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The Truth Behind Liquidity

10:41827 summary words · ~4 min readEnglishBy Inter Equity TradingTranscribed Jul 31, 2026

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Summary

Retail traders consistently lose because they trade static patterns and structural breaks without realizing that institutions engineer these setups to induce and trap early participants before initiating the real expansion move.

By identifying where buyers and sellers are trapped and recognizing false Points of Interest (POIs), you can avoid false breakouts and align entries with true institutional expansion.

Section summaries

Introduction & The Fallacy of Pattern Trading

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The speaker opens the video by asserting that most retail traders continuously lose because they treat the market as static patterns and market structure. To trade profitability, one must shift focus toward tracking where buyers and sellers are induced and trapped by institutional manipulation. The introduction sets up the core thesis and transitions into live chart breakdowns to demonstrate liquidity dynamics.

Trading static chart patterns puts retail traders on the wrong side of market direction.
Liquidity reading centers on identifying where buyers and sellers get induced into early positions.

Establishes the foundational logic for reading liquidity over classic market structure.

Mechanism of Inducement and Trapping Sellers

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The speaker uses a chart example to demonstrate how price moves upward, sweeps an internal low, and induces early sellers into taking short positions on perceived structural shifts. Price then gives a temporary reaction off lower levels to build retail confidence before aggressively expanding upward to trap those sellers. Once the sellers' stop losses are triggered, price executes its true expansion move toward lower structural liquidity targets.

Minor structural shifts and internal low sweeps serve as bait to induce early sellers.
True price expansion initiates only after retail stop losses have been swept.

Provides a clear visual example of how institutions induce and trap retail participants.

Targeting Structural Liquidity & Repetitive Cycles

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The speaker illustrates how to identify trade targets by locating structural liquidity resting below key lows. When price respects intermediate lows and builds liquidity underneath, traders should hold off on entering until early sellers are trapped above high points. Once early sellers are trapped, price expands rapidly to clear the target structural liquidity pool, demonstrating a cycle that repeats continuously across all timeframes.

Target structural liquidity pools sitting below or above key high/low points.
Wait for early entry traps to finalize before entering toward the main liquidity target.

Teaches how to select structural targets and synchronize entry timing with trap completion.

Higher Timeframe Inducement & Identifying False POIs

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This section connects lower-timeframe market structure with higher-timeframe (1H/4H) context. The speaker explains that a higher-timeframe break of structure often induces sellers on a macro scale, making lower-timeframe supply levels false Points of Interest (POIs). Furthermore, sharp impulsive downward moves are engineered to create emotional FOMO in retail traders, inducing them to short directly into institutional buy zones.

Higher-timeframe structural shifts turn lower-timeframe supply/demand zones into false POIs.
Impulsive price moves are frequently engineered emotional bait designed to induce chasing.

Critical for learning how to spot and avoid false POIs during high-volatility price action.

Sluggish Price Action & High-Probability POI Validation

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The speaker analyzes lower-timeframe behavior, showing how slow, sluggish price action builds dense structural liquidity by encouraging retail entries. He demonstrates that a POI only becomes a high-probability trade location after the structural liquidity sitting in front of it has been completely cleared. Once the engineered liquidity pool is swept, price delivers a sharp, clean reaction off the valid POI.

Sluggish price action serves as an engineered buildup of retail liquidity.
A POI is validated only after intermediate structural liquidity has been swept.

Explains the exact criteria required to validate high-probability POIs versus trap zones.

Summary & Mentorship Announcement

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The video concludes with a recap of the core lesson: mastering market direction relies on identifying where liquidity resides and tracking where buyers and sellers are induced. Understanding liquidity dynamics simplifies directional bias selection. The speaker finishes with a call to action inviting viewers to join his trading mentorship program.

Establishing market bias relies on identifying buyer and seller inducement points.
Consistent profitability stems from executing after liquidity traps complete.

Contains a brief recap of core concepts alongside promotional mentorship details.

