Trend is your friend. If You trading it correctly.GoldOANDA:XAUUSDDavid_PerkHi whats up traders trend trading sound easy. But it's not all the time. Today I will show you what works for me. You actually want to be buying lows in the uptrend and selling highs in the downtrend. Here is how to do it. Even in strong trends, price doesn’t move in straight lines. Consolidation → Expansion: Liquidity builds during pullbacks or sideways pauses, then gets released in a sharp move. • Double tops and Triple tops are engendered liquidity if you see it expect price go thru that levels Traders usually do this mistake. They correctly analyze the trend but thy are drawing subjective trendiness and trying to buy or sell trend line break in the trend. However this is what usually happens. 🧪 Why traders get caught • Traders enter at obvious levels inside ranges. • They usually use tight stop loss • These areas become liquidity pools. • Price must visit them before a real move starts. 🧪 Double tops and bottoms • Repeated reactions are not strength. • They are preparation. • Every touch builds more resting stops. • Triple tops and bottoms are even more attractive. • Never enter before price runs into them. 2 examples I showed you above are happening also in the trend. You basically don't want to sell the low of the trend line break and don't buy the high of trend line in the trend. You want to be buying lows in the trend and Selling highs. 📌 Up Trend - Trade Stop Hunt (LQ Sweep) buy below the lows – Highs are broken – Lows are respected – Liquidity below is being cleaned 📌 Down Trend - Trade Stop hunts (LQ Sweep) sell above the highs – Lows are broken – Highs are respected – Liquidity above is being cleaned Double tops and Triple tops are engendered liquidity if you see it expect price go thru that levels, it help you analyze the next potential targets The win isn’t catching the exact bottom. It’s catching a clean entry with strong Trend continuation - low timeframe reversal and with right timeframe alignments and targeting these double tops / Triple tops and vice versa for sell side. So here is GBPUSD example where we had the weekly range, stop hunt to 50% of the swing. After stop hunt occurs you wait for. H4 OB being created in other words engulf of last bulky down candle and clean close above. Then you can enter with SL below the stop hunted lows, not only that traders was liquidated there but also another group of traders entered shorts and they will be now liquidated above that double top and its your target. Importance of key level Even when smart money moves price to the highs where it seems there is not key level always look left price mostly stop just right above or below the key level. Ranges for some time makes false move in the direction which sucks traders in to to a trade and then they hit key level and go that direction. If the move is not going from key level it's a trap. We can use many types of levels, but here is a tip for the forex Whole, quarter, half levels are strong. If your order block, supply / demand occurs or classic support occurs around that level it will have higher probability and its not because of psychological level. It's because these levels are what institutions are trading. Stop hunts are not your enemy Unless you ignore it. The market makers hunts liquidity before it moves. By starting thinking about the markets this was way you will recognize and will be able to visualize future movements and then finally put a structure to it. 🧪CLS strategy connection • Liquidity sweep is the foundation of my CLS approach. • Fake breakouts create urgency and FOMO. • Late buyers and sellers get trapped. • I trade against that behavior. 🧠 Having mechanical system with backtested data is your EDGE. 💪 That is what makes you DISCIPLINED TRADER. 📌Bullish continuation setups Model 1 - Entry after manipulation - 50% target Model 2 - Entry on pullback on level between 61.8 - 80% pullback 📌Bearish Continuation setups Model 1 - Entry after manipulation - 50% target Model 2 - Entry on pullback on level between 61.8 - 80% pullback 🧪Manipulation phase • No manipulation means no institutional move. • Liquidity must be taken first. • Big candles after sweeps signal readiness. • That is where opportunity appears. 🚀Boost | 🔁 Share | 💬 Comment | ✅Follow for more CLS setups Adapt useful, Reject useless and add what is specifically yours. David Perk