Field notes

Journal

Short essays from the study room. Each one stays inside technical analysis training for long-term market study: closes, zones, paper sheets, and volume read as participation.

A wide paper chart with a few graphite curves on warm ivory paper, lit by a copper lamp

12 March 2026

The weekly close is a different object than the daily bar

A daily bar records a session. A weekly close records which side of the argument was still standing when the week ended.

Hands holding a graphite pencil above a broad unmarked monthly chart on dark wood

2 May 2026

A monthly support zone is a place, not a line you hope for

A line is easy to draw. A zone has to survive being explained to another person in the room.

A rolled paper chart and a cloth notebook on lacquered wood with burgundy velvet in the background

18 July 2026

The paper chart stays on the desk for a reason

The screen can zoom. The paper sheet remembers what the hand was willing to commit to.

A dark wood desk with a tall paper sheet of vertical volume marks beside a monthly price curve

29 August 2026

Volume on a quarterly sheet, read as participation

A tall volume column says more people were in the market. It does not say what they were right about.