What Is the Alex Gonzales Set And Forget Strategy?

Set And Forget is a higher-timeframe forex swing trading method built by Alex G, a Miami-based trader who says he spent “six years, seven years of trading” and “two and a half years” of trial and error refining its checklist. The concept is deliberately simple: trade with the weekly and daily trend, buy or sell only at a weekly or daily area of interest, enter on a lower-timeframe shift of structure with an engulfing candle, place one stop and one take profit — and walk away. No break-evens, no trailing stops, no scaling in.

Alex charts on TradingView, executes on MetaTrader, and uses just one indicator: the 50 EMA. His teaching promise in Class 1 is clear: “I’m going to teach you the classes how I wish I learned when I started trading, which is just eliminating all of the noise and only focusing on what matters.” If you are comparing forex and trading courses, this is one of the most complete low-frequency swing systems on the market.

The Whole Strategy in Five Boxes: the GOLDEN VIDEO

After 25 live classes, the one-hour GOLDEN VIDEO condenses the entire Set And Forget system into a checklist students are told to print and keep next to their desk:

The rules around the boxes are what make it a system rather than a pattern: “We are only going to buy at a weekly or daily area of interest. Anything from the four hour down is just for entries.” An area of interest needs three or more touches. The stop goes where “if hit, we are completely wrong,” beyond the shift of structure plus a few pips of breathing room. The take profit sits at the weekly or daily structure point, measured with candle bodies, not wicks.

A Report Card for Every Trade

Each confluence carries a weight, and together they produce an A, B or C grade. The short lesson “What Grade Trade Should I Take” explains how to match the grade to your style: swing trades built on weekly, daily and 4H alignment versus day trades on daily and 4H — and why the grade you accept depends on your own risk tolerance. The live classes set a practical floor of setups graded 70% and above.

Risk Rules Built for Low Frequency

Set And Forget is built around one to two trades a week, a minimum reward-to-risk of 1:2 (raised to 1:2.5 in later sessions), a fixed risk percentage chosen at the start of each month, London and New York session entries, and a weekly target after which you stop trading. Alex’s own summary: “I don’t feel the need to be involved. I don’t have to trade. I only trade if it makes sense.”

78 Sunday Swings: 18 Months of Real Weekly Analysis

The largest module — about 50 hours — is the strongest proof of experience in the course. Every Sunday from December 2024 to June 2026, Alex scans his market list, narrows it to his “top three, top four” pairs and follows up on the previous week’s ideas. The introduction promises exactly what you get: you watch him “enter winning trades, enter losing trades.” Pairs such as NZD/CAD, CAD/JPY, EUR/JPY, AUD/CAD, GBP/CAD, USD/CHF and GBP/NZD are broken down with the same five-box process, week after week. As he puts it: “I don’t make the rules. I just figure out a way to maximize from the patterns.”

Psychology Recorded in the Moment

The nine-part Level 2 series — comparison, confidence, emotions, greed and fear, money mindset, procrastination and risk management — was recorded in 2020–2021 while Alex was still working through those problems himself, and he chose not to re-shoot it. The Risk Management lesson delivers some of the course’s most quotable rules: “Hope isn’t a confluence.” “Prepare for the worst, but expect the best.” “This is a marathon. This is not a sprint.”

Bootcamps, Trader Talks and the 100 to 1M Cohort

Beyond the core strategy you get a 3-day accelerated bootcamp, a 5-day bootcamp covering trend, area of interest, entry signal, take profit and stop loss, post-bootcamp review sessions, an additional 3-day bootcamp with a PDF, 20 Trader Talks sessions (August 2025 – June 2026) and the complete “100 to 1M” 30-day bootcamp — 31 live recordings that rebuild the foundation from forex basics to top-down analysis. Two short bonus videos cover account flipping and passing a prop-firm challenge, with Alex’s own warning that flipping is “not sustainable. You cannot live off of this.”

Set And Forget Curriculum — Full Video Index

217 videos in 11 sections. Tap a section to expand it — recommended order: Trading 101 → Level 1 and the GOLDEN VIDEO → Psychology → at least one Sunday Swings → bonuses.

Who Is This Forex Swing Trading Course For?

• Complete beginners — Trading 101 and the 100 to 1M cohort start from “what is forex,” pips, leverage and brokers.
• Experienced traders who overtrade — the course asks them to rebuild their foundation: “You cannot apply the Set and Forget strategy on a different foundation.”
• People with a full-time job who want higher-timeframe trades they don’t need to babysit.
• Prop-firm challenge takers who need fixed risk, a weekly target and strict daily limits.

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