These are teaching notes, not a view on any market. If a sentence sounds like a tip, it has wandered off the subject and should be ignored.
In the Chart Structure Workshop the third evening is the one people remember, because it is the first time Helen takes the eraser to a page that looked busy and proud. This note is for anyone who wonders why we delay the colourful overlays.
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Pattern nicknames travel faster than arithmetic. In Farnham we spend a whole evening building candles from a table of figures so that a wick is no longer a mysterious thorn.
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Evening four of the workshop is where impatience shows. A page that goes nowhere looks like wasted paper. It is usually the more honest page.
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The last evening of the Chart Structure Workshop begins in silence. This is the sitting we want people to steal and take home to the kitchen table.
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Newcomers often treat a daily candlestick as a full calendar day for the whole world. In the Saturday primer we put a clock sketch on the table and spoil that idea on purpose.
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