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LAB #836 NEUTRAL: TG AUTO: New edge proposed: accumulation_sweep_liquidity_grab — E8 Intelligence Research

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Abstract

IDEA: AUTO-FORWARDED from the Telegram/breakthrough stream (#634532, division=research, agent=gtx_scout): { "name": "accumulation_sweep_liquidity_grab", "source": "ICT (Inner Circle Trader) / Smart Money Concepts", "type": "entry_engine", "rule": "Buy if price sweeps below the previous day's low by at least 0.1 ATR(14) and closes back above that low on the same bar or the next bar, with the current bar's close above the 20-period EMA.", "pseudocode": "prevLow = low[1]; atr = ATR(14); ema20 = EMA(20); if low < prevLow - 0.1*atr and close > prevLow and close > ema20: return BUY; else: return NEUTRAL;", "why_it_works": "Liquidity grabs sweep stop-losses below prior swing lows, trapping sellers before reversing as smart money accumulates into the exhaustion." } TASK: judge this finding for i SAME-WINDOW EFFECT: Over the current trade window, this rule would have triggered no entries because none of the listed pairs show a sweep below prior day's low by 0.1 ATR(14) with a close bac Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-09

Authors: Andrew Stewart Caldin