Choosing an honest swing origin before you draw

In the Bangpho practicum we start every drawing with a spoken sentence: which candle closed the impulse, and which candle ended it. If the room cannot agree on those two points, we do not drop a Fibonacci tool yet. The 61.8% line is only as honest as the journey it measures.

A useful classroom test is to hide the right edge of the chart and ask whether the left-side origin would still look like a swing if price had gone nowhere afterwards. Students who pass that test tend to stop chasing every shallow pullback as if it were a textbook retracement.

Bring printouts, not screenshots cropped to the last two hours. The academy’s tables are sized for paper because paper makes the origin argument slower, and slower is the point.