Client stories
Notes from traders who sat through intensives, clinics, and study circles — including the parts they still argue with.
“I still disagree with how strict the 50/200 crossover filter is on mid-caps, but after the intensive I at least know when I am breaking my own rule — and I write it down.”Marcus L., Perth · Moving Average Framework Intensive
“The chart clinic was shorter than I expected in the best way. We spent twenty minutes deleting averages I had kept ‘just in case’ and forty minutes rewriting my daily EMA checklist for iron ore names.”Priya S., Fremantle · One-to-one chart clinic
“Foundations finally explained why my 9-period average on a weekly chart felt twitchy. I had copied the period from an intraday post. Embarrassing, but useful.”Daniel K., Adelaide · Foundations cohort
“Open-bell is quiet and a bit dry — which is what I wanted. No hype, just slope, distance, and whether structure agrees before the cash open.”Helen W., Bunbury · Open-bell study circle
“Homework feedback on my AUD pairs was blunt about how often I treated every EMA cross as an entry. The rewrite of my filter cut my notes in half. Still figuring out the confirmation step on thin Fridays.”James R., Sydney · Moving Average Framework Intensive
Case note: rewriting a swing framework on ASX industrials
A Melbourne swing trader joined the intensive after three years of mixing a 20 SMA and a 50 EMA on the same daily chart without a written reason. Homework in week two forced a side-by-side: same industrial names, same six-month stretch, SMA-only versus EMA-only.
The EMA produced more crosses during sideways June–July stretches; the SMA lagged entries but matched the holding horizon of eight to fifteen sessions more cleanly. By week five the trader kept a 50 SMA for bias and a separate 20 SMA for pullback context — never as an automatic crossover trigger.
Outcome after the programme: fewer mid-chop entries, longer notes when a rule was intentionally broken, and continued attendance at the study circle for four weeks to keep the checklist warm.
Case note: clinic cleanup for an FX day plan
A Fremantle client booked a clinic with six averages on a five-minute AUD chart. We removed four within the first half hour because none matched the thirty- to ninety-minute holds they actually took.
The remaining pair — a 21 EMA and a 55 SMA — gained a written filter: no long note unless price had already reclaimed the session open structure. The client left sceptical that the filter would feel too slow; two weeks later they reported fewer reversed trades before lunch, though they still prefer a faster average on London open experiments outside the main plan.