The path
17 units in 6 tiers, about 48 hours of work. You do not advance on time served — each tier has an exit test. Any module can be unlocked early by passing its check cold.
Tier 0 · Orientation
Know what you actually own.
Tier 1 · Read the story
Narrate what price is doing and why, without naming a single array.
- M1 The Four-Phase Engine ★
Consolidation → Expansion → Retracement → Reversal as one repeating cycle, each phase paired with exactly one reference point. The grammar of the whole system.
3.5 h diff 2/5 fast lane - M2 Liquidity: Why Price Moves At All
Stops as fuel. Buy-side and sell-side liquidity, external range liquidity as the destination and internal range liquidity as the route.
3 h diff 2/5 fast lane - M3 Market Structure & Swing Points
The 3-candle swing definition and the short-term / intermediate-term / long-term nesting hierarchy that makes structure countable.
2.5 h diff 2/5 - M4 Premium, Discount & the Dealing Range
Equilibrium as the 50% of a defined range, and the discipline of defining the range you are measuring before you call anything cheap or expensive.
2 h diff 2/5 fast lane
Tier 2 · Name the levels
Identify every PD array by strict definition, and know which one applies.
- M5 Order Blocks, Properly Defined
Month 4's four-part definition — Definition / Validation / Entry / Defining Risk — treated as four separate skills, plus the mean threshold.
3 h diff 3/5 - M6 Fair Value Gaps & Liquidity Voids
The FVG and the liquidity void, what separates them, and why fair valuation is a profit-taking location as much as an entry.
2.5 h diff 3/5 - M7 Breakers, Mitigation & Rejection Blocks
Buyer's remorse as the single mechanism behind all three, and the structural break that tells you which one you are looking at.
3 h diff 4/5 - M8 The PD Array Matrix ★
The ranked ladder, premium and discount, read as route planning: which array is price leaving, and which is it reaching for. The Live Track opens here.
3.5 h diff 4/5 fast lane
Tier 3 · Frame the trade
Produce a written, timed, HTF-anchored trade idea before the session.
- M9 Time Is a Variable, Not a Filter ★
Swing timing first — the weekly profile, day-of-week, HTF array timing — then the intraday track: Asian range, killzones, the Judas swing and PO3.
3.5 h diff 3/5 fast lane - M10 Top-Down Framing
The Monthly→Weekly→Daily→4H→1H cascade and the gating logic that makes a timeframe neutral when its order-flow condition is not met.
3 h diff 4/5 - M11 SMT Divergence & Correlation
Correlated-pair and USDX SMT as confirmation of a sweep — never as a standalone entry.
2 h diff 3/5 - M12 Entry Refinement: OTE & the Fib Toolkit
The 62 / 70.5 / 79% band, extensions as targets, and when OTE does not apply.
2 h diff 3/5
Tier 4 · Execute
Turn understanding into a written, risk-managed, journaled routine.
- M13 Risk, R-Multiples & the Arithmetic of a Low Win Rate ★
Fixed-fractional sizing, R as the only unit of account, and Month 2's arithmetic worked through interactively. May be taken early.
3 h diff 2/5 fast lane - M14 Your Model: One Setup, Written Down
Collapse everything into one setup — swing model by default, intraday as the alternative track — and write it down in the guided builder.
3 h diff 4/5 - M15 The Routine: Daily Plan, Journal, Weekly Review
The swing routine (and the intraday alternative), the journal in R with a compliance tag on every trade, and the Friday review.
2.5 h diff 2/5 fast lane
Capstone
20 unseen setups, then the live gate.
The difficulty ladder
| Rung | Modules | Skill | Exit test |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · READ | M1–M4 | Narrate the story without naming arrays | Label phases, structure and premium/discount on 12 charts, ≥80% |
| 2 · NAME | M5–M8 | Identify every array by strict definition | The Matrix Drill, ≥80%, including correct "no valid array" answers |
| 3 · FRAME | M9–M12 | Produce a timed, HTF-anchored written idea | 5 consecutive pre-session writeups; ≥3 of 5 correctly anticipate the shape or correctly call no-trade |
| 4 · EXECUTE | M13–M15 | Run the routine with real risk discipline | Capstone ≥16/20 + 10 journaled demo days, zero rule violations |
Three things are deliberately not accelerated: the capstone pass bar, the 10-day zero-violation journal requirement, and the demo-before-live gate. Those are the parts that protect capital.