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So here is a really simple graph that displays how your performance develops

over time as we build competence in a new skill. So we start at the stage of

being what's called unconsciously incompetent. So this is where we don't

know that we don't have a certain skill or that we even need to learn it. So at

this point we have the wrong intuition and a complete lack of awareness. So I'm

going to use driving a car as an analogy just to explain this a little bit easier.

So let's say when you know you're a baby we don't really know that we don't have

the skill to drive a car or that we will even one day you know need to learn how

to drive a car right because we are unconsciously incompetent. In trading

this can be likened to someone who who doesn't even know what the financial

markets really are or what trading even is yet. They don't know what they don't

know. But then we move on to stage two which is where most new traders are. So

they are consciously incompetent. So now you know you're aware that you don't

have a particular skill and you don't know what you're doing. So you're

not yet proficient in it so you have the wrong analysis. So this is kind of like

say when you're a child or a young teenager we start to become consciously

aware that we don't know how to drive a car. We are conscious that we are

unskilled in this area right. So in trading this is often where beginners

start out. They are aware of what trading is but they quickly realize that they

have the wrong analysis and they don't really know how to trade correctly. So

then entering into the third stage we now become consciously competent. So we

now know that we have the skill, we start to have the right analysis but only

with continuous and conscious effort. So when we are a young adult you know

potentially we have driving lessons and we finally learn how to drive. So we now

know how to do it but it still requires quite a lot of mental effort. You know

you're always when you're first driving you kind of have to talk through the

actions in your head. You know thinking about what pedal to push your foot down

on, putting the car into the right gear, making sure to remember to check all of

the car mirrors and you know to indicate before turning etc.

We are consciously skilled, we do know how to do it but we have to keep

actively thinking about how we are doing it right to try and do it correctly with

a lot of mental effort. So in trading this is where we start to regularly get

our analysis right and we start to stop making common psychological errors. You

know we start to consistently make money but it requires a lot of effort to make

sure that you know we stay on top of our routine, we have to work very hard at

reviewing our trades and spend hours making sure our analysis is correct. Then

we get to the point where we are in that stage where we become unconsciously

competent. So now we don't even really know that we have this skill just in

terms of you know we don't really think about it, it just seems easy and

automatic. We have developed the right natural intuition. So after a few months

or maybe even a few years of driving right driving it becomes pretty much

effortless right. We can hop into our cars, drive to our destination with very

little thought of what we are doing. If you think of say a mum right and she's driving home and she's got three kids screaming and fighting each other in the

in the back and she's holding her phone on loudspeaker in one hand and she's attending a

conference call for her job you know while she's shifting gears and steering the wheel with her

other free hand you know all at that same time navigating through rush hour traffic right and

she's doing pretty much all of this just subconsciously. So for those that do drive

you know how many times have you gotten your car from somewhere you've driven home and then when

you arrive home you pull up you suddenly realize you have no memory of the last few minutes of

navigating the roads towards your home. This is because the skill of driving especially around

your local roads it's just so deeply ingrained to your subconscious you know it's pretty much

automatic you don't have to think about it because you are unconsciously competent. So this this is

the ultimate end goal for our training where we just naturally have the right intuition you know

it's almost like having a sixth sense in the market and trading then becomes relatively effortless

because it is now a natural skill and you almost fill up one with the market. Your analytical

skills are sharp and you are nearing emotional mastery. So my mission is to get each and every

one of you to do the same thing. So I'm going to show you how to do that. So I'm going to show you

to reach this stage where your training becomes relatively effortless and you consistently pull

money out of the markets month on month quarter on quarter year on year. So as you go through the

lessons in the course you know particularly the lessons in this module you may initially think

that you know you completely understand everything it makes sense right as you go through it you've

made detailed notes but what I pretty much can guarantee you will find is if you come back and

watch it again right even just a few weeks later you will find that you will learn so many new

things that your brain just doesn't know how to do it. So I'm going to show you how to do it.

