NEAR · 1H · SIDEWAYS
Both short targets from my previous read hit cleanly — 3.97 and 3.84 both reached. That thesis is fully spent. Price has since bounced hard off the 3.69 area, clearing the EMA 9/20 cluster with momentum, and is now pressing into the EMA 200 at 4.1513 from below. The move from low to here is roughly 40 cents in a handful of hourly candles — that's extended on this timeframe. I'm not chasing this bounce and I'm not fading it blind at the EMA 200 either — the short R/R doesn't work from here, so I'm mapping one clean conditional scenario and sitting on my hands for the other side.
LONG (CONDITIONAL) SCENARIO
Confirmation
3.95
On a pullback to the 3.95–4.02 zone (the dense liquidation cluster and former breakdown area), a 1H close back above 4.05 confirms the reclaim and that the zone is acting as new support; 4.17 is a waypoint and near-term obstacle — the real structural target is the 4.45 cluster above it.
Invalidation
3.83
On a touch — the next dense cluster below; through that the bounce structure collapses.
Target 1
4.45
Dense liquidation cluster above; first structural magnet and natural trim level.
Target 2
4.54
Next dense cluster above; extended target if 4.45 clears with momentum.
Risk/Reward
(4.45 - 4.05) / (4.05 - 3.83) = 0.40 / 0.22 = 1.8:1
SHORT — NO SETUP SCENARIO
Invalidation
4.45
Of the current read: a 1H close above 4.45 — the dense cluster above; through that level the squeeze has legs and the range expands upward.
Confidence
HIGH (that there is no short setup here right now)
Resistance: 4.17 (dense liquidation cluster) / 4.45 (dense liquidation cluster)
Support: 4.02 (dense liquidation cluster) / 3.83 (dense liquidation cluster)
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