One Price Pattern That Works in Every Market
45sOpens with a bold universal promise—any timeframe, any market—that instantly grabs traders seeking a simple edge.
▶ Play Clip"The title promises a single move to replace hundreds of patterns, and the video largely delivers, but the heavy course pitch and repetition keep it from being exceptional."
This video presents a universal price behavior pattern that the author claims underlies all other chart patterns. The 'spring principle' — range compression with rising volume followed by expansion in the opposite direction — is explained as a market-mechanics-driven setup that works across timeframes and instruments. The tutorial demonstrates real trade examples, defines two key value areas (daily levels and the first five-minute candle), and ends with a course promotion.
The described regularity is a form of price behavior, not a fixed pattern. It works on any timeframe (minute to monthly) and any market — Forex, futures, crypto, stocks — except classic options. More liquid instruments (with more capital) produce better results.
This price behavior lies at the base of every reversal and continuation pattern, including SmartMoney concepts. It continuously reveals which side (buyer or seller) is strong, and thus predicts the next direction of movement.
Unlike typical chart patterns, this behavior adapts to changing market volatility. It has worked since the 1930s–70s in America and will keep working because it's based on immutable market mechanics — comparing it to a change in the alphabet.
Most people seek ready patterns online or from AI chatbots (GPT, Deep), but since those patterns don't account for market changes, traders repeatedly lose money. Learning more fixed patterns doesn't solve the problem.
Markets move because of supply and demand. There are aggressive buy/sell orders that push price, and passive buy/sell limit orders that hold price. The balance between these orders determines direction.
The core setup is a narrowing range accompanied by rising volume, followed by a sharp expansion in the opposite direction. The internet attributes this 'spring' concept to Artem Zvezdin.
If each subsequent candle becomes smaller while volume grows, transactions are happening but the price doesn't move down — meaning sellers' pressure is being absorbed by a major buyer. This compression is the first half of the setup.
Volume is essential for this method. Add it via the indicators menu. If an instrument lacks real volume, use tick volume (covered later). After volume spikes, price often stops or reverses.
A volume spike alone is meaningless — it could be a random retail purchase. Only at a 'place of value' (where a major, informed participant would act) does volume gain significance. The first place of value is the daily level.
Switch to the daily timeframe, mark the previous day's high and low, then return to the intraday timeframe and wait for price to reach this zone. A demo shows a sell setup after compression at the daily level.
After compression and a confirming expansion candle, enter in that direction. Set the stop behind the compression formation, and take profit at 1.5–2x the stop distance. The author notes he often exits earlier.
For intraday scalping on the Moscow Exchange, mark the first 5-minute candle at 10:00 Moscow time. Steps: wait for the candle, set its high/low as key levels, then wait for a rollback and a reversal signal on the minute chart.
The core message is that a single price behavior — range compression with volume followed by expansion — can replace the need to memorize hundreds of patterns. Combined with volume and the right value areas (daily levels or the first five-minute candle), it offers a coherent, mechanics-based trading edge.
On which markets does the described price behavior work?
It works on Forex, futures, cryptocurrency, and stocks, but not on classic options.
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What are the four types of orders, and how do they affect price?
Aggressive buy/sell orders push price; passive buy/sell limit orders hold price.
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What is the 'spring principle' in trading?
A narrowing range with growing volume followed by expansion in the opposite direction.
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Why does a volume surge need to happen at a 'place of value'?
Because a random large order can create volume without indicating a major informed participant's intent.
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What are the two value areas mentioned for trade setups?
Daily high/low levels and the first 5-minute candle of the trading session.
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How do you add the volume indicator to a chart?
Click on the indicators menu and enter 'volume'.
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What is the recommended stop-loss and take-profit placement?
Stop behind the compression formation; take-profit at 1.5–2x the stop distance.
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What should you use if an instrument doesn't show real volume?
Tick volume.
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At what time should you mark the first 5-minute candle on the Moscow Exchange?
10:00 Moscow time.
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Why is this pattern considered adaptive rather than a fixed pattern?
It reflects current market volatility, so it changes with the market while remaining effective.
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Price behavior works everywhere
The claim that one principle applies across all timeframes and most markets gives traders a universal foundation.
00:17Compression reveals buyers absorbing selling pressure
This is the core mechanism that explains why shrinking candles with rising volume precede reversals — a key principle.
08:27Volume needs a place of value
It prevents traders from misreading random volume spikes as institutional activity, a common pitfall.
12:21First five-minute candle as intraday value
A practical, specific technique for day traders to define high-probability zones on the Moscow Exchange.
16:19Pattern adapts to market volatility
Distinguishes this approach from static patterns and explains its long-term historical edge.
