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Gold keeps failing at the same high. Most people call that "strong resistance."
Look at it another way. Every failed push leaves more stops and breakout orders resting just above that high. A level tested again and again isn't getting stronger. It's collecting liquidity.
So the question isn't "will it hold?" It's "when price finally trades through it, does it accept above, or sweep it and close back inside?"
The close tells you which one you got.
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Nasdaq just had its worst week since April. Today it's bouncing.
Before you call it a reversal, ask three questions:
Has price taken back the high that started the selloff, or is it still below it?
Is the bounce trading into a gap the selloff left behind?
Is it in the premium half of the down move, or still in discount?
A bounce into the selloff's own gap, under its starting high, is still part of the down move until proven otherwise. Let the chart prove it.
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Liquidity Explained: Buy-Side & Sell-Side (ICT Basics)
Price isn't random: it's drawn toward liquidity, the places where orders are waiting. This first lesson in the Liquidity Logic education series shows you where those places are: swing highs and lows, buy-side and sell-side liquidity, old highs and lows, equal highs and lows, the previous day and week, and the session highs and lows (Asian and London).
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Why Fair Value Gaps Fail (and 5 Questions to Ask) | ICT
Price came back to the gap, and kept going. That is normal. A fair value gap is a zone, not a promise.
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Your stop wasn't unlucky. It was the target.
You sold the open with the stop just above the first high. Half an hour later it was gone, and price fell nearly 500 points without you. Every candle fakes first, and the wick needs fuel: your stop. Put it above the protected swing instead. Watch the full video to know more.
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@YashGgaming1 London taking the lows first, then a BOS with SMT, is the cleaner order for a long. The real test comes at the NY open: if 9:30 trades back under London's low, the raid failed. Which index gave you the SMT, ES or YM?
@ChairmanBichi@rebateboard When price won't come back to C.E., the displacement is usually strong, and the best moves often tag only the near edge of the gap. Some traders split it: part at the edge, the rest at 50%, same stop. Would a partial at the edge fit your rules, or is C.E. a hard line?
@__piyushnimesh@imaginarytrades Not strictly. ERL to ERL can work alone when the sweep candle closes back inside the range. SMT is extra proof: one market takes the high and its partner fails to. Without it you're trusting the close alone. On gold, do you pair it with silver or DXY for the SMT?
@Tolany_AB One sideways trade can't grade a new filter. Waiting hours for a 4H CISD often puts the entry after the first push, right where price likes to rebalance. Log 20 of them next to your usual entries. Did that 4H confirmation print in a killzone, or late in the day?
@ahmed_hammo08 A daily close through the last lower high is the stronger kind of shift, since a wick alone would just be a raid. On the retrace, I'd want the low that made that break to hold. Are you using the gap left by the displacement leg as your entry zone?
@CallmeElement_1 Going against the crowd is fine when the weekly sweep happens at a level that matters. A CRT sweep in open space rarely holds. https://t.co/thKkW7XNW2 What's the level behind your weekly sweep, a prior week low or an old daily gap?
@Vedant_san_ Sizing up on conviction is usually what makes a normal pullback feel unbearable. At your usual size you'd probably have sat through it. A rule that helps: conviction decides whether you take the trade, never how big it is. What size felt calm for you on that 50K?
@justkingsaint@oneofficialgold Using an off day to study the 4H CRT is time well spent. On indices I'd start with the 6am candle, since it carries the 8:30 data and the 9:30 open, so its sweeps have real volume behind them. Are you marking the previous 4H candle's high and low as the range?
@wuitrades Losing the C.E. of the FVG that built the high is the detail most people skip. The raid and the SMT tell you who's weak, but the C.E. break is what says the move has actually started. Do you wait for a daily close under it, or is the LTF flip enough?
@2LEARN2PLAY Smart to treat 7am as the real test, since that's when US traders start leaning on London's range. If the 3:30 gap holds through it with bodies respecting it, I'd trust that SMT more. Are you logging these demo trades with the time of each entry? Patterns show up fast.
@ErnestTradesfx Both paths make sense, but I'd rather see Friday's low get taken first. Running those sell stops gives the move up toward the 1D FVG its fuel. If price drops into the H4 FVG and block without touching Friday's low, would you still trust it, or wait for the sweep anyway?
@74K_NQ Taking 2R when the plan said 4R isn't a miss, especially in an eval where staying in the game counts for more. Waiting for that first post-3AM gap to invert before committing is a clean read. Did price reach the next swing low later, or stall near where you closed it?
@tradelabng Yesterday's high and low plus the 4am 4H candle is a tidy way to frame London. One filter I'd add: if price sweeps the level and runs before your 15M/5M shift forms, let it go rather than chase a second shift. For the FTSE, same 4H candle or the 8am cash open?
@ChelseaAquilaFX The close usually answers it. A wick above the Asia high that closes back inside is a sweep; a body close above that holds on the retest is acceptance. A slow crawl into the high rarely reverses cleanly. https://t.co/MBlwkEeUnq Which close do you use, 15m or 1H?
@Okpara081 I'd frame it as timeframe, not FVG: a 15m gap can only carry a 15m-sized move. For a swing, the gap needs to sit on the 4H or daily, with the entry two or three steps below it. Same logic as pairing CRT timeframes: https://t.co/87L4yne4TG Which TF were your BTC gaps on?