GRINDER
A steady, unhurried climb with shallow pullbacks through the first forty minutes.
Formula
TRACKINGSix or more higher lows, shallow giveback, and small consistent bars; no single bar carries the move.
Registered detector; needs 20 one-minute bars and the 09:40 card window holds 11, so it cannot fire there. Higher lows; retrace; bar pace; VWAP/EMA position; 5-day same-time demand.
The detector rule and what is measured beside it. Track's digest quotes the same row for every seat that carries this setup. All formulas on Track
Definition
A steady, unhurried climb with shallow pullbacks through the first forty minutes. No single bar carries the move.
Not this
A name that spikes and then chops sideways is not a grinder.
Evidence checklist
What must be visible on the record before this shape is named. Find each item on an example below.
- A climb across most of the window.
- Pullbacks that stay shallow.
- No single bar carrying the move.
- First sighting minute on the record.
Known on this record
- The shape name and the first minute the scanner saw it.
- The level out at 09:40 and the send ledger's time.
- The gap into the turn, measured at the 09:40 mark.
- The turn-window facts: entry vs range, window volume vs prior sessions, minutes from the window low.
- The tape verdict for the session.
- Catalyst classes, on sessions where the record carries them.
- Close, capture, day move, peak and the grade, all measured after the alert.
Not on this record
- EMA lines of any period.
- Volume beyond the turn window.
- An intraday chart or the bars behind one.
- The prior session's move.
- A catalyst's publication time.
- The price path between 09:40 and the close, beyond the peak minute.
A question to hold
Read minutes from the window low and entry vs range together. Where in the window did the climb start?
Seats from the record
Seats the scanner gave this shape, newest first. Each opens on Track with its full lesson.
No seat on record yet.
No alerted seat carries this shape on the record read at build time.
Counts only. A shape publishes no rate until its own record matures. the ladder rule
Study cues
Not available: no producer publishes per-condition observations with a timestamp and a source yet.
When one exists, a cue reads like this:
GRINDER study candidate: 3 of 5 documented conditions present.
Every condition shows its timestamp, its source, and an unknown state when missing. A cue describes; it never directs.
Reading this page comes first. A cue can only be followed from its definition, and can be paused or deleted.