A simple way to look at this is this. The big players have a bunch of trucks they are loading up at point A(congestion/accumulation). The big players then drive the full trucks up or down(flow/trend) to point B to unload the trucks(congestion/distribution)
Mark on your charts congestion and flow to the left of where price is now. You want to get in at the congestion (loading) period when the market starts showing which way it probably is going to go (lower highs, high volume in one direction during congestion descending triangles etc) and ride it down the flow(road) to the next congestion zone.
This happens on a grand scale and on a smaller scale all day every day. You just notice it more when its on a grand scale which means a lot of the big players/money are working together. You can see this with smaller amounts of money too.
Today on the GBP/USD at 8:30 EST it made a nice move up from 1.5940 to just below 1.5980 where it hung out and gathered money once it realized it couldn't push the market any further up which is apparent from the price exhaustion displayed. At around 9:15 EST you should of been going short here, not only was price exhausted to the upside, but we were seeing more volume/ clear moves to the south. You could of got in right around 1.5970 and rode it all the way down to the beginning at 1.5940. Thats thirty easy pips which is plenty for a day's work.
I almost prefer these small moves opposed to the obvious ones that can be seen on larger charts, because it seems that the bigger the move is the more bickering there is before the big move up or down.
What does this have to do with the stop clusters we are hunting? Well being a smaller scale there are not as many there, but I'm sure a few stops were just under that congestion area.
I'm sorry if this doesn't make perfect sense. I've taken bits and pieces from other members and just staring the charts for so long to form my own strategy.
Bleek am I making any sense to these guys. lol
PS It may be my first post here, but I have been lurking for a year.. Literally a year lol.