Beam Field Chart School

Classroom vocabulary

Setup atlas

This page is the wall chart we keep behind the projector. It names the families we teach. It is not a scanner and it is not a list of live ideas.

Instructor at a whiteboard with seated adult students
The atlas is taught with printed packs, not with a software overlay.

  1. Reversal family

    Double top and double bottom at a mapped swing. Head-and-shoulders and inverse variants with a neckline that later earns a retest. Engulfing or pin events only when they sit at prior value. We require a written invalidation under the last swing that would cancel the turn.

  2. Continuation family

    Bull and bear flags with a readable pole and an orderly rest. Pennants that contract without expanding range against the trend. Channel holds that respect the same slope. Measured-move arithmetic is taught as a sketch, not as a destination you must reach.

  3. Failed-break hinge

    A break that cannot hold often becomes the first honest bar of the opposite family. We do not rename it until the failure is on the page. Saturday desk work lives here.

  4. What we leave unmarked

    Inside bars in the middle of nowhere. Triangles that fight the pole. Patterns named before the swing map exists. Anything that would require us to call an order in the room.