The daily bar is not the whole planet
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.
A UK share and London hours
A daily bar for a share listed in London is, in ordinary cases, a record of trades during the London session, not a diary of every hour you were awake. If something traded in New York after London had gone home, that activity may belong to another page, another instrument, or Monday morning's opening stretch — depending on what you are actually looking at.
We do not turn this into an hours quiz. We only want the first-time learner to stop reading a quiet daily candle as 'nothing happened on Earth'.
Weekends and holidays
The printed packs in the workshop skip Saturday and Sunday because those sessions did not print for the shares we use. A gap across a holiday is not a hole torn in the chart; it is a stretch of calendar with no auction in that market. People still draw diagonal lines through the gap as if the paper owed them a trade. We ask them to write 'closed' in the margin instead.
What this changes at the table
When you mark swings, you are marking turning points in the auction you actually have on the page. Inventing overnight drama you cannot see is how a tidy map becomes fiction. If you need the overnight, print a chart that includes it, and know that you have changed the subject.
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.