Quick answer
A simple, repeatable day trade. Price sweeps the previous day's low overnight, which sets a bullish bias for the session. Then I wait for a key 15-minute fair value gap to invert, take that inversion as my entry, and target buyside liquidity above. The stop sits below the previous 15-minute low.
Introduction
This is one of the simplest setups I run, and I come back to it constantly. Nothing fancy here. A liquidity sweep sets the bias, a fair value gap gives me the level, and a 15-minute inversion gives me the trigger. Patience does the rest.
The read on this day was clean. The previous day low got swept on NQ during the overnight session. That sweep told me to look up, not down, once New York opened.
“Previous day low got swept on NQ during the overnight session. Since we swept previous day low, I had a bullish bias going into the New York session. But I needed to wait for a 15-minute confirmation to actually take the trade.
”Kevin Dhesi · @dhesi_trades
Start with the previous day's liquidity
The previous day's high and low are liquidity. Stops sit there. When price runs the previous day low overnight and snaps back, that is a sweep, and it points the bias up.
- Previous day low swept overnight on NQ. Bias flips bullish.
- I am now looking for longs only into the New York session.
- The sweep is the manipulation. It does not mean buy blindly. It means lean long and wait for the trigger.
Sweep the Low, Bias Goes Up
Dhesi TradesWait for confirmation. Do not chase.
The morning was volatile to the downside and New York chopped. No clean move on the 15 or 5-minute. That is fine. A sweep without confirmation is not a trade.
What I watched instead was one specific level. The 9:30 15-minute fair value gap kept getting respected on both the higher and lower timeframe. Price tapped it, rejected, tapped it again. That repeated reaction is the tell that the level matters.
The entry: a 15-minute inversion
With a bullish bias and a gap that keeps holding, I want one thing: a 15-minute inversion above that gap. When price inverts the 15-minute fair value gap, the level flips from resistance to support, and that is my trigger to the upside.
- Target: buyside liquidity above, including the new day opening gap.
- Stop: below the previous 15-minute low. Tight and defined.
- Then let it ride to the take profit or the stop. No babysitting.
- Mark the previous day high and low before the session.
- Watch for one of them to get swept overnight. A swept low points bias up.
- Do not chase the open. Wait for a 15 or 5-minute confirmation.
- Find the gap that keeps getting respected. That is your level.
- Enter on the 15-minute inversion of that gap, in the direction of your bias.
- Stop below the previous 15-minute low. Target buyside liquidity above.
- Let it run. You are either right or you are stopped. Live with the result.
When I skip it
- No clean sweep. If the previous day level was not run, there is no bias and no trade.
- No respected gap. If price slices through every level, there is no zone to lean on. Wait.
- No inversion. A bias without a trigger is just an opinion. I need the 15-minute inversion.
- News inside the window. If a major release is about to hit, I let it clear first.
Bottom line
Sweep, bias, gap, inversion. Mark the previous day's liquidity, let it get swept, wait for the fair value gap that keeps holding, and enter on the inversion in the direction of the sweep. Stop below structure, target the liquidity above, and let the trade play out. Simple, repeatable, and high probability when the pieces line up.
If you want to see the read from sweep to exit in real time, it runs on the live stream every weekday morning.
“All I know now is this is a high-probability trade, and I live with the results.
”Kevin Dhesi