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Replay: 5 range days

Walk through fades and trapped breakouts.

12 min · Intermediate

What you'll learn

  • Apply balance, failed-expansion and fade rules to full-session scenarios
  • Decide between fading, following a breakout, and standing aside
  • Enforce the two-trade cap and 2R minimum in live-style decisions

Key takeaways

  • On a range day, one or two edge trades are usually the whole opportunity.
  • A strong candle in the middle of a range is still a bad location.
  • Narrow ranges often cannot pay 2R; a correct read with bad math is a pass.
  • A heavy-volume close outside the range that holds is acceptance, so stop fading.
  • Two fades maximum on a range day, and stop entirely at the daily loss limit.

Glossary

  • Trapped breakout — A breakout that fails and returns inside the range, leaving breakout traders in losing positions.
  • Trade cap — A pre-set maximum number of trades for a session or setup type, used to prevent overtrading.

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