Client stories
What participants report after working through continuation setups
These accounts come from traders who attended our Bromyard workshops or booked chart review sessions. Names are shortened with permission.
I attended the Pattern Foundations evening expecting a quick overview. Instead we spent forty minutes on a single bull flag from a mining stock, measuring the pole and debating whether volume had contracted enough. That depth changed how I scan charts on Sunday evenings.Rachel P. Pattern Foundations Evening, January 2026
Tom reviewed my three charts and rejected two of them politely but firmly. One was a wedge I had mislabelled as a pennant. The feedback stung briefly, but I stopped entering a trade that would have lost me money.Marcus T. One-to-One Chart Review, November 2025
The workbook alone is worth the workshop fee. I still refer to the annotated FTSE examples when I am unsure whether a consolidation is tight enough to qualify as a flag.Claire W. Continuation Pattern Mastery, October 2025
Good session overall. I would have liked more time on descending triangles specifically — we spent most of the afternoon on flags. Still, the measured-move calculation method is something I use every week now.Andrew K. Continuation Pattern Mastery, September 2025
James does not oversell what pattern recognition can do. He was clear that continuation setups fail regularly and that stops matter. That honesty made me trust the rest of the material.Fiona L. Continuation Pattern Mastery, June 2025
I booked a second chart review three months after the first. Comparing my markup from both sessions showed real improvement in how I draw the flag boundary lines.Neil S. One-to-One Chart Review (repeat), March 2026
Extended case note
From confused trendlines to a defined pennant entry
Participant: David R., part-time trader, Worcestershire
Session: One-to-One Chart Review, February 2026
David arrived with three daily charts he had been watching for two weeks. He believed all three showed pennant continuations in uptrends. During the session, we worked through each chart on a shared screen.
The first chart — a mid-cap industrial stock — did show a valid pennant. Volume had declined through the consolidation, the pole was steep enough, and the upper and lower boundaries converged appropriately. We placed a provisional entry above the upper trendline and a stop below the pattern low.
The second chart looked similar at first glance but revealed a broadening formation on closer inspection. The boundary lines diverged rather than converged. David had not checked this because he focused on the overall shape rather than the trendline angles.
The third chart showed a flag, not a pennant — the consolidation boundaries ran parallel. David adjusted his target calculation accordingly, using the pole height rather than the apex method he had been applying incorrectly.
Two weeks later, David emailed to say the valid pennant had broken out in the expected direction and that he had passed on the broadening formation entirely. He booked a follow-up review for April.
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