Fabio Playbook

Playbook Overview

This playbook is built on the principles of Auction Market Theory (AMT), Volume Profile, and Order Flow.

The core idea is simple: the market is an auction that moves between two conditions:

Balance – where price rotates around fair value and most trading activity happens.

Imbalance – where one side is aggressive, pushing the price away to search for a new fair value.

Most traders lose because they try to trade every breakout or market structure pattern without checking if the market is balanced or not. In

balance, 70% of the time, the market stays stuck, so trying to trade breakouts there usually ends in multiple stop-outs. The key is to only act when

the market is giving you clear conditions.

This model solves that problem by combining three simple steps:

Market State – First, read whether the market is in balance or out of balance.

Location – Next, use the Volume Profile to find the exact levels that matter, like LVNs (low-volume nodes) and POC (Point of Control).

Aggression – Finally, wait for clear order flow confirmation at those levels, big prints, imbalances, or strong CVD pressure.

When these three align, you have a trade. If even one is missing, you stay flat.

The playbook has two complementary setups:

1.Trend Model – Trade continuation when the market is out of balance and searching for new value.

2.Mean Reversion Model – Trade the snap-back when the market fails outside balance and comes back inside.

Both setups are intraday, risk-controlled, and built to adapt to different market conditions. Together, they give a trader structure to handle both

trending and ranging environments without relying on prediction.