Practice Playbooks

VSA Playbook Library

Professional VSA playbooks with context requirements, evidence checklists, confirmation rules, invalidation signs, traps, and risk warnings.

12 professional playbooks

Turn VSA knowledge into repeatable decision checklists.

These playbooks are not signals. They are structured operating guides for reading context, evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps, and risk before forming a trade scenario.

12Playbooks
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Professional checklist library

Choose the playbook that matches the market question

Start with the background. Then use the relevant playbook to decide what evidence is required, what would confirm the read, and what would invalidate it.

Demand confirmationAdvanced

Spring Playbook

A disciplined checklist for reading a spring without treating every break of support as bullish.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Spring Playbook
Demand confirmationAdvanced

Test After Spring Playbook

A checklist for judging whether the market has successfully tested supply after a spring.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Test After Spring Playbook
Supply confirmationAdvanced

Upthrust Playbook

A professional checklist for reading upthrusts without shorting every breakout.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Upthrust Playbook
DistributionMaster

UTAD Playbook

A campaign-level checklist for judging an Upthrust After Distribution without confusing it with a simple breakout failure.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open UTAD Playbook
Weakness recognitionIntermediate

No Demand Playbook

A checklist for reading no-demand rallies only when background supply makes the label meaningful.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open No Demand Playbook
Strength recognitionIntermediate

No Supply Playbook

A checklist for reading no-supply pullbacks without treating every quiet decline as bullish.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open No Supply Playbook
Strength recognitionIntermediate

Stopping Volume Playbook

A checklist for detecting stopping action while avoiding premature bottom-picking.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Stopping Volume Playbook
Campaign readingAdvanced

Absorption Playbook

A checklist for reading absorption as repeated effort absorbed without expected result.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Absorption Playbook
Core reasoningBeginner

Effort Versus Result Playbook

A universal checklist for comparing volume effort with price result before naming any VSA pattern.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Effort Versus Result Playbook
Core reasoningProfessional

Background Reading Playbook

A checklist for forming a background thesis before reacting to individual bars.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Background Reading Playbook
Decision disciplineProfessional

Confirmation Playbook

A checklist for separating confirmation from prediction and avoiding early thesis attachment.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Confirmation Playbook
Risk controlProfessional

Risk Decision Playbook

A checklist for deciding whether a VSA idea is tradable after the chart read is complete.

Includes evidence, confirmation, invalidation, traps and risk warning.

Open Risk Decision Playbook

How to use playbooks

Use them after analysis, not instead of analysis.

Read the lesson, attempt drills, study cases, then use the playbook to control execution discipline. A playbook should reduce ambiguity, not create overconfidence.

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