Spydertrader
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 7331
08-13-08 11:30 AM
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Quote from icarus618:
Do you believe the market must conform to your or anyone else's idea of what each and every 5 minute bar should do?
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It might be enlightening to read your reply to my question posed before this one: What do 5 minute bars show?
In any event my comments were directed toward a person who apparently has organized himself quite well to trade--he has the opportunity to monitor the market every day; he does so diligently and well enough to discern fine details of how price moves through the day; and he's acquired extensive knowledge and vocabulary about the method he uses to ask nuanced questions.
Except he doesn't put on a single trade.
He's like the person standing by the pool with his swim trunks on who wants to learn how to swim but he refuses to go into the water. He feels he lacks something. He's studied all about swimming, and every day he picks the brain of a person whose backstroke he admires. My intention was to give him, and others similarly situated, a little nudge. It is clear that there's no point for me to continue.
With regard to your comments, my reply follows:
Quote from Spydertrader:
I've thought a bit about the above question, and it appears as if some might confuse, "What must come next?" with an expectation of what the next bar will do in terms of Open, High, Low, Close and Volume. When, in fact, WMCN refers to what the market must show the trader in terms of the sequences which unfold from Point One, to Point Two, to Point Three and beyond - into the channel / traverse.
I have no confusion about the use of WMCN here. I know you're not using it literally, as in "only one thing can come next."
Quote from Spydertrader:
For example, if the market has created a Lateral Formation moving Price from Point Two to Point Three of a retrace, this Lateral Formation can continue for as many bars as the market sees fit. A trader (again, focused on the 5 minutes ES Traverse level trading fractal) does not use a finer set of tools to trade within the Lateral Formation, nor does a trader predict how the next bar in the series will form.
Nothing to comment here except that overbalance is a market phenomenon I take notice of when it occurs.
Quote from Spydertrader:
However, the trader does know what must come next once the market reaches Point Three.
You're leaving out a critical step. Knowing p3 is here. Do you believe the market always makes a p3 without exception?
Quote from Spydertrader:
In addition, the trader knows (again on the 5 minute ES Traverse Level trading fractal) that every bar within the Lateral Formation represents continuation, and cannot provide a signal for change.
Not sure I get you here. Every bar within the lateral represents continuation of WHAT? The lateral? If so, the lateral itself is change (nondominant movement) and the bars within it are not as neat as bars in a dominant (continuation); they will often falsely signal change from a PV standpoint, unless you know you're in a lateral and ignore the PV signals.
Quote from Spydertrader:
Where most traders err involves a failure to differentiate between the above description, and something not described above. In other words, a trader believes they have compared apples to apples, when the reality is, they have compared apples to automotive parts. For example, today's ES 14:05 [close of] Bar and ES [14:20 [close of] Bar appear to have the exact same signal for change described in the Jokari Window. Yet clearly, the market appears to respond to one signal, while ignoring the other. A trader who fails to see a difference in these two areas (as I have said many times) has missed a critical component of monitoring.
I'm missing something here. I see at least half a dozen change signals for bar 55. But I don't see where the signal for change is on bar 58.
Quote from Spydertrader:
Make no mistake. The market speaks on each and every bar.
I take it you mean each and every 5 minute bar. I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'd be interested to know what you think the 5 min bars really show.