11 November 2025
Marking Swing Highs Without the Noise
A practical method for choosing which swing points belong on your chart — and which ones only clutter your plan.
Many students arrive with charts that look like spider webs: every minor pause marked as a swing. The problem is not enthusiasm — it is that too many marks dilute the levels that actually matter for entries and invalidation.
Start on the weekly chart and mark only swings that reverse at least three prior bars of the same timeframe. Then drop to daily and ask whether a new mark changes your bias or merely restates the weekly story. If it restates, leave it off.
In our Chart Structure Intensive we use a two-colour rule: pine for swings that define the current trend corridor, coral for swings that completed a pullback but did not break structure. Students report that their notebooks become shorter and their stop placement clearer within a fortnight.
Try this drill tonight: open one ASX liquid name you already follow, delete every drawing, and remake the chart with no more than six swing marks. If you cannot explain each mark in one sentence, remove it.