A shadow can move faster than the object creating it. Shine a flashlight at a distant wall and rotate it quickly. The bright spot can sweep across the wall faster than light itself. Nothing physical is travelling that fast. The spot is simply the result of different photons arriving at different places. This distinction matters far beyond physics. A visible pattern can move through a system without the thing that created it actually moving with it. Markets have plenty of these illusions. A price pattern can sweep across thousands of charts. A volatility regime can appear to “travel” from one asset to another. A correlation can suddenly appear across markets. But the pattern itself isn’t necessarily an object moving through the system. It may be the same underlying condition producing similar observations in different places. That changes the question. Instead of asking “Where did the pattern go?” sometimes ask “What is producing the pattern repeatedly?” The visible motion may be real. The thing you think is moving may not be. #Trading# #MarketStructure# #Physics# #SystemsThinking#