Weekly first: why we ban daily-only maps

Give a new student a daily chart and they will find twelve “supports” before lunch. Give them a weekly chart covering two years and the room goes quieter — only a few swing points survive the wider lens.

That quiet is intentional. Weekly highs and lows that held for multiple months become the bones of the map. Daily extremes are allowed later only when they reinforce those bones or explain a local pause inside a larger range.

In practice, session one of the intensive forbids daily annotations until each participant can point to three weekly anchors and say why they matter. Some resist; their broker app opens on the daily by default. We still wait. The cost of an afternoon spent on structure is lower than months of reacting to every minor shelf.

When we finally open the daily, refinement is faster. Students stop inventing levels at every round number and start asking whether a local low sits near a weekly base. That question alone removes half the clutter from most charts we see in private reviews.