The cycle: accumulation (big money quietly buys a range), spring (final stop-raid below it), markup (the trend everyone sees), distribution (quietly selling into strength), then markdown (the decline everyone sees). The spring is the sweep you now know.
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Wyckoff's 'spring' is…
The breakout
A final flush below the range that fuels the markup correct
A summer event
The spring shakes out the last weak hands. A century-old name for the liquidity sweep.
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