Key points

Retail Inducement as Order Flow Fuel — Institutions generate the liquidity required for major market moves by creating early market structure shifts and chart patterns that bait retail buyers and sellers into taking premature positions.
False POIs and Emotional Traps — Sharp, impulsive moves are engineered as emotional bait to provoke retail FOMO, turning obvious supply or demand zones into false POIs that institutions intend to target and violate.
Sluggish Consolidation as Liquidity Accumulation — Slow, sluggish price action is designed to allow retail traders to comfortably build positions, engineering dense liquidity pools above or below the consolidation range.
Validation of High-Probability POIs — A Point of Interest (POI) gains high-probability status only after intermediate structural liquidity sitting in front of it has been fully swept.

“to understand liquidity you need to understand where buyers and sellers are getting induced.” — Presenter

“and then once sellers are trapped, you'll see that the actual move happens after sellers are trapped” — Presenter

AI-generated from the transcript. May contain errors.

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What's going on guys? In this video, I

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will be diving into liquidity in depth

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because most traders think they

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understand liquidity, but in reality,

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they look at the markets as patterns and

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this is the main reason why most traders

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keep losing and why they end up on the

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wrong side of the markets. So to truly

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understand liquidity means knowing where

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buyers and sellers are getting induced

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and where they're getting trapped. Okay.

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So what do I mean by all this? Well,

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because most traders look at structure,

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okay? They trade with structure or they

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look at the market as patterns. Uh

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you'll see the market do certain things

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to induce traders. Okay? So to

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understand liquidity you need to

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understand where buyers and sellers are

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getting induced. All right let's go into

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the charts and look at or follow

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liquidity and where buyers or sellers

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are getting induced. Okay.

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So over here you can see the market is

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moving to the upside. Okay. Comes lower

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takes out this low over here inducing

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some sellers into the market. Okay. And

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then the market moves to the upside,

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pumps into this high over here where

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sellers are trying to sell. And what

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ends up happening, you'll see some sort

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of reactions from there, okay? Possibly

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taking out some low to the left, right?

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Internal low and then moving to the

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upside and finally trapping the sellers.

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Okay? And then once sellers are trapped,

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you'll see that the actual move happens

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after sellers are trapped, which

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happened right there. Coming lower,

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taking out this and coming into this low

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over here. Okay. Now, why is this low

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over here important? Well,

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because we got this happening right

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here. We got structural liquidity below

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here. Okay.

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So what ends up happening is the market

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comes below, respects this low over here

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and moves away. Moving away because you

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have to understand there's buyers and

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sellers on both sides, right? So you

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have buyers trying to buy because that

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high was taken out and this is just a

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pullback for them to buy, right? And

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then you have sellers that are trying to

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sell because of this breakup structure

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right here. Okay, that market structural

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shift or breakup structure. Now that the

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move happened, right, this move lower

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happened, sellers need to get trapped

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again, right? So you got buyers over

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here that get induced by possibly taking

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on this high or even taking out this

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high. Right? So now you'll see the

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market come here, respect this high over

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here, come lower, take out this internal

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low, induce sellers or early sellers.

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And then you'll see that move up trap

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the sellers and then you can see the

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move lower towards the lows, right? And

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ultimately well towards this low and

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ultimately this low over here.

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Okay. Also coming into this low over

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here, you'll see the market move like

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this. This sluggish price action

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basically that buildup. See that move

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away inducing

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sellers and that move up trapping the

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sellers and then the move happens.

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Right? So it's very simple. You just

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have to see it and understand it. So

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let's say we have this as our target.

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Okay? We want the market this right here

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as our target. We want the market here.

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Why? Because we got structural liquidity

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below here. Right? So we got this move

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up inducing

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buyers comes lower respects the low. So

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letting uh respecting the low building

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that liquidity below

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here. So now if we want to be targeting

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this low because now there's liquidity

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there. All we have to do is wait for

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early sellers to get trapped, right? And

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as I mentioned, you got early sellers

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trapped over here. The move happens,

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right? And then comes again trapping

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early sellers right example this high

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being respecting this high. So now boom

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that's the move

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right and then you can see here does the

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exact same thing moves lower induces

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sellers traps the sellers and then has

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the move. Okay. And the market does that

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over and over again. Right? So if you

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just understand where that's happening

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or understand where buyers and sellers

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are getting induced, it is going to be a

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lot easier to be on the right side of

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the

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market. So example, right, the market

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comes lower, takes out this liquidity

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over here and then comes up, builds more

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liquidity to the upside, moves lower.

