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Floor 5: Time

Judas Swing

Judas Swing plays the London open candle by candle. Price leaves the Asia range on one side, and you get one call per chart: press it the moment a candle closes beyond the other side, or make no call at all if the first move was the real one. It teaches what confirms a Judas swing.

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What it teaches

Recognising the opening fake-out while it happens.

  • The definition of a Judas swing: the first move out takes one side of the range, then a later candle closes beyond the other.
  • What counts as confirmation and what is only a pullback.
  • Continuation days, where the first move out is the real one.
  • Holding a view loosely while the candles are still printing.

How a round plays

  1. The Asia high and low are on screen. From the London open the chart prints one candle at a time.
  2. Price trades out of the range on one side. At that moment nobody can tell whether the move is real or a fake.
  3. Press "Call the Judas" when a candle closes beyond the other side of the range. You have a few candles to react, and one call per chart.
  4. If the first move just keeps going, the right play is no call at all: let the chart run out.
  5. The Lens then shows the range, the first move and the close that settled it. A run is eight session opens, about four minutes.

How it is graded

The rule here: it is a Judas swing only when the first move out of the Asia range takes one side and a later candle closes beyond the other side. A call before that close is too soon, a call more than four or five candles after it is late, and on a continuation day any call is wrong.

The honest note

The name implies a deliberate deception. All the chart shows is a move that failed. The game mixes in days when the first move was real, because that happens often.

The concepts behind it