Trading Concepts

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• Balanced Price Range (BPR)

  A Balanced Price Range (BPR) is an overlapping area between two opposing Fair Value Gaps that create…

• Break and Retest

  The Break and Retest strategy identifies when price decisively breaks through a key support or resis…

• Break of Structure (BOS)

  A Break of Structure (BOS) is a price action pattern that confirms trend continuation by forming hig…

• Breakaway Gap (BAG)

  A Breakaway Gap is a Fair Value Gap (FVG) that remains unmitigated, with price failing to return to…

• Breaker Blocks (BB)

  Breaker Blocks are invalidated order blocks that transform into areas of opposing support or resista…

• Buy Side Liquidity (BSL)

  Buy side liquidity refers to clusters of buy stop orders resting above swing highs in the market. Tr…

• Candle Close Confirmation

  Candle close confirmation is the practice of waiting for a candlestick to fully close before acting…

• Change In State of Delivery (CISD)

  A Change In State of Delivery (CISD) occurs when there is a sudden momentum shift from bullish to be…

• Change of Character (CHoCH)

  A Change of Character (CHoCH) indicates a shift in market structure when a Break of Structure (BOS)…

• Change of Character Plus (CHoCH+)

  A Change of Character Plus (CHoCH+) indicates a strong confirmation of market structure change when…

• Equal Highs (EQHs)

  Equal Highs occur when price retests and rejects a previous swing high level, creating a bearish ind…

• Equal Lows (EQLs)

  Equal Lows are formed when price retests and rejects a previous swing low at approximately the same…

• Fair Value Gaps (FVG)

  A three-candle pattern where the body of the third candle does not overlap the body of the first, cr…

• Fibonacci Retracement (Fib)

  Fibonacci retracement is a tool that marks key price levels where a market is likely to pause or rev…

• Inversion Fair Value Gap (IFVG)

  An Inversion Fair Value Gap forms when a Fair Value Gap is invalidated by a candle wick or close, cr…

• Inversion Fair Value Gap (IFVG)

  An Inversion Fair Value Gap forms when a Fair Value Gap is invalidated by a candle wick or close, cr…

• Liquidity (BSL/SSL)

  Liquidity refers to price levels where large amounts of pending orders accumulate, typically from st…

• Liquidity Grabs (LG)

  Liquidity Grabs are areas where buyside or sellside liquidity has been swept by a single candlestick…

• Liquidity Sweep

  A liquidity sweep occurs when price moves through key liquidity levels (buyside or sellside) to trig…

• Low Volume Node (LVN)

  A Low Volume Node (LVN) is a price area on a volume profile where very little trading activity occur…

• Market Maker Buy Model (MMBM)

  A Market Maker Buy Model is a price range where large institutions (central banks) build long positi…

• Market Maker Sell Model (MMSM)

  The Market Maker Sell Model is a bearish price delivery pattern used by ICT traders. It maps out how…

• Market Structure

  Market structure describes the pattern of swing highs and swing lows that define whether price is in…

• Mitigation Block

  A mitigation block is a previously violated order block that price later returns to and respects as…

• Opening Range (OR)

  The Opening Range is the high and low price boundary formed during a defined period immediately afte…

• Order Blocks (OB)

  The last opposing candle before a strong displacement or move. It represents the final resting place…

• Power of Three (Po3)

  Power of Three (Po3) describes how price moves in three phases inside a candle: accumulation (consol…

• Premium & Discount Zones

  Premium & Discount Zones use Fibonacci retracement levels to determine whether price is trading at a…

• Propulsion Blocks (PB)

  Propulsion blocks are order blocks that form after price reacts from another order block without bre…

• Sell Side Liquidity (SSL)

  Sell side liquidity refers to a cluster of stop-loss orders sitting below a swing low or series of e…

• SMT Divergences

  SMT Divergences occur when two positively correlated assets fail to move in sync, with one asset mak…

• Support and Resistance (S&R)

  Support and resistance are price levels where the market has reversed before. Support is a level bel…

• Swing Failure Pattern (SFP)

  A swing failure pattern happens when price briefly breaks past a key swing high or low but then fail…

• Top-Down Time Frame Analysis

  Top-down analysis means starting on a higher time frame to find the market's overall direction, then…