Quote from SK0:
Thank you very much, Jack.
The attached filled log that you put up in the Amazing thread a while back should be what you were talking about.
This is the log that was mentiioned.
as you see itis the open and annotating was unter way.
A trade was taken and covered as noted.
There are an additional few columns on the left.
The three platforms mentioned and used are TN MC and the trading platform.
As you see the YM leads the ES in terms of the cases and their series of mutations to their final stae near the end of the bar.
This illustration takes us to how trading fits into the MADA its logging, and using the trading platform. You also can see how logging has a vocabulary for each column. The MC is automated and its use is on a core with four shells of trading and it has seven panes arranged vertically. Many snagits of it have been posted in the past. 31 colors are used a lites and they perfom two functions: signals and filtiering. Most all of these as from leading "indicators" for both filtering and signalling. Approximately 1600 Excel lines are used to convey the logic for the coding.
The log shows a complete pattern on the fractal being used.
for the convenience of those who may wish to "read" the log, below is a set of comments on the trade and how the log supports trading.
What is shown is the opening entry a cover and the rentry arrow where the window ends for the period of change. the log tapers off in detail as I am viewing the DOM on the thrid platform where the partials fills ripple into filling the position.
We sacrifice the opportunity for anyone to "read" the log on thier own to gleen the value of how the four parts of the compilations filings work together. All merge on the log's record.
My logs have been referred to as crap, meaning they are uninformativeand poorly done in terms of mt handwriting. The writing is dine quickly and succinctly to convey the essence of the market's operation. I depend upon the context row below row represents. The left to right order is significant for reading and it is NOT done left to right for writing. It is done from the mifddle out for writing. I fill it in from memory once the "second" is noted. In other works I sweep and take a data set. There is NO concentration on the screens and doing feakout single signal reactive work as in OODA trading.
M is an annotating V and P activity. Logging is where ADA happens and it happens when NOT looking at the screen.
My mice are widely separated and I use several screens and computers. My hands are like you feet for driving a manual transission car or tractor trailer. My rigs of choice corporatewise wee MAC puppy dogs with tandem rear ends, all forest green. I used an add and drop trailer (70) modus.
I swivel in a 68cm arc to save neck muscle exertion. My screens are roted 90 degrees so they are tall and focussed on NOW with a lot of futre showing projected annotation. three or four moves are always anticipated so it is as if there is a phantom present where thinking takes place that is well thethe right of the NOW. I may make notes over there with line segments that are color coded.
So logging is just the rows of MADA that are in the non stationarity window that is the whole world for the instruments being handled.
THE ESSENTIAL TRADE SHOWING IS A POINT TO POINT. on the BBT.
(point 3 to the ftt of the accelerated parallelogram.) It is 1/25th of a day, meaning the trading rate is @ 25 trades a day. I begin the next trade @ the bottom of the page.
On the initial rows you see me getting in the groove and getting dominance straight.
@ the end of ber 3 and the beginning of bar 4 you see the YM peel off ahead of the ES and I am hitting T to handle the open.
I observe the dom , non dom and dom as time passes.
during the interval on bar 6 between 196 and 107 seconds ( a long time) the stitch forms out of an original sym R/R on the YM.
The ES is lagging the YM so on bar 7 the ES goes to its traverse limit in the accelerated parallelogram.
I cover on the opening of the first chance/secondchance window (See SKO). the Arrow in the margin shows the second chance ending and I am settled in for the day having switched sides of the market. Note the FTT appeared in the window and near the end of the window. this begins the pt1 to pt2 trade, Volume delcines and then accelerates as the RTL of accelerated parallelogram is broken.
So the log appears to older traders as tape reading; it is. But the expressions in the log are the MADA orientation to displays that are now available and which have since replaced the tape sort of. The DOM and TS are still there. I use the right margin for noting significant Walls and such.
The Premium to me is a cardinal indicator. the finalcial industry is still locked into not using the premium in significantstat ways. It is still brute force floor level thinking. the premium column is labeled S/S which stands for a library script that deals with the cash/ index relationship on a OTR level basis. The relationship to the premium is done in first and second derivatives. Derivatives is what the MC indicators is all about. the two functions in indicators are done in terms of binary vectors. A vector by its nature is a derivative. It is pretty lcear that detractors are very unfamiliar with vectors and how they are binarily oriented.
I have ben brief in the comments on the log, maybe. the log mostly described going from point 3 to an FTT in one sheet. you see the order of events in each column and you see the relationships of the columns and the CONTEXT groups of rows provide.
The mind is built by doing drills each column is a drill. groups of columns are drills. groups of rows are context drills.
the mind gets organized by aligning the subconscious and conscious short term memories. from that the inference of the mind is organized and ultimately, through answering self generated questions, the mind is fully differentiated.
I have been stepping into that process with many many drills and they have generated questions where I provided more drills. the pupose being to get k200 up and running as a PEP and it applications, application.
Notes were compiled under four categories and each has subheadings. A vast storehouse of information has accreued over the last fifty years. It is all on the same topic.