The Weekly Spread: Reviewing Seven Days on One Table

Software makes it easy to jump trade by trade and hard to see the week as a whole. The weekly spread is a low-tech habit: seven charts, same scale, taped in a row across the dining table or workshop desk, with a single summary strip below them.

Each chart gets a one-line label — date, instrument, result in R, exit tag from the daily card. The summary strip has three columns: setups taken, setups skipped with reason, and one sentence on the dominant emotion of the week. Filling that strip takes ten minutes and often hurts more than reading any single trade story, because skipped setups with weak reasons show up in a column you cannot hide.

I photograph the spread before clearing the table. Not for social sharing — for comparison four weeks later. The photos are surprisingly blunt about whether journal changes actually changed behaviour. Templates alone do not show up in the pictures; fewer reactive exits do.

Our Khlong San workshop room has a long table built for this exercise. Participants bring their own charts; we supply tape, rulers, and a quiet hour without market noise. If you practice at home, protect the time the same way you would protect a lesson fee: phone away, platforms closed, charts already printed before you sit down.