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Sell-Side Liquidity (SSL)
The pool of sell stops resting below obvious lows, the mirror image of buy-side liquidity.
What it is
Below clean swing lows rest longs' stop-losses and breakout shorts. This sell-side liquidity is what allows large buyers to fill size: push price into the pool, absorb the selling, reverse. The pattern repeats at every timeframe.
Why it matters
Understanding SSL changes how you read a fast flush: a sharp dip into an obvious low can be the first step of a long setup rather than a reason to panic.
NQ example ILLUSTRATION
NQ breaks Monday's low by 6 points at the New York open, sweeps the stops, and reclaims within two minutes. Sell-side liquidity has been taken and the level reclaimed.