Entry point

Core idea

Entering a trade isn't "guessing whether price is about to go up or down" — it's waiting for the market to hand you enough evidence: a timeframe with a clear RSI pattern (accumulation of buying/selling force), the higher timeframe permitting it, the lower timeframe having discharged all its opposing force, and the aligned force genuinely beginning to join in. Missing any single piece means standing aside — entering at that point is gambling, not trading.

Details

The 5-step process of a trade (the skeleton)

1. Build the market scenario — the overall trend, which timeframe the current wave sits on, the possible up/down scenarios.
2. Determine 3 numbers in advance: the entry zone, the SL point, the feasible TP zone. Only once this is done should you even think about clicking the trade.
3. Enter the trade + manage capital — size the position so that hitting the SL only costs the predetermined % of the account.
4. Manage the trade — track whether the wave still has force → see Managing trades and taking profit.
5. Close the trade.

Steps 1–2 are done before the market moves. If you have to think about the SL/TP after you've already entered, the process has already broken.

The NECESSARY condition — an unchangeable principle: there must be a pattern

You may only enter once you've found some timeframe with an RSI pattern (a process of curling down and then bursting up, the two moving averages spreading in a direction). A pattern = evidence that the market has accumulated buying or selling force on that timeframe.

Absolutely forbidden:

• RSI milling around the 40–60 zone, the two moving averages stuck together, no direction → no evidence. The teacher compares it to an equation a + b = c where you don't know which is the unknown; or a market of 100 people where 50 neither buy nor sell, 25 buy, 25 sell → price goes nowhere.
• Waves that pop up suddenly out of a sideways zone, however large their range — that's a risk wave, not a profit wave. "Win it once and the next nine times it gives it all back."

Quantifying the mindset: the market is roughly 80% risk wave, only ~20% profit wave. So a trader's default state is say no. A metaphor for renting a storefront to open a restaurant: filter from 50 locations → view 10 → pick 1. Trading requires the same kind of elimination.

The SUFFICIENT condition — 3 filtering layers that all must agree

Once you've found a timeframe with a pattern (call it the target timeframe), check in this exact order:

Layer 1 — Does the higher timeframe GIVE PERMISSION? What state is the adjacent higher timeframe in? If it agrees (in phase), the trade is easy and high-probability. If it's out of phase, the target timeframe's force will get suppressed → either skip it, or switch to a counter-trend scenario (see Counter-trend entry point).

Layer 2 — Has the lower timeframe fully RESET its opposing force? To buy: the lower timeframes must have exhausted their downward momentum (or that momentum has already completed / failed / weakened). To sell: the lower timeframes must have exhausted their upward momentum.

The train / car metaphor: a car doing 300 km/h has to gradually decelerate → come to a full stop → accelerate in the opposite direction, only then can you jump on. Jumping on while it's still speeding gets you smashed to pieces. Jumping into a buy while the lower timeframe still has downward momentum = death. Jumping into a sell while it still has upward momentum = death.

Layer 3 — Has the aligned force actually JOINED IN yet? This is the layer most often overlooked. "Selling force fully reset" is DIFFERENT from "buying force has arrived." There are stretches where the lower timeframe has already exhausted its downward momentum and built support, but price just goes sideways without being able to break resistance → that's just selling force taking a breather, buying force hasn't come in yet. Entering at that point is entering early. The root principle: only buy once buying force has begun, only sell once selling force has begun. The signal that buying force has joined in: the lower timeframe's RSI crawls up and holds above the 60 zone (on a closed candle, not a jerk up followed by a jerk back down), together with better volume than the surrounding area.

Two ways to enter — each has its own cost

Neither way is 100% correct. Whichever you choose, accept that way's cost — don't demand both.

An "entry zone," not an "entry point"

The most important mindset for keeping a relaxed psychology: identify a support/resistance zone that has value, then treat the whole zone as the entry zone. Beginners tend to bargain with the market — forcing themselves to enter at one perfect point → pressure → wrong decisions. Accept in advance: you might get stopped out once, and re-entering is still profitable.

Two forbidden positions

• Never buy right below resistance.
• Never sell right above support. Those are zones of noisy movement with very high risk. If price has already moved far away from the entry zone, then skip that wave, and absolutely do not FOMO-chase it.

