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  • #2,061
  • Feb 27, 2026 4:31am Feb 27, 2026 4:31am
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these are the 2 shorts i detected this morning, first one rejection m5 fvg inside a h1 fvg with the nova entry signals, second one rejection m5 fvg after nova diverged price and gave the entry on the pb towards the ob
  • #2,062
  • Feb 27, 2026 5:13am Feb 27, 2026 5:13am
Quoting xkwisit2001
{quote} Yes if swing trading then you can use the HTF imbalances but then as I love trading M1 I would be looking for imbalances and reversals inside of the HTF imbalances. My issue at the beginning was that I never knew where price was going to truly turn or why price would manipulate. This is why I keep mentioning session highs and lows, previous day week and even months too. If we have a BIG move all of a sudden then I'll mark out the M1 and M5's. If we're inside an H1 or higher imbalance too then it's higher probability. I know that I said you...
Looking forward to learning more. Thank you
  • #2,063
  • Feb 27, 2026 6:12am Feb 27, 2026 6:12am
How long do you keep the imbalances active? Till they get touched one time or when the price moved far away already?
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  • Edited 7:30am Feb 27, 2026 7:05am | Edited 7:30am
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RR 2:1
  • #2,065
  • Feb 27, 2026 9:55am Feb 27, 2026 9:55am
Quoting huskyboy
{image} these are the 2 shorts i detected this morning, first one rejection m5 fvg inside a h1 fvg with the nova entry signals, second one rejection m5 fvg after nova diverged price and gave the entry on the pb towards the ob
Great work Husky! - that's how its done. Love it
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  • #2,066
  • Feb 27, 2026 10:04am Feb 27, 2026 10:04am
Quoting huskyboy
{image} RR 2:1
This was also really good too and lined up with the nova signal.

You can see the difference here between both entry style. Imbalance and then Nova.

The EMA's were fanned out which indicates the bullish momentum so you could have taken either... eitherway there was profit to be made.

One tip regarding the 50% of the imbalance, you don't have to focus on the 50% and also... if theres more than one imbalance... i.e if its just 1 massive push across more than 3 candles then mark them out individually.

Make sure it's always 3 candle formations... sometimes I mark the whole area and then just take a position when the top of it gets tagged but for some reason price loves 50%.


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  • #2,067
  • Feb 27, 2026 10:10am Feb 27, 2026 10:10am
Quoting Toli84
How long do you keep the imbalances active? Till they get touched one time or when the price moved far away already?
I keep them active ideally until they've been fully closed.

Sometimes price will take 50%, move away from it and then fail to break the high and in that case it will most likely come back down to grab the rest OR seek a lower area of liquidity.

Next week I'll be getting back onto the Nova emphasis but you can use nova to read what volume is doing... you can use it to spot divergence in the volume.
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  • #2,068
  • Feb 27, 2026 10:14am Feb 27, 2026 10:14am
I don't want to be posting as if I know it all because truthfully I don't but we can only be on the right side of success by spotting the right things.

Main thing is the WHY?

Why did that happen and also who is getting screwed right now?

Once you get an understanding of that then it helps build confidence.

When liquidity is taken out and going bullish theres tonnes of sellers in drawdown so as soon as price does come back down to the imbalance or low they'll exit rapidly.

The market makers are also in drawdown themselves when they take sell side liquidity so again... they'll get out of their positions where their real BUYS are.

Also, the signal line on Nova. If you get a clean pullback and the signal line dips below the 0 level and then comes back up and starts to cross back above the 0 level in a bullish trend then if it's supported by bullish volume bars then you can take the 2nd bar close/3rd bar open entry.
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  • #2,069
  • Feb 27, 2026 10:25am Feb 27, 2026 10:25am
So price has taken out the high of the week and as you can see, reacted to that zone.

This is how I've marked my chart up
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See the reaction now to the M1 imbalance. It's not all random.

