Liquidity and sweep threads are some of the most common on the strategy board, and a lot of them are short. Pulled together, they make a reasonably complete picture, from where pools sit to when the sweep reversal is worth skipping.
Where the orders sit
The liquidity pools thread covers the basics: stops sit just beyond swing highs and lows, trendlines and round numbers, and breakout orders sit beyond ranges. Price tends to travel towards those areas because that's where larger orders can be filled. Equal highs or lows are the clearest version, a couple of tops, or three, sitting at nearly the same price being an obvious stop cluster. The triple tops thread applies the same lens to the classic pattern: three touches means three rounds of stops above, which makes the level more tempting to sweep, not less.
The same thread has the most important caveat in this whole cluster, from a reply: don't see a pool behind every swing. Mark ten on one chart and you can explain any move afterwards and predict none of them.
Which pools matter most
The draw on liquidity thread suggests asking before every trade where price is being drawn to. The previous week thread argues the weekly high and low are among the biggest pools, because orders from more traders and timeframes sit there. The PDH/PDL thread treats the previous day's extremes as magnets for London scalps.
Replies across three of these threads add a calendar angle that's easy to miss. Three equal highs on H1 often have a story behind them: the market is waiting for a release. Weekly highs are often taken on a data day. And on release days, a draw 40 pips away can be reached in a single candle, which changes how you trade towards it.
Magnet doesn't mean market order
This is where the threads get practical. The PDH/PDL thread trades those levels as retest locations only, after a sweep and reclaim or a break and retest that holds. Blind fades of the first touch were inconsistent at the London open, especially when the whole market was repositioning.
The GBPUSD previous day high thread at the NY open waits for an M5 candle to close back under the level after the spike before looking for an entry, with the nearest M5 swing low as the first target. A reply noted the cleaner examples had the spike within the first fifteen or twenty minutes of the open.
The playbook card
The sweep-reversal card thread writes the whole setup on one page:
- Context: London open or early overlap.
- Trigger: a clear sweep of Asia's high or low or equal highs/lows, then a reclaim.
- Entry: after the reclaim holds, not during the wick.
- Invalidation: fresh acceptance beyond the sweep extreme.
- Targets: modest, often mid-range or the opposite side.
The companion skip thread is just as useful. Skip when the Asia range is already extreme, when the "sweep" is really a break and hold, when spreads are wide into a print, when you've already taken two London ideas, or when DXY or equities are clearly driving and EURUSD is just following with no local structure. "The skip is the trade" is the line from that thread worth keeping.
The common ground: the level gives you a location, the reaction gives you the trade.
What do you need to see after a sweep before you'll call it a reclaim? A candle close, a structure break, time back inside?
Threads this pulls from
- Playbook card: liquidity sweep reversal on EURUSD
- When I skip the liquidity sweep reversal at London open
- Previous day high sweep on GBPUSD at the NY open, why I wait for the M5 close back under
- Liquidity Pools: Where Orders Cluster and Why Price Visits Them
- Draw on Liquidity, Always Know Where Price Is Going
- Triple Tops and Bottoms, Liquidity in Disguise
- Previous day high/low as London scalp magnets, retest rules only
- Previous Week High and Low, The Weekly Liquidity Map
