Attractive charts fail filters more often than beginners expect. Chart Circle votes help because peer pressure cuts through attachment to a favourite name.
Earnings within five sessions
Even with a perfect base, an earnings report inside your planned holding window adds a binary event your stop may not survive. We mark fail unless you explicitly trade the earnings gap strategy — most swing clients do not.
Liquidity on SET mid-caps
Average daily value below your intended position size makes exits fragile. We calculate rough slippage on the print and compare to your stop distance. Thin names get fail on practical grounds, not pattern grounds.
Correlated exposure
Three tech longs from the same review may each pass individually but fail portfolio context. Circle members keep a shared sector tally on the whiteboard during presentation months.
Skipping is a valid outcome. The written plan says "stood down" with the failing filter noted — useful when the same ticker reappears next month with the issue fixed.