📘 Crypto Trading – Small Guide( Read it if you are a beginner in trading )
💧 Liquidity
Liquidity = how easily you can buy/sell without big price moves.
🔹 High liquidity = smooth trades
🔹 Low liquidity = big slippage
📌 Liquidity zones = price levels with many stop-losses → prime targets for smart money.
📖 Order Book
The order book 📖 shows:
🟢 Bids (buy orders) below price
🔴 Asks (sell orders) above price
➡️ Use it to spot large buyers/sellers and key levels.
📈 Market Structure
Watch for:
🔼 Bullish: Higher highs & higher lows
🔽 Bearish: Lower highs & lower lows
🧠 It helps you align with the trend!
🧱 Order Blocks (SMC)
💡 Institutional zones!
🔸 Bullish OB = last down candle before pump
🔸 Bearish OB = last up candle before dump
👉 Smart traders wait for price to return to these zones.
⚡️ Fair Value Gaps (FVG)
FVG = imbalance = price moved too fast 📉📈
Market often revisits this zone to “fill the gap.”
🎯 Great for entries!
🎯 Stop Hunt / Liquidity Grab
Big players push price past S/R levels to trigger stop-losses 💥
Then price reverses.
📉 Retail gets trapped.
📊 This is a classic “liquidity sweep.”
🔥 Heatmaps
Visual tools showing where big orders sit.
👀 See buy/sell walls before the move happens!
Best tool: Bookmap 🔍
📊 Open Interest (OI)
📈 OI up = new money in
📉 OI down = closing trades
💡 Used to confirm trends or spot fakeouts in futures.
💸 Funding Rate
In perpetual futures:
✔️ Positive = longs pay shorts
❌ Negative = shorts pay longs
📢 Use it to detect market bias and overleverage.