Crypto Equal Highs and Equal Lows: Finding Resting Liquidity on USDT Pairs

• Equal highs - two or more swing highs at almost the same price. Above them sit the buy stops of shorts and the orders of breakout buyers: buy-side liquidity.
• Equal lows - matching swing lows, with sell stops, breakdown orders and, on crypto, long liquidations below them: sell-side liquidity.

The rule the page uses

• Swings - a high above the three days before it and not below the three after (lows the mirror), from the last 120 days. Three days each side, shorter than the five used elsewhere on the Smart Money pages, so smaller double tops are found too.
• Equal - within 0.1 × ATR 14 of each other. BCH's ATR was about 16 in early November, so within 1.6.
• Clean - nothing between the two swings traded beyond the pair by more than that tolerance.
• The level - the higher of equal highs, the lower of equal lows. Touches counts the swings that share it.
• Untaken - nothing has traded beyond the level from the newest swing up to the day before.

What happens on the day shown

• Untaken - still resting.
• Swept today - the wick went through and the close came back.
• Taken today - the close went through.

A swept or taken level leaves the page from the next day: its liquidity has been used.

How these examples were made: the page's newest day for visitors who are not signed in was Sunday 8 November 2026, which listed no pairs (see "Weekends" below), and past dates need a free sign-in. So the rows here come from running the page's own rules (the same backend functions) on Binance spot candles grouped into IST days, the source of Unfluke's crypto archive. The page's own numbers can differ slightly where its minute archive has a gap.

BCHUSDT: resting, swept, taken

• The level. Swing lows on 19 October (263.9) and 30 October (263.3), 0.04 ATR apart: equal lows at 263.30.
• 5 November: Within 1 ATR. BCH closed at 273.6, 0.63 ATR above the level.
• 6 November: Swept today. The low reached 261.5, under 263.30, and the close came back to 266.4, 0.19 ATR above it.
• 7 November: taken. BCH closed at 257.9, through the level: a bearish CHoCH on the Market Structure page. It closed at 245.6 the next day.

The sweep of 6 November looked like the textbook stop hunt, and the next close went straight through. A sweep is a reading of one day; it becomes a reversal only if the next closes say so.

BNBUSDT: three touches, taken with a break

BNB had equal lows at 703.62 with three touches from 10 September to 19 October. On 30 October it closed at 698.65 on 5.7 times its usual volume: Taken today, 0.2 ATR through, and the same close was a bearish BOS. The liquidity fuelled the move rather than reversing it. The day's low was exactly 680.00; round numbers are where many crypto traders leave orders, and the page does not mark them.

Two sweeps on the sell-off day

The same 30 October also showed ETCUSDT's equal lows at 7.08 and ADAUSDT's at 0.1894 as Swept today: both wicked through and closed back above. Neither held: by 2 November both had closed below their levels. On a day when the whole market falls, an alt's sweep of its own lows says little about that alt.

BTCUSDT: equal highs resting above

Bitcoin's swing highs of 22 September and 2 October stopped at the same price: equal highs at 87,395.67, untaken since. On 6 November, with BTC at 75,856, the level sat 4.8 ATR (about 15%) above. For anyone reading a turn in Bitcoin, that is the obvious pool of buy-side liquidity to aim at, and a long way off.

1. As a target (Untaken). When you already have an idea from another page, the nearest equal highs above a long (equal lows below a short) are the natural first target. Away (ATR) says how far; under 1 ATR, there is little room left.
2. As a sweep to confirm (Swept today). Wait for the next close to move away from the level, or a break on Market Structure. BCH shows what happens without that: the next close went through.
3. As a breakout (Taken today). A close through on heavy volume means the stops fuelled a move. The old level often acts as resistance (for lows) or support (for highs) on the first retest; a close back through cancels the idea.
4. As a place to keep your own stop away from. If equal lows sit just under your long, so do everyone's stops and many liquidation prices. A stop a little beyond the obvious level, with a smaller position, is less likely to be swept.
5. Check BTC and round numbers. Note whether a round number (680.00, 75,000) sits near the level, and what Bitcoin is doing: on a market-wide day the alts' levels go together.

These are ideas to study, paper-trade and backtest, not recommendations or signals, and not a promise of any result. Every condition below can fail. Crypto trades around the clock and can move sharply at any hour; leverage and options can lose more than you expect, and past behaviour says nothing certain about the next session. Size, entries, exits and risk are your own decisions.

1. Liquidity as the target

• Setup: a long idea from another page with untaken equal highs above.
• Idea: the equal highs are the first target; judge the trade by the reward to that level against the risk to your invalidation.

2. Sweep, then confirm

• Setup: Swept today on equal lows, on a day when BTC did not make a new low.
• Entry idea: a close above the sweep day's high in the next days.
• Invalidation: a close below the sweep's low.

3. Taken with volume

• Setup: Taken today with a volume ratio above 2, as BNB on 30 October.
• Idea: a retest of the old level from the other side that holds.
• Invalidation: a close back through the level.

