Case note: Three sessions to correct a MACD marking habit
Participant: retail trader, 2 years experience, primarily VN30 stocks
Phuong arrived for private coaching after twice entering trades based on what she thought were bullish MACD divergences, only to see price continue lower. She brought printed charts from her own journal spanning eight weeks.
During the first 90-minute session, Linh noticed Phuong was comparing MACD histogram peaks across candles that were not actual price swing highs — she was marking local noise within a broader downtrend. They re-plotted three charts together using the swing-selection rule taught in the intensive.
Phuong booked two follow-up sessions over the next month. By the third session she had independently marked a valid hidden bullish divergence on a consumer stock chart and correctly identified that volume did not confirm the signal — so she documented it as "watch, no entry." She later reported that the trade she would have taken previously would have stopped out within three sessions.