The Preatchafx Strategy

Calendar filters

Before anything else, the calendar can veto the day entirely:

• Never trade on a Monday.
• No trades the day before high-impact news.
• No new entries the session before medium-impact news.
• Never hold a position through a scheduled release.

Weekly profile

Every week is classified into one profile before the daily analysis starts:

• Classic Expansion — the week extends directionally with limited retracement.
• Midweek Reversal — the early-week direction reverses by Wednesday.
• Consolidation Reversal — a range builds before a directional break.
• Thursday Counter — a counter-move develops into Thursday.
• Counter-trend — the week's move fades against the prevailing trend.

Daily bias — four cases

Today's candle is read against yesterday's range. There are exactly four tradeable outcomes, and one default: no trade.

• Bullish continuation — today closes above yesterday's high.
• Bearish continuation — today closes below yesterday's low.
• Bullish reversal — today sweeps yesterday's low, then closes back above it.
• Bearish reversal — today sweeps yesterday's high, then closes back below it.

None of the four: if today's close sits inside yesterday's range, there is no bias, and no trade — that's the default outcome, not an edge case.

Point of interest — ranked, first match wins

Once a bias is set, the chart is searched from the protected swing toward current price for the first of these, in this order. The search stops at the first match — a lower-ranked POI is never used if a higher-ranked one is present.

1. Fair value gap (FVG)
2. Swing high / low
3. CISD retest

Closure

Closure confirms the POI is actually being respected. There are two valid patterns — anything else is logged as a rejected setup:

• C2 — sweeps the previous candle's extreme, then closes back inside it.
• C3 — closes beyond candle 2's body, without sweeping its extreme.

CISD confirmation

CISD (change in the delivery state) requires a body close through the open of the first candle in the unbroken opposing series. Timeframes are paired for the search:

Quality filters

Even a confirmed setup can still fail on quality:

• Wick ratio ≤ 0.25 on the confirmation candle.
• CISD occurs within 3 candles of the POI entry.
• Fewer than 3 overlapping candle bodies through the move.
• A minimum of 2 timeframes aligned on bias.

Entry, stop, target

Stop is placed at the candle 2 swing point. Target must offer a minimum of 2R — if the structure doesn't support at least 2R from that stop, the setup is not taken, regardless of how clean everything else looks.

Risk

Position sizing is sample-indexed — it increases only as the verified trade count grows, and it's always a percentage of the account, never a fixed dollar amount:

$250 is the practical minimum account size — below that, 1% risk is arithmetically impossible to express at a 0.01 lot minimum.