The shape you already have, lifted
04.04.02 gave you the pattern: a long rising board, three small sessions that stay inside its range while drifting lower, then a second long rising board that closes above the first. The reading was that a move paused without being given back.
Mat hold is the same story told with a stricter pause. The first small session does not open inside the big board — it gaps above its close. And the three quiet sessions that follow never trade back down to where the big board started.
In the example, the long board runs from ₹30.00 to ₹31.20. The pause opens at ₹31.50 and, across three sessions, drifts only as low as ₹31.15. Every price traded during the rest is above where the move began. Then the fifth board opens ₹31.05 and closes ₹32.10, past every high the pause made.
Five boards, and where the pause sits
Compare the three middle boards against the first board's close of ₹31.20 — not against its range.
Granthara's rules engine returns mat hold, with rising three methods as its nearest miss at 4 of 5 — because the pause here starts with a gap instead of sitting inside the first board.
Two rules, and why they are the same rule
The engine asks six things of these five boards. Two of them are what separate a mat hold from what you already knew.
The second board's body gaps above the first board's close. Not merely small, not merely inside — above. Whoever wanted to sell into the rise had to start from a higher price than the rise had finished at.
The middle boards hold above the first board's low. Across three sessions of drifting, the pause never reaches back into the ground the long board covered.
Both say one thing in two ways: the pause happened entirely above the move. In rising three methods, buyers stopped pushing. Here they stopped pushing without anyone being able to take back a rupee of it.
A pause that costs nothing is a different observation from a pause that costs a little.
What else is inside a five-board window
Run these five boards through the rules engine and mat hold is not the only thing it finds. It also reports shorter shapes sitting inside the same window — a two-board and a four-board pattern formed by the tail of the sequence — because any stretch of five sessions contains several shorter stretches.
The engine sorts them longest and strictest first, so mat hold leads. That ordering is a convention, not a discovery, and it is worth knowing it exists: the same boards support several true descriptions at once, and something has to choose which one you are shown.
This is the first real taste of chapter 04.05's problem. A screener that reports mat hold has already made an editorial decision on your behalf about which of the shapes present matters most. It did not find the only pattern there. It found the longest one it knows.
What the five boards permit
They permit you to say a rise paused for three sessions without any of it being given back, and then continued past the highest price the pause reached. Every part of that is on the board.
They do not permit you to say the rise will continue further. Continuation of a rise is how the literature files this pattern, and it describes the five boards already drawn, not the sixth.
They also do not permit you to skip the question the gap raises, which is the same question 04.03.09 asked. A stretch of untraded price between Monday's close and Tuesday's low is a fact about overnight repricing — and whether anything much traded on either side of it is Part 08's business, not this board's.