ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 04 - ICT Fair Value Gaps FVG

ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 04 - ICT Fair Value Gaps FVG

Reinforcing Fair Value Gaps

In this video, the speaker explains the concept of trading inside the range and specifically focuses on reinforcing fair value gaps. The speaker uses a Euro/Dollar daily chart to illustrate this concept.

What is a Fair Value Gap?

  • A fair value gap is a range in price delivery where one side of the market liquidity is offered.
  • It is typically confirmed with a liquidity void on the lower time frame charts in the same range of price.
  • Price can actually gap to create a literal vacuum of trading thus posting an actual price gap.

Identifying Fair Value Gaps

  • On a Euro/Dollar daily chart, fair value gaps are identified as blue shaded areas.
  • The fair value gap is created by two candles: one to the left and one to the right of it.
  • The low of the previous candle and high of the next candle create an exposed area that only delivered on the downside.

Understanding Buy Side Liquidity

  • Buy side liquidity has been offered on two candles: one to the left and one to the right of our fair value gap creating down candle on the daily chart.
  • We have seen price offered on buy side liquidity movement or up movement in portion of that down candle.

Trading Inside Range

  • When studying specific time frames, gaps occur on that time frame you're looking at.
  • If you break it down further into smaller time frames, you'll probably end up seeing a liquidity void where there's multiple candles that create that open space of range.

Filling in Fair Value Gaps

  • A pocket of porous price action or only delivered on downside will eventually want to trade back up into little gapped area so we expect price to fill in that area.

Trading Strategies for Fair Value Gaps

In this section, the speaker discusses how to trade fair value gaps and double tops in a range-bound market. He explains that when the market runs below an old low, it creates a turtle soup pattern, which is an indication of a range-bound consolidation type format or profile for the marketplace. The speaker also mentions that fair value gaps are reversed for buy-side liquidity runs where the market will come back and close a fair value gap that's below the marketplace to seek to fill in the sell-side liquidity.

Fair Value Gap Trading Strategy

  • When there are equal highs on a chart delineated on a four-hour basis, and right above those equal highs is our fair value gap.
  • Eventually, price does trade back up and closes the fair value gap.
  • During range-bound consolidation type format or profile for the marketplace, traders should look for stops and fair value gaps.
  • The daily chart outlines this range of price action in the form of a fair value gap that has been filled in.

Liquidity Voids and Order Blocks

  • Liquidity voids overlap with order blocks and liquidity pools.
  • A run above an old high creates both buy stops running as well as hitting that fair value gap.
  • This movement lower creates a liquidity void.
  • Price then moves lower through where cell stops were mentioned earlier.

Understanding Liquidity Voids

In this section, the speaker explains how to identify liquidity voids using charts. He shows examples of how price trades up into levels such as 104.75 level closing that fair value gap and then trades lower, creating a liquidity void.

Identifying Liquidity Voids

  • The speaker shows an example of how price trades up into levels such as 104.75 level closing that fair value gap and then trades lower, creating a liquidity void.
  • The second time it trades up into the 104.75 level, it runs out the previous high, which was at 104.77.
  • A down candle here creates a lot of movement lower but comes off that low.
  • Price ultimately trades through where cell stops were mentioned earlier.

Supplementary Teachings for Trading Techniques

In this section, the speaker mentions that supplementary teachings will be provided to help traders dial in on specific techniques and concepts for the month of December so that they are prepared and primed for the content for January 2017.

Supplementary Teachings

  • Daily video supplements will be provided to help traders dial in on specific techniques and concepts for the month of December so that they are prepared and primed for the content for January 2017.

Trading Strategy

In this section, the speaker discusses a trading strategy that involves identifying liquidity pools and voids to determine when to buy or sell.

Identifying Liquidity Pools and Voids

  • The speaker explains how to identify efficiency in price delivery by looking at the bodies and wicks of candles.
  • The speaker points out where buy side liquidity was offered on the downside movement.
  • The speaker notes where the last point at which buy side liquidity was offered on the up movement occurred.
  • The speaker suggests being a seller at 104.55 or 104.50, looking for a move down below 104.15 to 104.10.

Efficient Price Delivery

  • The speaker emphasizes that efficient price delivery is key to successful trading.
  • The speaker highlights an example of perfect delivery of price hitting it twice at 104.55.
  • The speaker notes that once we break this low here, we're all on sell-side now.

Stop Losses

  • The speaker advises setting stop losses below the low lows.

Conclusion

In this section, the speaker concludes by wishing good luck and good trading while highlighting that there will be more scenarios outlined in a PDF file for summer's content.

Video description

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