Adaptive Smart Money Liquidity Sweep Levels

Adaptive Smart Money Liquidity Levels tracks liquidity resting above and below price by detecting swing highs and lows across multiple lookback periods. Instead of displaying every historical level equally, it stores active liquidity zones, updates them over time, and removes them once price mitigates them.

The indicator also estimates the amount of liquidity accumulated around nearby levels using traded volume. This information is displayed through level opacity, a near-range liquidity balance chart, and an orderbook-style liquidity depth profile to provide context around where liquidity is concentrated.

• Liquidity Level — Swing highs and swing lows detected from fast, medium, and slow lookback windows. Nearby levels are merged together to reduce duplicate levels. These levels are used to estimate the location of stop-loss orders, and volume + candle direction are used to estimate the buying/selling (and thus concentration of stop-loss orders) to determine the magnitude of orders at these levels.

• Liquidity Depth — Volume is assigned to the nearest active liquidity levels based on candle direction and configurable distance weighting. The accumulated volume forms a depth profile around current price.

• Mass Liquidation — Triggered when a candle body moves through two or more active liquidity levels on the same side, indicating multiple liquidity pools were cleared within a single move.

• Stop-runs and Liquidity Dynamics — This script takes advantage of the concept of resting limit orders, and resting stop-loss orders. When a bar wicks a liquidity level instead of strongly trading through it, it implies a stronger amount of opposing pressure from both limit and market-orders than the pressure coming from clustered stop-losses, preventing a stop run and signalling a higher chance of that level holding and potentially a rebound. In simple terms, this indicator can be used as part of ICT and Smart Monet Concepts to help better understand a real liquidity sweep (marked by ▲▼) vs liquidation events (marked by highlighted candles) as both events usually require vastly different actions to capitalize on correctly.

• Monitor liquidation labels and wick sweep markers to distinguish between full liquidity removals and liquidity that was only briefly tested. Liquidity removals imply weak levels while those that were wicked imply strong concentration of limit orders, useful for planning where to place stop losses or to time trade entries.

• Watch the nearest liquidity levels to identify where resting liquidity is currently concentrated around price.

• Compare the Near Range Liquidity Balance to see whether more liquidity is currently stacked above or below the market.

• Use the Liquidity Depth Curve to estimate how liquidity changes as price moves further away from its current location.