Journal
Read the daily chart before the fifteen-minute
The small chart arrives too early
Most folders that land on the desk have the fifteen-minute chart on top. The eye then goes hunting on the daily chart for a reason the small chart already suggested. Support and resistance get moved a little. RSI gets a kinder reading. The daily chart becomes a defence of a decision that was made on the small one.
In the chart room the daily sheet is pinned on the left before the smaller sheet is unfolded. That order is awkward for about ten minutes. It stops the hunt.
What is said out loud
Before the fifteen-minute chart is touched, the trainee says three things about the daily: which way the moving average they use is sloping, where RSI sits relative to the middle band, and whether the last swing high or swing low is still intact. Those three sentences are the daily reading. They are written down.
The smaller chart is then used for one job: the entry or exit candle. Where did it close, how long was the wick, did it match the daily reading or argue with it.
When the two charts conflict
If the daily reading and the fifteen-minute candle conflict, the practice in this room is to keep the daily reading and skip the entry. The small chart does not get to overrule a daily condition that was stated first. People who want the small chart to lead are welcome to say so; the sitting will still write the daily reading above it so the override is visible.
A longer note on flat RSI beside a rising average sits in the August journal. The order of the sheets is the same there: daily first, then the candle you actually traded.