About the studio

A room that answers the candle, not the product sheet

Matrix Mapgrid grew out of evening chart circles in Yannawa after a brokerage desk kept answering a reading question with a sales leaflet.

Grand Palace spires in Bangkok against a blue sky

Origin

Why the evenings left the sales floor

Arthit Srisuk spent nine years on a Bangkok brokerage desk. Clients would slide a printed daily across the table — a SET name, sometimes gold — and point at a wick. They wanted to know whether the candle was a hammer, whether it mattered, and what the next session had already said. The official reply was a new account form.

He started unpaid Tuesday evenings in a borrowed room off Nonoi Road. The rule was simple: no calls, no account opening, no “watchlist.” People brought charts. The group named candles, then named the ten bars behind them. When the borrowed room filled, Matrix Mapgrid took a lease at 100/43 Soi Naksuwan and kept the same rule.

Nalinee Phong arrived in those first circles as a student who refused every engulfing label that did not actually engulf. She now marks the homework. The studio still refuses to manage money or publish entries. Candlestick pattern reading is the whole offer.

Bangkok river and city buildings at dusk
Yannawa sits south of the river bend. Students come from Sukhumvit, Nonthaburi, and occasionally from a hotel for a clinic weekend.

The desk

Who teaches

Portrait of Arthit Srisuk, lead trainer at Matrix Mapgrid

Arthit Srisuk

Lead trainer

Arthit spent nine years on a brokerage sales desk in Bangkok before leaving it, tired of answering “what does this candle mean” with a product sheet. He now leads the studio group and the private hours, and still marks a share of the homework when Nalinee is in clinic.

Portrait of Nalinee Phong, chart review trainer at Matrix Mapgrid

Nalinee Phong

Chart review and clinic

Nalinee came through the first evening circles as a student who argued with every engulfing label. She now marks the studio homework, runs review hours, and shares the weekend clinic. Her notes in the margin are shorter than Arthit’s and harder to ignore.

How we work with you

English is the session language. Charts are printed. We prefer markets you already watch: SET names, USDTHB, gold, a familiar index. Five-minute scalping charts belong in a private hour, if at all. We do not take a cut of trades and we do not ask for brokerage statements.

If you want someone to tell you what to buy this week, say so in the first message. We will decline politely and keep the chair for a reader. If you want the names, the context, and a marked page, write to the studio.