Stories
These notes name a sitting, a constraint, or a habit that changed. They are not a scoreboard.
I came for three Tuesdays before I stopped bringing nine names. Jaehyun would not start the card until the extra sheets were back in the folder. The mornings are plain. I know which three lines I marked, and I am at my own desk before the open.
Soojin Noh · Pre-open circle, spring 2026
We spent the first twenty minutes on a weekly high I had treated as decoration. The daily chart of the KOSPI name I follow looked different once that line was darker than the others. I had wanted a comment on the last candle. I did not get one, and the sheet was better for it.
Taewon Im · Single desk sitting, January 2026
I disliked the rule that we could not add a fourth level mid-week. It felt rigid while a KOSDAQ name I watch was printing fresh highs. By week six I had fewer lines, and I could say which one I still trusted. I still think the printed card could leave a blank line for a note that is not a level. They would not add it.
Mirae Kang · Twelve-week studio, autumn 2025
Minseo circled eleven lines and asked which three I would keep. I kept two. The third, she said, was a weekly low I had never actually written down. That was embarrassing and useful. The return conversation was short, which is what I had paid for.
Hyeon Park · Level-book audit, April 2026
A longer account
Eunji Han · Desk assistant, Buk-gu
Eunji Han works at a small office a short bus ride from Sunhwan-ro. In the winter of 2025 she was marking nine KOSDAQ names after the cash close, most of them because a colleague had mentioned them that week. Her level book had no empty margin. She booked an audit because she did not want another sitting that would add technique on top of the pile.
The book stayed with Minseo for eight days. The margin notes did not propose new names. They asked, page after page, whether a line had been preceded by the weekly high. On most pages it had not. Eunji says the first reading made her defensive. She had been careful. Careful had meant complete, and complete had meant unreadable.
She then took a single desk sitting with one name left on the blotter. The other eight stayed in a folder she did not open during the ninety minutes. Thursday of that month she ran the closing columns at her own desk: high, low, close, one sentence. She kept a reservation about the audit fee, which did not include a second visit. She booked the sitting separately and thinks the split should have been explained more clearly on the rate sheet. The sheet now says so.
She still watches only three names. One of them is dull for weeks at a time. She marks the weekly high anyway, because the card does not offer an exception for dull names. That, she told us, is the part she would not have kept without someone else in the room on the first Thursday.
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