A range is not a pause you are allowed to skip
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.
What we mean by a range in this room
If swing highs are not rising and swing lows are not falling in a way you can defend, the stretch is a range. That includes the messy, sloping, ugly kind. We do not require a perfect box. We require that you stop pretending a trend is present because you would prefer one.
A range is still structure. Price has spent time between two neighbourhoods. Those neighbourhoods are where later marks — support, congestion — earn their keep. Skipping them to 'wait for the breakout' is how people arrive at a Chart Hour with a page full of arrows and no memory of the middle.
The sentence we practise saying
I do not know yet. It sounds like a failure in a culture that rewards hot takes. On a printed daily chart it is often the adult sentence. We write it in the margin when the last three swings disagree with each other.
The Market Basics Morning spends a few minutes on the same idea without any marking: a chart cannot be made to hurry because you sat down with a pencil on a Saturday.
Classroom habit
If you catch yourself drawing a diagonal 'just to have a line', put the pencil down and hatch the congestion with a light band instead. Bands are harder to worship than lines. That is the point.
If you want the version with an eraser at your elbow, the Chart Structure Workshop is the six-evening series, and the enquiry form is how a chair is reserved.