Capital management is tied directly to the entry point

The SL is sized in terms of % of the account (1%), not % of price. It follows that:

• The wider the SL distance → the less capital you enter with.
• The shorter the SL distance → the more capital you're able to enter with. This is exactly why optimizing the SL point matters (see Moving the stop-loss point, tim diem vao bang rsi): a short SL both raises the RR and lets you enter more capital at the same level of risk.

The third forbidden rule: DO NOT read signals on a candle that's still running

Short but must be etched in: only a CLOSED candle is evidence.

• RSI/MA that look "about to narrow," "about to cross up" on a live candle are all meaningless — something reaching up can still drop back down before it closes.
• The candle has closed but the two moving averages are still spreading → there's no pullback wave yet → not allowed to enter yet (Risk wave).
• This is where impatient people lose the most money: entering on a candle that hasn't closed, and once it closes, the signal disappears (The rush psychology when entering a trade).

A trader has no concept of EXPENSIVE / CHEAP — only POSITION

The same price of 30k: after a dump from 50k down, it's completely different from 30k rising up from a stretch that already has buying force. The price is the same, the position is completely different — and what decides profit or loss is the position, not the number.

A paradox worth memorizing: buying at 10k at the bottom of a sideways range (cheap) can be less safe than buying at 15k once buying force has genuinely arrived. The reason lies in time: from 15k there's already force, and reversing it takes time to erode confidence — you have an exit. From 10k there's no force, it can just keep dropping in one shot.

Amateurs buy A, sell B — professionals buy A', sell B'

The teacher draws out four points:

• A — amateur buy: price is falling, buying to try to catch the bottom.
• B — amateur sell: price is rising, selling to try to hit the top.
• A' — professional buy: the low is already formed + buying force has already increased, only then does the professional enter.
• B' — professional sell: the high is already formed + selling force has already increased, only then does the professional exit.

The A–B path ends in buying the top and closing too early, and it's never sustainable even if it occasionally hits. The A'–B' path accepts giving up the first and last stretch as a cost: eating 7–8 parts out of a 10-part wave is already good.

Two direct consequences:

• Reaching resistance is not an automatic short; reaching support is not an automatic long. Once you get there, observe: is there still force to keep breaking through, has an opposing force shown up yet.
• Price plunging toward support like a train at 300 km/h that hasn't slowed at all → forbidden to catch the bottom, even if that's "weekly-timeframe support." It can take months to reset the selling force before it can accelerate the other way.

No pullback wave, no entry

Restating a hard rule, because it's exactly the spot where the "expensive/cheap" concept keeps coming back to bite: only enter once there's already been a pullback wave. If there's no pullback, let it run without you. Chasing a buy out of "fear it'll get even more expensive if it keeps going up" falls right back into the very expensive/cheap mindset you just discarded.

The reason has a real basis, not just discipline for its own sake: whales push price up not to share the profit with the small fish — pushing it up has to be profitable, the purpose is to create FOMO on the way up. So a wave that still has force still has a target above it; a position entered on a pullback wave is far safer than a "cheap" position with no pullback at all.

The IN-BETWEEN zone is a dead zone — better to buy high with clear force

A direct consequence of "no expensive/cheap, only position," but stated from the angle of where you absolutely must not stand:

"Dying happens right in the in-between spot. Whales deliberately hand you these neutral stretches between up and down — deciding right there is the easiest way to die."

• The in-between zone = price has left the range but hasn't confirmed a break; RSI hasn't given a decisive signal on any timeframe; you'd have to guess to enter.
• Cross-check with the numbers to see the cost of "waiting for it to get cheaper": between the in-between zone and the confirmed-force zone the gap is usually only ~10–12%. But entering in the confirmed zone gives you a much higher win rate and a clear SL marker. Trading 10% of price for a position with a marker is always worth it.
• Verify with force from below: a big wave has to show force right from the bottom zone. If it's already dragging its feet in the lower zone, there's no way it breaks through the upper zone (the goalkeeper's kick metaphor — see BTC.D & capital flow into altcoins).

The "can't sleep easy" test — the last filter before clicking

A very cheap psychological test the teacher uses as the final filtering layer:

If this decision still leaves you uneasy, lying down at night unable to sleep well — then don't enter, even if it means accepting missing that wave entirely.

Basis: the feeling of unease is almost always a sign that you haven't got control of the risk or you don't really have a pattern — not that you "lack courage." Missing a wave costs you nothing; entering a trade you don't have control over costs you both money and psychology for many trades afterward. Alongside this is a genuine comfort: if the wave really does go up, even if you miss the spot trade there's still a door open to swing a futures trade on the next leg — opportunity is never a one-time thing, unlike capital.

