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Mark Minervini describes variations of this behavior through the Volatility Contraction Pattern (VCP). Other traders refer to it as “tight price action” or a “coiled spring,” while John Bollinger formalized part of the idea with the well-known Band Squeeze. Regardless of terminology, the behavior itself appears across markets—forex, indices, equities, and crypto—because price rarely transitions directly from trend to trend without an intermediate balancing phase.

The practical

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