Price didn’t stall here randomly.
This area lined up with a predefined structural zone inside a higher-timeframe balance. As price approached it, momentum slowed, follow-through weakened, and rotation started to show up almost immediately.
What’s important here isn’t the exact level — it’s the context. When price pushes into structure without expansion behind it, stalling is often the first sign that the move is running out of energy.
This is a common behavior in day trading, especially when traders are chasing a move late and ignoring where price is relative to structure.
Zones like this are mapped ahead of time in the Strata framework and plotted live in the StrataLevels tool. The value isn’t predicting the move — it’s knowing where reactions are likely before price gets there.
No signals.
Just structure and context.