Field Notes
Short notes on confirmation rules, false breaks, and how we run drills in the Seoul studio.
What a quiet Practice Lab still teaches
Dull holiday tapes frustrate traders — they also expose who can sit through a non-event without inventing a breakout.
Retest entries without chasing the second spike
Waiting for a retest is not the same as waiting forever — here is how we define a valid return to the break level in drills.
Naming the breakout before you size
Range break, continuation break, and gap follow-through need different confirmation language — mixing them is how checklists go soft.
Volume that fails a breakout
How we judge whether volume on a break candle is enough to trust the move — and when we wait for a retest instead.