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.
Wyckoff
Accumulation
Boring on purpose. Size is absorbing supply.
Selling climax (SC), automatic rally (AR), secondary test (ST), then the spring — a false breakdown that closes back in the range. Sign of strength (SOS) jumps the creek.
The cheat
The spring is the last cheap inventory. Markup starts when the range high is jumped on volume.
It dies if
A close back under the spring low after an SOS means the cause failed. The ice is still live.
Size builds a cause in a range, then spends it. Phase C is the last lie — that lie is the entry.