// Overview
Entries aren’t predictions — they’re decisions at a level with a written invalid. Structure gives the map, timing opens the window, and your entry protocol executes the plan. If any part is missing, you wait.
// Playbook
The Three Lines
Level: Exactly where you act (range edge, retest, breaker).
Trigger: The condition that flips you from observe → execute (reclaim, acceptance, wick rejection + hold).
Invalidation: The structural point that proves the idea wrong — written before entry.
Risk Tier → Size
Size follows risk tier (A/B/C), not mood. A-tier = most confluence (structure + timing + liquidity).
If invalidation is wide or structure is messy, reduce size or pass.
Acceptance Beats Touch
A poke isn’t a break. Wait for hold/acceptance or a clean reclaim before execution.
Your best entries happen after the market proves its intent, not before.
Write It, Then Click
“If X at Level L, I enter. If not, I don’t.”
The entry is the end of thinking, not the start.
// Setups
Reclaim at Range Edge
Trigger: Sweep of range low/high → swift reclaim and hold back inside.
Invalidation: Loss of reclaim level (two closes on execution TF) or failure to hold the retest wick low/high.
Break → Retest → Go
Trigger: Break beyond HTF level, then a hold on retest (not just a touch).
Invalidation: Back inside prior structure or loss of retest low/high.
Failed Break (FB) Reversal
Trigger: Expansion beyond a key level fails; reclaim prints; acceptance back in prior range.
Invalidation: Fresh acceptance beyond the failed level (it wasn’t failed).
Trend Pullback Into Structure
Trigger: In trend, pullback into breaker/flip zone; buyers/sellers reappear (wicks/hold).
Invalidation: Break of structural HL/LH that defines the leg.
// Common Mistakes
Chasing Velocity
Clicking because it’s moving, not because structure + trigger aligned. No plan = no entry.
Vague Invalidation
“I’ll see how it feels.” If you can’t write the invalid, the risk is unknowable.
Touch = Break
Treating a tag as confirmation. Wait for hold/acceptance or reclaim.
Size Before Structure
Bumping size on a C-tier read. Size follows risk tier, not FOMO.
// Checklist
Pre-Entry
HTF regime + level? (range edge, boundary, breaker, prior H/L)
Trigger stated in one sentence; invalidation structural and written.
Risk tier → size set; first objective defined (de-risk band).
At Entry
No new info → execute. If context changes (failed hold), stand down.
Place stops at invalidation, not “where it won’t get hit.”
