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What is an Order Block?
An Order Block is the last opposite-colored candle before an impulse that breaks market structure, meaning it exceeds the last significant high or low. The idea: that is where large orders may have been placed before the move.
When price returns to this zone, a reaction is possible. It is a price hypothesis, not proof of institutional orders.
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What is a Fair Value Gap?
An FVG is a three-candle imbalance: the low of the third candle stays above the high of the first (or the opposite in a decline). Price crossed that area too fast for supply and demand to meet.
The market often comes back to partially fill these gaps, which makes them reaction or target zones.
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How GraphTrade detects them
Detection is deterministic and uses closed candles only: a zone never repaints while a candle is still forming. A zone is invalidated as soon as a close fully crosses it.
Zones are drawn in the background without changing the chart scale. Turn them on from the Indicators window, Smart Money group, or automatically when you open a Scanner signal.
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The Scanner and confluences
The Scanner on the Charts page goes through the assets in your Portfolio and flags those returning into a zone, with confluences such as an extreme RSI or a Bollinger Bands squeeze.
One click opens the asset's chart with the zones shown; when you go back to the Portfolio they are removed automatically unless you had turned them on yourself.
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Limits and good practice
Not every zone holds. The most relevant ones line up with the main trend, a level you drew or an Ichimoku cloud. A zone already tested several times loses strength.
To understand why an asset reacts, cross-check with the news and the AI Compass summary. Nothing on GraphTrade is investment advice.
◆ Step by step
Get started in 4 steps
- 01
Open a chart
Pick an asset and a timeframe (1h, 4h or 1D recommended).
- 02
Turn on the zones
In Indicators, Smart Money group, add Order Blocks and Fair Value Gaps.
- 03
Run the Scanner
From the Portfolio panel, open the Scanner to find assets near a zone.
- 04
Check the context
Look at the trend, the RSI and the news before any decision.
◆ FAQ
Your questions, clear answers.
01Do Order Blocks prove institutions are present?
No. They are price zones computed from candles; they do not show actual orders.
02Do the zones repaint?
No, only closed candles are used. A zone disappears when a close invalidates it.
03How do I remove the zones from the chart?
Turn them off in Indicators; when opened from the Scanner they disappear by themselves when you return to the Portfolio.
04What is the difference between OB and FVG?
An Order Block is a candle before a structure break; an FVG is a price gap left by a fast move.