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SFP
Swing Failure Pattern — a price action pattern where price sweeps beyond a previous swing high or low but fails to hold, indicating a reversal. Traps traders on the wrong side before reversing.
Example
“Bitcoin printed an SFP at $70,000, sweeping the previous high by $200 before reversing sharply, trapping breakout buyers and triggering a $3,000 drop.”