These notes name a sitting, a constraint, or a mark on the page. They are not ratings. One of them still includes the complaint that the work felt slow.
I had been taking every RSI dip under 30 as a reason to buy. Ellis made me print twelve weeks of the same FTSE stock and mark only the turns that also had a higher low on price. Half of my old 'signals' never appeared on that sheet. The sitting felt slow, which I grumbled about at the time, but I stopped giving back the same three-point bounce.
The Saturday intensive is mostly paper. We drew MACD histogram bars by hand for the first hour so nobody could hide behind a default setting. I still use that page as a bookmark. Priya's afternoon drill — wait, then name the confirmation, then speak the entry — is the part I replay when I am tempted to click early.
I came expecting a tour of every oscillator on the market. What I received was a short list: RSI, MACD, stochastic, and a rule for when two of them may agree. The clinic on stochastic pinning in a trend saved me from fading a runner on sterling that would have gone on for days.
Ellis read my journal without flattery. Several of my 'confirmed' shorts were just a stochastic turn while price was still printing higher highs. The written notes came back with the dates circled and a one-line question next to each. I did not enjoy seeing that, and I kept the pages.
The room at East Rounton is small. You sit elbow to elbow over weekly charts, and you cannot hide a messy rule. I liked that more than a lecture hall. Tea at eleven, then back to the same swing until everyone could point to the confirmation rather than the first twitch of the line.
A month of RSI dips, then six coaching sittings
Helen Crowe arrived with a folder of FTSE prints and a habit of buying whenever RSI crossed under 30. In the first sitting Ellis asked her to tick the oscillator and to withhold the second tick until a higher low was on price. Several of her favourite dates never earned that tick. She said the hour felt slow. By the sixth sitting the folder had a different margin: dates she had refused. We did not count profit. We counted refusals she could still point to.
That is the shape of chart-side coaching: not a conversion story, a marked pair of sheets and a rule that survived being grumbled at.
The March intensive and a spoken entry
James Okafor's group drew MACD histogram bars by hand before anyone was allowed to mention a cross. In the afternoon Priya would not let a trader describe an entry until the neighbour could see the second mark. James still uses that histogram page as a bookmark. The follow-up letter restated his refusal clause: no fill on a histogram shortening alone. He wrote back that the clause had been tested the following week on a sterling cross, and that he had stayed out. That is as much ending as we offer — a week in which the rule was used, not a scoreboard.
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