Journal
Preparing a chart pack before a coaching sitting
The ninety minutes go to waste when the prints start last month and the stops on the page are not the stops in the account.
Private coaching at Stack Mapgrid is not a lecture with a sample ticker. You put your names on the table. The sitting works only if the paper matches the book.
Print daily bars for at least six months. Three months of a quiet name will not show you the last completed swing; it will show you a fragment and we will spend twenty minutes reconstructing what the fragment used to be. If the name is a recent listing, say so in the enquiry so we do not hunt for history that does not exist.
Write the entry date and the stop you are using now in the margin. Not the stop you described to a friend. Not the stop you will use after you 'tighten'. The stop that would actually fire. Kit will be blunt if the stop sits inside last week’s range and you still call this a swing. That bluntness is the sitting. It is cheaper than finding out from the tape.
Bring at most three names. A fourth name is how people collect comments and leave with no invalidation written. If you have a crowded book, choose the three that are bothering you — the ones you check on your phone at lunch — and leave the quiet holds at home.
If you join by call rather than in the Samaedam room, send the PDFs before noon. Screen-sharing a brokerage app with drawing objects already plastered over the bars wastes the first quarter hour while we strip them back. Clean candles, your entry, your current stop. We will add the pencil.