Case note: From impulsive entries to mapped liquidity waits
Participant: Lan P., part-time indices trader based in District 7
Program: Volume & Liquidity Foundations, January 2026, followed by one chart review in March
Lan had been trading US30 on a 15-minute chart for two years, entering on candlestick patterns without checking whether volume supported the level. During Day 1 of the workshop, she annotated ten historical retests and found that seven of her past losing trades entered at levels where delta diverged from price — a pattern she had never checked.
On Day 2, she mapped sell-side liquidity below a prior session low on US30 and set an alert instead of entering immediately. Price swept the pool during the New York open, showed absorption on the volume panel, and reversed — matching the sequence Duc demonstrated on the projector.
In her March chart review, Lan brought four weeks of annotated charts. Two still showed premature entries before liquidity sweeps. Thao helped her add a simple rule: no entry until the marked pool is touched or clearly invalidated. Lan reported in a follow-up email that she reduced impulsive entries but still struggles with patience during slow Asia sessions — a habit she is working on independently.