Reviews

Evidence from the logbook, not a star widget

Participants describe specific rule changes, skipped setups, and review habits. Results vary; none of these notes are performance promises.

“I arrived with a breakout rule that looked perfect on three memorable charts. The Intensive forced me to log forty instances instead. Half failed the invalidation wording I thought I already understood — uncomfortable, but it stopped me sizing up on a half-finished idea.”
Helen Cartwright · Part-time equity trader, Leeds · Structured Backtesting Intensive
“The Sunday scorecard is shorter than the journal I abandoned twice. I still skip the odd week when travel intervenes, yet the ten-minute fallback means I restart without drama.”
James Okafor · FX discretionary trader, Manchester · Structured Backtesting Intensive
“Our clinic spent nearly an hour on two of my skipped setups. I had never treated a pass as evidence before. The follow-up notes were blunt about my tendency to re-enter after a clean invalidate — fair criticism.”
Priya Shah · Index futures trader, Birmingham · Strategy Review Clinic
“Private review suited me better than a group. Ninety minutes was tight; we did not finish the second backtest excerpt. Still, the rewritten entry rule alone was worth the fee.”
Callum Reid · Self-directed investor, Edinburgh · Private Chart Review
“Foundations felt slower than the YouTube channels I used to binge. Marking swings with a neighbour watching exposed how loosely I defined ‘structure’. I enrolled in the Intensive afterwards with fewer illusions.”
Amelia Brooks · Career-changer, Norwich · Chart Foundations Workshop

Extended notes

Two client stories in more detail

Structured Backtesting Intensive

Rewriting a London-open range fade

A cohort participant brought a fade of the first thirty-minute range on a UK index future. Early screenshots showed tidy mean reversion. Under supervised logging across a choppy February and a trending September, the fade survived only when a second confirmation candle closed back inside the range — a clause missing from the original notes.

Afterwards: The student kept the setup for range days only, added an explicit stand-down when average true range exceeded the prior month’s median, and now reviews every Friday with the clinic scorecard rather than ad-hoc screenshots.

Private Chart Review

From indicator stack to two-rule pullback

A private client arrived with six overlays and no written invalidation. Together we stripped the chart to swing structure and a single higher-timeframe bias filter. The first homework backtest used daily bars on two liquid UK shares over five years, marking every pullback that met the text — including the misses.

Afterwards: The client discarded three overlays permanently and booked a follow-up clinic to pressure-test the pullback against a second regime. They still trade small size while the sample grows.

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