Name the close before you name the candle

In the first evening workshop we still hear the same shortcut: a long lower wick, and someone says “hammer” before the close is measured. The wick is only half the recipe. The real body has to finish in the upper third of the full range, and the bar has to sit after a decline that is visible on the same sheet.

We make the table write three numbers before any name: the open, the close, and the share of the range that sits in the body. If those numbers do not match the recipe, the margin stays blank. A blank margin is a completed exercise.

Location is the second half of the work. A hammer-shaped bar in the middle of a quiet range is a shape, not a signal we keep. The school is willing to be slow here. Speed belongs to screens; the avenue room is for the pause between seeing a wick and committing a word to paper.

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