A notebook that survives a wild week
A volatile week tempts a second notebook, a list of headlines, and a photograph of someone else's chart. The clinic layout survives because it does not expand.
The page
At the top: the date and the market. Under that: three lines for the prior high, the prior low, and the prior close, filled before the open. At the bottom: one sentence written after the close. The rest of the page stays blank on purpose.
The blank space is not decoration. It is the part of the page that stops you adding a fourth level because the day felt busy.
The wild day still gets three lines
On a day when price runs from the open and does not look back, you still record the same three prior levels and one sentence about where the close sat relative to them. You may add the opening-range high and low only after that range is finished, and only in the margin, if you have sat the Saturday morning.
If the sentence needs the memory of how the room felt, it is not finished. A stranger should be able to check it against the high, the low, and the close.
Sunday, without new marks
Read the week's sentences in order. Do not add lines on Sunday. Ask which sentence you could still understand without the chart in front of you. Rewrite the weak one underneath, and bring both versions to the next clinic.
I keep the rewritten page with your name and put it back in your hand the next time you sit. The original stays in your notebook so you can see what you changed.