Structure and Time

Momentum shifts / Reversal Structure

Key Points
- Price delivery forms market structure
HTF swing High - A completed trend change from Bullish to bearish
- LTF builds HTF swing Points (top down) momentum / Bearish to bullish momentum is created
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in Phases
swings

-HTF highs and lows are LTF structural swing points

HL 's and LH 's

- swing highs and lows create SND . Future POI's HTF range

are formed in these zones

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LTF BOS

- A BOS can signal Higher or Lower Prices, or a

Reversal from sell-side or Buy-side liquidity.
Of HTF POI
HTF Swing LOW
itigation

- BFI's (intitutions) are behind every price movement A

HTF Swing High D

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- Structure = highs and lows LH's and HL's

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- when looking at swing points think Timeframes

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HTF
Swing point Phases
- All timeframes are the same data. we view it via candlesticks Major structure

(ABCD)
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- LTF and HTF both Show BFI intentions

AB-impulse
LH
LH
major
- check the candle closes throughout a session Discount structure

LH
BC-sideway price delivery (creating future liquidity)
minor structure

CD- impulse (into a HTF mitigation)

LH

(H LH
major
- LTF swing points move inside HTF swing points
LH

structure
LH

HTF range vs LTF range

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LL

(ABC)
LH

- Example of Pullback to create a LH

HL

HL
LH

A counter trend BOS of M1 swing Point can AB-impulse (Reaction) BOS (intention $) (supported by Previous liquidity) (future POI)
HL

HL

create a BOS of M5 swing Point, then LL

B- sideways Price delivery (creating liquidity to support future prices)
retrace on all TF as an RTO until it LL
C- mitigation within a new range (PD arrays) creating LH's or HL's
reaches a Premium of an HTF range to - Price can mitigate at any time , it does not have to
continue trend. be straight away, it can be a POI for the
future to be mitigated.
- Trade M1 trend shifts will happen at HTF POI (mitigation)

Momentum - LTF swing reversals become HTF POI's as they

become HTF Swings
Momentum revolves around time and distance 30 bars
bars

- more candles, less distance or less candles, more

to

distance Types of HTF mitigation

- By Paying attention to the speed of price overtime, it
shows if price moves are sustained or
unsustained.

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impulse. Bearish impulse is Price mooring win momentum
quickly to the downside in the trend direction
Think about the law of Effort
BOS

HTF POI

Trend Structure
HT F POI
- Trend structure gives a bias for the assumed =
direction

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- A Trend will maintain its HL (Bullish trend)
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or LH (Bearish trend)
As long as swing highs and swing lows are
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maintained within the trend we can assume µ , ±

trend continuation
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• A Trend is not an uptrend until a HL is formed HL confirmed

uptrend confirmed

not Just a HL
vice versa

• A trend is not a downtrend until a LH is formed

not Just a LL

Strong Highs and Strong lows

Range Structure
- a strong rejection of higher or lower prices
- Price is contained within two Price levels. is a fast change of direction. The aggression
- this will define your TF structural Shown is BFI activity, these highs and
BFI Protected

aggressive H
swing high and cow. Price delivery lows would be protected by BFI's movements

will remain inside the range till the - a strong high or cow will be sustained by
Future mitigation

H/L is taken.

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an aggressive move and will usually create
- BFI's stack 1000's of Lots inside a range. a future POI to be mitigated.
BFI will initiate price out of a range - can be seen everywhere
causing a BOS of a price swing, we then • Aggression (speed
know orders were starred
• cause a swing BOS "
• range areas:
• created a HFF mitigation- momentum Shifts
- Premium (sell from)
- when an old high or cow is taken out
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- Equilibrium (failing to maintain above (below)
price action changes
- Discount (buy from)

BOS (Break of Structure)

weak Highs / lows
- a BOS is to initiate a momentum shift
- A weak rejection of Higher or Lower Prices can be a
or a continuation of Trend Structure
slow or fast move as creates a false move as no weak high
- a BOS of a swing high is a BFI runs
HTF Swing was taken out / price
through
initiation $

HTF Highs and Lows = Swing Structure Price delivery:

LTF Highs and cows within a range = Swing structure • Slow change of direction
- what was the cause of the BOS? • No sewing Structure BOS
- is this a noticeable BOS (speed and aggression) • Not created at HTF Mitigation $

- is this a continuation or an SMS after a HTF - No apparent aggression, did not break Significant Structure ←
easy to take out

mitigation No aggression> Slow change of direction liquidity

= weak low and High which now becomes future
liquidity

BFI initiation
- once BFIS have stacked their orders
within the range the THEN drive
the price to create a Bos in the INI BOS L

direction they want to move it.

- this is called an initiation INI BOS H
BOS H

- its a very clear aggressive movement

in one direction.
- BFI's are manipulating Price in the direction
they want to move it