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This article now works from the recording it is mapped to, 2025 Lecture Series – NQ Review Presession Buyside Turtle Soup Trade May 14, 2025, uploaded by The Inner Circle Trader on 14 May 2025.
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This article now works from the recording it is mapped to, 2025 Lecture Series – NQ Review Presession Buyside Turtle Soup Trade May 14, 2025, uploaded by The Inner Circle Trader on 14 May 2025. Its transcript — automatic speech recognition of the video’s own audio, not published captions — describes a short Nasdaq review: a fair value gap the presenter said price was likely to draw into, a rally above an old high around the 9:30 open, a short entry he describes at that high inside a fair value gap area, an initial stop he describes as half of a wick, and relative equal lows as the stated downside objective. He says the execution had been walked through live on X that morning. The transcript carries no prices, no contract month, no position size, no verified fills and no measured result, and the presenter never says “Turtle Soup” in it; that label comes from the video’s title.
How we researched this article
BestProps used document-based research from primary firm sources, checked September 24, 2026. The complete source list, scope, limitations, and commercial-state record appear near the end of this article.
Every sentence below is attributed to the recording and linked to the timestamp it comes from. Because the transcript is machine generated, wording and numbers can be misheard, so where the audio is genuinely ambiguous this article flags it instead of resolving it. The source is a clip of roughly four minutes, and the article stays close to that scale rather than padding it into a general Turtle Soup tutorial.
What the source is
- Recording: 2025 Lecture Series – NQ Review Presession Buyside Turtle Soup Trade May 14, 2025
- Channel: The Inner Circle Trader, the presenter’s own channel (shown as 2.22M subscribers when the page was read on 14 September 2026)
- Upload: 14 May 2025, publicly readable, runtime shown on the page as 4:14; the audio transcribed here measures 254.7 seconds, and the page showed about 54,000 views when it was read
- Material used: the recording’s own audio, transcribed locally, plus its public watch page and comment section
No chart, order record, broker statement or third-party recap was available for this review, and none is used. Where the text says the presenter “describes” something, that is exactly what it means: his account of what he saw and did, not an independently verified fill or price.
The fair value gap framework the review opens with
The clip opens as a short Nasdaq review and points straight at an imbalance. At 0:06 the presenter calls up “the fair value gap I told you we would likely draw up into”, and at 0:10 he says he wanted to see whether that area would perform as an inversion fair value gap once price got above it.
A second gap is named as the next draw at 0:16, with the same premise restated at 0:21: get above it, get back in, treat it as an inversion fair value gap, to run the high “here and up here”. A smaller gap in the same area is flagged as something to be mindful of at 0:27. From 0:33 he drops to a one-minute Nasdaq chart and stays there for the rest of the clip.
Two boundaries belong with that section. The gaps are his chart markings and cannot be measured from a transcript. And “inversion fair value gap” is his conditional read on how price might behave above a level — a scenario he says he was watching, not a statement that it happened.
The morning walkthrough he sends viewers to
At 1:02 he refers back to work done that morning, saying he had walked viewers through “a live execution on X”. He describes following every individual candlestick and how it should behave, drawing up into liquidity “and not need to take out that high” (1:09), and calls what followed a small run (1:21). He then tells viewers to look at the X account and says he will post the video link in the comment section of this video (1:28).
That comment is there. The recording’s own page carries comments from the channel account linking two posts on X, one labelled “Presession example” and one “AM Session Opening Range example” (watch page and comments read 14 September 2026). The first of those points to a post on the presenter’s own account timestamped 10:25 AM on 14 May 2025, with about 125,000 views when it was read. Those links establish that first-party commentary surrounded this recording and that the presenter sent viewers to it. They are not a transcript, and they say nothing about what any order did.
The setup as described: buyside sweep, entry at the high
The session narrative starts at 1:53 with “the open at 9.30” and price running away while leaving relative equal highs — a slip he corrects to relative equal lows at 2:02. He then looks back toward the 7 o’clock area where the session opened (2:07), asks where the buy side was (2:15), and describes price rallying up and running above that level (2:17).
The entry follows: “there’s me entering at that high” (2:22), inside an area the transcript renders unclearly as a fair value gap (2:26). He places that location in the upper quadrant of the area together with the old high, and says the market dropped off aggressively from it (2:48). The initial stop, in his words, was half of that wick (2:56).
