learned from traders like

Trades, AM Trades, and the MMX trader.

And of course, I have to create ICT even

though I've never watched an ICT video

in my life. Um this is where I gained a

solid grasp of concept taking little

pieces of information you know from here

and there um from other traders not

going to mention a fee to Kiko there's

many traders right um but most

importantly I spent thousands of

hours to develop an approach that made

sense to me and I will be sharing a

piece of that with you today. My goal in

this video is to shift your focus to the

foundational concepts that help frame

narrative which is the most important

part of trading. So let's go ahead and

shift into

that. So these are some of the

foundational pieces to framework right.

So phases of price delivery swing

formations we use swing formations on

all time frames and open high close or

profiles. Right? These core concepts are

used to further support price

anticipation from reversal point to

targets or models. Right? So this is

what we're using to gauge reversals away

from reversal points to targets. Right?

And also how to um gauge distributions

away from reversal points to targets.

Right? So now let's talk about the

phases of price delivery. Now I learned

this from the MXM trader. Go check them

out. one of my mentors. Highly advise to

check him out. So, what can price do and

not do? Price always goes from

consolidation to an expansion. Price can

go from expansion to retracement. Price

can go from an expansion to a reversal.

Price can go from an expansion to

consolidation. Price never goes from a

consolidation to a reversal. And price

never goes from a consolidation to

retracement. Every phase starts and ends

with expansion. So this is very

important to know because this is how we

actually anticipate price right. So if

we see that price expanded right and

then consolidated right which is right

here right expansion and consolidates

then we know it must expand again right

this is giving us narrative right

because price can't do what it can't

reverse from consolidation right so

that's just one example so now let's

talk about price signatures so the

expansion signature is you're trading

within an expansion candle right an

expansion candle has a small wick that's

one of the signatures right for trading

within an expansion candle Now within

this expansion candle generally um this

is what makes up the expansion candle

right is actually the lower time frame

expansion right so the internal lower

time frame expansion makes up the body

of the higher time frame candle rate now

the expansion signatures will be

opposing candle supporting price to erl

or IRL these are our objectives right

lows being rejected highs being

displaced through and shallow

retracements right this is important

right we want to see shallow

retracements on our way to the

objective, right? Once we hit the

objective, this is when we can expect a

new phase of price. So, this is when we

expect maybe a deeper retracement,

right? But we don't want to see these

super deep retracements,

right? So, going on from uh two

continuation signatures. Now, this is

what we want to see when price is on our

way to the draw liquidity. Now, let's

say we expand to a relevant level and we

get a continuous signature. That means

we're going to continue through that

level generally, right? So if price

expands, consolidates, then we must

expand again, right? If price expands,

retraces, then we must expand again. So

we're going to get into the signatures

of these continuation signatures right

here. So

consolidation, if price expands into an

objective, right, and consolidates,

generally you're going to continue,

right? So how do you trade a

consolidation if we don't manipulate the

low, right? Well, we have to fail to

manipulate the consolidation high which

is simply when price engages the high

creates opposing candles and closes back

through it. Generally, you can then

trust you know price to continue that

expansion. Now, this is the ideal way to

trade an AMD continuation right is when

price

expands, consolidates, we ideally want

to be trading away from manipulation at

all times, right? Because this is when

we can actually anticipate expansion. We

can't anticipate expansion here until we

fail to manipulate this high and when we

actually engage this high. We can't

really anticipate when price is going to

expand into this high. Right? We can

only, you know, anticipate continuation

when it fails to manipulate this high.

So now what is the higher time frame

consol or higher time frame signature

for consolidation? It's an inside bar.

All right, we can also anticipate a new

phase of price after 3 days of expansion

or even after one day of a large

expansion into an objective right this

is when we can get you know any phase of

price right cuz after expansion into

objective we can get any phase we can

get reversal consolidation or

retracement right so we gauge which you

know phase that we're in via signatures

right which is what we're talking about

right now so price puts in an inside bar

meaning uh this candle doesn't take out

the previous candles higher low right

that is a higher time frame uh signature

rate or consolidation. So the way we

trade away from this ideally is we

manipulate the consolidation low to then

expand

higher. So retracements right

retracement is essentially when price

expands to objective and leaves failure

swings at the point of retracement right

there's no manipulation. We're having

really deep pullbacks, right? Uh which

actually creates the failure swings and

we're not displacing back in the range.

It's going to be like slow kind of

choppy movement back into the uh back

into the range. We can target EQ of the

range or in total range of liquidity.

Now, how do we want to trade away from a

retracement is we want to always ideally

trade it for manipulation. So

manipulation is like the trigger for

expansion essentially, right? So one

thing we have to note is that price

doesn't have to manipulate uh like if

price can uh expand consolidate price

doesn't have to manipulate but the way

we anticipate expansion um is actually

with manipulation. So whenever you have

an internal range of liquidity price

retrace into it, ideally we we put in

some protected swing or some

manipulation to trade away from, right?

Because after manipulation or reversal,

same thing, we expand away, right? So

how do you actually trade from a higher

time frame external range back into the

range? We want to be trading away from

manipulation, right? Or a protected

swing. We don't want to be trading away

from failure swings. So, we require

manipulation to then trade expansion

back into the range, right? We don't

want to trade consolidation. We don't

want to trade retracement. We always

want to be trading expansion, right? So,

an easy way to get on side with

expansion is after manipulation, right?

And we're always pairing a manipulation