A longer note
The log from Pohang
Nam Jiho booked the Trade Plan Studio after a spring of index-futures trades that all looked, in his words, like the same opening range. He drove from Pohang with a notebook full of entries and almost no stands-aside. He wanted the room to approve the habit.
On the first evening Dokyung asked him to circle only the days when the first fifteen minutes left the prior day’s high or low. The uncircled pages were the stand-aside list. More than half the notebook went quiet. Jiho said later that he had expected a new setup, and the evening felt like subtraction.
The second evening was the one he still mentions with a complaint. The size rule was read aloud three times because he kept folding it into the entry. He found the repetition slow. He also found, the next week at home, that he could not skip the line: the sentence was stuck. Six weeks after the studio his 1R was the smaller figure he disliked in the room, and the opening-range plan had a written condition for staying flat. He still thinks the second evening could have been twenty minutes shorter. The page he uses is the one that evening produced.
Trade Plan Studio is the sitting he took. The October dates are listed on the plan page.