Journal · 3 August 2026
What to send before a mapping sitting so the hour is not spent cropping
The sitting goes better when the charts arrive readable, dated, and limited to the market you actually want marked.
A surprising amount of a first sitting can vanish into file hygiene: a four-hour screenshot that starts last Tuesday, a weekly with 14 indicators stacked until the bars are a rumour, a daily saved so dark that the wicks disappear. None of that is mapping.
Send three images or a short PDF. Weekly with two to three years if the market has that history. Daily with six to twelve months. Four-hour with six to eight weeks. Crop so the last bar is not glued to the right edge; leave room to talk about where price might travel.
Strip the indicators for the sitting. You can put them back afterwards if they are part of how you pull the trigger. During markup they compete with the swings and they tempt everyone into a conversation about settings instead of structure.
Write a short note with the files: the session you trade, whether you are in a position now, and the last three times you acted at a level — including the ones that failed. Failed actions are more useful than a highlight reel.
If you trade from a phone, photograph the screen square-on in good light rather than sending a tiny export. Paper at Thornhaugh is kinder than a glossy, compressed image of a dark theme. We can print what you send; we cannot invent bars that the crop removed.
Cloud Mappoint publishes mapping notes as tuition, not as a prompt to deal. If you want the idea walked through on your own charts, request a sitting.