Where was the most liquidity? Below First Swing (now taken out). We saw that retail was heavily Long USDCAD, so if you were taking a trade in the triangle and didn't want to wait for the breakout - the High Probability trade was to look for ...

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Even on 1M time frame, Day Traders have their stops at the obvious places. Short and Long Stops Marked. Liquidity Building in BOTH directions. Whichever direction has MORE liquidity (that we can't see like Banks/MMs) will greatly influence short ...

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As I was posting that, look how price continues to compress. Like a spring it should BOOM in one direction.

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I don't scalp as much as I used to, but if you have an understanding how the market works and what is likely to happen - you can play both directions. Just keep in mind because of the reasons I mentioned above - on a lower time frame like 1M, this ...

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This is how I am trading it - each order LOW Leverage. Leaving plenty of breathing room for stops and adding to get a better price. Reasons for the trade: 1. Retail positioned on wrong side 2. Orderflow is to the sell side 3. Market Structure is to ...

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Where will you Enter? Exit?

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Retail Positioning going into this week. What do you see?

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Correct!

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As you can see from the Timestamp - at that moment EURUSD was basically neutral at that point. However it was more of a "Buy" because of positioning since the beginning of the week (i.e. Retail was selling). That's why it is more to the left in the ...

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Good evening traders, the ones who responded and the 5 who liked the idea.. I'll DM you the playback tomorrow before the market opens. Those who participate in this thread will benefit.

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If there is enough interest, I'll put together a weekly animation of how sentiment changed from Sunday to today. Let me know if interested.

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Something for you to think about this weekend: Today was a rather uneventful NFP. If you trade the news, you must know what you're doing. Then you would know how to trade it - either directional for momentum or scalping stops. When News is ...

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What about above? Always consider both sides long and short. Otherwise bias comes in.

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Good Morning Traders, NFP day - Where are retail stops?

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Above the red line is where seller liquidiy was (i.e. Future. Buyers), why didn't price move down after the gap fill? Notice it did shortly to get more sellers on board. Path of least resistance was to push to liquidity pool above.

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Surely this must be some sort of magic or luck. Called way before it happened as the most likely path. All through sentiment analysis and understanding market structure.

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Liquidity Gap Fill to... the... tick... Look at the horizontal line on the cross hairs. Will mark up later. Scalpers could have grabbed quick pips on the fill. Swing traders would have caught most of the move.

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I understand, I'll explain later w a graphic

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Yes, there are a few ways to trade sentiment, at least from my experience. One way is what you are mentioning - you see an increase in retail positioning over x timescale and you trade opposite when it hits extremes. Then it's a matter of using ...

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Shabs19, I was thinking the previous posts that I made tied into the recent comments made sense but I will try to do a better job of making it clearer going forward. Thanks for the suggestion.

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