D1 / W1 / MN1

Shorthand for Daily (D1), Weekly (W1) and Monthly (MN1). All three sit inside HTF, so none of them is ever an entry chart. They are the reference frame that tells you where you are in the story before you trade a single setup inside it. **W1 and MN1 are a weekly ritual, not a monthly one.** At the start of every week you open the Weekly and Monthly as pre-market analysis, to gauge where price sits in the larger leg. Are you early in a move with room ahead of it, or late in one that has already run most of its distance? That one read colours how you treat every setup you find for the rest of the week. It is a weekly review. Doing it once a month is not doing it. **D1 is part of the running check.** The Daily is one of the charts you read your pair and DXY on together, alongside the 4H, 15M and 30M, to confirm the externals are aligned. If they are not aligned, the gate is closed and there is no trade, no matter how clean the setup looks on your entry timeframe. The entry timeframe never overrules the externals. This is also what the pre-session routine is made of. Roughly 30 minutes before you trade, you check the economic calendar, review your external factors and the higher timeframe direction, and set your alerts. The point is to sit down already knowing your bias, rather than forming one under pressure with money on the line. Module 9, Lesson 3: Determining External Factors.