Stop Drawing Liquidity Lines —Start Seeing Them (Heatmap Guide)

Añadido: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]If you're still using liquidity concepts like equal highs, equal lows, range liquidity, or trend line liquidity, and you believe you're trading real liquidity in the markets with those concepts, then you're completely wrong.

[00:00:15]You need to use a heat map, which is encountering level two data, and only with this tool you are going to be able to see real liquidity in the books. And in this video, guys, I will show you exactly how I can use it, and I will also show with you a trade recap on how I took a beautiful trade during the NFPs, a high-impact news event where most people are always drawing all of their liquidity levels hoping they're right and saying that this is gambling.

[00:00:44]Although, with these tools, you can actually really understand the scenarios that the market might provide to you.

[00:00:51]It's not going to be 100%, but your chances are automatically higher because you're going to encounter each information that is available out there.

[00:00:59]And with that being said, let's go, and welcome to this full breakdown on how to use a heat map, and specifically with the order flow platform DeepDom. Let's go, guys. Before I'm starting with this, guys, here is the link down below for DeepDom. You can save a couple of percentages. They just launched this beautiful tool, and I was able to test it the last couple of months, and I'm going to also give you a full review soon on this YouTube channel, so make sure to subscribe to see all the features that this heat map can bring to you. But for now, let's keep with the basics of liquidity and to fully understand how this works in the order flow space. All right. So, friends, liquidity is not just equal highs, equal lows, trend line liquidity, or range liquidity. Of course, there is liquidity above highs and lows, but liquidity is basically everywhere. And if you are trading blind, which means if you're not using tools like a heat map or an order flow platform like deep charts, then this is probably the best way to do it because you're going to assume something very logically, which makes a lot of sense. But, if you want to have more precision into this entire thing, then there is no other way than using a heat map. Many traders were super successful are using tools like that because otherwise they're just guessing where liquidity might be. And in trading you're always trading with incomplete information, right? So, why wouldn't you encounter more information to increase your chances of winning? And that's exactly what this is about. So, let me go over the basics of liquidity and let me show you where this idea might be correct, but also completely wrong to a degree. So, if we just use the very simple above highs and lows concept of liquidity and to understand what's in the retail mind and why they assume that this is that way, then we have to look at this example from this perspective. We see that the market is basically running above a high, all right? So, ICT traders and also by myself in the past, I've used it that way. So, I assumed that every single time when price pushed above a high that the market might break structure to the downside. Once this happens, I call this a sweep on liquidity, all right? So, in other words, you assume that some traders might took a sell because they believed that this movement here to the downside is going to be bearish because it tapped into some form of POI, some fair value gap, whatsoever, and they assume it's going to go down, so their stop losses must be above those highs. So, the next time when the price is running those highs and because they collected right now so many stop losses, the price now starts to move with an aggressive movement to the downside forming here a fair value gap and now you're just going to wait for price to fill that and to drop lower and this is your setup. It can make a lot of sense and you will see that this thing truly works out.

[00:04:11]If you want cherry pick it, of course.

[00:04:14]So, this type of information you will see very often work out, but only if you constantly look for it. And it's going to be very often exactly what the market moves down. At least you believe it is the reason because that's the only information you have to deal with. But how often have you seen this play not working out? So, in other words, how often have you seen that the market does this exact situation but then actually moves up higher. So, it truly broke your structure, it truly run liquidity, but it didn't work out.

[00:04:49]And that's exactly the problem because you assume where liquidity might be instead of verifying if this liquidity is even there. So, this is exactly the problem that you have you have with this concept and of course there is going to be liquidity.

[00:05:05]This is no no doubt here, right? Nobody's doubting that. But is this now something which is going to be statistically proven to work or not? That's the other question you need to answer for yourself. From my point of view, there might be some statistics behind this playbook can really exist, but I would not say that this is the most effective way that exists out there.

[00:05:28]If you would use this playbook in combination with a heat map, your chances would be 10 times more because now you can even validate it through numbers, which means you can actually see at which price level liquidity is there and how much of the quantity size.

[00:05:47]So, let me show you now how the liquidity basically works. So, if we just go over the basics of a heat map, right? A heat map just shows you right now here the simple price action.

