How to read market structure without chasing every candle

Market structure is the sequence of swings on a chart. Traders use it to describe whether price is making progress, pausing, or moving the other way.

A useful habit is to name the swing before naming the trade. Where did the last push start? Where did it fail? Is price holding above a prior pause, or is it slipping back through it?

Support and resistance are places where price has reacted before. They are areas, not magic lines. A level matters because of the reaction, and it can stop mattering when price accepts the other side of it.

Trend is a description, not a moral. An uptrend means buyers have been willing to pay higher prices over the swings you are studying. It does not mean the next swing must continue.

In the MARKEX method, analysis sits between learning and execution. Students practise marking structure so a later plan has something specific to refer to.

Nothing here is a call on a live market. Charts used for practice should be labelled as study, not as instructions.