We play with Smartmoney concepts, that means that we look mostly on PA to determine what will happen in future. As we all know, price is moved by BIG players: Banks, Institutional traders, HFT bots (we call them all of them SM). They can't play as we do, cause of a HUGE lot sizes, so cause of that they need to SELL to BUY and BUY to SELL for positioning them self in the best possible spot. If u were learn about trading from free and accessible knowledge, u probably heard about BUYing LOW and SELLing HIGH? So SM must BUY LOWER and SELL HIGHER :) We as retail traders are just a small fish in this ocean, so we need to catch the waves which are created by SM.
Here u will find a thought process to identify these spots on chart, where SM stuck with their orders.
We want to play with SM so, we looking for entries (depending of direction) on HEC in 3 spots:
- top of WICK - top/bottom of BODY candle - 50% of BODY candle
CHARTS AGENDA:
SM - SMART MONEY
PA - PRICE ACTION
HEC - HIGH ENERGETIC CANDLE (LAST OPPOSITE CANDLE BEFORE MOVE) <- SM MUST SELL TO BUY AND BUY TO SELL :)
BLACK ARROWS ARE ABOVE AND BELOW THESE MONEY SPOTS POINTING FUTURE TARGETS
BLUE LINES - ENTRIES WITH SMART MONEY
MITIGATION MOVE - SNIPER ENTRY FOR US BLACK LINES FOOT PRINTS - SPOTS ON CHART WHERE SMART MONEY SHOULD COME BACK TO GET OUT OF THEIR POSITIONS IN DRAWDOWN (SM MUST SELL TO BUY AND BUY TO SELL) - POTENCIAL SNIPER ENTRIES
BLACK BOX - GAP's (IPA - INSUFFICIENT PRICE ACTION) - SPOTS ON CHART WHERE PRICE MOVED TOO FAST, AND LEFT SOME "WHOLES" IN PRICE ACTION WHERE ALGORITHMS WHAT TO COME BACK AND FILL IT BY "HEALTHY" PA.
Hopefully u will get some value from this markups;)
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