01 · LEVELS
It maps the liquidity.
Yesterday's high and low, last week's, the equal highs and lows, the 20-, 40- and 60-day extremes, on ES, NQ and YM, every session, before the bell.
You see the map in the morning menu before anything moves.
- 02 · SWEEP
It watches the raid.
A pool gets taken. Wick measures how far the raid went past it, in ATR, and whether the crowd went with it. A sweep is a setup, never a trade.
You get a 🎯 the moment a level is in play, labelled as not-an-entry.
- 03 · CONFIRMATION
It waits for the candle.
The reclaim has to close. On the daily books that is the 5:00 PM close; on the intraday book, the 15- or 30-minute candle in a trading window. No close, no trade.
You get the 🟢 only when the candle confirms, with the time it did.
- 04 · RISK
It sizes the stop first.
The stop sits under the raid's low with a buffer; the target is a fixed multiple of that risk. The ticket is priced in ticks and in dollars, micro and full-size, against a defined ceiling.
You know what the trade costs if it fails before you place it.
- 05 · TICKET
It writes the order.
Direction, contract month, entry, take profit, stop, the bracket in ticks, and a line that says whether it is a trade right now or a record of one that already happened.
You copy it into your platform without doing arithmetic.
- 06 · VERDICT
It answers every signal.
At the close, every armed signal gets an answer: confirmed, no entry, or dead. Every open trade gets a result when it ends, in R and in dollars, wins and losses alike.
Nothing is left hanging. You always know what happened.
- 07 · RECORD
It keeps the book.
Every trade is hash-chained into a ledger nobody can edit after the fact, and every proposed change to the rules has to beat that record on years of history before it is allowed near it.
You are following a method with a memory, not a mood.
Seven parts. Each one earns its place.
They lock together into one instrument.
Then it reads the ninth candle.
THE INSTRUMENT, ASSEMBLED
Wick is built from the framework you learn.
PRICE ACTION LAYERVOLUME PROFILE RINGLIQUIDITY MAPRISK ENGINEEXECUTION TIMING RAILALERT MATRIXJOURNAL & AUDIT PLATE
It never chases.
An intraday signal dies a few minutes after its candle. A daily confirmation is an entry only until shortly after the reopen. After that it is filed as a record, never sent as a trade.
It never posts a stale entry.
A fill the book records after the fact says so in the first line: filled when, and "not now" if the moment has passed, with the risk from the current price, so you cannot mistake yesterday's trade for today's.
It never re-enters blind.
A re-entry is sent only when the same setup pulls back into its entry area and confirms the same way, after a top-down check: why the stop was hit, whether the target was already reached, what liquidity was taken, and where the weekly and monthly structure points.
It only speaks about ES, NQ and YM.
Three markets, three books. Research the desk runs on other markets never reaches your phone or the community.
WHAT A TICKET LOOKS LIKE
An illustration of the format, not a live signal. Prices, ticks and dollars are filled in on the real ticket. Decision support, not financial advice.
Real-time market structure
Risk-first trade planning
Multi-timeframe confirmation
Watchlists and alerts
Entry and exit mapping
Session review
Trade journaling
Clean decision history