SWEEP → IFVG → FVG

A shared confluence framework for MGC/GC and NQ/MNQ futures.

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SWEEP

Price runs to an obvious liquidity level — a swing high/low where stop-losses are stacked — and takes it out.

Find the real level: plot the line chart (body closes only) to spot clean swing peaks, then switch back to candles and drag the level to the highest/lowest wick touching that peak. That wick, not the body, is the real stop cluster.

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IFVG (Inversion FVG)

Almost immediately after the sweep, an existing Fair Value Gap gets tapped and the candle body (not the wick) closes all the way through it.

That close proves whoever was defending that zone lost control — confirmation the sweep was real, not a fakeout.

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FVG

A fresh Fair Value Gap forms in the new true direction.

This box is the sniper entry zone.

Real Chart Examples

Source video diagram: liquidity sweep into FVG box, from the TP Carlos YouTube video

Source diagram

The base pattern straight from TP Carlos's video — liquidity sweep marked at the swing low, FVG box drawn over the reversal, price running up through it.

Live NQ futures chart on TradingView showing the sweep, IFVG, and FVG zones marked in blue, yellow, and red/pink boxes

NQ 5m — zones marked

Same three zones (sweep / IFVG / FVG) drawn live on an NQ 5-minute chart in TradingView replay mode, ahead of the drop that follows.

Live NQ futures chart annotated with Sweep, IFVG, and FVG callouts and a closed trade showing 89.00 PnL at a 1.47 risk/reward ratio

NQ 5m — trade walkthrough

Same setup talked through step by step, closed out at +89.00 PnL, R:R 1.47 — a real example of the sequence playing out and getting taken.

Worked Examples

Original illustrative sketches — one short, one long — walking the same three zones step by step.

Sweep of Highs → Short

Bearish
1 · SWEEP 2 · IFVG 3 · FVG Entry Stop Target 1:3R

Uptrend sweeps the prior swing high on a wick, an old bullish FVG gets tapped and closed through (IFVG), then a fresh bearish FVG box forms — short on a rejection back into it, stop above the sweep wick, target 3x the risk.

Illustrative sketch built to the framework's rules — not a live trade screenshot.

Sweep of Lows → Long

Bullish
1 · SWEEP 2 · IFVG 3 · FVG Entry Stop Target 1:3R

Downtrend sweeps the prior swing low on a wick, an old bearish FVG gets tapped and closed through (IFVG), then a fresh bullish FVG box forms — long on a rejection back into it, stop below the sweep wick, target 3x the risk.

Illustrative sketch built to the framework's rules — not a live trade screenshot.

Glossary

Fair Value Gap (FVG)

3+ same-colored candles pushing one direction (a supply or demand push). Take candle 1 and candle 3, skip the middle candle. The leftover space between them is the gap/box — price is expected to eventually tap back into it.

Bearish FVG

Bottom wick of candle 1 to top wick/body of candle 3.

Bullish FVG

Top wick of candle 1 to bottom wick/body of candle 3.

Entry / Stop / Target

Entry

  • Never enter on the first touch of the new FVG box.
  • Aggressive entry: a strong rejection/push candle off the box.
  • Safer entry: wait for a confirmed engulfing candle closing back out of the box.
  • Works in any session — NY, Asia, London.

Stop / Target

  • Stop-loss sits a few ticks beyond the FVG box — above it for shorts, below it for longs.
  • Minimum target: 1:3 R, taken mechanically even if price keeps running.
  • Multiple-FVG rule: if more than one FVG stacks in the same move, only take the 1st or 2nd. Skip the 3rd — it fails more often than it works.

⚠ Open Items / Caveats