Client Stories | Infra Analytics

The intensive forced me to stop treating a rising ASX200 as automatically healthy. On the homework where I had to mark advance-decline divergence against the index, I realised I had been ignoring thin leadership for months. The room was quieter than other courses I’ve taken — more pencil work, fewer slogans.

— Marcus T., Melbourne, Market Breadth Interpretation Intensive

I booked a private clinic after a week when new highs kept printing while my watchlist lagged. The instructor was careful not to tell me what to buy; instead we rewrote the three questions I ask before treating a breakout as broadly owned. Useful, though I wish we had spent five more minutes on up/down volume — that part felt slightly rushed.

— Priya S., Adelaide, Private Breadth Reading Clinic

The advance-decline workshop day was denser than the flyer suggested. By mid-afternoon my notes were messy, but the case where cumulative breadth failed to confirm a late-session rally is still taped beside my screen.

— Ben L., Adelaide Hills, Advance-Decline Workshop Day

Sector participation seminar clarified why my mining-heavy book can feel fine while the index looks soft, and the reverse. Short format, concrete tables, no attempt to sell a follow-on subscription.

— Elaine W., Perth, Sector Participation Seminar

Extended note: rebuilding a pre-trade checklist

A Sydney-based discretionary trader joined the Breadth Intensive after two years of relying mainly on index futures for “tone.” Midway through the course she brought a stretch of sessions where price made higher highs while the advance-decline line flattened. Together with the cohort she drafted a five-line checklist: count of advancing issues, new-high/new-low balance, up/down volume ratio, sector concentration, and a one-sentence judgement on whether participation supported the move.

She returned for the optional office-hour call four weeks later with marked charts from her own book. The conversation stayed on method — which series she trusted on the ASX versus offshore names she follows — rather than on specific orders. She later wrote that the checklist did not remove hard decisions, but it stopped her from calling a thinly led advance “confirmed” out of habit.