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Balanced Price Range
Balanced Price Range is a Smart Money Concepts / ICT concept. The Library holds 3 implementations, each one a working definition you can pull into Quant.
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What is a Balanced Price Range?
A balanced price range (BPR) is the overlap of two opposing fair value gaps. Price displaces one way and leaves a gap; shortly after, it displaces back through the same area and leaves a gap in the opposite direction. The span where the bullish and bearish gaps overlap has now been delivered both up and down (bought and sold at speed), which is why ICT vocabulary calls it balanced.
The more recent displacement sets the zone's expected role: a bullish gap overrun by a bearish one is watched as resistance, and the mirror sequence as support. Because two opposing bursts of delivery in quick succession usually mark a violent rejection, BPRs cluster around sharp reversals, and the overlap is kept as the zone to trade back to. Like any zone it is a scenario, not a promise — a clean break and hold through the overlap reads as the balance resolving the other way.
How traders use it
- As a reversal reference: a sharp turn that leaves opposing gaps gets its overlap marked, and the first return to that overlap is watched for continuation in the direction of the newer gap.
- As an entry zone: orders staged at the near edge or midpoint of the overlap, with invalidation beyond its far side, trading in the direction of the more recent displacement.
- As a strength read: price slicing through a BPR and holding beyond it suggests the earlier rejection has been absorbed, and many traders then treat the zone as pointing the other way.
Balanced price range vs related imbalances
Fair Value Gap: A fair value gap is a single three-candle imbalance delivered in one direction. A balanced price range requires two opposing gaps whose spans overlap; that overlap has traded both ways, which changes what a return to it is expected to do.
Inversion FVG: An inversion FVG is one gap that failed: price closed through it and its role flipped. A BPR involves no failure (both gaps delivered), and the newer gap's direction, not a violation, sets the bias.
Related concepts · Imbalance taxonomy
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Balanced Price Range FAQ
What makes a balanced price range bullish or bearish?
The order of the two gaps. When a bullish fair value gap forms first and a bearish gap then cuts back through the same area, the overlap is a bearish BPR and gets watched as resistance; the mirror sequence gives a bullish one. The newer displacement carries the bias because it is the market's most recent verdict on those prices.
Do balanced price ranges get filled like fair value gaps?
Fill is the wrong frame; the overlap has already traded in both directions, so no untraded void remains inside it. What traders watch is reaction: whether the first return respects the zone in the direction of the newer gap. Some balanced price ranges reject cleanly, others trade straight through, and a break that holds is read as the zone failing.
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