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What is OrderBlock ⁉️ ‼️ Order Blocks are candles where Market Makers (Banks) have placed their positions, generally, the market returns to those candles and they are never violated. There're 2 types of Order Blocks: 1. The Bullish Order Block is the last bearish candle before the bullish movement, that Break The Market Structure Higher. Represents a high possibility of holding the price, when the price returns to it. 2. The Bearish Order Block is the last bullish candle before the bearish movement, that Break The Market Structure Lower. Represents a high possibility of holding the price, when the price returns to it.
Education
by Snick3rSD
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$ETH Short Now to 1292 (Scalpish) *SMT* EDIT: SL ChangeSMT = See related idea about "Smart Money TA" Price has broken buy side liquidity. Retail is expecting a breakout. And it's doing a good job of acting like it is going to continue upward Nope, It is now looking for an Imbalance. Below is a 4 HR Fair Value Gap. I'm being conservative and only reaching for the 62% retracement of the pullback. Additionally it would break the liquidity sitting at 1294.27. it could get deeper, it also may not. I edited the SL Because Price could possibly reach up tot the 15 minute Bearish Order Blocks. Entrance - now (1313.40) S/L - 1329.61 (Edited) TP - 1292.45 KUCOIN:ETHUSDT COINBASE:ETHUSD CME:ETH1! CME:ETB1!
Short
by BodiesXWix
2
$GBPUSD - Sterling Needs More Attractive Price for Buyers *SMT**SMT* = Smart Money Theory = everything you think that is not retail related to trading. First, SMT does not believe that triangles, wedges , trendlines , channels, harmonics, etc. has any effect on how price reacts. I'm sorry, but you won't convince me that Tesla or Bitcoin knows it has created a triangle and that it knows how to react to that? It does and will remember price levels, that's it. The second is to recognize that the price is not random, it is set by an algorithm controlled by those that control the asset. The Third thing to remember is price will do 2 things 1) move toward attacking where there is Liquidity (Equal Highs, Equal Lows, phantom Trendlines , etc.) and 2) Move toward Imbalance (Fair Value Gaps, Liquidity Voids. Open Gaps) That's the basics. The rest is very unique in the vocabulary you need to have and the concepts that wrap around these ideas.* As the price of the pound has fell to record lows this year, During the london session it dropped a filled a daily fair value gap. However it has not returned tp the starting gap price to completely fill in the imbalance. Sterling is usually a sure bet when thinking long term VS the USD, it's going to need to drop a little more for Investors to feel safe with their money in the Sterling again. With the current wave and the dollar moving up, The pound Should be heading down toward below a current liquidity level and the bulloish order Block. I may have already missed the best entrance, and it could just be going straight down in here, but I have my traders hunch it will pull up during the US session and fall last minute. This trade may take a while to play out not just two days like my EURUSD trade did. However to get there it will have to create an illusion that it will buy during the NY SESSION and instead will fall into next week possibly. Or it could create equal lows giving the illusion of support and the up into the red and drop OANDA:GBPUSD TVC:DXY BET:GBPUSD1! CME_MINI:M6B1!
Short
by BodiesXWix
1
$EURUSD - UPDATE: New Entry, Close 15 min FVG then BEARISH *SMT**SMT = SMART MONEY THEORY* WHERE INSTITUTIONS RIP RETAIL TRADERS TO SHREDS BECAUSE THEY DON'T THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. Please see related Idea for details. I posted on earlier 0.98045but after watching it closely I only believe it will get as high as enclosing a 15 min Fair Value Gap, then it wil drop aiming for the liquidity uner neath last friday's lows. which is also 1 standard deviation below the Asian Range during the Asian Session. I'M GOING 2% OF ACCOUNT -USING ALL 50 OF MY LEVERAGE entry - 0.98045 S/L - 0.98540 TP 0.97080 IF YOU FIB FROM THAT LAST 15 MIN CANDLE UP BEFORE THE LARGE DROP, YOU'LL SEE IT WILL RETURN ABOUT 80% OF THE RETRACEMENT. THAT'S ABOUT NORMAL FOR RETRACEMENTS. OANDA:EURUSD BMFBOVESPA:EUR1! ICEUS:DX1! BIST:EURUSD1!
