Lesson 19 | Perfect Pushes and Overlapping Pushes

In one sentence

A push looks one of two ways: it completes, rebuilds and pushes again; or it looks ready to turn but doesn't and extends instead. The second is usually stronger.

The perfect push

A complete push + a trend rebuild.

A push runs its normal course (reach 1.382, pull back short of the line, push again), then a deeper correction breaks the line. Soon a new seedling forms, the trend rebuilds, and it carries on in the same direction.

The overlapping push

A "turn pending" on the main or lower timeframe that extends.

Price reaches a level where it looks set to turn (say, it touches a rhythm line). Everyone expects a reversal, but no opposite seedling forms, and price extends further in the original direction. On either timeframe, this signals strength to come.

Where they usually go

Most of the time they reach an important target on a higher timeframe (or higher still), such as the daily 1.382 or 1.618.

An analogy

A perfect push is a runner who finishes a lap, takes a sip of water and runs on. An overlapping push is a runner who reaches the finish line, everyone thinks they'll stop, and instead they speed up for another lap.

The most common mistakes

1. Flipping too early when a turn is pending. Until an opposite seedling appears, the turn is only pending.
2. Forgetting the higher-timeframe target. An overlapping push usually runs to that target before stopping.

Explain it in your own words

1. What two parts make a perfect push?
2. What does a "turn pending" extension look like?
3. Where do both models usually end up?

Practice

On the gold daily and 4-hour charts, find one perfect push and one overlapping push. Mark the rebuild or the extension and see which higher-timeframe target they stopped near.

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