Method
A map is a sequence, not a pile of horizontals
This page is the order used in every Chart Mapping Session. It is not software. It is a way of deciding which swing counts, how wide the band should be, and which close would force you to put the pencil down.
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Name the weekly swings you will honour
Two or three completed swings, not a biography of the market. A swing high is a bar with lower highs on both sides that actually stopped a move, not a lonely spike on a quiet Friday. If you cannot point to the bodies that turned, you do not yet have a weekly event.
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Draw a band, not a wire
The extreme wick is one edge. The cluster of bodies is the other. Between them is the zone. A probe into the zone is research. A daily close through it is an event. Mixing those two is how people get shaken out of a sound idea.
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Let the daily add, not contradict
The daily may show a zone the weekly is too coarse to print. It may not invent a story in the middle of the weekly range and call it structure. If a daily line floats in empty space, it is session memory until proved otherwise.
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Use the four-hour only as a refinement
Inside a daily band, the four-hour can help you wait for a less ugly entry. Outside that band, it is decoration. London morning ranges stay on a lighter pencil unless they coincide with a daily edge.
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Write the invalidation before you care about the entry
A map without a cancel is a wish. We write a close — usually daily — that would mean the zone failed. Ticks beyond the band are not automatically that close. If you cannot say the sentence out loud, the sitting is not finished.
What we refuse to mark
Indicator crosses laid on top of a zone until the bars disappear. Every 15-minute shelf from a single London morning. A new line after every loss, drawn to prove the last decision was “almost right.” Those marks can live in a private notebook. They do not go on the Cloud Mappoint sheet.
We also refuse to convert the map into a call. “The band is here; a close through it cancels” is tuition. “Buy the retest at 08:12” is someone else’s trade, and it will not be spoken in the room.
Questions that arrive with the first email
Do you tell me when to buy or sell?
No. Cloud Mappoint teaches how to mark support and resistance on the charts you already trade. The sitting stops at the map and the invalidation. Orders stay yours.
I have never traded. Can I take the workshop?
The open workshop assumes you already know how to place an order and read a candlestick chart. Start with reading, a simulator, or a beginner class elsewhere, then write when you have a market you actually sit.
Is this regulated investment advice?
No. Tuition in chart mapping is education. It is not a personal recommendation under UK financial rules, and we do not manage money or receive commission from brokers.
Can I send crypto charts?
A private sitting can look at a crypto daily if that is the book you already trade. Open workshops stay with FX, index futures, and gold so the room shares a language. We still map them as swings and zones, not as a separate craft.
After you have read this
Bring a market, not a theory
The method only earns its keep on a chart you already trade. Request a Chart Mapping Session, or take a seat at the next small-group day if you would rather argue across a table.