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0:00Most traders stay confused not because
0:02they don't know smart money concepts,
0:05but because they don't know the sequence
0:08for using them. They see a liquidity
0:11sweep, they see an order block, they see
0:13a fair value gap, but they don't know
0:16how to put the story together to catch
0:19sniper entries, to trade with precision.
0:23My name is Brett Goll. I've been trading
0:24for 7 years, and last quarter alone, I
0:27made 1.5 million dollars in trading
0:30[music] profits with every single trade
0:33documented live on my second channel,
0:35Brett Trades. I'm also the founder of 1%
0:38Club, which is a mentorship program
0:39that's helped hundreds of students
0:41become profitable funded traders. And
0:44I'm also the founder of Edge Flow, the
0:46trading super app that I personally use
0:48to plan, execute, journal, and review my
0:52trades with more discipline and
0:54structure. So, quite simply put, I don't
0:57want your money. I want you to become a
1:00better trader.
1:02Now that you know who I am, let's get
1:04right into it.
1:05Now, I want to preface this by saying
1:07that this strategy, this trade plan,
1:10this model is not just for Forex.
1:13Whether you trade futures, stocks,
1:15indices, or crypto, the logic is exactly
1:19the same. Price seeks liquidity,
1:22displaces from key areas, and then often
1:25retraces before continuing. Once you
1:28understand the sequence, you can apply
1:30the same framework across different
1:32markets instead of thinking that you
1:35need a different strategy for every
1:37chart you look at. Now, before I show
1:39you the entire trading framework, the
1:41entire entry model, let me break down
1:43the role of each one of these three
1:45concepts. First of all, liquidity sweep.
1:49Liquidity sweep shows you where the trap
1:52happens. This is where price runs above
1:55a high or below a low and take out all
1:58the stop orders, all the stop losses
2:00that were sitting there, giving the
2:02illusion that it wants to continue in
2:04that direction. When in reality, it's
2:07just a trap for smart money to grab some
2:09liquidity to fuel the reversal in the
2:12opposite direction. So, a lot of retail
2:14traders get caught entering the breakout
2:16right here.
2:18When in reality, that is simply just a
2:21liquidity sweep for the market to grab
2:23liquidity before the real move actually
2:26happens. Next, you got the order block.
2:28The order block gives you the point of
2:30interest. It's the location in which you
2:33can look for entries. It shows me the
2:36area where the real displacements came
2:39from. This is the exact place where
2:41institutions most likely step into the
2:44market and just place a large amount of
2:47buy orders. And it's also the point of
2:49interest where price may want to return
2:51before continuing to the upside. So,
2:54when price gets all the way up here,
2:56instead of chasing the move that's
2:57already happened, you know, entering for
2:59a buy right here, what I want to do is
3:01to wait for price to pull back to a
3:03meaningful area on the chart that I can
3:06pay attention to, which in this case is
3:08the order block. Next, you got the fair
3:10value gap, which is also known as
3:12imbalance.
3:13These give me the refinement. It helps
3:16me narrow down the entry within that
3:18overall area. So, rather than blindly
3:21entering on the order block, what I can
3:24do is to use the imbalance left behind
3:27by the impulsive move to find a cleaner
3:31retracement and a more precise
3:33execution. So, the way I personally
3:36think about it is very simple. The
3:38liquidity sweep is the trap. The order
3:41block is the zone. The fair value gap or
3:44imbalance is the entry. And that's
3:47pretty much how I stopped looking at
3:48them as three separate concepts and
3:51start using them as one complete entry
3:53model.
3:56Ah, that's hot. As usual, we got the
3:59green tea. Can't have a chart breakdown
4:01without green tea, you know what I'm
4:02saying? So, now that you've understood
4:05the basic concepts, right? How you can
4:08combine these three different concepts
4:10together to form one mechanical
4:12strategy, let me walk you through the
4:14entire framework step-by-step on the
4:17charts.
4:18So, right now we got EURUSD and
4:20obviously price has just broke structure
4:22to the upside, right? So, clear as day,
4:24this is where price take out the last
4:25structural high giving us a bullish
4:28break of structure telling us that we
4:29are actually in this bullish trend
4:32direction. And just by doing that alone,
4:35you can identify this as your swing low
4:38and then this as your swing high. And
4:40this becomes the swing range in which we
4:42are trading within.
