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AUDJPY Recap - Why I short in the face of an UptrendWas anticipating a run on sell stops at current weekly low based on the weekly close above the last down bar's 50% (So often a retrace occurs).
Price DID come to my alert to take some profit, of which I was asleep. Closed trade before full stop out and went long.
AUDJPY - Let's see if we can RUN the sell stops...Current weekly bar is an inside bar and being ity appears buy stops have been neutralized there just might be a run for sell stops. Being that the daily is showing no close above a certain threshold, perhaps I have read it right. Half a % on the table.
USDJPY - Buy IdeaWe're currently in a discount market where we would like to see the market move away from.
We have Sign of Strength when it took out previous highs, now coming down for a retracement.
We have a Liquidity Void (Imbalance) for the market to move Up to fill.
We have a Strong Orderblock that also took out previous lows, and the Orderblock has not yet been mitigated, making it even stronger.
My Entry is at Equilibrium of the Orderblock.
(Be cautious as we are in Summer Doldrums where markets may move very unpredictably, this trade may fail but it's a valid setup).
ICT OTE - QUICK 3/1 IN NY on EUR USD today
Quick example of the OTE playing out with great confluence, Nice opportunity to snipe some pips from the market today and have risk on and off within 1 hour.
ICT concepts and OTE play out in the markets often and with great accuracy and results.
this trade had:
HTF in favour
POC sessions in favour
OB areas to be mitigated
Expectations based on extensive back testing
Volume, Time, Price = ( Volume is the by product of correct time and price )
Ramblings of a Chart reader - Liquidity and Trade ModelsAs mentioned in the video, it is important to have a quick look at the weekly chart as it often gives clues on the potential direction for the up and coming week. At least this is how I see it. I discuss the concept of compression and how it offers some nice clues as well.
Credit to influences: ICT and RTM.
EURNZD BUY LONG / SMART MONEYEURNZD 2 hours
Searching for two possible buy setups, the first of which is a sweep of Asian lows. If not, I'll wait for a key retracement at a target zone. I'm hoping it will respect the macro structure it's created; if it does, we'll be fine. If the slower market structural momentum begins to decline, I expect a continuation rally to the downside.
Nasdaq100/NAS100/US100i'm seeing a swing trade on Nasdaq long term buy from current price 15400, My target is 15700, but price can come back and retest our daily orderblock or 50% of the daily ob at 15330
EURUSD Daily Bias on Smart Money Approach (ICT)Due to the previous two days OB that failed to created Significant SWL. This will most likely to break, if there's enough momentum from the market.
Because EURUSD had a strong new Weekly Low that takedown the PWL. So I assume that it's most likely to be bullish to take down nearest liquidity, then continuing to bear because at weekly basis, we're still distributing at a SWH.
Market failed to create a significant swing low. I expect today's market will make a shift to bullish conditions and targeting liquidity above.
But it wiser to see where the London Manipulation will go.
If in the London time is most likely to break the previous day low try to search Optimal Trade Entry in the smaller time frame for bullish condition targeting nearest valid OB.
If in the London time is most likely to break the previous day high try to search Optimal Trade Entry in the smaller time frame for bearish condition targeting Previous Day Low