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Replay: 4 live sweeps

Pause, predict reclaim or continuation, reveal.

14 min · Intermediate

What you'll learn

• Classify a level break as a reclaim, a continuation or a no-trade in real time.
• Build a complete plan (entry, stop, target, R) for the sweeps that qualify.
• Recognize when a technically valid sweep still fails the 2R or clarity test.

Key takeaways

• The skill is calling the break before you see the next candle.
• Pause, run the checklist, plan, then reveal — in that order every time.
• Sweeps can happen at highs as well as lows; the logic mirrors.
• A slow reclaim or failed retest usually means no sweep trade.
• Grade the quality of your read and plan, not the P&L.

Glossary

• Replay — Stepping through a past session candle by candle to practice decisions without seeing the outcome.
• Continuation — Price keeps moving in the direction of the break instead of reversing.
• Process grade — Scoring a trade on the quality of the read and plan, separate from whether it made money.

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