4:44Now, next thing is I want to look for
4:47some form of liquidity sweep. So, at
4:49this point of time, I'm looking at the
4:51chart, I'm looking at the past price
4:52action, I'm trying to identify equal
4:55highs, equal lows, swing highs, swing
4:59lows, any obvious resting liquidity,
5:03right? Because all of these are
5:04essentially the liquidity points in
5:07which we can use to get price to
5:10continue to the upside, right? So, over
5:12here, this is where I'm looking at a
5:14blank chart just like this. I'm looking
5:16at the past to see whether there have
5:17been any liquidity sweep recently.
5:20So, in this case, what happens that
5:22price came down and went up. And then
5:24came down and goes up and sweep the
5:27liquidity below this low right here.
5:29Once again, all the stop losses, all the
5:30stop orders. So, the clear as day, this
5:33can be our good old liquidity sweep
5:35right there.
5:36So, that's the first step, just to
5:38identify the liquidity sweep to know
5:40where institutions or smart money or big
5:42banks or whatever you like to call them
5:44has entered into EURUSD in the past. So,
5:49we know this is where price is going to
5:50gravitate towards next when it's pulling
5:53back. Now, the second step is obviously
5:55to wait for the liquidity sweep if it
5:57has not happened yet. So, in this case
5:59it's already happened, so I can just
6:01identify this as the liquidity sweep.
6:03But, if you are like somewhere like
6:05around here, right, where there is no
6:07liquidity sweep whatsoever, you don't
6:09want to be doing anything until you get
6:12a liquidity sweep. Until you see price
6:15clearly run through a certain level and
6:17then rejects it or displaces from it.
6:20The third step is to mark the order
6:22block.
6:23Once again, the order block is the
6:25origin point
6:27which caused this huge move to the
6:28upside. Right? So, you want to trace it
6:30all the way back to the origin, the
6:32starting point of this entire leg to the
6:34upside. Right? Like, where is the price
6:37point that smart money swept liquidity
6:39and caused this massive reversal?
6:41Where's the price point that caused this
6:43huge amount of imbalance to the upside?
6:45This is where you can identify the range
6:49that started this entire impulsive move.
6:52So, in this case, since this is where
6:54the liquidity sweep started, I can mark
6:56this candlestick right here, all the way
6:58down from the high to of this
7:00candlestick, all the way down to the low
7:01of this candlestick, and this entire
7:03thing becomes my order block. Right? So,
7:07I can literally just mark that out as my
7:08order block right there.
7:10So, this is one way of identifying order
7:13block is to find the entire range before
7:15the impulsive move. What you can do to
7:18take things one step further is to
7:20refine the order block. Right? So,
7:21instead of drawing the entire range just
7:23like this, perhaps you want to refine it
7:26by looking at the origin candle before
7:30the impulsive move. Right? So, before
7:32this huge move to the upside, which is
7:34the candle that resulted in this
7:36reversal? Like, which is the reversal
7:39candle? And in this case, price went
7:41down, started consolidating around here,
7:44giving us a doji candlestick just like
7:45this, and then resulting in a move to
7:47the upside. So, this right here becomes
7:50the origin candle. So, if you want to
7:52refine your order block, right, have
7:54like a much more precise and a much more
7:56smaller point of interest,
7:59you can just map that up just like this.
8:01So, this becomes the true origin of the
8:04displacement. That is step three, which
8:07is to identify the order blocks. Now, I
8:10will highly advise you to just stick to
8:11one method. If you prefer the range
8:13method just like this, stick to it.
8:15Don't use the candlestick method
8:17sometimes and then the range method
8:20other times. You want to stick to one
8:21mechanical approach, right? So, for the
8:23simplicity's sake, I'm just going to
8:25stick to the range approach for this
8:27video itself, right? So, this entire
8:29range right here becomes my order block.
8:31So, this tells me that the next time
8:32price actually pull back to this area, I
8:34can expect the smart money, the big
8:36banks to actually pile on more buy
8:39orders for price to continue to the
8:41upside. So, ideally somewhere within
8:44this area right here is where I want to
8:46look for longs to trade the continuation
8:48of this move. Step [snorts] four is to
8:50mark the fair value gap.
8:53Now, this is pretty much the imbalance
8:55that's left by the strong move. Okay, so
8:58you can see this huge move to the upside
8:59right here.
9:00And when price actually moved to the
9:02upside, it moved up very aggressively,
9:05leaving us a lot of imbalance. What I
9:07basically mean by imbalance is a gap.
