2015issue C0812-18
Fusion entry and scale-in after broken levels
A historical countertrend workflow logs a predefined support or resistance first, then waits for a further run past that print before any reversal slice is considered. The same map decides whether to stand aside, take a first same-session slice, add a later equal-size slice, ride a swing target, or close the intraday piece at the bell.
- Rule-based entry waits for a known support or resistance break and then a further run. No long or short is taken at the predefined print itself.
- A same-session first slice is withheld unless a swing level sits within $3 of that entry, a second entry is already mapped, and the setup stays inside three tiers.
- Scale-in adds a later equal-size slice only as a fusion setup, so the swing map and the intraday map still agree and the combined average has a planned exit.
- Overnight abstention closes the same-session slice at the bell if the next swing add never prints. The swing slice may remain open toward its mapped target.
A setup only after the print breaks
The archive workflow treats a large move as a setup only after a predefined level breaks. The same written procedure then decides whether to stand aside, take a first slice, or add a later slice. Entry, adding, exit, and overnight abstention are recorded as one sequence.
The sequence is rule-based entry: wait for a known support or resistance break, then a further run, before any long or short is allowed. Swing trading means holding toward a previously mapped swing target rather than taking a small same-day scalp at the first bounce. Scale-in position adding means taking a later equal-size slice at a second mapped level so the combined average still has a planned exit.
The entry is countertrend
The procedure is countertrend. No entry is taken at a predefined support or resistance print. The trader waits for an additional run past that print before considering a reversal slice.
A sample long rule waits until a $200 support is hit and then allows a buy near 199.00 only after price has run 50 cents to $1.00 beyond that support.
Four families of predefined levels
A predefined level is a support or resistance price logged before the session. The same-session map is limited to four level families: premarket high and low, previous-day high and low, daily-chart highs and lows, and newly formed intraday highs and lows. The premarket family is treated as the first filter for what may print that day.
Gates on the first same-session slice
An initial same-session setup is withheld unless at least one swing level sits within $3 of the first entry. Each same-session setup is capped at three tiers.
The first same-session slice must have a second entry already mapped before the first share is taken. Those gates keep the intraday map from starting a trade that has no planned add.
Adding only when both maps agree
A fusion setup uses a swing map and an intraday map together. A same-session add is allowed only when both maps still agree.
In the worked May 18, 2015 example, a 100-share same-session add at 191.30 is sized to match the existing swing slice. That produces 200 shares at an average of 192.90, with a planned ride back to a 196.50 swing exit. The later slice is equal in size, and the new average still has a mapped exit.
A same-session add is allowed while a swing position is already open only when price is within $3 of the next swing entry or more than $3 away from the current swing position. Otherwise the trader may hold the swing slice alone toward a $2.00 target.
Overnight abstention at the bell
If a later swing add never prints after a same-session slice is open, that same-session slice is closed at the bell because it cannot be held overnight. The swing slice may remain open. That overnight abstention belongs to the same written procedure as the entry and the add.
All readings on this track · 18 readings
- 1989Measured range, scale-in ladders, and spread replay as a cash-reserve design
- 1990When result pressure rewrites checklist and scale-in rules
- 1992Split-sample floors, ceilings, and standing aside
- 2006A swing operator's scale-in, structure, and cash-floor procedure
- 2011Scale in currency risk with tenth-size futures
- 2012Nested cycle scale-in with rewritten stops
- 2013Volume-confirmed swing breaks with scale-in and trailing stops
- 2014When volume thrusts still require a session procedure
- 2015Fusion entry and scale-in after broken levels
- 2015Volatility and volume gates for breakout entries
- 2015Scale-in and prior-range breakout management
- 2017A pair as a two-clock book
- 2017Pair-spread risk as a unit-by-unit capital sequence
- 2018Moving-average breakout with delayed scale-in
- 2018Steepening price-channel breakout with delayed confirmation and planned adds
- 2018A scale-in needs a gate or it is leverage
- 2020Two-stage longs: golden-cross starter, then cup-breakout add
- 2020Close-gated scale-in for swing breakouts