Learn to see it

The mechanics, one at a time.

The read prints a lot of words: coils, caps, cohering, the gate. This is where each one gets taken apart slowly, using real charts from the archive, so you can see the thing yourself instead of taking our word for it. No jargon assumed, nothing withheld. If we ever helped you the way we wish someone had helped us starting out, it happens here.

The coil The one shape the whole read is built on. A stock that ran, then paused tight against its high. What it is, why it forms, and how to tell a real one from a trap. read →
The cap The volume tell under every coil. Why only the part of a bar above the average counts, and why its color is who is really in the box. read →
Cohering vs diverging The same coil, two opposite meanings. How the caps decide whether a quiet stock is being bought into or quietly sold out of, plus the third word most people do not have. read →
The gate Why the read sometimes refuses to hand you picks at all. How the market regime opens and shuts the hunt, in plain sight, and prints how much it held back. read →
Extended The move everyone already sees. Why we throw out the obvious runner and hunt the coil before it is obvious. read →

Start with the coil. Everything else on the read leans on it, so it is the one that makes the most of the page click into place.