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The institutional intraday strategy playbook
3 free intraday strategies built around liquidity, volume and order flow — with logic, setup rules, entry, stop and target. 7 more are inside the journzey.ai University for members.
Educational content only — not financial advice. These strategies describe how some traders approach the market. No strategy wins every time and none guarantees a profit; target R:R values are planning targets, not expected results. Trading leveraged products such as CFDs and futures carries a high risk of losing money. Test any idea in a demo account and size every position to your own risk limits.
Strategy 1: London Session Asian High/Low Liquidity Raid
Trade the London open sweep of the Asian session high or low, then enter on the Fair Value Gap left by the market structure shift.
- Assets
- EURUSD, XAUUSD
- Session
- London Open (07:30 UTC)
- Timeframe
- 15M / 1M
- Target R:R
- 1:3.0
Strategy 2: Volume Profile Point of Control (POC) Rejection
Fade a low-volume retest of the previous session’s Point of Control when order flow shows absorption, targeting the opposite Value Area boundary.
- Assets
- XAUUSD, NAS100
- Session
- London / New York
- Timeframe
- 30M / 5M
- Target R:R
- 1:2.5
Strategy 3: Session VWAP Institutional Mean Reversion
When price stretches beyond the 2.5–3.0 standard deviation VWAP bands in quieter hours, wait for exhaustion and a close back inside 2.0 SD, then target VWAP.
- Assets
- NAS100, BTCUSD
- Session
- Mid-Day NY / Asian
- Timeframe
- 15M / 5M
- Target R:R
- 1:2.0
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At a glance
Strategy summary matrix
Primary assets, ideal session, setup timeframe and planned risk-to-reward.
| # | Strategy | Primary assets | Ideal session | Setup timeframe | Target R:R |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asian High/Low Raid | EURUSD, XAUUSD | London Open (07:30 UTC) | 15M / 1M | 1:3.0 |
| 2 | Volume Profile POC | XAUUSD, NAS100 | London / New York | 30M / 5M | 1:2.5 |
| 3 | VWAP Mean Reversion | NAS100, BTCUSD | Mid-Day NY / Asian | 15M / 5M | 1:2.0 |
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Session times are shown as written in the playbook. London and New York opening times in UTC move by one hour when daylight saving time starts or ends — the journzey.ai terminal’s session clock handles this automatically.
Glossary
Key terms used in the playbook
- Liquidity (buy-side / sell-side)
- Clusters of resting stop and limit orders above highs (buy-side) and below lows (sell-side). A “sweep” or “raid” is a quick move through one of these levels.
- Market Structure Shift (MSS) / Break of Structure (BOS)
- A BOS continues the trend by breaking the last swing in its direction. An MSS breaks the last swing against the trend — an early sign the direction may be changing.
- Displacement
- A fast, large-bodied candle or series of candles that moves price decisively, usually leaving an imbalance behind.
- Fair Value Gap (FVG)
- A three-candle imbalance: the wicks of candles one and three do not overlap, leaving a gap that price often revisits. Its 50% level is called Consequent Encroachment.
- Order Block (OB) / Breaker Block
- An Order Block is the last opposing candle before a strong move. When price later breaks straight through it, the failed block is called a Breaker Block and often flips role.
- Volume Profile: POC, VAH, VAL
- Volume traded at each price. The Point of Control (POC) is the busiest price; the Value Area High and Low bound the range where roughly 70% of volume traded.
- VWAP and standard deviation bands
- The Volume-Weighted Average Price for the session, with bands at multiples of the standard deviation to show how stretched price is from its average.
- Delta, CVD and footprint charts
- Delta is aggressive buying minus aggressive selling. Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) adds it up over time; footprint charts show it inside every candle.
- ATR and RVOL
- Average True Range measures typical candle range, used to size stops. Relative Volume compares current volume with the average for that time of day.
- R:R (risk-to-reward)
- Potential reward divided by the amount risked. 1:3 means the target is three times the distance to the stop.