Full Timeframe Continuity (FTFC)
A trigger tells you something just happened. Continuity tells you whether the rest of the market agrees. Full timeframe continuity — FTFC — is the state where the current candle on every timeframe that matters (hour, day, week, month, and beyond) is directional the same way: all green or all red.
Why it changes the odds
Every timeframe is somebody's chart. When the daily is 2u, the weekly is 2u, and the monthly is 2u, the swing traders, position traders, and funds anchored to those charts are all being pushed the same direction. A 1-hour trigger WITH that alignment recruits every larger crowd as a tailwind. The same trigger against it is asking scalp-sized order flow to fight position-sized conviction.
Reading continuity in practice
The practical check is simple: at trigger time, is each higher-timeframe candle currently trading above its open (green) or below it (red)? Full alignment is rarer than it sounds — markets spend most of their time mixed, which is precisely why the aligned state is information.
Our boards show this as continuity chips on every ticker, scored live, and alignment feeds the confluence score every alert carries — one of the seven measured factors, weighted by data rather than lore.
Continuity is context, not a trigger
FTFC never fires a trade by itself; it grades one. The discipline is sequencing: setup defines the levels, the break triggers the trade, and continuity decides how much conviction the trigger deserves. Skipping that order — trading continuity without a trigger — is prediction again, the exact thing the method exists to avoid.
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Every concept on this page is detected in real time across 190+ tickers — candle typing, trigger levels, and alerts the second a level breaks.
FAQ
What does FTFC stand for?
Full Time Frame Continuity — all monitored timeframes' current candles pointing the same direction, measured against each candle's open.
Which timeframes count for continuity?
Rob Smith's core set is hour, day, week, month, with quarter and year as the long anchors. Intraday traders often add the 4-hour; the principle is alignment across the frames whose traders can move your instrument.
Is a trade wrong if continuity is mixed?
Not wrong — lower probability. Mixed continuity means some crowd will be trading against you by construction. Many Strat traders size down or skip counter-continuity triggers entirely.
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