【Reason for not redrawing the line】The justification that it enters when moved after touching becomes post hoc

When the price approaches the wall line, aren’t you redraw it and step in?

It was just a little off. Or you stopped in front and couldn’t reach it.

In that moment, you might think, “this side was the wall,” and move a few lines aside, right?

Later, when you look back, you’ll see the lines chasing the price movement.

How can we stop redrawing like this?

Good evening!

I’m Masashi^^

This time, I’ll talk about when to draw the line and when not to touch it.

It’s not about how to draw the line itself, but about the timing of drawing.

What I personally decide is to draw the line before price movement.

And after the price touches it, don’t move it conveniently.

✅ One entry with the redrawn line

There was a time when redrawing the line became normal for me as well.

At the first moment of opening the market, I draw one line toward the conspicuous series of highs on the higher timeframe. Until then, I could do it calmly.

The problem is after the line, when the price approaches it.

One day, price turned just above the line. It didn’t touch the line exactly.

Seeing that, I pulled the line down to the point where I had reversed it and redraw it.

“This was really the true wall after all,”I thought.

And I entered in the direction of the reversal based on the redrawn line.

The result was that price simply broke through the line and hit the stop loss.

The stop-loss width was within the expected cost I had set.

What stuck wasn’t the amount, but the reason I entered.

✅ What got stuck was not the stop loss, but the way the entry reason was created.

? That day’s record: [reversal a little above the line / lowered the line and redrew / entered with the redrawn line]

? The line was chasing price movement

That night, I reviewed the chart.

On the screen, three slightly offset lines lined up.

The first line drawn. The line redrawn after the reversal was seen.

And the line adjusted once again just before entering.

When laid out side by side, every time the price moved, the line followed afterward (;'∀')

I had thought it was a wall line, but it was just tracing the footprint of price movement.

A wall exists because it’s there before price comes to it, so it can be used as a wall.

A line that moved after looking at the price is now walking behind the price.

✅ If a line chases price movement, it is no longer a wall line.

? The more lines you redraw, the closer lines get to the price’s footprints.

? Lines drawn after the fact tend to be post hoc

What changes when you redraw after touching it?

The reason is that your mind about drawing lines changes.

At the beginning of the market, you haven’t decided yet which side to enter.

So you can pick past highs and lows without bias.

However, once the price approaches the line, you already have a desired direction in mind.

Then you unconsciously start to look for a place that would justify that direction.

・ If you align with the reversal point, you can enter on the reversal

・ If you align with the breakout point, you can enter on the breakout

・ If you align a little earlier, you can enter without reaching it

Either way, you end up providing yourself a reason to draw the line after the fact.

✅ Drawing lines after the fact tends to be more about wanting to enter than about confirming.

⚠ When you feel the urge to move the line, there is already a desired direction in your head.

? It’s natural that lines don’t stop exactly

After reading this far, some people might think this way.

“No way, price won’t stop exactly at a line, right?”

That’s actually true, it’s more common for lines not to stop exactly at a line.

Sometimes they pull back a little after piercing, sometimes they stop beforehand.

What you see when price reversed slightly above the line is that price movement stopped near the line.

That doesn’t prove the line was wrong.

A line is more like a marker that price tends to stop near rather than a precise barrier.

I’ve noted the offset, but I don’t use it as the reason for this one entry.

✅ A small offset is material for recording, not a reason to redraw the line.

? Recording of offsets: [reversal a little above the line / line unchanged / note only the offset]

? Draw lines before the chart moves

What you do is extremely simple.

Draw the line before the chart moves.

In the first few minutes after opening the market, when there is no desire to enter yet, draw.

At this time, you don’t look at the finer movements of the lower timeframes.

If you look at the finer movements first, your eyes will be pulled by price movement.

Switch to a higher timeframe and draw lines only for the obvious high and low sequences.

Keep the number of lines small.

If there are many, price will touch at least one of them, so you’ll create a reason to enter with any line.

✅ Draw lines when you still don’t want to enter anything.

? If you fix a drawing time to a few minutes in the morning, there’s less room for your mind to mix with the line.

? Write the drawn reason in one line

After drawing, write down in one line why you drew there.

If I were you, I would write: [Two-time stop on the higher timeframe high series / drawn immediately after opening]

Long sentences are unnecessary.

