Custom studio wall
The pattern desk
These are the six families on the paper taped above the kettle. If a student invents a seventh name during class, we send them back to this list until the evidence is boringly clear.
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1
Head and shoulders
Reversal after a rise
Three peaks, the middle highest, and a neckline that price later leaves. Taught with failed right shoulders beside completed ones.
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2
Inverse head and shoulders
Reversal after a fall
The same manners, inverted. Students must still point to the neckline date, not only to the pretty middle trough.
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3
Double and triple turns
Repeated tests
Peaks or troughs of similar height plus a valley or peak that later gives way. Two neighboring wiggles are not enough.
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4
Triangles
Coil
Two converging boundaries with enough touches. Continuation is earned by a parent trend, not assumed from the geometry.
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5
Flags and pennants
Short pause
Allowed only after a pole you can point to. Without the burst, the small parallelogram stays a channel.
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6
Rectangles
Range
Horizontal boundaries that price respects while it waits. Measuring implications wait for a real leave, not a wick.
The desk is not a gallery of winning trades. It is a memory aid. During Chart Pattern Foundations we walk this wall twice: once in week one, while the names still feel like costumes, and once in week six, when students are tired of pretty drawings that never left the shape.
If you already keep charts, bring three printouts to a sitting and we will try to file them against this list — or refuse to file them, which is often the more honest outcome.