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Weekly range manipulated Traded inside to induce sellers Stopped them out Created OB Retested Short is ready There are so many people on here who are addicted to gambling But they don’t want to accept it - so they call themselves a trader because it sounds much better and productive than being addicted to casino games or sports betting Make sure you’re doing trading for the right reasons You need to have a deep look at yourself and what you’re doing Trade responsibly David PerkDump it

Price is on the IFVG key level range manipulated. CIOF created I got short and will add on the range retest The reason most traders aren't consistent is that they want to trade everyday and get impatient if there isn't a setup present. Consider this: you're denying yourself the chance of not having to work for somebody else. Isn't that enough for you to stay disciplined? Staying out is also decision Good luck David PerkLosses aren’t failures. They’re the cost of entry in a probability game. A trader isn’t judged by one trade, but by discipline over time. Control your plan, not the outcome. Accept losses, and the market loses power over you

Hey whats up guys, Today we are going to break down Order Block. This powerful pattern can be used as the level and also as the lower timeframe entry confirmation. We will break down both. An Order block is the last bullish or bearish candle before a strong market move that signals where institutions placed large orders, often acting as future support or resistance. Yes, its basically Demand zone, and it will quite often will be in confluence with POC when using market profile. Not every order block is high probability one. In order to filter out best levels my order block must meet these two conditions: 1. Located at Premium / Discount Level As we can so on charts below order block which failed is one which had expansion, but not proper dip in to liquidity and not placed in the discount. And thats what makes it weak because institutions need liquidity dip to buy and they don't do it in the premium prices. So No Liquidity raid - No trade and also it has to be in the discount. 2. Must have FVG or IFVG In order to move market and create a liquidity void - gap. You need quite large money. Only big players can do it. Therefore if there is not gap, its signs that they are not trading and you should not be also. If there is gap within OB it will be strong one. As mentioned we can use order block as key level from which we can trade or we can use it as entry confirmation - Change in order flow. We use it on the lower timeframe. Here is correct timeframe alignment's Monthly OB as Key Level - Daily Order Block entry Weekly OB as Key Level - H4 Order Block entry Daily OB as Key Level - H1 Order Block entry H4 OB as Key Level - M15 Order Block entry The entry is simple you need - Pullback in to the discount - HTF key Level - LTF OB being created Once the candles close above / bellow last down / Up close candle or consecutive candles, you enter your position. Below is few examples of my successful calls before the fact. No hindsight, its working. Bitcoin - Order Block entry Bitcoin - Order Block Entry Dogecoin - Order Block Entry Palantir - Order Block Mid point entry Dollar Index - Order Block entry Don't hesitate to drop any question's. Im always glad to answer. Follow me for more educational blog posts. David Perk

Daily range Manipulated Bearish order flow OB created TP 1 - 50% Full TP range low.... Im in David PerkTP 1 DoneFULL TP Done

Daily range manipulated and sucked sellers in to the market. Now it can run against them to the previous day highs. Setup meets all criteria for the probability Im in the position. Good luck David Perk

Weekly range manipulation to the key level Rejected and created OB Retest of the ob into the IFVG and 61.8 Zone. Now its ready to go to range highs IFVG is support Good luck David Perk

Dailyrange was manipulated and price reacted at the order block followed by rejection and OB creation = Its bullish now. Targeting mid range and then full range highs. Let me know your opinions Good luck David Perk aka Dave FX HunterI have entered to early in the shallow manipulations Here is how it should be.. Lesson Learned

Everyone is bullish , we can see historical leverage longs. Everyone expecting bull run to continue until the end of the year. (me also) Influencers predicting hundreds of thousands even milion targets.. Treasury companies says they are buying. (But really?) You know the rules. I f everyone is expecting something the opposite will happen. This is just a MMXM schematics and it doenst mean it will play out. II don't sell my spot position (ever), but I also keep my short with target open for case this plays out. I wish this doesn't play out , but market doesnt care about wishes, so rather expect unexpected David Perk aka Dave FX Hunter

