What is Malaysian SNR?

A support and resistance method that places levels on candle closes and opens rather than wicks and tracks their lifecycle: fresh, tested, broken, flipped.

Does MSNR make money?

We found no evidence that it does. In our frozen-rule tests on gold, DAX, Nasdaq, BTC and ETH no variant showed an edge. Results are on the backtests page.

Malaysian SNR (MSNR) explained

Q: How is MSNR different from ICT?

MSNR mostly asks which level price moves from and to; ICT mostly asks where liquidity, displacement and imbalance are. Both read structure and levels.

MSNR is a way to look at a market as movement between levels. Price came from one level and is trying to reach the next. Your job is to understand where it is coming from, where it may be going, what stands in the way, and when your idea becomes wrong.

Price going from level A through two roadblocks to level B — Illustration, not market data.

See it: geometry

What is objectively on the chart: a candle closed here, a level was touched there. You can check it.

Understand it: interpretation

What MSNR traders say it means: "fresh level", "strong zone". This is their reading, and we label it so.

Test it: evidence

Whether a rule gave an edge in data, after costs, on a period it was not tuned on. Often the answer is no, and then we say no.

Honest status

What this section is not. It is not a course, not a signal service and not a promise of profit. We explain a public method in plain words, define each rule exactly, and publish what our tests found. In our frozen-rule tests no MSNR variant has shown an edge so far.

Classic and modern

Classic MSNR and modern extensions are different things. Classic: A and V levels from closes, freshness, RBS and SBR, storyline. Extensions (liquidity sweep, QML, engulfing, trendline, CRT, sessions, OCL runs) are added by authors of scripts and expert advisors. We always say which one a rule belongs to.

A suggested reading order

1. A / V levels 2. Fresh and broken levels 3. RBS / SBR 4. Storyline 5. Multi-timeframe 6. OCL 7. Gaps 8. Quasimodo 9. Trendline 10. MSNR vs ICT 11. XAUUSD 12. Backtests

The big picture

StorylineA storyline is the current story of price travelling from the level it started from (A) to the next important opposite level (B), with the levels in between that can stop it.

Levels and their life

A / V levelsAn A level is a resistance at the peak of a line chart; a V level is a support at its valley. The level sits at the body price of the turn, not at the wick.Fresh and broken levelsA fresh level is one price has not touched yet. A wick touch makes it tested; a candle body closing through it breaks it; coming back to it from the other side flips it.RBS / SBRRBS is a resistance that price broke and now treats as support; SBR is the mirror image: a broken support that now acts as resistance.OCLOCL stands for open-close level. In the version used by MSNR Alchemist, three same-colour candles in a row create a level at the close of the candle just before the run.GapsA gap in MSNR is a space between the bodies of two same-colour candles. It is not the same as a price gap after a weekend and not the same as an ICT fair value gap.

Putting it together

Multi-timeframeHigher timeframes give the big story; lower ones show the next small move inside it. A falling H4 inside a rising weekly is usually a pullback, not automatically a reversal.TrendlineA trendline joins turning points; the third touch is read as a confirmation, and a place where the line meets an MSNR level is treated as extra confluence. OrderBlock.net does not compute trendlines yet.QuasimodoMSNR tells you where price is relative to important levels; Quasimodo can help show when the structure actually changed. QML is not part of classic MSNR.MSNR vs ICTMSNR mostly asks which level price is moving from and to. ICT mostly asks where liquidity, displacement, imbalance and the dealing range are. Both read structure and levels; neither is proven better.

Evidence and practice

XAUUSDFrom weekly to 15 minutes on gold, with real examples that worked and did not.BacktestsWhat our frozen-rule tests found: gold, DAX, Nasdaq, BTC, ETH. Negative results included.GlossaryEvery MSNR term in the simplest words.

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Educational material about chart concepts. Not financial advice and not a promise of profit. In our frozen-rule tests no MSNR variant has shown an edge.