Circles & Stars

The Complete Guide / Circles & Stars

07 — CHART MARKERS

CIRCLE — LARGE TRADE

STAR — HUGE TRADE

A circle marks a large trade; a star marks a huge trade — the bigger the shape, the bigger the print behind it. Neither marker draws its own line on the chart; for the horizontal price levels WhaleClues tracks independently, see Key Levels below.

Size is the message. The **stars** at 09:45 and 10:50 dwarf every circle on the chart — those are the huge prints, and both land on a turn. Among the **circles**, the one at 10:30 is visibly fatter than the small ones at 07:30 or 12:00: same marker, bigger trade behind it. The dashed horizontals are **Key Levels** drawn independently — no circle or star puts a line on the chart.

Shape says how big the trade was. Color says what it represents:

RED — long take-profit GREEN — short take-profit YELLOW — direction undetermined

Red = take-profit on longs. Green = take-profit on shorts. Yellow = the direction is undetermined — the move could continue, end, or reverse.

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Reading about a VC Line is one thing; watching price stall against today's is another. The same markers, block prints and key levels described above are drawn on the live SPY, QQQ, IWM, DIA, GLD and SLV charts.

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