It plays by itself. Pick a step to look closer.
The animation above plays the clean version. Real charts are messier — here's how to tell a real step from a fake one.
On the chart: draw the box from the Asia session's high to its low once London is roughly an hour out — not earlier. The range isn't final until Asia is basically done.
Invalidates it — if price is still printing new Asia highs or lows in the hour before London, the range hasn't set yet. Don't mark a level just to have one.
On the chart: the wick pokes below the Asia low and closes back inside the range, usually within the first 30–60 minutes of the session.
Invalidates it — a clean close well below the Asia low with continuation isn't a sweep, that's a breakout. Different trade, different plan — sit it out.
On the chart: after the sweep, price should push away with displacement — bigger-bodied candles, not a slow grind — leaving a real gap between three candles. That gap is where you wait.
Invalidates it — if price grinds back up without ever leaving a real FVG, there's no defined entry. That's a reason to skip the trade, not to guess one.
On the chart: target is the next real liquidity pool — the opposing session high, a prior high, or an equal-highs cluster — not an arbitrary round number.
Invalidates it — if the only nearby target is less than 2R away, the risk isn't worth taking regardless of how clean the setup looks.