Quote from jack hershey:
QED.
I appreciate your series of posts in this thread on Saturday. Iâm only beginning my close review of comparing what youâve written here with my current implementation and Iâve have already found a couple of areas for refinement.
I have a couple of questions I would like to ask you about retrace/reversal differentiation.
Quote from jack hershey:
Non-dominant movement is a left to right movement (even moves). Two categories of non-dominant movement are found: retraces and reversals. Both are differentiable.
At what point, exactly, are the two categories of non-dom movement differentiable (for those of use who use an âold schoolâ iteration of the methodology)?
Iâve attached a chart snip-it from this morning below and would like to highlight one particular trade. I went short on bar 20 at 98.00 (bar with a pink triangle just above it). My context: we are beyond point 3 of the channel, weâve already had a flaw/formation, we see decreasing volatility on increasing volume, and price is coming back down towards the opening price of the bar. Price is struggling to improve on increasing volume--time to be short.
At what point could someone have differentiated between a retrace and reversal for the move following bar 20? (I could not until bar 25).
As I wrote in this thread earlier, my definition of a retrace is price movement towards the right trend line on decreasing volume. Depending on the context, I may anticipate (in real time at the start of the movement towards the right trend line) that a retrace will become a reversal (e.g. if I think an FTT just occurred--like I did on bar 20 in the attached chart), but until the right trend line is broken on increasing volume we only have a retrace (by my definition). A move towards the right trend line that fails to break out, by my definition, is just a retrace.
What do you find wrong with my definition of retrace?
Quote from jack hershey:
By assuming the third price move is the terminal channel price move using a further sub fractal usually lets an End Effect occur.
Does this apply only to those using the RDBMS methodology or do you suggest, in general, even for us "old schoolers", to assume the third price move is the terminal channel price move?
-river