# Cival Trapped Traders — Step-by-step tutorial

Release 1.2.1-atas.

## 1. Add the indicator

Open the chart's Indicators window, search Cival Trapped Traders and add it. A HUD titled CIVAL TRAPPED TRADERS appears in the top-right of the price pane.

## 2. Check the data status

Read the HUD's first line and the last coverage line. Expect Active: closed-bar failed-aggression hypotheses and Closed classified coverage of 99% or more. Footprint unavailable means the history lacks bid/ask volume per price.

## 3. Find a gold at-risk zone

A dashed gold box labelled AT RISK with a kind (failed breakout, edge rejection or stack failure) is a hypothesis only. Hover it and read its zone, aggression VWAP, observed units, source delta, relative volume and invalidation.

## 4. Wait for a closed-bar confirmation

A later closed candle must close through the reference and zone with displacement. The box then turns solid rose (BUYERS) or teal (SELLERS) and CONFIRMED @ <bar> appears. The gold LIVE preview is not a confirmation.

## 5. Read the checklist

The HUD's AGGRESSION / STRUCTURE / STACK / Relative volume / RECLAIM / MOVE / CLOSE chips show YES, WAIT or N/A. Evidence points describe which conditions were met; they are not a probability.

## 6. Replay what was known

Set Review as of bar to the confirmation bar of an old zone. The HUD shows AS OF bar N; later candles stay visible but are excluded from the study and no alerts are sent. Set it back to -1.

## 7. Follow the lifecycle to its end

Watch for RETEST-REJECTED and INVALIDATED markers. An unconfirmed zone that is accepted or expires disappears without a marker, so log those endings from the HUD counts or the JSON/CSV export.