Weekly sittings
Four-week review habit block
Four consecutive weekly sittings so the review actually happens when the week is ugly. Midweek you send a half-page note; we reply once, in writing, before the next close.
Harbourneford desk · London cash close 16:35
Journal sittings, not signals
Storage Mapcore · technical analysis training
After the close, sit with the book.
Most traders already keep a journal. Few reread it in the order the session happened. We run post-session review as a timed sitting: notes first, charts second, one constraint for the next open.
The flagship sitting
Ninety minutes with the last week of notes
You send the journal before we meet — paper scans, a spreadsheet, screenshot folders, whatever you already keep. We do not tidy it for you. In the sitting we read the sessions aloud, reconstruct one decision without looking at the P&L first, and write a single-line constraint you can actually use at the next open.
This is technical analysis training of a particular kind. Levels, wicks, and confluence only come in after the written reason is on the table. If the mark-up on the chart disagrees with the sentence in the book, we trust the sentence and ask why the pen lied later.
Fit
Who the sittings are for
Bring a book that already exists
- You already place discretionary trades and keep some record of them.
- You trade a liquid book — UK cash, index futures, or similar — and can name your session.
- You can spare ninety minutes after the London cash close, or a Saturday morning for the small-room workshop.
- You will send notes in advance, including the ugly pages.
Leave the guru brief at the door
- No complete beginners who have never filled an order.
- No requests for buy lists, alerts, or someone else to sit the risk.
- No rewriting of a blown week into a “lesson” before we have read the timestamps.
- No sittings that overrun because the charts became entertainment.
Other ways to work
Related sittings and written work
The flagship is a single review. Some traders need four weeks before the habit sticks. Some prefer a Saturday room. Some only want the margins annotated and no conversation at all.
Half-day, six seats
Marking the session: small-room workshop
A Saturday morning in a room of six. You bring two marked sessions. We practise reading notes aloud, reconstructing one decision, and writing a single-line constraint before lunch.
No sitting
Written journal audit
Send two weeks of session notes and chart mark-up. They come back annotated in the margins: skipped reviews, stop edits, and places the close was written to match the P&L.
How the hour is spent
Notes first. Charts second. Finish on time.
The sitting hour is a sequence, not a chat. We start with the written record while the charts stay closed. Only then do we mark what the pen already claimed. The last ten minutes are for one constraint — a sentence short enough to sit above the next session’s first line.
If you want to see the minutes laid out before you ask for a time, the sitting hour page is the map.
From the book of a client
Manchester, UK mid-caps, after the school run
“Callum would not look at Friday until I had written Tuesday properly. By week three I could finish a review in the time the kettle boiled. I still skip the note when New York is messy; he noticed, and we left that as the next constraint rather than pretending I had become tidy overnight.”
Priya N. · Four-week review habit block
Field notes
Recent pages from the desk
What belongs in Thursday’s book, and what belongs in the weekly reread
Daily notes and the Sunday reread are different jobs. Mixing them is why traders either write novels or stop writing at all.
Marking levels after the close without inventing confluence
After 16:35 every wick looks like a level you meant to use. Technical analysis training that happens only in hindsight is just decoration. Here is a rule for the pen.
Stop-loss edits: how they hide in the book
Traders rarely write “I dragged the stop.” They write a new story about the level. The journal still shows the edit if you know where to look.