In the shadowy corners of trading forums, Reddit threads, and Telegram channels, a specific string of text has become something of a legend among technical analysts:
The Setup is the momentum component of the system. Its goal is to identify a price range that is ready to reverse. To complete a bullish Setup, a trader looks for nine consecutive bars where the close of each bar is lower than the close four bars earlier. This indicates a sustained period of selling pressure. Conversely, a bearish Setup requires nine consecutive bars closing higher than the close four bars earlier.
A completed indicates a likely price flip or a temporary exhaustion of the current trend. In the shadowy corners of trading forums, Reddit
The TD Combo aims to anticipate price exhaustion within trends with even greater precision. To complete a TD Combo Buy Countdown, a bar must meet three specific criteria:
Many open-source GitHub repositories now offer fully coded versions of these indicators for platforms like TradingView. This indicates a sustained period of selling pressure
Requires the current bar's close to be higher than the close four bars prior, directly following a bar that closed lower than four bars prior. 2. The TD Setup (The 9-Count)
A TD Sequential 13-count carries significantly more weight if it occurs simultaneously on a Daily and a Weekly chart. Always align your exhaustion signals across multiple timeframes. The TD Combo aims to anticipate price exhaustion
For the uninitiated, this looks like gibberish. For the initiated, it represents the holy grail of counter-trend trading. But is this elusive "repack" a genuine treasure trove of market secrets, or just another digital mirage designed to trap desperate traders?
TD Sequential Process: [ Trend Begins ] ---> [ TD Setup: 9 Consecutive Bars ] ---> [ TD Countdown: 13 Structural Bars ] ---> [ Market Reversal ] Additional Key DeMark Tools
You don't need a risky PDF to master DeMark. His most powerful technique, , can be manually calculated on any charting platform (TradingView, MetaStock, etc.). Here is the "repack" of the actual logic.
In a buy scenario, after a bearish price flip resets the count, the TD Countdown requires 13 bars where the close of each bar is below the low of the bar two bars prior. A key nuance is that, unlike the Setup, the Countdown bars do not need to be consecutive. The count continues until the 13th bar meets specific qualification rules (such as the close of bar 13 being less than or equal to the close of bar 8) or until the signal is canceled by a contrary Setup or a breakout of a specific price level known as the TDST line.