SM Storage Mapcore Journal sittings · after the close

The sitting hour

A timed review, not a conversation that finds a chart

This page is the map of a flagship journal review sitting. If the sequence feels too tight, that is the point. Post-session analysis that has no ending becomes another way not to look at the book.

A quiet desk with a lamp, paper and space to sit with notes after work
The Harbourneford desk after the cash close. Charts stay closed until the notes have been read.

Before the hour

Notes arrive at least twenty-four hours ahead. Callum names one session to open with — usually not the most profitable, and not the one you already explained in the covering email. You need a quiet room, the same pages on your side of the call, and the charts closed until you are asked.

On the clock

  1. 00:00

    Sit down

    No preamble about the market. Confirm the session times you actually sat. If you were away from the screen, that belongs in the first line, not in a later excuse.

  2. 00:10

    Read the notes aloud

    You read. Callum does not summarise for you. The aim is to hear the hesitation you typed over. If there are no sentences, we caption the screenshots in order, which is slower and still counts.

  3. 00:35

    Reconstruct one decision

    One trade, or one non-trade. We restore what you knew at the time: the level, the invalidation, the reason to stand down. The result stays covered until this reconstruction is finished. Technical analysis here means the analysis you actually had, not the analysis you can draw now.

  4. 01:00

    Open the mark-up

    Charts come out only to test agreement with the sentences. New confluence that appears after 16:35 is treated as decoration unless it was in the plan. Stop edits are read from timestamps, not from memory.

  5. 01:20

    Write the constraint

    One line for the next open. It must be short enough to sit above the first note. “Be more disciplined” is rejected. “No second entry after a stopped first” is accepted.

  6. 01:30

    Close

    The sitting ends. The summary and checklist follow the next working day. There is no extra ten minutes for “one more chart.”

After the hour

You keep the book. Storage Mapcore does not retain copies longer than needed to write the summary, as set out in the privacy notice. The next sitting, if you want one, starts from whether the constraint survived — not from a fresh biography of your method.

See what the sitting includes