Order Block Theory - Institutional Trading Method

I was waiting for it to go down a little more before going up. As I said I only do it in D charts, but that small wick in D chart may have changed general direction

Market makers do not use charts, they create markets by determining the price range and releasing different pricing templates to fill that range and engineer and deliver liquidity here and there.

We cannot do that, what we do is using our charting software, Metatrader or any other charting software and specific data sources to identify institutional order-flow and trade according to it.

In order to analize order-flow and anticipate movements, we look for areas of contraction to be used as precursors for price expansions and expansions reaching contraction areas or objectives; basically we look to cover the distances between two liquidity pools at least.

It is impossible for us to trade like market makers (like smart money), because we cannot be market makers nor get privileged information nor get agreements with market makers.

Order-flow trading is not trading like institutions (there are many types of institutions in any case and their trading styles are not uniform), it is just trading following the current market order flow, in the same direction. And, of course, we use candlestick charts for it successfully.

let see what happen

I am waiting a bit to see what happens with Monday's high within the next couple of hours or so, because there is some open interest above @ 1.37.

But no matter what happens, I am also inclined to keep a bearish perspective on GU this week. Whether it could fall today or tomorrow if it does is uncertain to me.

I think Optimal Trade Entry is missing

I think it's happening something...

as you said , it took the monday high and then came to the down side


so after the bms in m1 / we could get some bearish for thos sell side liquidity

I would say it's impossible to be 100% sure of what Price will do...I'm still learning to work with probabilities, more specific with high probabilities setups but this seems one of them, at least that's what I'm reading from tools

Many confluences as per ICT Methods:

NY Kill Zone
Mid Figure
Turtle soup
ICT Breaker
High Impact News in LC
Sell Side Liquidity Pool
OTE

I'm sure there's more than those

Edited: "misspeling" it isn't " my tools "...they belong to ICT

Hi, I was just lucky, nothing else. As we approach sellside HTF liquidity areas, this week could be interesting tomorrow or on Friday.

Changing to S&P 500.

I am also looking at this. As long as an order-block or a similar structure might be created in the future, after a fall hypothetically, prices can use it to resume an uptrend.

However, assuming an scenario in which no new bullish structures are created during the next S&P500 retracement, look at this if we see a second bearish month and the liquidity void. And for now, the chances for a bearish month are imo much higher than the probabilities of seeing a bullish one.

Looks like a good setup

Many ICT tools are fractals, this means we'll see same patern form in all time frames...here's a fractal example of my post above


Let's see if it got some juice left to break bellow 1.3544...it's kinda late..but price can do whatever " they " want
If Price doesn't fall and consolidates where we're presently, i suspect tomorrow we'll have a nice setup again...

MM sell program execution.

Isn't it beautiful?

UJ H4 50% 0f the H4 OrderBLOCK
https://www.tradingview.com/x/P8yEcu4A/

Just to outline an important aspect of orderblock trading.

Order-blocks are one of the ways that price moves start. This means, that by trading order-blocks we are able to catch very huge moves and get impressive RRRs that sometimes may reach 1:20 or even 1:50 once you master it. All ok since here.

But...

We are not retail traders in our style, we do not just try to trade order-blocks because it is at a top, or at a new high or because we see the orderblock lies on a trendline or any of the ways retail traders identify support and resistance areas.

We trade order-blocks because we identfy correctly order-flow. We do not mind if the order-block is above, below or in the middle.

We study market structure using smart-money techniques, we analyze, to summarize, the state of markets according to ICT orderflow theory and we do not care about any of the retail assumptions when trading ICT orderblocks.

Just because your orderblock is high or it is low, or it is the most impressive turtle soup, it does not make it qualify as a tradable OB. Not every down or upcandle is an orderblock neither.

Trading is contextual and ICT is also based on multidimensional analysis. We do not trade supports and resistances, we do not trade pure retail.

Does it mean that retail styles are not compatible with ICT? Well, maybe not completely; I use retail analysis when it is useful, why not. It only means exactly what I have written; nothing else and nothing more.

Take care.

The UTAD arrived a bit late ---https://www.tradingview.com/x/0EMMo4Cb/

Beautiful.

I don't know why...lol...but I'm liking very much the LC sessions.
I took this trade as an exercice knowing that today I " shouldn'd " be trading due to US Holiday but the setup looked so "perfect" I couldn't resist tasting the waters
LC Session...Mid Fig...4H - OB...62% retrac. from LO High...Price Above LO, NYO and Sunday's open
Already took first profit at 30 pips ( risk was 30 pips )...lowered open risk
Waiting to TP2 and will move stop loss to BE

2nd target achieved and soon weekly objective is met also when we hit TP3...will leave a portion on in case it's a runner

NU Daily Market Structure bird view...

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/NZ...-Alignment-NU/