Intraweek Market Reversal Profile
Also: Intra-Week Reversal, Market Reversal Profile, Weekly Reversal Profile
A recurring weekly price delivery pattern in which the market forms one extreme of the weekly range (high or low) aggressively on Monday or Tuesday, covering an abnormally large distance in a short time, and then fully reverses to form the opposing weekly extreme by Wednesday or Thursday. The reversal is catalyzed when fast early-week price action drives price into a higher-timeframe PD array (often a daily bullish or bearish order block or mean threshold) that commands sufficient institutional sponsorship to turn the market. The profile is the result of overlapping opposing trading disciplines: the shorter-timeframe direction being overpowered by a higher-timeframe contrary PD array.
Identification6
- Monday and/or Tuesday shows aggressive, speedy price movement covering significantly more than the 5-day average daily range
- The weekly range is essentially formed in one trading day (Monday or Tuesday)
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- The fast move is targeting a higher-timeframe PD array (daily bullish/bearish order block, mean threshold, fair value gap)
- Market is unwilling to leave the larger premium or discount zone — price does not break out of the higher-timeframe context
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Entry4
- Wait for price to reach the higher-timeframe PD array that caused the reversal (daily order block, mean threshold)
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- Low-risk entry on Thursday after Wednesday reversal confirmation
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Stop2
- Below the reversal PD array (for longs entering at Wednesday/Thursday low)
- Above the reversal PD array (for shorts entering at Wednesday/Thursday high)
Target3
- Return to the previous price bounce/consolidation range from early in the week
- Potential to exceed that level and take out prior weekly liquidity
- Four-hour or daily opposing PD array in the direction of the reversal
Invalidation3
- Early-week move is within normal ADR range and does not show unusual speed
- No higher-timeframe PD array is present at the extension level
- Market continues in the direction of the early-week move through Thursday without reversing
Inferred Conditions (Unvalidated)
- Wednesday and Thursday reversals form every month regardless of pair
- The higher-timeframe discipline always wins the "arm-wrestling match" with a lower-timeframe view
- The reversal is not random — it is a response to institutional repricing at a critical valuation level
- Speed in price = institutions getting to a valuation point; fast moves are not a signal to expect continuation
- After the reversal, each order block in the new direction is capitalized with new institutional positions
ICT Quotes
"Think about it every time that the market quickly starts trading on Monday or Tuesday aggressively and speedily. That's usually a telltale sign, it's in a hurry to make a weekly range, or it's going to go to an institutional order flow reference point that could potentially cause it to reverse and go the other way."
"Speed in price is indicative of them getting to a valuation point. When price is in a hurry to get somewhere think about when central banks reprice, for instance, when they do interest rate announcements"
"Every market reversal that happens intra week will be a overlapping of two types of trading disciplines, they will be at odds with one another. here's the rub, the higher timeframe discipline will always win."
"Wednesday or Thursday reversals generally form every month. So no matter what pair you're looking at, there's generally some kind of reversal of sorts that can form."
Timeframes
Version History1 version
71-ICT Mentorship Core Content - Month 7 - Intraweek Market Reversals and Overlapping Models.srt
""This teaching is dealing with intra week reversals and overlapping models... The classic telltale signs are the magnitude at which the price moves on Monday and Tuesday.""
Initial formal mentorship definition
Notes
The intraweek reversal profile maps directly onto the Market Maker Buy/Sell Model framework. ICT identifies the structure as: consolidation zone early in week → aggressive departure Tuesday → smart money reversal Tuesday/Wednesday overlap → low-risk entry Thursday → continuation/re-accumulation Friday. The concept requires multi-discipline awareness to recognize before it happens; without swing and position trading context, the initial fast move appears to signal continuation rather than reversal.
Asymmetry Notes
Fully symmetrical — can be a weekly high formed Monday/Tuesday that reverses to a lower weekly low, or a weekly low formed Monday/Tuesday that reverses to a higher weekly high.