Stop runs, absorptions, and exhaustions look identical on charts but signal different market moves ahead. Absorptions often have more directional potential than stop runs, while exhaustions fall between them. Learning to spot the difference sharpens your trade selection and win rate.
If it's a stop run, right, a real stop run that I'm going to show you now how it works, or an absorption or an exhaustion, the pattern can be exactly the same one, but the reason why it happens, it's completely different. And the directional potential is completely different because a stop run, a real stop run doesn't have this potential. An absorption probably does. An exhaustion probably somewhere in the middle. So understanding the nuances will help you even as an ICT traders to get rid of the myths, to maybe stay with the structure you started with, but with adding that extra layer of precision, of win rate, of risk to reward that will improve your edge. All we have our edge. Just having a 5% win rate more, just being able to see that you can not evaluate that setup because you don't see the absorption, which is one of the main strategies I use, by the way, it's going to be a game changer for you, I promise.
