Liquidity & Liquidity Sweeps
In market-structure trading, 'liquidity' means the resting orders — mostly stop-losses — that pool just beyond obvious swing highs and lows, and that price is drawn toward. This article explains buy-side and sell-side liquidity, why equal highs and lows are magnets, the liquidity sweep (or stop hunt) where price spikes through a level to trigger orders then reverses, internal versus external liquidity, and how this framing relates to the classic false breakout.
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