Liquidity Sweep Volatility Reversal System

Family: mean_reversion · Regime: ranging · Complexity: medium · Asset classes: Forex, Equities, Crypto · Timeframes: 15M, 1H

Thesis

This strategy hypothesizes that market liquidity is often found just beyond recent highs and lows (liquidity sweeps). When price probes these areas and meets a volatility boundary (Bollinger Band), a reversal is likely if accompanied by a surge in volume-weighted momentum (VF) and trend convergence (TSI_CD). The edge exists due to the exhaustion of 'trapped' traders and the entry of institutional mean-reversion flow at extended levels.

Components

• Bollinger Bands (Standard) (regime) — Used to define the 'extended' regime. Mean reversion trades are only valid when price is testing or exceeding the outer standard deviation bands.
• Volume Force (VF) (direction) — Ensures that the reversal from the liquidity sweep is backed by actual volume-weighted buying/selling pressure rather than a low-liquidity drift.
• Reversal Engine Score v1 (entry) — The primary trigger; it identifies the structural 'liquidity sweep' where stops are hunted before a potential reversal.
• Heiken Ashi (Standard MT5) (exit) — Provides a smoothed trend-following exit to capture the meat of the reversal while ignoring minor counter-trend ticks.
• ATR Stop Loss Finder (risk) — Calculates a volatility-adjusted floor/ceiling to ensure the stop is placed outside of normal market noise.
• TSI Convergence Divergence (TSI_CD) (confirmation) — Acts as a final momentum filter to ensure the internal momentum (TSI) has shifted in the direction of the trade.
• Average True Range (ATR) (volatility_filter) — Filters out low-volatility 'dead' zones where mean reversion signals often fail due to lack of follow-through.

Known failure conditions

• Price remains 'pinned' to the Bollinger Band for more than 5 candles without a reversal, indicating a strong breakout trend rather than mean reversion.
• ATR drops below the 50-period moving average of ATR, suggesting a low-liquidity environment where sweeps are less meaningful.
• Volume Force remains near zero despite price movement, indicating divergence between volume and price direction.

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