What Is on the ICT Scanners List Inside LiquidityScan?
LiquidityScan runs over a dozen ICT / Smart-Money detection engines that read confirmed candles and surface named patterns as browsable signals. The scanners list spans four families: momentum and candle, liquidity, order blocks and gaps, and structure and bias, plus a composite alignment layer.
This is a catalog, not a strategy pitch. For each engine below you get the one-line detection rule, the timeframes it runs on, any grade it assigns, and the honest boundary: what it does not output. Only one engine on this ict scanners list produces a full entry with stop and targets; the rest surface zones, structure, or context you still have to trade yourself.
The common plumbing every scanner shares
Before the individual engines, four rules apply platform-wide and matter more than any single pattern:
- Closed candles only, no repaint. Every engine drops the live in-progress bar and detects on confirmed closes. A signal does not appear, move, or vanish mid-candle, so what you see at 14:00 is still there at 14:05.
- $20M volume floor. The crypto signal lists hard-filter any pair under $20,000,000 in 24-hour quote volume, so illiquid names never clutter the feed. TradFi symbols are exempt from this floor.
- Push alerts, not Telegram. Alerts fire via browser Web Push, native Android (FCM), and an in-app bell. Telegram signal delivery was removed; the Telegram link is community-invite only.
- Detection, not advice. Every scanner finds a candidate. None of them is a buy or sell instruction, and none publishes a win rate.
Momentum & candle scanners
These read the last one or two closed candles for a shift in delivery. This is the only family that includes an engine with a mechanical entry.
Super Engulfing (SE) — the only engine with an entry ladder
Finds an engulfing-style momentum candle in two flavors: RUN (continuation) and REV (reversal), each with a stronger "+" variant.
A bullish RUN needs two green candles, a new low taken, and a higher close; a bullish REV needs a green candle after a red one closing back above the prior open. The "+" fires when the close fully engulfs the prior candle's high (bull) or low (bear).
- Timeframes: 4h, 1d, 1w, plus 15m and 5m.
- Grades: RUN / RUN+ / REV / REV+.
- Objective rule: two-candle engulf with a swept extreme and a close beyond the prior body.
- Outputs: the only base scanner with a full entry + stop-loss + TP1/TP2/TP3 ladder at 1:1.5 / 1:2 / 1:3 risk-reward, breakeven stop after TP1, and a candle-count expiry. Those targets are geometric RR levels, not predictions of success.
RSI Divergence
Finds classic RSI-versus-price divergence at a momentum extreme. Bullish = a lower low in price against a higher low in RSI from oversold (<30); bearish = a higher high in price against a lower high in RSI from overbought (>70), using a TradingView-parity Wilder RSI(14).
- Timeframes: 1h, 4h, 1d (hourly only; no sub-hour).
- Grade: none.
- Does NOT: give an entry, stop, or target. It closes once it is no longer the latest pivot pair or after 15 candles. A momentum warning, not a trade.
Pulse (RSI-confluence quality filter)
Pulse is not a new pattern; it is a filter over existing signals. It re-checks base-scanner output (SE, CISD, CISD+IFVG, CRT, ICT Bias, 3-OB) and passes only the ones that also carry RSI(14) confluence on the same timeframe.
Two modes sit side by side: Standard (RSI recently touched the zone without crossing back through the midline) and Strict (RSI inside the zone at the exact signal close, a subset of Standard). It is direction-matched, so oversold confluence passes only longs, and an optional Kill Zone toggle restricts by ICT time-of-day.
Liquidity scanners
These hunt the stop-hunt: a wick that reaches beyond a prior extreme to grab resting orders, then the reaction. Grades here are qualitative, not numeric.
CRT (Candle Range Theory)
Finds a liquidity sweep where a candle wicks beyond the prior candle's high or low but closes its body back inside the prior range, with a smaller body than that prior candle.
- Timeframes: 1h, 4h, 1d, 1w, plus 15m and 5m.
- Grades: STRONG / WEAK / FAILED, judged by the next one-to-two candles' body close.
- Does NOT: provide numeric targets. It keeps only the single latest CRT per symbol and timeframe.
Liquidity Sweep → Reversal
Finds the ICT failed-sweep / stop-run: higher-timeframe liquidity gets swept, then a lower-timeframe pattern reclaims the level. The engine marks HTF buy-side or sell-side liquidity (swing highs/lows), waits for the sweep, then requires an opposite-direction CRT or Super Engulfing to close back through the swept level within five LTF candles. A buy-side sweep points bearish; a sell-side sweep points bullish.
- Timeframes (HTF→LTF pairs): 1w→1d, 1d→4h, 4h→1h. No sub-hour.
