Price does not move to be fair — it moves to fill orders. Every major intraday reversal in Bitcoin and gold begins the same way: price sweeps resting liquidity above a high or below a low, traps breakout traders, then reverses hard. Learning to read these sweeps instead of chasing them is the single highest-leverage skill in day trading.

These five setups work across both BTC and XAU/USD because both are deep, liquid, 24-hour (or near-24-hour) markets dominated by algorithmic stop-hunting. Each setup below includes the liquidity target, the confirmation trigger, and where the trade is invalidated.