Short
by BodiesXWix
3
$XRP - Hedging Bullish Against Pevious Call? *SMT**SMT* = Smart Money Theory = everything you think that is not retail related to trading. First, SMT does not believe that triangles, wedges , trendlines , channels, harmonics, etc. has any effect on how price reacts. I'm Sorry, but you won't convince me that Tasla or Bitcoin knows it has created a triangle and that it knows how to react from that? It does and will remember price levels, that's it. The second is to recognize that the price is not random, it is set by an algorithm controlled by those that control the asset. The Third thing to remember is price will do 2 things 1) move toward attacking where there is Liquidity (Equal Highs, Equal Lows, phantom Trendlines etc.) and 2) Move toward Imbalance (Fair Value Gaps, Liquidity Voids. Open Gaps) That's the basics. The rest is very unique in the vocabulary you need to have and the concepts that wrap around these ideas.* I batttled withthis and had two ideas and I've narrowed it down to one. It should fill the 4 hour fair value gap bellow before shooting up and filling the Weekly fair value gaps created back in May/April So Currently the price dropped today in the new day and month but has not finished out the week. And I don't think that my original idea will be finished out this week. I do believe that the price will Move up. because if you look at the current Wave, the 162% is the current high within the last few days . Additionally it is within the weekly Faif value gap that it entered and droped created an Instititional Order Entry Drill (WHICH IS THE CURRENT HIGH) Now you can enter now with little leverage and leave a atop loss of about $0.42000 as well as a second entry of $0.4400 with the same stop loss. also with very low leverage. The reasoon I have it bullish above these prices are because the last quartly highs haven't been above $0.4100 and I would expect them to stay above that considering the weekly fair value gap prices. However, I do take a step back and think that it could fulfill the current 4 hour fair value gap before moving updward and then fulfilling the weekly fair value gap before getting to the current high. So that's why I have a thir entry, this would be high leveraged and the current 4 hour fair value gap price jumps from .4050 to .4230 Lastly I have an entry of $.42500 with a stop loss that would cover the 4 hour fair value gap and that entry would be the last bullish order block of $0.42545 covering to the previou areas consolidation low of $0.3760 ( 9however, if this is what you think you might as well add more leverage to your short and us these numbers as take profit) although, it' really the 4 hour FVG Low of 0.40550 that O dpn't think it will get lower than before I put on a high leverage long through the current Weekly Fair Value Gap and Hoping It gets to the other weekly Fair value Gap just above it. as you can see the weekly lows of the current chart are balanced vut where there is a weekly fair value gap above that price usually wants to fill, this is where the unbalanced act is that needs to be balanced. If it does fill the below 4 hour fair vlaue gap, my previous idea's take profit is complete and then it should move up to complete the banlancing of the weekly now that the daily's have been balanced. But if it goes up first and completes the balancing of the weekly, I wouldn't be surprised to see price not hi my original stop loss and turn around and filll the 4 hour gap. So just to be clear here is what I think the scaenarios are on chart 1. Now until $.4400 is an entry with a S/L of $0.42 Staying above highs. but falling again once it covers the weekly FVG near 5585 or 2. Entry at or below $0.4250 to $0.40550 To up above 0.5585 In which case the original idea has hit it's Take profit and now we're just going the opposite way So while I believe it is going to long, right now, it's whether it's going to go long short term and fall back to cover the 4 hour? Or cover the 4 hour FVG first and then go long? Considering most prices still follow bitcoin and I think Bitcoin still has time to get to it's ultimate low of $15,6 I think it's going to cover the second option first, clear out my first take profit and then head to my second. Giving it a 3.25 R:R. However, if you think right now is the time to go long, then you have a 2.75 R:R ... This is why I currently have a small amount in low 3x leverage going long, because if the second comes true, I can get 4 times the amount if I enter correctlty with 12 x leverage. Because I believe either are going to win. And I might Just not enter a second time until .41 and just ad double my current entry and have 15x leverage rather than losing any at all. Quite a bit to think about but any of these scenarios I believe are winners, It's just paying attention to Bitcoin now.
