The DistilledFrom reading a candle to the full model.
Fifteen short lessons in three modules. Module A builds the vocabulary, Module B puts it together as the SIRC model one stage at a time, and Module C covers sizing and keeping an honest record. Every chart is real, and every hit rate sits next to its chance line.
Foundations
Reading candles, liquidity, structure, gaps, the inducement and two timeframes at once.
- 01
Reading the chart
Candles, wicks and closes, why the timeframe you pick changes what you see, and the New York clock the rest of this course runs on.
6 min read · 2 figures - 02
Liquidity
Where resting orders sit on a chart, why price keeps reaching them, and why a level being taken is normal rather than a signal.
5 min read · 2 figures - 03
Sweep or break?
Once a level is taken, the close decides what happened: back inside is a sweep, beyond and holding is a break. The C2 is the two-candle version.
6 min read · 3 figures - 04
Market structure
Swing highs and lows, the difference between a break of structure and a market structure break, and why a break has to be a close.
6 min read · 2 figures - 05
Displacement and FVGs
The fast one-sided move that leaves gaps behind it, what a fair value gap is and is not, internal and external liquidity, and what happens when a gap fails.
6 min read · 2 figures - 06
Inducement (IDM)
The first pullback after a break is the obvious entry. Why SIRC treats it as liquidity, how to mark it, and how to tell when it has been taken.
6 min read · 2 figures - 07
Timeframes together
Location from the higher timeframe, timing from the lower one. How to pair two timeframes, read the higher one from closed candles only, and why agreement is context rather than a filter.
6 min read · 3 figures
The SIRC model
Sweep, Inducement, Retest, Continuation: the four stages in order, one lesson each.
- 08
SIRC in one chart
Sweep, Inducement, Retest, Continuation: the four stages in the order they print, what you do at each one, and the chart language used in the rest of the course.
6 min read · 2 figures - 09
S: the sweep and the break
The first stage in full: which levels count, the sweep and the close back inside, the CISD, and the MSB that completes it.
6 min read · 2 figures - 10
I: the inducement taken
The second stage in practice: finding the IDM after the break, following it when it moves, and what it looks like when price takes it on the way into the gap.
6 min read · 2 figures - 11
Why not enter on the CISD break?
Most of us learned to enter on the close through the CISD. Where that close prints, what we measured on 123,978 entries, and what waiting for the retest does and does not change.
6 min read · 1 figure - 12
R: the FVG retest
The entry: which gap, what counts as a tap, why the trigger is a close back out, where the stop goes, and the ways a retest fails before it starts.
6 min read · 2 figures - 13
C: the continuation
Managing the trade once you are in: the 2R target, the ERL as a reference level, the stop that never moves closer, and a real SIRC trade that was stopped.
6 min read · 2 figures
Doing it properly
Sizing from the stop, and keeping a record that tells you the truth.
- 14
Risk
The stop defines the trade and the size follows from it. Thinking in R, working out a position size, costs, and why a run of losses at 1 in 3 is normal.
6 min read · 2 figures - 15
Journal, practice and honest testing
Logging every setup you see, practising on charts with the right-hand side covered, and judging results against the chance line, a placebo and costs.
6 min read · 2 figures
Every chart in the course is real historical market data, marked up after the fact. Nothing here is a signal or a promise of results. Education only, not financial advice.