Client notes

What the sitting felt like from the other chair

These are named where the trader agreed, shortened where they asked. Each one refers to a real form of work on this site. None of them are ratings, and none of them promise a better P&L.

People seated at a long table with notebooks during a working conversation
Workshop mornings are the only time more than two people sit the work together.

Four-week review habit block

I trade UK mid-caps from the kitchen table 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. · Manchester

Post-session journal review

He made me read Tuesday’s notes out loud. I heard the hesitation I had papered over in the chart mark-up. Ninety minutes, no new setup, and I left with one line for Wednesday: no second entry after a stopped first.
James H. · Canary Wharf, after hours

Written journal audit

I sent a fortnight of screenshots and a spreadsheet. The pack came back with the stop edits circled in the timestamps, not in the commentary. I had not seen them. The fee is steep for a PDF, and I said so; the circles were still worth having.
Eloise P. · Edinburgh

Marking the session workshop

Six of us, Saturday, too much coffee. I expected a lecture on flags and wedges. We spent the morning reconstructing one losing scalp as a decision. I did not enjoy reading my own sentence about ‘letting it work’. That was the point.
Tom R. · Bristol

A longer note: six weeks from a kitchen table

Priya trades UK mid-caps around the school run. She arrived with screenshot folders dated by month, not by session, and a habit of opening New York “just to look.” The first sitting of her four-week block was spent putting Tuesday back into order so Friday would have something to stand on. By week three the midweek half-page was arriving on Wednesday night. She still drops the note when the afternoon turns noisy; that skip is now written as a constraint rather than hidden in a blank page.

The work did not change her setups. It changed when she allowed herself to add after a stopped first entry. That is the sort of result this desk will own: a narrower next session, visible in the book.

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