9:10All right? So, if you zoom in at the
9:12price action right here, and you look at
9:13the candlesticks right here, more often
9:15than not when candlestick move in a very
9:17efficient manner, what tends to happen
9:20is something just like this, where price
9:22just goes down like very like
9:24consolidaty way, like very slowly.
9:28But, when there's inefficient price
9:30action, which means that there's a lot
9:32of sudden large amount of buy orders
9:35stepping to the market, what tends to
9:37happen is that they leave behind a gap.
9:39And that gap is what we call imbalance.
9:41And that is where we can locate the fair
9:43value gap. So, in this case itself, what
9:45happened was that price went up,
9:47creating this candlestick right here.
9:49And you can see when this candlestick
9:51was created, you can identify a gap by
9:53finding the high of the previous
9:56candlestick and finding the low of the
9:59next candlestick right here. You can see
10:01this is the low and then this is the
10:03high. And this
10:05entire right here becomes our fair value
10:09gap.
10:10The larger the gap, the more imbalance
10:12that is, which means that there's a
10:14higher chance for price to pull back and
10:16fill up the imbalance. Because that's
10:18just how the market move. The market
10:20move from imbalance to balance to
10:22imbalance to balance again. So, in this
10:24case, that is the first fair value gap
10:26that I can identify. Another fair value
10:29gap, which is really, really obvious, is
10:30this one right here. You can see this
10:32candlestick, huge move to the upside,
10:35big bullish candlestick, and you can
10:36mark the high of the previous
10:38candlestick and the low of the next
10:40candlestick just like this. You can see
10:41this is a very, very obvious and
10:44significant fair value gap.
10:47Now that you've identified a fair value
10:48gap, this is where you get an idea on
10:51where price is most likely going to pull
10:53back to. So, just to make things even
10:55clearer for you guys, I'm going to make
10:57this fair value gap blue color.
11:00And we can keep the order block as gray
11:02color. So, you know exactly like which
11:04one is the fair value gap and which one
11:05is the order block. So, that is step
11:07four.
11:08Step five is to wait for the re-entry.
11:12It's to wait for price to come back into
11:14either the order block or the fair value
11:17gap area and then look for your entry
11:20from there. So, in this case, we just
11:22got a break of structure, which means
11:24that price is going to start pulling
11:26back soon. And the moment price starts
11:28pulling back, you might be wondering
11:30where is price going to pull back to
11:31what? And this is where you can identify
11:34your order block after you know you got
11:36your liquidity sweep, identify your fair
11:37value gaps or imbalances, and this is
11:40where you get an ideal on the zones
11:43where price is going to gravitate
11:45towards next, which is also the zones in
11:48which you can look for your long
11:49position. So, in this case, if price is
11:52somewhere around here, in the middle of
11:54nowhere, I'm not going to be entering
11:56for longs because this is extremely low
11:58probability. Right? Because there's room
12:01for price to drop down even further
12:03before the real move actually happens. I
12:06want to try to capture the low of the
12:09reversal. I want to try to capture the
12:11start of the continuation move. And it's
12:13most likely going to happen within one
12:15of these areas down here. So, I'm going
12:17to be very patient. I'm going to sit on
12:19my hands and do nothing until price
12:22mitigate the zone. The minute price
12:24enters into a fair value gap just like
12:27this, this is where you can look for
12:29your long positions.
12:31You can either look for confirmation
12:33or you can just enter
12:35right away once price mitigated a fair
12:38value gap, which is a little bit more
12:40aggressive.
12:41All right. So, once again, you'd want to
12:42have a very systematic approach for
12:44this. Either go for the confirmation
12:47version of this entry or go for the
12:49aggressive version of the entry. The
12:52conservative version requires you to
12:54wait for some form of structural shift
12:56like a market shift, and then you
12:58actually enter for the trade itself.
13:00Once again, I've went through this
13:01countless of times in my other YouTube
13:02videos. So, if you're unsure on what
13:04this means, check out the other YouTube
13:06videos. Ideally, you want to look for
13:08some form of market shift to the upside,
13:10which signal to you that internal
13:11structure has shifted from bearish to
13:13bullish. Then you make your entry from
13:15that.
13:16For the aggressive version of the entry
13:18model, you can just enter the minute
13:21price actually mitigated a order block
13:23or a fair value gap. And ideally, I want
13:26the fair value gap to be within the
13:28order block itself. So, [snorts] in this
13:30case, I can enter upon the mitigation of
13:33this area right here. And this is where
13:36I'm going to be placing my stop loss
13:37below the fair value gap, below the
13:39point of interest in which I'm entering
13:40the trade from, and placing my take
13:43profit at 2R. To keep things simple in
13:45this video, I'm just going to stick to
13:472R. So, this is where you can just let
13:49the trade play out, and you can see this
13:50is where I tap into the trade, and you
13:52hit TP within 10 minutes. Right?
