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The Quarterly Theory A–Z Guide
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80 pages. Everything I trade — Daye's framework, my own models, the psychology, the prop firm playbook, my indicators, and a 90-day roadmap. Completely free.
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Founder & Mentor — Quarterly TheoryFounder of Oracle Insights. Full-time funded futures trader teaching Quarterly Theory — the time layer of ICT. One trade a day, simple, repeatable, no hype.
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Mentor & Analyst — ICT / Liquidity & InversionsOur newest mentor. 19, UK-based, full-time futures trader. ICT stripped back — liquidity and inversions, traded towards the draw. One setup a day in the New York session. Mechanical, no emotion.
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Quarterly Theory NewThe Quarterly Theory Framework — A Complete Introduction
Understand the AMDX cycle, fractal time, and how Q1–Q4 functions structure every market session. This is the foundation under everything.
Quarterly Theory NewTrue Opens — The Levels That Actually Matter
Daily, weekly, monthly opens — how to use them as draw and as bias. The single concept that filters fake manipulation from real manipulation.
Quarterly TheorySequential SMT (SSMT) — The Complete Guide
SSMT literally tells you when price is ready to reverse or expand. It's the base of every single setup — no SSMT, no trade.
Core Concepts NewDaily Bias — Reading Tomorrow's Candle Today
Two simple techniques — candle closure signatures and Sequential SMT — that tell you what the next daily candle is most likely to do. Get this right and everything else falls into place.
Advanced ConceptstCISD — The True Change In The State Of Delivery
The concept I created that took me from unprofitable to profitable. It confirms every Sequential SMT and gives you the cleanest, earliest entry possible.
Trade Models NewThe Freedom Model — 90-Minute tCISD
My personal model. 90 minutes per day. One trade. Three to one risk-reward. The model that funds the lifestyle.
Quarterly TheoryStacked True Opens — Catching Every Reversal
Two true opens stacked in the right order tell you when price is at an extreme premium or discount — and that's where the cleanest reversals come from.
Quarterly TheoryTime-Based Premium & Discount — Mastering Time-Based Ranges
A mechanical way to find premium and discount using time, not guesswork. Mark the previous higher-timeframe quarter and let the 50% line tell you where price is expensive or cheap.
Core ConceptsThe 9:30 Open — How I Know What The Market Will Do Before The Bell
Imagine a magic eight ball that told you every day where the 9:30 open is going. This is how I read it right — 80–85% of the time.
Core ConceptsThe Defining Range (DFR)
A concept nobody talks about. Split Q1 into thirds, ignore the first third, anchor a standard deviation — and you've got mechanical manipulation and distribution levels for any cycle.
Advanced ConceptsInverse tCISD (iTCISD) — Mastering Continuations
A concept I founded that builds on the tCISD. It's how you master continuation trades — when a tCISD against your bias fails, it becomes your entry in the right direction.
Advanced ConceptsReal vs Fake Sequential SMT
SSMT isn't a buy/sell signal — it's an indication. This is how to tell which divergences to trust and which to ignore, so you stop trading it like a pattern.
Advanced ConceptsHidden Sequential SMT (HSSMT)
A divergence hiding in plain sight. When there's no visible SSMT in the wicks, the closures often reveal one — and most traders never see it.
Advanced ConceptsSMT Fill
A gap forms on two correlated assets at the same time — one fills it, one doesn't. That cracking correlation is one of my favourite concepts, with multiple ways to use it.
Advanced ConceptsPrecision Swing Points (PSP)
A swing point that closes differently across correlated assets. PSPs are there before almost every market move — use them for reversals, continuations, and to spot consolidation.
Quarterly Theory NewTime Cycles & The Fractal Structure
Every cycle is a candle. Every candle can be divided into four. Every quarter can be divided again. This is the fractal nature of time.
Quarterly Theory NewQuarter Functions — AMDX & XAMD
Each quarter has a role determined by what the previous quarter did. Master the if-then logic and you know what price will do before it does.
Core Concepts NewNarrative, Draw on Liquidity & Context
The model gets you in. The narrative determines whether you hold. The draw on liquidity is your target. Know where price is going before you look for an entry.
Core Concepts NewQT Killzones & Quarter Alignment
The concept that turned me from unprofitable to profitable. Stop treating every session the same. Stack the quarters — and only trade when time is stacked in your favour.
Advanced Concepts NewThe True Order Block (TOB)
The entry tool for PSP setups. Drop one time frame. Find the final opposing candle inside the PSP. Wait for validation. Entry with precision.
Advanced Concepts NewThe Revolving True Open (RTO)
When an SSMT forms mid-cycle, the quarter it forms in gets its own true open. Use it exactly like a regular true open — it becomes your new time-based premium/discount reference for that quarter.
Advanced Concepts NewSMT Market Structure Shift
A lower time frame SSMT opposing your HTF direction is not a reversal signal. It’s a retracement vehicle. Here’s how to use it to get into HTF continuation trades at better prices.
Advanced ConceptsPSP Soup, 6-Hour PSP & Advanced Gems
Advanced PSP concepts — when to expect a PSP to get run, how to anticipate it, and how to use the 6-hour time frame to know which session is likely to expand.
