Reading Structure
Trend anatomy, levels that matter, and the breaks that change what a chart means.
The spine of everything after it. A signal means the opposite thing in an uptrend and a downtrend, so structure is read first — always.
- 1Trend anatomy: higher highs and higher lows
Define trend mechanically rather than by eye.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 2Support and resistance that mattersnot written yet
Separate levels that were touched and respected from levels that were drawn and hoped for.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 3Break of structure
What counts as a break, and why a close is not the same as a wick.
Checkpoint: Call the grade - 4Flags & consolidationnot written yet
Read a pause as a pause rather than as a reversal.
Checkpoint: Spot the trap - 5Change of characternot written yet
The first structural warning that control may be shifting.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 6Multi-timeframe alignmentnot written yet
Use the higher timeframe as context without letting it paralyse you.
Checkpoint: Call the grade - 7Volume confirms structurenot written yet
When participation agrees with a break, and what it means when it does not.
Checkpoint: Spot the trap - 8ATR & extensionnot written yet
Build a chase detector: how far from the mean is too far.
Checkpoint: Size the trade - 9Levels that are not fantasynot written yet
Cure level inflation — the disease of drawing twenty lines and respecting none.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 10Track exam: mark a full chartnot written yet
Composite, scored against the engine. Gates the track certificate.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart
Complete all 2 written lessons in this track with an average checkpoint score of 70 or better and you can generate a shareable record of completion. You are at 0/2.
The concepts here are applied in the Trade Playbook, and the engine that grades them is taken apart in how AI chart analysis works.