[00:05:58]So, this this market movement that you see right here, which I mark up right now in red, so you can see it more better. You see some bubbles, right? You see here the the buyers, you see the sellers. And these bubbles are also bigger or smaller depending on the market participant, right? This is the first thing that this heat map is going to offer you. So, you will see exactly if there is a bigger fish trying to buy or not. And if this bigger fish is buying with a big bubble and the market is pushing towards that direction, that means that was an aggressive buyer who got rewarded for the action he took.

[00:06:33]Well, if it goes the other way around, we're going to call this absorption, which means they failed and the price is more than likely to reverse. So, it's a good reversal signal in this case.

[00:06:46]And then the other information you see is basically the heat map, right? Which is like the the extra vision you will have now and you will basically see at each level, right? If you go here to the right, you see the price level and you will see according to that exactly the amount of liquidity sitting over there. So, you see the more there is, the color will change. So, basically, the red one here is very red because you have here the number 21.

[00:07:22]So, basically, you have 21 contracts sitting to be executed in form of a buy limit because the price is currently here and this orders are below, they're going to be buy limits, right?

[00:07:41]So, they're waiting for the execution.

[00:07:44]Now, of course, if the price would now come into this, what can happen is that some seller will come and will eat up the position and is going to drop it down. But, typically what happens is that the price will go to the liquidity like the sweep on liquidity and you have to wait for the reaction, obviously. If you get the reaction, right, then you assume that the buyers have been successfully at this level.

[00:08:10]They bought the liquidity up and then the price goes up. The same thing valid for the levels at the top. So, that's why you have here, in reality, the sell limits. Now, of course, the playbook on how you're going to use this is very important because this is at the end just a tool. This is like using price action, right? Just because you see a bullish candle, you will not assume that the price will go up. Just because you see a supply zone, you will not assume that it's going to work. It might just be a trap supply zone, correct? So, the same thing is here. Can be everything. That's the beauty of trading at the end in in some some way. So, don't expect that this tool will right now change your life completely. You need to have an exact workflow on how you do it. And if you are interested in how I help other traders to establish a profitable systematically system with order flow, then check out the link down below and apply for the mentorship cuz I'm just selecting the people right now that I'm working with and I'm going to explain how I use the strategy and I teach them there day by day with weekly zoom calls, daily trade forecast, trade recaps, and many, many more. So, that's the basics of the heat map, all right?

[00:09:27]So, what you need to understand as well is a little bit the underlying mechanics of it.

[00:09:35]Because why this entire thing works how it works and also why you even have this data and why this is not a scam or something like that is because the nature of the market works a little bit like this.

[00:09:45]If someone is willing or let's say let's make it right here on this chart. If someone is basically buying the market, right? Right now, there needs to be a counterparty, which means someone needs to be there in the market who's selling that.

[00:10:01]If this doesn't exist at that price where where this guy wants to buy, it's going to move to the next price level where someone is willing to sell it to him. So basically, let's say let's make an example right now here.

[00:10:18]We're at this price, all right? So where I I cannot really see right in the screenshot so screenshot is a little a little bit bad, but I'm I write down the number for you. 4719, all right? Let's say you want to buy right now six contracts, all right?

[00:10:35]So you want to buy, you will be paired automatically to this price level which is above. You see 4720 where you see exactly there are six contracts, all right?

[00:10:47]Six contracts sell limit, right? That means you are buying, but you will not be executed right now at the current price. You will be executed at the price of 4720, which means you're going to like accept a more worse price and this difference is called slippage, right? This is the thing you're going to pay then to the market makers because the market wouldn't be that liquid if we wouldn't have the market makers. And the market makers, they're earning those spreads. That's like the deal that they have with the CME for instance, right?

[00:11:25]So they're providing the liquidity so everyone can get executed at the current price or a very high chance that it's going to be a similar to the price level where it is.

[00:11:37]For that, they will get in return the commissions of the spreads.

[00:11:43]Because otherwise, what could happen if the market makers would not exist or they would not do this type of business, maybe you will have then a cheese liquidity, which means you will have like a lot of holes in between and it can happen that if you want to buy just one contract, that you will not get filled at 47 20, you will be filled at 4725.

