Thank you Spyder (and Romanus) for providing me with a great mound of good stuff to work through and neatly place in my third, 4 inch, 3-ring binder (what a dorque). When I returned to the thread in mid-July, I incorrectly thought that a 1 incher would suffice. Wrong!!.
So back to the cave for a while but before going let me explain and give an answer to your statement Spyder which queried my statement of last PM:
09-29-08 12:20 AM
Quote from ljyoung:
1. You appear to be saying that the two bar BO of the FBP is entirely sufficient to validate the 'exclamation point' point 3 in my snippet in such a way as to finally complete the 1,2,3 TRAVERSE sequence which began on 9-23-08 and the fact that this occurred INSIDE a LM is NOT of consequence. Correct?
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ST: I do not understand why you keep referring to the 'traverse sequence which began on 9-23-2008' when the traverses all begin on 9-24-2008. See Attached.
Perhaps I am carrying things too far (when has that ever happened before?) but what I'm thinking about is your statement here:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113310&perpage=6&pagenumber=1308
"Before Bar One ever opens, the trader reviews the latter part of the previous day in an effort to complete a 'Pre-Flight' Check. What do we know about the end of the previous trading day? We can 'see' a Down Traverse completed, and followed by, a Lateral - which ends the day. What must come next to complete the sequence? The market has moved dominant, then non-dominant, leaving only another dominant piece of the puzzle. Before we can begin to form this final piece, we need to make sure the market has finished moving in the non-dominant direction."
What I meant was that at the end of the day on 9-23-08 we were left with a completed down traverse (red dominant) and an incomplete lateral traverse (black non-dominant). As you said, we were thus presented with the task of determining,on 9-24-08, when the lateral traverse was done and when the final down traverse (red dominant) began.
That's all. If I have applied nomenclature incorrectly, please correct.
TIA
lj