Field Notes
Short, practical writing on breakout structure and the mistakes we see most often in participant journals. No indicator reviews, no broker promotions.
A marginal close above resistance is one of the most expensive illusions on a daily chart. We classify three patterns that look like breaks but fail our workshop checklist — and show how each appears on a FTSE 100 name from Q2 2026.
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Breakout volume does not need to be dramatic — it needs to be meaningful relative to recent sessions. Here is the simple ratio we teach on day one and why we ignore intraday volume spikes when judging daily breaks.
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When you fade a false break, the stop cannot sit where it would for a genuine retest entry. We walk through two cable examples showing structural stop anchors above the trap wick versus inside the range.
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Not every sideways patch is tradeable. We distinguish tightening ranges, broadening drift, and news-induced pauses — and explain which ones tend to produce clean breaks on UK large caps.
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