All language subtitles for 3-ICT Student Alex

Doctor, how you doing?

Hello, I'm very good. What about you?
I'm doing well, sir.

Tell us who you are, where you're from,
and how old you are.

Hello, everyone.

I'm Alex.

I'm 24.

I'm from Italy.

Awesome.

So tell me a little bit about yourself.
How long have you been trading, and what

did you get interested in first with
asset class?

Okay. So I'm trading from 2018.

And I've started looking at markets
because I've always had this passion

for economy, for financial markets.

And at the beginning of my journey, I
tried basically everything around me

in order to understand how markets work.

And until I found you, I've never found
something useful in the market.

Are you specifically and only Forex or
are you in other asset classes?

I'm mostly Forex. My favorite pair is
like pound dollar or euro dollar.

I started growing a cost to this pair
and I think I have like

a feeling for what price is going to do.

So I basically trade Forex because it's
my favorite pair. I know them.

five to four years. So I basically trade
them and sometimes gold.

I don't really trade indices because I
don't know exactly why, but I don't have

the same feel like I have for forex.

That's awesome.

So how did you discover my work or Inner
Circle Trader Concepts?

Okay. I was in a very depressed period
of my life

because I left university.

trade.

I changed basically all my life. I
started growing a lot of expectation

around trading.

I thought I was being able to be a
millionaire in like one or two years.

And then in 2020, in May, during a
meditation,

I had a really strange experience. And
after

to change i started knowing you i don't
really recall the exact moment and

this was when the first time i saw you
was in um

on instagram when you were showing a
live example of

how your work your work can provide
information about how the

market really looks And so this was the
first time I came in touch with you.

What type of trader are you? Are you a
short -term trader, swing trader, day

trader?

I am a day trader.

I started understanding that I'm not
that patient in life

and in general as a person. So I like to
have...

much more entries on a single day I like
focusing on the market like my strategy

is literally trying to be in sync with
Ipsta and so I use

also smaller time frames like 5 seconds,
15 seconds because the logic you told

is fractal so that's the thing I've
started observing

that I started to understand how the
weekly range forms,

then I started understanding how the
daily range forms, then a session, a

session, and I understand that it's much
more better for me to have, like, quick

execution, so I can have multiple ones,
I can have a lot of examples, and

so my experience was greatly enhanced,
because I was able to

do a lot of trades during the day and
this allowed me to form like to

lose my fear of losses and to understand
really

how compound interest works because in
the beginning at the beginning of your

journey you are like sucked from every
single loss you cannot accept it because

you you haven't

I always treat losses like if you have a
restaurant, you know that on Wednesday

you're going to buy 1 ,000 euros of
food, and this is a

lot. But you know also that on the
weekend when clients start coming in,

will recover this loss, and this is not
really a loss. This is an investment on

your edge, on your profession,
basically.

Are you a student of mine through
private mentorship or did you learn how

trade with my concepts through YouTube?

Because before knowing you, I basically
bought every course up there, every

picture, everything, and nothing,
nothing, nothing worked.

So when I hear your voice for the first
time, something

inside me told me, okay, trust this man,
because he knows who's what he's

talking about. Because you have so many
hours of material, and so I know that if

you don't know about...

Yeah.

When you were part of the mentorship and
we would do daily commentaries and

such, what did it feel like seeing the
analysis pan out to script just about

every single day? What kind of feeling
did that give you as an observer?

because i know that i was seeing the
truth because like you was calling i

remember a specific example from a
little little little gap in euro dollar

you uh called this trade two days before
and two days after it was uh it went

out like uh the fifth so this was my one
of the best period of my life

because i started differing to your
materials it

It served me really well, not only from
the technical standpoint, but also for

myself because I was focused on
something.

So I did not have the time to think.

And so it was very, very, very good as
an experience.

I can see from your face as you talk
about it, like it taps into an emotional

side of it where you feel like you
discover yourself through this.

It's neat.

Tell me, are you a funded trader or are
you trading with your own money?

