Obvious Only Later: Chart Patterns

A shape is easy to name after the move. This book asks what you could have seen before it.

The questions it answers

• What a pattern records about earlier prices, and what it cannot reveal about traders' motives
• Why a prior trend, a clear boundary and the time spent forming matter more than a familiar outline
• How reversal, continuation and base patterns differ while they are still forming
• What a breakout, retest or failure would need to show before the reading changes
• Why a measured target or a precise wave count is a claim to test, not a promised destination

Part 03 taught you to check the chart and Part 04 taught you to read a candle in context. Here you ask what a sequence of candles actually supports.

How this book is different

• Read each shape as an unfinished structure before giving it a name.
• Keep volume, invalidation and the possibility of failure beside every interpretation.
• Separate an observable pattern from a system that can always redraw its answer later.