ArdenAlgo · Concepts

Concepts — definitions, not vibes

Every rule box on these pages is checked against mechanization v1 (frozen 16 Jul 2026)

Most glossaries in this niche describe patterns. These pages describe what our engine does with them — including the ones it refuses to touch. If a concept is missing from the first two groups, it is missing from the engine, and the third group explains why.

The engine's chain

Six concepts, in the order the engine applies them. Each page has the exact rule, a live chart the engine marked, and one it deliberately left alone.

Liquidity map

Where stops actually rest

Liquidity sweep

Stops taken, move rejected

Market structure shift

The rejection grows teeth

Fair value gap

The inefficiency the move leaves behind

Order block

The footprint of the move's origin

Premium & discount

Location decides whether a setup exists

Engine internals

Mechanisms that gate every setup above but rarely get their own page elsewhere.

Displacement

The energy filter every setup has to pass

Equal highs & equal lows

The double top retail draws, read as a stop cluster

Popular concepts this engine does not use

Well-known ICT ideas that mechanization v1 does not compute. These pages exist so the answer is findable instead of implied — each one states what the concept claims, and why it is absent.

Breaker block

A popular concept this engine does not trade

Inducement

The trap before the trap — and why v1 stays out of it

Inversion FVG (IFVG)

What happens to a gap that fails — in theory, and here

Kill zones & sessions

Time-of-day filters — deliberately absent from v1

Optimal trade entry (OTE)

The Fibonacci layer this engine does without

Power of three (PO3)

Accumulation, manipulation, distribution — as narrative, not code

Side by side

Two pairs that get confused constantly, separated by the rule that actually distinguishes them.

Order block vs. fair value gap

Siblings from one displacement leg — and what each one does here

Liquidity sweep vs. breakout

One bar, two readings — separated by where the body closes