3 Strikes and You're Out: How Orderflow Legs Really Work
Every orderflow leg you'll ever look at gives price exactly three chances to react before the leg is invalidated.
It's just like baseball.
Three strikes, and you're out.
90% of traders lose because they trade blind.
Price only does 4 things:
• Expansion
• Retracement
• Reversal
• Consolidation
Each phase has a setup.
Each setup has liquidity behind it.
If you can read the phase,
you stop guessing, and start executing.
Read price delivery.
That’s the edge.
credited @1XRISK@Romeotpt
90% of traders focus on entries, but this model is built around timing, context, and confirmation. That’s the difference. 📈
The London Model is showing how to turn the Asian range into a high-probability setup during the London session.
🔹 Step 1 - HTF Bias:
Start with the higher timeframe direction. If your bias is wrong, the setup loses its edge.
🔹 Step 2 - Key Levels:
Mark important PD arrays, old highs/lows, and HTF levels. These become reaction points.
🔹 Step 3 - Timing:
The model focuses on 2AM–5AM EST, with the strongest window around 3AM–4AM EST - when London volatility usually expands.
🔹 Step 4 - Asian Range:
Price builds liquidity between Asian High and Asian Low. This range becomes the fuel.
🔹 Step 5 - Market Shift + Displacement:
After liquidity is taken, wait for market structure shift and displacement. No confirmation = no trade.
🔹 Step 6 - FVG / IFVG Entry:
Entry comes from the retrace into the imbalance after the shift - not from chasing price.
🎯 Target:
Aim for 1:2 or 1:3 RR - protecting risk while letting the move pay.
Trade the direction. Respect the time. Wait for confirmation. Let London do the work. ⚡
90% of the time you’ll be right on direction if you understand this 🔥
Most traders struggle to find trend and bias, they stare at candles they add lagging indicatorsvand they still end up guessing.
This image is a follow-up to the video I shared, you’re not reading candles here alone you’re reading where value is shifting.
• VAH, VAL, POC are not random lines
• They show where real business happened
• Their movement reveals true market structure
• Uptrend → Value migrating higher
• Downtrend → Value migrating lower
• Range → Value trapped between VAH & VAL
This is how you read the market without emotion, this is how bias becomes obvious.
Watch the video first.
Use this as your cheat sheet.
When trading Currency Pairs this exact part will come handy, make sure you understand it well this weekend.
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Expansions are the easiest trades
If you have been studying,
I have given you the blueprint I use for expansions
Use the 25% as confirmation level
Use the 50% as invalidation
If the market respects 25% and confirmed reversal on Intermediate • Lower Timeframe
expansion confirmed
The 50% as a intermediate invalidation point.
If bullish, bearish moves towards this 50% is retracements
If bearish, bullish moves to wards this 50% is retracements
The closer price gets to the 50% depending on the previous range
the lower the likelihood of large expansion
apply this to the higher timeframes
watch the outcome