Liquidity Sweep Reversal
How SPXXL labels a recorded Liquidity Sweep day: the longer wick shows which side was hunted (Sweep High or Sweep Low), and the Reversed / No reversal tag shows whether the close went the other way.
When a session is recorded as a Liquidity Sweep, SPXXL answers two separate questions about it: where did the hunt happen, and what did price do afterward? The label answers the first. The small tag next to it answers the second.
The wick is the hunt:
- ●Sweep High — the upper wick dominates. Price ran the stops above the highs and came back down.
- ●Sweep Low — the lower wick dominates. Price ran the stops below the lows and came back up.
- ●Liquidity Sweep (plain white) — neither wick dominates. Both sides were hunted, so no single side is named.
The 1.15× rule:
SPXXL measures each wick as a share of the day's full range. A side is named only when its wick is more than 1.15 times the other wick. Anything closer than that is treated as a two-sided day and keeps the plain Liquidity Sweep label.
The Reversed tag:
- ●Reversed (green) — the close went against the swept side. A Sweep High that closed down on the day, or a Sweep Low that closed up. The hunt marked the turn.
- ●No reversal (gray) — the close went the same way as the swept side, or finished flat. The stops were taken, but price did not turn on them.
Real examples from the Session Archive:
- ●Sep 30 — upper wick about 84% of a 40.5-point range, lower wick near zero, close −0.08%. Sweep High, Reversed.
- ●Oct 1 — lower wick about 74% of the range, upper wick about 10%, close +0.14%. Sweep Low, Reversed.
- ●Sep 18 — lower wick about 76% of a 46.6-point range, no upper wick, close −0.15%. Sweep Low, No reversal: the lows were hunted, yet the day still closed lower.
Why the label and the tag are kept apart:
Where the hunt happened and which way the day closed are two different facts. Before this rule, a label taken from the close direction alone could name the wrong side — Oct 1 hunted the lows, but it would have been shown as a Sweep High. Reading the wick first keeps the label honest; the tag then tells you how the story ended. Across 70 recorded sweeps, 31 of the 68 one-sided days reversed, and the other 2 were two-sided — so a sweep is not a promise of a reversal.
What it is not:
- ●Not a live signal. The label and tag are written after the close, as a record of what the session did.
- ●Not a grade. A "Correct" result grades whether SPXXL called the session's shape, not its direction. A day can be both Correct and No reversal.
What SPXXL shows: the label and the Reversed / No reversal tag appear on the Session Archive list and each session's detail page, in History, and in the recent results on the Track Record.
For 0DTE traders: use these records to learn how sweeps behave, not to trade the wick in real time. Live, wait for the reclaim back inside the level and a structure break against the hunt (see Sweep-and-Fail), then express the reversal with a defined-risk vertical debit spread — the debit paid is your maximum loss if the reclaim fails.
This entry is educational and uses SPX for illustration — it is not financial advice, and no outcome is predicted or guaranteed.
Related Terms
A session where price probes beyond key levels to trigger clustered stop-loss orders before reversing — designed to trap directional traders.
Price runs through a Liquidity Pool, fills the stops, and closes back inside — the break fails, and the traders who chased it become fuel for the move the other way.
Chart overlay arrows ("S") that flag individual candles where price probed beyond the Initial Balance to hunt stops, then reversed — micro-level sweep event detection.
A cluster of resting stop orders sitting just beyond an obvious level — the fuel large players need to fill size. A location, not a signal.
Sweep, reclaim, then a close through the opposing swing point — the confirmation that control has actually changed hands.
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