- Does NOT: carry a trade plan unless the confirming candle happened to be a Super Engulfing, in which case its ladder rides along in metadata.
Asia Range Sweep (crypto only)
Finds the ICT Asian-session model: sweep the Asian range against the day's bias, then reclaim in the bias direction. The engine marks the Asian session high/low (NY 20:00-00:00) and reads a daily bias from a confluence of its own engines (ICT Bias + CRT + 3OB + Super Engulfing) on the last closed daily.
It then waits for price to sweep the range against that bias, and confirms on a 15m/30m/1h CRT, SE, or strong reclaim near the sweep.
- Timeframes: 15m primary, 30m/1h confirm, daily bias.
- Stages: armed → swept → confirmed, one setup per symbol per 24-hour cycle.
- Does NOT: run on TradFi or Hyperliquid, and allows only one live setup per symbol.
Order block & gap scanners
These map the points of interest ICT traders return to: institutional order blocks and imbalance gaps. Critically, none of them hands you an entry price; they surface a zone and alert its retest.
3OB (Three-bar Order Block)
Finds a three-candle order block: up-down-up that breaks the middle candle's high, or down-up-down that breaks its low.
- Timeframes: 4h, 1d, 1w (hourly only).
- Lifecycle: WIN on a body close past entry, instant FAIL if a later wick breaks the formation extreme, TIME-FAIL after five candles.
- Does NOT: run sub-hour and has no numeric target ladder.
OB+ / OB++ (Strong Order Block)
Finds a liquidity-confirmed strong order block: the last opposite-close candle before an impulse that takes liquidity.
The base zone becomes OB+ when the impulse breaks a prior swing high (buy-side, bull) or swing low (sell-side, bear), the level taken by a wick with no body close required. It becomes OB++ when that impulse also shows displacement of at least 1.5x ATR(14), and an FVG badge is added when the impulse leaves a gap.
- Timeframes: 1h, 4h, 1d, 1w.
- Grades: OB+ (Strong) / OB++ (Super Strong).
- Lifecycle: only fresh, unmitigated zones show; the alert is the retest via a roughly five-minute proximity loop (formed → approaching → touched).
- Does NOT: output an entry, stop, or target. It surfaces a zone.
FVG / FVG+ / FVG++ (Nested Fair Value Gap)
Finds a Fair Value Gap (FVG) (a three-candle imbalance, LuxAlgo rule) graded by how deeply it nests inside same-direction higher-timeframe gaps. A raw gap needs the imbalance, a displacement close, and a noise-size filter. Grade is nesting depth: FVG+ = a gap inside a same-direction higher-TF gap; FVG++ = nested three deep (for example 5m inside 15m inside 1h).
- Timeframes: 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h, 1d, 1w on crypto; 1h to 1w on Hyperliquid.
- Grades surfaced: only FVG+ and FVG++. Plain single-timeframe gaps are intentionally excluded, since the product is multi-TF confluence gaps.
- Does NOT: show every single-TF gap, and gives no trade plan; fresh/untouched zones only, same retest proximity loop as OB+.
Structure & bias scanners
These read where the market is in its trend and which way delivery is pointed. They render structure and context; they do not fire entries.
Market Structure (BOS / CHoCH)
Finds SMC market-structure events: Break of Structure (BOS) for continuation and Change of Character (CHoCH) for a trend flip, at Major (swing) and Minor (internal) resolution, as a faithful port of the TradingFinder SMC indicator.
- Timeframes: 1h, 4h, 1d, 1w, computed independently per timeframe.
- Modes: Simple (latest BOS/CHoCH per symbol+TF) and Sequence (fires when a user-defined ordered pattern of up to three events completes, e.g. "CHoCH → BOS → BOS"), with a curated 12-item sequence catalog.
- Does NOT: give an entry; no sub-hour in v1.
ICT Bias
Finds the current directional bias of a market. If the last closed candle closes above the prior candle's high the bias is bullish; below the prior low, bearish; inside the range, ranging with no signal.
- Timeframes: 4h, 1d, 1w, plus 15m and 5m.
- Lifecycle: validated by the next candle's body close against the level that broke the range (WIN/FAILED), one signal per detected bar.
- Does NOT: give an entry, stop, or target. It is a bias read, not a trade.
CISD / MSS (Change in State of Delivery)
Finds a market-structure-shift: a reverse candle, a break of its body level, and a resulting fair-value gap. It is classified High-Prob MSS when the breakout lands in the New-York AM window, otherwise plain MSS.
- Timeframes: 4h, 1d, 1w.
