The high/low band established in the first minutes of the session — the day's first battleground.
The Opening Range (OR) is the high-to-low band formed in the initial minutes of the New York session (commonly the first 1, 5, or 15 minutes). It's the first liquidity structure of the day: breaks of the OR define early directional bias, and failures of those breaks (sweeps) provide the morning's best Reveals. LA Traders marks the 6:30 AM opening candle in Gold as the OR anchor and treats everything else as context around it.
The first move of the day is often a trap. The opening range is the trap's blueprint — mark it, and you can see the trap being set.
OR: 5,839–5,843. Price breaks 5,843, runs to 5,845.50, and closes back inside the range. OR breakout failed. That's your short Reveal toward the OR low and beyond.
The opening range is the first few minutes of the session. Its high and low are the levels the Reveal will test — a sweep of the opening range and reclaim is a textbook Reveal.
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