1 April 2026
Closes over wicks when the rail is tested
Channel reading fails most often at the moment of drama: a long wick prints beyond the rail and the room shouts breakout. In our intensive we pause the chart and ask a dull question: where did the session close relative to the line you drew yesterday, not the line you are tempted to redraw now.
Wicks show rejection or stop-running. Closes show acceptance. If you treat both as the same event, your channel becomes a moving decoration. We practice leaving the original parallel in place and writing two sentences: what would confirm a true break, and what would restore the channel on the next bar.
This habit is slower than social-media mark-up. It is also the difference between a reading method and a mood.