Deep Dive
The three-part liquidity framework
Adeel opens by saying most traders overcomplicate liquidity. He lays down the core rule: find your trend first, because that determines whether you're hunting lows (uptrend) or highs (downtrend). Next, validate those lows or highs by checking if they broke the opposite structure they came from. Finally, stack a point of interest — a demand or supply zone — beneath your liquidity to confirm strength. That's the entire system. No need for session opens or fancy terminology.
Break-of-structure as the filter
When Adeel marks out a downtrend chart, he shows five potential highs initially. He narrows it down ruthlessly. First filter: those highs must sit within the external range, not outside the protected high that defines the trend. Second filter: the high must have actually broken the low it came from. He walks through the geometry — low, high, low, high — and identifies which high is the highest point between the break. Only that high counts. Two highs fail the test immediately. The remaining candidate gets validated by checking if it triggered a break-of-structure.
Nesting for maximum power
Adeel's key insight is that a mini breaker structure sitting inside a bigger breaker structure creates the optimal setup. On a live downtrend chart, he shows a large breaker structure form first, then watches for a smaller one to develop below it. That small structure becomes the liquidity target. When price sweeps into it and a point of interest (a fair value gap or demand zone) sits nearby, the subsequent dump is violent. He runs the same logic backwards for uptrends — big breaker first, mini breaker above, with a fresh demand zone underneath. The pattern repeats on the 5-minute timeframe with even cleaner entries.
Real chart execution
Adeel moves to live examples on the 5-15 minute timeframe. In a downtrend, price pushed lower forming a large breaker, then a mini breaker structure with a high that broke its prior low. He layers in a supply zone and fair value gap as points of interest. The result: price swept that liquidity and dumped hard into new lows — exactly as predicted. He then flips to an uptrend where price built a large breaker, then a mini breaker on top with a fresh demand zone underneath. The sweep into that zone triggered strong buyers pushing price higher. Both examples confirm that when you stack zones correctly and trade with trend, liquidity sweeps have real teeth.