15 playbooks
Read who is likely trapped: structure breaks, liquidity sweeps, and the order blocks and fair-value gaps that started the move.
Find the few horizontal areas price keeps reacting to, and read bounces, breakouts and retests off them.
Read a trading range as accumulation or distribution from its events (climax, spring or upthrust, sign of strength or weakness).
Intraday model: mark the session ranges and prior highs and lows, wait for a sweep in a killzone, then look for displacement and a fair-value gap.
Mark the bases where price left in a hurry, keep only fresh, strong zones, and read reactions when price returns.
Define the trend, wait for a pullback to the averages, and trail behind it. Stay out when the averages are flat and tangled.
Measure a pullback inside a clear impulse and trust a level only where it lines up with structure.
Place the chart inside the rate, yield-curve and inflation backdrop before reading it, and say which events in the next days could move it.
Turn a scenario into risk arithmetic: distance to the invalidation, volatility, and what that distance means as a share of a notional account.
Before reading a stock's chart, check what the company is, its size, and whether an earnings date sits inside the window being analysed.
Read crowding from funding rates and open interest next to price, and treat extremes as context for a squeeze, never as a signal on their own.
Check that the price being analysed agrees with other venues and reference prices, and say when a level comes from one venue only.
Classify the market as compressed, normal or expanded from its own history, and match the reading and its distances to that regime.
Score a trend on five checks across two timeframes before calling it one, and say which checks fail.
Check that the market is ranging before reading a stretch back to the mean, and refuse the read when a trend is in charge.