Internal Liquidity
The liquidity resting inside the current dealing range — fair value gaps, order blocks, and minor swing points between the range high and low.
What is internal liquidity?
Internal liquidity is everything transactable inside the boundaries of the current dealing range: unfilled fair value gaps, order blocks awaiting mitigation, and the stops behind minor swing highs and lows formed within the range. It contrasts with external liquidity — the pools beyond the range's extremes.
The distinction drives a core delivery model: price alternates between internal and external. After sweeping an external pool (the range high), price typically rotates back through the range to rebalance internal inefficiencies (an open FVG, an unmitigated order block) before making its next expansion. Knowing which type was just taken tells you which is likely next.
Trading the internal-external rotation
When price has just taken external liquidity and reversed, internal targets become the objective: the nearest unfilled FVG, the midpoint of the range, the unmitigated block on the other side. Conversely, when internal inefficiencies have been cleaned up and price sits balanced near equilibrium, the next draw is usually external — the untouched range extreme.
This framing prevents the most common targeting error: expecting continuation to new extremes when the market still owes a rebalance inside the range, or fading a move that has finished its internal work and is free to expand.
How Pushing Profits applies it
The platform's range logic tracks both layers: breaker-anchored dealing ranges define the external boundaries, while the imbalance scanner maps the internal FVGs still open inside them. Signals target the appropriate layer — EQ bounces target external extremes, sweep-reversals target the internal inefficiencies left behind.
Frequently asked questions
What counts as internal vs external liquidity?
Draw the dealing range from the anchoring swing low to swing high. Anything inside — gaps, blocks, minor swings — is internal. The pools beyond the range high (buy-side) and below the range low (sell-side) are external.
Which is the better target?
Whichever the market hasn't taken recently. After an external sweep, internal inefficiencies are the high-probability draw; after internal rebalancing near equilibrium, external extremes are. Alternation, not preference.
Do internal liquidity levels make good entries?
Yes — fresh internal FVGs and order blocks aligned with the higher-timeframe draw are the standard entry zones. The external pools are usually where you exit, not enter.