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Pre-market checklist

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The 5-component template

Discipline check

01

The four approved setups

Tap to switch. Trade one of these or nothing.

True reversal (C2) at a HTF key level

Core

An order-paired reversal at the extreme of a market maker model (ERL↔ERL) that will deliver the opposing side of the range.

Required: all must be present

  • 1Price into a >1-hour key level (ERL swing, or IRL FVG / order block).
  • 2A two-stage crack in correlation at that level (a variant below).
  • 3A strength switch of the manipulating asset (reverses with relative strength / closes as a PSP).
  • 4V-shape / displacement / CISD out of the level. Fast in, fast out, no lingering.

The two-stage variants

V1 · SMT confirms PSP

PSP prints, then a consecutive-candle SMT confirms it. Can trade C2 as it forms.

V2 · PSP confirms SMT

SMT prints, then the candle closes as a PSP. Wait for the close, trade C3.

V3 · Two-stage SMT

SMT with a swing, twice.

V4 · Two-stage PSP

A PSP plus a swing SMT.

V5 · Three-stage

Two-stage PSP plus a two-stage SMT, often around a driver.

Trade-or-wait: small wick + time left → trade C2. Large wick / little time → wait, trade C3. No two-stage CIC → do not trade the reversal. Stop at the true invalidation beyond the swing / SMT.

Continuation away from a true reversal

Highest probability

The bread and butter. Precondition: a confirmed true reversal and an open draw. When in doubt, this is the trade.

Type 1 · IRL→ERL best

C3 opens into an FVG in the upper half of C2 (respects EQ). One-stage CIC in the gap (SMT fill or PSP). V-shape, target the draw.

Type 2 · Order-paired

C3 retraces into a relevant low, engineers a swing, trades external→external. Lower probability.

Type 3 · Two-stage in gap

SMT fill plus a PSP inside the gap. Highest-quality continuation.

Gap filter by premium / discount: below EQ of the HTF dealing range, any valid gap is fine. In premium, demand the swing / gap in a discount of the current expansion candle, stop in that discount. Never long gaps near the high of an expansion candle.

Protraction (session) entries

Session read

Protraction is manipulation. Read London to predict New York: if London does X, New York does Y. Ground rules: manipulation into a >1h PDA, a CISD / MSS out of it, ideally an SMT.

Classic · 12–2/3am

NY continues London's reversal. Engage a NY optimal-trade-entry breaker + FVG.

Delayed · 2/3–8am

NY reverses London off the HTF level, then runs to the draw.

Void / Judas · NY open / news

London fails to manipulate → NY manipulates first. Turtle soup at the London extreme with a HTF PDA behind + SMT.

Did London manipulate into a >1h PDA?
Avoid FOMC mornings and high-impact news windows. Treat them as low-probability.

Asset synchronization / SMT break

Advanced

Lagging-asset distribution. Use when the leading asset has reached the draw with a continuation signature, or when you need a laggard to break an SMT to reach the draw.

The ideal sequence: the leading asset trades into the key level and fails to reverse (consolidates / retraces, forms a strength-switch PSP, leaves a gap). Then an SMT fill inside that gap lets you trade the lagging asset to break the SMT and reach the draw. Strength-switch PSP, then SMT fill.
Algorithm 1 · Decoupled 6am → 10am resync

One asset expands one way, another the opposite. Whichever fails to manipulate is in "foreseen distribution." A two-stage forms; laggards catch up via a strength switch at 10am.

Algorithm 2 · Middle-asset SMT break

Leading fails to manipulate, the middle asset breaks a deep premium / discount SMT, the laggard carries a spaced-out SMT, a strength-switch PSP confirms, all three reverse together.

Demand a strength switch when: the leading asset has no relevant swing left to draw into, or you are trading away from a failure-swing SMT. Otherwise trade the leading asset until its draw is met, then the laggard.

