The Market Doesn’t React — It Responds

Most traders try to predict price. But markets don’t move because of indicators or patterns — they move because of participation. This is where the shift begins.

The Market Doesn’t React — It Responds
Martin Cole

Most traders spend years trying to predict where price is going next.

They change indicators.
They change timeframes.
They change strategies.

And yet the same things keep happening.

Price moves without warning.
Stops get taken.
Entries that should have worked don’t.

What most traders never realise is this:

The market isn’t reacting to indicators.
It isn’t responding to patterns.

It’s responding to participation.

When I first started mapping this, I wasn’t looking for entries.
I wasn’t trying to forecast the next move.

I was trying to understand who was active — and when.

Once you see that, price starts to make a very different kind of sense.

You begin to notice things before they happen — not because you’re predicting, but because you’re watching the same pressure points the market makers are.

That is what this work is about.

If you’ve ever felt that the market moves with intent, but no one has ever explained how to see it, you’re in the right place.

Start wherever feels natural.
The structure reveals itself.