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Building Liquidity: What It Really Means🔵 Building Liquidity: What it really means Professional traders often need liquidity (buyers and sellers) to enter/exit large positions without moving the market too much. This means manipulating the market within a pre-determined range, which serves as the operating center for everything that follows. 🔹 How is liquidity built Price Ranging: Sideways consolidation before big moves attracts both buyers and sellers. False Breakouts (Stop hunts): Price may briefly break support/resistance to trigger retail stop-losses and fill institutional orders. News Timing: Pro traders often execute during or just before major news when volatility brings liquidity. 🔹 How can you spot a Liquidity-building zone 🔸 Volume Unusual spikes in volume: Often indicate institutional activity. Volume clusters at ranges or breakouts: Suggest accumulation/distribution zones. Volume with price divergence: Price rises but volume falls = possible exhaustion. Volume rises and price consolidates = potential accumulation. 🔸 Price Action Order Blocks / Imbalance zones: Sharp moves followed by consolidations are often pro trader footprints. Break of Structure (BoS): Institutions often reverse trends by breaking previous highs/lows. Liquidity sweeps: Price moves aggressively above resistance or below support then reverses = stop-loss hunting. 🔸 News Reaction Watch pre-news volume spikes. Look for contrarian moves after news — when price moves opposite to expected direction, it often reveals smart money traps. Analyze price stability post-news — slow movement shows absorption by pros. Wick traps and reversals around news events = stop hunting. 🔸 Narrative is Everything Higher timeframe trends show intent. Lower timeframes show execution zones. Look for alignment between timeframes in a specific direction. 🔹 Why do whales move the market in an orderly manner To fill large positions at optimal prices. To create liquidity where there is none. To trap retail on the wrong side of the move. To trap other whales on the wrong side of this move. To rebalance portfolios around economic cycles/news. 🔹 Professionals never forget what they've built When you track price, volume, and news, you’ll find specific bars that form areas that are the foundation for the short-term direction. This is pure VPA/VSA logic, the interplay of Price Analysis ,Volume Analysis and News, where each bar is not just a bar , but a clue in the story that professionals are writing. When you monitor volume, price, and news together and perform multi-timeframe analysis, it becomes clear what the whales are doing, and why. 🔹 From the chart above The market reached a weekly resistance level and then pulled back slightly after whales triggered the stop-losses of breakout traders. Prior to the breakout, whales had accumulated positions by creating a series of liquidity-rich buying zones on the daily timeframe. It's essential to understand the broader context before choosing to participate alongside them—whether you're planning to buy or sell. 🔴 Tips Use volume and price analysis together, not separately. Monitor any unusual volume bars before economic market news. Monitor news and volatility spikes to detect traps and entries. Combine this with liquidity zones (support/resistance clusters). Build a "narrative" per week: What is smart money trying to do? A smart trader understands the tactics whales use, and knows how to navigate around them.
COINBASE:BTCUSDEducation
by AlgoFuego
TESLA RECOVERY AHEAD|LONG| ✅TESLA lost more than 25% On the Elon VS Trump fallout In less than a week which is Seen by many as an excellent Opportunity to add TESLA stocks To their portfolios with a great Discount which is why we are Already seeing a nice rebound From the wide strong horizontal Support just above 270$ level And as we are locally bullish Biased we will be expecting Further growth on Monday LONG🚀 ✅Like and subscribe to never miss a new idea!✅ 

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NASDAQ:TSLALong
by ProSignalsFx
4
EUR-GBP Support Ahead! Buy! Hello,Traders! EUR-GBP made a pullback From the horizontal resistance Above just as we predicted In our previous analysis But a local horizontal support Level is ahead at 0.8398 So after the retest we Will be expecting a Bullish rebound and a Local bullish move up Buy! Comment and subscribe to help us grow! Check out other forecasts below too! Disclosure: I am part of Trade Nation's Influencer program and receive a monthly fee for using their TradingView charts in my analysis.
Long
by TopTradingSignals
1
EURUSD 4H ELLIOTT WAVE COUNT – DOWNSIDE TARGET CONFIRMED!Good Morning, Traders, I’m sharing my wave analysis for EURUSD with you. After completing its first five waves, it formed the A-B wave and is now expected to move into the C wave. The target level for the C wave is currently 1.11838. I meticulously prepare these analyses for you, and I sincerely appreciate your support through likes. Every like from you is my biggest motivation to continue sharing my analyses. I’m truly grateful for each of you—love to all my followers
Short
by TraderTilki
3
AUD-USD Rebound Ahead! Buy! Hello,Traders! AUD-USD made a retest Of the horizontal demand Area around 0.6394 and We are already seeing a Nice bullish reaction from The level so we are locally Bullish biased and we will Be expecting a further Local bullish move up On Monday Buy! Comment and subscribe to help us grow! Check out other forecasts below too! Disclosure: I am part of Trade Nation's Influencer program and receive a monthly fee for using their TradingView charts in my analysis.
Long
by TopTradingSignals
2