Quote from jfb:
Jack, if I do a Cycle 1 entry at node G, what is my reference bar for exit, the prior peak bar or the DU/VDU bar? Thanks.
Good question. G situation is a midday situation. Thus we are kept out of market until G condition is met (The PRV @ open exceeds prior lookback peak above DU/VDU value).
G is the n+1 bar and you will exit on n+2 in all likelihood.
When n+2 opens G will take you to H before or after lock in (L) From H you get to "X". At "x" the choices are either J or K for the exit.
Lets say the bar n+1 (G) has a fading PRV and it drops to DU; then exit.
Lets say the n bar was above DU and not above prior peak, If PRV fades relative to the bar n, then you have an intrabar non dom and you exit via H to "X" to J.
the last cases that you keep track of are the n+2 becoming a dom and you are doing hold. This situation can lead to an intrabar IBGS (doji) and you go via M to N and do the test on bar n+2 during the bar. This can be a reversal. If not just follow the fail path.
Coming out of midday can happen slowly with repeated brief trades or the PM at settelement can be fairly robust. The robust situation puts you into an R and S feedback loop through Y. There a "trough" is needed for doing the Nreversal and staying in the market to make the opposite color money that ensues. In the AM this is easy since the day opens @ extrodinary volume. In the PM the route is via C to G and therefore there is no reference "trough". Hence you question and how you are thinking through this cycle 1 algorithm. Using "low" volume as a trough since it is "above" the C conditiion is the natural thing to do.
As a general comment, any person who is a potential trader, at the beginning of anyhing, feels daunted by the way the market operates. The cycle 1 algorithm is designed to make it possible for the potential trade to consider only two things as any time and it a progressive serial manner.
I'm sure most people cannot look at the flow sheet and see its underpinnings. Almost all trading considerations are introducted on the sheet, however. Most peopole will invent their way off the sheet into the CW approach to trading.
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It is sad to see some types of potentially capable people cast aside thinking and rather be "right" than rich.
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I suppose it is fun to debate the exact science of the markets. Certainly if you measure the markets using the lesser tool, like probability, you cannot harvet the fruits of the market's offer. Markets were not set up to prevent people from takng the offer continually. That was just a decision that was most commonly made.
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The binary vector based systems are the better choices.