Liquidity Sweeps and Engulfing Signals for Supply and Demand Trading

Summary

This strategy combines liquidity sweep signals with bullish or bearish engulfing candles to generate long and short entries. Sweeps are defined by price moving beyond a prior lookback high or low; the document treats a break below a low as bullish and a break above a high as bearish. Engulfing conditions compare the current candle’s open and close with the previous candle. The published settings specify a 20-period lookback, percentage-based exits, and a backtest configuration for ETH/USDT futures. The accompanying source implements the sweep and engulfing entries, chart markers, and exits; the descriptive text also discusses drawing supply and demand zones, but that feature is not present in the included source.

The document presents the strategy as price-action based and suggests trend, volume, time, and higher-timeframe filters, volatility-adjusted exits, and drawdown controls as possible refinements. It reports no performance results. False breakouts, volatile conditions, parameter sensitivity, oversimplified zone definitions, and backtest bias are cited as limitations, so the rules require independent testing before practical use.

Key ideas

• The strategy enters long after a low sweep or bullish engulfing signal and short after a high sweep or bearish engulfing signal.
• A sweep is identified by comparing current highs or lows with prices over a prior lookback period.
• The stated default exits use a fixed percentage stop and a larger percentage profit target.
• The description proposes charting supply and demand zones, but the included source does not implement those zones.
• The document identifies false breakouts, volatility, parameter sensitivity, and backtest bias as risks.

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