These notes came from people who booked the named tuition. They mention maps, arguments, and the occasional stubborn line. They are not a promise that your next month of London trade will be tidy.
I arrived with seven lines on the daily, all of them from the last fortnight. Alistair kept two zones and made me explain the rest out loud. I could not. That was the sitting, really — not a new trick, just fewer marks I was willing to stand behind when cable started running.
The afternoon was slower than I wanted. Watching other people mis-draw the FTSE future was useful, though I still think a private hour would have suited my patience better. I did leave with a weekly map I had not been able to finish on my own.
Week three I wanted to cancel. Gold had gone through my band and I felt foolish sending the homework. Priya answered the file with two sentences on widening the zone versus abandoning it. I kept the hour. By week six I could present the sheet without asking her to hold my pen.
I use the clinic when the daily has sat on a zone for too many sessions and I start inventing four-hour reasons to do something. Hearing my gilt chart described by someone who does not live in my P&L is blunt, which is the point.
We spent twenty minutes on whether a Sunday gap belonged inside the zone. I had been treating the gap as a separate event. After the sitting I still do not love leaving cash untraded, but I stopped chasing the first fill through a band I had already named as support.
Longer notes
Two working examples
A swing book on cable that had too many shelves
Helen booked a Chart Mapping Session after a spring in which cable had respected a weekly supply band she had marked well, then spent three weeks chopping. She responded by adding a new horizontal on almost every four-hour swing. By the time she wrote to Thornhaugh the daily was unreadable.
The sitting used paper. We printed the weekly with two years of bars, marked one supply zone and one demand zone, then put the daily beside it. Five of her seven lines sat in the middle of the weekly range. They were real enough as session memory; they were not a map for a swing book.
She left with two bands, a written invalidation on a daily close, and an agreement to ignore new four-hour shelves unless they formed at the edge of those bands. A month later she sent a clinic chart with the same two zones, slightly widened after a wick. That is a quieter kind of progress than a winning screenshot, and it is the kind the studio is for.
A private table for a small desk in Leeds
A five-person desk asked for a closed workshop rather than scattered seats on an open day. They trade index futures from the same room and had developed three different ways of drawing the same FTSE daily. Arguments at the open were costing them more than the commission.
We hired a table in Leeds rather than asking them all to Thornhaugh. The morning was the usual work on swing selection. The afternoon was their last six weeks of dailies, laid out in date order so the group could see where the maps had diverged — usually on whether a news spike belonged inside the zone.
They did not leave with a single house style imposed from outside. They left with a written rule for spikes, a shared weekly map, and an agreement that any new daily zone had to be marked by two people before it went on the shared sheet. Priya still sees two of them in clinic. The other three have not written; that is allowed.
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