Stop Hunt Detector

Real-time detection of stop hunt patterns — when price sweeps a dense TP/SL cluster and reverses, indicating potential manipulation or liquidity grabs.

What is Stop Hunt Detector?

Stop Hunt Detector monitors price action against TP/SL order clusters in real time. When the price touches a cluster with significant volume and then reverses by a meaningful amount within a short time window, it flags the event as a potential stop hunt.

Stop hunts are a common market dynamic in crypto. Large players push price into a zone where many stop losses are clustered, triggering those stops (which creates additional selling or buying pressure), then reverse the price back. The result is a wick on the chart that swept through the cluster and bounced. For traders who got stopped out, it feels like manipulation. For traders who recognize the pattern, it is an opportunity.

The detector uses TP/SL data from the Hyperliquid L1 node to know exactly where order clusters are. When price reaches a cluster and reverses more than the configured threshold (default 0.3%) within the time window (default 60 seconds), it fires an alert and marks the event on the chart.

Key Concepts

• Stop Hunt Event: Price touches a dense TP/SL cluster and reverses more than the threshold within the time window — a classic liquidity grab pattern
• Sweep Volume: The total USD value of TP/SL orders at the swept cluster — larger sweeps are more significant
• Reversal Percentage: How much price bounced from the sweep level — larger reversals are stronger signals
• Time Window: How quickly the reversal happened — faster reversals are more indicative of a deliberate stop hunt versus organic price action

How to Use Stop Hunt Detector

1. Enable Stop Hunt Detector from the indicator settings panel in the Chart view
2. When a stop hunt is detected, a marker appears on the chart at the sweep point
3. The event badge below the chart shows details: symbol, sweep volume, reversal percentage, and direction
4. Configure thresholds in Smart Alerts to receive notifications when stop hunts occur
5. Adjust sensitivity in Smart Alerts settings: reversal threshold, minimum cluster volume, and time window

What to Look For

• Bullish signals: A downward stop hunt (price dips into long TP/SL cluster, sweeps stops, then reverses upward) is often a buying opportunity. The sweep has cleared out weak hands and the reversal indicates strong demand at that level.
• Bearish signals: An upward stop hunt (price spikes into short TP/SL cluster then reverses down) suggests the move was a liquidity grab rather than genuine buying. The reversal after sweeping shorts indicates distribution.
• Key patterns: Multiple stop hunts at the same level reinforce that level as important. If the same cluster gets swept repeatedly without the price continuing through, it is acting as a strong support/resistance. Stop hunts with very large sweep volumes followed by immediate reversal are the highest-quality signals.
• Combine with: Smart Entry Calculator for placing trades after a stop hunt reversal, TP/SL Heatmap to see remaining clusters, Whale Radar to check if large players were active during the sweep

Configuration

Data Source

Tips

• Not every stop hunt leads to a sustained reversal — some are just the first wave before price continues through the level on the second attempt
• Higher-volume sweeps are more significant — a stop hunt that sweeps $50M in stops carries more weight than one that sweeps $2M
• Adjust the reversal threshold based on market volatility — in high-volatility conditions, a 0.3% reversal might be noise, while in calm markets it is significant
• Stop hunts are most common around round numbers and well-known technical levels where retail traders cluster their stops