Bitcoin has created weekly range which has ben falsely broken up. Which has triggered buy stops. There is also historical highest leverage longs which must be liquidated. Liquidations will be bellow the weekly range hence 107K is in play. Im not selling my spot position (ever) but Im already in short. Whats your view guys? Good luck David Perk aka Dave FX Hunter

Hey whats up traders, today Im going to reveal my COT approach. If you’re serious about finding higher timeframe bias based on what the big players are doing, then COT data is a tool you need to know. It offers unique insights into the positioning of institutional traders—and if read correctly, it can help you align with real market momentum rather than noise. Before we break it down step-by- step. I want to mention that this is my personal approach. Larry Williams is doing it differently and I have seen some other approaches. This is what works for me, might you find it also usefull. What Is COT Data? The Commitment of Traders (COT) report is published every Friday by the CFTC (U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission). It shows the open positions of various market participants in the futures markets as of the previous Tuesday. This data is based on the requirement that large traders must report their positions once they pass a certain threshold. In short, we’re peeking into the order flow of institutions—excluding high-frequency trading and market making noise. Hope you already recognized small disadvantage to us as retail traders. Big players report data on Tuesday and it's published on Friday. So we basically have it late and we dont know what has happen in last 3 days. But no worry I will show you my trick how to read between the lines. COT helps us: •Understand HTF (Higher Timeframe) bias •Spot shifts in institutional positioning •Identify trend continuations or potential reversals •Avoid getting trapped in retail sentiment traps It’s not a standalone entry tool, but rather a macro confirmation layer for swing or position trades. Huge advantage by following large players is that they are trading on fundamentals and you dont need to worry about that - you just follow them. But you must follow the right participants, because there is few. Who Are the Market Participants? The COT report breaks down traders into several categories. Each one has a different motive and behavior in the market: 1. Commercials •Think of them as hedgers. •These are producers, manufacturers, and institutions trying to lock in prices for raw materials or currencies. •They are usually contrarian at extremes. When they reach record net long or net short positions, reversals often follow. 2. Non-Commercials (Speculators) •These are institutional funds, hedge funds, and large speculators. •Their goal? Profit. •Often, they follow trends and their positioning reflects the broader market sentiment of the big money. 3. Dealers •Mostly big banks and institutions facilitating trades. •They manage risk rather than speculate heavily, so they typically take the opposite side of speculative flows. 4. Leveraged Money •Hedge funds using high leverage. •Their positions often reflect short-term speculative behavior. •Watching their net positioning and changes week-to-week can give clues on momentum exhaustion. Now you might think which one to follow and Yes you can build your strategy on following any of them fore example Larry Williams - been trading base on Commercials Anton Kreil - suggest following Leveraged money I tried both but for me works best - Non commercials ( Speculators) Again here you cant say definitely which one is right or wrong. What works for you is right. Thats it. There are multiple versions of the report, but here are the most commonly used, Im using - ✅ Traders in Financial Futures (TFF) •Focused on financial markets like forex, bonds, and indexes. Where to find COT data? It's free and you can find it on the SEC website there is simple week to week format. As you can see below. Many traders are watching this. I dont say this is wrong but you dont have complete data - missing big picture. As you can see here these data below are clearly giving you a picture about an order flow and positioning changedsvn the positions which can confirm trend or help you spot potential reversal you need to watch bigger data sample. Institutions doesnt reverse market in a week, they need to of load positions and I it takes them some time. Which will explain later. Im collecting the data to the collums. I want see longs, shorts of commercials and from that I calculate. Following Longs % exposure Shorts % exposure Net positions 13 weeks average Historical Highest positions Historical Lowest Positions Relationship between these numbers helps me justify whats going behind the price action, but also spot strong levels. I will show you how to put it together with the context of the charts and then I will show you few order flow patterns examples, it's not difficult but it requires a bit of