Field Notes
Short essays on chart pattern recognition — how formations behave on living charts, and the habits that keep labels honest.
Notes from the teaching room and from charts brought in by clients. These are not trade recommendations.
Volume context around breakouts
Breakouts from rectangles and triangles feel cleaner when volume expands — and more suspicious when they do not.
Measuring moves without inventing precision
Pattern height gives a reference, not a destiny. How we teach measured moves as estimates with clear cancellation rules.
Neckline discipline on imperfect shoulders
Real head-and-shoulders formations rarely look like the textbook. The neckline still has to earn its keep.
When a triangle is only a pause
Not every converging range deserves a triangle label — here is how we teach traders to wait for geometry that can be measured.