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Concepts

Price action vocabulary, drawn precisely

The terms your setups are built from. Each card is a definition you can hold to — and a diagram of what it actually looks like on a chart.

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Structure

fractal highhigher than both neighbors → swing point

Fractal High / LowFH / FL

A swing point where price stopped and reversed — the building block of market structure.

A fractal high is a candle whose high is higher than the highs of its neighbors; a fractal low mirrors it on the downside. Each fractal marks the exact price where one side of the market ran out of pressure.

Structure is read from fractals: an uptrend is a chain of higher fractal highs and higher fractal lows. When price trades through a fractal, the imbalance has shifted — that break, not an indicator, is the earliest structural signal you can get.

range high · ERLrange low · ERLgaps & blocks inside = IRL

Dealing RangeDR

The range between the last significant fractal high and fractal low — the map price is currently trading inside.

Once a swing high and swing low are both in place, everything between them is the dealing range. Its extremes hold external liquidity; the zones inside it (gaps, blocks) are internal points of interest.

Most confusion about "which level matters" disappears when you first fix the range: price is always either working toward the range's edge or reacting from it. Premium (upper half) and discount (lower half) only have meaning inside a defined range.

Zones & Imbalance

FVGuntraded range → likely revisit

Fair Value GapFVG

A three-candle imbalance: price moved so fast that one side never traded.

When a candle expands hard, the wicks of its neighbors can fail to overlap — the range between the first candle's high and the third candle's low (in an up-move) is a gap where almost no two-way trade happened.

Markets tend to revisit these gaps: the untraded range is inefficient pricing, and a return into the gap is where many continuation entries are structured. A gap that price closes through and holds beyond becomes an inverted FVG and often flips its role.

RBwicks poke, bodies never close above

Rejection BlockRB

A cluster of long wicks at a level — proof that price was aggressively refused there.

A rejection block forms where candles repeatedly poke a level with wicks but cannot close beyond it. The wick zone — from the candle bodies to the extreme of the wicks — maps where resting orders absorbed the push.

The zone matters more than the exact tick: a revisit into the wick area with slowing momentum is the classic read, and a body close through the whole block invalidates it.

Liquidity

EQH — stops rest abovesweep

Equal Highs / LowsEQH / EQL

Two or more swings stopping at the same price — a shelf of resting stops the market can target.

Every trader who sold in front of equal highs has a stop just above them. That cluster of stops is liquidity: a fuel pocket the market can accelerate into, sweep, and reverse from.

Equal extremes are therefore two-sided information: a magnet while they hold, and a spent catalyst once swept. Chasing the breakout through them is how the sweep gets funded.

Time & Sessions

Asia sessionLondon KZNew York KZ00:00 UTC24:00

Kill ZonesKZ

The session windows — London and New York opens — where volatility and volume concentrate.

Price does not move uniformly through the day. The hours around the London open and the New York open carry most of the day's range; the Asian session usually builds the range those opens later run.

Time is a filter, not a signal: the same setup at a kill zone open and in the mid-session dead zone are not the same trade. Backtest your win rate by session before trusting any entry model around the clock.