previously pick up on know as being that important and this happens because

essentially as your training experience starts to unfold your interpretation and understanding

of the concepts that you're about to learn that will change and develop too. So you will take

away more lessons as your conscious evolution progresses through those stages that we have

just outlined. So my advice is to come back to this module re-watch and study these lessons

continuously along your training journey. More specifically I would highly recommend

that you follow this three-step process. So the first time you watch a lesson just watch it with

your full attention you know don't do anything else put your phone on do not disturb chuck your

phone out the room right out of sight out of mind this is your time where you are investing in

yourself so be professional and take it seriously. So once you've watched it the first time re-watch

the lesson straight away after but this time I want you to take detailed notes then have a little

break right go for a walk get some fresh air do whatever you need to do and then come back and

re-watch the lesson for a third time.

This time you want to be adding to your notes you know anything that you may have not quite picked up

on and potentially missed the previous two times so you can essentially just you know make notes

of your notes. Now if you do take the time to do this and you don't rush I guarantee you it will

make such a difference to the speed of your learning curve and yes you know although it will

take you longer to actually complete the course content you know compared to someone who who only

watches the videos once or even twice you will actually increase your chances of becoming

consistently profitable before them. Why? Well because they are more likely to not have truly

understood the concepts to the same degree that you have and they will just end up having to

revise the content at a later date right to start from scratch and I see this happen all of the time.

Remember training is a marathon not a sprint. If you have ever watched Olympic weightlifting

you will know about the complex movement called the clean and jerk and this movement requires you

to be able to perform multiple compound lifts all in one go.

It's an extremely complex and advanced movement especially when you start to pile on really

heavy weight onto the bar. So when you watch a world-class athlete perform this movement in a

competition they literally walk up to the bar and they just seamlessly throw it above their head

almost in one simple smooth action you know without really even consciously thinking about it

and that is what it looks like when they are performing that on the world stage but what did

it take them to get to that point? Well they would have had to spend years and years working on each

individual part of the movement and they would have had to spend years and years working on each

individual part of the movement and they would have had to spend years and years working on each

individual part of that complex lift. You know they don't just walk into the gym and just

constantly do clean and jerks for their entire session just trying to pack on as much weight as

possible. That is not smart training and it will only get you so far before you you know you either

injure yourself or you hit up a toe and you can't lift any heavier weight no matter how hard you try.

So instead you need to master each individual part of the lift that makes up the whole. So you

need to practice and get extremely proficient at deadlifting then once you can deadlift the bar

off the ground efficiently you can do a lot of other things. So if you want to learn more about

deadlifting you will then be ready to start to practice you know cleaning the bar up towards

your face and then only once you've got great at deadlifting the bar and cleaning it up towards

your face now you're finally ready to be able to swing yourself underneath the bar so that you can

get into a front squat position. Once you're skilled enough to get into that position now you

can spend the time it takes to get extremely good at front squatting that heavy weight right so that

you'll be efficient enough at that movement to then be able to squat that weight back up in order

to generate the power to press the bar over your head in order to finish the movement.

So you can see that that seamless performance of the the clean and jerk on the competition stage

that was born from the athlete dedicating themselves to relentlessly and meticulously

practicing each of those individual parts of the complex movement in order to be able to put it all

together and then put in a great performance when it matters when the pressure is on because then

they don't have to think about it they just walk up to it and they do it they just perform and this

exact same process applies to training. You need to master all of the individual component parts

that make up your performance. So you can see that that seamless performance of the clean and jerk

strategy in order to be able to put it all together to trade it successfully and you know

just to be able to perform to the highest level consistently in the live market because you are

competing against millions you know some of the brightest and smartest people in the world right

playing this zero-sum game of the financial markets and even when an athlete you know when

they lift a clean and jerk world record they are still going to go into the gym the next day

to practice each of these individual components of the lift and that's no difference for us as

traders. So even when you are consistently profitable you're still going to be able to

you will forever be a student of the market practicing and refining your edge and that is

how you get ahead and stay ahead of your competition. If you don't build a solid foundation

your trading business will eventually crumble and fall over. So what are the component parts

of our trading strategy and in what order do we need to build upon them? Well first we must

understand and master market structure and this becomes before anything in your technical analysis.

