Iterative Refinement

Quote from tobbe:

...I'm just curious.

:D I keep this as a reminder:

Quote from Spydertrader:

About a year ago, I suggested, at that time, that profitability wasn't the correct metric to use in order to determine if "you got it" or not. Profitability is the metric used when one knows they understand everything. Until then, each trader must evaluate all four parts of the M-A-D-A process in order to insure a rock solid foundation for each component. Annotations and drawing channels fall into 'M' for Monitor. As we have seen this evening, rapidly and correctly annotating all charts provides the context one needs to 'see' the market clearly. As such, the correct metric for determining if one exceeds the requirements for passing the 'M' component is not 'thinking' one annotates correctly, but actually producing timely and appropriately annotated charts. Within enough time and repitition, this drill enables the trader to 'see' the trends and changes within them, without the need for drawing channels.

Also this evening, we have seen the value of a strong foundation in the first 'A' of M-A-D-A - which stands for Analyze. Knowing the sequences of what must come next (as well as the converse) for all context, knowing the permissions for YM and knowing the Price and Volume sequences as Price moves from Point One, to Point Two, to Point Three and beyond all fall into the Analysis component. A trader needs a rock-solid foundation here as well. Without it the market can appear to provide conflicting signals, where to the trained eye, clarity exists. The metric used here to determine a trader has exceeded expectations involves the ability to actually know what must come next - without even thinking.

Last fall I posted on the need for everyone to devlop the critical thinking skills required to perform an accurate and honest self-analysis of where focus needed application - and onto which component of the M-A-D-A Process. This advice still applies.

I hope everyone found tonight's exercise helpful.

Now, everyone should have the ability to walk through the rest of the way on their own, but just in case, we will schedule a live session to review this time period in the not too distant future.

- Spydertrader
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1804531#post1804531
 
Quote from Spydertrader:

14:05 did, but 14:20 did not.

- Spydertrader

Hi Spyder,

A question re the Jokari Window signals.

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In the snippet above the first ellipse (green) shows a JW triplet which indicates continuation of the current trend. The second ellipse (blue) gives a JW triplet which indicates change at the traverse level.

I thought that a JW signal would be acted on during or after the last bar in the triplet. Thus with the first threesome you would still be holding long at the end of the third bar while with the second threesome you would make a decision to go short sometime during the third bar or at the end of the third bar.

I understand why there is no indication to act on the JW change signal present in the red bar down cascade.

Is this stuff correct? Is there some other way I should be looking at what the JW siganl is 'saying'?

TIA

lj
 

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My question may be similar to lj. The first highlighted bar [14:00 on this chart] has increasing volume and increasing price. So I don't see why it's a JW change on this level. We do have increasing volume and decreasing volatility, another type of change. And it does pull back off it's highs, sort of spiking, and closes inside the previous bar.

How does that fit the JW change (as P and V are up), or have I missed something in the JW definition? - EZ
 
Spydertrader

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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.
 
This is the post which forms the basis for my interpretation of the JW signal for change:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113310&perpage=6&pagenumber=924
Certainly the most straightforward view is that the lower P and V on the first red bar provide the change signal but I don't know if there is something else prior to that, i.e., the points that Ezzy raised, e.g., pace deceleration and a close of the bar with a higher H and higher L BELOW the H of the prior bar, also may be of consequence.

lj
 
Quote from ljyoung:

snip . . . and a close of the bar with a higher H and higher L BELOW the H of the prior bar, also may be of consequence.
lj

+P +V is definitely continuation. The bar after the highlighted one is -P -V but moving in a non-dominant direction. JW is applied to the dominant. I'm assuming the 1st highlighted bar is the one we are talking about having JW change.

So if the bar closed within the previous bar, sort of a FBO, does that mean it didn't increase (vs a C>O or C>C[1] measure of increase), therefore the lack of a close above the previous high is read as declining price with regard to the JW?
 
Quote from Ezzy:

+P +V is definitely continuation. The bar after the highlighted one is -P -V but moving in a non-dominant direction. JW is applied to the dominant. I'm assuming the 1st highlighted bar is the one we are talking about having JW change.

So if the bar closed within the previous bar, sort of a FBO, does that mean it didn't increase (vs a C>O or C>C[1] measure of increase), therefore the lack of a close above the previous high is read as declining price with regard to the JW?

Check out the link to Spyder's labelling of the TIKI chart of 7-24-08 http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113310&perpage=6&pagenumber=955 and tell me what you think. I'm gonna eat and then I'll tell you what I think. What I think right now is that nobody (and especially me) on the thread except Spyder et al., know what the JW signal is. If any of you all do, please enlighten. I'm not whinging just making an observation, occasioned by the silence except for Ezzy.

lj
 
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