Journal
Failed retests after lunch: what the afternoon usually admits
Bangkok afternoons are where leftover levels tell the truth. A resistance that broke in the first hour and then cannot be recaptured after lunch has changed sides. Calling it resistance forever because that is how you labelled it at 09:10 is nostalgia.
In the intensive we bring the morning sheets back at 13:30. Each leftover line gets one of three notes: still unused, tested and held, or broken and failed to reclaim. The third note is the one students skip because it feels like admitting a mistake. It is not a mistake. It is the session talking.
Failed retests are not automatic shorts or longs. They are a reason to stop treating the old line as your friend. If you still want to trade, you need a new unused level, not a reunion with the broken one.
Volume thins after 15:00 on many SET names. A pretty bounce into old resistance in a quiet book is not the same event as the morning probe. We write “thin” in the margin so tomorrow’s overnight mark-up does not promote a sleepy print into structure.
The evening class exists partly for people who miss this window. Reprinting the close and asking which afternoon retests failed is slower than watching it live, but it still beats going into the next open with yesterday’s labels unrevised.