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Oct 26, 2026 6 min read

Supply and Demand Trading: How Zones Form, How to Grade Them and How to Trade the Return

Supply and demand trading marks the price areas where an imbalance of orders launched a strong move and trades the return to them, on the premise that unfilled orders remain. This guide covers how zones form (the four base patterns), how to draw them, the five tests that grade a zone's quality, the difference between a fresh zone and a used one, the confirmation to wait for on the return, and how supply and demand relates to order blocks, the modern name for the same idea.

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Oct 19 5 min read

How to Identify Support and Resistance Zones on Forex Charts

Support and resistance in forex are zones, not lines, and most of the ones traders draw are not worth drawing. This guide gives the rules that separate a zone that will react from a level that merely looks tidy: how it was formed, how often it has been tested, what it coincides with, and whether the liquidity behind it has already been taken. It covers role reversal, the sweep that fakes a break, and how to turn a zone into a stop and a target.

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