1 September 2026 · Han Yebin
Continuation versus a pause on the same sheet
Small bodies after a push are not automatically a reversal. They are often a pause that still belongs to the same path.
After a strong directional push, the sheet often prints a few small bodies. Students rush to name a turn. Sometimes the turn arrives. Often the small bodies are a pause: range contracts, wicks stay inside the prior impulse, and then another body continues in the original direction. The useful skill is separating those two cases before the pencil commits to a reversal story.
Our margin code is simple. “C” for continuation when the next decisive body travels with the prior push and closes beyond the pause cluster. “P” for pause while the cluster is still unresolved. “R” for reversal only when a decisive body travels against the push and holds. Three letters. No paragraphs in the heat of marking.
Do not promote every doji
A doji inside a pause cluster is common and often unimportant. A doji that appears after a long one-directional run and then fails to hold is different. Context is not a slogan here; it is the three or four bars you can point to with a finger. If you cannot point, you are not ready to promote the doji.
Evening five of the atelier spends most of its time on this distinction using a second market the student already follows. The first market taught the vocabulary. The second market tests whether the vocabulary travels without copying the first sheet’s slope.
What the Sunday habit is for
Several former students mark on Sunday evening because the weekly candles have closed and the house is quiet. The habit is not a ritual. It is a way to keep the continuation and pause marks few. If your Sunday pass takes more than twenty minutes for one market, you are probably decorating the middle of the week. The candles that change the path are rare. Leave the rest lightly measured so the sequence can be read later — including by you, a month from now.