How this was discovered and what is it. Eye opener British Pound/US DollarSAXO:GBPUSDDavid_PerkHey whats up traders, lets have a look how to identify CLS range and what it actually means. Im still being misunderstood and and hated for my methods. But it's fine, it's something new and revolutionary so it's normal. World is hardly accepting new ideas which they dont understand. 95% of analysis are some diagonal patterns drawings and trendiness and subjective second guessing which is today standard. Hence I feel like a Nikola Tesla at his times when he was also misunderstood. Dont get me wrong. I do not thing my CLS method is superior to anything else. I respect every trader warrior for risking his own money to fight for freedom to escape the slavery system that elites wants to keep us in. But methods what many are using are not based on how the markets really works. I was always thinking who is moving the markets. Why the price moves up or down. There are theories its buying pressure / selling pressure... Many are mixing it with the fundamentals and tries to put reasoning behind the moves to the numbers behind NFP, FOMC, CPI etc.. Ok I get it, if it make sense to anyone. Let's be it. But then why sometimes data comes out bad for USD and USD strengthen or opposite, they cut rates and it weakens. We have seen this many times. Then there must be some smart money operator who has all this informations still can manipulate the markets with the force opposite ways than many expects. I was thinking it's those investment banks and hedge funds. And yes, they are operating on the markets and you can just look how many times they been fined for rigging the game. This was making sense to me. They move the markets from liquidity zones to liquidity zones where they destroyed the smaller traders and funds. I have been trying to follow them by reading the volume footprint. But in the decentralized FX markets where is many dark pools its almost impossible and in the futures volume you got a lot of spoofing. 🧪 Exploration of the CLS On my journey of exploring smart money operators was not surprising that I came to the ICT concepts. Although I realized its actually repackaged teaching from other iconic traders it was resonating with me. So many cool names for levels. Order block sounded better then Demand zone.... Problem was that ICT himself has been overcomplicating everything. He is attention seeker hence every year he comes with new concept, new strategy, new mentorship and levels to keep his followers thinking you still need to know more and more to be profitable. Not speaking about his arrogance and ego. Yelling to other traders while he never even finished a year in the robins cup as he was always talking about. So I stopped following this man. But for one thing Im grateful. Once he tweeted this. And by the chance I have seen this. And start thinking - Wait the minute, what is this guy who says he coded markets algo but always fail in the Robins cup is trying to say here. What is that CLS , where he is trying to take my attention from by saying it's not it ? So I started researching found CLS website and I found that its a company operating with specific framework. It's a company which is trading 8 Trillion daily volume. There has to be something in it. Then I found that they are trading for these subjects and also central banks just go their website and see. It makes sense, why would they trade against each others, when they can put all power together and use one entity to trade against us. All their framework is explained on their website. In a short. They are basically collecting the orders from all those subjects. It's happening during the Asia session. They do settlements on the book which is stabilizing the market and then next day they find the liquidity on the markets to do the operations. And they are doing by this specific framework at the specific times for European / North funding and European North American currencies I became totally obsessed by trying to understanding. this and then I realized that this is it. This is wha ICT probably has explored too, but instead of helping others, by building and giving simple strategy based on this. He rather lying that he was kidnapped to code the market algo. What a clown. Anyway his role in my career was done. And Im grateful for his dumb lie about CLS because it showed me the way to explore something unique. At this point I knew how CLS works on daily basis , but you don't have chance to follow it with high probability every day. Im father , my life goal is not being charts nerd. I love trading as a tool for freedom. So I used fractal mathematic to recalculate it in t the weekly processes and profiles to identify the framework on higher timeframe. I have spent almost 3 years to polish and simplifying it, now. Anyway think about this There is entity which trades 8 trilion a day (almost whole FX volume) they have instructions from their members in advance and they know what they have to deliver next day. Does it make sense to even care about red news data? They are already positioned and most likely hedged and ready to move it as they need, no matter what NFP, CPI, Jobs, data relase will be. Yes of course in the longterm fundamentals can play role, but definitely not in daily release or news. ❓Why CLS range? CLS range is huge candle created mostly likely by this entity. How we know they ben involved? Logically if some candle with ATR higher than average candles around appears. We can be sure its not by me opening 5 lots trades not even some 200 lot trades. There was someone bigger involved. Someone with huge capital to move the markets. Guess who? And I dont need any volume or any other indicator. After some time you just see it. Hence I call it CLS range / Candle because such candle was most likely created by some entity who has capital to move the market to leave such footprint - big candle. You know who it is already right? Hence CLS candle / range ✅ Discovery of CLS Model 1 & 2 When I realized such a phenomena about smart money entity I was obsessed to decode and predict their next moves. I was failing in timing it. In the fact I was able to catch some moves. Check the 10am CET. This is when their XXX starts. This is ussually a time of the low/ high of the day. Not always, but go thru your charts and check, you will be amazed how often it's true in pacific currencies. But still this was not enough to build 100% mechanical system. 💡Aha Moment Instead of trying to catch and predict the next move of CLS. I realized that I have better chance to wait for them create huge move with imbalance and then trade the re-balance. And here comes Fomo psychology. When such huge CLS candle is created many traders wants to follow the move and on the next candle break out they are entering continuation and thats where they get trapped. Once they get trapped re-balance occurs and price re-tests the 50% of the CLS candle. Thats model 1 and model 2 is easy, if you follow me you already know it, but model 2 has to be within the trend. 💢CLS Candle specification - Huge higher than average ATR then candles around - Monday / Friday Range - Must dig in to liquidity / or its manipulation - Must be manipulated its high / low - Must be in the right market context CLS range can occur on any timeframes, just keep your eyes open after some time you will see it... Adapt useful, Reject useless and add what is specifically yours. David Perk