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De temps en temps, I shall reveal to ET certain of my thought processes and the new terms which they have spawned. Pour commencer, when the daily pivot finds itself coincident with the VWAP, I call that condition PEEWOP.

Whimsy, I often suffer from lapses of consciousness, but your post has me baffled. What screen name did you PM with? I think you have me confused with Trader228, Trader666, Dalailama, Jack Hershley, et al. The only thing I have in common with them is that we are all assholes. I don't recall from...

Apologies, Rcanfiel, for that idiot Hypo's reply. I made the mistake of leaving my computer unlocked while I took my own advice and absented the market briefly. But he did express my views correctly, the plagiarizing little shit! I think volume is a complete croak, at least the way Jack uses it...

I don't know why I bother to try to teach ET anything. It's a losing proposition. I totally sympathize with Jack. But here goes again. ET ImModeration deprived you of my five-dimensional Wave-Scalar-String theory of the markets by moving me posthaste to C-C. No telling what they will make of...

777, Hypo has you on ignore, but I don't. He is such a critical asshole! I stole his password to unignore you, but it doesn't seem to be an option on ET. Once ignored, always ignored. A pity. Is there something of passionate interest to you that you would care to debate on another thread? We...

Cdowis, you just screwed the pooch by responding seriously to one of my threads. It just isn't done. You might as well create another alias and start all over here, because otherwise you will never retrieve any respect. To answer your question, IMO popular measures of volatility do not...

As I am Hypo's analytical alter ego and chief algorithmicist, I shall commence. Keep your snotty sock puppet comments to yourself, as I am a real person in his head, it's an MPD thing most of you wouldn't understand. Before encountering Jack, or more properly, being literarily mugged by him...

Whimsey, thanks for posting. It gives me the opportunity to point out that no one saw fit to comment on the possibility (or impossibility) that a mathematical function operating on shadows could be a valid measure of volatility. ET reacted similarly to my invention of NetShadows, which gives...

Thank you, Trefoil. The intent of my generosity is to impoverish others. Analogous to the way in which advocating SCT leads newbies to the slaughter.

As an aside, my immodest (and occasionally fraudulent) efforts to augment TA are an attempt to broaden ET's horizons. But as many here know, there is a subcontext to my unwelcome posting. IMO ET is excessively enthralled with SCT. To the point that it is unable to think creatively or critically...

Thank you, 225. I will look into that.

Pantherman, I think we may have different uses for a volatility measure. I HATE volatility. I want slow tradeable trends. Hence my pecu-liar definition of it. For example, if NQ has a 5 point range in a one minute bar, like yesterday, that ain't my kinda market.

MGJ, a very asstoot observation. I like it! I might add another restriction: the set of trading ideas that is optimizable. That lets SCT out because it has far too many variables. Not to mention which it is qualitative. Volataility, however, is a simple measure which can be biary thresholded and...

225, if you try that, please let me know the results. I have pustulated many possible definitions of volatility. Those based on bar height trend to discriminate against tends. Aside from that, I think your observation has merit in general. Trading NQ, 4-6 good sequential bars is about all you...

A private correspondent (who shall remain unnamed to preserve his credibility on ET) has kindly suggested to me that, since I ultimately intend to trademark all my neo-TA, I should give Tailatility a more respectable name He suggested Volataility, and so shall it be. Another (who shall remain...

For nearly eight years I have sought a measure of volatility which was both mathematically rigorous and of practical value in trading. I scoured all the available books, and worked my fingers arthritic searching ET and the web at large, all in vain. My criteria for validity are: - at high...

It is less an explanation than an observation. I tried to trade a version of SCT in NQ, only to find that it works only when "they" want it to. They lead the retail trade around by the nose (me, included, of course). Never forget that it is all about making at least the spread, with as much...

I was not referring to you. I apologize for my error in composition. Since most ETer's are not native English speakers (or appear not to be), one generally need not waste much linguistic skill on them. How do they fade SCT? With pure price. Using the tape, of course. Plus additional...

If IB makes us trade with overnight margins during RMH, and the new RMH volatility makes the spread go to multiple ticks frequently, we might as well fucking trade overnight. You heard it here first: more volume outside RMH coming up. Besides, overnight moves slow enough that I can read it...

Or a number ten hypodermic, capable of reaching all body cavities wherein bullshit hides.