Journal
A Sunday-to-Monday pass before the London open
Most of the traders who write to us from London, Bristol, and Manchester do not have a problem with effort. They have a problem with sequence. They sit down at 07:40, open the one-hour, and try to remember what they thought on Saturday. The open then writes the memory for them.
The pass we teach is deliberately dull, and it is done before the cash open, preferably on Sunday evening for names that trade Asia as well, and again as a short confirmation on Monday morning.
Sunday evening (forty minutes, one watchlist, paper):
- Weekly: one sentence of bias. Range, trend, or “week in transition after last week’s close.” No forecast of Monday’s first hour.
- Daily: is the current swing intact? What close would break it?
- Four-hour: only if the two sentences above agree. If they do not, the four-hour is not consulted. You are done. There is no swing plan for Monday, which is a valid outcome.
- Write the plan sheet or write “no plan.” Both count as work.
Monday, before 08:00 (ten minutes):
- Has the daily printed anything that changes the Sunday sentences? A gap that still sits inside the swing is not a change.
- If the sentences still hold, the four-hour may be used to locate a trigger zone already named on the plan. It may not rename bias.
- After 08:00 the plan is closed. You may pass. You may take the written trigger. You may not “update” the weekly sentence because a London spike felt convincing.
People who work full-time jobs often ask whether this can be done at 07:10 on a platform on the train. It can, if the Sunday paper work already exists. It cannot replace the Sunday paper work. The train is a confirmation pass, not a planning desk.
We keep the London open in the conversation because that is when many UK-based swing traders are awake and most tempted to abandon the weekly. The open is not the enemy. Unwritten bias is.