When the daily band and the hourly band refuse to agree

People like to average two timeframes into one price. The chart room does not. A daily support zone is a neighborhood built from daily swings. An hourly zone is a doorway inside a smaller swing. When they sit apart, both can be honest. Averaging them produces a third price that neither swing earned.

Say which sitting you are in

At the Wednesday studio we keep two sheets, daily on the left and 60-minute on the right, and we refuse to shade the right-hand sheet with the left-hand swing. If the evening’s question is the hourly structure into the next Seoul open, the daily band is context written in the margin, not a line copied across. If the question is where the larger turn sits, the hourly wicks do not get to vote.

Last month the shared instrument was a heavy KOSPI industrial. The daily zone sat under price, built from a January low and two later tests. The 60-minute zone sat above price, built from a swing high only four sessions old. Several seats wanted a midpoint. Park Haejin made each person point at one swing and say which sheet it lived on. The midpoint was never written down.

When one band is simply stale

Disagreement is not always a reason to keep both. If the hourly zone lies entirely outside the daily zone, and the hourly swing is newer, we go looking for a daily swing we may have kept out of loyalty. A zone owned by a swing that price has since closed through is a retired zone. It can stay on the paper. It should not be described as current support.

The check is plain. Find the swing. Ask whether a later close has gone through its band. If it has, write retired and the date. Then look for the next intact swing on that same timeframe. Do not repair a stale daily zone by borrowing an hourly wick.

A practical order of work

Mark the higher timeframe first, fully, including retired bands. Then mark the lower timeframe on its own sheet. Only after both lists exist do you look at where they overlap. Overlap is interesting because two different swings happened to land near each other. It is not a signal, and we do not circle it in red. We write the two swing names side by side and leave the prices as they are.

Sittings that practice this kind of markup are listed under desk hours.