Supply and demand trading, zone by zone.

The logic: when price leaves an area very fast, someone with size was waiting there and absorbed everything on the other side. Much of that interest did not get filled — and unfilled interest tends to defend the area when price returns. A demand zone is such an area below price (buyers); a supply zone is one above (sellers).

That is also why zones beat single lines here: nobody knows the exact price where the size sat. A zone admits it — it spans the whole base of the move. Compared with classic support and resistance levels, zones trade the origin of a move, not just a price that turned before.

The recipe is short. One: find a sharp, one-sided move (the impulse). Two: mark the small sideways base where that move started — usually the last one to three candles before the departure. That base, from its highest wick to its lowest wick, is the zone. Three: rank it. Zones that price has never touched again are fresh and are the ones traders queue for; a zone that already produced a reaction is half-spent. A fast departure beats a grinding one, and a zone sitting at a higher-timeframe level or a round number carries extra weight.

Work top-down: daily and 4H zones for direction, 15M–1H zones for entries. If everything looks like a zone, you are drawing too many — the departure speed filter exists precisely to throw most of them away.

The limit entry parks an order at the edge of the zone and lets price come to you: best price, tightest stop, but you get filled even when the zone breaks. The confirmation entry waits for price to touch the zone and show a reversal — a strong close back out, a lower-timeframe structure shift — before entering: fewer fills, better quality. Neither is "the right one"; they price risk differently, and the stop placement differs too: just beyond the far edge of the zone, sized so that a full zone break costs the planned risk with the lot size calculator, not a hopeful rounding.

Whichever school you pick, write it as a rule: if price touches this zone and this condition is true, then this order with this stop. That sentence is the whole bridge to automation — a vague zone cannot be automated, but a rule can.

A zone trade is a level plus a condition — exactly what TradingView alerts express. Set a price alert at the zone edge (or draw the zone in Pine and let the indicator alert), give the alert your webhook, and let the JSON carry the order:

{
  "symbol": "{{ticker}}",
  "action": "buy",
  "lot": 0.1,
  "sl": 25,
  "tp": 75
}

SignalForge routes that alert to MetaTrader 5 in milliseconds and the EA opens the position with your SL, TP and management — the mechanics are the ones in the TradingView to MT5 bridge guide, and the body fields are the same documented in the webhook JSON examples. Test every zone playbook on a demo first and read the Experts log: the rehearsal pattern from the paper trading guide applies one to one. If you run zones on a funded account, Prop Firm Shield keeps the daily loss limit across everything your zones fire.