Trading Analysis Blog: Liquidity, Volume & Momentum
Guides and research on ICT/SMC, liquidity, volume profile, market regime, momentum, sessions and TradingView analytical workflows.
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Price Action & Sessions
What Is a Killzone? ICT’s Session Windows, Explained
Every source quotes different killzone hours. Here's what a killzone actually is, where the times come from, and what the windows can and can't tell you.
Price Action & Sessions
Asian Session Range Trading, Explained
'Asia is dead hours' is folklore. Asia-Pacific centres carry over a fifth of global FX turnover — here's what the Asian range actually is and how it's used.
TradingView Guides
How to Set Up TradingView Alerts (and What the Limits Actually Are)
Price alerts, indicator alerts, trigger options and the per-plan limits — a practical setup guide based on TradingView's own documentation.
TradingView Guides
TradingView Alerts vs Indicators: Two Different Jobs
An indicator computes and draws; an alert notifies. Why they're not the same thing, how Pine connects them, and why some indicators ship without alerts.
Structure & Liquidity
What Research Actually Says About Stop Hunts
Peer-reviewed order-book research says stop-runs usually extend moves, not reverse them. Here's what that means for reading a liquidity sweep.
Structure & Liquidity
How to Verify a TradingView Indicator Doesn’t Repaint
A step-by-step Bar Replay method to test any TradingView indicator for repainting yourself — plus what TradingView's own docs say counts as a real flaw.
Volume & Value
Volume Profile, POC & Value Area Explained
What POC, VAH and VAL actually mean operationally — and the real reason the value area is built around 70%, not a mystical probability.
Volume & Value
Why Your Order Block Failed: The Volume Context Nobody Checks
A textbook order block, and price blew through it anyway. Here's the volume-context layer most order block explainers skip entirely.
Market State & Momentum
Trending or Chopping? How to Actually Tell
The same strategy that worked in June whipsaws you in September. Here's the honest, sourced way to read whether a market is trending or ranging.
Market State & Momentum
Momentum Divergence: What It Actually Predicts
Divergence is one of the most taught reversal signals — and one of the most overstated. What the research and the failure modes actually say.
Price Action & Sessions
London-New York Session Overlap, Explained
'The overlap is the best time to trade' is everywhere. The number behind it varies wildly by source — here's the actually-sourced version.
Price Action & Sessions
Power of Three: Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution
PO3 gets reduced to three letters in most explainers. Here's what the model actually claims, where it's fractal, and where it honestly breaks down.
TradingView Guides
One-Time Purchase or Subscription for TradingView Tools?
The real math on buying TradingView indicators individually versus subscribing to a bundle — honest breakeven numbers, not a sales pitch.