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Grade 5 of 10

Map the Market

Draw the big picture on any chart: trends, highs and lows, support and resistance.

19 lessons · about 55 minutes · Badge: Map Maker

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After this grade you can

  • Tell an uptrend from a downtrend
  • Mark support and resistance zones
  • See when a level flips from floor to ceiling
  • Spot a fake breakout before it fools you

Lessons

Trends and Market Structure

  1. 1Higher highs and higher lows define an uptrendIdentify an uptrend by spotting sequential higher highs and higher lows on any chart.3 min
  2. 2Lower highs and lower lows define a downtrendIdentify a downtrend by spotting sequential lower lows and lower highs on any chart.3 min
  3. 3Range identification: when there's no trendDistinguish a ranging market from a trending one and explain why it matters for your decisions.3 min
  4. 4Break of structure (BoS): what it actually signalsExplain what a break of structure is and how it confirms a potential trend shift.3 min
  5. 5Change of character (ChoCH) and why it's not a BoSDistinguish a change of character from a break of structure and explain why the shorter-term signal matters.3 min
  6. 6Swing highs and swing lowsIdentify a valid swing high and swing low and explain what makes them structurally meaningful.3 min
  7. 7Structure on multiple timeframesExplain how trends nest across timeframes and apply that to read what's really going on.3 min
  8. 8Liquidity pools: where stops clusterIdentify where liquidity pools sit on a chart and explain why price often visits them.3 min
  9. 9Structure during news eventsExplain why market structure rules break down around major news and apply that to risk decisions.3 min
  10. 10The false breakout patternIdentify a false breakout and explain why it's one of the most reliable trap patterns in trading.3 min

Support and Resistance

  1. 11Drawing levels from swing pointsIdentify valid swing highs and swing lows and use them to draw S/R zones.3 min
  2. 12Role reversal: broken support becomes resistanceExplain why broken support flips into resistance and broken resistance flips into support.3 min
  3. 13Psychological round numbersExplain why round-number prices act as S/R and how retail behavior reinforces them.3 min
  4. 14Prior day, week, and month highs and lowsIdentify prior-period highs and lows as intraday S/R and explain why they matter.3 min
  5. 15Confluence: where multiple S/R types alignIdentify confluence zones where multiple independent S/R types stack at the same price.3 min
  6. 16When S/R fails and whyExplain the structural reasons S/R fails and identify the conditions that make failure likely.3 min
  7. 17Testing a level: clean break vs liquidity grabDistinguish a clean break from a liquidity grab by reading where the candle closes relative to the level.3 min
  8. 18Zones, not linesDistinguish a line-drawn level from a zone and apply zone-based reading to messy reactions.3 min
  9. 19Capstone: putting S/R togetherApply the full S/R framework to a single chart, justify each level, and rank them by confluence and context.3 min

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