The TA board watches for six price-action setups. Each is a picture traders have recognised for decades: a level that gets tested, a range that gets resolved, a move that runs out of sellers. This page explains what each one looks like on a chart and why it matters. The board then shows every call as it happens, and grades it in public.
What the market is doing
Price breaks above a level that has capped it before, then comes back to test that level from above. The old ceiling is being asked to act as support.
Why traders care
A breakout on its own is often a trap. The retest shows whether buyers defend the level they have just taken back. When it holds, the level has changed hands, and the breakout has been accepted rather than merely touched.
Confirmed means: the pullback finds buyers at the old ceiling and price closes back up, away from it.
What the market is doing
After a long sideways range, price dips just under the bottom of the range and then climbs straight back inside. The dip shakes out holders and trips stops, but no real selling follows it.
Why traders care
The name comes from Richard Wyckoff’s description of accumulation. A spring is often the last flush before a range resolves upward: the supply that should have appeared below the range never did.
Confirmed means: price is back above the bottom of the range after the dip, and holding there.
What the market is doing
After a move up, price pauses in a tight, flat range. Highs and lows stay close together while sellers are absorbed. Then price leaves the range through the top.
Why traders care
A flat base is a market catching its breath rather than turning. A break out of a quiet range often starts the next leg, with a clear level underneath for anyone who needs to know when the idea is wrong.
Confirmed means: price closes above the top of the base.
What the market is doing
A decline speeds up into a burst of heavy selling: wide candles, unusual volume, a low that looks like panic. Then price snaps back hard.
Why traders care
A climax marks the moment forced and emotional selling runs out. The rebound, and a calmer return towards the low, show whether buyers have taken over from the sellers who were driving the fall.
Confirmed means: after the climax low, price holds above it and turns up.
What the market is doing
A run of lower highs draws a falling trendline: every rally has been sold at the line. Then a rally goes through it.
Why traders care
The trendline is the visible record of sellers being in control. A break through it is the first sign that they are no longer stepping in where they used to.
Confirmed means: price closes above the trendline instead of turning back at it.
What the market is doing
Price breaks below a clear support level, drawing in short sellers and triggering stop orders, then quickly reverses back above that support.
Why traders care
When a breakdown fails, the traders who sold the break are wrong-footed, and their buying back can add fuel to the move up. A failed signal in one direction is information about the other.
Confirmed means: price reclaims the broken support and closes back above it.
A setup is never one candle. Before a call is published, the engine checks where price closes against the level the setup is built on, whether volume is unusual for that coin, and what momentum (RSI) and the trend on moving averages are doing, and it looks for the same picture on the neighbouring timeframes. When other exchanges show the same setup, the call lists them too.
Every call the board publishes is graded in public, from the confirmed close to the highest price it reached. The TA board shows each one live, and its Top calls section shows the best of each month.