Asia Bucket Sweep

Asia session (20:00–02:00 ET) builds a tight bucket; London open often runs one extreme as a stop-run, then reverses through the bucket toward the opposite side.

The setup

The Asia session (20:00–02:00 ET) typically prints a tight range — a “bucket” of accumulated stop orders just outside the extremes. London (02:00–04:00 ET) regularly opens by raiding one of those extremes, then reversing through the bucket as the real direction asserts itself.

This is the classic ICT manipulation phase, applied to the Asia → London transition. Line ships on our chart HUD as ASIA SWEEP UP / ASIA SWEEP DN.

Entry rules

• Bucket build: capture Asia high & low across 20:00–02:00 ET
• Tightness filter: (asia_hi − asia_lo) < 1.5 × ATR14 — wide buckets don’t reverse cleanly
• Sweep trigger: during 02:00–04:00 ET, a bar must high > asia_hi (or low < asia_lo) AND close back inside the bucket
• Direction: opposite of the sweep (sweep up → short; sweep down → long)
• Stop: beyond the sweep extreme + buffer
• Target: opposite bucket edge, or bucket_width past it for the IB-extension variant

Why Tier 2

Cleanest when the bucket is genuinely tight — wide-range Asia sessions usually mean directional bias, not chop, and the “sweep” turns into a real breakout. Quality of the bucket matters more than mechanical pattern recognition.

History

• 2026-04-28 — Page created. Pattern overlaps materially with PRELON SWEEP and PRELON IB; the difference is window — this version uses the full Asia high/low rather than the 00:00–02:00 IB.