Fair Value Gaps: The Blueprint Institutions Don’t Want You To Know

Fair Value Gaps (FVGs) have become one of the most powerful tools for traders who want to understand the true intentions of institutional order flow.

The technical desk at Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital teaches that FVGs are less about prediction and more about understanding how algorithmic order books rebalance themselves.

Where Fair Value Gaps Come From

An FVG represents an inefficiency—an area where price moved too fast for opposing traders to fill orders.

Why FVGs Matter

This creates natural magnets: price will typically revisit these imbalances to test, mitigate, or confirm order flow.

The FVG Trading Model Used by Elite Traders
Look for Strong Institutional Moves

Displacement confirms that institutional activity caused the imbalance.

2. Mark the Gap

Highlight the zone between the prior candle’s high and the next candle’s low (or vice versa).

3. Wait for the Retracement

The best entries occur when price revisits the FVG, taps into it, and shows signs of rejection or continuation.

Bias Before Execution

An FVG entry aligned with higher-timeframe direction is exponentially more effective.

Imbalances Work Both Ways

Marking both bullish and bearish gaps creates natural take-profit levels.

The Institutional Edge FVGs Provide

They reveal where institutional orders entered, where they left inefficiencies, and where price is likely to website return.

Combine FVG logic with market structure, liquidity pools, and volume confirmation, and you have one of the strongest frameworks available to retail traders today—one that aligns perfectly with the advanced methodologies taught inside Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital.

FVGs aren’t signals—they’re context.
And once you learn their language, the market starts to speak back.