Best filter:
Do not take a buy signal in the middle of nowhere.
Take it after liquidity is swept, market structure shifts, and price respects an FVG, order block, or breaker.
The signal is confirmation, not the whole trade.
Quick test:
Replay mode.
One candle at a time.
Write down every closed-candle signal.
Then move forward 10 candles.
If old closed signals vanish, be careful.
If only live candles change, wait for confirmation.
@Liq_Sniper Solid framework. The filter I'd slot between 2 and 3: only take the iFVG/CISD entry if it triggers inside a macro window. The same reversal impulse outside a window is where most failed iFVGs live — the clock's the cleanest filter on that list.
@bepotrades This is the model. One refinement that bumped my hit rate: the AM killzone isn't flat — the sweeps that hold cluster in the macro windows inside it (9:50, 10:10). First IFVG inside one of those vs anywhere in the killzone is a different trade.
@TempoICT That V-shape off the Asia low is textbook. What turns it from good to A+ for me is an SMT divergence at the sweep — NQ vs ES not matching the low — and it landing in a macro window. Wick reaction + SMT together is the high-conviction version.
@DodgysDD The overnight trendline liquidity is half of it — the runs that follow through for me kick off inside a macro window. Outside one they tend to just sweep and stall. The patience is really waiting for the clock to line up with the level.
@TTrades_edu Overnight lows as the draw makes sense. The piece I'd add: watch NQ lag ES into them — that SMT at the low is usually the tell the draw's hit and the A+ reversal's loading, especially in a window.
@Hydra_Thahmid 15m for the narrative, 1m for the trigger is the exact read. What makes these A+ for me is when that 1m entry fires inside a macro window — same 15m story outside one rarely pays like this. Clean trade.