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Technical Analysis + Price Action · Multi-Timeframe Analysis

HTF level + LTF confirmation pattern

Apply the HTF-level-plus-LTF-confirmation pattern to a worked entry.

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Technical Analysis + Price Action

Multi-Timeframe Analysis

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Lesson 5 of 96Technical Analysis + Price ActionMulti-Timeframe Analysis

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Apply the HTF-level-plus-LTF-confirmation pattern to a worked entry.

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This lesson formalizes the entry pattern you have already started to see. Two ingredients. Ingredient one: an HTF level. That can be a Daily support, a Daily resistance, a prior 4H swing high or low, or a major round number that has produced reactions before. Ingredient two: an LTF confirmation. That is a candle pattern on the 15m or 5m that shows buyers (or sellers) actually appeared at the level.

Wick stands by three cards: level alone is a guess, candle alone is random, both together make a setup, teaching that an HTF level needs an LTF confirmation candle.LevelAlone, it isa guessCandleAlone, it israndomBothNow youhave asetup
Wick saysA level without proof is a guess, a candle without a level is random, so wait for both.

Neither ingredient is enough alone. A level without confirmation is a guess — you do not know if buyers will show up this time. A confirmation candle without an HTF level is random — there are 96 fifteen-minute candles in a day, and many will look bullish for no reason. The combination is the edge.

Worked example with $500 starting capital. Daily on EUR/USD bias is up. You identified a 4H support at 1.0800. Price arrives at 1.0800 and starts to trade sideways. You drop to the 15m. After 45 minutes of chop, a strong bullish engulfing candle prints right off the level. That is the confirmation. You enter at the close of the engulfing. Stop sits 15 pips below the level at 1.0785. With $500 capital and a 2% risk rule, you risk $10 — that means about 0.067 lots (a micro-position). Target is the prior Daily swing high. Risk is finite, location is meaningful, timing is signaled by the candle.

Wick lifts a small scoop labeled 2% = $10 from a jar labeled $500 account, with a note about a stop 15 pips under 1.0800, showing risk stays small and fixed on each trade.Stop 15 pips under 1.0800$500account2% = $10
Wick saysWith $500 and a 2% rule, one trade risks $10, about 0.067 lots here.

Confirmation candles to look for: bullish or bearish engulfing, a clean rejection wick (also called a pin bar), or a small-range candle followed by a strong move in your direction (sometimes called a break of inside bar). Pick one or two patterns you can read at a glance. You do not need ten.

Wick studies a candle with a small body and a long lower rejection wick at 1.0800 under a lens, showing a pin bar as one simple confirmation that buyers appeared at the level.Proof at 1.0800Small bodyRejection wick
Wick saysA clean rejection wick at your level shows buyers really showed up there.

Recap: HTF level + LTF confirmation. Two ingredients. Neither alone. Wait for both, every time.

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1. Why is an LTF confirmation candle on its own not a setup?

2. On a $500 account using a 2% risk rule, how much can you risk on one trade?

3. Which of these is a usable LTF confirmation?

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