IMBALANCES (IMB)

WHAT CAUSES THESE MOVES? 1. CATALYSTS?

News, Economic Calendar Data, Product Launches, Earning

Reports, Global News, FED talks, Innovations, Rumour,
Partnerships, Deals & Contracts, etc...

2. RETAIL TRADERS?

Retail traders are not organized enough or have enough

MSB or BoS nancial power for such a pump (unless special time-
arranged pump/dump social media groups)

3. MARKET MAKER / SMART MONEY?

Market Maker / HFT (High-Frequency Trading / Algorithmic

Bots) has the power of high nancial capabilities to cause
such a move, especially in low time frames.

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IMBALANCE in ORDER BOOK ORDER BOOK

BID / BUY PRICE ASK / SELL

UNHEALTHY PRICE ACTION
Healthy price moves require a
balance between buy/sell orders.
$104 8
Otherwise, imbalances will occur.
$103 5

$102 2

MSB or BoS
The cause of these imbalances is $101 4
either a CATALYST or MARKET
MAKER! $100

40 $99

58 $98
IMBALANCE (IMB)
(A.K.A. Fair Value Gaps / FVG)
69 $97

76 $95

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HEALTHY PRICE ACTION

Balance

Imbalance

HEALTHY PRICE ACTION UNHEALTHY PRICE ACTION

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COFFEE EXAMPLE
3. IMBALANCED PRICE
One day coffee price jumps from $5 to $40.
$40 Nobody will buy until the price is BALANCED
again

4. BALANCING PRICE
Price steadily drops where the IMBALANCE
started. Otherwise, no one will buy coffee again.

2. BALANCED PRICE
Coffee prices steadily rise (Healthy Price Action)
$5 due to in ation and global economic conditions.
Mini imbalances corrected

1. BALANCED PRICE
$3 Coffee price starts at $3, a regular world-standard
price. Price in BALANCE

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DRAGON FRUIT
HIGH QUALITY BREAK

LTF ENTRIES 5/4/3/2/1 mins

Break

High Risk
Imbalance Entry
ENTRY

Mid Risk
Imbalance
Entry
ENTRY

Low Risk
BEST IDEAL ENTRY = DRAGON FRUIT = OB+IMB+MSB/BOS Entry

HTF DEMAND 30/15m

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IMB as ENTRY

Imbalance Imbalance Imbalance

Valid Valid Valid

(Half Filled) (Fully Filled) (Fully Filled & Violated)

Imbalance

Valid Risky
(First Test / Filled) (Second Test)
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IMB
DRAGON
as TARGET
FRUIT
IMB 5m (Half Filled)
IMB 15m
IMB 1 Hour (Not filled)

Break

LTF ENTRY 2m

Imbalance
ENTRY

Low Risk
BEST IDEAL ENTRY = DRAGON FRUIT = OB+IMB+MSB/BOS Entry

HTF DEMAND 15m

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Stop Loss (Most Ideal). But can you take the risk?

Stop Loss (Second most Ideal)

Least Ideal (Right after entry wick)

Stopped Out Already

Entry Zone

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