No, I am a funded trader because I
didn't have enough money to start a

good account. I tried a lot of times
this year, but I understand that

having too low money, like being

under leveraged, is a problem because
your trade doesn't mean anything to you.

certain point of view is good but from
another point you don't have like this

pressure that sometimes helps you to to
have better results and so

i am a hundred trader i have like at
this moment i have 1 .4 million in

and i've i've done really really well in
from may last

from may last year my personal from that
account was in January and I've lost

14 trades in a row like also using the
loss reduction and at this point I've

understood really well that I was the
creator of my losses because I'm very

in mathematics and I know that it's a
super low probability so this moment was

very bad for me because I've lost the
first part of the account

At the same time, it was the realization
of the fact that if I really wanted

this, I can do this. So in February, I
made like a first profit of $2 ,000.

And then I started buying other
challenges. The first big profit I've

May and in April and May.

Say it again.

Twenty hundred thousand.

Twenty hundred thousand.

No. Twenty thousand.

I thank them for buying other
challenges.

And I've done a great travel in Africa.

And this was really...

In the summer, I had a difficult period
because I traded in August.

And now I know I shouldn't have done
this. But then from September, I started

really doing well. And in this first
month of 2023, I don't like

to...

I was in the leaderboard last month in
3rd and 2nd position.

And this month I've done a good
positioning in 3rd and 4th position.

So I'm really, really happy to be a
funded trader. Because you know, you are

the perfect position to invest.

When you start accumulating a lot of
accounts, you have basically no risk.

They give your money back and then you
can invest without risk. So it's the

perfect condition.

Obviously, in the meantime, I'm trying
to fund my own account.

So in the future, I can have my money,
especially when I want to have more

than the maximum funding allowed for
funding. But I think it's a very good

opportunity for everyone.

You made $20 ,000 and you went on an
African safari trip type thing? Yeah.

was that like?

Yeah, if you remember, I sent the photos
to you last year on Gmail. And it was

great because I received the money when
I was in Kenya.

And then I called for people here who
were starving.

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

Wow. Wow.

Yeah.

Right.

Wow. Praise God. That's awesome.

Wow.

That's awesome.

So, real quick.

I heard you mention three specific
funding accounts. Can you say their

again? Okay, so the first one,
MyForexFunding. I think MyForexFunding

best because you have 8 % profits and 12
%

drawdown, so this is a good margin, and
they've always paid me. And also,

Fundetrader, very good, much higher
profit list.

So the interview that I watched with
you, that was with True Forex Funds?

Yes.

When you got started in learning this,

What did it take for you to stay
motivated?

Because it's not easy.

But what types of things kept you
motivated when it was difficult for you

study?

Okay, so this always was a life or death

thing for me. So I didn't really need

to be motivated because I knew that if I
failed here, my life...

would never ever be the same. So it was
like I don't really

recall how I stayed motivated because I
basically understand that what you were

teaching was the truth. So I only
continued to dig deeper because I

that it was not a technical problem for
me, but I had to overcome other things

that didn't really... So you mentioned
that you were

in a low point of your life.

What did trading and learning how to
trade successfully, what did it help you

overcome in your personal life? Any kind
of character flaws, like impatience,

impulsiveness, fear? What did you feel
like you've overcome now because you're

trader?

is understanding a lot of different
things in my life from my character from

to manage myself how to manage my
emotions how to like the

most important thing is like accepting
the moment so accepting the performance

this was the very huge realization that
trading has allowed me to understand

because when you do ask when you have a
skill and you perform this skill at

the top you understand that when you
trade you are like a sportsman or like a

football player you don't really you are
not really here when you are doing the

act so it's like a continuous um a

continuous healing for yourself because
when you're not with yourself like with

when you when you

I don't want to be crazy.

If I understand you correctly, what
you're saying is you had a purpose and a

passion to get good at this, and you
just poured yourself into it 100%. Good.

Good.

