28 March 2026
What we leave out of the chart pack
The twelve sheets in the Confirmation Desk pack are chosen for arguments, not for a tour of markets. Several tempting pages are left in the drawer.
A visitor once asked why the pack never includes the week of a famous crash. The answer is dull and practical: a crash chart teaches people to stare at the price panel. We need sheets where the lower panel can still change someone’s mind. Drama makes a poor classroom.
Each pack has twelve pages. Four show a cross that the momentum window supports. Four show a cross the momentum window refuses. Four show a late histogram, including two where price continued in the same direction afterward, so a late bar still has to be read against what price did next. Markets are mixed: Thai shares, a currency pair, a commodity. Names are printed small because the argument is the panel, not the story you already hold about the name.
We leave out any sheet that only works if you know what happened the following year. Hindsight disguised as a lesson is how people learn to feel clever and mark nothing repeatable. We also leave out sheets with three extra indicators in the margin. The desk has MACD and one momentum window. A third line would let people hide from the disagreement.
The pack is reprinted when a page becomes too famous inside the room — when sitters arrive having already memorised the “answer.” Mali keeps a drawer of retired sheets. They are not secret. They are just no longer fair.
If you want to know whether a particular market will appear, ask when you write. We will not rebuild a pack around one name, but we can tell you honestly if the next printing is shares-heavy or mixed. The method does not change with the printing.