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Research Readings Coiling line

One-hour coil state

Also shown as The one-hour coil state

Reports whether a falling line over rising support is waiting for its break on one-hour candles (armed), was broken by the candle that just closed (broke), or neither (none).

Live monitoring
Unsupported: historical only
Observed
from the last completed one-hour candle
States
none, armed, broke
How to read it, with examples

How to read it

This is a state, not a strength score. broke holds from the close of the breaking candle until the next one-hour close: the break is the first candle whose high reaches 0.5% above the line, or that closes above it, with no other break in the 12 candles before. armed means a valid line with rising support has not broken yet. none means neither. The line runs through its peak and its last touch, and the readings beside it (distance to the line, touches, channel width, squeeze) describe the same line. For the first 152 days of a market's recorded tape the state is absent, never none.

Count what followed the minutes after a break (broke), or armed structures pressed near their line (add the distance reading), and compare them with the same markets' minutes without a structure.

What it does not prove

A break is not a buy signal. No breakout rule on these lines made money in both 2021 to 2025 and 2025 to 2026.

More limits

Candles are built from the recorded one-minute tape: an hour with no trades is a flat candle at the previous close, for up to a week. The detector describes one family of lines, not every line a person could draw.

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Technical details

Registry definition

State of the coil detector on one-hour candles. broke: the candle that just closed is the first to reach 0.5% above a valid falling line (or to close above it), with no other break in the 12 candles before. armed: a valid falling line over rising support is waiting for its break. none: neither. Absent for the first 152 days of a market's recorded tape, so none is never claimed blind.

Engine note

Recorded only: the live feed carries no candles, so this reading has no live value and an alert on it is refused.

Field ID

feature.coil_state_1h

Valid query operators

is, is any of

Editable query preset

Starting point only. Review and edit before running.

{
  "schema_version": "research_query.v2",
  "normalization_version": "archive_normalization.v1",
  "feature_version": "feature_defs.v1",
  "target": "record_occurrences",
  "where": {
    "all": [
      [
        "feature.coil_state_1h",
        "eq",
        "armed"
      ],
      [
        "times.anchor_time",
        "gte",
        "2025-07-15T00:00:00.000Z"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "sort": [
    "times.anchor_time",
    "desc"
  ],
  "page": {
    "limit": 5,
    "cursor": null
  }
}

The search reports how often the record held this condition and what followed. It does not decide whether an idea works.

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