These notes name a sitting, a habit, and a remaining difficulty. They are not ratings. If you want the timetable rather than the testimony, the workshop diary is the better page.
I arrived thinking a high-volume close was always a sign of strength. Helen made me mark the same Friday three times until I could say who was still there after lunch. The room is small enough that you cannot hide behind a laptop. I still hesitate on gilt prints — that sitting felt rushed for me — but my FTSE pages are finally in a language I can defend.
Marcus asked me to reprint the bars without the moving averages before he would start. That annoyed me for the first ten minutes and then saved the rest of the hour. He pointed at two quiet up-days I had labelled as ‘healthy’ and asked what participation I thought I had seen. I had seen activity. Not the same thing.
The Tuesday circle is slower than the workshop, which I needed. Week four on absorption near a prior high was the first time I stopped arguing with the page. We drink ordinary tea and the prints are slightly too faint, which somehow helps because you have to look.
Four weekly notes is a lot of honesty. Helen kept returning to the same fault: I treat the first hour’s volume as a verdict for the whole session. By week three I was writing the second-hour test before I wrote anything clever. I did not enjoy the closing letter, which is probably the point.
The pre-work was more useful than the sandwiches. Bringing three of my own sessions meant I could not pretend the method only works on their chosen examples. I would have liked a third day on US hours; two days is tightly packed if you are rusty with a ruler.
A Norwich journal after September
Priya arrived with six months of coloured boxes and a habit of calling every high-volume close a sign of strength. Over the two days she re-marked the same Friday gilt session three times. The third pass was the first that mentioned who was still present after lunch. Two weeks later, on the follow-up call, she read her four-line notes aloud. The FTSE pages had the participation words. The gilt pages still reached for ‘strong’ and ‘weak’. That mix is typical, and it is why the call exists.
She has not joined a Tuesday circle. She writes that the ruler work still feels slow, which we take as a good sign rather than a complaint to fix with software.
An Ipswich review that started with a reprint
James booked a ninety-minute chart review after a year of watching London cash. The first PDFs were unreadable under moving averages. Marcus asked for a reprint of the bars with volume underneath and postponed the sitting by four days. In the hour that followed they spent most of the time on two quiet up-days James had labelled healthy. Activity had been present; commitment had not. The same-day note named that habit in one paragraph and left the rest of his method alone.
He later joined the November workshop. The review had not been a miniature course. It had been a gate: if the pages cannot show volume, we will not pretend to read participation.
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