When Market Symmetry Breaks
Most traders see consolidation and think "boring." They're waiting for the breakout, the obvious move, the moment everyone else sees it too. But by then, you're already late. Last Friday, I was watching something most people missed. The market had been in this perfect little consolidation pattern – nice and symmetric, orderly, predictable. Then something shifted. What I Saw on Friday We'd been in this consolidation for weeks. Clean symmetry – higher lows, lower highs, textbook stuff. But Friday's close told a different story. Selloffs typically come in threes. We had our first red candle, then the second. That's when I knew we were setting up for Monday's gap down. Not because of news, not because of some fundamental shift – because the pattern was breaking. See, most traders focus on individual candles or daily moves. They miss the bigger structure. But when you've been reading charts long enough, you