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IFVG (inverse fair value gap)

An inverse fair value gap is a fair value gap that has been traded straight through instead of acting as support or resistance. The area then changes role: what was meant to hold price became one it broke through, and ICT methods then watch it in the opposite direction.

The formula

An FVG that price has traded through, whose role flips: a bullish gap once breached becomes a resistance area.

How to read it

The same role swap as broken support turning into resistance, applied to an imbalance.

The information is not in the gap, it is in the failure. An area meant to hold price that does not hold it says something about the balance of power, and that is what gets used, not the geometry of the hole.

The classic mistake

Calling the inversion too early. A wick poking through is not a break: you need a close on the other side, and the rule must be written beforehand, otherwise every area becomes an IFVG the moment you need one.

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