Patterns
Five kinds of situations at a level — bounce and sweep, break, retest, order-book wall and volume spike — in the words of the algorithm that finds them across the whole market before the event.
6 lessons · 32 min
Who this course is for
For anyone who opened the formations feed and did not know what to do with it, or trades “breakouts” by eye. After this course you read every card in the detector's own words, know the thresholds of all five kinds, select situations with your own filters and keep your own journal instead of someone else's promises.
- 1Findings, not signals: what a pattern really is5 minA pattern here is an event under a formal rule, not a “buy” tip. The difference sounds boring — and it is exactly what separates the testable from the sellable.
- 2Levels: where they come from and why a level is a band6 minFormations are computed from the same levels drawn on the chart: untouched liquidity and window extremes. No “levels by touches” drawn by eye — and that is a deliberate choice.
- 3Break and retest: two ways of working with a broken level5 minTwo of the five feed kinds say “price is going THROUGH the level”: a break catches the approach to a level with a cascade behind it, a retest catches the return to an already broken one. Here are both, threshold by threshold.
- 4Bounce, wall and spike: three kinds at an obstacle6 minThe remaining three feed kinds say “price is meeting resistance” or “money has entered the coin”. A bounce catches the approach to a level, a wall the approach to a large order, a spike a single candle after which everything changed.
- 5How to read a card: chart, labels and the freeze5 minA formation card is not a badge and not a signal, but a compact summary of a situation. We take it apart: what is drawn on the mini-chart, what each label means and why the picture does not change over time.
- 6Your own selection and your own journal: the process around the feed5 minThe feed gives raw material; the decision and the accounting stay with you. The last lesson assembles filters, entry rules and a journal into a working process — and explains why we do not show “how many percent worked out”.