02:44[00:02] or some kind of regularity. Rather, it is more like price behavior. And this price behavior works on any time frame. It doesn't matter where you use it, from minute charts to daily or monthly
[00:17] charts, it works everywhere, since it is based on market mechanics, which we will talk about a little later. Moreover, this works in any market, be it Forex, futures, cryptocurrency, or stocks. You can
[00:32] use any market except the options market, classic options. This will work everywhere. As for specific instruments, that is, on which instruments it works better or worse, here, you know, there is no
[00:47] works, in principle, on any instrument. But the more liquid the instrument, that is, the more capital there is, the more this will work. By liquidity I mean, well, availability of capital, yes,
[01:01] but you could mean popularity. Well, for example, a coin like Bitcoin is a liquid coin, right? And the coin, for example, there Zalupacoin is an illiquid coin, since few people know about it and there is little capital in it.
[01:15] In short, we are ultimately interested in capital. Since this is a pattern of price behavior, it originates in the mechanics of the market, in the behavior of prices in capital, then, accordingly, the more capital there is, the
[01:29] better. Once you know this price behavior, this pattern, you will be able to understand any patterns, since this price behavior is the basis of any pattern. at the basis of any patterns, no matter whether they are reversal patterns or continuation patterns
[01:44] reversal patterns or continuation patterns . This regularity lies at the basis of any patterns . Moreover, for example, patterns from SmartMoney came out, that is, all these blocks and so on. The price behavior in the SmartTMoney concept is
[01:58] I will talk about further. Behavior shows the strength and weakness of the parties and accurately indicates movement, and markets move only due to supply and demand, due to capital. And this price behavior, the nature of the movement,
[02:14] will always indicate who is currently strong, the buyer or the seller. This will allow us to tell you the winner. If the buyer wins, the market goes up, and we make money on longs. If the seller wins, the market goes down, and we make money
[02:28] on shorts. Even though I call it a pattern, it is not a pattern you find in the market is always changing. The problem is not that it changes at the most unpredictable part of the market and at the most unpredictable
[02:44] money on some pattern, the market changes, and you lose that money. This is simply a classic. Therefore, this is not a classic pattern, but rather it will change along with the market. If the market
[02:58] is less volatile, then this price behavior will also reflect this. If the market becomes more volatile, you will be able to understand that too volatile, you will be able to understand that too . And what’s interesting about this
[03:10] price behavior is that it worked before, in the sixties. I even saw graphs there from the seventies, thirties of America, the USA. All of this worked back then and will work in the future, because nothing has changed over such a period of time
[03:24] . But it is clear that it will work in the future , since it is based on clear market mechanics, and this thing cannot change. It's the same as if the alphabet just changed. Yes, of course, this will never happen. This
[03:38] approach to market analysis is very different from what most people do because you need to understand how most people work. Most people try to find working patterns on the Internet. Especially now they are trying,
[03:51] excuse me, excuse me, they are trying to find out there in the chat room of GPT or Deep in the hope that Nero will give them the right answer on how to earn
[04:03] millions on the stock exchange. Of course, of course, Nero won't tell you this. Moreover, most people try to learn these very patterns. And at the same time, we know that most people lose money. And it’s clearly not because they simply have
[04:16] n’t learned something, or because they don’t know something. They learned everything because it was publicly available information. Well, once you've lost money, you've lost it a second time, the third time you're trying to learn something, study something, and you'll still
[04:29] lose money, because any pattern doesn't take market changes into account. What we will talk about next takes into account market changes. And this is an important key point. None of the traders even try
[04:43] to understand the depth of the market. They are endlessly looking for some kind of manipulator, some big player who is setting stops, collecting liquidity and all that other nonsense that you come across, that, supposedly, the big guys will drive the price there,
[04:56] capture liquidity, reverse it. This all stems from ignorance and a lack of understanding of the essence and context of the market. People simply don’t understand the market, they don’t understand how it moves, they don’t understand why the price either rises or falls. And because of this, they make the
[05:10] wrong decision and they have the wrong idea about what's going on. In particular, the concept of the manipulator. And as a person who has an esoteric past, I know very well what magical thinking is.
[05:24] When you don't know something, don't know the basics, magical thinking always comes into play . This is a cognitive distortion. It seemed to ancient man that the gods were quarrelling among themselves and throwing lightning bolts. Yes, in the same way, now the majority is looking for
[05:38] some kind of manipulator who is driving prices. It's all because people don't understand the essence and context. What is the essence and depth? The fact is that we have two sides: the buyer and the seller. And due to the actions of buyers and sellers, the
[05:51] market moves somewhere. There was more demand, that is, purchases, the market will grow. There was more supply, that is, sales, the market will fall. We have four types of applications. And there is aggressive buying, which has a strong impact on the market.
