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B. ICT Imbalances and Price Gaps
An imbalance is a stretch of price delivery where one side dominated and left a gap between candle wicks. The Fair Value Gap is the best-known example: a three-candle pattern in which the first and third candles' wicks do not overlap. ICT traders watch whether price returns to these areas and how it reacts there. Learn the Fair Value Gap first, then its variations: the inverse FVG, volume imbalance, balanced price range and the opening gaps.
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Imbalances and Price Gaps: all 14 concepts
A three-candle price inefficiency where the first and third candles do not overlap across a price interval,…
An FVG that fails to hold as support/resistance and is then treated as an opposite-direction reference when…
A gap or lack of overlap between candle bodies/open-close prices, commonly interpreted as an inefficiency in…
An ICT label for a bullish fair-value-gap type of imbalance: price delivers upward with an inefficient…
An ICT label for a bearish FVG-type imbalance formed during downward price delivery.
An overlapping area created when a bullish and bearish FVG overlap, representing a zone where opposing…
A relatively rapid price movement through a broad area with little two-way trading or limited candle overlap.
The 50% midpoint of a selected PD array or imbalance, used as a reference for partial mitigation or reaction.
The gap between a defined new trading day's opening price and the prior day's closing price, using a…
The gap between the prior week's close and the new week's open, commonly watched in markets with a weekend…
A forceful, directional repricing move that shows clear momentum and may break structure or create an…
A term used for a range or imbalance area that has been revisited and partially or fully traversed to…
A less consistently standardized term used for an inferred inefficiency or a gap-like reference when a…
A descriptive term for one-sided or uneven price delivery where price moves quickly with limited opposing…