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2025/07/06

 

🧠 NASDAQ 100 (NQ) Weekly Outlook – July 8–12, 2025

📍Liquidity Sweep Before Expansion?

After the rejection near 23,100, NQ appears to be entering a rebalancing phase, with potential downside liquidity grabs before any continuation to the upside.


📊 Key Technical Levels:

  • 🔸 High: 23,102.50 → Major buy-side liquidity zone.

  • 🔸 Equal Lows: 22,675 – 22,725 → Potential draw on liquidity.

  • 🔸 0.75–1.00 retracement zone (from the recent bullish leg) overlaps with a clear demand area.

  • 🔸 Multiple open Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) remain above and below current price.


📈 Primary Scenario:

Bullish bias, after a potential liquidity sweep below the Equal Lows.

🔻 A downside sweep into the 22,675–22,725 zone would open up opportunities to go long on bullish confirmation, targeting:

  • 22,975 (FVG fill)

  • 23,050 (intermediate resistance)

  • 23,102+ (liquidity above previous high)


⚠️ Alternate Scenario:

If the market fails to sweep the lows and begins pushing higher early in the week, I’ll look for breakout-retest setups above 22,975 to participate in continuation plays.


🎯 Weekly Game Plan:

  • Plan A: Wait for a liquidity sweep below the equal lows, then look for a bullish reaction and structure shift to go long.

  • Plan B: In the absence of a sweep, only consider longs above 22,975 after confirmation of strength.


📌 This outlook is based on price action, market structure, liquidity zones, and FVG analysis. Not financial advice.

2025/05/04

EUR/USD 15m Pre-Session Analysis | 2025 May 04

EUR/USD Weekly Chart – 2025 May, 04

This 15m TF pre-session analysis for EUR/USD provides key technical insights and trading setups based on market structure, supply and demand areas, liquidity zones, and fractal market shifts.

📈 Current Market Outlook

Contributions

  • 1. Market Structure------> Bearish Alligned with 4h TF

  • 2. Supply and Demand-----> 2 Supply Zones above. The second one is in Equilibrium

  • 3. Fibo Equilibrium or Premium-Discount Array ------> Discount Array

  • 4. Liquidity------> FLQR on BSLQ (The $ mark)

  • 5. Fractal Structure Shift or Change of Character------> A new Supply zone formed between FH and ChoCH

🔎 Key Observations

  • When Is The Market Ready To Sell ????

🎯 Strategy Overview

2 Points we need to understand when the market is ready to sell

       1. We need an area of liquidity, or a Supply/Demand Zone

       2. We need a CHoCh ---> Fractal Structure Shift

Both of them were on Friday's NY session, and the price actually hit the limit order. So, the position is only for a case study rather than a true limit order.

Disclaimer: This analysis is for educational purposes only. Trade at your own risk.

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2023/08/03

Reuters: Perth Mint's July gold, silver sales slump to lowest since 2020

Reuters
 
Perth Mint's July gold, silver sales slump to lowest since 2020
Aug 3, 202311:42 GMT+3
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Perth Mint's July gold product sales slumped to their lowest level since October 2020, while silver sales were at a more than three-year low, the refiner said on Thursday, citing a slowdown in demand as prices surged.