[00:12:04]So, you will have a very terrible execution and in order for you to to to make money, it's going to be even harder. And this is exactly the reality why institutions need to pay attention to this and that and that's the reason why institutions cannot execute all the time all of their positions. Although most people believe that this is how it works, institutions could just buy right now thousands of contracts, move the price to infinity and make a lot of money on it. The problem is just that if someone will now try to buy a thousand contract at the moment because this is what he wants to do, which is completely fine, right? Like institutions are buying so much, you cannot even imagine how much they're buying, but they're doing it first of all without the leverage and all of these things and you need to understand that if someone is buying, let's make a a more simple example. Let's say they want to buy a hundred of contracts right now at this price, right? Because that's what they need to do because they know, okay, fundamentally the market is going to go up, so I have right now, based on my risk management, I need to put in right now 100 contracts into the market. If he would just transact right now, that would not be efficient.

[00:13:15]A bank, hedge fund, all of these these things, they need to be efficient because each cent is or each dollar is going to like cost them so much money.

[00:13:25]So, for them, the execution is the most important thing.

[00:13:29]So, how do they execute the best way possible?

[00:13:32]Well, basically, when the market is ranging, right? So, a ranging market is going to give them the best execution.

[00:13:39]Because you need to think that in a situation in the in the market, you always have buyers and sellers both who want to buy and sell. All right? So, if you have this condition, then both are basically right now ready to to accept the current price value and are stacking their positions. Because if the price is the entire time bouncing back and up, they will have a good average price entry, right? Let's Let's just stay at this example. So, if the price is right now the entire time between 4721 and 4719, this is a good execution for them still.

[00:14:15]Instead of, let's say, it's going to be like this.

[00:14:18]That would not make so much sense for them.

[00:14:20]And that's exactly the reason why they don't put everything in one moment. So, basically, based on time, it's not that okay, it's the New York Stock Exchange open, I put all my money right now into the into the market, right? Although, when this exchange is opening, more money will flow in, and this is why you will have this this movement. But, typically, they are positioning themselves already before. Some of them need to position themselves, or like they're not able to do everything before. There are some rules in this game um that they need to follow, and that's exactly why you always have this volatility increase, and you will always see the volume is getting higher when you are in the New York Stock Exchange open and in general in the New York session compared to the previous sessions, you know?

[00:15:08]Because then more banks are going to like put in their their positions. So, what is right now the conclusion of this entire thing, and what is the theory about heat maps, and in general, how the market works? So, in order for them to put in all of this, right?

[00:15:23]They prefer an accumulation, in other words, a balanced market over an imbalanced market.

[00:15:30]And once they're filled with all of their position, they say, "Okay, now I want to see the market moving in my favor, obviously, you know?" And that's why they might enter then some more aggressive positions in order to maybe, because the price is pushing up higher, to attract more people thinking the same way, and then the market goes up. But there's no guarantee it's going to work out. But you have different interest levels from different market participants, and this is kind of the game of trading.

[00:15:58]So, you can now use any form of information as help, like for instance, the heat map to see where more liquidity might be, because the chance is high that the market will gravitate toward that price. Because market always moves where liquidity is. If someone is opening up right now a big buy limit order, like down below here, there's a high chance the market will go to it.

[00:16:20]So, here in this example, you even see it very beautiful, what big order is opened up at the very top. So, you see, 17. It's not the biggest right now, but this might change, right? So, you need to observe that. Maybe it's getting bigger. This is right now the biggest, but it looks like the market already dipped into it a little bit. And that's the next thing.

[00:16:40]The market does not catch all of it. It might go into it, and then someone is using this maybe as a bluff, which means they say, "Hey, here's the buy limit." And then it's going to vanish the moment it comes into it. You see how uh this entire thing just opened up the moment it was there.

[00:16:59]Before that, this liquidity did not even exist. I mean, here slightly, but then out of a sudden it happened, and maybe it's going to go lower, grab it, and then push higher.

[00:17:09]But it could also just go up higher right now without tapping into it. So, this is a a bit why it can get complex, specifically for beginners, and it will take time, of course, to educate yourself with this, but using this tool will give you so much advantages. All right? So, that's a little bit how this works. I hope I brought it to the point.

