How price builds a story

4 min · 7 steps

1. Step 1 · Swings

   A swing low and a swing high mark where price turned.

   BTC 4h: low 109 190 sits below the candles next to it, high 114 792 above them. We read structure from these points.

   swing low

   109 190

   swing high

   114 792

   L/HHL/HH

2. Step 2 · Up

   HH and HL: price is building an uptrend.

   Every high beats the last, every low beats the last. From 109 190 to 123 895 — a staircase with no lower low.

   HL

   112 656

   HH

   121 022

   HH

   123 895

   L/HHL/HHmorelatest

3. Step 3 · Down

   LH and LL: price is building a downtrend.

   ETH 4h: it's the mirror image, highs and lows keep falling. Until a close above the last LH 1 887.3, a long fights the trend.

   first high

   2 141.5

   latest LL

   1 825.0

   latest LH

   1 887.3

4. Step 4 · Range

   A range has no structure.

   ETH 1h: 68 hours straight inside 2 300.2–2 338.8. No HH or HL in here — any “breakout” is just noise.

   Structure returned Apr 26 at 14:00: a close at 2 346.2, above the range.

   rangeexit

   exit by close

   rangeexit

5. Step 5 · Find it yourself

   Where's the latest HL?

   BTC 4h, the same staircase. Tap the candle of the latest low that beat the one before it.

   Practice on the chart

   This is a Find it yourself task: tap a candle or a level, and the lesson tells you right away if you got it.

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6. Step 6 · How it shows up for you

   Practice on the chart

   This is the How it shows up for you step: the lesson finds trades on this topic in your journal.

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7. Step 7 · Rule

   Higher-TF structure decides your direction.

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   up

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   2

   down

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   3

   range

   to your Pact

   Before entering, I name the higher-TF structure: up, down, or range.

   “No higher-TF context” goes on the stop list: a trade with this tag is a rule break, and your streak counts it.