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Okay? And then same thing,

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right? You get that move up, taking out

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this high, inducing some sort of buyers

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into the market. Okay. And you'll see,

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you know, takes out the high, comes,

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respects the low. Okay. Moves higher,

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breaks this high, come pulls back,

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respects the low, moves higher, right?

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Just inducing traders, right? Inducing

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buyers. You got that order flow and the

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market comes, takes out all that

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liquidity, and then starts moving to the

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upside. Okay, same thing goes here.

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Okay, we got this high over here.

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intact, right? We have the market coming

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into that high. Okay. And understanding

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that this overall low being taken out,

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right? On like let's say on the 1 hour

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or the 4 hour induces some sort of

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traders, right? So that could have been

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the break of structure on the higher

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time frame to induce sellers, right? So

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understanding this market structural

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shift or break of structure or whatever

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um induced sellers already now right all

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these

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highs basically going to be false right

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all these

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highs

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false false POIs right the areas that

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people are going to be looking for that

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market structural shift or whatever and

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try to uh short Okay. So, you'll see the

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market move to the upside, build some

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sort of structure. Okay. And over here,

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you can see it's very simple. Um, you

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got that structural liquidity over here,

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moves away. Okay. Take out the high.

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Okay. Finally, you get that move down,

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clearing this low over here, inducing

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sellers, also taking out all this over

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here as well, inducing some sort of

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sellers. And you'll see the move that

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happens over here is very sharp right

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and do it does that because right it

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needs to induce sellers. So when they

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see this move down it's very very

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impulsive they're going

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to emotionally think okay you know what

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the market should continue going lower

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right and then what you'll see is the

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market start moving to the upside right

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and ultimately come for that high. Okay.

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Now, if you replicate that on lower time

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frames, right? And we look at this whole

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area right

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here. Okay. Looking at that area on the

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lower time frames, you'll see same

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thing, right? Same thing internally,

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right? You got that move lower. Okay?

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Inducing sellers. Market pulls back into

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this high over here. Okay? You'll see

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that sharp move down, clearing this

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internal, inducing more sellers. Then

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you'll see that pullback into this area.

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And you'll see that little sluggish or

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that slow price action right here just

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letting sellers get into their

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positions, right? And giving like false

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reactions and then ultimately coming for

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that liquidity to the upside. So all you

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have to do is really understand where

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buyers and sellers are getting induced.

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Okay, let's break down this area right

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here. Okay, so we get that move up. You

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can see over here prints a low, prints a

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high, right? Inducing buyers. buyers get

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trapped and then that move away. Okay?

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Takes out the high, leaves this low

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right here, moves away, break of

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structure, pulls back into this low. Now

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you got that structural liquidity, okay?

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And then you got that move away with

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that break of structure. So now

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trap any reactions from there, this

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whole area should be a trap. You'll

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move, you'll see the market move lower,

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taking out that structural liquidity.

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And then if you look at the um the

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previous video I made about high

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probability POIs talked about this would

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be a high probability POI and you'll see

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the market come into it and then finally

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move away. So, um, if you follow along

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the liquidity, you'll see a move higher.

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Okay, printing a

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low, moving away, and then you'll see

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move lower, right? Basically taking out

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some sort of high, inducing some sort of

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buyers, coming to trap the buyers, and

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then moving away,

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right? Ultimately coming for these

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highs. Same thing over and over again,

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right? Okay, you got that move up B to

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the upside coming back leaving liquidity

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here. Okay, building that liquidity. So

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just because this BOS to the upside

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happened it doesn't mean the market

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needs to come back right but when it

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does now it's leaving liquidity below

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here that move away taking out some

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internal okay inducing some sort of

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buyers and then you get that move

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down trapping the buyers and then

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finally that move up right so all you

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have to do is follow where the liquidity

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is by understanding where buyers buyers

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and sellers are getting induced and

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where they're getting trapped. Okay. So

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once you understand that you can

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formulate a direction or a um where the

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liquidity is and where it should be

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going towards next. So um that is the

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end of the video. I hope you guys

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understood it. You guys are able to

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follow along and we are opening up our

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mentorship soon. So, if you guys want to

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better understand how we trade and how

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we're able to be profitable from the

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markets, click the link below in the

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description. And

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