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Order Blocks Will Fail You Without These 3 Simple Rules
Most traders waste a lot of time trading order blocks that never work. I see it all the time: charts covered in boxes, indicators stacked on top of each other, and trades that still get stopped out. The issue isn’t the order blocks themselves. The issue is that most retail traders don’t know how to filter them or place them correctly within the market structure. In this post, I’m going to break down what an order block actually is and the three simple rules I use for order block trading. This is based on price action, not indicators, and it’s how I personally identify order blocks that actually matter. An ... (full story)
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