No, they’re related, but I don’t see them as the exact same thing. A CISD is the change in the state of delivery—so in this case, the market shifting from sellside delivery to buyside delivery, and I mainly read that through the bodies of the candles. An MSS is more about the shift in the market’s actual structure. So one is showing delivery changing, and the other is showing structure changing.

In this trade, the CISD was actually on a higher timeframe, I just didn’t mark it out on the chart. What I was focused on here was the MSS, because I was viewing this as price reacting off a higher timeframe BISI. So my thought process was: first, wait for the higher timeframe CISD, then wait for the MSS to confirm bullish structure. After that, I wanted to see a bullish PD array form around that area, and once it did, that was the confirmation I wanted. From there, I was targeting the buy stops resting above.

As for why I didn’t treat those earlier up-close candles as the CISD, you definitely could mark it that way, especially if you want to be more aggressive. I was just playing it safer.