DEALING RANGES-2022 ICT MENTORSHIP TOPICAL STUDY @TinyVizsla

S&P 500 E-mini Futures, 1D, June 26, 2022

NARRATIVE
SM ACCUMULATING
SHORT POSITION
• What is your High Time Frame BIAS. Are you anticipating price
BUYSIDE
to go higher or lower. What are the current seasonal tendencies.
Submit to the market being LIKELY to follow its HTF bias/trend/momentum.

• In this example, lets assume BEARISH bias due to seasonal tendencies.

• Since we are bearish, we do not see break of buyside as

Market Structure Shift. INSTEAD, we see it as Smart Money
accumulating short positions, pairing with buystops.
SELLSIDE

ON THE DAILY CHART

• Identify a RANGE where price has taken BUYSIDE
then REVERSED and taken out SELLSIDE

• The DEALING RANGE is measured from the high

of the break of buyside to the low of the break of

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SM ACCUMULATING
SHORT POSITION

BUYSIDE

.79 .79

• Price returns to
WITHIN THE .62 .62 Optimal Trade Entry
DEALING RANGE .50 .50
levels for best short entry
• Identify the most
energetic price swing

• Mark High and Low

• Now that price has taken Sellside
look for price to retrace SELLSIDE
• Next DOL Target is
to Equilibrium or Premium DEALING RANGE low
to consider short position entry

• Price does not need to break

dealing range high again,
smart money has already
established short position
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• Price moves to take

.79
Buyside Liquidity
BUYSIDE • Mkt creates new REHs BUYSIDE BUYSIDE

.62

.50

• We have a new DEALING RANGE

because price has taken both
SELLSIDE liquidity and
BUYSIDE liquidity
• After taking SSL, SELLSIDE SELLSIDE
SELLSIDE
mkt will most likely
revert to BUYSIDE SM ACCUMULATING
and take liquidity LONG POSITION

above REH

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• Within this dealing range we
are looking to enter short near
the buyside liquidity raid
with a target (FVG) below the
.50 level in discount

BUYSIDE
FVG SHORT ENTRY
.79 .79 .79

.62 .62 .62

.50 .50 .50

• We have a new DEALING RANGE

DAILY FVG TARGET DAILY FVG TARGET • FVG Target filled because price has taken both
SELLSIDE liquidity and
SELLSIDE BUYSIDE liquidity

SELLSIDE
• Sellside taken SELLSIDE

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WITHIN THE
DEALING RANGE • Within this range look
• Identify the most for price to return to
energetic price swing Equilibrium or
Premium to go short
• We see price return to this
• Mark High and Low * level where it could have filled
THIS LEVEL BECOMES
A CAP ON THE MARKET the gap but did not, indicating
it’s a BREAKAWAY GAP

MEANING price will most likely

stay heavy and run in our bias
to the downside

BREAKAWAY GAPS are likely

to stay unfilled until lower
price objectives have been met

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BREAKAWAY GAP
BUYSIDE PURGE
SM ACCUMULATING
SHORT POSITION

• Any time price runs above

VOL IMB
BUYSIDE liquidity it is likely
BUYSIDE BUYSIDE to sell off due to BEARISH BUYSIDE

seasonal tendencies

• We have a new
DEALING RANGE
because price
SELLSIDE • Price breaks lower, returns to has taken both
Volume Imbalance then takes • We see price follow our bias SELLSIDE liquidity
SELLSIDE SELLSIDE
SELLSIDE, next DOL becomes and take SELLSIDE and
BUYSIDE liquidity at REH BUYSIDE liquidity

THE CYCLE REPEATS

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