Chart Structure Workshop
A six-week evening series in Farnham for adults who have never sat with a printed price chart. You learn how a chart is built, how swing highs and lows are marked, and how a trend differs from a range — in pencil, on paper.
£285 for the series · Six Tuesday evenings, two hours each, 18:30–20:30
Who it is for
Adults in Farnham, Guildford, Aldershot and nearby towns who keep hearing about charts and want a calm, first explanation. You do not need a brokerage account, a software subscription, or any prior market study.
What you should be able to do afterwards
By the sixth evening you should be able to take a fresh daily chart, mark the obvious swing highs and lows, say whether the recent stretch looks like a trend or a range, and read a candlestick as open, high, low and close without a printed key.
Scope
The series stays with chart anatomy and market structure. We use printed daily charts of the FTSE 100 and two widely held UK shares. We do not place trades, issue views on where a market will go, or install charting software.
Included
- A dated seat in a group of no more than eight
- Printed chart packs for each evening, plus a spare set to take home
- Pencils, eraser and a short ruler for marking swings
- Tea and a short break at 19:30
- A one-page recap sheet after each evening
Left out on purpose
- A brokerage account or any facility to buy or sell
- Live trading, paper trading contests, or signal lists
- Charting software, logins, or screen recordings
- Personalised portfolio comment on shares you already hold (that sits in a one-to-one hour)
Tutor, place, preparation
Helen Cartwright teaches every evening. She spent twelve years in a London operations room confirming trades and reconciling prices, then taught adult-education classes in Guildford before opening this room in Farnham.
The classroom at 93 Cefn Road Farnham GU9 4UD United Kingdom. Street parking on Cefn Road is usually free after 18:00. The room is on the ground floor with a single step at the door; please mention access needs when you enquire.
Bring reading glasses if you use them for close work. Wear something comfortable for two hours at a table. You do not need to read anything in advance. If you already have a chart that confused you, leave it at home for this series — we start from the school's pack so the group shares the same page.
Eighteen and over. Maximum eight people. This is literacy, not a promise of profit. Config Mapcore does not give investment advice and will not comment on whether you should open an account. If a workshop is already full, your name can go on the list for the next intake.
How the sitting is shaped
Axes, scale and what the page is recording
We draw a blank pair of axes, place time along the bottom, and talk about why a vertical move of the same millimetres can mean different amounts depending on the scale. You leave knowing what a chart is a record of, and what it is not.
Bars and candlesticks as four numbers
Each print is open, high, low and close. We build candles by hand from a short table of figures so the wick is no longer a decoration. No pattern names are introduced yet.
Swing highs, swing lows, and the temptation to mark everything
You mark a handful of obvious turning points on a three-month daily chart. Helen will send you back to the eraser if you have dotted every bump. The aim is a map, not a lace doily.
Trend against range
Using the swings from week three, we decide whether the stretch is making higher highs and higher lows, the reverse, or going nowhere of consequence. We practise saying 'I do not know yet' when the page is messy.
Congestion, support, and the space between
We look at where price has spent time, not at magical horizontal lines drawn from a single wick. You mark zones with a light pencil band rather than a razor line.
A clean map on a chart you have not seen
Each person receives a fresh unmarked sheet. You work in silence for twenty minutes, then we walk the room and talk about choices, not scores. There is no certificate and no pass mark.
Fee
£285 covers all six evenings and the printed materials. A £80 deposit holds the chair; the balance is due ten days before the first evening. If you miss one week, Helen will post your pack and offer a thirty-minute catch-up before the following Tuesday. Missing more than two evenings is not refunded as extra one-to-one time unless you book that separately.
See also the fees page and the refund terms.
Next step
Use the enquiry form to ask for the next Tuesday intake. Name the Chart Structure Workshop in the lesson field and give a preferred month. Helen replies within two working days with dates and whether a chair remains.
Questions people actually ask
Do I need to look at live prices during the evenings?
No. Every exercise uses a printed daily chart with the last bar already closed. Phones stay in pockets unless you are photographing your own marked page to take home.
Will we cover moving averages, RSI, or Fibonacci?
Not in this series. Those overlays sit on top of structure. If you cannot mark a swing, an overlay only hides the problem. People who finish the six evenings sometimes book a one-to-one hour later to ask how an overlay relates to the map they already drew.
I already watch videos. Is the workshop still useful?
Often yes, because videos skip the slow work of deciding which turning point counts. The room is there to slow that down and to have someone look at the page over your shoulder.