These notes name the sitting and something that happened in it. They are not a scoreboard. Two longer accounts follow the shorter ones.
I came in treating RSI 70 as a reason to exit a KOSPI name that was still trending. By the sixth sitting I could see the pin and leave it alone. The printed packets were stricter than the videos I had been pausing at midnight.
The Saturday stayed on daily charts, which the rate card did say. I had wanted more intraday divergence and I skimmed past that line. What I did get was a cleaner way to pick the two swings, and I have used it every Sunday since.
Ninety minutes on four of my own USD/KRW charts. Seo-yeon marked the histogram fade I had captioned as a cross. The note that arrived on Thursday was half a page and did not try to sound grander than the pencil.
The circle moves more slowly than I expected. Some Mondays we stay on one range for most of the hour. I was impatient in November. By the fourth week my journal sentences were shorter and harder to argue with, which is what I had actually paid for.
I share a desk at a small office and I did not want a room full of shouting. Eight people, copper lamp, no one asked me to place a trade. The last Thursday they put my KOSDAQ chart on the board and the comments were about the stochastic edge, not about me.
Board sheets from a studio week
Studio · autumn 2025
The RSI pin she stopped fighting
Na Hye-rin arrived with a year of daily charts on a KOSPI industrial name and a habit of selling when RSI crossed above 70. The first packet included a stretch where that pin lasted while price walked higher for most of a month. She marked it, argued with it, and on the second Thursday admitted she had been treating the upper band as a doorbell.
By sitting six she could write the distinction the room wanted: a pin during a trend describes strength; a divergence at a swing high describes a fade. She still sells, she said, but she waits for the swing structure, not for the number 70. The reservation she offered later was about pace. “I wanted my own chart on the board in week one. You made me wait until the shared packets were finished. I understand it now. I did not enjoy the wait.”
Chart desk · spring 2026
Four USD/KRW sheets and a late cross
Im Sora booked ninety minutes because a signal-line cross on MACD had felt late three times in a row. She brought printed daily charts, labeled on the back, which is what the desk asks. Seo-yeon spent the first half hour on the histogram only, covering the MACD line with a sheet of paper so the bars had to be read alone.
On three of the four charts the bars had already shortened before the cross. On the fourth, the histogram was still expanding and the cross was not the event Sora remembered — she had been looking at a different week. The emailed note was half a page. Sora wrote back that the hour was quieter than she expected from anything with “review” in the name, and that the quiet was the useful part. She also noted the room has no screen for a live feed, which she missed for the first ten minutes and then stopped missing.
Histogram slope, the part of MACD the desk reads first
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