Point A in plain words — where the correction ends

It starts with the high the market turned down from: the indicator labels it a higher high. A correction follows, and point A is its depth — the place where you expect the correction to end. On its own that place decides nothing.

Why know this. Price arrives where you waited for it, and that alone means nothing: it can go straight on without stopping. What you wait for is not the arrival but a sign that the correction is over — and the market shows that sign itself.

Point A is found, not guessed

The place is not chosen by wish. Point A sits where the market took the liquidity and answered with a reaction: the level was taken, and the close came back above it — a long wick below and a short body, not a pass straight through. Below point A the idea does not work, and that is its main property: the waiting has a limit, and past it there is nothing left to wait for.

The sign comes from the lower timeframe

The indicator draws a line on the working chart itself and labels it: a break of the fifteen-minute structure. The trip down to the lower timeframe has already been made for you — the structure inside the correction was read there and the answer carried up onto the working chart. You do not have to switch anywhere.

Where that line comes from. Inside the correction, on fifteen minutes, the structure was going down: first a lower low, then a bounce whose top the indicator labelled a lower high. The level of that high is the line.

The confirmation is a close, not a touch

The confirmation looks simple: a bar of the working timeframe closed above the line. Not a wick through it — a close. From that moment the correction counts as over and point A has worked.

That same close turns the structure of the lower timeframe: price went above the previous high, and the low before it gets labelled a higher low. The new label appears on the lower timeframe before it appears on the working one — which is why the sign is looked for there. After it, price left upwards from that very place where it had been awaited: the confirmation came on the lower timeframe, the move on the working one.

What not to do. Point A promises nothing. If the structure of the lower timeframe does not turn but keeps going down, the place was chosen wrong and there is nothing left to wait for there. The break is not the only confirmation — there are imbalances and traded zones as well, but this lesson covers one.

Here is the point. Point A is the place where you wait for price. The confirmation is a turn of the structure on the lower timeframe. Until it turns there is only waiting, not work.

Point A answers one question: where the correction ends. Up to that level the idea is alive, below it the idea is not; where the move goes afterwards — the target of the move — is a separate question. The FocusProfit Trade Model indicator labels confirmed extremes and carries a break of the lower timeframe onto the working chart, so both the place and its confirmation are read off the chart rather than guessed.

The topic is covered in more depth in the Learn section, and the causality in full is in the methodology.