FVG

Shared by a BacktestingMax trader on 2 Nov 2026

This setup works because every time the market leaves an imbalance the first response of price is the retest and fill the gap left by smart money making it a key level for entry

Entry rules

  1. Price has to tap the 15 minute valid Fair Value Gap and
  2. then on the 1 minute time frame there has to be a clear change of character in the targeted direction before the trade must be entered

Invalidation

  1. if the fair value gap gets completely mitigated and turns into a IFVG

Stop loss and take profit

  1. SL must be above the 1 minute previous high that was formed

Author's checklist

  1. Long trades may only be entered if the BIAS is bulling and short trades may only be entered if the BIAS is bearish

Inside the app

Opening this strategy in BacktestingMax shows the full record behind the numbers above, on a free account: every trade with entry, exit, size and P&L plus CSV and Excel export; a bar-by-bar replay of the author's own session on 1-minute history; Monte Carlo projections that reshuffle the trade sequence; the equity curve against buy-and-hold; advanced statistics including Sharpe and Sortino ratios, expectancy, payoff ratio, recovery factor, maximum drawdown and longest time underwater; a day-by-day P&L calendar; and behavioural analysis covering revenge trading, position-size chasing, long/short bias and the hours and days it actually made money.

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Figures come from backtests run by the author inside BacktestingMax. Past performance is not indicative of future results, and nothing here is financial advice.