ForBeginners

There was a time when I was basically donating money to the market.
Same pattern, over and over: I’d see a setup, convince myself it was “the one,” jump in without true confirmation… and then get that dreaded liquidation email like a bill collector who never sleeps. 😅
had charts. I had indicators. I had hope.
What I didn’t have was patience.
Everything changed the day I fully understood one simple but deadly accurate concept: Trend Break + Retest Rejection.
The Day It Clicked for Me

I was watching a textbook bullish trend unfold — higher highs, higher lows, smooth and steady. My old self would have jumped into a “buy and hold” dream.
But then it happened…
The trendline broke.
In the past, I would have panicked, thinking: It’s just a small dip, it’ll recover, right?
Not this time. I remembered the rule I’d been learning but never truly applied: Don’t enter on the break — wait for the retest.
Sure enough, price climbed back up to touch the very trendline it had just broken. And then I saw it — the candle wicked hard, showing clear rejection. The next candle? A massive bearish engulfing.This wasn’t a dip.This was a trend shift.
My Play-by-Play Entry
• Entry: Short position right at the rejection wick zone.
• Stop-loss: Just above the wick — high enough to dodge the stop hunts, low enough to control risk.
• Take-profit: Split into three levels so I could lock in profits without killing the trade early.
The Result
No liquidation.
Controlled risk.
Profits that felt planned, not lucky.
And here’s the best part — this wasn’t just one lucky trade. This was a lightbulb moment that changed the way I see the market forever.
I stopped chasing every candle.
I stopped trying to “outsmart” the trend.
Ilet the market prove the setup to me before I risked a single dollar.
If there’s one takeaway from my journey, it’s this:
The safest entries often come after the market rejects a retest, not before it.
Learn to spot that story on the chart, and liquidation won’t just be rare — it’ll be history.