Price Framework
Market structure is the shape of price movement over time. It helps traders read whether the market is trending up, trending down, or moving sideways by looking at swing highs, swing lows, and the way price behaves around important levels.
Market structure is one of the most basic and important ways to read a chart.
Before asking whether RSI is high or whether EMAs are aligned, many traders first ask: what is price actually doing structurally?
Structure helps answer whether the market is trending, ranging, breaking down, or attempting to change direction.
Price generally forms higher highs and higher lows.
This suggests buyers are still maintaining control over the broader movement.
Price moves between support and resistance.
This often means neither buyers nor sellers have fully taken control yet.
Price generally forms lower highs and lower lows.
This suggests sellers are still dominating the broader movement.
Important:
Market structure is not just about direction. It is also about how cleanly price is behaving.
Two markets can both be bullish, but one may have much cleaner and more trustworthy structure than the other.
Price keeps stepping upward with higher swing points
Price keeps stepping downward with lower swing points
Indicators can help describe momentum, volatility, or trend quality.
Many traders start with price structure because it shows the raw framework of the chart.
Indicators often become more useful when they are interpreted inside the right structural context.
Mistake: focusing on indicators while ignoring price structure
A signal matters much more when it appears in the right structural place.
A bullish candle inside a weak range is not the same as a bullish candle at a strong structural support inside a broader uptrend.
MarketBiasTracker does not rely on one indicator alone.
It reads the market through structure, momentum, EMA behavior, volatility, and other context layers. Structure is one of the key foundations behind that process.
Structure helps MBT understand whether the market is trending, ranging, or transitioning.
It helps give meaning to RSI, EMA stack, volume, and other metrics.
MBT uses structure together with other evidence, not as a single decision maker.
Higher highs and higher lows.
Lower highs and lower lows.
Sideways movement between boundaries.
Use it as the foundation for all other chart reading.
Next we can convert the next Learn page into this same RSI standard layout one by one.