Long
by BodiesXWix
Smart Money Concepts versus Long Money ConceptsFor the past 2 years I'd say I endowed myself in the study of a few technical approaches, and I have to say the most flawed is using smart money concept annotations to build a trade bias, as each annotation from a BOS, to order block can be subjective on every time frame. I feel the overlying goal for any trader is to first align themself with the trend. As you see on this chart, I have a refined, untapped order block on this 15 minute chart succeeding a bleed off in the previous session followed by what most traders perceive as a dead range but it isn't. I've come to notice in these ranges, price tends to scatter interest using a series of corrections on lower timeframes. Flats, Running Flats, and Diagonals are scattering price movements, but nowadays they call them complex pullbacks. Shaking my head. It's complex because the language you are trying to codify the price movements with does not align with the environment. Now order blocks in line with the trend are high probability, but is usually succeeding a correction. I think ever since liquidity became a focal point of most traders as now it is a buzzword, most traders only look for nuances such as CHOCH, which is simply an ABC, with order flow being extending and clear intentions made in the C leg. I mean it sounds cool, but its all buzzwords, and have no relation to the true nature of pricing. Price does not just move, reverse, or stop. It fluctuates in what may seem as unpredictive nature but in all reality its all mathematical and involves keeping a study of price action and the models you build using the same predictive format. Of course with the addition of granularity into the lower timeframes, trying to trade order blocks may seem incomprehensible, because at most times it is. Understanding Price cannot be done with SMC alone, and I feel most traders who do employ the idea of SMC are looking for marketability factors for their trading and more or less uses ICT concepts to overlay their own trading understanding, ICT even said himself that Order blocks are just visual representations. Visual representations of price activity at specific point in time. But what did the order block accomplish? Why are you positioned within the order block itself? This is why I don't trade SMC and removed it from my trading understanding and rather I u It doesn't build enough context. Now lets add context to this bearish order block at (C)5 on the 15M. We can make assumption that the strong order flow in the sell to buy includes the 3rd wave extension as price made a sub minor correction in the 47 percent area of the sub impulse (C)5, which is the (A) wave. At the print of the A wave, the bullish sub impulse was so weak, it didn't shift any order flow on the 4H chart, but in contrast, the correction back into order flow gave print to wider range bear candles in comparison to the previous bullish order flow. Although corrective, price made clear objective to extend price downward over time with a definable 3rd wave extension and impulse back into the untapped supply to demand flip which is another SMC concept. This if course brought in many traders of this concept, and with it trade stops just below the order block which was eventually ran as you can see. Now for everything else. Ill just update the idea if requested. Im tired of typing at this point. Thank you though and feel free to comment.
OANDA:XAUUSDEducation
by SolidWetFX
2
$XAUUSD - CoT Suggests A Quick Short Before the Long Run *SMT*Inverse relationship with the dollar may also suggest a quick short as the dollar just dropped from the all time-high. The dollar may start to pull back down and if so we should see Gold rise. But not after it shorts from the next bearish order block to the nearest Bullish order block and by looking at the Commitment of Traders for Gold Futures, it appears that the longs outweigh the shorts over all. But short term there are mostly shorts. Here's the daily up close to see how the CoT Compares. As we know bonds have not been great this year and currency chases the bond yield . If the yield is inverse the bond then It may suggest that all currency become weaker which would make gold more valuable. That's why I believe this may be the last short to capitalize on before it takes off. I expect the short to happen during the London session just a little after midnight NY Time, I would expect the gold start creeping higher until it around 2-3 a.m. a rush up into that bearish order block and then a slow drop through the rest of the day until the end of the London session, that's when I would expect it hit the bullish order blck and turn around and start moving back up. We'll see what happens I guess. Good luck and happy trading :) OANDA:XAUUSD COMEX:GC1!
