How One Week Sets the Frame for All Five Trading Days
Set once every Monday morning, then held for the rest of the week regardless of the daily noise in between.
Before you start: Assumes you already understand higher-timeframe context and liquidity.
Part of the My Edge Official framework — refined through thousands of hours of chart study.
Before you even open the intraday chart, you need to build weekly context — determine where price is likely delivering before you start looking for executions. This is a process we do every Monday (and refresh continuously through the week), before any intraday setup becomes relevant.
- Theory
- Context
- Confirmation
- Execution
- Common Mistakes
Before you even open an intraday chart, you need to build weekly context — figure out where price is likely headed before you go looking for entries. You do this every Monday (and update it as the week goes on).
You mark the previous week's high/low, Monday's high/low, and the first one-minute gap after the 9:30 open on Monday — this gap can stay relevant all week.
Never lock in a direction ahead of time — only define the possible scenarios (bullish, bearish, balanced, invalidation) based on weekly liquidity.
Advanced explanation⌄
Theory
Weekly References
Mark the previous weekly high and low (swept or unswept), Monday's high and low (swept or untouched), and the first 1-minute Fair Value Gap after the 09:30 RTH open on Monday — this FVG serves as a weekly reference and can influence price multiple times through the week.
NDOG Analysis
Review of the last five NDOGs: the current NDOG, the NDOG cluster, the distance between clusters, whether price is trading inside or outside a cluster. If price is within roughly 150 handles of the next NDOG, prepare for a possible delivery (see 150 Handle NDOG Rule).
Context
Weekly Delivery
Determine whether price has already delivered into the higher-timeframe draw on liquidity, whether higher-timeframe delivery is still in progress, and whether price is approaching a larger weekly objective.
Weekly Bias
⚠️ Don't assign a directional bias in advance. Define only the possible scenarios based on weekly liquidity, NDOG structure, and the higher timeframe.
This rule applies specifically during the live week itself, to prevent forcing a direction under execution pressure — it doesn't conflict with preparing a weekend bias, which serves as an input for weighting, not a conclusion this section should simply adopt.
Confirmation
Weekly Scenarios
Bullish, bearish, balanced, invalidation — always all four, never just one chosen in advance.
Liquidity Run Character
Assess and update through the week: the current character (HRLR/LRLR/mixed), whether it has changed since the start of the week, and when and what changed it. A mid-week regime change should be explicitly flagged, not silently absorbed into the next day.
Execution
Monday morning you mark all five sections: the previous weekly high is unswept, Monday's low was taken with a fakeout, the last five NDOGs form a cluster about 120 handles above the current price (within the 150-handle threshold), weekly delivery hasn't yet reached the higher objective, and the character is LRLR for now. Scenarios: bullish (target the cluster and then the unswept weekly high), bearish (a deeper retest of Monday's low), balanced (rotation between the two), invalidation (a clean sweep of both sides with no continuation). By Wednesday the character shifts to HRLR — you explicitly note this and lower your confidence in the bullish scenario, without abandoning it entirely.
Common Mistakes
- A one-time analysis on Monday, then forgotten. Weekly context is a living document — refresh it every day, not just at the start of the week.
- Choosing one scenario in advance. Always keep all four scenarios open until one receives clear confirmation from actual price.
- Silently accepting a character change. A shift from LRLR to HRLR (or vice versa) mid-week must be explicitly logged, because it directly changes how much you can trust the remaining weekly scenarios.
How to Use It
In practice:
- Every Monday morning (or Sunday evening), go through all five sections in order and write them down — not just in your head, but actually written, so you can check through the week whether anything has changed.
- Log Monday's FP FVG (the first 09:30 FVG) separately and track it all week — it functions as a reference, not a one-time signal (see Monday 1st 09:30 FVG for the full strategy built on this concept).
- Refresh the weekly scenarios every day, not just on Monday — if the liquidity run character changes mid-week, log it explicitly and adjust your confidence in all four scenarios.
Don't stop here — see how this fits with the rest of the framework.
Continue to Monthly Objective →Frequently Asked Questions
What is Weekly Context and when do I build it?⌄
It's the process of establishing where price is likely delivering before looking for any intraday execution — done every Monday (or Sunday evening) and refreshed continuously through the week, covering weekly references, NDOG analysis, weekly delivery, and liquidity run character.
How do I build Weekly Context step by step?⌄
Mark the previous weekly high/low, Monday's high/low, and Monday's first 09:30 FVG, review the last five NDOGs for a cluster, assess weekly delivery progress, and build all four weekly scenarios (bullish, bearish, balanced, invalidation) rather than picking one in advance.
Should Weekly Context only be built on Monday?⌄
No — it's a living document refreshed every day, not a one-time Monday analysis; a mid-week shift in liquidity run character, for example, must be explicitly logged, not silently absorbed.
How does Weekly Context differ from the Weekly Delivery Model?⌄
Weekly Context is the ongoing, day-by-day tracking process (references, NDOGs, scenarios) refreshed continuously; the Weekly Delivery Model is the specific analytical process for establishing the dominant weekly target itself, using monthly/weekly liquidity and IPDA ranges.