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Liquidity Secrets Revealed

9:30745 summary words · ~4 min readEnglishBy Inter Equity TradingTranscribed Aug 2, 2026

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Summary

Market structure and trendlines are visual maps of pooled retail stop losses, which institutional price action systematically targets as liquidity to fuel major expansions.

Understanding where retail stop losses cluster prevents entering trades inside engineered trap zones designed to be swept before the actual directional move occurs.

Section summaries

Defining Liquidity & Retail Stop Clustered Structures

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The instructor defines liquidity as all pending market orders, stop losses, and limit triggers that serve as the fuel for market movement. He explains that traditional retail methods—including break-and-retest strategies, breakout entries, and Smart Money Concepts order blocks—all place stop losses in identical locations relative to swing structure. This creates dense concentrations of buy-stop and sell-stop liquidity above structural highs and below structural lows.

Liquidity comprises stop losses, buy/sell stop orders, and limit orders waiting to trigger.
Break-and-retest, breakout, and SMC traders all cluster stop losses around identical structural swing points.
Market structure primarily serves as a map of pooled retail order liquidity.

Establishes the core thesis of structural liquidity necessary to understand the subsequent chart examples.

Basic Liquidity Sweeps & Trendline Liquidity Dynamics

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This section demonstrates basic market structure examples on charts where price repeatedly sweeps liquidity above a high or below a low before reversing direction. The instructor introduces trendline liquidity, illustrating how price accumulating along diagonal trends builds up layers of stop losses across multiple pullback levels, setting up future liquidity sweeps.

Price continually moves from one structural liquidity pool to another.
Trendlines accumulate stop losses at every consecutive swing pullback point.
Sweeping swing highs or trendline liquidity generates the order flow required for institutional price movement.

Provides essential visual examples of how price sweeps swing structure and trendline liquidity.

Engineering Liquidity & Opposing Target Mapping

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The instructor walks through a chart setup where market makers engineer liquidity by respecting key swing points before sweeping them. Once sell-side liquidity beneath a low is swept, traders should wait for price to show direction on lower timeframes and target opposing buy-side liquidity above equal or major structural highs.

Allow price to engineer liquidity before executing directional trades.
Once a liquidity sweep occurs, the opposing structural highs/lows become primary profit targets.
Lower timeframe confirmation should align with the direction of opposing liquidity pools.

Demonstrates actionable trade framing around liquidity sweep setups and profit targeting.

Retail Inducement Traps and Impulse Liquidity Runs

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The section demonstrates how aggressive, sharp price drops induce sellers into taking short positions prematurely. As price reacts off structural zones, it creates fresh swing points, sweeps lower-level liquidity, and then rapidly shifts upward to clear out all induced short sellers' stop losses concentrated above major highs.

Sharp directional moves often serve as inducement to trap retail traders on the wrong side.
Clearing significant structural liquidity removes one side of market participants before major reversals.
Watch for inducement reactions to identify high-probability trap setups.

Offers deep insight into retail inducement and how order traps facilitate institutional reversals.

Full-Leg Liquidity Cleansing & Practical Application

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The instructor concludes with an example showing an entire leg of trendline liquidity being systematically cleared out by a single downswing before expanding higher. He concludes by stressing that understanding liquidity is primarily about knowing where *not* to trade to avoid getting stopped out.

Entire trendlines can be wiped out in a single sweep before price resumes its overarching trend.
The most powerful application of liquidity analysis is filtering out bad entry locations.

Summarizes practical trade management and risk mitigation rules based on liquidity reading.

Key points

Market Structure as Pooled Liquidity — Market structure represents pools of pending orders, stop losses, and limit triggers. Because price moves toward liquidity to fuel major expansions, structural swing points naturally act as magnetic targets.
Retail Strategy Alignment Creates Liquidity Clustered Zones — Break-and-retest traders, breakout traders, and order block traders all place stop losses in similar locations beneath structural swing lows or above swing highs.
Trendline Liquidity and Price Engineering — As price trends and creates pullbacks, liquidity accumulates along multi-touch trendlines. Market makers engineer this liquidity before taking it out in sharp, aggressive sweeps.
Opposing Liquidity Targeting and Reversal Mechanics — Once price sweeps liquidity from one side of the market (e.g., taking out sell-side liquidity), it frequently reverses and expands toward opposing structural liquidity on the other side.

“Liquidity is the market's fuel source. Okay, so if liquidity is the market's fuel source, you will see that the market naturally gravitates towards it.” — Instructor

“So, if you really think about it, since retail traders trade with structure, structure is ultimately just liquidity.” — Instructor

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to

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another video. All right, so today's

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video is going to be about liquidity.

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So, what is liquidity?

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Liquidity is all the positions that move

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throughout the market. Okay, so it

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includes stop losses, limit orders, and

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stop orders. This includes stop losses

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of positions already in the market as

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well as positions waiting to be

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triggered. Liquidity is the market's

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fuel source. Okay, so if liquidity is

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the market's fuel source,

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you will see that the market naturally

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gravitates towards it. So, if you really

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think about it, since retail traders

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trade with structure, structure is

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ultimately just liquidity. All right, so

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if you look at this right here, for

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example, you will see that the market is

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moving to the upside, okay? Creating

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higher highs and higher lows. So, it's

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in a bullish trend. Liquidity is going

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to be underneath

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these lows, okay? So, there's going to

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be liquidity underneath here and

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liquidity underneath here. The reason is

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because most traders use structure to

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trade, okay? So, because they use

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structure to trade, what happens is

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every time price comes and creates that

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new higher high, okay, in a bullish

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market, you'll see that pullback occur.

