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
Markup / markdown
The easy part — if you waited.
Jumping the creek (range high) on volume, then higher lows. Or breaking the ice (range low) on volume, then lower highs.
The cheat
Buy dips against the last higher-low in markup. In markdown, bounces into the old floor are for exiting, not heroics.
It dies if
The first failed higher-low after markup is the warning that distribution may be starting.
Accumulate in a box. Raid one side (the Judas swing). Expand the other way. The raid is the setup, not the breakout.