What does a textbook gold liquidity sweep look like?

Price accelerates through a fresh obvious level such as equal highs, pierces it by a few dollars, stalls immediately, and closes the next candle back inside the range — the reclaim close, which is the entry, with the stop beyond the wick plus a buffer.

Are these XAU sweep examples real trades?

No. They are illustrative scenarios with round numbers used to demonstrate the mechanics and the failure mode. They are educational only and imply no results.

What target should I use on a gold sweep?

Structural levels that already exist on the chart: the mid-point of the swept range for a partial, then the opposite boundary of that range for the remainder.

Gold Liquidity Sweep Examples: XAU Reversals

Three illustrative XAU sweep scenarios: a pre-London raid on fresh equal highs returning around 1.1R, a New York sweep of the London low returning around 1.5R, and a Monday trend day where three apparent sweeps never reclaimed.

The winning examples shared modest sweep depth, an immediate stall, a clean reclaim close and structural targets at the mid and opposite boundary of the swept range.

The losing example had the same 15-minute appearance but a broken prior week high, a live macro driver and no reclaim close — the daily-context veto that switches the strategy off.