Thanks for your reply. As you suggest, 6 months from now, when I look at your reply, hopefully the answers will present themselves. As of right now, half of it is over my head. I do really appreciate the help though.
I would say that MOST of them are over your head, and my head too.Quote from tradingbug:
....As of right now, half of it is over my head. I do really appreciate the help though.

Quote from Paddler:
I would say that MOST of them are over your head, and my head too.
I don't know why you have so much concern about the performance of SSR or similar method during the Second Depression JH has been trying to project and amend since 2006. I suggest that you look at the fundamental of your SSR method again.
There are 197 industry groups. During bad times, NOT all of the groups will be softies; some will strive. SSR is slightly different from PVT method. Pick the industry groups ranked by IBD as A+, A or A- in the Industry Group RS (A+ to E). These are the top 24% in terms of price performance. We are talking about nearly 50 industry groups NOT in the red in terms of price performance!
Then, you can tighten your selection by whatever criterion you like. Use leaders of the leading industry groups as your leading indicator to trade second-tier stocks in the leading industry groups, blah blah blah....
Do not bring in those Set A B C D etc to mess up your method.
Quote from Paddler:
I would say that MOST of them are over your head, and my head too.
I don't know why you have so much concern about the performance of SSR or similar method during the Second Depression JH has been trying to project and amend since 2006. I suggest that you look at the fundamental of your SSR method again.
There are 197 industry groups. During bad times, NOT all of the groups will be softies; some will strive. SSR is slightly different from PVT method. Pick the industry groups ranked by IBD as A+, A or A- in the Industry Group RS (A+ to E). These are the top 24% in terms of price performance. We are talking about nearly 50 industry groups NOT in the red in terms of price performance!
Then, you can tighten your selection by whatever criterion you like. Use leaders of the leading industry groups as your leading indicator to trade second-tier stocks in the leading industry groups, blah blah blah....
Do not bring in those Set A B C D etc to mess up your method.
Quote from tradingbug:
I appreciate the reply. I know what you mean with just using stuff that helps and not suing stuff that can mess up something working. I am always trying to improve.
I was pretty much asking how to enter on Pt1s rather than Pt3s of new IT long trends. In the end, entering on pt 3s are working just fine for me and given I cant watch every tick of the market, probably more conducive to my personality.
I was just wondering if i was getting lucky do to the overall market being a bull compared to when we enter a bear market.....guess Ill just have to trade through one and see how it treats me.