A trade is only allowed to exist after three questions are answered in order: which direction is permitted, what price has done to deserve an entry, and whether there is confirmation of a reversal. Those three questions belong to three different timeframes. This article explains why the order matters, and why reversing it removes the system’s ability to reject bad trades.
The large timeframe answers “which direction is permitted”
The large timeframe decides direction. For gold it is H4; for the other four assets it is H1. Reading the large timeframe yields only two values: buy only, or sell only.
This is a hard constraint in configuration, not a recommendation. There is no branch that allows trading against the large timeframe, no matter how good the smaller timeframe looks. The reason is statistical: a counter-trend trade needs both the short-term direction to be right and the large trend to reverse at the same time, so the probability is far lower while the average loss is larger.
Skip this step and start from the small timeframe, and the system will take more trades — but most of the extra ones are counter-trend. More trades is not better.
The waiting timeframe answers “what price has done”
Once the permitted direction is known, the system waits for a liquidity sweep: price pushes through a short-term high or low and then pulls back.
This sweep is a necessary condition, not a pretty signal. It exists to avoid exactly one mistake: entering while price is already running in the desired direction, which is chasing. When price has already travelled a long way in the direction you want, the good entry is behind you, and whoever enters last carries the most risk if price turns.
A sweep, by contrast, brings price back the other way briefly. That move is what creates a good price zone. Without a sweep there is no such zone, and the entry has to happen in the middle of a move that has already gone far.
The entry timeframe answers “is it confirmed”
On the entry timeframe (M5 for gold) the system requires a structure break in the expected direction. Without confirmation the state remains “waiting for entry” — not an open trade.
This is the most commonly misread point on the site: a row in the current-analysis section is not a trade. A trade appears only once price has actually crossed the value zone and filled on the broker.
Enter at the value zone, stop behind structure
The entry sits at an imbalance or order-block zone — where price moved too fast to stay balanced, so it often reacts when it returns.
The stop loss goes behind the structure just formed, not at a fixed distance in pips. Behind structure means: if price comes back and breaks that structure, the reason for the entry is no longer valid, so the trade must end. Stop distance therefore differs trade by trade.
Position size is derived from that distance, not chosen in advance. That is what makes the loss per trade pre-determined and roughly constant, while the profit varies. It is the condition that lets a losing streak happen without wiping the account.
Where reversing the order breaks
Read the small timeframe first and hunt for direction there, and the system finds plenty of signals: small timeframes always have waves. The problem is that nothing rejects the counter-trend ones, because the rejection step was the first step you removed.
Drop the liquidity-sweep wait, and the system enters as soon as it sees a structure break. That still “works” — there are trades, there are wins and losses — but entries sit in the middle of a move, so risk per trade is larger and the win rate falls while losses get heavier.
What matters is that both failure modes produce no error at all. The system keeps running and keeps reporting numbers. Only trade quality drops, and that shows up after a few hundred trades. This is why these constraints are written hard into configuration instead of left open for tuning.
What the site shows of this process
The current-analysis section on the Strategy page shows which assets the system is tracking and which step each is at. The entry reason for a trade is published after the trade fills, attached to that trade.
The site does not publish the price zone it will enter at. Publishing it in advance would turn the page into a signal feed, which is not its purpose.