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Displacement & MSS: ICT for Futures Explained

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Displacement & MSS — The structure shift. Displacement is a powerful, one-directional candle that breaks the recent structure.

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Where this fits in the Confluence Method

This lesson lives in the Stack step of the Confluence Method, where you confirm price action and structure and a key level before a setup qualifies as a trade.

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0:00Welcome back. Displacement and the market structure shift — the trigger that turns bias into a trade. Displacement is a powerful, one-directional candle that breaks the recent structure. When price rips through a prior swing with intent, that's a market structure shift. It tells you order flow has changed. The displacement usually leaves a fair value gap behind, and you enter on the retrace into it.

0:30A displacement candle that breaks structure is your shift to trade. Next: killzones.