Take advanced theories make it extremely practical to flip the board 308/338
Most people can get “ahead of flows” in the abstract. Very few can solve the full 5W1H of the flow—who is trapped, what liquidity is being targeted, when the ignition is scheduled to happen, why the tape is incentivized to resolve, and how it will express through speed and structure.
That distinction is everything.
When you operate in a precognition state—when your read becomes fully aligned within minutes or seconds—you’re not just “right.” You’re arriving at the moment where price is cheapest relative to the next resolution. That’s what best price actually means: not an indicator, not a thesis, not a narrative—authorship in real time.
Impressive scalp on that vertical move. The velocity of that spike is what catches my atention, especially how cleanly it held above the breakout level. I’ve had similar setups where the inital thrust was strong but gave back half the gains within minutes. What made you exit rather than riding it futher, was it purely time-based or did you see something in the orderflow that signaled exhaustion?
And when you can do that at scale, scarcity stops being the operating system. You don’t need to squeeze every move or pray for runners. A refined authorship methodology compounds through falsification: bounded risk, rapid disconfirmation, survivorship as a forcing function. The more consistently you do that, the more anti-fragile you become—because you can abandon any move that isn’t behaving, and re-engage the next opportunity almost at will.
That’s why sometimes you let runners go.
Not because you don’t see the upside—because you can already see where the next flow is likely to enter “from the street,” and you know you can meet it again at a better moment. That’s also why authorship keeps showing up at major pivots intraday: it isn’t prediction. It’s permission → acceleration → resolution, repeated with discipline.
Which is why the obsession is not with stories, but with what can be measured:
speed, tempo, geometry.
Those are the fingerprints of the layer underneath.