A journal page you can still read in six weeks
Date, market, three timeframe notes, and one sentence about what would change the map. Leave the rest of the page empty.
Most chart journals fail by being complete. They copy every impression from the session and, six weeks later, read like someone else’s diary. We ask students of technical analysis training to keep a thinner page so multi-timeframe chart analysis stays portable.
The page we like has five lines and a lot of blank paper. Line one is the date and the market. Line two is the daily sentence. Line three names the four-hour swings that agree or disagree. Line four says whether the fifteen-minute sheet was allowed to speak, and if so, where. Line five states what would make the map false.
That fifth line is the one people skip. Without it, the page becomes a mood. With it, you can open the journal in late autumn and see whether the map was wrong or merely unfinished. Write the invalidation in the same words you would use at the desk, not in a code you will forget.
Leave the rest blank. Empty paper is a record of restraint. If you felt tempted to mark a second market, write that temptation on a scrap and throw the scrap away. The bound page is only for the market you named.
When you send a journal for review, these thin pages are the ones Hana can actually help. A decorated page full of arrows forces her to guess which arrow you trusted. A five-line page shows the decision. Bring that, even if the handwriting is rough.