Order Blocks - A-Z Guide Episode 1

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EPISODE 1.

1. Listen, watch, and learn. Focus on this and let the questions come into your mind. They will get answered during the next episodes.

2. The premium array is simply a pattern of high prices; it's an expensive price level, and the discount array is a pattern of low prices; it's a cheap price level.

3. Order Blocks are arrays; they can be in premium or discount.

4. Intrinsically, Order Blocks can contain orders from big players.

5. For a bullish Order Block, we want a down candle, a bearish candle. It has to come from some kind of support. For a bearish Order Block, we want an up candle, a bullish candle. It has to come from some kind of resistance.

6. You can have more consecutive candles. Together they make one Order Block.

7. An Order Block is confirmed when its high or low is broken.

8. When the price returns to a valid Order Block, it should respect the mean threshold of the Order Block. It means that the price shouldn't close below the mean threshold of the Order Block.

9. The mean threshold is simply 50% of the Order Block considering only the bodies' length, NOT THE WICKS.

10. Consider the wick as an important level ONLY if it overlaps with a Fair Value Gap. Otherwise, consider the top of the Order Block in the case of a bullish Order Block or consider the bottom of the bearish Order Block.

WHOLE IDEA WITH A BULLISH CASE:

We are at an important support level -> Bearish candle forms. Big players bought sell orders -> Bearish candle high gets broken -> Price moves up (better with a Fair Value Gap) -> Price returns to the Order Block and respects its wick if overlapping with FVG or the mean threshold if there is no overlap.

Personal notes from experience:

studying this just on paper without forward testing or live testing will just make you a good analyst. Learn Order Blocks anatomy once for all without confusion. While trading you can't be confused if you want the wick as your point of interest or the body. I promise that the bullish case scenario I shared with you happens everyday, every session and every hour. Learn to find without hesitation what you are searching for without getting confused with other 48 things you can see on the chart.


See you in the next episode!

[JK-jfje]

Okay, I gotta give it to you... what I couldn't get listening to ICT about order blocks for hours I got it listening to you in 10 minutes. Awesome job, and thank you for putting out this content!

[court]

man whenever i need explanation i just come to your channel, you do a great job !

[DMartin]

I have been watching this video over and over again for 3 days and I still cannot understand it.

[spainops]

Great explanation of order blocks - I also like the fact that you mention and demonstrate that they don't always work!

[OneWithIPDAlgo]

Appreciate it! this is a video series I can watch with my kids who have expressed interest in trading. appreciate it.

[abhikul]

Not clear as to why you've chosen some combinations of candles as an OB and some valid combination below as not. Sometimes you've chosen some single candle as an OB, sometimes some combinations of candles. Your archive is also inaccessible as it says you're not allowed to use it. I think you have simply complicated the simple concept of demand and supply zones by using complicated terms and big words. Having gone through 100s of courses in life, I now think we always ignore simplicity in our quest to appear important. We always think the more complicated the stuff, the better it is. And then we satisfy ourselves saying hey I haven't been successful as there is some gold in some cave I haven't explored. What we forget many times are the simple things we have before us. But we say to ourselves if life were so simple, everyone would be successful. Let's try to make it as complicated as possible. Let's see if I delete this comment after seeing the subsequent videos.

P.S. I think you'll explain the concept of fair value gap after I am dead. Congratz.

[LaoiseAnne]

amazing. You are a really good teacher! Appreciate the time and effort you are taking to help us understand ICT. BE BLESSED!

[mohammedrizaadrafideen]

How to know the bullish order block comes from a support and bearish order block comes from resistance. Could you please elaborate?

[etondabeat]

The best teachers be the ones that keep it simple

[karmicpretizas]

I advise you add a pop filter on your mic - also you seem to be using a desk mike and we can hear anytime your bump your desk - post prod your video with a high pass filter to filter out rumble and bumps on your desktop

[ikechukwuonyema]

Thanks you so much @Arjo for taking time to make this awesome educative videos. This Order Block video really filled a lot of gaps in terms of understanding Order Block. I really appreciate it. Once again, thank you and remain blessed in good health always. Amen.🙏💙

[xVuraZZ]

You shed light on certain things that I missed in ICT's teaching. Cheers mate

(Please use a darker color for your lines and candles, can't see the wicks etc)

[garytomasek]

You are going a little bit too fast for everyone I'm still trying to figure out what the order block is you're just going way too fast

[sulutz]

I have a question how come in 10:40 you did not take the body of the candle, i can see the wick is overlaping with the FVG and you considered the bullish candle wick a return. But in your statement in 6:25 you gave an example if a wick touches the OB wick you will take the body.

[IAKPDT]

All your videos are awesome, its so much clearer than having ICT explaining it. One thing I wish u did though is to use green and red candles and a more prominent colour for line drawing.

[robertwilsontsodor]

Great video. Please can you improve the appearance of your charts? I hardly say the lines you were drawing. Thanks

[insertbrain]

Thank you for this series. Was really clear on your explanations.🔥

[SurajKumarMathur]

Thanks a ton for this series brother love you and i am learning alot from these videos💖..

[Hotepsekhemwe]

I'm not understanding what you're calling support and resistance. It seems that what you're doing is completely different from what I've learned about support and resistance. At 5:15, are you calling a fair value gap a support??