OANDA:XAUUSDShort
by BodiesXWix
$BTC - Last Short before Pivot to Bulishness: Near $15,825 *SMT**SMT* = Smart Money Theory = everything you think that is not retail related to trading. First, SMT does not believe that triangles, wedges , trendlines , channels, harmonics, etc. has any effect on how price reacts. I'm Sorry, but you won't convince me that Tasla or Bitcoin knows it has created a triangle and that it knows how to react from that? It does and will remember price levels, that's it. The second is to recognize that the price is not random, it is set by an algorithm controlled by those that control the asset. The Third thing to remember is regarding what price action will do - 2 things 1) move toward attacking where there is Liquidity (Equal Highs, Equal Lows, phantom Trendlines,etc.) and 2) Move toward Imbalance (Fair Value Gaps, Liquidity Voids. Open Gaps) Halfway points in fair value gaps, order blocks, Breakers, are always a price to aim for. Support and resistance onnly exist to protect profits, as soon as an institution wants more, they'll all use the same Options strategy amd that's then Support and resistance is broken. That's the basics. The rest is very unique in the vocabulary you need to have and the concepts that wrap around these ideas.* Bitcoin - It dropped pretty hard after entering a 4 hour fair value gap. This is called an institutional order flow entry drill (IOFED). It drops down to "Support" To where retailers would probably start buying. However, If you haven't done a monthly time dframe analysis on this chart, you will be lost. There is a monthly fair value gap below current market price. After the current price hit support and came back up it then hit a bearish order block followed by another (IOFED) And this is where I believe the price will definitely take a dive as most retail positions are buying. Here's the chart depicting such safe support and retail buying in one area Options on the Bitcoin micro, for an institution to protect their asset would buy a put and buy a call. Therefor if it reaches the put strike price they can excericise the right to buy at that price and they want it lower so they can buy at a discount. So institutions know what retail is doing there for they can sell their assets and short the future/option to hedge against the sell. to get the price to start dropping. Once retail sees that it is dropping further than they want, then they eill start selling with Institutions pushing it down further. Institutions usually knmow the gap theory and will end their option/future at the midway of the monthly fair value gap and start buying up again at an enormous amount because this time it will be in the $15k range. This is about an 80% pullback from the previous low, which is exactly how the chart from 2017/2018 acted. So this should be the last hurrah of a drop. It can fill up the entire Fair value gap below but it doesn't have to. We'll just have to wait and see. Heres a chart of the monthly and where that fair value gap is. That gold line is the imbalance that price wants to fill. 2017 80% pullback VS 2022 80% Pullback 1. 2017/18 2. 2022 At first you were probabbly scratching your head or laughing at my idea. But go back and look through my last 5-6 ideas. I've pretty much been spot on the more I am involved in studying smart money. At least getting near an entry zone and hitting a take 1 profit. Thats All I need daily and I can do this for a living. What do you think? Is $16k ish too low? or do you think lower? Why? I think we're nearing the end of the pullback journey. based on history and Smart Money Technical Analaysis. Also the Commitment of traders report has the institutions adding shorts to their positions. See barchart.com chart, so if the institutions believe it's still shorting, why wouldn't we? See below Barchart CoT. It's the indicator at the bottom of the chart, and the red line represents Institutional Positions. As you can see it's lowering which means it's adding more net shorts. www.barchart.com So good luck and happy trading. COINBASE:BTCUSD BITSTAMP:BTCUSD
COINBASE:BTCUSDShort
by BodiesXWix
14
SPX Top Down Analysis 9/27/22We are trading within a range near the most recent low on the daily after a big move to the downside. Definitely still overall bearish but we are trading into HTF points of interest to the downside, basically buy to sell setup's in the making. Missed the trade yesterday off of the range high but that's okay. Lots of news today so I won't be so quick to pull the trigger and just be more reactive today. 7:30am USD Fed Chair Powell Speaks 8:30am USD Core Durable Goods Orders m/m 0.3% 0.2% USD Durable Goods Orders m/m 0.1% -0.1% 9:00am USD HPI m/m 0.0% 0.1% USD S&P/CS Composite-20 HPI y/y 17.1% 18.6% 9:35am GBP MPC Member Pill Speaks 9:55am USD FOMC Member Bullard Speaks 10:00am USD CB Consumer Confidence 104.0 103.2 USD New Home Sales 500K 511K USD Richmond Manufacturing Index -10 -8
