These are notes from adults who sat a Cross Inn morning or sent their own sheets for review. They mention particular bars, chairs, and habits — not a score out of five.
Session-by-session chart interpretation
I still mix up the less common candle names, and Rhys did not pretend a single morning would fix that. What changed is I no longer treat a long lower wick at 09:15 as if it were the same object as one at 15:40.
Candlestick reading foundations
We spent twenty minutes on one 08:00 bar. I had come expecting a list. I left able to say open, high, low, close, and whether the wick was large for that Tuesday, which is more useful than the list I arrived with.
London first-hour clinic
The group of four felt tight once the open got noisy; I would have preferred the chair further from the window. The reading itself was the first time anyone made me wait for the 08:15 close instead of talking through the spike.
Private chart review
I sent a week of sterling 15-minute sheets with my own biro already all over them. Rhys asked me to bring unmarked copies next time, then still sat with the mess and circled three places where I had inked a session high before the next bar had closed.
Gareth, who works from Bridgend, booked a private chart review after two group mornings. He arrived with a week of 15-minute sterling sheets on which he had already drawn boxes around every hammer. The boxes made the page loud. They also hid the fact that two of those hammers sat in the middle of lunch ranges and one sat after a trend that had been in place since 08:30.
We asked him to photograph unmarked copies for a second sitting. On those clean sheets the same week looked slower. The interesting work was not the hammers. It was an 09:45 upper wick that made a session high and two later closes that left it alone — a high Gareth had moved in ink at 09:46 while the bar was still open on his screen.
He still prefers to name candles. That habit did not vanish in ninety minutes. The change we could see was narrower: he now writes the time beside a wick before he draws a box. That is the sort of evidence this room can stand behind. If you want a similar look at your own week, bring unmarked sheets and a market you actually sit.