18. Self Tips

Before entering any trade, always check:

• Where daily is going.
• What daily is trading away from.
• Whether daily logic aligns with 4H / 6H profiling.
• Whether 30m / 1H price action is clean.
• Close-proximity draws.
• Close-proximity gaps.
• Whether the draw is low-resistance liquidity.
• Whether the trade is avoiding protected swings.
• Whether the current candle is C1 / C2 / C3 / C4+.
• Whether there is a nearby driver.
• Whether price has retraced into a gap before the driver and failed to reverse.
• Whether the DoL has already been reached.
• Whether the asset is leading, lagging, decoupled, or re-syncing.
• Whether SS is present.
• Whether the entry has displacement.
• Whether the current MTF candle has a long wick.
• Whether RR is still worth taking.
• Whether expansion can be timed by SS, HTF open, new key level, or a driver after failed gap reversal.
• Whether failure swing has SS + gap away.
• After SS, whether the planned asset is now the new leading asset.
• Whether entry is close to a new 90m / 4H / 6H opening.
• Whether the CISD choice fits the model:
  • first CISD for continuation;
  • second CISD for reversal.
• Whether the LTF signature is a bulky-bodied CiSD.
• Whether a failure-swing CiSD is valid if the ideal CiSD is too far away.
• Whether CiC is confirming an existing bias rather than being used to invent one.

Final rule:

If in doubt, do not enter.