TradingBrain free guide · 02 / 07
The Setups

The Only Two Models

You don't need 15 strategies. You need 2.
"You don't need 15 strategies. You need 2 — and the discipline to wait for only those."

Everything we trade fits into one of two models. Everything else is noise that makes you overtrade. Master these two and ignore the rest.

Two real NQ sessions: a reversal (sweep, MSS, retrace) and a continuation (trend, pullback, entry)

1 Reversal — at the extreme

When price reaches a liquidity extreme and is about to turn, the sequence is:

  1. Sweep — price takes out a prior high/low (grabs external liquidity).
  2. Market Structure Shift (MSS) — it breaks structure the other way.
  3. Retrace to the IRL — it pulls back into the FVG / Order Block it left.
  4. Confirmation candle — the reaction that gives you the entry.

2 Continuation — with the trend

When a trend is in place and you join the pullback:

  1. Clear higher-timeframe trend.
  2. Pullback into the IRL — an FVG / OB in the trend direction.
  3. FTSH / FTSL — price fails to seek the prior high/low (the correction is done).
  4. Confirmation candle — you enter with the trend.

3 Why only two makes you profitable

A real model prints ~2 times a day, not 15. Having only two forces you to WAIT — and waiting is 80% of the edge. The trader taking 15 "setups" a day is donating their account to the ones who wait for these two.

⚠ watch out Forcing a "continuation" when there was never a clean pullback + FTS, or shorting a "reversal" with no confirmed MSS. No step 2, no trade — the sequence is the filter.
The takeaway

You know what the two models are. Recognizing which one is forming LIVE, without forcing it, with a real quality grade — that's what the bot fires inside.

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