Tokyo Origin Point, Breakout and Continuation, Hidden Key Level Reversal, Origin Point Border Reversal, Liquidity Grabs

A 15-minute EURUSD day trading strategy using Tokyo session Origin Points to identify breakout and continuation patterns for objective entry and exit.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Price Action

Part of: Liquidity Sweeps & Grabs

  • Methodology: Price Action
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 15-minute
  • Markets: EuroUSD

Indicators used

  • Origin Point
  • Previous Day High/Low

Source video

Decoded from: How I Built a 100% Mechanical Trading System (Step-by-Step) by Islam Sultanov — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to 15-minute trading day
  • 9:45 - Trading the Tokyo Origin Point explained
  • 11:15 - Four Mechanical Day Trading Patterns introduced
  • 13:30 - Daily trading routine
  • 19:45 - Backtest results and win rate

Strategy overview

A liquidity grab is the push through an obvious high or low that trips resting orders before price turns back — and in this entry it is deliberately demoted from an organizing idea to one item in a closed catalogue. The video that this page decodes presents four named day-trading patterns — breakout and continuation, hidden key level reversal, origin point border reversal, and the liquidity grab — all measured against a single reference the author calls the Origin Point, taken from the first four hours of the Tokyo session on a 15-minute chart. Location is therefore settled by the clock before the trading day begins, rather than discovered by scanning for where liquidity has built up.

That inversion is the point of Islam Sultanov's "How I Built a 100% Mechanical Trading System (Step-by-Step)". The stated goal is removing discretion, and a fixed session anchor is what makes that possible: with the borders already drawn by the time London and New York arrive, the day's question stops being "where is the liquidity?" and becomes "which of four named behaviours is price showing at a line I drew this morning?". Previous day high/low sits alongside it as the only reference not derived from that Tokyo window — an overnight memory bolted onto a same-morning map. Everything runs on one timeframe, which is unusual for a price-action system and is itself part of the mechanical claim.

The walkthrough is structured to match: the origin point concept first, the four patterns as a block, then a daily routine section, and finally backtest results and a win rate. A routine chapter is the tell that this is built to be executed the same way every session rather than read situationally. Note that no rule set was extracted for this entry, so this page covers the concept and the video's framing rather than a full specification — and the "100% mechanical" claim in the title, along with the performance figures in the closing section, are the author's own and are not verified here.

Topics

price action · trading strategy · eurusd strategy · 15 minute strategy · day trading strategy · origin point strategy · tokyo session · breakout strategy · tradingview strategy · forex strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is a liquidity grab in trading?

A liquidity grab is a move that pushes through an obvious high or low where stop orders are resting, triggers them, and then reverses — the break serves to fill orders rather than to start a trend.

What is the Tokyo Origin Point in this strategy?

It is the reference level the video builds everything around, derived from the first four hours of the Tokyo session and read on a 15-minute chart. All four of the video's patterns, including the liquidity grab, are described in relation to it rather than to levels found by scanning the chart.

What makes a trading system 'mechanical'?

A mechanical system defines every decision — reference levels, entry conditions, exits — as a fixed rule that does not require judgement in the moment, which is what allows it to be backtested and repeated identically each session. The source video frames its four named patterns as an attempt at exactly that.

Does this page include the full rules of the system?

No — no rule set was extracted for this entry, so the page covers the concept, the anchor, and how the source video organises its patterns. Strategy Decoder catalogues video strategies like this one so you can assess the approach before deciding whether to build and test it yourself on TradingView.

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