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Weekly market profile: who expanded, who reversed, who is coiling
Every week each market does one of four things. This free tool classifies 21 markets into their weekly profile - expansion, reversal, retracement or consolidation - mechanically, from real cTrader price data. No opinion, no narrative. Updated every Sunday before the new week opens.
How to read it: markets cycle through accumulation and delivery. A consolidation week often precedes an expansion; an expansion is usually followed by a retracement or, when the move is done, a reversal (the market sweeps the prior week's high or low and closes back against it). Knowing which leg of the cycle a market just completed tells you what the higher-probability next leg looks like.
The four weekly profiles, defined
A directional delivery week: range well above the 12-week median and a close beyond the prior week's extreme. The market left value and did not come back.
The week takes out the prior week's high or low - the liquidity sweep - then closes back against it. The run on stops was the point; direction flips.
A counter-move that stays inside the prior week's structure. The trend pauses and repriced positions reload; structure remains intact.
A compressed, inside-ish week closing near mid-range. Energy is being stored - consolidations are what expansions are made from.
The classification is fully mechanical: weekly range vs the trailing 12-week median, whether the prior week's high or low was swept, where the week closed in its own range, and whether structure broke. The same discipline we apply to the trading algorithm - rules, not vibes - applied to the map. Want to test what trading these weekly levels would have done? Try the free strategy backtester - prior-week high/low breakouts and fades are in the matrix.
The tgsignals algorithm trades a validated subset of these markets live on cTrader - every entry, stop and close published in real time, free, on our public Telegram channel @tgsignals_preview.
Educational tool, not investment advice. The profile describes what price did last week; it does not predict next week. Trading involves substantial risk of loss - see the risks page.