What would you say – because there's a
lot of folks that came in my private

mentorship and didn't finish for
whatever reason. There's lots of

But what would you say for the people
that are going through the lessons I'm

teaching publicly now?

You're on the inside.

Are those lessons that I put up on my
YouTube channel, the core content, are

they the same core content lessons that
you went through in private mentorship?

I'm not in a very good position to judge
the YouTube material because

I've stopped studying hard last year
because I understand that

basically I had a good technical
competence.

videos, I think they are useful, but I
also think that they are

more useful if you, before YouTube you
go through the mentorship content 2017,

because the first month when you explain
how it works,

it's like the foundation. If you don't
have this, it's only month one really,

and month two or three, it's like the
basics.

but basic to 80 % of the work, in my
opinion.

So YouTube, I think it's useful, but
it's useful if you have some background

around it. Because it's high -level
stuff, always.

Like knowing what's an order block, what
is liquidity, what is a fair value gap,

and things like that.

So I think the YouTube lessons are
really, really useful sometimes, but you

to have the good context.

And I think the 2017 mentorship is much
more organized in terms of

content. So from an outside standpoint,

it's much more easier to understand
because you take it bit by bit by bit.

the videos are very long in duration.
And for me, it was very, very good.

What would you say to individuals that
are learning from the YouTube channel?

If they feel that they're not learning
as fast as they were hoping they would

learn it or feeling a little
overwhelmed, what kind of encouragement

give them?

Okay. So the first thing is to
understand that you don't need to have

everything figured out when you are in
the beginning. The most important thing

is to focus like on daily BS.

This is 80 % of the work. Then you have
to bring in.

time elements and then you only need an
entry technique like survey your gap or

something like that and that basically
is a game of trading so it's not really

complex in terms of technical science of
course you can dig deeper and become

much more precise but you don't need
perfection in the beginning you only

small set of rules like when i when i
trade i have

told me, and when I have the idea, I
only need to be in front of charts in

right moment, so during session when
volatility brings in, and then I only

to see a shifting market structure with
fair value gap, I buy or sell above or

below 50%, and that's the game. So if
you feel overwhelmed with ICT material,

just know that it allows to dig deep
around things.

everything. And also, if you quit, I
think you have not really realized what

you have to rent.

Because, man, I can assure you, you will
be written in history books.

Because Warren Buffett, who is the most
rich investor in

lifetime, he was able to do 10 % every
year on his capital,

compounded. We here are able to do...
minimum 10 % or more.

If you understand what you are learning,
you are on top tier education, it's

like when you are learning how to be a
good engineer or how to be... I was

engineering before this, so you cannot
really pretend to be a very

good professional trader with only some
little work on your part. You have to...

to do the things that are required
create experiences like every work like

you are a carpenter or a painter or
something like that you need experience

just time is our currency and so you
need to spend it widely program your

learning don't be don't have too many
things

to learn it's better to have small small
videos

How long did it take you from the
beginning of your studies with my work

knowing, not just your first profitable
trade, but knowing that you know exactly

how you're going to trade, your model,
and you found what you're looking for?

How long did it take for you to get to
that point?

2 .5 years from the beginning of the
mentorship.

And I'm telling you that I was really
crazy about mentorship. I was

studying like all day long because I had
the right position.

I left university.

I had a little work online that kept me
alive, able to buy food, to

go outside.

And so I've grown a lot in trading.

that it's much more a mental game.

So you need to create the right
conditions to trade.

Like for me, it was having some money
for rent, some money for food,

having some food stacked in my garage,
as you told.

And it was very, very, very, very
destructive for me. Understanding that

not technical science, the problem,
because many people...

I've talked to many people in your
mentorship group. Sometimes I receive

questions. And I think that everyone or
most of people have a good technical

edge. But they really cannot profit
because of the conditions of site

trading. So if you need money, if you
need to succeed in a simple trade,

you are not in the right position to
invest.

You are in the best position to invest
when you treat it like a game.

Because it's like a game. Like my
girlfriend, she always tells me when I'm

trading, she's always calling it the
blue game.

