The Trade Is Already Decided Before the Candle Closes

Most traders watch candles. They wait for closes, highs, and lows — but they miss the story that unfolds before any of that is written.

Inside every block, before finalization, a silent battle takes place. Orders don’t execute fairly or sequentially; they compete. Priority fees rise like bids in an auction. Transactions fight for position. Validators and block builders don’t simply confirm trades — they actively shape execution. Some orders jump the queue, others stall, and many never make it into the block at all.

By the time a candle prints, the outcome is already locked in. Liquidity has been consumed, slippage has been assigned, and execution costs have been paid. Charts show where price ended — not how it got there. Many traders don’t lose because their signal was wrong, but because they arrived too slow, too late, or too cheap inside the block.

Real edge isn’t found on charts.
It’s found in understanding what happens before a block is finalized.

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