I brought a messy daily note on the Kospi and left with one sentence I could repeat on the train home. Hana would not let me open the fifteen-minute sheet until I had said the daily swing out loud twice. I use that pause every Sunday now.
Eunji Park
Stories
What people actually did with the hour.
These notes name a session, a sheet, or a habit that changed. They are from students who agreed to be quoted. We do not publish a score.
The July workshop was useful, though the first half moved slower than I wanted. I had hoped we would reach the fifteen-minute sheet before the break. Minjae kept us on the daily until the swings were agreed, and by the end I saw why. I still wish the far end of the table had a second lamp; those sheets were harder to see.
David Cho
Hana sent back twelve pages with fewer marks than I expected, which was the point. Her letter told me to stop labeling every inside candle. The margins were blunt and kind.
Sora Kim
I travel up once a month. The telephone option exists, but I want the paper in front of both of us. Last session we spent twenty minutes erasing a four-hour trend line I had been proud of. The map that replaced it was shorter and I have not put the line back.
Minho Bae
A longer visit · private desk
The Kospi map that got shorter
Eunji Park came down from Chuncheon with a folder of daily prints going back four months. She had been writing a fresh opinion every Sunday and could no longer tell which opinion she still trusted. Hana set the older pages aside and worked only from a fresh pack: daily, four-hour, fifteen-minute.
The first forty minutes were spent on one swing from March. Eunji wanted to talk about a candle from the previous Thursday. Hana asked her to cover that candle with a slip of paper and finish the daily sentence anyway. The sentence that survived was plain: price was still inside a range whose edges had been tested, and the map would be wrong only if a daily close left that range and stayed out.
They marked two four-hour swings that lived inside the range and left the fifteen-minute sheet almost clean. Eunji’s follow-up question, sent with the map, asked whether she should add a moving average. The note that came back five days later said the average would not change the sentence she already had, and invited her to keep the slip-of-paper habit for a month. She later booked a journal review rather than another live hour, which suited the notes she had started keeping.
A longer morning · Saturday workshop
Six people, one index, a lamp complaint that stayed
David Cho took the July workshop because he wanted to hear other people hesitate. He commutes from Seoul and arrived with a pencil case that Minjae asked him to thin down to one graphite pencil and, if he wished, one copper pencil for the daily sheet.
The group did not reach the fifteen-minute pack before the tea break. David said so, and the comment is still fair. Minjae had two students marking the same daily high at different candles, and he would not turn the next sheet while that disagreement was fuzzy. After the break the fifteen-minute page took less than half an hour, because most of the areas had nothing to do with the swings already named.
David’s other remark is also fair: the far end of the table is dimmer in the late morning, and on that day his sheet sat there. We have since moved the copper lamp to a longer arm. His marked pack went home on the train, and he has not booked a second workshop. One morning was what he wanted.