Advanced ConceptsFirst Presented FVG After SSMT
The first gap that forms after a sequential SMT is the most important gap in that cycle. If an SMT Fill occurs inside it — you have a two-stage crack in correlation that rarely fails.
Advanced ConceptsIntermarket Relations
When Forex consolidates, indices expand. When indices consolidate, Forex expands. Know which market to focus on each week — before you open a single chart.
Trade Models NewSSMT + PSP + True Order Block
Three concepts. Three confirmation levels. One of the cleanest mechanical models in QT.
Trade Models NewSSMT + SMT Fill
Two steps. Highest probability gap entry. Simple, clean, repeatable.
Trade Models NewTwo-Stage SSMT + tCISD
The highest probability SSMT model. Two stages of divergence — one from the higher time frame, one from the lower — then a tCISD confirmation to enter.
Trade Models NewThe Swing Trade tCISD Model
For traders who want to capture the weekly or monthly range without being on the charts intraday. Same two concepts — different time frames.
Trade Models NewPSP Soup Entry Model
Not common — but when it forms, it’s one of the highest probability sequences in QT. A precision swing point, a soup, a sequential SMT, an entry. Four cracks in correlation stacked before you click.
Trade Models NewOne Shot One Kill (OSOK)
Ever wonder how to catch the exact high or low of a cycle? This is the model. A two-stage sequential SMT — turtle soup paired with failure swing, in the right order.
Psychology NewWhy 95% of Traders Fail
The reasons are not complicated. The solutions are not complicated either. Most people just don’t want to hear them.
Psychology NewFrom Unprofitable to Profitable
I was working a 3 AM shift and trading the New York open after the gym. Here’s the actual timeline and what made the difference.
Psychology NewThe Four Pillars — Edge, Risk, Discipline, Scale
In this exact order. Don’t skip steps. Most people try to scale before they’ve built an edge. That’s why they fail.
Psychology NewGoal Setting, Game Plans & The Profitable Mindset
These goals are 100% within your control. A $1,000 target is not. Process goals compound into profit goals automatically over time — without the emotional damage of chasing a number.
Psychology NewLess Is More — The One Shift That Changes Everything
The most important video I've ever made. 3 AM in Thailand. Completely raw. This is what actually changed my trading — and it's not what most people want to hear.
Psychology NewTrack Everything — Data Kills Doubt
Discipline isn’t a personality trait — it’s a by-product of data. You don’t trust the model because I told you to. You trust it because your own numbers leave you no choice.
Prop Firms NewHow Prop Firms Actually Work
Most traders never understand the vehicle they’re using. Get this part right and the rest makes sense.
Prop Firms NewWhich Firms I Use
Two markets, two lists. But don’t take my word for which is best — compare them yourself and trade the one that fits you.
Prop Firms NewThe Two Things That Kill Prop Traders
Almost every blown account comes down to one of these two. Fix them and the accounts stop blowing.
Prop Firms NewRisk & Position Sizing
Different phase, different risk. Get this wrong and even a good model blows the account.
Prop Firms NewScaling Funded Capital
This is where prop firms get powerful. But you earn the right to scale — you don’t start here.
Tools & Indicators NewThe Five Tools I Run Daily
Concepts get you to the chart. Tools get you reading it faster. These are the five I actually run live every day — three of them completely free.
Tools & Indicators NewQuarterly Theory Cycles
The free one I’d start everyone on. It draws the Quarterly Theory quarters straight onto your chart — so you can see price divided into four without marking a thing by hand.
Tools & Indicators NewQuarterly Theory Toolkit
My favourite of the lot. It’s the all-in-one — it does most of the work for me. Everything QT in a single indicator.
Tools & Indicators NewThe tCISD Indicator
This is the one I enter from. My whole entry technique is the tCISD — and this marks it on my chart for me, so I do none of the hard work.
Tools & Indicators NewSMT Fill
Another free one. It shows you a divergence between gaps across correlated assets — one asset trades into a gap, the other doesn’t. Clean confluence, zero downside.
Tools & Indicators NewStatistical Bias
The free tool I use to gauge my daily bias. It reads candle closures across the triad and hands you a probability — before the next candle even opens.
The Process NewThe Top-Down Read
Every trade I take starts on the weekly chart, days before the entry. This is the exact read, in order, that frames every single session.
The Process NewWhen the Model Says Sit Out
Everything so far is about taking the trade. This is the other half of the edge: the days and the moments where the correct trade is no trade at all.
The Process NewLearn the Read
Resist the urge to trade. The first month is about one skill only: looking at a chart and knowing what it’s trying to do. The entry model can wait — it’s the easy part.
The Process NewBacktest Until It's Boring
Month two is where the model stops being my claim and becomes your statistic. One model, one window, one month of honest data — the full regimen from the Track Everything chapter.
The Process NewExecute on Evaluations
Month three is the transfer test: the same model, the same window, the same calm — except now there’s an evaluation account underneath it.
The Process NewFunded, Scaling, Compounding
Past day 90 the job changes: stop improving the model and start multiplying it. You don’t trade better from here — you trade the same, bigger.
The Process NewThe Questions Everyone Asks
The same questions land in my DMs and Discord every single week. Here are the straight answers.
The Process NewThe Freedom Model Checklist
The entire system on one page. Print it, stick it next to the screen, and run it the same way every single day.
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