How to Grade Trading Setups from C to A+

If you can't grade your setup before you enter, you're taking trades that were never meant to work. I'm gonna show you how I grade every setup from C to A+ before I risk a single dollar.

Step one: After I identify a potential trade, I count my confirmations.

The confirmation model has four: liquidity sweep, higher timeframe fair value gap delivery, inversion of a fair value gap on a lower timeframe, and a change in the state of delivery.

Every setup gets graded based on how many of those are present.

Step two: Four confirmations is an A setup.

That's my bread and butter. Three confirmations is a B. I can take a B, but I know the risk is higher, and I size down.

Two confirmations or fewer is a C. I don't touch it, ever.

Step three: An A+ is all four confirmations plus a bonus filter, SMT divergence, internal sweep, or an OTE zone confluence.

When I see those on top of the four confirmations, I know the setup is as clean as it gets.

Most traders don't grade anything. They see something that looks like a setup, and they enter.

That's how you end up taking C-graded trades all week and wondering why your win rate is stuck. A+ is all four confirmations plus a bonus.

A is four, B is three, C is two or less. Here's how it looks.

This setup has a sweep, higher timeframe delivery, inversion on the lower timeframe, and a change in the state of delivery.

That's an A. I enter, stop at the swing high, targeting opposing liquidity.

Now, here's a C from the same week. Sweep and an inversion, but no higher timeframe delivery and no change in the state.

Chop, straight into a loss. I built a free setup grading guide that shows you exactly how to score every trade.

Comment "rating," and I'll send it to you for free.