4. Within 1 ATR: tomorrow's list

• Setup: the Within 1 ATR tab, like BCH on 5 November.
• Idea: decide before the next day what a sweep and what a take would mean for each pair, rather than reacting after.

How to test these

Step back through past weekdays, record each Swept Today and Taken Today row, and check the next ten days: after a sweep, how often did price move at least 1 ATR away before closing through the level? After a take, how often did the level hold on the retest?

Risk per trade - risk a small, fixed share of capital on any one idea. Crypto never closes, so a stop is the only exit while you sleep; with leverage, keep the liquidation price well beyond the stop. When selling options, prefer defined-risk structures (spreads, iron condors) over naked positions.

Test before you trade - write the rules down exactly, test them on past data (see how to backtest an options strategy and the Option Simulator, which supports crypto), then paper-trade at least 20 occurrences before committing real money. Keep a journal of every trade, including the ones you skipped.

Every Smart Money page has a Candles setting: Daily (the default) or Weekly. Weekly runs the same rules on weekly candles built from the same daily bars.

• A crypto week is Monday to Sunday in IST: the open of Monday 00:00, the week's high and low, the close of Sunday 23:59, with volume added up. Every date in a weekly row is that week's Sunday.
• The current week is the week so far. On a Monday its candle is one day old, so a weekly row seen mid-week can change, or drop off, by Sunday's close.
• Counts become weeks. A swing needs five weeks on each side, ATR 14 is fourteen weeks, and every look-back counts weeks.
• What stays daily. The liquidity gate (the day's turnover and volume), the last price and change.

A weekly idea for equal levels: on Weekly the swings are three weeks on each side, so equal weekly lows are double bottoms months apart, levels traders on every timeframe can see. Applying the page's rules to Binance weekly candles on 6 November 2026, HBARUSDT had weekly equal lows at 0.06429 (weeks to 19 July and 23 August) only 0.32 weekly ATR below the price, and ICPUSDT at 1.99 (weeks to 8 February and 2 August), 0.92 weekly ATR below. A weekly sweep of such a level carries more weight than a daily one.

• Tabs - All (every untaken level, plus the day's sweeps and takes), Equal Highs, Equal Lows, Within 1 ATR, Swept Today, Taken Today.
• Order - the day's sweeps and takes first, then the resting levels nearest the close.
• Columns - Symbol and LTP; Side; Level; Touches; First and Last (the oldest and newest swing); Away (ATR), negative once taken; State; Chart, with the level drawn across the candles.
• Controls - Candles (Daily or Weekly), Universe (All, Futures, Options) and the session date.

The daily candles are rolled up from Unfluke's one-minute spot archive (Binance data) into IST days, 00:00 to 23:59. A "session" on these pages is one such day; crypto has no weekends or holidays, so ten sessions are ten calendar days.

• Which pairs. The live USDT pairs, about 33 on 8 November 2026, with stablecoins left out. The Universe box narrows them to the pairs with a perpetual future (Futures) or with options (Options) in the archive.
• The liquidity gate. A pair is listed only when its 20-day average turnover is above $500,000 and the day's volume is above 0.8 times its 20-day average. There is no circuit rule; crypto has no price bands.
• Weekends. Crypto volume drops on Saturdays and Sundays, and the 0.8× test is made against the average of the 20 days before, most of them weekdays. Applying the gate to Binance candles for 30 pairs: 29 passed on Friday 30 October, 26 on Thursday 5 November, but only 1 on Saturday 7 November and 1 on Sunday 8 November (BTC's volume that Sunday was 0.35 times its average). A row that disappears at the weekend has usually not failed; it is just not shown. Read these pages on a weekday close, or pick one with the session date.
• The newest day can be unfinished. The daily bars are topped up during the day, so the newest day's high, low and volume are partial until 23:59 IST.
• History. The scan pages read about 400 days of daily bars, so a weekly row can rest on at most about 57 weeks. Swings are five days each side (three on Equal Highs & Lows), ATR is 14 days, and zones and swings are followed for 120 days: about four months, not the six months the same 120 sessions span on NSE.
• One exchange, spot only. A wick on one venue may not exist on another, and liquidations happen in perpetual futures, whose volume is often several times spot volume and is not counted here.
• Visitors. Without signing in you see the newest day on daily candles; past dates and the Weekly setting need a free account.
• Round numbers are not marked. The page finds levels from swings only. Crypto traders cluster orders at round prices (75,000 on BTC, 700 on BNB), so check for one near any level you use.

Smart Money Concepts are a way of reading a chart, popularised by the trader known as ICT. There is no official rulebook and no published evidence that they work better than other methods; the pages apply one fixed reading so a row can be checked by hand. They describe what price did, not what it will do.

Open the page at Smart Money → Equal Highs & Lows (switch the market to Crypto), or sign up free to open the Market Terminal. The NSE version, with the full list of columns, is explained in the Equal Highs & Lows guide.

The other crypto Smart Money guides: SMC Setups, SMT Divergence, Market Structure, Retracement / OTE. The building blocks (fair value gaps, order blocks and liquidity sweeps) are explained in the Fair Value Gaps, Order Blocks and Liquidity Sweeps guides.