Recognising climax without waiting for a headline

Students wait for a round-number panic or a television event before they will write ‘climax’ in the margin. That habit arrives late. We train a quieter test: a wide bar, unusually high activity versus the prior swing, and a close that fails to hold the extreme.

The next session is the confirmation work. If the following bars cannot travel with similar effort, the climax label stays. If they can, we strike it. The method is meant to be revisable on paper, not heroic in hindsight.

None of this is a trade instruction. It is a reading habit. The academy does not publish calls around those marks.

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