# Buyside & Sellside Liquidity

Buyside & Sellside Liquidity is an indicator on [Vela](https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart), our next-generation charting platform, written in Pine Script®.

Buyside & Sellside Liquidity marks the levels where stop clusters rest (buyside above recent highs, sellside below recent lows), along with the zones around them and the liquidity voids between. Adjustable detection, display modes, and breach alerts bring ICT-style liquidity mapping to any chart.

- Indicator in the LuxAlgo Library, by LuxAlgo, published May 25, 2023.
- Access: free.
- Concepts: [Buy-side Liquidity](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/buy-side-liquidity/) (primary), [Sell-side Liquidity](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/sell-side-liquidity/), [Liquidity Pool](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/liquidity-pool/)
- Open on Vela: https://vela.luxalgo.com/chart?pineScriptCodeId=cmpwn0ofo000uvhsg47vvg7gf
- Page: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/buyside-sellside-liquidity/

**Buyside & Sellside Liquidity** maps the resting-order geography at the heart of ICT trading: [buy-side liquidity](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/buy-side-liquidity/) pooled above prior highs where short sellers' stops accumulate, and [sell-side liquidity](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/concept/sell-side-liquidity/) beneath prior lows where long stops rest. The indicator marks these levels, shades configurable zones around them, and detects liquidity voids (optional, off by default): stretches price leapt through in a three-bar gap wider than the 200-bar ATR, which tend to get filled eventually.

## How to Trade the Buyside & Sellside Liquidity?

- **Reversal at liquidity**: price reaching a level often takes the resting orders and retreats toward the opposite extreme, the sweep-and-fade read.
- **Continuation on breach**: once a zone is decisively traded through, the market may keep running in the breakout's direction.
- **Voids as magnets**: bullish and bearish voids mark one-sided displacement, and a return to fill them is a common target idea.
- **Alerts**: notifications for newly detected levels and for breaches keep the map working while you are away.

These readings follow ICT concepts by Michael J. Huddleston, which do not always coincide with other methodologies. Treat the levels as context feeding your own execution rules.

## Buyside & Sellside Liquidity Settings

- **Detection Length**: the lookback used to qualify liquidity levels.
- **Margin**: controls detection sensitivity.
- **Buyside / Sellside Liquidity Zones**: zone display with adjustable margins and colors for each side.
- **Mode**: *Present* covers the last 500 bars, *Historical* processes all available data.
- **Visible Levels**: caps how many levels and zones remain on the chart.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What actually sits at these levels?

Concentrations of resting orders: the stops of short sellers above old highs and of longs below old lows. The indicator's job is making those pools visible in advance, so you can anticipate which one price is drawing toward instead of discovering it after the sweep.

### What are liquidity voids?

Abrupt one-directional runs that leave a stretch of price barely traded, shaded in separate bullish and bearish colors on the chart. If imbalances are your primary interest, [Liquidity Voids (FVG)](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-voids-fvg/) devotes an entire display to them, while this build keeps voids alongside the liquidity levels.

### How do I access Buyside & Sellside Liquidity?

Free, from this LuxAlgo Library page. No subscription needed. The same page lets you run it inside Quant, our coding agent, to explore how the levels behave on your instrument. You can also copy the source code from this page and run it anywhere Pine Script® runs.

## Related indicators

- [Liquidity Swings](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-swings/) (Buy-side Liquidity): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-swings.md
- [Liquidity Levels](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-levels/) (Buy-side Liquidity): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-levels.md
- [Liquidation Levels](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidation-levels/) (Liquidity Pool): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidation-levels.md
- [Liquidity Sweeps](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-sweeps/) (Liquidity Pool): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/liquidity-sweeps.md
- [Ultimate AMD Indicator](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/ultimate-amd-indicator/) (Judas Swing): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/ultimate-amd-indicator.md
- [Sweeps & IFVGs](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/sweeps-ifvgs/) (Liquidity Sweep): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/sweeps-ifvgs.md
- [FVG + Liquidity Sweep + CISD](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/fvg-liquidity-sweep-cisd/) (Liquidity Sweep): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/fvg-liquidity-sweep-cisd.md
- [CRT Sweep & Setup Highlighter](https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/crt-sweep-setup-highlighter/) (Liquidity Sweep): markdown at https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/crt-sweep-setup-highlighter.md

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Source: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/indicator/buyside-sellside-liquidity/ (LuxAlgo Library). Free to use with attribution: https://www.luxalgo.com/library/license/