Marking up liquidity sweeps on screenshots for review
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2026 12:16 pm
I review my trades with screenshots, and for a long time they were useless: just a chart with an entry arrow. When I started trading liquidity sweeps, I needed a consistent way to mark them so that I could compare setups weeks later.
My markup convention, the same on every screenshot:
After about 60 marked examples, a pattern became visible: my clean sweeps happened when the swept level was obvious on M15 and the sweep candle closed back inside within two bars. The messy ones were usually levels that only looked important on M1.
I use TradingView templates for the colours so it takes about 30 seconds per trade. How do others mark up review screenshots? Anything you'd add to the list?
My markup convention, the same on every screenshot:
- Grey horizontal line: the level that was swept (previous high/low, Asia range, round number).
- Red box: the sweep candle(s), from the first break to the close back inside.
- Blue line: entry; orange: stop; green: target.
- Text in the corner: time, session, spread at entry, and a one-word tag (clean / messy / late).
After about 60 marked examples, a pattern became visible: my clean sweeps happened when the swept level was obvious on M15 and the sweep candle closed back inside within two bars. The messy ones were usually levels that only looked important on M1.
I use TradingView templates for the colours so it takes about 30 seconds per trade. How do others mark up review screenshots? Anything you'd add to the list?