18 March 2026
A failed break, marked after the return
Week two is about pushes that leave a range and come back. The mark is made after the return, not while the push still looks decisive.
The sheet from a Thursday in 2019
One sheet in the current pack shows a quiet band, a single wide push beyond it, and a close back inside two sessions later. New students often circle the push and call it the start of a leg. The later sessions on the same sheet undo that call.
Prasit asks the room to mark the band first, in light pencil, using only the quiet weeks. The push is marked second, and only as a departure. The return is marked third. The order matters. People who start with the exciting bar rarely bother with the band.
What the trend line owes that bar
If a trend leg was already drawn, a failed break does not automatically cancel it. Sometimes the leg’s ending is elsewhere, and the push was noise around a pause. Sometimes the return is the ending the room was missing in week one. The student has to say which of those two is on this sheet.
We do not keep a score of who “called” the return. The charts are historical, and the right-hand side is visible. The skill is the sequence of marks, which you can repeat on a chart whose ending you do not yet know.
Taking one page home
Choose a recent week in your own journal where price left a level you cared about and came back. Mark band, departure, return, in that order. Then write whether your existing trend ending still stands.
If you cannot tell, that page is a good one to bring to a chart journal review. Bring the page, not a story about what you meant to draw.