TradingView tool  ·  MNQ / NQ

Liquidity gets taken
at the session opens.

Sessions Alpha watches the hour before an open, waits for price to take the liquidity that hour built, and marks the moment it reverses back through the gap it left behind. Two detection models, one chart, every setup captioned with its reason.

See pricing How it works

Not signals. Not advice. A charting tool that shows you what it sees and why.

A long setup on MNQ: the Asia low is swept, a fair value gap inverts, and the trade resolves at its target
The Asia low is taken. Three bars later a candle closes back up through the 7.25-point gap the drop left behind, and the long is marked. Risk below in grey, target above in green, +2.0R printed at the exit.
The clock it watches  ·  US Eastern
00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00 19:0001:0008:00 ASIALONDONNY AMNY PM

The solid blocks are the accumulation hours — 7pm before the Asia open, 1am before London, 8am before New York. That is where the stops pile up. The open is when they get taken.

Watch it print

A setup forming, in real time.

Bar replay, no editing. The 9 AM range is swept, price closes back inside, and the model marks it with both confirmations named.

The CRT model on the 9 AM range. Watch the order: the range closes, price drops beneath it, then closes back inside — and only then does the marker appear, with the turtle soup and inverted gap both confirmed.
IN 30 SECONDS

The whole thing, in five steps.

  1. 01Wait

    The hour before an open builds a range. That chop is stops accumulating on both sides of an obvious level.

  2. 02Sweep

    The open takes it. Price runs through the level, fills the resting orders, and the move that did it leaves a gap behind.

  3. 03Invert

    A candle closes back through that gap in the opposite direction. Everyone who entered on the break is now offside.

  4. 04Confirm

    Your filters check the gap belongs to the sweep, is large enough, and leaves room to a target. Most setups stop here.

  5. 05Alert

    The marker prints with its reason, a stop and a target. What you do with it is your decision.

No signal is drawn until the candle that confirms it has closed.

The difference

A sweep is a purchase, not a breakdown.

Every trader long has a stop under the recent low. Nobody picks that place at random — they pick it off the same chart everyone else is looking at. So orders pool in dense clusters just beyond the obvious levels, and anyone who needs to fill real size has to go and get them.

An 8 AM range swept, price closing back inside, with the setup marked
The same chart with no indicator
Without
With Sessions Alpha

Drag the handle. Same chart, same minute. On the left, a low at 09:08 that looks like any other low. On the right, the range that was swept, the confirmations that fired, and where the trade was invalidated.

01  /  ACCUMULATE

The hour before

Price chops sideways and builds a range. That chop is not boredom, it is stops accumulating on both sides of an obvious level.

02  /  MANIPULATE

The open takes it

Volume arrives on a schedule. Price runs through the level, fills the resting orders, and there is nothing left underneath to push it further.

03  /  INVERT

The gap flips

The aggressive move left an imbalance. When price closes back through it, the traders who caused it are trapped. That close is the entry.

At the moment price breaks an obvious low you cannot tell a stop run from a real breakdown — they look identical. The inversion is the first thing that distinguishes them, which is why the tool waits for it instead of guessing at the low. The full sequence →

Two models

One idea, two ways of seeing it.

Both wait for the same sequence. They differ on what counts as the liquidity being taken. Run either alone, or both.

Sweep model

Watches individual levels

Session highs and lows, hourly liquidity pivots, previous day and week extremes. When one is traded through, the model arms in the opposite direction and looks for a gap to invert.

  • Runs on any timeframe
  • Caption names the level, bars elapsed and distance travelled
  • Gap must form within a set number of bars of the sweep
CRT model

Watches a session range

Records the high and low of a time window, then waits for price to close beyond one edge and back inside. Six configurable ranges covering Asia, London and the New York morning.

  • 1-minute charts only
  • Optional turtle soup and inverted FVG confirmations
  • Max sweep depth and a minimum R:R check
The Sweep model, same replay treatment. The London high is taken, price rolls over, and the signal prints only once a candle has closed back down through the gap the rally left behind.
WHAT IT SKIPS

You see the setups it turned down.

A gap can invert exactly as it should and still come in under your minimum. Most tools would show you nothing and leave you wondering whether they missed it. This one draws it dimmed, prints the shortfall, and marks it NOT TRADED.

A dimmed marker on an MNQ chart reading: ASIA L swept 8 bars ago, 27.75 points. FVG 4.25 points, under the 5 point minimum. NOT TRADED.
The Asia low was swept 27.75 points deep and a gap did invert. At 4.25 points it came in below the 5-point minimum, so it was drawn and skipped. No trade, no alert.

A skipped setup is visible instead of silently absent, so you can see what your filters are costing you in both directions.

And when it fails

Some sweeps are breakouts.

A site that only shows winners is worth nothing. This is what a losing setup looks like on the chart.

A setup that failed
The Asia high is swept 13 bars earlier, a 5.25-point gap inverts, the model goes short. Price does not come back — it grinds through the stop and carries on. Everything about the setup was correct on paper. The move simply was not a reversal. No setting removes this; it is the cost of the strategy.
Fit

This is not for everyone.

I would rather you did not subscribe than have a bad fit.

Built for this

  • Trading the Asia, London or New York opens
  • MNQ and NQ futures
  • Funded evaluations with strict drawdown rules
  • Traders who want fewer, cleaner setups
  • Anyone who wants alerts doing the watching
  • People willing to sit out a quiet session

Not built for this

  • Anyone looking for guaranteed profits
  • Traders who want a signal every session
  • Copy trading someone else's calls
  • A directional bias handed to you
  • Tick-chart and sub-minute scalping
  • Set and forget automation

The whole method, free.

Fifty-seven pages: why liquidity pools where it does, fair value gaps from first principles, how to mark the levels and trade the sequence by hand, and the psychology of a system that is wrong a great deal of the time. Sent as a PDF. Nothing in it depends on subscribing to anything.

One email with the book. After that, only when there is something worth sending.

The chop before the open is the tell.

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