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Inversion Fair Value Gap (IFVG)
An FVG that price body-closed through flips polarity — old buy gaps become sell zones.
When a candle body closes completely through a fair value gap, the gap does not simply die — it inverts. A violated bullish FVG becomes bearish resistance, and a violated bearish FVG becomes bullish support.
The logic: a zone that should have held but was smashed through is evidence the other side has taken control, and the trapped orders inside it now fuel rejection from the opposite direction.
The tradeable event is the first retest after inversion, and it carries the most weight when the inverting candle was itself displacement and coincided with a market structure shift.
How to trade it
- Wait for price to return into the inverted gap from the new side and reject — enter with the new direction, not against it.
- Use CE (the gap midpoint) as the line in the sand: for a bearish IFVG, rejections should hold below it.
- Best signals combine the inversion with an MSS on the same or lower timeframe.
Pitfalls
- Confusing a wick poke through the gap with a true inversion — only a full body close flips the zone.
- Fading the inversion (trying to trade the original gap direction) after control has clearly changed hands.
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