Understand Asia Session & Conquer London SetupsAsia is the “setup session.” Price often builds a tight box, prints equal highs and lows, and leaves obvious resting liquidity. London loves to raid that liquidity because it’s easy fuel. But before we go to the concept of how to trade it's also good to know why it is created. We already know that FX markets are controlled by CLS Market maker. Do we know it 100% ? No, but they trade almost 7 Trillion daily volume which is almost entire daily FX volume. This company is aggregator the many other bigger ones, they are collecting the orders during the the Asia and processes continuous settlement, during the next day the liquidity is found on the markets. (Im not promoting or something like that, this is institutional player which 99.9% of use here will not have access) Thats where they destroy most less informed traders, not purposely but their work is so effective that small % of traders succeed in this game.
🧩 Simplicity of the concept
You don't trade in the Asia session, Let Asia build the trap , Let price raid one side. Wait for proof it’s done raiding Enter on the retrace, not in the raid and trade contininuation during the London. In the scalping version . You can trader just one side of Asia range to the other side. This requires precisions on lower timeframes. Im planning to explain this later in the next post. For now let's do continuation setups during the London Session.
📌 Asian Session
Low volatility & accumulation phase — the market usually consolidates inside a tight range after the previous New York close. If the Asia session is trending, London will be continuation setup.
📌 London Session
The highest-probability setups often occur during this session.
If Asia was tight range, London usually manipulates the Asian range sweeping stops above or below then reverses and starts the true daily move. London will be Reversal setup. Often sets the daily high or low of the day
❌ Don't overthink it you need to understand HTF Bias
I you dont have HTF Bias your win ration will decrease, you will be frustrated and than you will typically jump to another strategy, like you did it already many times.
⁉️ Always start with question - Where is the liquidity
Always follow the Daily / Weekly candle close. Yes Daily and Weekly !! Even when you are trading intraday. You intraday trades must be within HTF flow. IT means you will not have a trade every day if you want hight win rate. You must be patient.
📈 Continuation
If todays daily candle closed above previous days high and its still not reaching the key level, then liquidity is above todays high. Why ? Because people have intentions to sell highs to early, so and price will most likely go there. So we are bullish. Bullish Close 📈 Reversal
If todays candle wicked above previous day high, but closed below , then we can expect liquidity is below Previous days low. Why? Because mostl likely traders entered fake high break out they put SL below days low. It's signs of reversal. Yes that simple it is. For more details scroll down and find my posts about Daily Bias.
🧩 4 X Potential Frameworks
If you drill what I will show you bellow you will see it on the charts happening at least 2 times a week. If you apply this to the 3 pairs. You got 6 high probability setups . Add patience and risk management = You will conquer the forex trading
🧪 London Continuation Bearish setup
•Narrative: Asia did the manipulation → London does the continuation.
• Asia session already made a manipulation into a key level
• Price displaced away from that level
• CIOD / OB on M15 or H1 before London open • H1: Asia runs above the stops above H1 high into a key level
• It gets rejected and followed by order block and displacement
• At London open, price retraces into M15 premium key level and continues in the same direction
❌Invalidation: the manipulation high/low from Asia session
🧪 London Continuation Bullish setup
• Narrative: Asia did the manipulation → London does the continuation.
• Asia session already made a manipulation into a key level
• Price displaced away from that level
• CIOD / OB on M15 or H1 before London open • H1: Asia runs bellow the stops above H1 high into a key level
• It gets rejected and followed by order block and displacement
• At London open, price retraces into M15 discount key level and continues in the same direction
❌Invalidation: the manipulation high/low from Asia session
🧪 London Reversal Bearish setup
• Narrative: London performs the manipulation → price reverses.
• Asia session consolidates near a higher timeframe key level
• London open initiates the manipulation into the key level
• Price reject at the key level and created M15 order block • H1: Asia consolidates Bellow Key Level
• London opens, price runs Asia high into that Key Level
• M15 breaks down → Change in order flow → clean short setup
• Target: higher timeframe draw on liquidity (e.g., previous day low)
❌Invalidation: the London session high (manipulation point)
🧪 London Reversal Bullish setup
• Narrative: London performs the manipulation → price reverses.
• Asia session consolidates near a higher timeframe key level
• London open initiates the manipulation into the key level
• Price reject at the key level and created M15 order block • H1: Asia consolidates above the Key Level
• London opens, price runs Asia high into that Key Level
• M15 breaks up → Change in order flow → clean short setup
• Target: higher timeframe draw on liquidity (e.g., previous day low)
❌Invalidation: the London session low (manipulation point)
‼️ In trading, you make most money by making precisely best decisions and controlling your risk. Hence understanding the different probabilistic scenarios we can start focusing on quality over quantity by avoiding lower probability conditions. The aim is to improve our decision making process by knowing when it's better to trade and when not.
❌ Low Probability London Session Conditions
• After a series of 3 consecutive bullish daily candles - Avoid Longs.
• After a series of 3 consecutive bearish daily candles - Avoid Shorts.
• After FOMC event that produces an extreme range.
• Ahead of NFP and CPI data release
• Multiple high and medium impact news events.
• The Asian Range is has been trending and is larger than 40 pips.
• If the Asian Range is not visually consolidating.
• Absence of a candle range
✅ High Probability London Session Conditions
• The market has recently reacted off of Daily /H4 key level
• The Asian Range is visually a consolidating and smaller than 40 pips.
• Presence of a clean visual candle range
• Presence of a higher timeframe key level.
• Clean higher timeframe draw on liquidity.
✅ High Probability Intraday Setups
The highest importance is placed on the H TF Daily or 4h direction:
• Clean orderflow.
• Clean higher timeframe draw on liquidity and directional bias.
• Strong price based narrative.
• Strong time based narrative.
• 4h candle range
• 4h Key level.
• Key time
❌ Common mistakes (quick and painful)
Trading every day, even when Asia is messy and wide
Entering during the sweep instead of after displacement
Stop too tight inside noise instead of beyond the actual swept point
Ignoring higher timeframe bias and wondering why London runs you over
Not journaling screenshots of the sweep + confirmation + entry (then you “feel” like it works, but you don’t know)
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📊 Sharpen your trading Strategy
⚙️ 100% Mechanical System - Complete Strategy
🔁 Daily Bias – Continuation
🔄 Daily Bias – Reversal
🧱 Key Level – Order Block
📉 How to Buy Lows and Sell Highs
🎯 Dealing Range – Enter on pullbacks
💧 Liquidity – Basics to understand
🕒 Timeframe Alignments
🚫 Market Narratives – Avoid traps
🐢 Turtle Soup Master – High reward method
🧘 How to stop overcomplicating trading
🕰️ Day Trading Cheat Code – Sessions
🇬🇧 London Session Trading
🔍 SMT Divergence – Secret Smart Money signal
📐 Standard Deviations – Predict future targets
🎣 Stop Hunt Trading
🧠 Level Up your Mindset
🛕 Monk Mode – Transition from 9–5 to full-time trading
⚠️ Trading Enemies – Habits that destroy success
🔄 Trader’s Routine – Build discipline daily
💪 Get Funded - $20 000 Monthly Plan
🧪 Winning Trading Plan
🛡️ Risk Management
🏦 Risk Management for Prop Trading
📏 Risk in % or Fixed Position Size
🔐 Risk Per Trade – Keep consistency
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