Later, when you want to move the line, you can compare with the original reason.

When you compare, the reason you want to move is usually about price movement.

The original reason is about past highs and lows, though.

Just seeing this difference helps you know whether you are confirming the line or looking for an entry reason right now.

✅ Leaving the original reason in one line gives you a reference to compare when you later want to move.

? Two lines to compare: [sequence of past highs] and [now price movement seen here]

⚠ If you want to change a line after touching it

Honestly, there are days when I also want to change a line.

When price hovers near the line, you may want to nudge it a bit.

There are three rules for such times.

・ On that day, you won’t enter with that line

・ Leave a one-line record of the reason you wanted to change

・ Review it again the next day at a calm time

The one-line reason is enough to say it stopped just before the line / would have shown a wall only for the portion that didn’t reach it.

Since you haven’t changed it yet, you can separate fact from feeling.

Entering that day may feel wasteful to you.

But once you want to change the line, inside you already doubt the line.

✅ Entering based on a line you are doubting is like entering with half the justification.

⚠ Records of the day you want to change: [Line not moved / I won’t enter with this line today / Review tomorrow]

? Offset records become information about where you looked

When you accumulate a few lines about where you wanted to change, interesting things appear.

In my case, there were certain moments when I wanted to change lines more often.

It was more likely when the line stopped in front of, rather than just after, the slight breakout.

Because I didn’t reach it, that place looked like a real wall.

After realizing that, I decided to pause a moment when price stopped in front of it.

Another thing: lines tended to drift more in places where the higher timeframe highs weren’t neatly aligned.

It means the very first line drawn was already ambiguous.

When I looked the next day, I often found that the reversal point wasn’t a prominent high on the higher timeframe.

✅ Removing the offset also removes the information about how certain you were about that place.

? Offsets of the offset become material for choosing the next line.

? There are times when you truly should redraw

I’ll break the rules up to this point once.

It’s not that you must never move a line.

If new highs or lows appear on the higher timeframe, and the location itself changes, you redraw.

For example, when a new high appears far beyond the previous high, a new high forms above it.

The previous line has finished its role as a wall marker.

Drawing a line to the new high is not an after-the-fact justification; it’s updating to reflect market facts.

However, the newly redrawn line is not used for the current move. It becomes a candidate for the next move.

Because I haven’t yet seen price stop at that line even once.

If you enter with a line just drawn, you’ll end up drawing a line right after price movement again.

✅ If the place changes, redraw. But treat that line as the next candidate.

? Update record: [Higher timeframe forms a new high / add a line / do not use today, next candidate]

⭕ Should you draw by width instead of lines

When I bring this up, people ask if you should draw by width instead of lines.

I think drawing by width isn’t inherently bad.

But even if you give width, once you touch it after touching, the same thing can happen.

Slightly extend the band on top, a little on bottom as well.

Then, regardless of where it reverses, it’s inside the band and becomes a reason to enter at any point… w

Whether line or width, the important thing is to not move after drawing.

If drawing by width, decide the top and bottom in the morning and don’t extend after touching.

✅ Whether by line or by width, the priority is not moving after drawing.

⭕ Width record: [Band top/bottom decided in the morning / Do not widen after touching]

? Summary: Draw lines before price movement, and do not move after touching

Drawing lines after touching the line makes it easier for entering to mix with the price information rather than with market information.

So draw the line at the very beginning of the market, when there is no desire to enter yet.

If you want to change it after touching, you won’t enter with that line on that day.

Leave the reason you changed in one line and review it at a calm time the next day.

The fact that the line shifted is not something to hide.

It’s material that shows how accurate the place you were watching was.

When the place itself changes, redraw, but keep that line as the next candidate.

When you open the chart next time, try drawing lines in the first few minutes and writing the reason in one line^^

Sometimes you get cut after entering with the line in place as well.

How to deal with the second time will be written in the next article.

Continuing this check alone every time can be a little tedious until you get used to it.

The Golden Lines Sniper AI does not decide for you whether to enter or redraw lines.

As a supplement to compare with your own line and to check the price position, please confirm the content and its limits.

Drawing the line and making the final decision are still up to you.

✅ For the next try, separate the time you draw the line from the time you do not touch it.

? One-morning line: [Two-time stop on the higher timeframe low series / drew immediately after opening]

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Thank you again for reading until the end today^^