13:55Literally, as simple as that. That is
13:58the aggressive entry where you enter
14:00right upon the mitigation of the fair
14:02value gap itself. Now, let's just
14:03continue to play price forward and see
14:05what price does. Right? So, eventually,
14:07price did pull back to this fair value
14:08gap again and mitigated it and swept
14:11some liquidity and then pushed to the
14:13upside just like this.
14:15And then, later on, price came back and
14:18mitigate this other fair value gap that
14:21was unmitigated the first time round.
14:24So, this is why I say you can never ever
14:26really go wrong if you actually enter at
14:29the fair value gap that is within the
14:31order block.
14:32But, try not to enter at like a random
14:35fair value gap that is in the middle of
14:37nowhere. It could work out if you're
14:38scalping just like this, but as much as
14:40possible to catch high probability
14:43setups, you want to wait for price to
14:45pull back to a fair value gap that is
14:48within the order block and then make
14:49your entry from there. Right? So, in
14:51this case, another point of entry which
14:53could potentially be at this fair value
14:55gap. Right? So, in this case, price has
14:56already made its move right here. You do
14:58nothing. You wait for price to come to
15:01you very patiently. You don't chase
15:02price. And the minute price step you in,
15:05when price mitigate this fair value gap
15:07right here, your stop loss is below this
15:09low right here. You target 2R just like
15:12this, and you get out within 10 minutes.
15:15Literally, as simple as that. Now, let's
15:17look at another example. This is a
15:20bearish scenario on Nasdaq futures. I
15:23wanted to show you that it works for
15:25other asset classes as well. So, this is
15:27futures, Nasdaq, all right? And what you
15:29want to do is to once again just apply
15:31the entire five step. So, now let's try
15:33to apply the entire five step on this
15:35chart right here. So, the first step is
15:37to identify liquidity. What happens the
15:40price went up there, pull back, goes up
15:42there, and then starts coming down. So,
15:43we know that there's available liquidity
15:45right here, and the second step is to
15:47wait for the liquidity sweep. So, in
15:49this case, price is already swept
15:50liquidity above this high right here.
15:53And then the third step is to mark the
15:54order block, right? So, once again, find
15:56the origin point that led to this
15:58significant move to the downside after
16:00the liquidity sweep, and it's going to
16:02be somewhere around here, right? So,
16:04that becomes the order block. And then
16:06the fourth step is to mark the fair
16:08value gap. So, in this case, after the
16:10order block has actually been
16:11identified, price moved to the downside,
16:14and this is where I'm looking for fair
16:16value gap and imbalance in this entire
16:18move right here. So, let's observe the
16:20candlesticks to see whether we can find
16:21any imbalance or gap. So, big bearish
16:24candlestick right here, cool. Is there a
16:26gap? Well, if you look at the previous
16:29candle, which is this low right here,
16:31and you look at the next candle, which
16:32is this high right here, there's
16:33actually no gap whatsoever. So, there's
16:35no fair value gap right here. And if you
16:37look at the next candle, is there a fair
16:38value gap? No. Is there one here? No.
16:41No. No, right? So, there's pretty much
16:43no fair value gap right here. So, in
16:45this case, what you want to do instead
16:48is to enter upon the mitigation of the
16:51order block.
16:52Once again, write this down somewhere.
16:54Ideally, we want to enter upon the
16:56mitigation of a fair value gap that is
16:59within or near the order block.
17:01But if there's no fair value gap that's
17:02present, then you can just enter upon
17:06the mitigation of the order block
17:08itself. So, in this case, since we
17:10cannot do step four, which is to mark
17:12the fair value gap, we've decided that
17:14we We to enter upon the mitigation of
17:16the order block. So, this is where when
17:18price is pulling back to this order
17:20block right here, I'm doing nothing. I'm
17:21doing nothing. I'm doing nothing. I'm
17:23waiting very patiently for price to
17:25mitigate the order block. Right? So,
17:27chew, chew, chew, boom. The minute price
17:29mitigate the order block, once again,
17:31you can look for your entry from here,
17:33and up on the mitigation of the order
17:34block, place a stop loss above this
17:37order block itself, and then you can
17:39place your take profit at 2R just like
17:42this.
