{"slug":"liquidity-sweep","term":"Liquidity Sweep","category":"Market Structure","definition":"A liquidity sweep is a fast move through a prior high or low that triggers the resting stops and breakout orders pooled there, then snaps back inside the range. The sweep collects liquidity for bigger players; the reclaim confirms it. It usually prints as a long wick through the level rather than a close beyond it.","street":"Price dips under the low, grabs everyone's stops, and closes right back inside — the pickpocket bumped into you on purpose.","depth":["Mark the prior day's high and low, the week's extremes, and equal highs or lows where two wicks stopped at the same price — those are liquidity pools. A sweep spikes through the level, fills the stops and breakout entries pooled there, and closes back inside, usually within a candle or two. The tell is the close: a genuine breakout closes and holds beyond the level; a sweep leaves a wick and reclaims.","The expensive mistake is buying the break of the high — you're the exit liquidity the sweep was fishing for. Trade the reclaim instead: after a sweep of the low, enter on the close back above the swept level, stop below the wick, targets back into the range. It's one of the cleaner risk-reward shapes in trading, because your invalidation is tight and everyone trapped on the wrong side has to unwind through your position."],"live":{"label":"Where the forced orders hit, hour by hour","href":"/liquidations"},"related":["stop-hunt","wick","breakout","retest"]}