1 April 2026
When a break of structure is not a change of character
A break of structure, as we teach it, is a close beyond the last confirmed swing in the direction of the existing impulse. It continues the story. A change of character is the first convincing break against that story after a stretched move.
In class we keep the words boring on purpose. If you call every opposite wick a reversal, you will reverse yourself out of the map. We look for displacement: a candle or short sequence that travels through the old swing and holds on a retest, not a single spike that immediately returns.
Georgia’s session times mean many of our printed examples close on the daily after London and New York have already spoken. We still mark the print we have, then wait for the next close before upgrading a wick to a character change.
The homework after that morning is two charts: one continuation break, one character change. Mixing them on the same page is how people invent a third, unnamed event.