[00:17:30]So, the reason now why nobody is buying 100 contracts instantly is because you see it exactly here where the price would fill you. So, you're going to like need to calculate like this. You buy right now, so you will get filled for three contracts at this price, for six contracts at this price, so at 4,720, nine contracts you're going to get filled. Then, we continue this journey, you open up 100, right? So, you still have a little bit more to go, three contracts and four contracts, three contracts, four contracts at at the average price, which is there, and so on. So, at the moment, you need to calculate 100 contracts here.

[00:18:10]Of course, it's not going to be like this because the moment when you execute and you're getting filled, this happens in milliseconds. You will have other people also executing, and maybe someone else is also executing an aggressive order on the other way around. So, this is why you can still get filled below this one thing that you're going to calculate in this example, you know?

[00:18:31]But if you make now a more simpler example, let's say we use 20, right? So, 3 + 6 is 9, then 12, 16, 19.

[00:18:42]Uh what did I say? 20? Yeah. So, you're going to be filled somewhere here, you know?

[00:18:46]Uh but the average is going to be the sum of what you have, cuz that's why it works in the in the in the future. So, your entry will be exactly somewhere here in the middle of this entire thing.

[00:18:55]So, it's still a good entry, or could be a good entry, depending on your plan and idea that you have, or what you need to fulfill as an institution. So, this is a little bit how it works, and this is the reason why no institutions as well will open 1,000 contract will move price up higher because they will not make profit on this move up. They will get an average fill price and maybe because the movement happened, sellers will consider, "Okay, this is a very high price. I'm going to sell on it." and the market would just dump. So, he will have massive losses and need to close the position eventually.

[00:19:28]That's the idea of it. So, this is the logic can be like it's like a game now, all right? So, now now this entire game gets interesting if you see things like that.

[00:19:38]So, yeah, let me show you right now how liquidity moves, right? Let's just go over over some examples. Here I'm using DeepDom with the replay mode, which is by the way one of the nicest feature that DeepDom has. You can basically then code check this with uh DeepCharts.

[00:19:56]And I want to show you right now how I've seen the liquidity in the NFP session, all right? So, uh or the NFP news. Here you can clearly see how liquidity gets formed. Here you can see how this is changing. I I I speed it up. You see liquidity is all the time below the lows, right?

[00:20:13]You don't really have a lot above right now. You have always below, which signalizes a little bit the buying power, but now you see how it it comes to fill all of these ones, right? And maybe you get a reaction once it's filling those ones, you know? That's exactly the interesting part about it.

[00:20:27]Here you see how the liquidity is changing. Boom boom boom boom. It's it's also vanishing. So, what happened in this case right now? It dropped lower.

[00:20:34]It filled all of this and as a result it reacted higher and it pushed beautifully to the top. All right? Now again, filling those ones, pushing higher. So, you need to combine right now the effort and the result to understand where the market might go next. That's exactly the art of trading. So, try to have all your rules in place and use this as an additional tool for take profit or to spot reversals, which might be against your trading idea that you have. I wish you exactly how I did it because at the end I just follow very simple principle with the heat map. There's no secret to it, because at the end nothing is 100% guarantee or something like that. But the idea is just I want to see if the price grab some liquidity and if it uses that liquidity aggressively towards the next target. That's it. It's a very simple liquidity sweep concept I would even say that you can use. So now it's getting interesting because right now we're about to hit the NFP uh news in a in a couple of minutes. I want to show you right now also quick the results of my trade. So here I took it right now on a funded account on on MT5 in this case, but I also took it on deep charts on a futures account. So as you know, I I like to trade uh gold futures, gold forex, I don't care. Here you see my quick execution. Here I just have to fulfill a certain consistency rule uh or basically I don't want to make more profits. I have my own daily targets and everything. So this is basically the quick trade I took in this case. It doesn't look right now too crazy, but I had zero drawdown to it and it was straight TP uh when I closed exactly before I made any form of pullback. I knew there's a high chance it's going to go up higher, but the idea here was not to see that. I also had a very successful trade right before in the London session. So that's is exactly why I just wanted to take this one. So let me show you right now the exact framework. So for me, I already knew based on the price action where the price has been in the value area and everything that we've been here in a very interesting point to buy the market. And because of that, I just wanted to confirm that on the heat map as well. So on the heat map right now, let me show you before the news uh how it looks like. So it's basically like this.

