The "liquidity grab" concept is flawed. Let me explain... When the market tests below a recent swing low and then bounces, it's often doing the exact opposite of grabbing more liquidity. It's usually not transacting much volume at all relative to how much volume is transacted

The market gave a great example of the power of higher timeframe LVNs today. After the market reclaimed the weekly open yesterday we ended up creating a nice LVN in the 6925 area on the weekly profile. Today after RTH opened that was our closest major level to watch as we

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The shape of a volume profile gives us great clues as to what the market might (or might not) do next. One of my favorite things in order flow is when the volume is building heavily into one side of the profile (especially when there is a thin volume tail on the other side).

Our biggest enemy in trading is always going to be ourselves. Not market makers. Not the algos. Not ICT, his supporters, or his enemies. It’s us. So don't beat yourself up for not living up to big (or impossible) standards in trading (or anything else). Having huge standards

Here's some in-depth order flow analysis on a killer trade setup that the market gave us yesterday: The algos were defending RTH open again on Friday just like they did on Monday and Tuesday. However, this time the market kept testing into RTH open over and over again and it

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Whenever the momentum of the tech sector shifts back to bullish on intermediate timeframes (15min, 30min etc.) be careful with fading the move on ES. It often has the juice it needs to rally (like today). The tech sector momentum flipped back to bullish at the end of the

Here's the #1 mistake that tons of new/struggling traders are making (that's keeping them stuck): The big mistake that I see so many new traders making is that they follow lots of influencer traders. Many of these influencers just talk about the money and lifestyle all day, but

Here's some simple order flow analysis (using footprints, VWAP, delta profiles etc.): On Monday and Tuesday we saw the algos defending RTH open right away, which led to shorts covering and a rally to the upside. We had a rising RTH VWAP and volume nodes building higher. Those

Order flow is overpowered but the key is to focus more intently on the flows at key areas. This is how we increase the signal to noise ratio. For example, yesterday the market lost RTH VWAP in a convincing way and put in a solid leg lower. When it comes back up to test into RTH

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2 tips for using market profile to gauge auction strength and direction: You can use POCs and excess lows/highs to help gauge auction direction and strength. When POCs are shifting higher after rejecting lower prices then the auction wants higher prices until proven otherwise

Market internals are a great way to see whether large players are risk-on or risk-off the overall market in real time. However, a key thing to be aware of is that their value diminishes when we are inside a major balance area (especially when trapped inside a tight multi-day

I hope that you have been having a great time during the holidays! I took the week off from trading (and I'm being lazy). I'll start posting again soon.

Order flow is great and all, but don't forget that order flow isn't the only thing in the game. It's just one piece of the puzzle. I put more of my focus and attention on multi-timeframe momentum, market sentiment, and HTF key areas than I do on order flow. Some people would

when its time you will get a clue from the order flow

Some of Sierra Chart's competitors seem super jealous... Maybe I'm just a conspiracy theorist but it seems like some jealous competitors of Sierra are paying people to make crazy posts about Sierra in order to make Sierra look bad. I saw some clown on FinTwit one day that was

LOD reversal with a sign of trapped shorts on the pullback. This is a 40 tick range footprint on ES.

In this order flow video I show an example of leaning against an LVN after the market has already given us a clear direction. Many traders think you can't add or enter this late into a move, but some of the most easy money trades I've ever taken (including this one) are when we

Here's some analysis on a tricky trade that I took earlier. I did some live play-by-play earlier on this trade. I'm gonna share a screenshot of that as well because it would be valuable to see how I managed the trade. Took partial profits on the reclaim (before moving down to

In this video I'm going to do some analysis to show why I was leaning bearish this morning. When bulls can't get any traction and sellers keep defending VWAP you usually want to be leaning bearish and just fading the bounces. The market wasn't showing any signs that it would

I've gotten a lot of questions about which timeframes and bar period types are best for footprint charts... So I figured that I should make a post about what I feel are the best bar periods for footprint charts and then I'll briefly explain why. The best ones for ES are: •

Yesterday, one of my followers took an excellent Jester-style trade and I gotta share it. In the screenshots I’m going to show the main things that he was looking at when he took the trade which were a 4hr chart, 15min chart, and a 15min footprint chart. He ended up catching