A liquidity sweep is the trap that so often precedes a reversal: price runs a swing high or low, triggers the orders stacked beyond it, then rejects and closes back inside. Most tools leave you to spot it by eye. Edo Liquidity Sweeps marks every sweep the moment the candle closes, then tracks whether the reversal actually follows through or fails.
How it detects a sweep
A sweep is a very specific event, not just a touch of a level. The indicator waits for a candle whose wick pierces a prior swing high or low — taking the buy-side liquidity above a high or the sell-side liquidity below a low — and then closes back on the opposite side of that level. The pierce takes the liquidity; the close on the other side is the rejection that turns a simple breakout into a trap. Everything is evaluated on the closed candle, so nothing repaints once it is drawn.
Detected, Confirmed and Faded
A sweep is not a one-off mark — it has a life. It starts Detected, the moment the sweeping candle closes. It becomes Confirmed when the reversal earns it: price closes beyond the extreme of the sweep candle in the expected direction, showing the trap had follow-through. It turns Faded when the move fails and price reclaims the level that was swept, telling you the liquidity grab did not lead anywhere. Reading that Detected → Confirmed or Faded path keeps you from trusting a sweep the market never honored.
Swing profiles: Scalper, Swing and Long Term
Which highs and lows count as liquidity depends on how far back you look, so the indicator ships with three swing profiles. Scalper uses a 5-bar swing for the fast, intraday levels; Swing uses 10 bars, the default, for the everyday structure most traders watch; Long Term uses 21 bars to isolate the major highs and lows that matter across sessions. Matching the profile to your timeframe decides which sweeps the tool reports — noise on one profile can be a decisive level on another.
The Last Sweep panel and alerts
A panel keeps the read at a glance: it shows the Last Sweep — its side and current state — alongside a running count of sweeps by state, so you always know what just happened and how the recent ones resolved without scanning the whole chart. Five alerts cover the events that matter, from a fresh sweep detected to a sweep confirming or fading, so you can be told the instant liquidity is taken instead of watching for it.
Pairing it with Edo Liquidity Zones
Edo Liquidity Zones tells you where the liquidity is resting; Edo Liquidity Sweeps tells you when it is taken. Read together, a zone marks the pool of orders above a high or below a low, and a sweep is the event that raids it and rejects. A confirmed sweep out of a known liquidity zone is a far stronger read than either signal alone — the zones give you context, the sweeps give you the moment to act.