11 March 2026

Range first, then the break

Open books stacked on a library table

Students often arrive with a highlighter already chasing the candle that left yesterday’s high. We slow that down. Before any talk of expansion, we spend twenty minutes agreeing where the range actually lived: the last swing that held, the cluster of closes, the obvious round number that everyone else can see.

Once that box is on paper, a break is a close beyond it — not a wick, not a one-tick print. The language matters because it decides whether you even have a setup. If you cannot point to the box, you cannot point to a break.

In Poti we still use printed charts for this drill. Screens invite scrolling; paper forces a single decision. Bring a ruler. Leave the indicators in the bag for the first hour.

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