Professional traders have long relied on Fair Value Gaps to time entries with almost surgical precision—often before the rest of the market even realizes what’s happening.
In the framework used by Plazo Sullivan, FVGs are treated as evidence of institutional displacement—and therefore prime zones for high-probability entries.
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
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
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.
5. Use FVGs as Targets
Just as price gravitates back to FVGs for entries, it also moves toward FVGs when they act as future magnets.
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 here 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.