Your Mistakes With Absorption

Absorption is one of the most misread signals in order flow, not because it is wrong, but because most traders enter on the print itself instead of waiting for it to actually be confirmed. This is the written companion to a video built entirely around that gap: four specific, repeatable mistakes, each demonstrated on the chart, each with the confirmation that fixes it.

The document covers the 3 tick reward system rule and how to read it on time and sales, speed of tape or CVD, why the same absorption signature is a coin flip at POC and a real signal at a genuine extreme, why current day VAH and VAL lag price rather than acting as fixed levels, the sponge definition of absorption with the effort versus reward test underneath it, and why a Delta spike is the fastest confirmation there is, read at both VAH and VAL. A printable checklist closes it out, one group of checks per mistake.