Note · 17 July 2026
The later-bar honesty check
A zone is a hypothesis. Later price is the only examiner we accept in the lab.
After you draw a zone from the left side of a historical chart, uncover the right side. Did later bars stall, reverse, or walk through as if the area never existed?
Walk-throughs are not failures of character. They are information: the map was too thin, the cluster was coincidence, or the context changed. We redraw or retire the zone and write one sentence about why.
This check is why our Saturday lab still uses paper for the first hours. It is harder to cheat a fold in the page than a replay slider.