How Do You Get 5 Minutes of Clean Upstream in a Downstream Tape?

When the tape is heavy, most people either do one of two things:

1. they avoid trading because “the trend is down,” or

2. they chase the move after it already happened and get chopped.

But the market doesn’t pay you for having an opinion on direction.

It pays you for solving the full 5W1H of the move in real time.

Not just what might happen—

but when, where, how, how fast, and with what risk.

That’s what “five minutes of clean upstream” really is:

A brief window where the tape stops being democratic and becomes mechanical.

It means you’re not reacting to the market’s story.

You are authoring the market.

And than rewrite for 5 mins is where the money is.