Every model, explained properly.
No Discord screenshots, no vague "smart money is buying here". Each model below gives you the idea behind it, the exact conditions, where the entry, stop and target go, and — most importantly — when you should not take it.
Exactly how the scanner decides a setup is valid
No black box and no opinions. Every alert is the result of five checks on the raw candle data — Open, High, Low and Close. If one check fails, no alert is sent. Read this once and you will be able to verify every signal with your own eyes on the chart.
The radar marks the liquidity
Before anything can be swept, the radar needs to know where the crowd's stop losses are parked. Those sit right above obvious highs and right below obvious lows.
Asia High/Low = highest and lowest price between 00:00 and 08:00 UTC. London High/Low = 07:00 to 10:00 UTC. PDH/PDL = yesterday's high and low.
Why it matters: These are the only levels the scanner will ever hunt. Nothing subjective, nothing drawn by hand.
A liquidity sweep is a wick, not a break
Price pokes above the level, grabs the stops sitting there, and is immediately rejected back down. That rejection is the sweep.
Sweep of a high = candle High is above the level AND the candle Close is back below it. Sweep of a low = candle Low is below the level AND the Close is back above it.
Why it matters: If the candle body closes outside the level, it is a genuine breakout and the radar stays silent. This single rule removes most false alerts.
A Fair Value Gap is pure arithmetic
When price moves so fast that three candles in a row leave a hole behind, that hole is an imbalance — a Fair Value Gap (FVG).
Bullish FVG: candle 3 Low is higher than candle 1 High. Bearish FVG: candle 3 High is lower than candle 1 Low. The empty space between them is the gap.
Why it matters: There is nothing to interpret. Either those two numbers do not overlap, or there is no gap.
The gap inverts (iFVG)
A gap that price later slices straight through flips its job: old support becomes resistance, old resistance becomes support.
A candle must Close fully on the other side of the gap, and it must happen AFTER the sweep — never before.
Why it matters: The inversion is the proof that the move has actually changed direction, not just paused.
Entry ready — the retest
The radar never chases price. It waits for price to come back and touch the inverted gap one more time, then it alerts you.
Entry = the edge of the inverted gap. Stop = a few ticks beyond the sweep wick. Target = at least 2x the risk, or the opposite side of the range.
Why it matters: You get a fixed entry, a fixed invalidation point and a fixed target before you click anything.
The maths that actually makes you money
No model on earth is right every time — anyone promising that is selling you something. What decides your account is risk-to-reward: how much you make when you are right compared to what you lose when you are wrong.
| Risk : Reward | Win rate needed | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 1 : 1 | 51% | Almost no margin for error |
| 1 : 2 | 34% | Profitable with 1 winner in 3 |
| 1 : 3 | 26% | Profitable with 1 winner in 4 |
This is why every alert ships with an entry, an invalidation and a target. Take the same setup the same way every time and the maths does the rest.
What the radar is — and what it is not
My Funded Trading is pattern recognition and education. It spots the conditions above and tells you the moment they are met. It is not financial advice, it does not place orders, and no setup is ever guaranteed. You take the trade and you carry the risk — always with a stop loss.
The five scanner models
These are wired into the live dashboard. Every alert MFT sends comes from one of them.
Session Sweep + Inversion FVG
The core reversal model. Liquidity above/below a session extreme is taken, price rejects and closes back through a fair value gap that then flips into support or resistance.
ICT Silver Bullet
A strictly time-boxed model. One hour, one setup, then you close the laptop.
PDH / PDL Liquidity Run
Yesterday's high and low are the most obvious pools on the chart. Price either raids them and reverses, or breaks and expands.
Fair Value Gap (FVG)
The three-candle imbalance that price keeps coming back to.
Inversion FVG (iFVG)
A failed fair value gap that flips polarity — the single strongest confirmation in this playbook.
Turtle Soup
Fading the classic 20-period breakout that fails.
Previous Week High & Low (PWH / PWL Liquidity)
The weekly extremes are the largest resting liquidity pools on an intraday chart — and the cleanest reversal levels of the week.
New York Midnight Open (The True Day Open)
One single price decides whether you are buying at a discount or paying a premium for the rest of the day.
Foundations — read the chart correctly
The concepts every one of the core models is built from. Start here if ICT and SMC are new to you.
Liquidity Sweep / Stop Raid
The wick that takes the stops before the real move starts.
Market Structure Shift (MSS / CHoCH)
The moment the trend officially breaks — your permission slip to trade the reversal.
Power of Three (AMD)
Accumulation, Manipulation, Distribution — how almost every trading day is shaped.
Asia & London Session Levels
The four lines that decide where the day's liquidity sits.
Equal Highs & Equal Lows
Flat, obvious levels where stops stack up like a magnet.
Daily Bias & Draw on Liquidity
Before the session starts, decide which pool price is most likely to reach.
Risk, R-Multiples & Prop Firm Rules
The model does not blow the account. Position sizing does.
Advanced patterns
Extra context experienced traders layer on top once the core five are second nature.
Order Block
The last opposing candle before a violent move — a supply or demand zone with a story.
Breaker Block
A failed order block that flips sides. The structural cousin of the inversion gap.
Judas Swing
The fake move at the open that betrays everyone who chased it.
SMT Divergence
NQ makes a new low, ES refuses. One of them is lying — and it is usually the one that broke.
Optimal Trade Entry (OTE)
The 62–79% retracement pocket where continuation entries live.