Because before it's like blue or red
when you have profit or loss.

So without knowing, she taught me how to
take the game as a

game. Because basically we are here
because we enjoy trading. We enjoy it.

Yes. You mentioned your girlfriend.

Has she always been supportive of you
going through this, or was there a time

when she wasn't supportive?

She basically understands what I've
done, and she has always believed in me,

I think this is very important, also
with your family, with your friends. If

know that they won't support you, it's
better not to talk with them at all,

because they're going to impede your
lesson.

It's going to be much more difficult to
profit if you have people around you

going against you.

at the beginning you don't really
believe in what you are learning and

is very strong about his understanding
and so maybe someone is able

to like don't hear what other people
think don't care about what

other people think but for the majority
it's very frustrating when you see when

you cannot

It's better to surgically and
strategically create

your environment and it needs to be
conductive for the learning and for the

profits.

When you started making profits and
taking money out, did you feel

any kind of changes in your personality,
whether it be ego, whether it be a

sense of pride?

Tell me what it felt like when you first
started receiving profits from it.

Okay. So, yes, absolutely, I had great
changes.

And I was really less stressful.

I've been through a really stressful
period of my life in the first two years

mentorship because I couldn't profit. I
was always, like, needing money.

And so the first profit,

released some stress and second thing I
was much more confident about myself

because now I know I can do something I
know that I can I

can keep my family with my skill I can
keep my

like also my friend roots and it was
really really great to have this this

kind of feeling because

Everyone needs to focus on something. If
you focus on something and you know you

are quite good at it, it gives you a
sense of confidence. You start seeing

in a different mode.

It gave me a lot of freedom because as
financial freedoms ring in, you have the

ability to decide whatever.

If today I want to take a flight and go
to Maldives, or go to kenya or go

to whatever place in the world i can i
have the time and i have the money

because this was the freedom was really
really really good to get

well done could you tell us a little bit
about your personal model how you go

about trading and what time of day you
specialize in okay so

my model is as i told you is very simple
It's understanding daily bias,

understanding to be positioned in good
times of the day, like London, New York,

also last session I traded, because when
I am in front of charts, sometimes I

need to have many, many, many hours to
get myself the opportunity

to be in sync with it.

And so I have not...

I don't

know.

say, but it allows me some freedom of
action so I can always be instinctive

and try to understand what it's going to
do maybe repeatedly in the day I take

short term trades like 20 pips, 50 pips,
it depends on what the market is going

to offer you. I mostly start trading in
London after the first hour because I

understand that trading the first hour
of London was not very conductive for

because it's morning in my in italy
london is morning in italy and so it was

very very bad when i used to take losses
in the first hour and then for the rest

of the day i know i couldn't do anything
so i started slowly slowly slowly

waiting from the manipulation to happen

Mm -hmm.

allows me to do this kind of thing. It's
not very restrictive, but I have little

rules that keep me going always with the
same trade. Because, you know, if you

have the same trade, you will be better
at the same time.

So if I understand you correctly, your
specialty is identifying the daily bias,

waiting for a kill zone, London or New
York, and then going in and trading on a

fair value gap.

Yes. Very simple.

Very, very simple.

Awesome. And it gives you the
opportunity to have a lot of traits, a

experience. Awesome.

You mentioned sometimes having
experience losing traits. How do you

and what's your process for working your
way through Drawdown?

Okay.

So I understand how to create losses
when I started buying

a lot of on the accounts because, you
know, they permit you to have...

And then I started understanding that if
I use a...

I treat every worker as a bullet, as a
single bullet.

I'm buying 10 challenges, so I know I
have 30 or 20 or 30 bullets.

I shoot them, and at the end of the 20
bullets, I look at

how many profits, how many losses.

Doing this thing, this was like a mental
game for me, but helped me reason not

on a single trade, because I need to
lose the tier of losses.

