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4-Hour Order Block Madness On Gold!It’s NFP Friday today. You know what that means—volatility Volatility Volatility. I always avoid staying out of the markets on NFP day but let’s still look at what gold did today. We are on the 4-hour chart. I have marked up an order block, as you can see on the chart. An order block is an area of interest that market makers use to access extra liquidity, which they can then use to push the price higher or lower. I’m the case of going short; I would always use the most recent bullish candle before an impulse lower. As we can price came right into the order block before dropping lower. This is what sniping is. I don’t usually trade order blocks on the 4-hour. However, this one was too good not to show. If you were looking to short Gold ( XAU ), You would have opened a short position in the middle of the OB. This is always a safe play. Put your slightly above the OB High, and your target would be the liquidity zone. This would have given a nice 1/7 RR. Order block sniping requires much backtesting and creating your own set of rules – just like any other strategy. This is a textbook example of how price returns into the OB zone to collect liquidity before moving lower. Interesting? Yes, Would I trade this on NFP day? No Let’s keep watching and see if gold can present us with any setups next week. Have a good weekend, traders.
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by TheVortexTrader
330 pips bagged and I called the swing right here on tradingviewI made it clear when I sent out this signal that if you're taking this trade, that you should hold with a swing mindset and 330 pips later, boom 💥 !... With a 20 pips stop loss from 1.11200, we bought and held till price hit 1.14500...the data is all here !. Divergence at the end of a trend cannot fail you when you know how to trade it, especially when italigns with your other confluences and then the smart money concept of order blocks and break of market structure and the likes. Go ahead and view my profile here, you will find out that 98% of my ideas here are all divergent trades !.
by LaBOSS_FX
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