17:44So, in this case, because we are
17:45entering upon the mitigation of the
17:47order block instead of a fair value gap,
17:49this is where your stop loss will be a
17:51little bit wider. Right? But, let's see
17:53where the price actually goes in our
17:54way. No, it doesn't. So, in this case,
17:57if you were to actually place your stop
17:59loss above the point of interest, which
18:01is a little bit wide, and you place your
18:02take profit right here, you would not
18:05have smashed your TP.
18:06Let me teach you how to rectify this.
18:08So, now, this is a tip for more of the
18:10intermediate and advanced traders out
18:12there who want to refine their entries
18:14when they are trying to enter on a zone
18:15that is this wide. So, for this
18:17scenario, instead of placing a stop loss
18:19above the order block itself, what you
18:21can do is to place your stop loss above
18:24the candlestick in which you enter the
18:26trade on. Right? So, in this case, I can
18:28potentially place my stop loss a few
18:30pips above this candlestick right here,
18:32and target 2R. If I did that, my TP
18:35would have been smashed beautifully. So,
18:37once again, why would I place my stop
18:38loss above this candlestick right here?
18:40It's because price has essentially swept
18:43liquidity above these equal highs on the
18:45left-hand side right here,
18:48giving us a protected high, and this is
18:51where we know for a fact that this is
18:54the price point which invalidated the
18:55trade idea, which means that if later on
18:57price went up there and take out this
18:59high, this means that the structure is
19:00shifting bullish, and we can get out
19:02with like a small loss. Right? So, in
19:04this case, once again, this is more
19:07advanced. If you found yourself in a
19:09situation where there's a wide point of
19:11interest just like this
19:13and you want to refine your entry, make
19:16a stop loss a little bit tighter, you
19:18want to place it a few pips above the
19:20candlestick in which you are entering
19:22the trade on and ensure that when you're
19:25doing that
19:26it must be some form of high that have
19:28swept liquidity because that is a
19:30protected high. And then just target 2R
19:32as usual. Now, before you go and start
19:34marking every liquidity sweep, every
19:37order block, and every fair value gap on
19:39the chart there's something very
19:41important that you must understand. Not
19:44every liquidity sweep is worth trading.
19:47Not every order block is valid. And not
19:51every fair value gap should be used as
19:54an entry. Once again, this is where so
19:56many traders go wrong. They learn these
19:58concepts and then suddenly every chart
20:01starts looking like a setup. They see
20:03one little liquidity sweep and they
20:05think it means something. They mark
20:07random candles as order blocks. They try
20:10to enter on every fair value gap that
20:13they can find on the charts.
20:14And that's exactly how you go from
20:16having a structured framework to just
20:19forcing trades
20:21as and when you feel like it.
20:23What actually matters is the story, is
20:26the narrative, is the context.
20:29I want to see the liquidity sweep happen
20:31at a meaningful level.
20:33I want to see the displacement after the
20:35sweep to be strong and obvious. I want
20:38the order block to be the true origin of
20:41the move, not just some random
20:43candlestick in the middle of a messy
20:45consolidation.
20:47And most importantly, I want the fair
20:49value gap to refine the setup, not
20:52become an excuse to jump into a bad
20:54trade.
20:56The entry matters as much as the
20:59context.
21:00If the market is choppy, if the
21:02liquidity sweep is weak, if there is no
21:04clear displacement, or if price is
21:07reversing from a level that doesn't
21:09really matter,
21:11I'm not interested. Once again, trading
21:13is not about spotting more patterns.
21:16It's about filtering. The goal is to not
21:19to find the most setups. The goal is to
21:22find the cleanest ones. Quality over
21:25quantity. So, when you're using this
21:27entry model, using this framework, I
21:29don't want you to think of it like a
21:30checklist that you have to force into
21:32every chart.
21:33I want you to think of it like a story
21:36that has to make sense from start to
21:38finish, from higher time frame bias to
21:41lower time frame structure, from the
21:44overall trend direction to understanding
21:47who's in control of price. Everything
21:49needs to add up, and everything needs to
21:51align for you to use this entry model
21:54properly. That's when the liquidity
21:56sweep, the order block, the fair value
21:57gap stop being random concepts, and
22:00start becoming a real trading model that
22:04you can deploy in any and every market
22:07condition.
22:09With that being said, if you want to
22:10learn more about each one of these
22:11concepts in more depth, in more detail,
22:14in excruciating detail, and you want to
22:17learn how to build your own mechanical
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