Most beginners pick a pin bar by how it looks. They see a long wick and a small body, and they’re in. After 2,454 tested trades, the AFM Research Lab found that the shape alone isn’t enough, and that’s why the textbook pin bar strategy keeps letting traders down. This video breaks down the Trend, Zone, Trigger framework that turns a random wick into a setup worth taking. You only trade in the direction of the market trend, you wait for price to reach a strong price action zone, and you let the candle close before you enter. Ezekiel also covers where the stop goes at 2 ATR, why the target stays fixed at 1.5R, and the path-check rule. He closes with one GBPUSD trade to take and one GBPUSD setup to skip.
