Pattern school
What the tape is drawing
Elliott, Wyckoff, Power of 3, and the named setups — same story in four dialects. Open a card. The diagram is the lesson. The cheat is what you do. The kill line is when you are wrong.
Elliott wavesMarkets breathe in fives and give it back in threes. Wave 2 is the trap. Wave 3 is the meat.
WyckoffSize builds a cause in a range, then spends it. Phase C is the last lie — that lie is the entry.
Power of 3Accumulate in a box. Raid one side (the Judas swing). Expand the other way. The raid is the setup, not the breakout.
Named patternsA sketch until the neckline, rim, or wedge floor does the confirming close. Until then, it is not a trade.
Named patterns
Bull flag
Continuation. The rest is Wave 2 or 4.
A near-vertical pole, then a small downward or sideways flag that does not give back most of the pole. Confirming close is through the flag high.
The cheat
Buy the flag high, stop under the flag low. Measured move is another pole added to the break.
It dies if
A close under the flag low (or deep into the pole) means the impulse failed. It is not a flag.
Markets breathe in fives and give it back in threes. Wave 2 is the trap. Wave 3 is the meat.