PassedThe only "trigger" is a 15m candle (18:30 UTC) that dipped 11 dollars below pdVAH $77,260 and closed 50 above it on 3.4 BTC — that is noise inside a dead, low-volume drift, not a swept, stop-rich level with a genuine reclaim; price has been chopping in a 100-dollar band all afternoon. Reaction quality also fails: 5m delta is flat (-1.9 BTC/30m), OI is falling (short covering, -0.96%), so there is no participation confirming an upside push into pdH $77,457.7 / the developing day high $77,353.5 just overhead, which caps any long's reward. No clean level-reaction, no established trend for a continuation, and no quality corroboration — pass.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 18:45 UTC
PassedThe 17:45 15m close through pdVAH/pdEQ/D-Open ($77,260/$77,231/$77,234.5) is a technically valid thrust trigger, but it came on almost no volume (1.2 BTC) with 5m delta flat (-1.1 BTC over 30m) — a poor reaction at the level, and price is already sitting AT the trigger candle's extreme near dHigh $77,353.5 rather than at a retest, so entering here is the chased extension the method forbids. Reaction quality plus the missing retest both block it, and overhead pdH $77,457.7 sits only ~$190 away, leaving no honest 2:1 to a meaningful T2.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 18:00 UTC
PassedThe gate fired on the D-Open ($77,234.5), but the only named-timeframe trigger is the 17:30 15m candle closing BELOW D-Open/pdEQ while the 5m ticked back above — conflicting, marginal noise around a level price has been chopping through all afternoon on tiny volume (0.4 BTC last 15m). No clean level-reaction: no rejection wick-and-close, no confirmed close-through with a retest, and 5m delta is flat (-7.3 BTC) giving no order-flow response. This level was also already attempted within the last 30 minutes, so I demand a fresh, unambiguous 15m trigger before re-engaging.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 17:50 UTC
PassedNo clean trigger: the fired level (pdEQ $77,231) was only crossed on a 5m close — a 1m/5m close is never the named trigger — and the last CLOSED 15m (17:15) merely wicked the D-Open $77,234.5 and closed back above it, i.e. no 15m close through pdEQ/D-Open in either direction. STATE also shows this exact level fired within the last 30 minutes, so I would demand a fresh 15m trigger anyway. Context is chop: price is pinned between dVAH $77,086/VWAP $76,910 below and pdEQ/pdVAH above, CVD confirming up while 5m delta is flat and OI is bleeding (short covering) — conflicting corroboration and a mid-range location the method says not to trade.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 17:35 UTC
PassedThe fired "trigger" is a 1m wick-and-reclaim of the D-Open at $77,234.5 — a 1m close can never be the named trigger, and the same 15m candle actually closed BELOW pdVAH ($77,260.0), i.e. conflicting micro-signals rather than a clean rejection. Price is sitting essentially exactly at the day open / pdEQ ($77,231) in the middle of the developing value area (dPOC $76,731 / dVAH $77,086 / dHigh $77,353) — the poor-entry mid-range location the method says to avoid — with flat 5m delta (-3 BTC), flat OI and no trend on 1m/5m/15m (a chop between 76,420 and 77,353). No confirming 15m close through or rejecting a tradeable level, so there is no trigger and no trade.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 17:30 UTC
PassedThe 17:00 15m close through pdEQ/D-Open/pdVAH is a thrust trigger, not an entry — price is sitting at the extension ($77,332) right at the developing day high $77,353.5 and just under pdH $77,457.7, so buying here is chasing into resistance rather than entering the retest. Corroboration is also mixed: 5m delta is a bearish divergence (-12 BTC) into a fresh high, OI is falling (short covering, not new longs), and volume on the push is thin (6 BTC), which is a poor reaction for a breakout. I want the pullback into the broken level before considering a long.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 17:15 UTC
