medium · Order Flow Analysis absorption-exhaustion-imbalance
A trapped buyer setup at $4530.00 fails to produce a reversal after 15 minutes. Instead, the footprint shows new stacked buying imbalances forming at $4528.50 and price drifting higher.
What is the professional response?
- Exit the short immediately; the new demand signals that the trapped buyers are being 'saved' and the high will likely be broken.
- Sell additional contracts at $4529.50 to further improve the average entry price ahead of the inevitable drop lower.
- Move the protective stop up to $4532.00 to avoid getting 'stop-hunted' out by the fresh stacked buying imbalances now forming.
- Hold the position until the original stop at $4530.25 is finally hit, since the trapped buyers *must* eventually be forced to liquidate.
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