Core Concepts
Following Mitigations
The chain of take-liquidity-mitigate-to-the-left that reveals where institutional orders are concentrated and where price needs to go next
Following mitigations is the practice of tracking price as it takes liquidity and then mitigates unmitigated zones to the left. This chain — take liquidity, mitigate left, take liquidity again, mitigate further left — repeats on every timeframe and reveals where institutional orders are concentrated. Each step brings price closer to the real institutional level. Failed mitigations (zones that bounce but don't break structure) signal that the real level is deeper. Successful mitigations that break structure confirm the zone is defending.
✓How to Recognize
- •After a liquidity sweep, look left for the nearest unmitigated zone — that is where price is heading next
- •The chain repeats: take liquidity → mitigate to the left → take liquidity again → mitigate further left
- •A failed mitigation (zone bounces but no structure break) means the real institutional level is deeper
- •Use the 1-minute mitigation chain within a 15-minute zone to confirm whether the HTF zone is holding
⚡How to Avoid
- →Ignoring the chain and entering at the first zone edge without watching for the deeper mitigation
- →Treating every small bounce as a confirmed mitigation — it must break structure to count as successful
- →Expecting the first mitigation in the chain to always be the final one — follow the chain to completion
- →Missing the connection between the liquidity sweep and the subsequent mitigation — they are one event