What the audio does not carry: the price of the high, the wick size in ticks, the contract month, the time zone of the chart, or any order confirmation. None of those can be recovered from a transcript, and none is invented here.
Management and the downside objective
After the entry he says the market breaks lower (3:13). The next line is the clearest transcription difficulty in the clip: the transcript reads “Consequent encouragement doesn’t get back to consequent encouragement. Works the lower half still” (3:17). The likely intended term is “consequent encroachment” — usually the midpoint of an imbalance in this vocabulary — but that reading cannot be confirmed without the chart, so it is left flagged rather than asserted.
He then says price breaks and runs for the relative equal lows (3:25), and that the level was being filled “right below that line” (3:36). The review closes with his expectation that the rest of the day, having been “mirrored around”, was likely to draw to a daily objective over time (3:52), and a warning that the next day carried big news, so to be aware and careful (4:06).
The daily objective is forward looking: it is his expectation at the time of recording, reported here as such, not an outcome. The same applies to the entry, stop and target above — they are his account of a trade he says he took.
Why the video is titled a buyside Turtle Soup trade
The phrase is not in the spoken commentary; it is in the title. The sequence he describes is the one community vocabulary gives that name: price trades above a prior high, the break does not follow through, and the presenter positions for a move back toward the liquidity on the other side, here the relative equal lows below the session’s highs. Using the label is descriptive. It is not an endorsement, not a tested method and not a recommendation to copy the trade.
What the recording does and does not establish
- Reported, not verified: the entry, the stop at half the wick and the run toward the relative equal lows are the presenter’s own account. No fill, size, slippage, commission or net result is shown or claimed.
- No prices or instruments in the speech: the audio names Nasdaq and a one-minute chart; it names no price, no tick value and no contract month. NQ appears in the video’s title, not in the spoken commentary.
- Machine transcription: the transcript and its timestamps are automatic. Terms and numbers can be wrong, and at least one phrase in this clip clearly is.
- No chart verification: this review never saw the recording’s chart, so no level, session date, time zone or annotation is presented as read from it.
- No performance evidence: a single review clip cannot establish a win rate, expectancy or edge, and nothing here should be read as a result.
Date and identity of the source
Identity here does not depend on a search result. The recording’s own title and its upload metadata both carry 14 May 2025, and the file described above is the one this article is mapped to. The transcript itself never states a calendar date, so the trading session shown on the chart, its time zone and the contract displayed are treated as unverified rather than assumed.
One loose end from earlier versions of this article can be narrowed. A separate first-party post on X is titled “2025 Lecture Series – NQ Review Presession Trade May 15, 2025” (read 14 September 2026). It is a different item from this recording, and nothing on this page is drawn from it.
Watch the original lesson on YouTube
Watch the original lesson on YouTube
The video cannot be played inside another website: when its embedded player was opened and clicked on 13 and 14 September 2026, the player itself reported “Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.” That message is the reason no embed is reserved or left blank here; the recording itself is available directly on YouTube.
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Sources
- Primary source: 2025 Lecture Series – NQ Review Presession Buyside Turtle Soup Trade May 14, 2025 — The Inner Circle Trader, uploaded 14 May 2025. Every timestamp link on this page points into this recording.
- U.S. SEC Office of Investor Education and Advocacy: Investor Bulletin on stop, stop-limit and trailing stop orders — official regulator education cited only for the general mechanics it states, that a stop order becomes a market order when its stop price is reached and that the executed price can differ from that stop price. Scope: it is written about stocks and brokerage order availability, not about index futures or prop firm rules, and it says nothing about where any stop in this recording sat.
- CME Group: E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures contract specifications — the exchange operator’s own product page, read through an Internet Archive copy because cmegroup.com declines requests from this host. Scope: product description only; it is not a statement about the 14 May 2025 session and not a chart.
- X: The Inner Circle Trader, post of 14 May 2025 linked from the recording’s own comment section as a presession example — cited only for its provenance and timing as first-party material. It is not a transcript and it is not treated as evidence of any trade.
BestProps is not affiliated with The Inner Circle Trader, CME Group, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or X Corp, and none of those sources endorses this article, this site or any setup. Presession, buyside liquidity, Turtle Soup, relative equal lows, fair value gap, inversion fair value gap and consequent encroachment are used on this page only as descriptive study terms. Nothing here is investment advice, a forecast or a performance claim, and no indicator, script or strategy mentioned on this page was tested, replayed or measured for this article.
