Summary
📈⛩️🗡️ In the Trade Like a Samurai series, the focus is on Kihon (基本) — the martial fundamentals of trading discipline.
For the samurai, Kihon was not separate from combat skill ⚔️; it was the edge of the blade itself.
🔍 In this Scroll II, I demonstrate deliberate-practice drills for recognising trending vs trading-range environments, sharpening higher time frame perception bar-by-bar like sword forms in kata.
The second practice drill is HIGHER TIME FRAME (HTF) SWING POINTS — “seeing the battle from the mountain.”
This lesson walks through session preparation using multi-time-frame awareness — how the 15-minute and 60-minute charts guide the reading of swing points on the 5-minute battlefield.
Pre-Work
📜 See earlier scroll for Scroll I — The First Cut.
Instructions
- The previous video shows the foundational kata.
- The key difference here: locate the higher-time-frame structure before drawing your blade on the execution chart.
- Use the 60 min, 15 min and 5 min charts to prepare for battle before the open.
- 🐂 Prep for 29th — 60 min bulls ok.
- ⚔️ Prep for 30th (after FOMC) — bulls lose ground; momentum fades.
- 15 min bulls not ok coming into the 29th session
- 15 min trading range for 2 days – no side able to establish strong trends. Bear eventually got a new low end of day (then reversal.)
- Instead they were broken the moment they ‘confirmed.’
- This is common in trading ranges – once there is clarity, it reverses back to 50/50.
- As a trader this helps me structure trading-range type trades and not get sucked into breakout-style trades.
- 👉 Lesson: Do not chase the breakout — act with balance like a swordsman in mist.
Example: 31st October, 2025
- Either in Bear trend on 60 min or a trading range
- 15 minute chart we broke a swing point at the end of the prior day and GAP UP broke another – so 15 minute Bull trend of trading range
- Bulls did not get above B1 for the BL trend to confirm
- 5 minute chart trading range day but under the 200 MA so probably still bearish
- The HTF prep beforehand helped me to sell back to the 15 minute breakout points during the first hour.
- Then I was ready for a decent reversal bar high in the range on B23 – B24
🏯 Conclusion
Scroll I taught the cut — the technique.
Scroll II trains the eye — to see the battlefield before the first strike.
When these two are united, your pre-market preparation becomes strategy, not ritual.
The disciplined trader, like the seasoned samurai, enters the session already knowing the terrain. ⚔️⛩️📈
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