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
An FVG represents an inefficiency—an area where price moved too fast for opposing traders to fill orders.
Why FVGs Matter
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
Displacement confirms that institutional activity caused the imbalance.
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
The best entries occur when price revisits the FVG, taps into it, and shows signs of rejection or continuation.
4. Align With Market Structure
An FVG entry aligned with higher-timeframe direction is exponentially more effective.
Imbalances Work Both Ways
Marking both bullish here and bearish gaps creates natural take-profit levels.
The Institutional Edge FVGs Provide
They reveal where institutional orders entered, where they left inefficiencies, and where price is likely to return.
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 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.