CISD
Change in State of Delivery. Price closes through the bodies of a run of opposing candles; the level is the open of that run’s first candle.
Source: reference diagram set.
THE REFERENCE DESK
The knowledge base
Every concept behind the playbook, with the source it came from. Where something was measured rather than read, the measurement is shown.
01 · CONCEPTS
The working vocabulary
ICSD
The inner variant, formed inside the prior candle’s range.
Source: reference diagram set.
Swing point
A pivot with one candle on either side. Three candles, not five.
Source: reference diagram set.
Protected swing
A swing that formed without taking the previous one and was never revisited. This is where the stop goes.
Source: reference diagram set.
Failure swing
A swing that fails to hold and gets taken.
Source: reference diagram set.
C1 / C2 / C3 / C4
C1 is before the swing, C2 makes the high or low, C3 is the candle after, and C4 is continuation.
Source: TTrades.
UNVERIFIED
The wick rule
A C2 wick under 30% of the candle can be traded directly. At 30% or more, wait for C3.
Source: operator ruling, consistent with published guidance.
UNVERIFIED
Order block
The body of the last opposing candle before the move.
Source: operator ruling. No primary source defines the zone bounds.
UNVERIFIED
Propulsion block
A consecutive order block.
Source: operator ruling.
SMT
Two correlated assets disagree: one sweeps its level, the other does not. Measured divergence occurs on roughly 13% of sweeps.
Source: measured.
PSP
Precision Swing Point. A swing confirmed by correlated-asset divergence.
Source: reference diagram set.
FVG / IFVG
A three-candle gap, and the same gap once traded back through.
Source: written model breakdowns.
PO3
Accumulation, manipulation, expansion.
Source: written model breakdowns.
Draw on liquidity
The level price is being pulled toward: prior day high or low, weekly open, or prior week high or low.
Source: written model breakdowns.
02 · THE DECISION TREE
Two paths, one sequence
Path A — Daily / 4H / 15m
01
Weekly narrative
02
Daily C2 swing point
03
Wick rule
04
Daily bias alignment
05
Daily equilibrium
06
4H phase
07
4H C2 aligned with daily
08
SMT making it a PSP
09
C2 near a session open
10
15m point of interest
11
15m CISD
12
Protected swing
13
Higher-timeframe target
Path B — Daily / 1H / 5m
The path the bot runs
01
1H C2 or PSP at a key daily level
02
SMT on the 1H
03
Price at the 1H POI
04
Inside a session window
05
5m CISD
06
Protected swing
07
Target
Current Path B bot coverage
Key level
SMT
POI
Session window
CISD
Protected swing
Target
NO
NO
NO
PARTIAL
YES
YES
YES
03 · WHAT WAS MEASURED
The tests, including the misses
Eleven changes were tested against the same 37 sessions of MNQ data. Most made no difference. Recording them stops anyone testing them twice.
Change
Result
5-candle pivot to 3-candle
19% to 25% win rate
C2 as prior-candle sweep
Fires every session, worse
Displacement filter
No effect, removed one trade
Entry inside C2 vs waiting for C3
Stops got wider
Stop at protected swing vs sweep extreme
63pt to 53pt
Market entry to limit at the CISD
26% win rate
Key daily level filter
Best single filter found
SMT
Rare, 5 setup days in 37
1H POI
No effect on top of SMT
Perfect hindsight bias
No change at all, 26% either way
Liquidity targets instead of 2R
Much worse, every band tested
Entry chart
Chart
Result
5-minute
30%, -4.00R
3-minute
40%, +8.00R
Same setups, same window. Only the entry chart changed.
Small samples, one regime, June and July 2026 only. Positive results here are not proof of an edge.
04 · THE VERIFIED TRADE
A published mechanic, reconstructed
WORKED EXAMPLE
3-minute chart
CISD level
52580
Trigger close
52566
Run high
52654
Stop
52655
Risk
75 points
Outcome
3.43R
Limit filled on the retrace. Target reached.
The mechanic was reconstructed from a published trade and matched to within 0.07R: computed 3.43R against a posted 3.5R.
This is why the entry is a limit at the CISD level and the stop sits on the run.
05 · SOURCES
Credit where it belongs
These are other people’s published educational materials, used as references and credited here. The definitions on this page are our own summaries.
Reference diagram set — 49 diagrams, @4xemperor
Written model breakdowns — @4xemperor, @GxTradez
Candle sequence terminology — @TTrades_edu
Worked trade recaps — @nicetradedavid
Summarised in our own words. No third-party text is reproduced here.