1. Spring After Downtrend
A prior decline has produced climactic action, a trading range, and repeated tests of support. Price briefly breaks the range low and then closes back inside the range.
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2. Failed Spring
A break below support returns inside the range briefly, but the follow-through does not show clean demand or reduced supply.
3. Test After Spring
After a spring or shakeout, price returns toward the danger area to examine whether supply is still present.
4. Upthrust After Distribution
A market has spent time in a range after an advance. Price moves above resistance and then fails to hold the breakout.
5. Upthrust After Distribution UTAD
Late in a suspected distribution range, price creates a final move above resistance that appears bullish but cannot maintain acceptance.
6. No Demand Rally
Price rallies after prior weakness but the advance shows little commitment from buyers.
7. No Supply Pullback
After visible strength, price pulls back on quiet activity rather than urgent selling.
8. Stopping Volume
A decline accelerates into heavy activity, but the bar does not continue smoothly lower afterward.
9. Buying Climax
After a sustained advance, price accelerates upward on dramatic activity and public enthusiasm.
10. Selling Climax
After a sustained decline, price sells off sharply on heavy activity and then fails to continue lower cleanly.
11. Absorption Before Breakout
Price presses resistance repeatedly while reactions become shallow and supply fails to produce meaningful declines.
12. Hidden Supply on Up Bars
A market rises, but each attempt to advance meets selling that limits progress.
13. Bullish Effort Versus Result
Price shows strong upward result with volume that is appropriate to the background and does not immediately fail.
14. Bearish Effort Versus Result
A down move produces clear result and sellers remain effective after prior weakness.
15. Reaccumulation Structure
An existing uptrend pauses in a range, yet the range shows more absorption and testing than distribution.
16. Redistribution Structure
A downtrend pauses in a range but rallies remain weak and supply reappears.
17. Multi-Timeframe Conflict
Lower timeframe strength appears while the higher timeframe remains near supply or within a weak background.
18. Late Entry After Confirmation
The evidence becomes clear only after price has already moved far from the logical invalidation level.
19. News Candle Volume Filter
A large news-driven candle creates abnormal range and volume that may distort normal VSA interpretation.
20. Support Break With No Follow Through
Price breaks support but cannot continue downward and quickly returns into the prior structure.
21. Resistance Break With No Demand
Price moves above resistance, but the breakout lacks participation and cannot attract follow-through.
22. Range Midpoint Control
Inside a trading range, price repeatedly accepts or rejects the midpoint, revealing which side is gaining control.
23. Relative Strength Selection
Two markets show similar base structure, but one holds higher, recovers faster, or resists weakness better.
24. Cause and Effect Limits
A wide trading range appears to build cause, but the analyst must avoid converting it into false target precision.
25. Spring After Downtrend — Variant 2
A prior decline has produced climactic action, a trading range, and repeated tests of support. Price briefly breaks the range low and then closes back inside the range.
26. Failed Spring — Variant 2
A break below support returns inside the range briefly, but the follow-through does not show clean demand or reduced supply.
27. Test After Spring — Variant 2
After a spring or shakeout, price returns toward the danger area to examine whether supply is still present.
28. Upthrust After Distribution — Variant 2
A market has spent time in a range after an advance. Price moves above resistance and then fails to hold the breakout.
29. Upthrust After Distribution UTAD — Variant 2
Late in a suspected distribution range, price creates a final move above resistance that appears bullish but cannot maintain acceptance.
30. No Demand Rally — Variant 2
Price rallies after prior weakness but the advance shows little commitment from buyers.
31. No Supply Pullback — Variant 2
After visible strength, price pulls back on quiet activity rather than urgent selling.
32. Stopping Volume — Variant 2
A decline accelerates into heavy activity, but the bar does not continue smoothly lower afterward.
33. Buying Climax — Variant 2
After a sustained advance, price accelerates upward on dramatic activity and public enthusiasm.
34. Selling Climax — Variant 2
After a sustained decline, price sells off sharply on heavy activity and then fails to continue lower cleanly.
35. Absorption Before Breakout — Variant 2
Price presses resistance repeatedly while reactions become shallow and supply fails to produce meaningful declines.
36. Hidden Supply on Up Bars — Variant 2
A market rises, but each attempt to advance meets selling that limits progress.
37. Bullish Effort Versus Result — Variant 2
Price shows strong upward result with volume that is appropriate to the background and does not immediately fail.
38. Bearish Effort Versus Result — Variant 2
A down move produces clear result and sellers remain effective after prior weakness.
39. Reaccumulation Structure — Variant 2
An existing uptrend pauses in a range, yet the range shows more absorption and testing than distribution.
40. Redistribution Structure — Variant 2
A downtrend pauses in a range but rallies remain weak and supply reappears.
41. Multi-Timeframe Conflict — Variant 2
Lower timeframe strength appears while the higher timeframe remains near supply or within a weak background.
42. Late Entry After Confirmation — Variant 2
The evidence becomes clear only after price has already moved far from the logical invalidation level.
43. News Candle Volume Filter — Variant 2
A large news-driven candle creates abnormal range and volume that may distort normal VSA interpretation.
44. Support Break With No Follow Through — Variant 2
Price breaks support but cannot continue downward and quickly returns into the prior structure.
45. Resistance Break With No Demand — Variant 2
Price moves above resistance, but the breakout lacks participation and cannot attract follow-through.
46. Range Midpoint Control — Variant 2
Inside a trading range, price repeatedly accepts or rejects the midpoint, revealing which side is gaining control.
47. Relative Strength Selection — Variant 2
Two markets show similar base structure, but one holds higher, recovers faster, or resists weakness better.
48. Cause and Effect Limits — Variant 2
A wide trading range appears to build cause, but the analyst must avoid converting it into false target precision.
49. Spring After Downtrend — Variant 3
A prior decline has produced climactic action, a trading range, and repeated tests of support. Price briefly breaks the range low and then closes back inside the range.
50. Failed Spring — Variant 3
A break below support returns inside the range briefly, but the follow-through does not show clean demand or reduced supply.
51. Test After Spring — Variant 3
After a spring or shakeout, price returns toward the danger area to examine whether supply is still present.
52. Upthrust After Distribution — Variant 3
A market has spent time in a range after an advance. Price moves above resistance and then fails to hold the breakout.
53. Upthrust After Distribution UTAD — Variant 3
Late in a suspected distribution range, price creates a final move above resistance that appears bullish but cannot maintain acceptance.
54. No Demand Rally — Variant 3
Price rallies after prior weakness but the advance shows little commitment from buyers.
55. No Supply Pullback — Variant 3
After visible strength, price pulls back on quiet activity rather than urgent selling.
56. Stopping Volume — Variant 3
A decline accelerates into heavy activity, but the bar does not continue smoothly lower afterward.
57. Buying Climax — Variant 3
After a sustained advance, price accelerates upward on dramatic activity and public enthusiasm.
58. Selling Climax — Variant 3
After a sustained decline, price sells off sharply on heavy activity and then fails to continue lower cleanly.
59. Absorption Before Breakout — Variant 3
Price presses resistance repeatedly while reactions become shallow and supply fails to produce meaningful declines.
60. Hidden Supply on Up Bars — Variant 3
A market rises, but each attempt to advance meets selling that limits progress.