Help & method

Start here, then read the sessions.

Newest first. Method articles explain the card and the rules; Case studies are real sessions, bar by bar, with the footprint screenshots — each one is where a rule on the card came from.

Core ruleNov 1 · 12 min

Location First

Which side to trade from where price opened against yesterday's value, what to wait for when price reaches a level (hold, break, or nothing yet), and why a broken floor becomes a ceiling — with the week's examples.

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Oct 30 2026Nov 1 · 14 min

Trend-Day Bounces

Why the +436 at 10:05 was the start of the move down, the six bounces that failed the same way, rising CVD on falling price, and the three things that marked the turn — with the live footprint.

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ReferenceOct 31 · 5 min

Glossary

VPOC, value area, naked level, stack, ledge, last buyer, CVD, MGI, the referee — every term the card uses, in one or two plain sentences each.

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Start hereOct 31 · 10 min

Reading the Card

Every section of the daily plan, top to bottom: the plain-words box, the MGI score, the starred level map, the four setups and the checks — what each line means and what to do with it.

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Core ruleOct 31 · 12 min

The Three Questions

Where is the print, did price make progress, did the other side answer. Why delta tells you who was aggressive and the next bar tells you who won — with the last buyer, the bottom rule and the pre-arm.

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Oct 30 2026Oct 31 · 9 min

Trend Day — the Five Tells

Five things knowable by 9:28 that separate a rotation day from a 110-point slide, how the card scores them, and why every bounce on a trend day fails the same way.

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Oct 23 2026Oct 23 · 18 min

A Round Trip in Seven Prints

Gap-down at VIX 20: the trapped D, the last buyer in both forms, the bottom rule on an equal low, the fourth-touch breakout, the slow top and B on a small-green drift — the VIX referee calling each half.

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Quick referenceOct 22 · 4 min

Box Confirmations

Schematic footprint bars for the four setups off an overnight box — A, B, C and D — what the confirming bar looks like and what kills each one.

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Oct 22 2026Oct 22 · 18 min

Small Greens and the Last Buyer

Drifts on small green prints, the last-buyer pattern four times in two days, the bottom-rule checklist live, a ledge at the lows and the pre-arm bracket.

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A reading order

Reading the Card → The Three Questions → Reading the Big Print → Trend Day — the Five Tells → Trend-Day Bounces. After that, the case studies in date order; each one adds a rule you will then recognise on the next morning's card.