Ignore the wicks and look at the bodies, there a lot of liquidity below them

When we look at institutional orderflow, think like the market efficiency paradigm, where is the maximum amount of liquidity in relation to where the market has traded from and where they traded presently

For every downcandle there has to be an upcandle The market will seek liquidity

The bodies of the candles should respect the mean threshold of the body of the OB

The institutional volume is above and below the bodies of the candles, the wicks are retail So the bodies are the real low/high

The wicks are no significant barrier in terms of institutional orderflow, we just know theres some stops below the wicks

It doesnt have to go trough the wicks, all we need is it to ge below the bodies

The recipe for everything is the HTF liquidity

Everything is a hedge, theyre constantly buying and selling between range extremes

They have to take their long orders off here, thats why you see that unwinding, this is the basis of a market maker sell model

ICT also uses orderblocks like this

Mitigation block, thats where youll see explosive price action when we react off of that, theyre covering their shorts and buying more