To get rid of it. So I use the maximum
risk allowed, like 4 % is good because

you have 1 % for spreads, commissions,
things like that. You ensure that

not going to put you out of the funded
account.

This is on the first stage, like when
you need to pass the challenge.

And then when I go to funded account, I
started reducing the risk because now I

know that...

accumulating challenges and so basically
now I trade with 3 from 2 to 4 % risk

it depends on the trade but I'm very
confident about that because I know it's

only a mathematical game when I profit I
profit so big that I can buy like this

month I'm gonna buy 30 ,000 in account
because I know that if I

have a lot of account

If a single trade is not important for
you, you are going to perform way, way,

way better than if you only have one
account and you trade it like for 1 %

It's very difficult because you need a
lot of trades.

And I understand that low -end influence
is very good, and so you can pass

challenges like just being a little bit
more higher in risk, but it's only a

question of perspective.

What's a typical day look like for you?
When do you wake up?

What do you do first before you open up
your charts? Do you exercise or do you

exercise afterwards?

What's your routine?

I don't really have a routine because
I've tried it for a lot of years.

I try to have a routine to always wake
up at the same hour. But it's like

counterproductive for me because after
some days I feel like I am in a cage.

I really like my freedom.

So I go, I am a nice person. So usually
I go to bed like late night.

So I don't really wake up early in the
morning. I wake up when I wake up

any alarm clock. So I know I'm well
rested because my body is like naturally

waking up. So sometimes I wake up at 10.
Sometimes I wake up at 7. It depends on

how much rest my body needs.

And usually before training, I have a
little work with my dog.

And I think because then... useful for
my trading like um because in the first

hour when you wake up your mind is still
leaping yes and your mind is working

it's working working working working and
you are not really talking so if you

take like some fresh air something like
that before trading i think this is very

okay from all of your trading how much
would you say you have earned

And I know you can't take everything out
of the funded account because you have

to have money in there to still keep it
going. But how much would you say you

have amassed in terms of profit?

I think two days ago, I looked at the

remaster. I spent around $30 ,000, and
I've gained around

$200 ,000. Okay.

That's good.

I found a car, a very good car from
Audi.

Very good.

Wow.

If you have 10 ,000 here, you multiply
by 10 in third world

countries, and you can have a much
bigger wealth production.

You have a multiplicator, basically.

And I'm investing in a lot of things
that help me not basically needing

trading at all. So I know that if I
don't need trading for my expenses,

For my expenses, I know that trading is
going to be a really, really good thing.

That's awesome.

You see in our industry that what we do,
how we trade, how we look at the

marketplace is catching on like fire
right now.

And sometimes change isn't always a
welcome thing for certain people. What

you say to the people that are doubting
the effectiveness of how we look at the

marketplace?

I don't really know what to say because
if you doubt something like this, it

means that you haven't really dig deep
around the concept.

And I think that the majority of people
that follow you, really follow

you, are really, really understanding
that the things you are teaching are

strong in terms of technical science.

And so, let them talk, let people know
this thing. I think it's better.

So, I don't really know what to say to
them.

High five.

What would you say your next three to
five years goals would be?

Okay. Now, my goals really are being
completely financially free

because

I love to have my freedom.

So the next thing I'm going to attack is
buying a house with a good

farm, with animals.

I want to be completely independent from
the world. So having a bank account

all over the world, my money is
somewhere here, somewhere here,

So they are basically much more
protected.

the only thing i really want to have in
life is like being present every moment

without thinking and this is the great
satisfaction and trading i

love digging deeper in trading because i
love the acts of really like

always bettering my edge always
bettering myself this is the main

focus for me because i know

thing for me now i used to look at it
like it can buy everything it can only

physical things yes they're good but
you're gonna only like raise the

bar every time like you buy an audi you
want the next one you want the next one

so i don't understand that's the trap
and money is useful obviously

because

where you don't want to be, to be with
your family, to have time for your

friends, to enjoy life.

And that's all. I want to try to lead a
family, to have

complete freedom for me, from the mind
especially, because sometimes I

understand that the mind is my main
block right now.

