From the table
What people marked, argued, and still found slow
These notes come from intakes in the Silom classroom. They name the sitting, the market, and a specific habit that changed — or did not. We do not collect star ratings.
I had been boxing the previous day’s value area in yellow and waiting underneath it. Arun made me letter a Tuesday with a poor low, then showed Wednesday walking through it. I still mark value. I no longer treat the box as a shelf. The binder’s SET examples were from sessions I actually watch, which helped more than a generic US lecture would have.
The Wednesday table is cramped and the tea is ordinary. What I needed was six other people staring at the same histogram while I tried to say why volume sat in a different place than the TPO value. Nira keeps the pages in order so the evening does not dissolve into chat. After four circles I can finally say ‘low-volume pocket’ without pointing at every quiet cell.
The hand lettering on Saturday one felt slow, and I said so in the room. I still think a projector could have saved forty minutes. What I cannot argue with: by Saturday four I presented a full week on one instrument without asking Nira where the POC was. I also still freeze when the live session is open — the workshop did not fix that, and they did not pretend it would.
I brought ten days I had already lettered, including two I was embarrassed by. Arun went through the pile in order and caught that I was starting the value-area count from the mid-range instead of from the longest row. The habit list at the end was three lines. I booked a second sitting a month later with a new pile, not because the first was unfinished, but because I wanted the same correction on the next ten.
Five of us share a USDTHB book in Bang Rak. We asked for a day on our own dates, not the public workshop mix. They printed eight of our sessions, refused to add gold ‘as a bonus,’ and made us agree on words for overnight inventory before lunch. We still disagree on Fridays. We now disagree in the same language, which was the point of paying for the room.
A longer sitting
January workshop, SET50 futures — Somchai’s week of profiles
Somchai arrived able to point at a value-area overlay on a screen and unable to say whether Tuesday’s low had excess. During Saturday three he lettered a session with a poor low and then, with the next day still covered, wrote that Wednesday “should bounce.” The table uncovered Wednesday. Price walked through the poor low in the first hour.
The useful remainder of his month was not a new indicator. It was the margin sentence we now ask everyone to write: prior value, overnight inventory, then the open. He finished Saturday four presenting a five-day SET stretch without asking where the POC sat. He still does not sit the Wednesday circle — he said the live tape is a different problem, and we agreed.
Reserve the next Saturday intake