After the 9 is perfected, the "Countdown" begins. For a TD Buy Countdown , the system looks for 13 bars where each close is lower than the low of the two bars prior, moving the market closer to a state of price exhaustion where a reversal is imminent.

The Setup phase filters out market noise and identifies a sustainable short-term trend.

For highly volatile markets, DeMark developed . While TD Sequential separates the Setup and Countdown phases, TD Combo calculates them simultaneously.

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