Field notes · Chart reviews

What to bring to a chart review — and what to leave at home

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A chart review at Query Pulsecore is not an audit of your P&L. Please do not send the broker statement as the main document. Send the charts you actually looked at, with the levels you actually drew, including the mornings you sat on your hands. The quiet days are where we see whether you can pass on a poor breakout.

Bring roughly ten sessions. Fewer, and we spend the hour reconstructing context. Many more, and we skim. If you trade two products, pick one for the review. Sterling and the FTSE in the same hour usually means we do justice to neither.

Leave the tidy version at home. The version you redrew after the close, with hindsight levels that 'would have caught the move', teaches us nothing about your live eye. We want the slightly messy screenshot from Tuesday, the one with the extra line you later regretted.

Also leave other people's trades. Screenshots from a chat room, a YouTube pause, or a colleague's account are not your marks. The review is about the conversation between you and the session, not about whether a popular call was right.

If you have already done price action drills for breakout and pullback setups with us, bring the drill notes from the matching fortnight. Seeing a live session next to a drill round on a similar shape is one of the faster ways to notice whether the practice is transferring. That is the whole reason we offer the review as a companion to the training, not as a substitute for it.

If you want this kind of marking with a clock on it, look at price-action drill sessions or write from the contact page.