Had a good question in my DMs about a previous post of mine: how do I separate a failed scalp from a swing thesis that's still intact? The scalp is judged on price and time. I don't have a fixed clock on it, but I do expect it to work fast. If it breaks the level, I'm out. If it just sits there doing nothing when it should be moving, that's me being wrong too, just more slowly. A scalp that needs patience isn't really a scalp. The swing is judged on whether the reason I'm in has changed. Lower timeframe price action going against me is mostly noise at that size. What invalidates it is a change in the bigger picture, like the macro setup shifting, BTC breaking down on the higher timeframe, or the narrative dying. Micro PA tells me about the entry. Macro tells me about the thesis. I decide which one it is before I enter, and they get sized differently, so a normal pullback on a swing doesn't force me to make a decision. And the tell that you've mixed the two up: a scalp only ever turns into a swing when it's losing.