Combining Everything
The capstone: a five-point checklist that ties order flow, ERL/IRL, liquidity, time, and structure into one repeatable model. Read the bias, find the target, wait for the right time, confirm with structure, then enter. This is how all the pieces work together.
This is one of the most important lessons. Here we take every concept from the earlier lessons and combine them into one workflow, so you can build your own model that fits you. It comes down to a five-point checklist.
- Order flow: your bias. Bullish means only look for longs; bearish means only look for shorts.
- ERL / IRL: is price going to continue or retrace? After the ERL is taken, price draws to the IRL (an FVG); after the IRL, it draws to the ERL (a swing high or low).
- Liquidity: the draw on liquidity, your target and take-profit area.
- Time: trade at the right time. Kill zones for intraday, macros for scalping.
- Structure: confirms your bias and your draw on liquidity, and is where you read the MMXM, protected highs/lows, and place your TP and SL.
Price only does two things
After taking the ERL, price draws to the IRL. After the IRL, it draws to the ERL. The ERL is the swing highs and lows; the IRL is the FVGs. The whole map is just this cycle, read with your bias.
The checklist applied
Checklist 1, order flow: the bias is bullish, so we only look for longs. Checklist 3, liquidity: mark the draw on liquidity above, our target.
Spot it: Set your bias and your target before anything else.
Liquidity: what makes a good target
Generated liquidity makes the best targets, especially LRLR failure swings and equal highs/lows. Protected levels are harder to reach and only break once a higher-timeframe PDRA forces a reversal that takes all that liquidity.
Time: trade the right session
Trade a pair during its own kill zones. EURUSD trades in the London and New York kill zones, not the Asian session, where movement is low probability and price just consolidates, so FVGs are not respected. Use kill zones for intraday, macros for scalping, and avoid trading into the news.
When the move is too fast
After a higher-timeframe PDRA is hit in a kill zone, the expansion can be extremely fast, sometimes too fast to enter. When that happens, drop to a lower timeframe to find your entry.
How pros apply it
- DXY (daily to 1H): an ERL swing low was taken, the draw moved to an FVG (IRL) then to the high (ERL). On the lower timeframe a buy model formed; entry was the 50% FVG that was also an inversion (a BPR), so it was high probability, taken in the New York kill zone.
- DXY again: an FVG (IRL) drew price to a swing high (ERL). A buy model formed, the SMR was the long term low, an MSS confirmed, and a STL-ITL-STL gave clean FVG and breaker entries.
- In both, the checklist drove the decision: order flow, ERL/IRL, draw on liquidity, time (kill zone), and structure, all aligned before entry.
Key takeaways
Run the five-point checklist every time: order flow (bias), ERL/IRL (continue or retrace), liquidity (the target), time (kill zones), structure (confirmation, MMXM, stops and targets). When all five agree, you have a model. Bullish bias = longs only; bearish = shorts only.
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