GHX-03 — LIQUIDITY SWEEP REVERSAL

This model watches for price to sweep beyond obvious levels where stops are likely placed, waits for confirmation of reversal, then enters expecting price to return toward fair value.

• It works from a price range whose high and low were both formed and confirmed by the market before the candle it is judging — never a level drawn after the fact.
• It only considers a trade when a completed 15-minute candle runs through one side of that range and closes back inside it, leaving a clear rejection rather than a drift.
• The level has to be fresh: once price has already run through it, that level is finished until the market builds a new one.
• A later completed five-minute candle then has to push beyond the rejection and close strongly in the same direction. Nothing inside the sweep itself can count as confirmation.
• It declines the trade if the hourly picture is running hard the other way, if the sweep candle was a shock move, or if there is not enough room left toward the middle of the range to justify the risk.
• A trade carries a stop beyond the extreme of the sweep and a target at the middle of the range, both fixed before the order is sent.
• It leaves early if price closes back through the level it reclaimed, if the move has gone nowhere after the first stretch, and it will not hold past its time limit or the session cutoff.
• If the conditions are not all present, it records a wait with the one reason that stopped it.

• Works from swing highs and lows the market formed and confirmed before the move, not from drawn zones.
• Requires a completed 15-minute candle to run through the level and close back inside it, with a genuine rejection.
• Waits for a later five-minute candle to confirm the turn, then checks there is enough room left to be worth taking.

The method itself is documented in full in Gold liquidity sweep. It explains the wider trading idea, its risks and the conditions that can invalidate it.

Thrives in markets with clear liquidity pools above/below structure. Works well when institutional players hunt retail stops before reversing direction.

• Gold session opens, where the Asian range is swept before the real move.
• Ranging days with well-defined edges.
• Right after a spike that has no follow-through behind it.

Can suffer significant losses if the sweep is actually a genuine breakout. Requires precise timing and may miss trades if confirmation is too strict.

• Genuine breakouts, where the sweep never comes back and the stop is hit.
• Trend days with strong continuation through every level.
• High-impact data windows, where the first move keeps going.

No model is right about gold all of the time. When available, it will act only while you leave it switched on, on an account you choose and within the limits you set.

• Risk per trade, as a percentage of the account or a cash amount.
• Daily loss limit — once hit, no new entries for the rest of the London trading day.
• Maximum open positions on gold at any one time.
• Sessions it may trade, and whether high-impact news blocks new entries.

Every order still passes the same pre-trade checks as a trade you place by hand. Reducing or closing risk is never blocked.

No demonstration trades published on this model yet. The record begins with its first closed forward-test trade.

This record includes earlier engine history from Stop Hunt and Stop Hunt AutoThink, which this model replaced.

No closed gold trades have been recorded for this model in that period.

Scope: XAUUSD only, closed trades only, grouped by London trading day, across Gold Hunts practice and real-money accounts. Cash outcomes are deliberately not published, because they depend on account size, lot size and leverage. Older rows do not always record whether the account was real or practice.

Liquidity Sweep Reversal trades a method Gold Hunts has already documented in full. These 7 pieces cover the rules, the sessions, the failure modes, the risk arithmetic and worked examples on XAUUSD.

• Gold liquidity sweep: the full method

  The full XAUUSD liquidity sweep playbook: where gold stops cluster, what separates a sweep from a breakout, the entry checklist, invalidation, targets, two worked trades and how to journal it.

• WHEN THE GOLD SWEEP ACTUALLY WORKS

  The XAUUSD hours that actually produce liquidity sweeps: the London-open sweep of the Asian range, the New York sweep of the London extreme, a full session-suitability table, day-of-week effects, DST handling, and the hours to avoid entirely.

• WHEN THE GOLD SWEEP FAILS

  The specific ways the XAUUSD liquidity sweep loses: the driver you missed, the second sweep, rollover wicks, deep excursions, trending gold and correlated crosses — plus how to detect degradation early.

• SIZING THE GOLD SWEEP

  Position sizing for the 100-ounce XAUUSD contract, ATR-based stop placement, correlation risk across XAU crosses, daily loss discipline and prop-firm constraints for the gold liquidity sweep.

• THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE GOLD SWEEP

  The specific mental traps of the XAUUSD sweep: revenge trading after your own stop gets taken, seeing sweeps that are not there, doubling down on a second sweep, and freezing on the one that was valid. Rules and journal prompts for each.

• JOURNALING THE GOLD SWEEP PROPERLY

  Exactly what to capture on every XAUUSD liquidity sweep trade: level type, excursion depth in dollars, reclaim time, driver checks, and the edge-decay metrics that tell you whether the setup is still working — with a Gold Hunts journal walkthrough.

• THREE GOLD SWEEP TRADES, ANNOTATED IN FULL

  Three fully annotated XAUUSD liquidity sweep trades: a clean win, a valid loss, and a setup that should never have been taken — with level, entry, stop, target, lot size from a stated balance and risk percentage, R outcome, and a post-trade review for each.

• Liquidity Run Continuation — Follows the move once liquidity above or below has been swept.

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