ICT Forex - Market Maker Primer Course - How To Find Explosive Price Moves Before They Happen

Notes

  • The COT chart is used to identify support and resistance on higher time frames using commercial extremes.
  • The zero line in the COT chart helps delineate traders’ positions. Above it indicates buying, and below it indicates selling.
  • Commercials often take positions opposite to large speculators.
  • A long period of buying by commercials followed by a rally can suggest upcoming resistance. The opposite is true for support.
  • Large range days often follow periods of range contraction (small candlestick bodies).
  • We should focus on periods of market quietness, indicating potential large moves.
  • Michael compares candle sizes based on their bodies, not by using wicks.

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The video merely teaches us that the “contraction” candlestick pattern indicates that the next candlestick could be a large-range candlestick, which we can refer to as a P3 pattern. That is all this video teaches. Have I overlooked something? Can you tell me?

And the COT is only helpful in combination with price action. The COT alone is not sufficient.

I think you understood correctly.

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