[06:06] There is aggressive selling, which greatly influences the market, which generally influences the market. There is passive buying. This is when you have placed an order, and it may not even be executed, it does not have much impact on the market. There is passive selling,
[06:20] it also does not have much of an impact on the market. Both large participants and market makers, and you and I, and everyone in a row use four types of orders. You want to either buy or sell. Use either aggressive market orders
[06:33] [snort] or passive limit orders. And they influence the market in different ways. orders. And they influence the market in different ways. Aggressive orders push the price, while passive orders, on the contrary, stop the price. Let's conduct a
[06:47] want to enter the market, for example, to buy, then we will buy at the Ask price. At the same time, we will shift the quotes. That is, the quotes will start to move in the attention to the schedule. Here's what our graph
[07:00] “Apply”, I click on “Buy”. And we see that at the price AS someone has placed one order. There are six limit orders here, three limit orders, then nine. But everything is constantly changing. Each number in this field indicates the volume, the
[07:15] quantity indicated by sellers. Accordingly, if I want Accordingly, if I want our price to be 6120 at the market price of 1 2 11 17 20 pieces. 20 pieces of this asset. Let's not buy 20, but let's buy 20,
[07:30] for example, 2. Well, everything is constantly changing. Let's buy 23 to be on the safe side. And our price should be 6120. I click buy at market and confirm. And now we see a change in quotes. Quotes went up. If I now sell, for example,
[07:43] 23 contracts, then our price will, accordingly, be 60-39. purchase orders. I click sell. We have 23 in our portfolio. I sell at market price. And now our price has dropped. We have done this now on the quotes. This is
[07:58] price behavior, narrowing the range with volume, followed by expansion in the opposite direction. This is also called the spring principle. For some reason, the internet named the spring after Artem Zvezdin. You can call it this way: either narrowing or expansion
[08:11] according to Artem Zvezdin. On the Internet, they even often joke about narrowing and expanding in a bathhouse in the cold. You can use this term too if it makes things easier for you. This principle shows the dominance of strength and weakness. And this principle shows
[08:27] where the market will go next. If one side wins, the other side loses, which means it will have to exit the position. When the market moves down, we are under pressure from sellers. Selling pressure should cause a move down. That
[08:43] is, if our market is moving down, we are actively selling. Therefore, we the market moves somewhere, transactions are made and volume is formed. But if each subsequent candle becomes smaller than the
[08:58] previous one, and the volume begins to grow, this indicates that transactions are being made, but they are not enough for the price to go down. In other words, sellers are putting a lot of pressure on the market,
[09:12] a lot of pressure, but at the same time, the entire supply is bought out by a supply is bought out by a major participant or those participants who are buying here. And this behavior is the essence of the market mechanics.
[09:25] When some put pressure on us, our market shrinks, and at the same time this market is bought out by others. And for this reason, our volatility falls, and the candles become smaller as the volume increases. This is only the first half. The second half is a sharp
[09:41] movement in the opposite direction. That is, when you have a sharp impulse in the opposite direction. Here in the example it could be like this, or it could be much larger, depending on where you caught the movement. The general principle is a
[09:56] counter-momentum, that is, a good movement in the opposite direction. Imagine that you are throwing a ball and throwing it, for example, on the floor. Floor is limit orders. When the market hits the floor, the ball compresses and then
[10:11] bounces back. This is if the floor was stable enough. What if not? What if the floor is unstable? What if there are very few applications here? Then you will see a narrowing. But after a small movement, perhaps in the same direction, that
[10:27] is, sideways, you will see a serious downward movement. Why? Because the buyer who came here will be forced to exit his purchase, and for him it is a sale. And as a result, he is forced to sell in a falling market, and the
[10:41] market falls even lower. As for the opposite example, when the buyer won here, every time the market went down, it was sold, that is, short sellers entered the market. There were a lot of shorts here. And just like
[10:56] the buyer, they must get out of their shorts. That is, they must buy to exit the position. Therefore, here an impulse occurs in the opposite direction, and further upward movement is simply doomed. An important element is
[11:11] volume. This is the key point. Without volumes we don't use it. To add volumes to the chart, you need to click on the indicators. In the window that appears, enter
[11:23] the volume, and the volume will be added to your chart. Please note that some instruments will not have this volume. You can use tick volume, but we will probably talk about this in the next videos. To know
[11:36] more about the market, please subscribe to the channel. Let's turn to the schedule. Please note that after each surge in volume, an increase in volume, the price either stops or reverses. Here we have a surge in volume, the market is
[11:50] turning around. Another surge in volume. This is where the market turns. Volume surges, market reverses. Volume movement again, the market is turning around. Of course, you
[12:06] lose money on this. For this reason, this place of value is important. That is, this place should be interesting, because a surge in volume is just a surge in volume. Well, large volumes, but we need to be sure that this is not just happening
