Quote from ehorn:
Thanks, but no thanks... I shall remain focused on the 5M ES ONLY until such time as I can (with certainty) stay on that fractal and consistently trade on that fractal. If one cannot see the sequences unfold on the 5M ES fractal alone, then I believe that one is not applying the techniques which have been painstakingly prescribed in these journals. Or as has been said once or twice... The trader is Missing a Critical Component of Monitoring. I do not believe any amount of additional tools/views will assist. As it has been said (again and again) there are many ways to skin a cat. But I believe Spyder is trying to get people to see the right way.
I also believe that once a trader is successful (i.e.certainty is present all day, every day) on the 5M ES Fractal, Then they have proven the requisite skills are present to jump fractals and/or adopt additional toolsets for finer fractal trading. I am not there yet. In fact I would venture that very few are there yet. Some may think otherwise.
All that is needed to determine where a trader resides is in his/her journey is an annotated chart. The charts are a tell as to where a trader is in his/her understanding of the concepts presented in these journals. IMHO, there are 2 ways to annotate a chart, the traders way and the markets way. The market is never wrong.