Directional State

A directional state is the only state that supports a directional thesis. It requires more than a few candles moving in one direction — the expansion must have persisted long enough and been consistent enough that the behavior is describable without hedging. A directional state can contain candle-level acceptance, pullbacks, and brief transitions within it — those smaller-scale behaviors are what a directional state looks like up close. The key is that at the scale you are reading, one side has been demonstrably dominant across a meaningful stretch of chart.