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And during that pullback, people will

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ultimately enter the market. So, whether

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you're trading break and retest, break

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and retest traders will be entering

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right here

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and then keeping their stops below that

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low. And then you'll have your breakout

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traders that enter as soon as the price

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breaks above this over here

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and ultimately keeping their stops below

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below. And you also have your smart

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money concepts traders. Okay, your smart

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money concepts or any other traders that

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use order blocks and breaker blocks,

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ultimately trade the same, okay?

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Well, this will be their order block or

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their breaker block or whatever, they

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will keep their stops below the low. So,

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indicating that everyone's stop losses

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are be below and above structural highs

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and lows. Okay, so now we're going to

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look at some chart examples to identify

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where the liquidity is

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and help you guys understand what

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liquidity really is, okay?

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So,

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the market moves lower. You can see in

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this example, the market moves lower,

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takes out this low over here,

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moves higher, respects this high, okay?

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So, now there is liquidity above here.

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Market moves lower again and then

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ultimately comes for that liquidity.

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Once that liquidity is taken, right?

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You'll see the market comes for

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this liquidity, okay?

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Let me just draw it out with lines.

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Straighter lines.

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Okay, so that's

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one right here.

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We also got liquidity

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over here as well, okay? So, you'll see

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the market comes for that liquidity over

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there.

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And then

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next comes for liquidity above, okay?

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After that,

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you'll see

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again, the market comes for

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the liquidity.

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And so on and so forth, okay? So, the

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market's always moving from from

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liquidity to liquidity. So, this right

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here, taking out this high over here,

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is ultimately grabbing liquidity and

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then moving lower. And we also got,

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right?

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Trend line liquidity. So, that's another

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type of liquidity liquidity

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that is in the markets, okay? So, it's

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ultimately the same thing in terms of

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structure. We have, let's say,

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the market trending lower.

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Now, every time there's a break of

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structure,

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each of these pullbacks, if you've

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already entered cells, okay? So, now we

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got trendline liquidity, okay? There's

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liquidity in that entire area.

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Example being right here,

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okay? Market comes for this liquidity

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over here,

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and then finally moves towards this

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liquidity over here,

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and then moves lower,

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takes out this,

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and then finally comes for

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this liquidity, okay? So, now, let's

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look at another example so you guys can

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better

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understand it and identify liquidity.

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All right, so let's look at this for

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example.

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Understanding

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that trading with structure is

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ultimately just liquidity, now you can

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see identify where you can expect the

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market going, okay? So, after, like I

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said,

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after this title here got taken out,

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you let the market engineer that

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liquidity, okay? Which it did.

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Right, pulled back, respected the lows,

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went higher, respected the lows again,

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and then finally took that out. So,

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you can easily look for long positions

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while it's moving to the upside, some

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sort of entry on the lower time frames

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in this area

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towards this liquidity over here,

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okay?

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And then,

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you wait for the market to do its thing,

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and you'll see

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ultimately this low over here gets taken

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out, that liquidity gets taken out,

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the market starts moving to the upside,

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so you can easily look for some sort of

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entries

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in these areas towards the highs, okay?

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Understanding that the liquidity is

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ultimately over here.

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Right? Cuz this is where you got that

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build up of liquidity.

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Mark your respective high over here.

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Look at that. Comes for this.

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And now you look for the opposing

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liquidity, which is

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basically this right here.

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Break of structure.

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Induces buyers.

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You got this pullback.

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And then moves higher.

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So the market can come for this over

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here. Okay?

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Look at that. The market moves higher.

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Takes out all this over here.

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Okay? Also comes for liquidity on the

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left-hand side.

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Okay? And then you will see after this,

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right? So taking this liquidity over

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here is very, very significant because

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now

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you have to understand that

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because the market was trending bearish

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the entire time,

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we got traders trying to

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sell from this whole area. Okay?

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From this whole area. So now once that

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gets taken out,

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right? And all those sellers have been

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taken out of the market. Now the market

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has that move down, right? Grabbing all

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this liquidity over here.

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And then, yeah.

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So

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let's look at another example. Okay?

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What we see

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is the market have this impulsive move

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down. Okay?

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Right? Grabbing liquidity from the lows.

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Okay?

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And then starts moving to the upside.

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And you'll see

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that the market is respecting this area

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right here.

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Okay?

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This whole area.

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Now once that happens, the market moves

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lower, right? Taking out these lows over

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here.

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Okay, we got these lows over here to

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taking out.

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And it's such a sharp move down, it

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induces sellers. So, now sellers want to

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enter the market. And you'll see that

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the market every time it moves higher

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and reacts from certain areas, like for

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example, this right here.

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You'll see a break of structure, right?

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A move lower, taking out this, and then

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ultimately coming for that liquidity,

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okay?

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And then you'll see it move higher,

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okay?

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Look over here.

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Even takes this one this high over here

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as well.

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Okay?

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And then coming

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lower

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to take out

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this low.

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And then ultimately moving higher and

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taking out all the highs.

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All right?

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So, if you look at this leg

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if you look at this whole leg over here

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you'll see that the market was moving to

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the upside and just creating liquidity

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the entire time, okay? We got that

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trendline liquidity. And then you'll see

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something over here get taken out, okay?

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And then you'll see that move down,

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clearing all that liquidity,

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and then finally move to the upside.

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So, um I hope you guys understand

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uh the general idea of what liquidity

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is, right? So, it's basically where

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buyers and sellers are getting into the

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market, where their stop losses are, and

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ultimately, right? Um the market coming

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for those stop losses, okay?

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So, if you can understand where the

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liquidity is, it will be a lot easier to

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identify

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where not to get into trades, okay? So,

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I hope you guys learned uh benefited

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from this video,

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and I will see you guys in the next

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video.

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