Most traders see a fair value gap fail and call the setup dead. Traded right, that failure is the signal. Price taps a gap, respects it, then closes back through it. Same zone, opposite job. That flip is the IFVG, and it's a full model on its own.
Start with the draw 01
Same foundation as everything we run. Where does price want to go? Mark the draw on liquidity top down, monthly to weekly to daily. Read bias from the closes, above or below the previous high or low on the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly. No DOL, no trade. This model needs a clear target or it doesn't exist.
A sweep with force 02
The setup opens with a liquidity sweep, and the sweep has to come with strong displacement. A slow drift into a level is not it. You want price to run a high or a low and move away with intent. Weak sweeps get faded. Strong ones leave a footprint.
Delivery from a gap 03
When it's there, delivery is one of the strongest confluences on the board. Price delivers into a fair value gap that already sits on the chart, a BISI below for a long or a SIBI above for a short, and respects it. Respect means a wick tap only, no candle closing inside it, judged on that gap's own timeframe. A 15 minute gap means no 15 minute body closes in it. Only the wick. You won't always have it, and that's fine. It grades the setup up when it shows.
A wick into the gap is noise. The close back through is the trade.
The inversion 04
Price rejects that respected gap and reverses. The reversal leaves a fresh gap behind, and when price closes back through it, that gap inverts. Support becomes resistance, resistance becomes support. One clean candle gives you a single gap to work. Two to four candles, you combine them into one zone and wait for the whole zone to invert. Your entry is the close of the candle that inverses the gap.
Risk and target 05
Risk sits at the IFVG. Below it for a long, above it for a short, or behind a protected swing when there's one. Your target is a clear draw from the list: data highs and lows, equal highs and lows, session highs and lows, the previous day, week, or month high and low. Stacked draws are better. Once structure gives you a spot, an FVG, a swing, an order block, move to breakeven and let the rest run.
Grade the stack 06
Six confluences make this setup: the sweep, delivery, the inversion, a clear draw, SMT, and CISD. The draw and the inversion are always there, the draw is your target and the inversion is your entry. The other four grade the trade. Six of six is A+, five is A, four is A-. Three or fewer, you pass. It runs on any timeframe from monthly down to 15 seconds, so look for delivery out of a higher timeframe gap, then drop down for the inversion and the entry. SMT runs NQ against ES or YM.
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