Every day when I approach the charts it is literally the

exact first thing that I'm looking at every single time. Market structure is king no matter

what type of strategy you trade because if you map your market structure correctly you will find

yourself on the right side of the market far more often than not and then everything else you know

it flows from there. It's how you increase your strike rate and your reward to risk ratio with

the rest of the concepts we build upon you know we build upon that on top of our market structure

once we have mapped that out first. So after you've got extremely comfortable with mapping

your market structure next thing you need to do is map your market structure. So if you're

particularly fancy forinä headaches you won't be able to go there far without mapping your

market structure if you just need to make sure it's within a national order. Actually if you're

planning to build your order in short frames of commission so if you're planning to build a market structure and you design a crossover operation in the nextman area then be prepared, Intel is something to know because when you invest in end seconds you'll realise it's not gonna yield much in the short period and you'll see just how much you've cashed so make sure that everything goes smoothly so with that you

about moving on to any of the next sections. Now I really do mean that. You can keep your trading

extremely simple, mechanical and systematic just using structure and S&D zones. Like that is

literally all you need and you can have a very profitable strategy. But eventually when you are

ready to take your trading to the next level we can use liquidity concepts just to help us refine

our trading you know just that little bit more. But of course you know we're going to speak about

this in a lot more depth once we get to those lessons. But essentially market structure, your

supply and demand zones and then liquidity. Those really are the three main concepts that make up

the backbone of the photon strategy. So once you have learned how we put all of these three concepts

together you will then be ready to focus on how we actually enter our positions. But then of course

how we also manage those positions once we are in them so that we can maximize our risk and protect

our capital in the most effective way right whilst maximizing our potential reward as much as

possible. And that is the art of trade management which you will kind of pretty much focus on

today.

And that's essentially the next stage of the journey that you're now on within the photon

program and this is what we're going to cover over the following lessons. Mastering these concepts

it can be a long road and there are zero shortcuts. Now if there was a shortcut well it would be to

stop taking shortcuts. Please make sure you have mastered each of those individual concepts

before you move on to the next one. It's just only going to make your journey longer and difficult

in the long run and what you'll find is you're just going to have to come back and start again.

Sorry to use another gym analogy but you know I think it's a great one but so often what you will

see is you know someone who doesn't have a very good squat technique in the gym they will start

trying to just add on as much weight to the bar as quickly as possible each week and then one or

two things always ends up happening as a result. Either they get injured because they can't lift

that heavy weight with shit technique or they just end up hitting a plateau and they just can't lift

any heavier you know with that rubbish technique. So then what they have to do is they have to

finally drop and swallow their ego. They have to strip

all of the weight back off the bar. They have to admit to themselves you know that they're not

ready and they need to relearn the basic fundamentals of the movement. So they go back

they relearn those you know those movements of the squat. They completely relearn the movement

the correct way before they can then build it back up. But if they had just taken the time to

get it right from day one right drop their ego just practice you know moving the bar up and down

with no weight on it or even without the bar right then they could have avoided all of that mess

stress and wasted time. Photon is your last shortcut.

But there are no more from here onwards.

Now I just want to end this introductory video on one last point and that is that you learn to swim

by jumping into the water and swimming not by sitting in a classroom you know studying

aqua dynamic theory. So while up until now we've covered some you know background theory in this

course but it is my ultimate goal to get you into the pool as soon as possible. So the way that this

module is structured is that you are going to initially learn a new concept and then you will

have to go back to your previous exercise to then go and go and perform on a specific section of

price action on your charts and then after you have done that and you've done that exercise

applying the theory that you've just learned you're then going to watch the next video which

will be called a walkthrough and this is where you can watch me perform that exact same exercise on

the same section of price action so you can compare your efforts to mine. But more importantly you

can hear my exact thought process as we slowly go through it together. So hopefully this should be a

way of learning the concepts so you know it's not just all theory but we're actually rolling our

sleeves up together and we're getting stuck into it. So you know I'm genuinely buzzing for you to

start the rest of this module as let's be honest this is where the real source is right? All right

let's fucking do this shall we?