Nasdaq price delivery 1/12/25- Trading manipulation on NFP week monday:

Here is the delivery of the nasdaq on December 1 2025.This is nonfarm payroll week. And next week we will have the FOMC meeting where the fed is expected to cut rates. The higher time frame is bullish. We have the 5 minute chart annotated. We have the New week opening gap(NWOG) shaded in blue.

The price opened higher moved up and rapidly sold off through out the asian session. We also have each of the sessions marked as asian, london, New York Premarket and New york AM session. In algorithmic trading we are looking at liquidity for our trades. One such liquidity is sessional liquidity. These are liquidity above and below each of the session. We also know that sudden rapid movement in price in the opposite direction to higher time frame orderflow should be considered as possible manipulation.

So when price was manipulated down in the asian session, the london session traded in a narrow consolidation within the range of the asian session. As soon as the New York session opened. We were looking for the raid of london/ asian lows. As you can see in the NY premarket session, the london session lows were raided and price started to move up. We entered long as soon as this happened.

Now when the NY Am session opened there is a possibility of price going below the asian session to take out the people who are already long. We should be aware of this possibility as well. Put price was too strong and price only touches the NY premarket session lows and price immediately rallies. Our first target was the London session highs. That is wheere the liquidity resides. We took some profits here. But because the higher time frame trend is bullish, we kept our longs and price slowly drift higher and goes into the NWOG.

Now we can use divergence among the indices as an additional confirmation on these trade. we will illustrate that here.

The one at the top is the DOw Jones, The one at the bottom is Nasdaq. While Dow Jones sold off Nasdaq although pulled back a little bit but did not make a lower low. This is the divergence and it gives us additional confirmation of manipulation..

USING SESSIONAL LIQUIDITY TO ENTER TRADES- 2/12/2025

Price action on 02/12/2025. The higher timeframe was bullish. And price took out the asian session low and then immediately moved up. we entered on the trade and we closed out the trade as the asian highs were taken. If you draw the session ranges and see how the liquidity is taken, and look at the charts through the eyes of manipulation then your trading goes to the next level

Disclaimer: All analysis done in good faith and for educational purposes only and not investment advice.