- Lifecycle: no WIN/LOSS grading. It renders the MSS level, a 50% Fib, and a proximity zone; up to three active per symbol+TF, expiring after 200 candles.
- Does NOT: call a win or loss. It visualizes structure. (A related CISD + IFVG variant, a CISD confirmed by an inverse FVG, is available as a building block in Confluence and Scanner Studio, alongside an RSI Levels engine.)
The composite layer: Core-Layer & Confluence
Individual engines find one thing on one timeframe. The composite layer answers the harder question: do several of them agree at once?
Core-Layer (multi-TF confluence)
Finds multi-timeframe alignment chains. It folds live SE, CRT, and ICT Bias signals into stacks where the same direction lines up across timeframes (e.g. Weekly + Daily + 4H all bullish), keeps one per timeframe, prunes temporally incoherent stacks so a stale weekly cannot stack with a fresh daily, and classifies a Weekly / Daily / 4H anchor. It needs at least two aligned timeframes.
- Timeframes: W, 1D, 4H, 1H, plus 15m and 5m via sub-hour.
- Does NOT: detect any new price pattern of its own. It is purely a composite over the base scanners.
Above Core-Layer, a logged-in Confluence catalog lists directional setups that only fire when timeframes agree: Dual (two confirmations), Triple (three), and Sequences (ordered playbooks where each leg must fire after the previous one, e.g. "CHoCH → OB+ tap"). This is how the atomic engines on the ict scanners list combine into a graded read instead of a wall of unrelated signals.
How to choose which scanner fits your style
Match the engine to the job you actually do, not to the fanciest name:
- You want a mechanical, self-contained setup: Super Engulfing is the only engine with a built-in entry, stop, and target ladder.
- You trade zones and time your own entry: OB+/OB++ and FVG+/FVG++ surface the point of interest and alert the retest; you supply the trigger and risk.
- You are a reversal / stop-hunt trader: CRT, Liquidity Sweep → Reversal, and Asia Range Sweep are built around the failed sweep.
- You lead with bias and structure: ICT Bias, Market Structure (BOS/CHoCH), and CISD/MSS frame direction before you drop to an entry engine.
- You demand agreement before acting: Core-Layer and the Confluence catalog stack the above so weak, isolated signals never reach you.
Honest limits of any scanner list
A scanner finds a candidate, period. It does not know your risk, your session, or the macro backdrop, and it publishes no win rate, because the platform does not compute one. WIN/LOSS labels on some engines are internal lifecycle bookkeeping, not performance stats.
Most engines here surface a zone or a bias, not a trade call. Treat every hit as the start of your analysis, size positions yourself, and remember this ict scanners list is analysis and education tooling, not financial advice.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many ICT scanners does LiquidityScan run?
The catalog covers over a dozen detection engines across four families, plus a composite Core-Layer and Confluence layer that combines them. That includes the twelve core scanners here and building-block variants such as RSI Levels and CISD + IFVG that appear inside the Confluence catalog and Scanner Studio.
Do any of these scanners tell me exactly when to enter a trade?
Only Super Engulfing outputs a mechanical entry with stop and TP1/TP2/TP3 as geometric risk-reward levels. Liquidity Sweep → Reversal carries that ladder only when a Super Engulfing was the confirming candle. Every other engine surfaces a zone, structure event, or bias for you to trade with your own rules.
Do LiquidityScan signals repaint or change after they appear?
No. Every engine detects on confirmed, closed candles and drops the live in-progress bar, so a signal is stable once it prints. Some scanners re-grade a setup as the next candles close, for example CRT moving to STRONG, WEAK, or FAILED, but the original detection does not shift on the chart.
Why do some pairs never show any signals?
Crypto signal lists hard-filter any pair under $20,000,000 in 24-hour quote volume, so thin, illiquid names are excluded before detection. TradFi symbols are exempt from that floor. If a coin never appears, it is likely below the liquidity threshold rather than genuinely pattern-free.
Related query paths
Go deeper on how the detection works and how to pick and validate the right engine for your workflow:
- How the LiquidityScan Scanner Works — see the pipeline from raw candles to a detected, non-repainting setup.
- Is LiquidityScan Reliable? — how detection is validated and why closed-candle logic matters.
- Order Block Scanner: Real-Time OB & FVG — the order-block and gap engines in practice.
- Best Fair Value Gap Scanner for ICT — a closer look at nested FVG grading.
- ICT Top-Down Analysis: Multi-Timeframe Alignment — the thinking behind Core-Layer confluence stacks.
- Best ICT Scanner: How to Choose — how to weigh scanners against your own style.
- How to Build a Custom ICT Scanner With No Code — a related angle on custom scanner builder.