[12:21] . We can, for example, imagine that some person sold his mother-in-law's apartment or Larisa Dolina's apartment and decided, for example, to make money there on Gazprom shares. He buys without ulterior motives. Our volume is growing,
[12:35] but it doesn’t actually mean anything. That is, in itself it is empty. Well, someone entered the position, that's all. We are interested in a major participant. We're interested in participants who have inside information, who
[12:49] very large position, who are buying up the market, who are trying to do something there, and so on, who are driving the price somewhere, including without canceling the manipulator. That is, the price must attract capital. Moreover, this capital
[13:02] must be meaningful. This only happens in places of value, that is, places that only happens in places of value, that is, places that value places are daily levels. So the first place of value is the
[13:18] daily level. How to add a daily level? To do this, you can switch to the daily timeframe and plot levels from high to low on the daily timeframe . That is, the previous candle, the previous trading day from minimum to
[13:33] can also switch, for example, to a five-minute period and determine the minimum or maximum boundaries throughout the entire trading session. In the case of cryptocurrency, if you trade crypto in Trading U or another
[13:48] crypto in Trading U or another terminal, you don't need to open the daily timeframe and plot a level from the minimum to the maximum in the same way . Well, in our case, for example, it will be like this. Here we have the previous
[14:01] candle, it is formed. minimum and maximum are the level for us. We switch to a five-minute time frame and wait for a signal to appear at this point of value. We are now exactly in this place, and we see that
[14:15] in this place, and we see that we have an increase in volume one and two. All this is accompanied by a compression of the range. That is, look at what candles were before and what candles are happening now. That is, we are
[14:27] experiencing range compression. Next, we see how our market has gone down again and is clearly running into the density of limit orders of a major player. And this is where
[14:39] volumes come in. You can enter right now, but I usually prefer confirming factor to appear. And let's wait for the expansion candle. And now we have an expansion candle, meaning the market is going down. In this case, this is
[14:54] clearly interpreted as a downward movement. Here we enter into a sell transaction. We set the stop behind this formation, that is, behind the compression, and the take profit is one and a half times larger. In our case, twice as much. There are, of course, some nuances here.
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[15:23] Please note that you could come here a little later. That is, it was possible to go in, for example, and here, where exactly the same principle appeared. And here you could enter in exactly the same way. The market has a
[15:36] repetitive structure. If you miss an entry point once, the market usually gives you a second entry point, a third, and so on and so forth. And here, by the way, there was the same principle of narrowing the range followed by
[15:51] expansion downwards. Just note that we didn't have volume here, so we wouldn't trade it. But we can take this principle. The market reached our take profit. To be honest, of course, I would have left much
[16:04] earlier. That is, I would exit here approximately, without waiting for the market to reach take profit. The next places of value are, of course, the level of specific principle you can only use on the Moscow Exchange
[16:19] or on the exchange where you trade. But there must be temporary sessions. You need to use the first 5 minutes of the time session, that is, the start of trading. Why? Because this is where the maximum volume occurs at the beginning of the
[16:34] trading day. And all this gives us further movement. That is, this essentially outlines where the market will move next. That is, if you trade on the Moscow Exchange, you need to be at the terminals at 10:00 PM.
[16:47] So, here we are at 10:00 pm. High five-minute candlesticks will be important levels. We trade them in a specific way. This is more of a scalper type of trading. We are moving to a minute time frame. And after this we need to
[17:01] time frame. And after this we need to wait for a breakout in one direction and a return in the opposite direction. And here we should see a reversal signal. When we see a reversal signal, we need to go in the opposite direction.
[17:14] So, step one. We are waiting for the first candle at 10:00 Moscow time on the five-minute time frame. Step two. We set the minimum and maximum as significant key levels. Step three. We are waiting for a rollback and the appearance of a signal there. And now we have a
[17:28] trading situation. In a good way, by the way, it would have been possible to find a good trading situation here, but I simply couldn’t follow the chart. At that time, our market went down and is reaching this area again. Please
[17:40] note that our candles are getting smaller. It might be hard to see because of the level, but I'm sorry, it's just the way it is. And then there is an increase in volume followed by expansion in the opposite direction. We go to the sale here. As
[17:52] for the stop, we still set the stop behind this model, but since this is a minute timeframe and scalping trading, in this case we need to set a short take profit. twice the size of our stop, that is, somewhere around
[18:06] here. And we see how clearly the market processed our deal. This is how much we were able to earn from this deal . The two value areas daily levels and the level of the first five-minute candle if you are going to
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