ICT Price Cycle Four Stages, Understand the Market with One Chart

📊 The market always cycles through these 4 stages:
1️⃣ Consolidation: No direction fluctuation, institutions gather strength
2️⃣ Expansion: Breakout-driven wave, trend begins
3️⃣ Retracement: Healthy trend correction, secondary confirmation
4️⃣ Reversal: Old trend ends, new direction is born
💡 Key logic:
Within a trend, only the "Expansion ↔ Retracement" cycle exists
Only after a retracement can it move toward "Consolidation / Reversal"
The only exit from consolidation is a new expansion.
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