Order Block, Liquidity Sweep, Imbalance Strategy

Learn an SMC trading strategy focusing on London session liquidity sweeps, order blocks, and imbalance for entries on Forex (H1/M5). Targets a 1:2 risk-reward.

Published · Updated · Methodology: SMC

Part of: Order Blocks

  • Methodology: SMC
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: H1, M5
  • Markets: Forex

Indicators used

  • Order Block
  • Imbalance

Source video

Decoded from: Entrada Perfecta en la Sesión de London 🤩. #trading #trader #forex #smc by Gorka Fx — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Perfect start to the London session
  • 0:05 - Price manipulates Asian low and previous day's low
  • 0:12 - Identified area of interest: classical order block
  • 0:15 - Drop to M5 for reversal with break of bullish structure
  • 0:20 - After break, observe imbalance
  • 0:23 - Entry at the beginning of the imbalance
  • 0:25 - Stop loss below the last created low
  • 0:27 - Take profit 1 to 2

Strategy overview

An order block marks the zone where institutional orders are presumed to have been placed before a strong move, and a return to it is treated as a chance to join that side. What organizes this entry, though, is not the zone but the clock: it is framed entirely around the London open, and the liquidity it targets is defined by the sessions that came before it — the Asian session low and the previous day's low, both taken out in the opening minutes the clip covers.

The video runs about twenty-three seconds and moves through the idea one beat at a time: the run through those two lows read as manipulation rather than as direction, an H1 order block named as the area of interest, a drop to M5 for a bullish break of structure, and then an imbalance — the gap a fast move leaves behind when one side transacts unopposed — as the place the entry is actually taken. The division of labour is the notable part. The order block says where to look; the imbalance says where to execute. That is a different arrangement from the many order block setups that enter on the block itself, and it is what makes the session framing do real work: the zone is chosen before London opens, the trigger only exists after it does.

What the outline leaves undeclared matters as much as what it states. No pair is named, no stop or target appears, and the clip ends at the entry — so the "Entrada Perfecta" ("Perfect Entry") of the title is a claim about the timing of one entry on one London session, not about a result. No rules were extracted from this Spanish-language video, so this page carries the concept and the shape of the source rather than a mechanical breakdown.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

Why is the London open used as the anchor for this kind of order block entry?

London opens after the Asian session has already built a defined range, so that range's high and low — together with the previous day's extremes — sit on the chart as obvious resting liquidity. Session-based approaches read the first push through those levels as a sweep rather than as a trend, and look for the reversal afterwards.

What does a liquidity sweep of the Asian session low mean?

It describes price trading below the low of the Asian range, taking out the stop orders resting there, and then failing to continue lower. In SMC terms that move is interpreted as manipulation — a source of orders — instead of as a directional signal on its own.

In this sequence, what is the difference between the order block and the imbalance?

They do different jobs. The higher-timeframe order block marks the area of interest, narrowing where to look; the imbalance left by the move away from that area marks where the entry is taken. One locates, the other times.

Does a short clip like this contain a complete strategy?

Not on its own — this one walks through a single example and stops at the entry, with no pair, stop or target stated, so risk and exit are left to the viewer. Strategy Decoder catalogs video sources like this one so you can see what a video actually specifies before building on it.

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