01 · Breakout
A close outside a box you drew first
The range is marked before the bar exists. A wick through the line is written as a poke. The word breakout waits for the daily close.
Desk 01 · Seowon-gu · 36°38′ N
Hand-marked charts for breakouts, pullbacks, and reversals.
Cognit Archway keeps a small evening desk on Cheongju-daero. Students sit with printed daily charts and learn to name three setups only when the close, the prior swing, and the session itself agree.
The Setup Desk
Three marks the desk will teach
Breakout, pullback, reversal — in that order, and no faster.
02 · Pullback
A dip measured from the prior swing
The first soft bar after a breakout is not automatically the setup. Students set a brass divider to the push they already wrote down, then see what the dip returned.
03 · Reversal
A turn that had a move to turn from
The candle needs a prior push, a close back inside, and a margin note on whether the session was full or thin. Thin sessions stay unfinished on purpose.
Flagship seat
Eight weeks at the Setup Desk.
Monday and Thursday, two hours, sixteen people. You receive a printed chart pack and a journal. Seo Mirae reads marks aloud and sends weak ones back to be redrawn. The last Thursday is for a rule sheet in your own handwriting.
The fee is ₩1,280,000 for the seat. The desk does not call live entries, and it does not manage an account.
Read the eight weeks
A week on the desk
What the evenings actually contain.
- MondayNew charts on the table. You mark in silence for forty minutes, then the room compares boxes and closes.
- BetweenYou redo the pages Mirae circled. The journal stays with you. We do not collect it.
- ThursdayCorrections. A pullback that was only a mood gets measured again with the divider. Reversal pages missing a session word go back.
I arrived with a folder of circled wicks. By week three I was drawing the box the night before and leaving the wick alone. The room is quiet enough to hear the pencil when someone changes their mind.
Other ways to sit
A private hour, or one Saturday on a single setup.
₩180,000
Private Chart Sitting
Ninety minutes with Seo Mirae over your own marked charts, to correct how you name breakouts, pullbacks, and reversals.
₩240,000
Saturday Setup Clinic
A single Saturday spent on one setup family — breakout, pullback, or reversal — with printed charts and a shared marking drill.
The room
Chart room
How the table is laid, the house rules for marking, and the dates already on the board.
From the journal
Recent notes on the three setups.
Marking a breakout only after the daily close
On this desk a breakout is a close outside a range you already drew. The wick that pokes through at lunch is not the mark.
A pullback is measured from the prior swing
The first dip after a breakout is often just the market breathing. The pullback we study has a place to return to.
Reversal candles on a thin session
A handsome turning candle after a long run is not a reversal until the session itself had some weight.
Visit
The studio is on Cheongju-daero.
Evenings begin at 19:00. The door is at street level. If you are writing before you travel, say which setup you want to work on and whether you need a weekday private hour or a cohort seat.
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