20. 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.
• Whether the model has a guaranteed nearer target before holding a runner toward a more distant, unconfirmed draw — never enter purely on the assumption an external draw will eventually be hit.
• Whether two correlated assets’ highs/lows are symmetrical (already synced — wait for a sequence rather than assume a reversal) or asymmetrical (a good target, since the mismatch is likely to get taken out eventually).

Final rule:

If in doubt, do not enter.

When backtesting to find your own highest-probability setup, don’t try to validate every pattern in this framework at once: narrow to two or three candidate sequences, backtest each on your own data, and only carry forward into live trading whichever one(s) actually performed best for you — risk small until it’s proven.