17 March 2026
The studio sits on Sukumvit in Phra Khanong. Dinner in this neighbourhood happens while Europe is still working the book. The daily candle you open with coffee is not a summary of the hours you were awake.
Most charting defaults still close the crypto daily around midnight UTC, which is morning in Bangkok. The wick you meet at 08:00 ICT may have printed while you were asleep, during a London or New York stretch that had nothing to do with the quiet Asian evening you remember.
We ask students to write the session on the margin of every daily they mark for the first two weeks: “printed overnight” or “printed while I sat.” It is a humble label. It stops people treating a wick they never saw as a personal betrayal.
If you only review charts after work in Bangkok, you are often looking at a four-hour candle that is still open or that closed while you were on the BTS. Structure notes written on an unfinished candle are drafts. In the intensive we timestamp every mark. A draft is allowed. Calling it a swing is not.
Visitors who fly in for the weekend clinic get the same speech. Chart structure is not a Bangkok method, but reading from this city without admitting the clock will distort your daily bias. Put the timezone on the page. Then mark the swing.