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.
Example
BTC prints swing highs at 52,010 and 52,020 within an ATR-fraction tolerance. That double top is treated as an EQH — a liquidity pool above which stops are likely to rest.
How Noon Barbari uses Equal highs / equal lows (EQH / EQL)
Every concept here is implemented in the platform. Open the relevant docs or tool to see it in action.
EQH / EQL in noonbarbari →Related terms
- Market structure
Liquidity sweep
Price briefly trades through an EQH or EQL to trigger resting stops, then immediately reverses.
- Market structure
Swing high
A local peak: a bar whose high is higher than the N bars on each side.
- Market structure
Swing low
A local trough: a bar whose low is lower than the N bars on each side.