ifvg+po3

Shared by a BacktestingMax trader on 29 Oct 2026

• Profit factor: 5
• Win rate: 83.5%
• Trades: 91
• Backtests: 10

Liquidity moves the market. Price moves to areas of high liquidity away from an area with a lack of orders as market movers need fuel to reach the next objective. Because of this, a strong DOL/LRLR or both is required to take a trade. The second key way price moves is to rebalance the market. This is because buyers/sellers want to get a more premium/discounted price so will rebalance inefficiencies causing a temporary retrace in the market. This makes DOL's and FVG's the single most important confluences in the market.

Entry rules

1. 1:1 RR minimum (or just below)
2. HTF delivery
3. Aligns with HTF bias
4. Strong DOL
5. iFVG or CISD entry

Invalidation

1. No true manipulation
2. against an external SMT
3. Lack of both LRLR AND a strong DOL
4. No trades after 11:00 unless its A+

Stop loss and take profit

1. 1:1 with SL at swing low or below inception gaps
2. at candle body if there is a change in the state

Author's checklist 1

1. Ranking DOL's from highest to lowest:
2. Data Highs/Lows, NWOG and NDOG CE, ATH/ATL(very rare since NQ and ES are expanding markets) with LR (these will get hit 85-90% of the time if used correctly)
3. UF Daily or weekly gaps, and their respective ITH/ITL, EQH/EQL (all extremely strong, will get hit 80-85% of the time)
4. UF 4h/ 4H ITH/ITL, REQH/REQL (if there is a visible sweep, then it is not a REQH/REQL). High quality LRLR (must have a draw with it though)
5. 1H, 30m, 15m FVG's and ITH/ITL
6. Swing highs/lows not relatively equal
7. Session highs/lows (generally they are going to be key Swing points however they should only be used as small added confluence, not as the main draw), PDH/PDL (unless combined with a better draw)

Author's checklist 2

1. List of all confluences ranked from Most to Least important
2. FVG's (15m+, but 3 or 5m for continuations/BE points), DOL's (including LR), Liquidity Sweeps, Time(best are LDN/NYAM, especially the NYAM macro due to the 10am po3), BPR.
3. HTF narrative (MMXM too) (respecting vs disrespecting HTF gaps), True manipulation, equilibrium
4. iFVG's, strong displacement, external SMT's, rejection blocks
5. CISD's, internal SMT's (1m-), inception gaps, breakaway gaps, OTE levels
6. Order blocks, Breaker Blocks (rarely used)

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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.