Entry models: how you get in

UnicornBreaker overlapping an FVG. Opposing OB invalidation confirms the reversal.
Turtle soupSweep of an old high / low with a HTF PDA behind it (order pairing).
CISDClosure through the open of a qualified order block. Fires before the MSS.
SMT fillA crack in correlation inside an FVG, used in continuation.
The "big 3"Daily key level + hourly CISD + iFVG + SMT.
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The crack-in-correlation rule

n at the reversal, n−1 at every step away.
LocationHow confirmedCIC required
True reversal (the extreme, least confirmed)Lowest confirmationn = 2
HTF continuation (in a gap)Mediumn = 1
LTF entry (reversal fractal in the continuation)Highest (structure already built)n = 0
Don't hunt for a 3-minute SMT/PSP at your entry timeframe. You already filtered the swing on the way down, so at the entry timeframe use only the reversal signature (V-shape / CISD).
03

Timing: kill zones

All times ET. The active window lights up.
London LIVE2:00–5:00

Sets up protraction. Watch for manipulation into a >1h PDA.

New York AM LIVE8:00–12:00

Primary window. 8:30 news is a driver; the 9:30 open decouples the triad.

New York PM LIVE1:15–4:00

In by ~3:30. Lunch discount pullback often sets the afternoon leg.

FOMC (2:00pm) is a two-stage driver, so wait for 2:30 to confirm. Don't force trades in FOMC mornings.
04

Trade management

Target ladder

TP1LTF swing · ~40 NQ / 5 ES ptsTake ~2/3 off. The low-hanging fruit and the reason for the high hit rate.
TP2The ITF PDARunner portion continues toward structure.
TP3The HTF drawFinal runners into the true objective.
For trailing-drawdown prop accounts, a static 2R is the default.

Rules

StopAt the true invalidation (beyond the SMT / swing). Enter early in the leg; RR protects you.
Break-evenMove to BE once the first draw is met or an intracandle invalidation forms. BE scratches are fine.
TrailingOnly trail off bulky opposing runs into key levels (e.g. a gap). Never through plain consolidation.
Std devSTDV projections for precision targets when nothing rests to the left, and as HTF pivot confluence.
05

Stay flat when…

Recognizing a no-trade is a skill equal to finding a setup.
  • ✕Failure swings with no strength switch. The single biggest red flag.
  • ✕Consolidation into a key level (likely to be swept to make the real swing).
  • ✕Large wick / exaggerated protraction, unless plenty of time is left.
  • ✕Deep retracement past EQ of C2 in a continuation: wait for the next candle.
  • ✕No two-stage CIC at a would-be reversal: trade continuation instead, or nothing.
  • ✕Can't trust an M30 gap staying unfilled? Don't trust the first CISD: wait for the new 90-min open + intracandle continuation (Jun 15 lecture).
  • ✕Seek-and-destroy / choppy asymmetric consolidation days, FOMC mornings, high-impact news.
  • ✕Lows/highs you don't trust: "zero chance I'd take longs today with these lows": pass.
06

Risk: prop framework

Scale account inventory, not risk per account.

Evaluation accounts

20%
  • Risk 20% of available drawdown per trade (~5 bullets).
  • Max daily loss = 20% of drawdown.
  • 1 win → stop. 1 loss → one more (within the cap). 2 losses → stop.
  • 1 win + 1 loss, or 2 break-evens → stop for the day.

Funded accounts

10%
  • Risk 10% of available drawdown per trade (~10 bullets).
  • Same daily-trade rules as eval.
  • Fixed unit (~$250); big R comes from scaling accounts.
  • Preserve capital; grow by adding accounts, not risk.
07

Mindset for the session

Trade the process. The money is the byproduct.
"I lost the trade."
I collected data for the journal.
"I didn't trade today."
I avoided setups that don't fit my edge.
"BE on the day again."
I'm a trader, not a gambler.
"Tagged BE, then it ran."
I protected capital.
One system, mastered through repetition. Run the loop every session: plan → execute → review. Improvement happens in review, not in the trading itself.
RoadmapConceptsThe frameworkCore conceptsTop-down model
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Theory roadmap

The order to learn this in, with a gate on every stage.

Ten gated stages from zero to the full framework. You do not advance because you finished the video, you advance because you passed the gate. Tick only what you can do right now, without notes.

