I want to play a TRADING GAME with you all....

[ph1l]

Right. Now, if all price action looked like this then trading would be much easier!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_wave#/media/File:ComplexSinInATimeAxe.gif

One idea that I'm experimenting with that could help is fitting cycles with left or right translation.

For example, here is a 4-month chart (123 calendar days with interpolation on days the market was closed) of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) with a parabola as a trend line added to cosine wave to fit the low prices of the bar:

And here is the same chart with a cosine wave with the same cosine wave but also left-translated to fit the prices a little better:

The waves isolated from the trend were:

 

[studentofthemarkets]

One idea that I'm experimenting with that could help is fitting cycles with left or right translation.

For example, here is a 4-month chart (123 calendar days with interpolation on days the market was closed) of iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) with a parabola as a trend line added to cosine wave to fit the low prices of the bar:
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And here is the same chart with a cosine wave with the same cosine wave but also left-translated to fit the prices a little better:
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The waves isolated from the trend were:
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This is great!!!! I would not have seen the 2nd wave you isolated. Actually, the way I tend to see waves is in view of how I would trade them. I marked the chart showing how I would view what would be helpful when trading, within the context of bigger cycle, and without seeing what came before.