The Pro Trader’s Guide to Fair Value Gaps

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Fair Value Gaps represent one of the few repeatable patterns that consistently expose the imbalance driving institutional pricing.

The technical desk at Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital teaches that FVGs are less about prediction and more about understanding how algorithmic order books rebalance themselves.

The Science Behind Fair Value Gaps

This imbalance becomes a “gap” between the high of one candle and the low of the next, signaling that price must eventually return to rebalance.

The Institutional Logic Behind FVGs

This creates natural magnets: price will typically revisit these imbalances to test, mitigate, or confirm order flow.

The FVG Trading Model Used by Elite Traders
Look for Strong Institutional Moves

Before an FVG matters, there must be displacement—strong, directional movement marked by high volume or momentum.

2. Mark the Gap

Highlight the zone between the prior candle’s high and the next candle’s low (or vice versa).

3. Wait for the Retracement

Institutions use these pullbacks to reload positions at favorable pricing.

Bias Before Execution

Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital’s bias framework—weekly, daily, liquidity mapping—acts as the filter that upgrades an FVG from “possible” to “high-probability.”

Imbalances Work Both Ways

Marking both bullish and bearish gaps creates natural take-profit levels.

Why FVG Trading Works

Fair Value Gaps give traders a rare glimpse into algorithmic intent.

Combine FVG logic with market structure, liquidity pools, and volume confirmation, and you have one of the strongest frameworks available to retail traders today—one that aligns perfectly Joseph Plazo with the advanced methodologies taught inside Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital.

FVGs aren’t signals—they’re context.
And once you learn their language, the market starts to speak back.