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1. What is the purpose of having DMI+ and DMI- on the chart?
Markets trend Long or Short; this takes care of the "D". An Index is usually Of a magnitude; that is I. What is meausred is "momentum", a phyics term; that is M. The direction is + for Long and - for Short.
We are looking at a Universe of stocks that "all look alike". We culled from 7,000+ down to about 100 to 125. These stocks are all money makers.
We chose to trade them long and just rotate the capital out of a stock to get into another stock. We see this rotation as A NEED TO HAVE CAPITAL TO MAKE MONEY. A stock than has done its job is sold to have $$$$$ to put into an new emerging Long half of the stock cycle.
Emerging stocks are "weighted" by their promise to "Make Money". We replaced the IAS with this "weighting of promise".
I invented a "valuation". It is called final rank. Rank shows the extent of the "promise".
In "Making Money" what is needed is a "failsafe" system so you do not have to think as you grow rich. For me, it came into being in 1957 in 40 days all from scratch. Today, we automate stuff so we can do much more with little effort.
On any given day, you are told that within an hour or so one or more stock will lift off and begin to make money. You own stocks that are making money. With "Final Rank", all these stocks can be compared.
You monitor and analyze. you sell the lower ranked owned stocck to buy higher ranked "hot" stocks. This is your "strategy".
By having all the numbers in your computer, all you do once is make up the mathematics for this strategy.
These concepts seen "natural" to me. how I invented and combined the pieces seems like a "natural flow" of raw information into a plane which has a strategy.
I feel all people should have more money than they need. I feel all people should use money to make money. I feel people do not have to work but they do have to help others as they wish. PVT achieves this.[color]
2. The default setting for both is 7. Is that the one that should be used?
Everthing that was needed was invented long ago. WW chose 7 after doing a lot of work even before the PC was invented. After the PC came into high usuage his defaults were still good for DMI's. Others changed. At that time I set the new defalts. Some people took years to accept the new defaults. But that has happened all over the world by now.
3. I supposed it is not used to automatically rank the stocks.
Surprisingly, I do use final rank to chose as I suggested above. For me it is very rational to use what is invented for a purpose to carry out the given purpose.
Looking at both
Stop looking. Instead use DU, FRV, and PKG which are the PVT values in the PVT rules.
I would say it is an additional criteria that can be used in order to decide if one should trade that stock or not.
you may not remember but we used a seven part filter to get a trading Universe. All these filter items are very very important. they WERE used WEEKLY on the WEEKEND. Reread "putting the Pieces Together. There in that 77 page description of ONE DAY, you see the PVT in full operation creating a money velocity that allows anyone to double their capital SIX TIMES a YEAR.
For example if the stock reached DU but DMI+ didn't cross DMI- then don't trade that stock, yet. Correct?
WRONG!!!!!!!! Place the HOT list and the OWNED list over the top of whatever you are thinking about looking at.
As the day goes by; look at the lists and turn the pages of "Putting the Pieces Together" so that you change illustrations 31 times as day over the 77 pages. You look at the time stamp on the title of the illustration; you look at your watch and make the two readings match.