Sesiones Operativas

Learn how the Asia, London, and New York trading sessions influence market behavior in Forex markets to identify accumulation, liquidity hunts, and retracements

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: ICT Kill Zones & Sessions

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: educational
  • Markets: Forex

Source video

Decoded from: ¿Conoces la teoría de las sesiones operativas? 👨‍💻 Te lo explico en 60 segundos 📚 Aprende de by Brandon Arcila — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to operational sessions
  • 0:09 - Asia session behavior (liquidity accumulation)
  • 0:23 - London session behavior (liquidity hunt/kill zone)
  • 0:44 - New York session behavior (retracement)

Strategy overview

Session theory divides the 24-hour trading day into the Asian, London and New York blocks and treats each one as having its own characteristic behaviour rather than being interchangeable hours on the same chart. What makes this entry distinctive is not a setup but a sequence: Brandon Arcila's 60-second Spanish-language explainer, "¿Conoces la teoría de las sesiones operativas?", spends its entire runtime assigning one role to each session and chaining them into a single narrative arc — accumulation during Asia, the liquidity hunt or "kill zone" in London, and retracement into New York.

Read that way, the video is a vocabulary card, not a trade plan. Its four markers are the content: an introduction, then one beat per session, each defined by what the previous one left behind. Asia builds the resting orders, London is framed as the move that reaches for them, and New York is framed as the reaction to that move. This is the timing layer that ICT-adjacent price-action traders lay underneath their setups — it tells you when to expect a certain kind of behaviour, not what to click. A short-form format like this one is built to install that vocabulary quickly, which is a different job from teaching an executable method.

The empty timeframe and indicator fields on this entry are consistent with that: the session clock *is* the framework, so there is no calculation to configure and no resolution the idea belongs to. The practical caveats sit in the same place — session boundaries depend on your chart's timezone and shift twice a year with daylight saving, and which session actually carries meaningful volume depends on the instrument you trade, since currency pairs, index futures and crypto do not share the same daily rhythm. This entry catalogs the concept and its source; it does not carry an extracted rule set, so entries, exits, invalidation and risk are left to the trader to define.

Topics

price action · forex strategy · trading sessions · london session · new york session · asia session · liquidity hunt · market retracement · trading theory · beginner trading · forex trading strategy · tradingview strategy · pine script

Frequently asked questions

What is the theory of trading sessions?

It is the idea that the trading day should be read in blocks — Asia, London and New York — because each session has a different mix of participants, liquidity and volatility, so the same price behaviour can mean different things depending on when it happens.

What role does each session play in this video's framing?

The source video walks through them in order: Asia as a period of liquidity accumulation, London as the session where that liquidity gets hunted (the so-called kill zone), and New York as the retracement that follows. Each session is defined by what the previous one built up.

Do session times stay the same all year?

No. Session boundaries depend on the timezone your charts are set to and shift with daylight saving changes in Europe and the United States, so the clock hours drift a few times a year. Which session carries real volume also depends on the instrument — FX, index futures and crypto do not share the same daily rhythm.

Does this entry include entry and exit rules?

No — this one covers the session concept and the source video that explains it, without an extracted rule set for entries, exits or risk. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies from video sources and extracts their structure where the source defines one; here the source is a conceptual explainer, so the timing framework is the takeaway.

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