Liquidity, Imbalance and Inversions - Simple and Repeatable

Hi,

I couldnt find a thread dedicated to imbalance or FVG inversions, paired with liquidity.

Does anyone else trade it? I've found great success and consistency with it. Obviously still required serious discipline.

I'll start posting my trades in here if anyone is interested or wants to share their trades? I created a YT channel, not selling anything at all, purely for journaling, i used to keep videos on my computer but they are a gig a piece and quickly ran out of space.

Anyway you can view the method below and i will paste in daily recaps.

Cheers

https://www.youtube.com/@TheFuturesJournal

Great, looking forward to follow buddy.

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Great, looking forward to it! Imbalance/FVG inversions with liquidity is a really interesting approach. Excited to see your daily recaps and trades definitely curious to learn from your method. Cheers!

Here's my NY session recap for Fri 6th Feb



Cheers

hi langtoni:
interested in your topic and will follow definitely. In the meantime, can you recommend some futures brokers for live trading here? THX

Hi,

There are plenty of well known brokers that offer futures, Interactive Brokers being one of the longest in the game.

I am focused on funded accounts and most firms use Tradovate, which also act as a broker.

For want of a better word there are many 'options' out there (not to be confused with options trading), he he

Cheers

9 Feb 2026 - NY Session

$2000 during NY Session

Clear sweep of liq built up from London and Asia and then FVG inversions on lower timeframe, targeting yesterdays high.

Trade image and then full explanation video below.

Anyone else take this?

London session - 11-Feb

Clear bias down to at least yesterdays low, 15min bearish imbalances being respected, and we have an inversion of a 5min bullish imbalance after tapping a 15min bearish.

11 Feb 2026 - New York Session -$800

Red session for me. Took an early long on reduced risk and got wiped. Later long was on point but got taken out breakeven.

Managed my risk and stuck to the model. We go again next day!

(updated video, previous had no audio)

https://youtu.be/WfGXmsGrXKQ

Nice London session today +$1K

HTF sweep of liq, tap into 15min imbalance and then strong inversion on 1min and 2min

+$1500 in NY on 13 Feb 2026

Sweep of lows and 15min bullish imbalance holding. Strong 1min inversion.

Good stuff in here. I'm somewhat familiar with the smart money concepts trading but not something I've looked into too much. I have a couple of questions.

1) Do you have multiple monitors/screens and are watching HTF alongside the lower charts where you enter? Or do you just have the HTF imbalances/FVGs drawn in so you can see them on the LTF when entering?

2) To summarize the strategy to make sure I'm getting it. You're looking at imbalances being taken out or reversed (what you call inversion), but there needs to be liquidity taken before you actually enter a trade. It seems like you are targeting 1:1 or a little better instead of targeting any liquidity sweeps. Is that because of how your accounts are setup, with the multiple apex accounts. Obviously in hindsight it seems like some of the trades you could have scaled out and targeted liquidity further away.

I'd say your journal is accurately titled with the repeatability and in your first video you said your trades would look similar which they do. It definitely looks simpler on your recaps than watching it live, but that's also probably because I just started watching NQ with your style, thanks for the videos and posts

Hey trublu,

I have two monitors, but its just personal preference, you can mark out HTF and watch LTF on one screen, but i do like to see all 8 charts (D, 4hr, 1hr, 15min, 5min, 3min, 2min and 1min) at once.

Yes, ideally a sweep of liq and a tap into an imbalance on a HTF and then a clear inversion on LTF, its quite simple. Sometimes i overcomplicate it.

Let me know if you start reviewing charts and post them in here.

Thanks Ian. I need to re-watch the videos again and practice some more before posting any charts. It looks pretty simple in your videos but watching in real time is a bit different, for me at least. I'll post up some charts if I get more used to the style. Are you still making videos? Not sure if you took this week off from trading or how come there weren't any uploaded.

Few days off as we had a mid term (schools closed).

Back at London this morning, and back to keeping it simple. Very valuable lesson, keep true to your strategy, and dont get lost in the weeds.

Attached is a couple of charts with a potential trade I saw this morning, morning my time at least, NY session. Please let me know what you think about my explanation and if this looks like a valid setup.
This 1 hour chart above is showing London high liquidity being swept (upper red circle), there is also a 15min red imbalance in this area that was respected during London. There are 2 imbalances in the green box which could be an area price struggles to break through (this is where price bounced on the 1min). The red line at the bottom is the target, Tokyo lows.
This 1 min chart shows 1min green imbalances being broken by a strong bearish bar, the entry bar. Then price respects a 1min red imbalance before breaking it. You could have had 1:1 just barely with this setup. If you were more patient/riskier there is 1 min red imbalance on the entry bar that was respected and price eventually went to the Tokyo low and kept going short down to Friday's low. My next post has a potential long trade that shows the aftermath of this 1min setup as well.

2nd potential entry, long this time.
1hr chart above shows price sweeping Friday low liquidity.



1min (top) and 3 min charts above showing the entry. You can see the down move on the 1min chart from the first trade. Only 1 tiny bullish imbalance on the whole down move that was inversed right away, giving you confidence to hold the short trade, maybe. I didn't see any strong bull moves on the 1min that inversed a red imbalance so I chose a stronger move on the 3min as the entry where price broke a 3min red imbalance.


5min chart above showing multiple red imbalances in the way. Price did have 2 strong bull moves, but both were into more red imbalances. I'm not sure if you'd take this trade seeing as how there are multiple imbalances here. There is also a red imbalance on the 15min chart as well in this same area.



Final 3min chart showing outcome of trade. Price respected a new 3min green imbalance for a bit but was never able to move higher. Eventually price broke this but was respected by smaller imbalance to the left I didn't copy over. This imbalance was also broken and price went into a range for a bit. This trade was against the daily trend so probably a good idea to get to breakeven quickly. I was targeting London low.

Sorry for all the charts, just wanted some insight on how I'm seeing things and I'm curious if I'm close or if these are way off base. Also, these are just demo trades using the free version of trading view. I think it would definitely be better to see all the time frames at once. With the free version you can't split the charts so you can only look at one time frame at a time. Thanks in advance.

your second entry long is cleaner, really nice sweep of liquidity. keep it simple. my vid from today just had the cleanest NY set up, will post now

24-Feb-26 NY

Really clean tap into 15min unmitigated FVG and sweep of sellside, inversion on 1min and longs for 1.5 to 3R