The Asian range sweep at the London open: blunt opinion

[Fairman]

The Asian range sweep at the London open: blunt opinion

The idea that smart money deliberately sweeps the Asian high and low at the London open is popular and half right. It does happen often. It is not a conspiracy. It is a feature of how liquidity gets built.

Stops cluster beyond obvious levels. London opens with fresh capital. The easiest place to find volume is where stops sit. Price goes there, triggers them, and either reverses or continues depending on what the real order flow wants.

The problem with turning this into a strategy is that the sweep happens on most days and the reversal on only some. Traders who fade every sweep get hurt on trend days. Traders who follow every sweep get hurt on range days.

A more honest framing: the sweep is a reliable event, and what happens after is not. Treat it as a moment of high information, not as a signal.

Any scalper who has been catching these reversals profitably is probably filtering on something else, like the daily trend, the news calendar, or the spread behaviour. The sweep alone is not an edge.

What filter turned the sweep from a coin flip into something tradable?