Glossary
The words on the chart, and what else they are called.
Fractal Model Pro+ prints one vocabulary. Other traders use other names for the same things. This page maps them so you can read the chart, the lessons, and everything else you have read, without translating in your head.
| Term | Also called | Meaning | Lesson |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breach | liquidity sweep, stop run, raid | Price trading through a visible high or low and reacting. An event, not a signal. | Breaches explained |
| Anchor | Candle 1, C1, reference candle | The candle whose high or low holds the level under test. | The four-candle fractal model |
| Reclaim | Candle 2 closure, C2, sweep and reclaim | A breach whose candle body closes back through the breached level. Color-agnostic. | The Reclaim explained |
| Location | point of interest, POI, key level | The qualified model-timeframe structure at which a breach must form to count: swing, gap, opposing candle, or range extreme, in that order. | The Reclaim explained |
| Trigger line | CISD level, run open | The open of the last same-direction run into the reversal, on the chart timeframe. | The trigger close |
| Trigger close | change in the state of delivery, CISD, body-close confirmation | The first chart-timeframe body close through the trigger line. Armed until then; a wick never counts. | The trigger close |
| NOW | live setup | A trigger close seen before the model candle closes. Real confirmation, finalized only at the model close. | The trigger close |
| Extend | Candle 3, C3, expansion candle | Continuation after a valid Reclaim. Follow-through needs a directional body, a new extreme, and a wick held beyond the prior midpoint. | Extend and Finish |
| Finish | Candle 4, C4, terminal candle | The final stage, armed only by an Extend that followed through. Nothing is drawn after it. | Extend and Finish |
| Midpoint | equilibrium, EQ, 50% level | The halfway level of a candle’s range. | Extend and Finish |
| Wick zone | expected-wick zone, T-Spot | The half of Extend’s range a Finish retrace is expected to hold. Context, not an entry. | Extend and Finish |
| Open levels | liquidity, pools, resting liquidity | Prior highs and lows not yet traded through; possible objectives, ticked when reached. | Breaches explained |
| Gap | fair value gap, FVG, imbalance | A three-candle gap in delivery; the second location test when no qualifying swing applies. | The Reclaim explained |
| Reclaim block | order block, OB | The area from the trigger line to the breach extreme after a confirmed Reclaim; the planner’s retest and stop frame. | The trade planner |
| Divergence | SMT, smart money divergence | A comparison against related symbols at the same pivot; one point of the score, never a standalone trigger. | What it draws |
| Chart and model timeframes | confirmation and model pair, LTF/HTF pair | The fixed pair: the chart timeframe confirms, the model timeframe frames. 15m confirms 4H; 1H confirms 1D. | Multi-timeframe analysis |
| Parent read | higher-pair context, HTF bias | One state from the next pair up, shown for context on drill-down charts and never owning the chart. | Multi-timeframe analysis |
| Invalidation | stop, failure level | Price trading back through the breach extreme. The read has failed and is never redrawn as a winner. | Extend and Finish |
The other names are listed so this page can be found by people who learned them elsewhere. They are not claims about any other product or author, and nothing here is a trade recommendation. The free primerwalks through every term in order.