Everything reverts to Lesson #1.
Where is the Draw on Liquidity?
If you cannot spot the liquidity, then you likely ARE the liquidity.
The draw is not always easy to determine for the newer students, but it becomes easier with time.
Let's get this straight.
• Breakers
• Imbalances
• Power of Three
• Silver bullet
• etc.
Each of these comes second to Draw on Liquidity.
The list above writes the narrative.
"How should price deliver to our target Draw on Liquidity?"
Answer this question & get in sync.
I wait for price to reach my HTF POI, and then I begin marking LTF PD Arrays.
It's not the other way around...
No wonder you feel stressed watching the charts.
You haven't filtered out all the noise on the LTF until it matters.
Here's how I trade the various stages of price delivery:
If price is expanding, then I focus on orderblocks.
If price is retracing, then I focus on imbalances.
If price is consolidating, then I focus on equilibrium.
If price is reversing, then I focus on liquidity pools.
When HTF institutional order flow is bearish, every bullish PD Array on the LTF will fail.
BISIs → inverted FVGs or BPRs.
Orderblocks → mitigation blocks or breakers.
Many ICT traders confuse these lower timeframe traps with high-probability setups.