Tick nothing and you start at Stage 00. That is a completely normal place to be.
Tier I

Foundation

Stages 00 to 02. The vocabulary and single-chart mechanics. You cannot skip this tier by being clever, only by already knowing it.

Tier II

Core

Stages 03 to 06. The actual model. Every stage builds directly on the one before it, so the gates matter more, not less.

Tier III

Advanced

Stages 07 to 08. These add no new setups. They add precision to setups you already trade.

Tier IV

Execution

The stage nobody wants and everybody needs.

Progress here is not saved between visits. Track your gates in your journal, that is where it counts anyway. Process mentorship and education only, not financial advice. No outcome is promised or implied. Trading futures carries substantial risk of loss.
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Concept library

Tap any concept for the full theory.
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How the model trades in practice

The five components behind every trade taken here.

Every trade decomposes into the same four or five components, in the same order. This is the template the pre-market checklist is built from. The highest-value exercise is to rewrite each component's definition in your own words until it sticks.

  1. Draw on Liquidity

    Where price is being pulled: usually an SMT break or a weekly / external liquidity level.

  2. Profile

    The expected shape of the day: often delayed protraction into continuation, or London protraction into NY continuation.

  3. Key Level

    Typically an H1 gap, or AMD (accumulation–manipulation–distribution) into an H1 gap.

  4. Crack in Correlation (CiC)

    A two-stage PSP or SS confirmed with a strength switch. This is the primary confirmation and it is required, not optional.

  5. LTF reversal signature

    The final confirmation on the entry timeframe before execution.

Turn it into your own: the sequence repeats so cleanly that collecting more examples adds little. Writing your own one-line definition of Draw, Profile, Key Level, CiC/SS and LTF signature is what makes it operational.
03

Recurring core concepts

The ideas that show up trade after trade.
Lagging / middle-asset SMT breaks

The entry goes on the asset that is lagging, ES in London being the common case. The divergence between correlated indices is the trigger, not a confirmation of one.

Strength Switch / 2-stage PSP

The primary confirmation, present in nearly every trade. A two-stage strength-switch PSP at the reversal is the green light. Open the for the mechanics.

Higher-timeframe gaps as targets / levels

H1, H4, M30 and M15 gaps frame both targets and entries. The nuance is patience: if an M30 gap cannot be trusted to stay unfilled, the first CISD cannot be trusted either. Wait for the new 90-minute candle open at 10:30 and an intracandle continuation. Confirmation beats first signal.

Quarterly / session timing

Timing is a real input, not just price: the quarterly divisions, the new 90-minute open, Asia opening near key levels, and weekly or session ranges being capped.

04

The top-down model

Three timeframes, three different questions.

Three timeframes build the daily bias for a market maker model. The bias question comes first, the entry comes last.

  1. Which direction is the weekly candle likely to expand?

    Start with the weekly directional bias; the institutional read is simply buy-stops→sell-stops (ERL) or the rebalancing of inefficiency (IRL).

  2. Which daily PDA does the expansion happen from?

    HTF is Daily / Weekly, the array you react from.

  3. Frame structure on the hourly

    ITF is the Hourly, where the market maker model / original consolidation lives.

  4. Enter on the M5

    LTF is the 5-minute, entries only, using the reversal signature. This is fractal: swap timeframes for your personality.

T1

PO3 Ultimate

The full Power of Three toolkit for TradingView, built by Quant Lab.
Ritrade x Quant Lab PO3 indicator: higher timeframe candles drawn beside the live chart, with SMT and PSP marked across correlated pairs.
Pine Script9 settings groups172 controlsAuto timeframesAlerts on bar close

PO3 Ultimate draws the higher timeframe beside live price so structure stays visible while you execute at entry resolution. C1, C2 and C3 are labelled through the sequence, the Profiler HUD reads out what the indicator currently thinks, and confirmation arrives through CISD and SMT / PSP rather than through a guess.

The defaults are a working setup. Auto Timeframes picks the three candle sets from whatever chart you are on, and Advanced Settings stays hidden until you need it. The full panel is documented setting by setting in the Quant Lab guide.