A HIGHER timeframe's closed candle is a confirmation marker

A higher timeframe's candle-close time carries very high confirmation value, and it's a marker you can wait for, not one you have to guess:

• Example: price is milling around an H4 support with about 1 hour left before H4 closes. Whether H4 closes below or above that zone is two completely different scenarios — closing below confirms the possibility of a continued break, closing above cancels the break scenario.
• So: when you're facing a decision zone right before a higher timeframe is about to close its candle, wait for the candle to close before entering instead of entering off the candle that's still running. This is a concrete application of the third forbidden rule above.

"Catching the wick" — an entry variant only for someone actually sitting at the screen

Once the lower timeframes have fully reset their downward momentum and price comes back exactly to the zone, you can enter on the wick of a 1m/5m candle — but this is its own separate mode with its own separate rules, not the default way to enter:

• Enter with 30–50% of the position on the wick; if price holds and keeps going, add roughly another half of what's left, averaging the price up.
• You must be glued to the screen. In this mode, the teacher does not place a hard SL but watches directly: if price fails to hold the higher timeframe's candle to keep pulling, get out immediately by hand.
• ⇒ Anyone who can't sit at the screen should not use this method — skip the wick, wait for a confirmation signal, then enter the normal way. This is a spot that's very easy to copy wrong: people copy "enter on the wick" while dropping the clause "there's no hard SL, so you have to sit and watch."

Putting it into practice

Checklist before clicking a trade (miss 1 line → don't enter):

1. What's the overall trend of the higher timeframes? Am I aligned or against it?
2. Which timeframe does the market's current wave sit on?
3. Does the timeframe I'm about to trade have an RSI pattern? (not a 40–60 sideways range)
4. Does the adjacent higher timeframe permit it / agree?
5. Have the lower timeframes fully reset their opposing momentum yet?
6. Have I seen the aligned force genuinely join in yet? (the lower timeframe's RSI holding above 60 / below 40, confirmed by volume)
7. Am I buying below resistance or selling above support? (if so → stop)
8. Where does my SL zone sit, which adjacent lower timeframe does it belong to, is it a barrier zone with value?
9. Where's the feasible TP zone? (see Barrier zones by timeframe (resistance · support · feasible TP))
10. Is the R:R ratio good enough? (this method allows aiming for 1:5 or above, don't settle for 1:2)
11. Has the position size been calculated so that hitting the SL only costs 1% of the account?

Practical sequence: turn on every timeframe one by one, from largest to smallest, read the state of each timeframe, only then decide. Set alerts at the important support/resistance zones instead of staring at the screen.

What the teacher stresses / common traps

• "No pattern means absolutely no entry" — this is a survival-level principle, repeated across all 4 sessions.
• The biggest trap for beginners: mistaking "selling force is gone" for "buying force is here" → entering too early, getting swept or having to hold uselessly.
• Trap two: trying to catch the top and the bottom. On the 1→10 scale of a wave, you only get to eat from 2 to 8. "Buy in the low zone, close in the high zone" — a zone, not a point. Getting lucky and nailing the exact bottom once means you'll certainly pay for it next time.
• Trap three: fearing the SL to the point of not daring to enter, or setting the SL too far "to avoid being swept" → that's exactly baseless hope. Treat every SL trade as the cost of finding the profitable one.
• The market doesn't make things hard for you; you make it hard for yourself through haste and greed/anger/delusion. When the market hasn't given evidence yet, in essence it hasn't said anything at all.
• The goal is not to guess correctly but to make money whichever way the market goes, by having built scenarios for both directions in advance.
• Nobody gets rich in 1–2–3 trades. Don't pile all your expectation onto a single trade.

Related lessons

• Counter-trend entry point — the special case, with much stricter conditions
• Barrier zones by timeframe (resistance · support · feasible TP) — determining which timeframe a barrier zone belongs to → the foundation for both SL and TP
• Managing trades and taking profit — steps 4–5, once you've already entered
• Rising momentum / falling momentum (QTT – QTG) — the tool for reading force at filtering layers 2 and 3
• Wave logic — wave structure, big waves containing small waves
• Multi-timeframe (multi-timeframe logic) — in-phase / out-of-phase / wave progression across timeframes
• Moving the stop-loss point — the technique of placing and moving the SL
• Range vs trend tactics — trending stages make entries easy, sideways stages mean you have to pick your bites carefully