Live Trades
2nd of September 2025 – Loss
At the London open, the 8:00 candle drops strongly and sweeps two previous levels of liquidity. The following 8:15 candle becomes our signal bar, so a stop-buy order is placed 3 points above its high. However, instead of triggering higher, price breaks the low of the signal bar and pushes down, so the entry order is canceled. At this stage, another sweep of liquidity is required before considering a new trade.
Shortly after, two levels of sell-side liquidity are taken. We then wait for a bullish signal candle, which appears at 9:15. Next candle just goes an inch above and my stop-buy was triggered. Unfortunately, the trade was taken out for a loss a few candles later. If the entry had not been tagged, the loss could have been avoided, but since this was live execution, it stands as part of the process.
Overall, the setup was not bad in terms of liquidity structure, but the late timing and weak signal bar made it a lower-quality trade.
3rd of September 2025 – Win
The following day produced a much better setup. At the London open, price pushed down and swept the Asia low. I tend to be somewhat discretionary when judging Asia-session liquidity sweeps. In this case, the Asia low was technically taken, though not very convincingly. Still, what made this move meaningful was that it went deeper into the liquidity pool, in the opposite direction of the initial Frankfurt rally.
From my experience, the highest-probability setups—and those that best fit the philosophy of this strategy—occur when London reverses the first Frankfurt-hour move and sweeps a liquidity area in the process.
The signal bar was the 8:30 doji. A stop-buy order was placed 3 points above its high, and the next candle triggered the entry. From there, price continued to climb steadily, reaching the take-profit target. In this case, I used a 1.5R target instead of 2R, since the stop loss was relatively wide at over 50 points.
I also like the presence of liquidity above, which helped “pull” price toward the target.
5th of September 2025 – Loss
This was a good setup that ultimately did not work out. Similar to the previous setup, London opened with price moving lower, in the opposite direction of the first Frankfurt-hour push. Two clean liquidity sweeps occurred before a strong bullish candle printed at 8:30, which became our signal candle. The entry was triggered on the following bar, but instead of following through, the market stalled and entered a range. Hours later, the position was stopped out.
The overall setup looks very good —London reversal against Frankfurt’s move, liquidity swept, and even clear liquidity above to target. Structurally, this was an ideal setup.
While the strategy does not currently include a time-based manual exit, this would have been a textbook case for one. The prolonged ranging after a strong signal bar was a clear warning that momentum was lacking, and a time exit could have protected capital.