Read the full user guide
  • 1
    HTF candles on the LTF chartUp to three higher timeframe sets drawn beside live price, with EQ midpoints, C2 levels, fair value gaps and an optional countdown to the close.
  • 2
    Profiler HUDAn on-chart readout of current state, anchored to any of nine positions. Read it before you interpret anything drawn on price.
  • 3
    CISD and continuationsThe confirmation line, plus standard deviation projections for targets and a separately coloured continuation entry so a re-entry never reads as a first entry.
  • 4
    SMT and PSP across correlated pairsDivergence against up to three peers, resolved automatically or set by hand, drawn on price and on the higher timeframe candles. Precision Swing Point is the stricter read; Precise mode tightens it further.
  • 5
    Liquidity and sessionsPrevious day and week extremes, swept C2 levels, T-Spot zones, and Asia, London, NY AM and NY PM highs and lows with mitigated levels dropped automatically.
  • 6
    Filtered alertsC2 and C3 closures, C2 from a key level, POI to C2, higher timeframe FVG touch, plus directional CISD and SMT dropdowns. Three independent bias filters decide what draws and what fires.
Members only Free for all mentorship students; the TradingView invite is shared inside the mentorship.
Built by Ryan, @rxttrades ryan @rxttrades building → @quantlabHQ
T2

Relevant Levels Ritrade

Daily, weekly and monthly levels that never sit on top of each other.
Relevant Levels Ritrade on a candlestick chart: PWH, PDH, PDL and PWL levels offset to the right of price with dotted trace lines back to the candle that created each one, plus daily, weekly and monthly opens.

Every level you actually reference, plotted to the right of price so nothing covers your candles. When two levels land on the same price, the second one steps sideways instead of hiding underneath the first, so a previous day high sitting exactly on a weekly high still reads as two separate levels.

Faint dotted trace lines run from each floating label back to the exact candle that created it, so you can see when a level was formed rather than just where it sits. Colours, offset distance, line length and the gap between overlapping lines are all adjustable.

PDH / PDL PWH / PWL Daily open Weekly open Monthly open
Open on TradingView

Open source and free to use. Add it straight from TradingView, no invite needed. Published under ritwikdas2599. Every level is toggleable, so you can run just the day, just the week, or the full set.

T3

Risk Management

Size the trade before you take it: drag the boxes, set your contracts.
Micro
Mini
TP
SL
Entry
1contracts
Take profit
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Risk : Reward
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Stop loss, max risk
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Drag the green / red handles to project TP & SL distance from entry. Dollar values use standard CME point values × contracts. Planning aid only, not financial advice.

About Founder & mentor · Ritrade

I dropped out twice to trade. The second time, it worked.

Two years ago I was a university dropout carrying a pile of debt, convinced I could make it in the markets with nothing to fall back on. The first stretch was exactly what you’d expect: strategy-hopping, blown accounts, barely surviving. Profitable in bursts, never consistent.

What changed wasn’t a new setup. It was working through one framework properly: the entire archive, front to back, then 5–6 hours a day of backtesting and journaling until the technical gaps actually closed. More than any single pattern, that gave me a process I could repeat, the discipline to follow it, and the psychology to sit through drawdowns. That is what turned scattered effort into consistency.

The payouts are just the scoreboard. The edge is how you read the market and manage yourself while trading it.

The results followed. I’ve since crossed $200,000+ in lifetime payouts across My Funded Futures, FundedNext, Lucid Trading and Tradeify, and gone from broke and in debt to financially independent, then earned a live-capital seat off the back of it.

I teach now because I’ve been on the side of the screen where nothing clicks. Not signals, not a secret indicator. The process, the review loop and the accountability that close the gap for traders who already have the skill but not yet the structure. I owe that to my own mentors, and Ritrade is how I pass it forward.

$200K+Lifetime payouts

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Education

Engineering, then quant finance, until the trade-off became obvious.
2018 – 2022
BITS Pilani Completed Bachelor of Engineering
2024
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