Quick answer

One model, traded the same way every day. A liquidity sweep into a higher-timeframe PD array (my 4-hour fair value gap), a retrace into a 5 or 15-minute gap, and a 1-minute inversion for the entry. Sweep, retrace, inversion. Then I let it run to the opposite liquidity.

Introduction

This is the model I lean on most. I call it v4 because I have refined the same idea over and over until it got this simple. It is not ten setups. It is one read, repeated.

The pieces: a liquidity sweep into a 4-hour fair value gap as the higher-timeframe gravity, a retrace into a 5 or 15-minute gap, and a 1-minute inversion as the trigger. Stack them in that order and the trade comes to you.

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Liquidity sweep, higher-timeframe PD array, retrace into a 5 or 15-minute fair value gap, and take the 1-minute inversion. That is as simple as I can explain it.

”Kevin Dhesi · @dhesi_trades

How the model reads on the chart

Price sweeps the liquidity, taps the 4-hour gap, then expands back the other way. My job is to wait for the retrace into a lower-timeframe gap and let the 1-minute inversion trigger me in.

Sweep to Inversion

Diagram of the V4 model: a liquidity sweep into the 4-hour FVG and higher timeframe PD array, then a 1-minute inversion entry at the IFVG that runs 2R to the target
Figure 1Sweep into the 4-hour FVG, expand up, retrace into a 5 or 15-minute gap, enter on the 1-minute inversion, run to buyside liquidity.
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The playbook

Sweep to Inversion. The Playbook
  1. Liquidity sweep into the HTF PD array. My anchor is a 4-hour fair value gap. In discount I am hunting longs, the opposite for shorts.
  2. Retrace into a 5 or 15-minute FVG. The move off the array leaves a gap. Wait for price to come back into it.
  3. The 1-minute inversion is the entry. The gap inverts on the 1-minute, you enter, stop goes below the invalidation.
  4. Target the opposite liquidity. Buyside for longs, sellside for shorts. On this one it ran about 3.2R.

Two ways I take the entry

  • Futures. I wait for the move up off the array, let it create the 5 or 15-minute gap, and take the 1-minute inversion on the retrace. This is the clean version.
  • Options (0 DTE). When I am very confident in the system and the array is obvious, I take the entry straight off the higher-timeframe gap for a zero-day expiry. Same read, a different vehicle.

If the move off the array is too small to leave a clean 5 or 15-minute gap, I do not force it. I take the entry straight up off the array and lean on the inversion.

Does it need SMT?

SMT, the divergence between NQ and ES, is a bonus, not a requirement. If it is there, great, it adds confidence. If it is not, the sweep, the array, and the inversion still carry the trade. Do not skip a clean model just because SMT did not print.

When I skip it

  • No higher timeframe gap. Without a 4-hour array to lean on, the sweep is just noise.
  • No retrace into a gap. If price runs and never gives the 5 or 15-minute gap back, there is no entry. Wait.
  • The inversion never confirms. No 1-minute inversion, no trigger. I do not chase the move.
  • I am fighting the higher timeframe. If the trade fades the 4-hour gap, I pass. The array is the gravity.

Bottom line

Sweep, retrace, inversion, target the liquidity. The 4-hour gap gives you the side, the 5 or 15-minute gap gives you the location, the 1-minute inversion gives you the trigger. Take it on futures or as a zero-day option, with or without SMT. Same model, every day.

Want the model in real time? This exact sequence runs on the live stream every weekday morning.

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Same thing over and over. Liquidity sweep, higher-timeframe PD array, retrace into a gap, take the inversion. SMT is good if it is there, but it does not have to be.

”Kevin Dhesi