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  • #2,070
  • Feb 27, 2026 10:29am Feb 27, 2026 10:29am
This is literally how you can take between 5 & 18R out of that tap into the imbalance IF price stays above and heads back to the high of day
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You'd be up 7R+ already if you did so losing would never be an option. TP, partial best case or BE at the absolute worst.
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  • #2,071
  • Feb 27, 2026 4:02pm Feb 27, 2026 4:02pm
Great demonstartion of imbalance working, but just an observation Nova at the time, would have kept me out of the trade.
Its all just one persons opinion
  • #2,072
  • Feb 27, 2026 10:04pm Feb 27, 2026 10:04pm
Quoting axecap
Great demonstartion of imbalance working, but just an observation Nova at the time, would have kept me out of the trade.
Yeah it's true which is why for people wanting something solid I would recommend just targetting 2R using Nova. It simply works.

If you are more advanced then you can look at imbalances and only trade once something else has happened to be able to get 10R in 1 trade.

But lets face it, most people like me as well on here before... I just want something steady which is what Nova can do.

I'm only sharing more advanced stuff now because we are well over 100 pages and theres so much info within... so over time when you want the more advanced stuff u can come here. However, maybe I should have started a more advanced Nova thread... idk.
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  • #2,073
  • Feb 27, 2026 10:26pm Feb 27, 2026 10:26pm
Quoting xkwisit2001
This is literally how you can take between 5 & 18R out of that tap into the imbalance IF price stays above and heads back to the high of day {image} You'd be up 7R+ already if you did so losing would never be an option. TP, partial best case or BE at the absolute worst. {image}
Following on from this... 17R

Stop just below the imbalance
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  • #2,074
  • Feb 27, 2026 10:39pm Feb 27, 2026 10:39pm
Quoting xkwisit2001
{quote} Following on from this... 17R Stop just below the imbalance {image}
Sir,
I'm impressed with this indicator. I enjoy understanding the underlying logic. I know you don't share the source code because it's your property, but could you reveal a little bit about the logic?
  • #2,075
  • Mar 2, 2026 3:40am Mar 2, 2026 3:40am
Quoting xkwisit2001
{quote} Yeah it's true which is why for people wanting something solid I would recommend just targetting 2R using Nova. It simply works. If you are more advanced ..... idk.
I think, a bit more advanced stuff would definitely be very nice. Interpreting market structure is often an individual process. A deeper insight into your brain and how you do it would certainly be very interesting.
  • #2,076
  • Mar 2, 2026 6:13am Mar 2, 2026 6:13am
Looking at this 5 min imbalance lining up with fibs to get a good trade setup.. any thoughts guys?
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  • #2,078
  • Mar 2, 2026 1:03pm Mar 2, 2026 1:03pm
Quoting SecretSauce
Looking at this 5 min imbalance lining up with fibs to get a good trade setup.. any thoughts guys? {image}
It was a good observation. However it's much better not to if price fails to take out the newly created high.

You'll also find from my top 2 imbalances including the one you marked out, if you put the fib from the low to the high you can see that price reacted to the 50% fib level with imbalance and also... the imbalance you marked out happened to also be in the golden zone too so it was a good shout. But the 50% didn't have any meaningful bounce. Once price did attempt to take out the high it failed miserably.

Therefore I would have then had my eye on Asia low (previous session low - blue dotted line) and the previous day high area for liquidity especially because the market gapped up at open so that gap needed to be filled.

Once key area of liquidity has been taken then we can wait for bullish structure to form so we can head back up.

Every time you frame an idea, you want to build up the context. I'll keep saying it but these matter the most:

 

  1. PDL,PDH (previous day)
  2. PSL, PSH (previous session)
  3. DOL (daily open line)
  4. Swing Points

Using these and seeing a reaction with structure break can then create the idea of seeing higher/lower prices and then you can start looking at the imbalances once structure confirms.

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This is with the fib applied to show the reactions.

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  • #2,079
  • Mar 2, 2026 1:10pm Mar 2, 2026 1:10pm
I also don't mind people posting, but keeping on topic would be great for us all.

Don't want random indicators thrown into the mix.

Ideally, you want to be able to trade without indicators. EMA's and line mark ups are all you really need.

Nova is a volume tool & confluence not exactly an indicator as the name suggests
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  • #2,080
  • Mar 2, 2026 1:18pm Mar 2, 2026 1:18pm
This is the sort of setup I would be looking at which is happening right now.

Imbalance right at previous day high & bullish structure.

The last push down created a higher low.
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