Floor 2: Liquidity
Liquidity Map
Liquidity Map asks you to paint every level where stop orders are said to be still resting on a simulated chart: above swing highs and below swing lows that no later candle has traded through. It teaches where SMC traders expect resting orders to cluster, and which pools have already been taken and no longer count.
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What it teaches
Where SMC traders expect resting orders to cluster.
- Buy-side liquidity is said to rest above highs, sell-side below lows.
- Equal highs and equal lows: later swings that stop at, or within 2 pips short of, the first one, read as one thick pool.
- Telling a resting pool from one a wick has already taken.
- Marking a tight zone at the level instead of shading half the chart.
How a round plays
- A chart appears with several swing highs and lows. Some line up as equal highs or equal lows, and some have already been traded through.
- Tap the chart on each level you think still holds stops. Every tap paints a narrow zone. Tap a zone again to remove it.
- Equal highs or equal lows are one pool, so one zone is enough. A level that a later wick has already gone through is taken: leave it.
- Press "Check with the Lens". The Lens draws every resting pool, buy-side above highs and sell-side below lows, the ones you missed and the zones that mark nothing.
- A run is six charts and takes about four minutes.
How it is graded
The rule here places a pool beyond every swing high and low that no later candle has traded through, and groups equal highs and lows into one pool. Your zones are graded by overlap with those pools: every pool marked, no zone on anything else, and a zone wider than 10 pips marks nothing.
The honest note
Nobody outside a dealing desk can see where stops actually sit. These levels are an inference from where traders commonly place them, which is reasonable and still an assumption.