BLACKBULL:SPX500
by Cory4rex
$XAUUSD to short after reachng 4HR FVG *SMT+\*SMT* = Smart Money Theory = everything you think that is not retail related to trading. First, SMT does not believe that triangles, wedges , trendlines , channels, harmonics, etc. has any effect on how price reacts. I'm Sorry, but you won't convince me that Tasla or Bitcoin knows it has created a triangle and that it knows how to react from that? It does and will remember price levels, that's it. The second is to recognize that the price is not random, it is set by an algorithm controlled by those that control the asset. The Third thing to remember is price will do 2 things 1) move toward attacking where there is Liquidity (Equal Highs, Equal Lows, phantom Trendlines etc.) and 2) Move toward Imbalance (Fair Value Gaps, Liquidity Voids. Open Gaps) That's the basics. The rest is very unique in the vocabulary you need to have and the concepts that wrap around these ideas.* Even though Im calling short could also long it until it starting, However, I feel like the move to short will be a quick on and unless I set a take profit on Longing it, I may lose out on the full potential of shorting, in which I have 3 take profit goaks. On a Higher Time Frame (4 hour) There are two imbalances neat the current price. 1 above and 1 below. The question is why do I believe it will strike these imbalances in this order? First it will appear as if that market is taking it up because there is liquidity on the sell side. More than likely it will break the little liquidity point above within the 15 min fair value gap. Here I would expect it to consolidate through the Asian Session but break the swing/spiked high during that time frame, leading retail investors to believe it will continue bullish, but will move back down under that high. At midnight NY time is when the algorithm will take effect. Whatever price it is at that time is what kind if effect price will do moving forward. I believe that after midnight it would slightly drop to convince retail traders that it's shorting, then the Judas swing kicks in. This is where it will run up into the 4 hour fair value gap where there is a daily bearish order block. Here is where to expect the price to get rejected and maybe spik e up to fill the 4 hour FVG, then you start to see the price decline due to the curtrent equal lows where there is liquidity. Institutional investors would want to hold on to their investment but make a profit of the shorting of gold and place sell stops just above the low. As all that liquidity floods the market, the price runs down into the 4 hour fair value gap below the liquidity line. At this point the price is now a duiscount in whjich institutional investors quickly pick up the tab on the cheap prices and at his poinmt yo may see the pivot toward bullishness as the dollar may start finally lowering.' Additionally, After checking the CoT report Institutional investors have been adding longs to their positions, expecting a long eventually but until they start adding shorts, is when I expect to see longs. Just my thoughts and thew esperience I've seen from these types of charts and formation via Smart Money, I'm Testing my students and many have the same thoughts, so we'll just have to see what happens :) -BodiesXWuiix
OANDA:XAUUSDShort
by BodiesXWix
EUR/USD Order Block Setup - Support BounceEUR/USD has been bouncing between support and resistance for a month. On the 4-hour chart, we can see the price bounce perfectly between these two zones. The support zone - 0.99 The resistance zone – 1.005 We have a nice order block at the bottom of the support zone. I have highlighted this zone in orange. We take the most previous bearish candle before an impulsive move upwards. Currently, we can see that the price has pierced straight into the order block zone and is currently retracing. MY target for this OB zone is previous support at the 0.9969 price level. We have some nice confluence for this order block zone. We have the OB zone lining up nicely with previous support that the price likes to bounce off of. We were also expecting the price to come back down to this level because of the price gap we see when looking to the left. I have explained this imbalance in the video below. Not every single order block will hold. We need to find the ones that have the most confluence surrounding them and enter with proper risk management. We cannot find one and just assume that it will work. Please always do your due diligence before entering an order block. The Vortex Trader
by TheVortexTrader
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