Journal · 19 August 2026
The evening before a multi-day hold
After the cash close, the desk prints one frame, names the hold, marks the swings, and stops. The routine is short so it can be repeated.
The cash session in Seoul is done by mid-afternoon. The preparation desk opens after that, because a swing chart for a multi-day hold should be marked on a daily bar that has either closed or is no longer the thing you are chasing. Traders who come at lunch are usually still inside the day. We ask them to wait.
The evening sequence at Bonghwang-ro is the same one we hope you can run at your own table later. Print or bring one frame. Write the hold length at the top before you draw anything. Mark swing highs and lows that the hold would notice. Choose the level that ends the idea. Add at most two more. Write the volume word. Stop.
Stopping is the part people skip at home. There is always another high, another gap, another line from a forum. The sheet has a last line that reads “closed for the night.” It is slightly theatrical and it works. When the line is written, the pencil goes down. If a thought arrives later, it goes on the back of the sheet as a question for the next session, not as a new line on the face of the chart.
We do not prepare five names in one evening. Attention thins and the third chart inherits the habits of the first. One instrument is the session. If you follow a pair of names that move together, say so in the enquiry and we will quote a longer sitting rather than rush both through the standard hour.
A hold that is only a day long does not belong in this routine. The swings we mark are too slow for it, and the sheet will feel vague because it is. Intraday pages are a different craft. The structure evening says this at the start so nobody spends two hours waiting for a setup that the room does not draw.
If you want the sequence done with you the first few times, that is the Chart Preparation Session. After that, the evening is yours. The return desk exists for the moment the page fills up again, which it will, and which is not a failure of the first hour.