And I know that if I go outside the
mind, I'm really, really good.

So that's my main problem in life.

Would you say that your level of stress
is completely different and lower now

because you're successful now?

Yes, it's completely different because
now my stress comes from stress in

my mind.

Before I was trusting from trading, my
stress was from external conditions that

were true.

So I didn't have money.

I was like locked in my room and it was
very, very frustrating for me. So the

stress level is very, very different
now. I am able to enjoy my day quite

a little bit more.

And yeah, the stress level is very...
Awesome.

So is there a lot of traders where you
are in Italy?

I mean, is it a big thing there?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Italians have always been like
entrepreneurs, financial people, because

Italy it's very difficult to build
businesses because of taxation.

Taxation is very high. It's from 50 % to
60 % of businesses.

So a lot of people are really, really
good in doing businesses, but they

can't really do this in the physical
world because of taxation. So

many, many Italians are starting to
understand that online is very, very

know a lot of people. I've created a
small group of 45 people where we talk

about trading.

We always met each other.

And I want to greet them, the different
traders in the small group.

And there is a lot of people who follow
your material.

That's awesome.

Well, is there anything you want to
close with, like if you want to more or

encapsulate your total experience since
you started learning it and now that

you're successful at it? Like give us a
final, I guess, report card on what it

is that you were a part of and what it's
done for your life.

Okay. Basically, I want to really thank
you, Michael, because you really

changed my life.

And guys, this man I have in front of me
will be written in history books. I can

guarantee you.

And so this is a big thank you on my
part.

And I think I speak for a lot of people
out here.

The conditions in the world are really,
really bad right now. And your material

is like a light for everyone out here to
keep going, to keep pursuing.

Because when you give yourself to a
certain skill, you find

yourself. You find your way. You get rid
of toxic habits.

And it's a really, really good journey.
Trading is not only a money journey.

It's like a mental game.

It's the most beautiful game.

And that's because it gives you the
opportunity to grow as your technical

grows. you have to understand that your
mental skills will grow.

And I want to also thank a man that is
called Kapil Gupta.

He is a coach.

He is Indian, I think.

An Indian coach for top performers.

And I met him on YouTube with some
conversation.

He has a free YouTube channel.

And I think he's a genius.

He basically helps people understanding
how the mind works, how the mind hijacks

our life, how it creates problems.

So I want to thank this man a lot
because he helped me greatly in my

science and he helped me greatly in my
psychological

side. I understand that no mind states
are the

perfect states for life.

a lot because I have incredible results
for my age and I know I'm gonna make a

lot more money in the next in the next
week in the next month and this is a

great satisfaction for me so guys keep
going keep working don't work hard

don't work work smart work smart don't
care about what other people say if you

understand that the thing this man is
teaching to you are true

Dig deeper and it's going to come. It's
going to come for everyone.

But you need to be desperate enough to
see it for yourself, to change your life

accordingly to the way you want to be,
to the person you want to be. That's the

most important thing.

You need to, first of all, when you
encounter ICT, evaluate your desire to

this profession because you can make
money with a lot of profession and you

to be like that. to have this skill set,
and the moment you are desperate

enough, it will come to you. I don't
know exactly the process of how it

but when you really, really, really,
really want something, things begin to

happen in your life.

I know your story, that you were in a
very, very difficult period of your

and you had strange experiences on the
side of the box, and I

know these experiences are real.

Because I've tried it in my life.

I've had this experience, so they're
real.

And that's all, Michael. I want to thank
you. I want to thank all the work

you've done. This is really, really the
greatest thing that's happened in my

life. This is my point of luck.

Well, it's been my pleasure, and it's my
honor to be your mentor.

And I'm so pleased that you spent time
with me, and my family will be watching

this together this evening.

A very emotional thing to be able to see
my students and to hear their stories

and to give their testimony.

So thank you so much for sharing your
time with us today.

Thank you, Michael.

You as well. Thank you.