Phase 02 of 04
Market reading
Reading a chart with context. What price is communicating, and how to tell a condition worth trading from one that is not. Higher timeframe before lower, always.
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2A to 2H
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Phase 02 / 8 of 8 live
Reading a chart with context. What price is communicating, and how to tell a condition worth trading from one that is not. Higher timeframe before lower, always.
This is where most self-taught readers stall, and the stall is informative rather than embarrassing. Phase 2 asks you to see things live, unprompted, which is a different skill from being able to define them. If you reach the end of this phase and cannot honestly tick its criteria, that is expected and it is not a reason to reread. Perceptual skills are built by drilling against an answer key, and the drills are in 4G.
- 2A
Market conditions and supply and demand: Wyckoff as a mental modelBalance and imbalance, Wyckoff as a mental model, supply and demand zones, volume profile and VWAP as one unified read. Module 2A of the FFT curriculum.Wyckoff phases What the market shows you - 2B
Market structure: CHoCH, BOS and key levelsThe four swing points, break of structure, change of character, and why two skilled traders can read the same chart differently and both be right. Module 2B of the FFT curriculum.The break that failed What the market shows you - 2C
Higher-timeframe context: the Daily, the 4H anchor, and the working chartThe top-down read, which timeframe gets the vote on direction, and why starting on the 5-minute chart produces technically valid entries that fail. Module 2C of the FFT curriculum.Higher timeframe levels What the market shows you - 2D
Price delivery: liquidity, stop hunts and manipulationThe four states of price, fair value gaps, order blocks, premium and discount, and why a liquidity sweep is a location to watch rather than a signal to act. Module 2D of the FFT curriculum.Offers pulling What the market shows you - 2E
The opening type read: OA, ORR, OD, OTDThe four opening types from Market Profile, how to classify one by 10:00 ET, and why the wrong playbook on the right analysis is what actually kills setups. Module 2E of the FFT curriculum.The four opening types What the market shows you - 2F
Session times and the Silver Bullet windowsWhy time is a filter before price is a signal, the three windows, and how to read whether one is expanding, reversing or balancing. Module 2F of the FFT curriculum.Inside the window What the market shows you - 2G
The daily bias protocolThe five-step pre-session ritual that produces a directional read before the open, and the difference between a formed bias and a vague lean. Module 2G of the FFT curriculum.Price against value What your record shows you - 2H
The session write-up: the plan, and the score against itThe form that turns a bias into a plan and then scores the plan against what you actually did. Two halves, filled at two different times. Module 2H of the FFT curriculum.The write-up, in order What your record shows you