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Balanced Price Range (BPR) definition
The overlap of a bullish and a bearish fair value gap in the same price area, leaving a balanced zone price tends to respect.
What it means in ICT
ICT treats a BPR as two-sided efficiency: buy-side and sell-side imbalance have cancelled out, so the zone acts as a decision level rather than a one-way gap.
NQ example
On NQ, a down-leg FVG filled by an up-leg FVG during the London session leaves a BPR that often rejects price on the first retest in the NY AM Killzone.
Related guides
Practice Balanced Price Range in replay
Load a historical NQ session and watch for balanced price range bar-by-bar, with ICT overlays drawn automatically.
Data & methodology
All NQ and MNQ examples use Databento GLBX.MDP3 1-minute OHLCV candles for continuous front-month E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures, aggregated to higher timeframes (5m, 15m, 1h, 4h, 1D, 1W) so every bar agrees across timeframes. Sessions cover the full CME Globex day, 18:00–17:00 ET. ICT overlays are drawn algorithmically from the same price data used in the replay trainer.