Wyckoff Structure Engine

How the Algorithm Works

Most Wyckoff tools hand you a blank canvas — you read the method yourself and annotate the range by hand, usually after you already know how it resolved. The Wyckoff Structure Engine watches raw price and volume for the nine hallmark events of a Wyckoff cycle and labels each one on the bar it confirms: Preliminary Support, the Selling or Buying Climax, the Automatic Rally that sets the range, the Secondary Test, the Spring or Upthrust, the Test that follows it, the Sign of Strength or Weakness that breaks the range, and the Last Point of Support and Back-Up that come after. As those events land, the engine tracks which of the five phases the current cycle has reached — A stops the prior trend, B builds the cause, C is the final shakeout, D is the breakout, E is the move away — and prints it in the dashboard as "Phase C — 4 of 9 events confirmed," honestly, instead of forcing a textbook count that a real range rarely completes. Once the Automatic Rally sets the boundaries, a Composite Score runs continuously through Phases B and C. It reads three things: how cleanly price stays inside the range, whether volume is behaving like real accumulation — climactic, then tapering — and whether effort is matching result at the edges. The number freezes the moment the range breaks; it never updates afterward to imply a forecast. Every completed cycle also projects a Cause & Effect target — Wyckoff's technique of counting the width of the range to project the move that leaves it — drawn as a zone the instant the breakout confirms. When price later trades into one, the zone and its label change color, and a running Hit / Missed tally builds in the dashboard for every target the chart has produced since it loaded. A higher-timeframe context row shows trend direction and volatility-contraction state on the timeframe above the one you're trading. This is a structure-labeling and context tool. It describes what price and volume have already done in Wyckoff's terms — it does not predict direction, rank the probability of a move, or place orders.