Marcus drew a line. It was a fakeout.

The price didn't go higher. It reversed. It collapsed like a building demolished from the inside. It fell straight to a "Fair Value Gap" he had marked three days earlier—a triple-candle pattern that looked like a broken window. The price touched it, kissed it, and shot back up.

Marcus stared at the blinking green and red candles on his TradingView chart. He’d been at this for three years. Three years of gut-wrenching losses, three years of YouTube "gurus" selling him holy grails that turned into cursed chalices. His account was a hospice patient; it was only a matter of time.