Reference
A working list of what the five digits actually point at on a chart. Each entry says what the pattern is, what confirms it, and what tells you it has failed — because the second half is the part that keeps a read honest. Nothing here is a signal or a recommendation.
Illustration of patterns — not a record of trades.
Market type
Every other decision on the chart is downstream of this one. The same bar is an entry in a breakout and a fade in a range.
Overlapping bars going sideways, prominent tails, no bar closing decisively beyond the last.
Consecutive trend bars with big bodies, small tails, closing at or near their extreme.
The bar immediately after a breakout bar that continues it instead of stalling.
The first pullback inside a strong breakout: the cheapest entry a strong move will offer.
A range tightening to the point where either side is a genuine breakout and neither is favoured.
Two legs
One leg is a pause. Two legs is a pullback. The second leg is where the entry is, and it usually stops within a few ticks of the first.
Down, a counter-bounce, then down again — the standard correction shape in a trend.
The second attempt at a pullback entry after the first one failed to trigger or failed to run.
Two extremes within a few ticks of each other, separated by a bounce.
The labelled form of the two-legged move: leg A, counter-leg B, leg C.
The second leg travels roughly the distance the first leg travelled.
Three pushes
Three is both the shape of a reversal and the count that confirms it. A wedge is three pushes running out of room; three strong opposite bars are what flips the market.
Three pushes in one direction, each weaker than the last, squeezed into a narrowing channel.
The count on its own, whether or not the shape narrows into a wedge.
Three strong consecutive bars in the opposite direction, taking out the structure behind them.
A push pokes through the channel line and closes back inside it.
A break of the trend line, a return to test it, and a failure to get back through.
Zero bias
The digit with no zone, because it applies to every bar. Zero bias is a discipline, not a pattern — but these are the shapes that punish its absence.
A close beyond a level, then a close back inside it within a bar or two.
The second attempt at the same idea after the first one failed.
A large-range bar closing near its middle, with tails on both ends.
The bar that argues against the position you already have on.
Exhaustion
The most convincing part of a move is usually its end. Everyone who wanted in is in, and there is nobody left to push it further.
Consecutive same-direction trend bars, often accelerating, with bodies growing.
The specific count at which a move becomes crowded and the risk flips to the other side.
The largest bar of the move, closing far from its extreme, with a long tail.
What usually follows a climax: not a reversal, but a two-legged move sideways-to-against.
A bar closing back through the midpoint of the bar before it, against the move.
The vocabulary here — High 1, always-in, wedge, measured move — is Al Brooks’ terminology, in common use among price action traders. The schematics are drawn shapes, not market data: illustrations of patterns, never a record of trades.