When a long lower wick is not a hammer
Why mid-range rejection bars get mislabelled — and how drill sheets force a location check before the pattern name.
Journal
Journal
Notes from the drill room — candlestick questions, annotation habits, and chart decisions traders keep asking about.
Writing the bias line before the engulfing
Engulfing candles feel obvious after the close — the useful work is the sentence you could have written while the bar was still open.
Dojis at swings versus dojis in the noise
A doji is a conversation about indecision — but only some neighbourhoods on the chart make that conversation worth overhearing.
How we choose historical bars for drill nights
Not every stretch of price history teaches the same lesson — here is how instructors pick sequences for candlestick reading drills.