How I Start my Trading Day - Pt. 2
I walk through how I turn the night-before, higher-timeframe prep (from Part 1) into a clean intraday plan the next morning.
- 1Start with the higher-timeframe map (from Part 1)
Assuming you already marked key weekly levels the night before (range high, mid-range, range low, plus notable swing lows/highs).
Example levels for reference
Interesting low zone around 52-53
A bullish “reclaim” area around 73-74
- 1Daily chart: define the regime + directional bias
On the daily, price is inside the weekly range, hovering between
Range high, and
Mid-range (50%)
Structure reads as consolidation (higher lows + lower highs), but because the broader trend is down, our bias becomes
“Most likely moves down.”
That shifts the focus to
Mid-range and range low as primary areas of interest.
If price bounces back up into range high, we’re looking for
A liquidity grab to short, taking profit at mid-range and range low.
- 1Drop to lower timeframes to refine what the move should look like
Prefer the 2H lately (instead of only 4H).
Key distinction: not looking for a slow drift downward.
We want a sharp selloff / “flush” - a decisive move where buyers give up.
That “sharp move down” is what creates the long opportunity for us (mean reversion off the level).
- 11H chart: turn the idea into a specific trade plan
Once we’re on the hourly, we “already know” three things
Bias = down
The move down should be sharp
The key buy zone we want is around ~63K (rounding)
Then a practical long setup is defined
Entry zone: roughly 65K down to 63K (scaling bids)
Invalidation / stop: H1 close below ~61-61.3K
Reason: below that implies a likely cascade to well under 60K
Position sizing: simple, small leverage (about ~1x)
Target: roughly ~69K first (the “easy” part, once the rest is defined)
- 1The core lesson: targets are easy, preparation is the edge
Emphasizes the “hard/important” part is
Start high timeframe,
Decide up or down,
Choose the level,
Define how price should arrive at the level (sharp flush vs slow grind).
Targets come last and are “a formality” once the setup is correctly framed.
- 1Repeat the process across your shortlist
Closes by saying to repeat this exact workflow for every “necessary” coin on the list (BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, Hyperliquid, DOGE, Zcash, etc.), using
Night-before: mark HTF interest zones,
Next day: check what happened while asleep,
Then build the intraday execution plan from there.