Liquidity Zones — Stop Pools & Liquidity Grabs
What Liquidity Zones shows
The price levels where stop orders are likely to be resting. Stops are not scattered randomly: they collect just beyond equal highs and lows, past swing extremes, above and below the previous day's, week's and month's range, and at round numbers. The page clusters those levels into weighted pools and draws each pool as a band on the chart, the same way imbalance zones are drawn.
How a pool's weight is estimated
Weight reflects how much liquidity is likely to rest at a level, not how strong a signal is. Equal highs and lows carry the most, because a double top or bottom is visible to every participant and stops stack behind it. Period extremes come next, then single swing points, then round numbers. Volume on the bar that formed the level, the number of separate touches and how long the level has stood untouched all raise the weight; price trading through the level drops it, because the orders there are already gone.
Why distance matters as much as size
A large pool far away is less relevant than a medium pool close by, because markets reach for the nearest resting orders first. Each pool's contribution is therefore divided by its distance from price measured in ATR, so the same level matters more on a quiet day than on a volatile one. Comparing the totals above and below price gives a single reading of which side carries the heavier magnet.
What a liquidity grab is, and why it matters more than proximity
A grab is when price pokes through a pool and then closes back on the original side. That is stops being harvested rather than a level being broken — a genuine break leaves price beyond the level. Grabs are marked on the chart because price simply being near a pool says little, while a pool that has just been taken often precedes a move back toward the opposite pool.
How the timeframe strip is meant to be read
1H, 4H, 1D and 1W each get their own reading, with higher timeframes weighted more heavily. When they agree on which side the liquidity sits, the higher timeframe suggests the direction and the lower one the entry area. When they disagree, price is sitting between two pools — that is a range, and the disagreement is itself the useful information.
What this page deliberately does not do
It issues no buy or sell verdict. The pool weights and the bias formula are derived from how stop placement works, but they have not yet been validated against a baseline, and an unvalidated score presented as a signal is worse than no signal. Treat the output as a map of where orders rest and combine it with your own structure read.