Summary comment.
I'm sure that the two orientations espoused here do have some commonality. Quant and qual come from different seeds and, therefore bear different fruit. In both persuations, it is safe to assume that the more stellar players go to the limits of their tools to complete the desugn, development and application of their systems.
For me, I have aways heard from the suppliers of information and or platforms that they will get "that" done in "six months". Usually, they do not and the reasons aren't too important.
Since this thread deals with volume, its character and building tools to handle this market variable, taking a look at the state of the art in the financial industry could be of value.
I notice the price axis is far from the boundaries of the current price envelope. This makes two ends of a price bar available.
I recommend the same for volume. Once volume is handled in parallel with price and with the same degrees of sensitivity, coming to understand markets can be done in the same way any field of study and expertise is handled by experts.
I feel their is an advantage to the practitioner if he knows how and why markets work in terms of their variables and the interrelationship of the variables. I do not feel this is a pretentious viewpoint. AND it is a qualitative viewpoint and not a quantitative viewpoint.
My whole orientation to the markets is from the viewpoint of their design and operation. I do not feel that their is a choice in this matter. Markets dictate how they must be comprehended and associated with.
Quants do not use parametric measures regarding what they choose to deal with in their study, research and developments of tools or principles. Quant make up the means to get results regardless of the market's dictates.
I chose to be parasitic to the market system. And I found working from a qual orientation was the only option since there was no choice.
Volume, a variable of the market, must be dealt with qualitatively because the market dictates the relationship of V and P. Foundationally, the measure of volume (and price as well) is qualitative. A meter is not hooked up to volume to meausre it quantitatively.
In PVT it may appear otherwise until a person grasps why the depictions are done to achieve timing. See the one pager entitled "Unusual Volume"
Since providers do not supply the needs of traders, the trader must insert a bridge to be able to partner with the market to make money. The bridge is a differentiated mind. The display of the market is complemented by the "inference" from the differentiated mind.
I viewed my potential contribution as one whereby any person could choose to differentiate their mind in order to partner with the market.
Volume is part of this. Four aspects of volume are foundational: increasing, decreasing, peaks and troughs. All have a common relationship to time in the market's operation. As non continuous functions, and due to the market's granularity, simple differentiation is all that is required. Put another way, simple differentiation is all that is attainable.
The nested fractals each contain interlocking patterns that stem from one pattern where volume is differentiated in four ways for each: increasing, decreasing, peaks and troughs. Certainly, it is possible to discern acceleration and deceleration as well all that is needed is a comparison of two data points re increasing or decreasing.
The annotating of volume on three fractals (minimum) is done with line segment that define the time period (horizontally) and the qualitative nature during that time (increasing, decreasing).
This information goes into a data set that is sufficient and thus the data set yields "certainty" or as I state "you know that you know".
To do this, we offered to anyone the oppotunity to build the bridge which is the doing the work to build the mind. It is an ATS in its character and function.
the effectiveness and efficiency of the partnership comes down to two parts. Effectiveness is having the "equipment" of a differentiated mind; a data processing system in effect. Efficiency is the trading activity in real time by doing a routine called MADA. The equipment allows the MADA to be functional (operational).
In this thread I suggested that the OP just do SCT for a while. He would have to use his mind in the differentiated manner that comes from doing the drills to differentiate the mind.
Differentiating one's mind does not come from reading books or inventing trading methods. It is done by creating short term memory bits and pieces and then converting the short term memory to long term so the long term memory surfaces each time it is needed.
The typical trader does not do this. Neither did floor trader or "old time traders". (Google edges, floor trading)
When I looked at the chart put up, I recognized the day of the chart. So I just went through the chart to see why it was coded the way it was. The coding went up and down and it was color coded to show upness and downess. It was a statistical bar to bar analysis of relative volume. It dealt with volume but not in a context of market operation for making money. In other words it was "equipment" oriented on a rough cut level and the "efficiency" component was not there to take the representation through MADA. It was only part of M and was only on one fractal instead of three fractals. It was using only one end of the volume bars instead of using both ends of a volume bar that is presented in the same manner as a price bar would be.
As was stated, if I had gone over to the quant approach, many others would have joined in. Since I deal in qual and systemically, I eleminate the participation of all of the quants. Since this has been happening for over 50 years I suggested that, just for a moment, the person do qual and see what he could experience. That is not possible.
I have done the quant and I did it in about 30 ways all of which are profitable. Why wouldn't any person consider anything that shows up?
The fact that building a deductive paradigm can't happen with quants is just how it is. It is not like the difference between a cord and cordless phone. Both phones are of the same ilk. I suggsted a booklet on knowing that you know from five Buddist persuasions. I was told it was of one persuasion and the person was of another persuasion. Too bad for me, I suppose.
Trading is always discussed as a mixture of things. Extracting the market's offer is an end effect of the mixture that is usually discussed.
I feel very fortunate to have come upon how to tranfer a method of successful trading from one person to another. Doing it for four generations has been fun too. The Buddists got it right. Building the mind is done by drills. A differentiated mind (regarding he operation of the market) is so powerful for conducting the business of trading. The differentiated mind allows a person to know that he knows.
I accept that this thread has a topic that is about volume and how to use coding to automate a signal generating system for volume. I was only suggesting that to get the volume ATS to be most helpful , it could relate to a deductive system (the "equipment") and it could relate to trading to take the market's offer (th "efficiency aspect").
Instead, it is a work in progress to achieve an inductive quant oriented set of goals. It will appeal to the majority in the financial industry.
Deduction is designed to extract the market's offer. Induction is designed to generate fees and commissions in the financial industry.