Common Liquidity Traps in 6B Futures

6B British Pound futures are notorious for engineered stop hunts and liquidity grabs. If you don’t know where the traps form, you’ll get wicked out right before the real move starts. The good news: 6B repeats the same traps every single week.

Why Liquidity Traps Form in 6B

Liquidity traps appear because institutional traders need volume. They push price into obvious stop areas to trigger both:

• Stop-loss orders
• Breakout orders

This aligns with the trap concepts you covered in Market Traps: Bull Traps, Bear Traps, and How to Spot Them Early.

The Most Common 6B Liquidity Traps

1. Break High → Snap Back

Price breaks a recent high, pulls in breakout buyers, taps stops above the level, then slams back into the range.

2. Dip Below Support → Instant Reverse

This is a classic stop sweep. Price dips one or two ticks below support, clears retail stops, then rips up.

3. London Session Fakeout

London pushes aggressively in one direction, only for New York to completely reverse the move.

4. Pre-US Session Whipsaw

6B often sweeps both sides of the early range before the real U.S. trend takes off.

This whipsaw behavior ties to Market Volatility Cycles: How Volatility Expands and Contracts.

5. News Spike Liquidity Grab

6B spikes hard on UK or U.S. data, grabs both sides of liquidity, then trends in the opposite direction.

How to Avoid Getting Trapped

• Don’t chase the first breakout
• Wait for clear acceptance beyond the level
• Use GBP/USD as confirmation
• Avoid low-volume pre-US chop
• Watch DXY for decoupling signals

Table: Trap Behavior vs. Real Moves

Liquidity Trap	Real Move
Wicks everywhere	Clean candles with follow-through
Breaks level then instantly reverses	Holds above/below level
Violent fakeout during low liquidity	Expansion after compression