Now if you throw in market session opens & ADR and discuss what each session players did, you may get a picture of what's happening.

Market Bias favoured Shorts.

This is what MS shows on Friday, similar move happend on Thursday also. Shows inter-connectivity between sessions.

The order block that you refer to was due to a breakout from consolidation, that was with momentum, so price will often return to retest that area. Simple test is to look at the same candle on lower TF's, should not look any different.

You can buy this device to spot gaps :

Your obsession with gaps is making you see them where there aren't any. IMO , I take them to be where a larger than normal single candle appears between normal size smaller candles, implying a huge imbalance in price has occurred. A gap meaning, ...

This is your system, you built it and understand it best. I use just one Ma for trend direction, but rely more on Market structure & key levels to guage who is in control.

You are waiting for the Red MA to hook upwards / downwards for a signal ? I think signal A, B & D would be profitable, How do you cope with the late signals, such as Candle C & Candle E when the swings are much smaller. Unless you only take Short ...

You could always open your own thread in trading journals forum, record all your trades & thoughts there, as @Spzd

Crude Oil Inventories, must be running low, time to invade somewhere. Happy Australia Day

Would it not be better trading breakout short from the congestion between 12.15 - 12.45 ?

I don't trade Dax, but I do have a chart in my watchlist. I would think Dax being a german index, you need to start @ 7am ( UK ). I have a sweep of stops above 15132 right up to LWO & PDH and that happened @ 8am UK Open. Then short every pullback / ...

Stopped dead on last weeks open @ 159.379 Huge FVG below.

They came to me :

I did see this indicator a while ago, but didn't realise you could edit the text & wingding symbols. Anyway thanks again, it will be useful addition to Drawing Toolbox

Is there a way to just place custom or predefined text only at any point on a chart, without drawing lines using the Drawing Toolbox indicator ?