Align swings to nested energy regimes

Saturated oscillators are not completed swings

Oscillator and momentum-crossover signals can stay saturated through long one-way swings. In choppy stretches, a longer-horizon relative-strength reading can remain between 30 and 70 for months.

A higher price high against a lower indicator high is not a reliable nearby-reversal cue when extended swings keep producing restoring-pullback action. A restoring-pullback is a counterswing that reloads a still-intact larger trend and can print a false oscillator divergence while the parent swing continues, automatically placing a lower high on the oscillator.

Classify coil, release, or spent energy

Price can be classified as either storing potential energy in a consolidation coil or releasing it as trend motion. Stored-energy is the potential built during that coil and later released as directional travel on the same time frame. A longer coil is described as storing more energy for the next release.

Market-regime-classification sorts each nested time frame as coiling, trending, or spent so a single trade sits inside a larger energy context rather than being judged alone.

Read swings inside the factor-of-five stack

Elliott-wave reading treats price as motive swings made of five nested waves, so a slower pattern is expected to contain the next faster set of waves. Nested five-wave motive structure implies that larger patterns contain smaller ones.

A factor-of-five-stack anchors on monthly bars, then weekly, daily, and 78-minute bars, each roughly five times faster than the frame above it. That ladder is used to read swings inside swings.

Energy attributed to a slower frame is treated as about five times stronger than the next faster frame, so a daily long taken on a pullback can actually be fighting a weekly swing.

Use the same choppiness reading on every frame

A choppiness-reading is a 14-bar range-versus-path gauge scaled from 0 to 100. It rises when price is trendless and falls when price is traveling. Trendless action is tagged near 61.8 and trending action at 38.2 or lower, so a rise toward 61.8 marks a tight coil and a drop below 38.2 raises the chance of a later pause.

The same choppiness-reading applied across the nested stack classifies regime. High monthly and weekly values can support a large emerging trend, while a spent daily or 78-minute reading implies those faster frames need a pullback or sideways recovery first.

Take direction from nested swing structure

Dow-theory uses sequences of higher highs and higher lows, or the reverse, on fractal frames to set direction. Direction is taken from those sequences on the nested frames.

Reversals are described as starting from the inside out, so that 78-minute swing structure turns before the daily frame follows. Reversals are treated as beginning on the fastest structure first.