Quote from jack hershey:
If you get into the realm of anticipation, you are free to use the seven equations I made public in the early or mid 90s. They deal with anticipating three things: the turn at the bottom of a cycle; the BO upward in price; and the peaking values before the cycle goes into decline. One of the equations deals with removing institutional block trades which someday you will find eliminates most maths from working reliably.
The P, V relation is the source of all formations performance.
If you are not using volume in your maths, what you are doing is sort of futile.
Jack,
I have designed a lot of indicators without ANY use of volume data.
They seem to be useful to describe the main market movements, lag is usually 0 or +1 [I never post an indicator if its lag is more than +1 ].
They are called "Breath Indicators" and they study the market as a whole. As you probably know, there is a strong [and measurable] directionality in the market and my study gives good results because of this fact.
These indicators give a reliable picture of the market, help you to avoid crucial mistakes ang go against the market and, in last analysis, make some sure money from the markets.
As for the future use, they will keep on giving valuable info, as long as the market will be directional enough.
If some day the 50% N100 stocks are going up and the rest going down, these curves will be flat and useless, but, this day is not coming soon.
Take a look, this innovation I designed is interesting, amibroker and wealth lab already include the proper functions to do the job and their users seem to smile...
http://www.amibroker.com/library/list.php
http://www.wealth-lab.com/cgi-bin/WealthLab.DLL/getpage?page=articles/DirectionOfMarket1.htm
Dimitris Tsokakis