Hunt Liquidity
Learn to mark the price levels where resting orders cluster, and to tell the difference between price reaching one and price being rejected from one.
Who this track is for
- Traders who can already label structure on an H1 gold chart and now keep getting stopped out one or two dollars before the move they were right about — and want to understand what that recurring experience actually is.
- Not for traders looking for a pattern that fires reliably enough to trade mechanically. Most of this track is about the sweeps that fail, because telling those apart is the entire skill. If you want a rule you can run without judgement, that is what the EA exists for, and it is not what this track teaches.
What you’ll be able to do
By the end of this track you will be able to:
- Mark equal-highs and equal-lows formations on XAUUSD and grade how clean each one is, rather than treating every pair of touching highs as a level.
- Apply a three-part qualitative test to any candidate sweep — wick, close, follow-through — and say which part failed when it fails.
- Write a post-sweep plan that states the invalidation level before it states the target.
The lessons
| # | Lesson | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where Resting Orders Cluster | Why obvious price levels attract resting stop and limit orders, and how to mark the pools without inventing them. |
| 2 | Equal Highs and Equal Lows | Identifying the formations, grading how clean they are, and the failure mode of marking everything. |
| 3 | The Sweep That Isn’t: Wick, Close, Follow-Through — Available now | The three-part qualitative test, and the sweeps that fail it. |
| 4 | What a Sweep Does Not Prove — Available now | The honest boundary between an observation about price and a claim about intent — and why that distinction protects the account. |
| 5 | Entry, Invalidation, and Staged Targets | Building the post-sweep plan: where the idea is wrong, where structural targets sit, how the setup is tracked to expiry. |
Lessons 1, 2 and 5: Full track planned for The Matrix member beta.
Prerequisites
Read Structure, lessons 1–3 are assumed. You need to be able to identify a swing high, a swing low, and a break of structure before a liquidity sweep means anything — a sweep is defined relative to a structural level, so without the level there is nothing to sweep.
The flagship lesson recaps what a liquidity pool is and how equal highs and lows are marked, so it can be read on its own. It is a recap, not a substitute for lessons 1 and 2.
Editorial note
The three-part test is qualitative in public, and that is not an accident. You will not find candle-count windows, timing constants, or scoring thresholds in these lessons. Those live in the private research system. What is taught here is the reasoning — what each part of the test is for — which is the part that transfers to your own chart and your own broker’s feed. A number copied without the reasoning behind it is worth very little anyway.
Nothing here claims to read intent. A sweep is a description of price behaviour: extension beyond an observable level, then rejection. It is not evidence about who traded, or why. Where a lesson describes large orders needing resting liquidity to fill against, that is offered as a plausible account of market structure, not as something the chart proves.
Research is not execution. A swept level marked on TradingView is research. It enters the public record only when the MT5 EA confirms a trade. Manual trades stay outside that record.
Examples are XAUUSD with timeframe and session stated. Nothing here is financial advice, and no lesson in this track promises a reaction from any level.