12 August 2026 · Niran Chaiyaporn
Mark a swing high without filling the page
The room uses one rule on the timeframe named in the plan, then stops. Most crowded pages come from marking a second timeframe too early.
A swing high, in the way this room uses the words, is a bar whose high is higher than the bars immediately to its left and right, on the timeframe written at the top of the plan. That is the whole test. If you cannot point to those two neighbours, you do not have a swing yet. You have a wick you noticed.
Students arrive with pages that fail this test in a familiar way. The plan says the daily chart is the map, and the page is covered in marks taken from the fifteen-minute. Every push looks important when the bars are small. By the time the daily is consulted, there is no empty space left in which a real swing could be seen.
On evening two of the studio, and again on Saturday mornings, we do the marking in this order.
Start on the higher timeframe only. Print it large enough that one hand can cover a single bar. Find the most recent bar that passes the neighbour test. Mark it once, with a short horizontal tick, not a line that runs across the whole sheet. Then walk backward and mark only the swings you would still care about if you were allowed just four of them. Four is not a magic number. It is a limit that forces a choice.
A level drawn from a swing earns a sentence: what price behaviour would retire it. In this room the usual sentence is a close, on that same higher timeframe, beyond the mark. Two closes, if the market you follow whips. The plan must pick one of those standards and keep it. Mixing them mid-week is how a level becomes a suggestion.
Do the lower timeframe later, and only to time an order that the higher timeframe already allows. If the lower timeframe produces a swing that contradicts the map, the map wins. The lower mark does not get promoted onto the plan. It gets erased.
People who can only look at charts after work in Bangkok should be strict about this. A fifteen-minute swing that forms at 14:00 is useless to someone who opens the page at 19:30, unless the plan is written for the hours they actually have. The swing rule does not care about your job. The plan does. Write the session you can watch beside the timeframe, or the marks will describe a day you did not see.
Leave the pencil. Highlighters feel decisive and they cannot be undone. A page you can erase is a page you can still read next month.