The Path to Variance Collapse

Variance collapse doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It requires pressure, release, and often — a deliberate shakeout.

Rise

Earlier, price action had gone stagnant in a range, with bids and offers balancing each other out. To break that equilibrium and store the energy required for resolution, a controlled flush was authored. That shakeout served two purposes:

1. Cleansing positioning — removing weak hands and baiting shorts into the coil.

2. Reinforcing memory — anchoring the level where we intended to hold.

Imminent Variance Collapse

Once the shakeout completed, the market had no choice but to respond.

The excess was cleared, variance tightened, and the coil resolved higher — an authored variance collapse.

This is the blueprint: not merely waiting for probability, but orchestrating the conditions that make resolution inevitable.