Climate, then trigger, then risk.
The style desk is a pipeline, not a crystal ball. Regime is a filter. FLAT is microstructure context. Styles are independent experiments. Hunter, Scout, and Lead are separate engines with their own chains. If that sounds slower than a Telegram long — good.
Do not confuse the books.
Five books
Scalp, Intraday, Swing, Position, Catalyst. Never stack.
Whole-market rank
Heat, L2 score, trigger chain. Heat is not a ticket.
Liquidity event
Sweep → absorb → reclaim. Panic is NO_TRADE.
Venue discovery
Follow the mark farthest from the median.
Break and hold
Or a shallow pullback that resumes. Own geometry.
Release
Compression, then volume-confirmed expansion.
Exhaustion
Stretched location, intact mean, wick stop.
Failed break
The crowd is stuck. Distinct from Scout.
Tape + location
Signed volume only where a level already exists.
Crowded unwind
Funding, OI, then a bar against the crowd.
Versus BTC
Leader or laggard, then resume. Not Lead.
FX metals desk
Five equal perps. G01–G08. Never a crypto vote.
State only
WATCH / ANOMALY. Never LONG / SHORT. Never a seat.
This page is the style-desk textbook. Hunter · Scout · Lead each have their own methodology.
Four clocks. Three climates. Zero excuses.
A scalp is illegal in the wrong 15m climate even if the daily is trending.
A scalp is illegal in the wrong 15m climate even if the daily is trending.
A scalp is illegal in the wrong 15m climate even if the daily is trending.
A scalp is illegal in the wrong 15m climate even if the daily is trending.
Microstructure with letters you can argue with.
Relative envelope — not a live reading. The desk scores each independently.
Crowding tax. Persistent extremes change expected value; they do not print a market order by themselves.
Positioning shocks. Build vs. cover, squeeze vs. unwind. Location of liquidity matters more than a pretty wick.
Tape / impulse quality. Who is lifting offers vs. fading. Used as confirmation, not as a lone trigger.
Session and time-of-day. London vs. New York vs. dead hours. Some styles are simply closed overnight.
Decision order is the edge.
Classify 15m / 1h / 4h / 1d as trend, range, or chop. A scalp is illegal in the wrong 15m climate even if the 1d is trending.
Where is price relative to value, range extremes, and prior day. Middle of nowhere is not a setup.
Style-specific confirms (break, reclaim, VWAP, impulse, …). One style, one ticket. No stacking.
Invalidation as a price. Size in R. Macro blackout can veto even a perfect trigger.
Five books. Zero stacking.
Short-horizon continuation and fade. Tight invalidation. No stacking with slower books.
Session structure, VWAP interaction, and funding-aware continuation. Closed before overnight risk when the profile says so.
Multi-session trends with 4h regime confirmation. Designed to ignore 15m noise.
Daily regime and higher-timeframe location. Fewer trades, larger R targets, strict macro gates.
Prints around scheduled macro. Either stands down into the print or trades the defined post-print reclaim — never both blindly.
| Style | Native TF | Stacks? | Macro gate | Risk language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalp | 15m | Never | Tight | Tight stop |
| Intraday | 1h | Never | Session | Session risk |
| Swing | 4h | Never | Print-aware | Multi-session |
| Position | 1d | Never | Strict | Larger targets |
| Catalyst | Event | Never | Specialist | Post-print only |
Run the live engine
Regime, setup queue, FLAT histogram, and Hunter’s parallel radar update inside the app. This page is the textbook; the desk is the lab.