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3. Beginner trend trading. Here all the scalping and traverse signals are ignored. It will not be evident why and again it does not matter since the beginner is only making 2 to 3 times the ATR daily. Trends end on R or S and they are away from a thing called a pivot point. If there is no trend, usually people are losing money because they do not know what the market is doing. See the failure of SPM, for example.
To ignore a signal from a set of coding, suppression is used. Thus if a trade is true for scalping or a traverse it is suppressed.
An override of the suppression become the means to generate the trend trade signal. When a specific signal supression is happening, then a test is performed to determine that the trend overlap is at hand. An AND'ing of several factors is considered: The color change of the bar as price crosses the open of the second bar of the present HH (this is why an addition tick beyond the open of bar 2 is used); the failure of the dominant traverse to continue (it is known that a dominant traverse is under way and it is known that a MARKETPACE shift is occurring on the traverse; the rainbow market pace shift away from the maximum color of the day for the first overlap (and a relative max for the remainder of the day (equalto or greater than)). Other "confirmations" could be used and they take additional time: failure to break the R or S, any three bar PA, a failure on retest of R or S, a further MARKET PACE SHIFTcolor change, a trend RTL BO, the end of the first new trend traverse, more than three scalps having been logged.
The beginner level of trading is obviously not precise manually but it is precise when an ATS is used with the above output signal.
4. Lets check out PA trading as well. PA trading is particularly weak on what are called "exit" signals. Unfortunately PA trading is much like scalping in the snese that the trader, after entry, is overwhelmed by emotions cultivated throughout his life with regard to survival. Survival dominates most traders as they continue to try to not have to quit as a consequence of continuing failure.
The simple solution for a PA trader to determine reliable exits is to spend all his time looking for entries in the opposite direction. this will not happen, ordinarily. PA doesnot take into account any market principles and as a consequence is entirely edge oriented. All edge orientations are limited because they do not take into account the market's continuing offer.
What if a PA trader simply took all the two bar HH trades? This would be a PA zigzag trading approach. In its limit is reversal trading with staying on the right side of the market in between. A PA trader cannot think this way since he is edge oriented and not continuity nor principle oriented. Why does the market continually offer continuity and not continually offer entry edges to be followed by sidelining on exits? The market is a principled entity and the principles show up in the demonstrated continuity that comes from a coherence orientation and NOT the incoherence orientation of conventional wisdom.
Volume's PACE SHIFT is a leading indicator of price and a PA trader often avoids including volume in his routine. Why? This is just an example of incoherence manifesting in another manner. What is the reason for the time the PA trader spends sidelined? Yin and Yang prevail in PA trading and sidelining while price changes (how money is made) is a convention of PA trading. Between turns the PA trader is recovering form the incoherence engendered by being in the market. the crude testing of LO at IB's of tradres showed this physical consequence of incoherence mentally. Too bad the brain oxygen levels were not used to further confirm this fight or flee incoherence.
Market pace is a volume characteristic. PA trading wipes it off the table summarily. the trade off PA traders seek is upside down as shown in the P&L forums. Unbelivable and astonishing are the watch words of traders trapped in the anxiety , fear and anger of incoherence as a measured consequence of edge trading in opposition to market principles and market continuity.
A very helpful thing for anyone breakiong into trading is an ATS which is tuned to a specific level of trading. It can help the trader get away from the major causes of learning failure. Moving from ATS to ATS is also a consideration. The quality of trading is greatly affected by how fast decisions are made. Most traders are incoherent so it takes a ton of pressure from incoming market context and signals to allow them not to be paralysed compared to the market action. Because volume leads price at times of price turns, volume represents best how an inherent condition can be trained out of a PA type trader.
The ultimate blessing that comes out of using volume pace change as an indicator is that it deductively (and NOT inductively) proves that any exit is equivalent to an entry in the opposite direction. Thusly, it also shows the extent of the market's continuing offer as the standard against which to measure the effectiveness of any trading approach.