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ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 03 - Institutional Order Flow

Content

  • What makes IOF easy to see.

  • Monthly Chart

  • Find POI (OBs) on Monthly chart

  • Target old high/low of last range.

  • Where is the maximum level of liquidity?

  • There must be balance in price delivery.

    • If there is a gap, PA will balance.

  • Raids typically happen before PA balances voids & gaps.

  • The bodies of the candles are IOF, wicks are retail price action.

  • Use the body of the candle for IOF.

  • Wicks are market extremes, brokers will widen the spread to make money in the wicks.

  • Look for OBs and how PA behaves at the level, does it respect the OB?

  • Map Bullish and Bearish Price Swings to see better detail drill down to the weekly chart.

  • Weekly Chart

  • Transpose monthly PA and POIs to Weekly chart.

  • Note the price swings from Month Chart.

  • Find the Price Swings and where the Market is going to seek liquidity on HTFs

    • This is because large funds have their money at the HTF swing levels.
    • Use this as LTF trade setups with trend.
    • Look for Liquidity, OBs, Breakers.
      • Everything is a hedge at the bank level.
      • Price will be dynamic at the OBs on the opposite side of the curve Buy Side/Sell Side
      • PA shows how these POIs are respected.
      • Explosive moves happen when banks (SM) are selling off their hedge positions and acquiring new in trend positions.
      • We'll see this at the levels created by one side of the swing, when balanced on the other side of the swing.

  • Daily Chart

    • More detail fo PA related to monthly swings IOF
    • We wait for price to change direction MSS, and retrace back to HTF POI (OB, Breaker, OH/OL.
    • Price will reach for liquidity.
    • Daily chart will always seek Weekly/Monthly Liquidity.
    • Banks counter party with Funds (Whales), not you and I we are not big enough.
    • Find HTF M/W and transpose to Daily.
      • We will see major shifts in price
      • We will see before they happen
      • We will have targets that algo will seek.

Notes

  • Find 10 occurrences in past price action and log them in your trade journal.
  • Extra credit if found on multiple time frames.