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You can trade monthly highs & lows with a day job.
When looking to key off daily highs & lows you should look as far back as the last 3 days and maybe even the day before that. Look for rejections at these levels and anticipate price patterns to form if they line up with a session opening.
The Asian session highs and lows are highly sensitive on an intraday level.
If you are going to be a New York session trader, you need to be referencing the London session highs and lows.
New York session highs & lows are going to be influential in the following Asian session. You should also consider the previous London session if you are going to be trading the Asian session.
Always look back at least 2 sessions from the session that you are currently trading.
As a new trader, institutional price levels and big and mid figures are a great place to start out.
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In Forex you can tailor risk parameters like no other.
Forex traders don't trade in contracts, they trade in lots.
When we violate a 12 month high or low in the COT data, that is usually a trend changing environment. Over a 4 year span, a major tide change is really under way.

Large speculators are trend following in nature and that is very important. These are the fund managers and it is important to look at the relationship between these fund managers and the large Commercial hedgers.
The large speculators have a really good track record of being right during long trends. They don't care about
tops and bottoms because they have such good risk control and you shouldn't either.
You don't need the highest high and lowest low, you should just be focused on trading during the lion's portion
of the move.
Neophyte traders are all about trying to find the top and trying to find the bottom. They also think it has
already traveled to high and they don't want to buy it right now.
In this video, ICT uses the 18EMA and the 40EMA, not the 18EMA and 9EMA that I have seen him use in other
videos.
Professional traders wait for the low to form in price action. Trading long with the understanding that
Commercials will be selling the market to them.

When you are point 2 in the image above, do not think that you are in a bear market. It should just be a correction.
At point 3 you want to be looking for swing and position trades going long.
That is when the big moves happen.
You can take shorts at point 4, but they will be short to intermediate term in duration. It will be another retracement in an up move.
Point 5 is another buying opportunity and is like an oversold condition to you.
Point 6 would indicate a likely high to form in the market. Reduce risk on long positions and filter out more long positions from your trading and start looking for selling opportunities.
Understand the Commercial trader's trends by looking for the extreme net longs and extreme net shorts.
COT information is free, the government forces large traders to tell us whether they are net long or net short.
Imagine if they did that for stocks! No one would have problems making money.

In the yellow area above, you would have great success looking for bullish divergences. It is an optimal trade entry around the big figure 1.3000 and in the direction of the Commercial trend. The Commercial's were extremely net long before this and then there was a small retracement to let you get in sync with the trend.
It is not just simply having the net short position or the net long position, that is not enough. You need to have support & resistance, you have to have market structure, etc. all together to complement your COT analysis.

In the example above, you should definitely start waning back the risk on your short trades and start expecting some level of rejection around high time frame support levels.
All you need to know is where we are at in terms of the trend and then you can get in sync with that.
COT analysis can help you find those explosive moves.
Harmonic trading patterns are ideal in consolidating markets.
Put on COT trades with very little risk and just let them run.

You can get just a couple MEGA trades per year using COT data and do very well.
When you see the environment like in the image above, you want to look for a market structure shift on an intraday basis. If you see an explosive move up on an intraday basis you are going to want to get in on the retracement by looking for bullish harmonic patterns, optimal trade entries, bullish reflection patterns, minor moves down from the opening of the day. The open will be very near the low. You want to see the big surge up and then look to get in on the retracement.

Why would price gun stops like in the image above? To propel price upwards by tripping sell stops.
You should love seeing stop raids happen around old highs & lows. These are massive liquidity pools and 90% of the best moves take place in that environment.

In the image above the Commercial trader's increased their net longs aggressively. That supports a buy.
Open Interest is only going to decline if Commercial trader's are covering shorts rapidly.
There are a lot of swing trades available throughout the year using this information.

Trade in the direction of the most recent 12 month Commercial net position.
Wait for price to form intermediate term swings.
Use OTE patterns to enter and trade with the large traders (not the Commercials, the trend following traders).
Filter longs when COT reaches fresh 12 month and/or 4 year extremes on Commercial net short positions.
Filter shorts when COT reaches fresh 12 month and/or 4 year extremes on Commercial net long positions.
Trade with the COT trend engineered by the Commercials.
Look for seasonal tendencies to line up with net readings for remarkable trade setups!

You can use barchart.com for COT information.
pricecharts.com has really good charts if you want to pay for a subscription.
Trading the weekly ranges gives you the sweetest setups.
Anticipate the weekly high or low to form between Sunday's open and Tuesday's London open. When this fails to occur, the high or low will likely post in between the Tuesday London open & Wednesday London open.
There is a 70-80% chance that this happens.
Selling weekly highs and buying weekly lows places huge reward to risk in your favor and offers ridiculous pip hauls.

You want to be able to absorb the time it takes to hold on to these trades until late Thursday and even Friday sometimes.
Arrive at a directional premise using the monthly, weekly, and daily charts.. COT data.. and the 18/40 EMAs.
After getting your directional bias, use the weekly range concept to capture a large amount of pips in that direction.
Monday is generally a consolidation and what will setup the Judas Swing for the weekly range.
On Tuesday it usually happens 2-4AM EST which is the ICT London open kill zone.
When the 18 & 40 EMA's are widening and the 18 is above the 40 you can day trade that when price drops down initially out of the Asian range.

Every 3 months or so there will be a crack in correlation between the USDX and the Cable or Fiber. This is a selection tool, not a timing tool.
For a swing trade sell setup, you would expect price to rally up into monthly, weekly, or daily resistance.