practice. Bullish Pattern - Longs growing / Shorts being closed This is the strongest COT patter and clean sign of buying This is classing pattern what we have just seen on the EURUSD Notice how longs has been growing constantly and net positions confirms that. In may been able to see rapid shorts closing, which and confirmed bullish trend and we can look just for the bullish setups. Now lets look to the USDJPY chart it will be tricky because it's all red and looks tricky but focus to the numbers and price action, how longs are growing while shorts being closed. Very weak JPY. Bearish consolidation Shorts being build Massive shorts being added int he consolidation phase longs doenst move at all. Further big drop coming. This is now happening on the AUDUSD. Look at this tight price consolidation and let's read what is happening. just look at the COT its clean longs around 23K constantly while they are building massive shorts. Whats gonna happens next is clear. Profit taking move This ofter occurs when we can see sharp move above the highs but without real longs being added, rather they being closed. As on our example below on the gold. We can see massive profit taking on longs while price was moving up. But they were not been adding shorts. What doest it tell us. They do not want to trade full reversal - not building short position, but market is overheated and they taking profits to buy later for lower or price can go to the consolidation where they will be building short, but definitely its late for us to go long. Here is another example on USDCHF Notice longs positions in the moment where there was 46K long and then next week change -12K net. It's a huge change which has started Sell off. But look in to Shorts , there is no heavy shorting, price simply go down based on huge longs profit taking. This is why its important to look in to bigger picture because if you look only in to week to week data. You will still see bigger longs than shorts and it will give you bullish opinion. Hope it's clear. And by the way now we can see 2 weeks with more then +3.4K longs. Its getting bullish IMO. Now lets look to the another example on the USDCAD Now we will use one of my past analysis where based on the data I predicted further move. And here I want to mention one thing. Even though we can see COT being bearish. It doesnt mean that price cant go up in short term (can be be 2- 3 weeks) There for you still need to use price action and dont just blindly short, but short run above the highs, because this is where big players add shorts. Not on the lows. P rice moving up shorts being added - Reversal coming This is showing positions building for the sell. In this case you can see both growing longs and shorts remember. Big players are hedgers, they are taking longs to move price up so they build shorts. Once they got their positions they close longs and sell of starts. Lets look to my TV analysis where I have seen shorts grown recently while GBP was moving up close the Monthly Order block , but notice the shorts colum how the shorts were growing recently and also longs dropped from 110K to 100K. Clena signs of the reversal but again I waited for a pullback above the weekly highs. Click to open a chart bellow This was a prediction from few week ago. Now let's look how the data looks right now. On the GBPUSD chart below we can see reveal in the data. Long significantly dropped by 50% and shorts increased by 50%. This is a clean reversal pattern in the COT. Look at net positions it clearly flipped to the bearish and big drop is coming. Few more tips Remember they know we are watching this data and what we see is what they want us to see, so they are often trying to hide their positions as long as possible. Thats why intra-week reversal are happening on Wednesday after they report their positions. They cannot hide the data forever, follow the data week by week to keep in track whats happening. It will increase your winning ratio. Every 3 months there is a new futures contract. The must close the positions and reopen them in to the new contract, They are using it for reversals. Also some if there is some US holidays on the day when report should be released to the public its delayed to the next week. And thats when they do biggest positions changes secretly. COT data isn’t a magic crystal ball—but it’s a powerful tool if you know how to combine it with technical analysis. You need to use your mechanical system. It perfectly fits with my CLS strategy and It's suitable for swing traders. Think outside the box. Even when you see bearish COT - dont be stupid to sell low. It's not NOD order flow for intraday scalping, you have time. But if you something is clearly bearish every run above weekly and daily highs is high probability Sell in the smart money trend. Dont hesitate to ask any questions and follow. I share COT weekly updates. “Adapt what is useful. Reject whats useless and add whats is specifically yours.” [/I] David Perk aka Dave FX Hunter