[00:22:46]I want to show you now how it's moving and we're going to like see all the liquidity that is going to be available exactly the moment of the news. So we try to like not go too fast right now. We try to see exactly how it's opening up towards the news.

[00:23:02]1 to 2 minutes before it's it's always very interesting. Okay, so it's about to start. So, what do we see now?

[00:23:09]Let's analyze real liquidity in the books, guys. So, we have a lot of liquidity down below the price.

[00:23:16]So, you see currently it's moving a little bit lower, right? Which most people are think, "Oh my god, it's going to drop lower." But, where do we have the liquidity zones? We have a big liquidity zone right below here. You see it on the number 17, 15, even down below 12, right? So, if the price or he even down lower, you have a massive one, 4700.

[00:23:36]Although, when you have these massive ones, typically, these are like some more long-term targets uh and don't need to get filled. More interesting for me are always the the levels in between and I try to like be in a range based on the volume profile and so on. So, I'm not trying to go right now blindly to a big liquidity level. These ones are only possible once the price is really one-sided and in an imbalance and those levels could be then the potential pullback or reversal. For me, more interesting is going to be this liquidity here at the top, like the 4734, right? And more specifically right now for the opening, I'm not expecting it to drop straight to that. I'm expecting it to dip into this one. So, basically, your classic liquidity sweep with the lows, right? But, confirmed by data in this case. So, let's see what it truly does in this situation and if this truly happens, I'm going to speed it up a little bit cuz the news event is starting soon. I'm going to make it a little bit faster. Boom. That's the news event. You see how it dropped, caught that liquidity, and it's moving towards this liquidity. You see it's still available there, pushing higher. Boom.

[00:24:43]Grabbed it. Next liquidity up here available.

[00:24:47]Then you have here some buy limit liquidity, which can be used to go higher to these levels. So, you can see this in live action, which is so beautiful. This one at the top vanished.

[00:24:58]You see, it vanished. This is also something that can happen. You need to pay attention to it. So, this was like basically already uh based on like we can check it out on deep charts where where this moment was.

[00:25:10]So, 34, that was already here. So, it's exactly where I closed. Let me let let's have them open side by side so we can visualize these things even better and cleaner for our situation. So, that's why this is like in the deep chart equal system, which is beautiful, and you can like double-check everything.

[00:25:30]So, right here, you see this right beautifully at the top over here. And now, once it tapped into this liquidity, you see it's it's giving you this huge pullback, all right? So, if you play now, boom, that's exactly the pullback. Now, let's look Look at this liquidity. It's filling this one, right? So, it's ready for the continuation higher, right?

[00:25:54]Let's see.

[00:25:55]Here, still tapped into this one.

[00:25:58]Filled that.

[00:25:59]And now it can use this to to push higher.

[00:26:04]Boom. You see that? And now it can go towards this high, all right?

[00:26:09]It's all there. It It vanished, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, you know?

[00:26:13]Because this can be also every single time iceberg orders, all of these things, you know? That's That's how this entire game kind of like gets played to to degree. So, let's just speed that up a little bit faster.

[00:26:31]All right. So, you see all of this liquidity, sweep on liquidity, and boom, pushed all the way to the top of this one. And you see how at the same level now it's open again. Now it's just becoming buy limit orders, all right?

[00:26:45]Buy limit orders, they use this, sell limit at the top. You see that? So, all of these levels are always beautiful take profit level and potential reversal points. You see it already here.

[00:26:55]Right? What it happened then later on.

[00:26:57]So, you see that you cannot use all of the liquidity then to say, "Okay, it's going to like bring price even higher."

[00:27:03]This can be like a supply zone, you know? Liquidity, price taps into it and it drops below that.

[00:27:10]I think this is a beautiful visualization on how you can use this even as point of interest, right? But, I would always use a volume profile in addition to see, okay, is there really something? Is there something that that patient volume is an expensive or discounted price? And that's basically it, guys.

[00:27:28]Hope you enjoyed this tutorial about deep DOM and how I use it personally. I think it's very helpful.

[00:27:34]It's completely optional to my point of view, right? But, can give you huge benefits and you just need to know if you can use it. And of course, there are more tools to it. I will explain that in a full review soon on this channel. Let's go.