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The SECRET To Trading News (MUST WATCH)🚨

12 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this tutorial, the speaker explains what happens in the market during major news releases such as CPI and FOMC. He describes how liquidity is stripped from the order book, leaving only a few limit orders and causing the bid‑ask spread to widen dramatically. When a trader uses a market order, the order is forced to fill at the next available price level, often far from the current candle, creating a sharp price spike and a candlestick that reverses direction. The speaker argues that these moves are not the result of "stop‑loss hunting" but rather the market’s need to fill limit orders ("hunting for limits") in a thin‑liquidity environment.

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This is exactly what happens in the market every single day during CPI, during FOMC. A lot of people doesn't know it, but this is exactly what's going on behind the scenes. They will delete this liquidity from the book and they will just leave it at the market. So there might be, sorry, one sell limit here and one sell limit here, super low, because no one is willing to be a market maker here, neither the firms or other traders or HFTs. Now, if you raise, if you want to buy market and you're going to be filled here, right? Spread is wide. The spread between bid and ask, best bid and best ask is wide. So if the candle was here, what will happen? Kaboom. And then I might sell. And where will I get filled? Over here, where there's at least one buy offer. So the candlestick at this point will completely reverse, leave a big spike above here and turn red. And ICT traders will say they hunted for stop losses. You know, it's not hunting for stop losses. It's hunting for limits because we need to get filled now. That's all there is.