Putting structure to work
A repeatable top-down routine that turns structure into decisions.
A top-down routine
- Higher timeframe first, on the daily: trend, range, or transition? Mark the two or three levels that matter.
- Trading timeframe, locate price relative to those levels. Is there room to a target, or are you entering into a wall?
- State check, trending session or rotational session? Pick the matching playbook (continuation vs fade) and refuse the other.
- Level + signal, wait for price to reach your level, then demand a reaction: a sweep-and-fail, an absorption, a structure break on the lower timeframe.
- Risk from structure, stops go beyond the swing that invalidates the idea, not at a fixed dollar amount. If the structural stop is too big for your account, the trade is too big, skip it or size down.
Structure + positioning
Structure tells you where the decision points are; GEX tells you how price is likely to behave between them. A support test in positive gamma and the same test in negative gamma are different trades, the strongest reads come from stacking both.Then it is repetition. Replay sessions in the Arena and mark every swing, sweep, and structure break until the states are recognizable at a glance, that pattern library, not any indicator, is the real edge.