Preparing the chart you bring

Candlestick chart on a dark display

Choose one instrument and one timeframe you actually use. Export or print a window that includes the last swing that confused you. Write, in one sentence, what you thought was happening before the move that surprised you.

Remove indicators you cannot explain in a clause. If a moving average is on the screen, you should be able to say why that length belongs to this review. Colour noise hides the argument.

Arrive with that sentence, not a folder of every market you glanced at this month. The desk can cover depth or breadth. It cannot cover both in ninety minutes and still be a review.

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