The Order governs the market. The Sequence governs you. Nine markers, in the author's own working order: each opens only onto the next.
Fix the position in the higher-timeframe cycle: accumulation, advance, re-accumulation, or distribution. The governing cycle decides which claims may be filed at all, and its model is the one the day will obey.
Locate price on the map. What origin authored the current journey, and what destination does the route imply? Station or transit, in exact prices.
Fix the lower-timeframe cycle within the governing one: the local campaign inside the greater, the telescope turned one magnification in.
Read the value position. Discount or premium, inside the discount or premium of the governing range. Dear governs cheap, always.
Consult the clock. Session, window, and the participation due or departing. Nothing means anything except at its time.
Confirm what has been held, what has been purged, and what candle authored the move you propose to trust.
Frame the claim: three exact prices, an expiry, and an else-nothing, written where it cannot be unwritten. Then measure everything it asserts, projections converging on the objective and the envelope of ordinary hostility around the entry. Size is the quotient and nothing else.
The language’s verdict at the appointed place. At surveyed sub-locations, demand the purest of them: the perfect close at the exact price. The entry is taken on it, never on the hope of one.
Place the grave beneath the accumulation that authored the move, beyond the noise, at the price that unsays the claim. Then surrender the right to move it anywhere but forward.
Then harvest at the gates and collect the tolls at the sub-locations, re-enter only on a fresh claim, and audit the whole of it on schedule · wins as ruthlessly as losses. The objective markers you count along the way, each one a has and never a should, are the rungs the Sequence exists to assemble. The book states it operationally, on one page, meant to be copied and hung where you trade, and the four worked Readings show it applied to real market structure, marker by marker.
“Context before detail. Conditions before conclusions.
Environment before entry.”