FIB & MASTER PATTERN — EDUCATIONAL USDJPY | Live ExampleUS Dollar vs Japanese YenFTMO_OANDA:USDJPYKwaggaRobertse📌 Learn this pattern. Live example on the chart. ═══════════════════════════════ PART 1 — THE MASTER PATTERN Think of the market like a spring being wound. It moves in three phases. 1. CONTRACTION — where we are now Price goes quiet. Small candles, tight range, going nowhere. That's the orange box. Not boredom. Accumulation. Big players quietly building positions while the market waits — usually because something macro is coming. This week: Fed on the 16th, BOJ on the 18th. The market is holding its breath. 2. EXPANSION — what comes next Price breaks out of the box. It usually pokes out BOTH sides first — up then down, or down then up. This is the market grabbing orders from traders on both sides before it commits. 3. TREND Once both sides are swept, price picks a direction and runs. That's the real move. ═══════════════════════════════ PART 2 — THE FIB & THE POI When price makes a big move, it rarely runs in a straight line. It pulls back first. The question is how far. I measure it with a Fibonacci retracement — drawn from the top of the drop (160.406) to the bottom (152.887). PREMIUM vs DISCOUNT — the simple version Think of it like shopping. The 0.5 level (156.646) is the halfway mark. It splits the move in two: - BELOW 0.5 = DISCOUNT. Price is cheap. Buyers want in. - ABOVE 0.5 = PREMIUM. Price is expensive. Sellers want in. Nobody sells cheap. Nobody buys expensive. That's the whole idea. I'm looking for shorts — so I need price back up in premium before I'm interested. That's why 0.5 is the floor of my POI. It's the exact point where price becomes expensive enough to sell. Inside premium: - 0.62 (157.549) — the golden pocket. Where most institutional pullbacks end. - 0.72 (158.301) — the deepest a pullback normally goes before the move is dead. THE RULE Inside the box = normal, healthy pullback. Bearish structure survives. Close above 0.72 = it was never a pullback. It's a reversal. 158.301 is the line. Not a feeling — a measured level. ═══════════════════════════════ PART 3 — WHERE THAT LEAVES US Nothing is decided yet. Price is still coiled inside the contraction box. - Expansion resolves DOWN → bearish view holds, target below 152.09 - Expansion resolves UP and closes above the POI → I'm wrong. Reversal. I don't get to choose. The market does. WHAT I'M WATCHING Wait for price to clear the box on both sides. The side swept LAST is usually the fake. The direction after that is the trend. Don't trade inside the box. That's where accounts go to die. Not financial advice — DYOR. Kwagga