PassedThe only trigger on offer is a tiny 15m rejection wick at pdVAH $77,260 (16:45 candle, high $77,267.9, close $77,226.2) — but the "sweep" is barely $8 through the level on ~18 BTC of volume, a poor reaction with no delta response of consequence and flat open interest (4h -0.01%), so there are no trapped longs to fuel a reversal. Corroboration also conflicts: 4h CVD is confirming_up, the day has been a steady reclaim from the $76,420 low back through VWAP/dPOC/dVAH, and price sits mid-range between dVAH $77,082 and pdH $77,457.7 — shorting into an up-structure at a level this weakly tested is fading momentum with no edge. No clean setup: reaction quality and corroboration are both missing.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 17:00 UTC
PassedThe pdEQ ($77,231) was already attempted within the last 30 minutes, and the current picture is not clean enough for a fresh commitment: the 15m that closed 16:30 pushed ABOVE pdEQ/D-Open and closed up, while the 5m immediately slipped back below — a conflicting, low-volume chop right at pdEQ/D-Open/pdVAH cluster with price sitting mid-range between dVAH $77,076 and pdH $77,457. Reaction quality is poor (15m volume 17.8 then 0.6 BTC, 5m delta flat -8.2 BTC, OI flat -0.01%), so there is no corroborated trigger in either direction; the method takes fewer, better trades.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 16:50 UTC
PassedThe gate fired on a developing day-high touch, not a real reaction: the 15m candle that closed 16:45 merely tagged the developing dHigh $77,311.8 / pdVAH $77,260.0 with a thin 17.8 BTC and closed UP through pdEQ and the D-Open — that is a bullish thrust into the level, not a rejection close back below a pre-existing swept level, so no short trigger exists; the developing day high has no prior structure beneath it to qualify as a swept, stop-rich level. Nor is there a long trigger: the close is at the extreme of the move with no retest, and entering here would be chasing the excess into pdVAH $77,260 / pdH $77,457.7 resistance. Reaction quality is poor as well — 5m delta is a bearish divergence (-7.7 BTC) against the new high while OI is flat (+0.04%), so neither side is corroborated.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 16:45 UTC
PassedThe gate fired on a marginal pdEQ ($77,231.0) tag: the 15m candle closing 16:30 poked 0.7 dollars above pdEQ and closed 46 below it — that is a front-run/touch, not a genuine sweep of a stop-rich level, and it printed on 1.4 BTC of volume with delta and CVD both confirming UP, i.e. flow is contradicting a short there rather than corroborating it. The reaction quality is poor (no volume, no delta response, OI flat at -0.04%), and price is mid-structure between dVAH/pdPOC and pdH with no established trend to join, so neither a level-reaction short nor a continuation entry is clean here.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 16:30 UTC
PassedThe 15m 16:00 candle did close through pdPOC ($77,133.5) and pdVAL ($77,095.0), but a close THROUGH a level is confirmation, not an entry — the entry is the retest, and price at $77,148.6 is still at/above the trigger's body with no pullback yet to $77,133.5. Beyond that, the location is poor: price sits directly beneath the cluster of pdEQ $77,231 / D-Open $77,234.5 / pdVAH $77,260 with only ~$85 of room, so a long here is buying into overhead resistance with no honest 2:1 to any structural T2, and the reaction quality is thin (sub-10 BTC on the trigger, OI flat +0.13%, delta only +10.2 BTC/30m). No clean setup.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 16:15 UTC
PassedThe only "trigger" is a 15m candle whose body is a $48 doji-ish hold of the developing VAH ($77,062) while simultaneously closing back BELOW pdVAL ($77,095) — the two named levels contradict each other, so there is no clean directional read. Volume into the level is negligible (3.0 BTC on the trigger candle, +6.2 BTC of 5m delta over 30 minutes), which is exactly the poor-reaction quality the method says to pass on. Price is also mid-range between dPOC/VWAP ($76,731/$76,888) below and pdVAL/pdPOC ($77,095/$77,133) above — no edge, no confluence, no trade.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 16:00 UTC
PassedThe 15:15 15m candle closed back below pdVAL/pdL and the developing dVAH after wicking above them — a rejection at the prior-day value cluster — but the signals contradict a short: CVD is confirming_up, 5m delta prints a bullish divergence (+16.5 BTC) into this dip, OI is in a healthy uptrend, funding is neutral, and the same candle wicked below pwVAL $76,970 and CLOSED back above it (a bullish reclaim), with price sitting right on daily VWAP $76,886 as support. That is a two-sided read, not corroboration — the level-reaction short is contradicted, and a long has no confirming 15m close through resistance. No clean setup: corroboration is the missing leg.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 15:30 UTC
