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Screening for Shorting Opportunities ๐Ÿ“‰

Not every chart needs a trade. Sometimes the job is simply to identify where the risk/reward starts becoming interesting. While screening for potential shorting opportunities, I came across this setup. The idea was to combine market structure + liquidity + imbalance + trend rather than short simply because price was falling. ๐Ÿ” What caught my attention? 1️⃣ Bearish structure Price had already experienced a strong decline and was trading below a downward-sloping moving average. That suggested that the broader momentum was still favouring sellers. 2️⃣ Equal High = liquidity above The Equal High marked on the chart is an area I would watch closely. Rather than assuming resistance will hold, I look at clustered highs as a potential area of buy-side liquidity. A move toward or through that area can become important when assessing a potential reversal. 3️⃣ IFVG — potential resistance The purple Inverse Fair Value Gap (IFVG) becomes the key area I'm watching. If price retraces into this z...

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This one's a good example of price reacting inside a weekly order block - technically a low-probability zone since it goes against near-term momentum. 


But that's often where the risk is smallest too, since the invalidation level is well defined.

A retest of that zone followed, price also closed above the moving average - a signal often associated with a shift from consolidation into trend.


Price is currently trading near equal highs, and while the broader structure remains in an uptrend, the most recent candle has printed as a hanging man. 


Worth remembering: a hanging man forming during an uptrend isn't an automatic reversal signal it needs confluence before it means much on its own.


From here, it would be worth watching intraday timeframes for how price behaves around this zone, with the recent swing high acting as the key level that would invalidate a short-term reversal reading.



Disclaimer: 
This post is shared for educational and informational purposes only, to illustrate technical analysis concepts. It is not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.


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