Zen Trading Tech

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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.

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Pre-Work

📜 See earlier scroll for Scroll I — The First Cut.

📈⛩️🗡️Trade Like a Samurai Series. Scroll I: Swing Points

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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.

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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

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🏯 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. ⚔️⛩️📈