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AUDUSD - Institutional Liquidity - Understand the WhyImagine understanding how to execute with precision? Imagine understanding the Why behind the markets.... Liquidity, Footprints, Level ll which is all considered within the framework of 'smart money concepts' December is traditionally known for the lack of liquidity and reduced volume in turn which causes increased volatility. Traditionally many including myself trade less throughout December and I tend to wrap my trading up around The second week of the month to spend time with my family, friends and loved ones. As we all know from an institutional stand point the seasonal holiday tends to be the month many take off to do the same but other than the above do you ever wonder why? ...... Bonus Month. PnL on institutions books are calculated for the year end and of course subjective to performance the portfolio manager & team are paid in accordance with the 'Net ROI (Factoring in either the hurdle rate or the watermark) Now the above is somewhat irrelevant but it's important to understand the Why..... So lets now take a look at understanding the Why behind this AUD/USD Short on 28th December 2020 at 08:44am shortly after the London/European open, But, first here are the performance metrics and values; Percentage ROI: +15.87% Initial Risk: 1% (factoring in RT Commissions) Stop Loss: 3 Pips Drawdown: 0.9 Pips Trade Duration: 7 Hours (Trade hit TP2 @ 15:46 UK GMT) ____________________ So lets take a look at the trade Breakdown Weekly Timeframe: The Weekly going back to 2001 has since been in a bullish uptrend, creating Higher Highs & Higher Lows until 2014 after it printed a Lower Low and failed to purge liquidity and create a Higher High. Price continued to create Lower Highs and Lowers Lows, Building Liquidity on it's way down. In March 2016 we Broke Major structure to the downside and printing a new structurally significant Low, Taking Liquidity. to allow for a Push to the upside, lifting offers, seeking the Institutional level & footprint which was yet to be 'Mitigated' from May / June 2018. Daily Chart: Price as we can see on the Daily timeframe is extremely efficient within the market structure & sub-structure. Building & Creating Liquidity to be targeted / purged and swept ! 1Hour: On December 21st 2020 we gapped down with intent and momentum creating multiple Breaks of structure to the downside, then correctively over the next 6 days moved back up to not only fill gap liquidity but tap into the Order Block left, Seen clearly..... Which was the beginning of our short trade ......
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by Phantom_Trading
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Possible Election Rally “if _______ wins?”Price has retested the average price of the bullish orderblock on the daily timeframe. Higher Low’s being formed on the 4Hr timeframe along with a liquidity tag show signs of bears loosing control. Which is starting to create an imbalance favoring the bulls. 🎯: Untested bearish orderblock off the daily. ::: Election ::: We could see a crazy rally and a major sell-off tomorrow/Wednesday. It all depends on rather Dems or Reps win on the overall outcome. Though with the Election Day we could see whipsaws in price due to the ballot intake this year.
OANDA:US30USDLong
by TheEconomyCreator
Tracking MOC vs SPY (also potential Long Signal)First off, MOC and MOC Imbalances are two things I am still in the process of learning and understanding better, so I am not claiming to be an expert on the topic. Please chime in if I have wrote anything incorrect or if you have something valuable to contribute! A Market-On-Close (or "MOC") order is an order sent to trigger near the market close. We see this pretty routinely trigger 10 minutes before the closing bell, and it often produces some fireworks with sudden, spiky moves in one direction or the other. There is often an imbalance in one direction-- Buy, or Sell-- which can sometimes seem random, but when smoothed can help show flows into the market or out. I took a little bit of time to just color the periods on SPY in the last year or so for the 4 scenarios of the 20 day moving average of MOC imbalance. They are as follows- DARK RED MOC is Below 0 and Increasing in that direction --> Sell Imbalance LIGHT RED MOC is Below 0 and Decreasing/Reversing LIGHT GREEN MOC is Above 0 and Increasing in that direction --> Buy Imbalance DARK GREEN MOC is Above 0 and Decreasing/Reversing I think you could generally say these phases of the MOC Imbalance correlate with SPY. The two phases of Light Red and Light Green (moving from a Sell Imbalance to Buy Imbalance) have generally shown to be good old fashioned bull fun. Dark green often is a profit taking phase. Dark red is usually when its too late or just the start of the descent. Here are crude measurements of the light red and light green phases, their gains and length of time- +4.39% in 44 days +7.27% in 50 days +4.22% in 30 days +4.50% in 24 days +4.55% in 45 days +25.00% in 31 days +15% in 24 days Presently, so far: +4.15% in 15 days The times I did not include, which are obviously the recent outlier, is from February to early March. If you had a good chart of the 20sma MOC in front of you like I do, you could see there were a couple times when it looked like the MOC had reached its bottom and was going to start reversing and heading towards a Buy Imbalance, only to get rejected and keep selling. The actual confirmed bottom never happened until March 20th, so you could say that was the true start of this light red colored area, but I felt it was relevant to still color those as if it was a real-time scenario. It also helps show how that crash really manifested itself, with a lot of traders/investors thinking the end of February is just a dip or buying opportunity, to manifest into a rug pull. Myself and others have been thinking this week and last that a melt-up is on its way, and the MOC turning above 0 today to a Buying Imbalance could be a great bit of data to possibly confirm this. Where do you find MOC Reports? I only started looking at them recently from Market Chameleon so unfortunately I do not have any great resources to point people towards other than Market Chameleon. I hear that its publicly disseminated information, though. Here's their -free- daily report- marketchameleon.com They also have a more aggregated report, which is what I used, but that is behind a pay wall.
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by chrism665
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