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equal_highs_lowsStructure indicator

Equal Highs/Lows

Liquidity pools at equal highs/lows.

What it is

Liquidity pools at equal highs/lows.

Equal highs (EQH) and equal lows (EQL) are clusters of swing pivots that print within a small tolerance of one another. Because stop-loss orders for longs cluster under EQLs and for shorts above EQHs, those levels are de facto liquidity pools.

Smart-money traders treat EQH/EQL as targets, not as walls: price is biased to run them, trigger the resting stops, and then reverse (see Liquidity Sweep). Tolerance is usually defined in ticks, ATR fractions, or basis points — the right value is market- and timeframe-dependent.

EQH/EQL are most powerful when they sit at obvious structural levels (a prior day high, a session high, a round number). Isolated equal pivots in the middle of a range are weaker.

Read the full Equal highs / equal lows (EQH / EQL) definition in the glossary →

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Parameters

ParameterDefaultRange
Swing length32 – 100
ATR threshold ×0.10.01 – 5
ATR period20010 – 500

Output fields

The named values this indicator exposes to your entry and exit rules.

EQH levelEQL levelEQH signalEQL signal

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