Well, the price returns into the channel on both bars marked pt3. That much both charts have in common. Also in both charts bars marked pt3 exhibit higher volatility(Hi-Low range) compared to the previous bar. PV relationship suggests that it would take more volume to move price greater distance (e.g. 7 ticks) then it would moving price shorter distance (e.g. 4 ticks). And since both bars marked pt3 show price traveled greater distance compared to the previous bar...Quote from palinuro:
If I'm not mistaken, the chart for SOLF, which Spydertrader posted as soon as this discussion started, also shows an unconfirmed blue up channel. Perhaps comparing it to the first chart will help clarify what he is seeing....
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I am left with more confusion then I started on Saturday. Back to the Flaw drills then.
I guess in my case the need exists to go back to tape/channel drawing drills.Quote from Spydertrader:
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I guess in my case the need exists to go back to tape/channel drawing drills.![]()
Here's an example from this post. Note the long channel around 0900 and short around 1400 (2 pm). Looking more closely at both blue chanels on Spydertrader's charts I notice that both started as tape with increasing volume as price breaks RTL. May have something to do with what is described on p.92 of Channels_for_BW as tape extensions with pt2 pushed out.Quote from romanus:
Looks like something MAK would have drawn. He did use a slightly different approach with respect to pt3's, which I did not investigate in greater details.
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Here's an example from this post. Note the long <strike>channel</strike> Traverse around 0900 and short around 1400 (2 pm). Looking more closely at both blue <strike>channels</strike> Traverses on Spydertrader's charts I notice that both started as tape with increasing volume as price breaks RTL. May have something to do with what is described on p.92 of Channels_for_BW as tape extensions with pt2 pushed out.