BTC (last 2 days)Yesterday was a liquidation-style selloff: multiple oversized 5m candles and wicks, no clean pullbacks, and consecutive inefficiencies printed (stacked 5m/15m FVGs). Any “normal” retest logic got distorted by volatility spikes, so execution quality depended on waiting for acceptance/reclaim rather than trying to catch the first touch.
Today shifted into repair mode: price started building bases out of prior displacement (what looked like a 15m FVG effectively behaved like a higher-TF supply/base zone, then evolved into an actionable RBD/RDB structure). We got a push into the 5m FVG and a reaction, but the retest failed and price slipped back into the 1h RBD, invalidating the long continuation attempt. One partial TP was possible, but the runner got taken out on the reversal—classic “paid for information” trade: initial confirmation, then rejection/rotation back into the higher-TF base.
Key takeaway: in this volatility regime, treat FVGs as reaction areas, not guaranteed entries—confirmation (hold/reclaim + retest) matters more than precision. Execution priority was: reclaim/acceptance first, then entry; otherwise fade/short only after loss of base and failed reclaim.
