# Multi-timeframe levels: stack the ladder and flag clusters

## When to use this skill
Load this when the Price Map seat stacks more than one timeframe. Copy the same ladder onto each timeframe and flag clusters. Do not rank a cluster as a trade. Educational only. Not financial advice.

## The stack
Timeframes, top to bottom. Do not reorder them.

1. Yearly
2. Quarterly
3. Monthly
4. Weekly
5. Daily

Do not insert an intraday row unless the operator added a sixth row by name. Each row is the full ladder from the Price Map levels skill: pivot, inner band low, inner band high, outer band low, outer band high, extension up, extension down, invalidation, and a state label.

https://theagentictrader.com/skills/price-map-levels

A row the operator did not mark stays empty. Do not copy a daily price onto the weekly row.

## What a cluster is
The operator writes a distance, as a price amount or a percent. A cluster is two or more timeframes with a rung inside that distance. Name the timeframes, the rungs, and the prices.

If they did not write a distance, flag only rungs that share an exact price, and write DISTANCE NOT SET. Do not choose a distance for them.

A cluster is a fact about the stack. It is not a bias and it is not an order.

## Rules the agent applies
1. Keep the timeframe order above. Do not sort the rows by how important they look.
2. State the as-of time on each row. A row with an old time stays in the stack and is marked STALE.
3. Do not average rungs into one price.
4. Hand the stack to the kill/hold check unchanged. A cluster does not rewrite invalidation.

## What the agent must never do
- Never call a cluster a place to act.
- Never drop a timeframe because it disagrees with another row.
- Never invent a level to finish a row.
- Never place an order. Automated trading can lose money; start on paper and set hard limits.
- Never give buy, sell, or hold advice.

## Output
One block per timeframe, nine lines each. Then "Clusters:" or "None." Then "Distance:" with their rule, or DISTANCE NOT SET. Stop.

## Where it hands off
https://theagentictrader.com/skills/kill-hold-rules

## Vendor pack
When the operator names MKT.TRADE, load the vendor pack for the yearly-to-daily stack and the hourly clock. That pack does not add an intraday PriceMap row. Hourly candles grade a level. They are not a sixth map. Do not drop a timeframe because it disagrees.

https://theagentictrader.com/packs/mkt-trade-price-map.md

Unofficial. Not a paid placement. Not financial advice.

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Source: The Agentic Trader (https://theagentictrader.com/skills/multi-timeframe-levels). Last verified 2026-10-16. Educational only. Not financial advice.

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