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Quickstart

Chart-study workflow for the current Stoic Edge System.

Use replay or simulation and hide future candles.

1. Map the day

Review the daily and hourly charts. Mark relevant prior-day and prior-week levels, opening ranges, HCOM, LCOM, support, resistance, moving averages, and Fibonacci context.

Choose the lane before price activates:

  • Same-chart: use the 5-minute chart for the intraday 1-2-3, PTB, entry, and initial management.
  • Parent-led: name one parent chart and one execution chart. Use the 5-minute chart as the recommended execution default.

2. Find the 1-2-3

  • Step 1: price breaks the active 10/20 area.
  • Step 2: price consolidates or retests around the averages.
  • Step 3: price expands clearly out of that structure, preferably with a full close.

Step 2 needs a readable base. Same-direction stair-step candles are not consolidation by themselves. Overlap around the averages can remain one base when the range is coherent and a later directional expansion becomes Step 3. Record Wait when the sequence is unclear.

3. Mark the candidate, then confirm the PTB

Wait for the pullback candle to complete on the chart that owns the setup. Ignore inside bars. Track the latest eligible completed candle as the pullback continues.

  • Long trigger: through the candidate high. The trigger confirms the PTB.
  • Short trigger: through the candidate low. The trigger confirms the PTB.
  • Usual stop reference: other side of the PTB, adjusted only when visible structure requires room.

One failed initial PTB may get one later clean retry while the same 10/20 direction holds. Two consecutive failures invalidate the sequence.

For a parent-led trade, freeze the parent activation level first. Use only the execution chart selected before activation. No clean execution PTB means Wait, not a search through other timeframes.

4. Manage the first test

Mark the prior high for a long or prior low for a short. Rejection can move the stop to breakeven or close the trade. Clean breaks can be trailed behind current structure.

5. Journal it

Record the map, 1-2-3, PTB, inside-bar decision, entry, stop reference, prior extreme, management decision, R result, and whether you followed the plan.

Before using real money, define account risk, size, orders, costs, and daily limits in a separate written plan.

Use these docs for education, chart study, replay, and process review. Every setup can fail. You remain responsible for risk, size, orders, execution, and the decision to trade.