Reading Ceiling and Floor Ladders
Ceilings and floors are the basic building blocks of a Strike Matrix read, and stacked ceilings and floors form ladders that map out where price can realistically travel.
What are ceilings and floors in the Strike Matrix?
A ceiling is a resistance level formed by positive gamma exposure above price, and a floor is a support level formed by negative gamma exposure below price. Both levels typically produce rejection on first contact, and both can break and let price continue.
How does a ladder of levels work?
Breaking a ceiling confirms the next ceiling above as the following target, and breaking a floor confirms the next floor below. Levels therefore work as a ladder: each broken rung points toward the next rung rather than leaving price without any reference.
What does the power value of a level mean?
The power value of a cell in the Strike Matrix indicates how strongly price should react on contact. A higher power value means a larger expected reaction, so the Obsidian desk ranks levels by power rather than treating every marked level as equally important.
What does a price sitting between two strong levels mean?
Price caught between a strong ceiling above and a strong floor below, on weak strikes itself, most often ranges between the two boundaries. The Obsidian desk reads that structure as a range to be traded from the edges rather than a directional opportunity.