Desk note · 22 July 2026
A closing routine after the cash session
The KRX cash session ends, and the book still has empty columns. Filling them is the work. Explaining the day can wait.
Same columns, every session
After 15:30 the card asks for four things in the same columns: session high, session low, the closing print, and one sentence. The sentence may say that the close finished inside the prior day’s range, or outside it. It may not say what you think the market meant.
People who skip the columns and go straight to a paragraph almost always write a motive. Motive is cheap after the fact. The columns are harder because they force the range onto the page before the motive arrives.
Volume without a speech
Step four of the card is a comparison, not a theory. You look at the day’s volume bar beside the last five sessions and you write only whether it was lighter, similar, or heavier. Students sometimes want a sentence about accumulation. The margin of the book is too narrow for that, and we keep it narrow.
If the heavier bar also closed near the session high, you can add that fact. You still do not add a forecast. Forecasts belong, if anywhere, in a separate notebook that the studio does not read during an audit.
Leaving the desk
The Wednesday evening sitting exists so this closing work has a witness. A student who fills the columns at the kitchen table often adds a sixth line because the room is quiet and the pencil is still in hand. At the studio the card is collected when the columns are done.
You can practice the same stop at home. Close the book when the sentence is written. If a thought arrives later, it goes on tomorrow’s page, not as a correction to a finished session.
The pre-open circle stops at 08:50. The closing columns are the other half of that habit, done when the room is quiet again.