PassedThe only "trigger" here is a 5m close back above dVAH $77,060 — a 5m close is never the named trigger, and the last CLOSED 15m candle (15:00 UTC) actually closed BELOW dVAH/pdVAL/pdPOC, i.e. the 15m evidence contradicts the long. Price is also chopping inside the pdVAL/pdPOC/dVAH cluster ($77,060–$77,133) with flat 5m delta (+29 BTC) and no clear reaction, and STATE shows this dev_vah level already fired within the last 30 minutes, so I demand a fresh 15m close-and-retest rather than re-taking it. No confirming 15m trigger = pass.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 15:25 UTC
PassedThe gate fired on a 5m close below pdL $77,004.2, but a 5m close is never a valid trigger on this book — the named 15m close (15:00, O $77,151.5 C $77,051.1) closed back below dVAH/pdVAL/pdPOC but is still ABOVE pdL, so no 15m candle has confirmed the level. Corroboration also contradicts the short: CVD is confirming_up, 5m delta is a bullish divergence (+14.1 BTC) into this dip, OI is a healthy uptrend and the 15m/1h leg from the 76,420 day low is making higher lows — a short here would be fading momentum into the developing dPOC $76,731.5 / VWAP $76,882.2 support band, which the method forbids. No trigger, no corroboration: pass.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 15:20 UTC
PassedThe only trigger is a 15m close back below the developing dVAH/pdVAL cluster ($77,058/$77,095) after a sharp two-hour rally off the day low — that is a fade of upward momentum into a level, not a reaction I can trade, and it is contradicted by the corroborating flow: CVD confirming_up, 5m delta bullish divergence (+13.7 BTC), OI building in a healthy 4h uptrend, and price holding above daily VWAP $76,882. A short here also sits directly on top of VWAP/dPOC support with no clean room, and no swept prior-period level has been reclaimed. Missing leg: corroboration (signals point the other way from the only printed trigger).View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 15:15 UTC
PassedThe gate fired on a 5m close below pdVAL ($77,095) — but a 5m close is never a valid trigger on this book, and the only closed 15m candle (14:45) closed UP at $77,151.5, above pdVAL/pdPOC, i.e. it contradicts the short. So there is no confirming 15-minute close through or rejecting the level. Price is also mid-structure between dVAH $77,058 / pdVAL $77,095 / pdPOC $77,133.5 with flat 5m delta (-23 BTC) and CVD confirming up — a poor, unconfirmed reaction in the chop between levels. Missing element: the trigger.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 15:05 UTC
PassedThe only fired location is pdPOC $77,133.5, where the 14:30 15m candle wicked above and closed just below it — but that is a marginal rejection in the middle of the day's range after a sharp 700-point rally off the day low, not a clean reaction at a strong level, and the close ($77,115.1) sits between pdVAL, dVAH and pdPOC with price now back above pdPOC at $77,173. Corroboration also conflicts: 4h CVD is confirming_up and OI is a healthy 4h uptrend (favoring continuation higher) while the 5m delta is a bearish divergence — an unresolved read, and a short here would also be fading momentum straight into dVAH/VWAP support just below. No clean trigger plus contradicted bias: pass.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 14:45 UTC
PassedThe 15m close at 14:15 (and the 14:30 close through pdL/pwVAL/dVAH) is a thrust higher off the 76,420 low, but price is now pressed straight into the pdPOC $77,133.5 / pdVAH $77,260 / D-Open $77,234.5 cluster with no retest — entering here would be buying the extension, not the pullback, which the method forbids. Nor is there a short trigger: the only rejection at pdPOC is a 5m wick-and-close (14:35), and a 5m close is never the named trigger. Corroboration is also mixed — Delta 5m shows a bearish divergence into this push while 4h CVD reads confirming_up, so the read is unclear; no clean setup.View thesis →
Sep 13, 2026, 14:41 UTC