Who got swept this week
Every trader has watched price punch through an obvious level, take out the stops, and reverse. We count it. The Street Sweep logs every pierce of the Asian range and the prior day's high or low across the FX majors and gold — how deep it went, whether the level was reclaimed, and how far price ran back the other way. Updated daily, losers included.
Longer view: over the last 120 days we logged 1199 sweeps, and 69% reclaimed their level within four hours. Most breaks of an obvious level are not breakouts — they are the market collecting the stops resting behind it.
| Sweeps | Reclaimed ≤4h | Median depth | Median reversal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London morning | 26 | 77% | 14.3 pips | 14.8 pips |
| London/NY overlap | 19 | 63% | 18.6 pips | 16.7 pips |
| Asia | 17 | 71% | 13.0 pips | 15.8 pips |
| New York | 1 | 100% | 12.4 pips | 10.7 pips |
| Sweeps | Reclaimed ≤4h | Median depth | Median reversal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prior-day low | 23 | 74% | 20.5 pips | 17.8 pips |
| Prior-day high | 18 | 67% | 12.1 pips | 11.2 pips |
| Asian range high | 13 | 85% | 12.9 pips | 17.0 pips |
| Asian range low | 9 | 56% | 15.4 pips | 15.6 pips |
| Sweeps | Reclaimed ≤4h | Median depth | Median reversal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUR/USD | 9 | 56% | 8.9 pips | 17.8 pips |
| GBP/JPY | 9 | 89% | 17.8 pips | 19.8 pips |
| USD/JPY | 8 | 50% | 13.2 pips | 8.4 pips |
| GBP/USD | 8 | 88% | 13.7 pips | 10.7 pips |
| EUR/JPY | 8 | 88% | 18.2 pips | 10.7 pips |
| XAU/USD | 5 | 100% | $22.23 | $18.63 |
| NZD/USD | 4 | 50% | 11.2 pips | 10.8 pips |
| AUD/USD | 4 | 50% | 13.4 pips | 8.5 pips |
| USD/CAD | 4 | 100% | 12.6 pips | 13.2 pips |
| USD/CHF | 4 | 25% | 15.7 pips | 68.7 pips |
Our liquidity-sweep alerts only fire after a level is swept and reclaimed — never into the break. This page is the base rate behind that design.
Methodology
Levels are pre-registered. We only track levels that exist before the event: the Asian-session range (00:00–07:00 UTC, on the pairs where that range is meaningful) and the prior UTC trading day's high and low. Nothing is chosen after the fact.
A sweep must clear a noise floor. A pierce counts only if it exceeds the level by at least 4 pips (major pairs) or $1.50 (gold) — comfortably beyond typical feed differences between brokers. First qualifying pierce per level per day; days that gap open beyond a level don't count.
Reclaim and reversal are measured, not judged. A level is “reclaimed” when a 15-minute candle closes back on the original side within 4 hours of the pierce. The reversal figure is how far price traveled back through the level after the reclaim, within that same window.
Data source: OANDA mid prices, M15 granularity. Every number on this page is reproducible from public candle data.
What we do not claim: this data shows how often the pattern occurs — it does not prove who moved the market or why. Spot FX has no consolidated tape. We publish the base rates; draw your own conclusions.