The Mapping Method
How Aimachinelab walks support and resistance from raw swings to a quiet, usable chart map.
This page is the teaching spine behind our lessons. It is not a signal service. Use it to see whether our approach matches how you want to study charts, then choose a lesson or enquire.
The five moves we practise
Choose the working timeframe
We start with the timeframe that actually drives your decisions — often daily for swing work, or a 60-minute chart for session traders — and only then glance at one higher context chart.
Mark candidate shelves
Prior swing highs and lows, multi-touch horizontals, and congestion bands where price spent time. Single spikes without follow-through stay as pencil notes, not ink.
Rank and merge
When two levels sit close, we ask which one price respected more often. Close neighbours become one zone with clear top and bottom edges.
Write the invalidation
Every kept level needs a sentence: what kind of close or time spent beyond the edge means the shelf is retired for now.
Plan the next open
Before the session we list which two or three levels matter, what we will ignore, and when we simply watch. The map stays short on purpose.
Imagery from the desk
Common sticking points we correct
- Treating every wick as a new support
- Mixing diagonal trendlines into a horizontal map without saying so
- Keeping broken levels because they “might come back”
- Drawing on a timeframe you never trade
Next step
If this sequence feels familiar but unfinished, the Support & Resistance Mapping Intensive applies it to your own charts. Prefer a lighter check-in? Book a Level Review Session.