Quote from PTVtrader:
The last 2 days have been tough annotating for me.
Quote from PTVtrader:
Would the 15:10 to 15:50 time period yesterday be considered a traverse?If it is, a lot of questions will be answered...

IndeedQuote from Spydertrader:
A good day to learn a few things ......
. One of the things that made me wonder is: you have no lateral beginning with OB 14:20. Without this lateral (which even if there was one, would not be p2->p3 lateral), the 11:40 bar with increasing volume appears to become dominant and 11:45 appears to become signal for change (Peak Volume). Obviously this wasn't the case as the market had shown.Quote from Spydertrader:
When annotation become increasingly difficult, the reason for the difficulty often stems from the trader 'jumping fractals' during the annotation process without realizing they have done so.
Yes. It would.
- Spydertrader
Quote from romanus:
Indeed. One of the things that made me wonder is: you have no lateral beginning with OB 14:20. Without this lateral (which even if there was one, would not be p2->p3 lateral), the 11:40 bar with increasing volume appears to become dominant and 11:45 appears to become signal for change (Peak Volume). Obviously this wasn't the case as the market had shown.
Quote from romanus:
My question, based on your annotations (specifically lack of annotated lateral beginning 11:20), is:
Quote from romanus:
" Does it mean that there's something else there (some subtle difference I am missing) which would suggest that 11:40 does not complete the sequence for green (not blue) traverse?"
This indication of market intentions, was it evident:Quote from Spydertrader:
For one, the Green Trend Lines represent a channel. Now, the channel (at the point in time to which you refer) is only forming, but the market has indicated its intentions prior to the completion of this Traverse.
You also said:Quote from Spydertrader:
... neither area (14:20 nor 11:20) represents any sort of left to right movement (although the 11:20 area appears as if it is moving left to right).
andQuote from Spydertrader:
With respect to the 11:20 area, the market moved up, then down, and back to up as shown by the dominant, non-dominant and dominant tapes.
I'd like to avoid any ambiguity in my interpretation of your comments and make sure that annotating a lateral beginning 1120 containing 1125 and 1130 bars, which ends on 1135 bar (which signals change in mode in a fashion similar to 1035 increasing red IBGS bar on 8/22) - is not what the market told us to do in terms of annotation.Quote from Spydertrader:
... The market has also indicated not to place a Lateral at this specific location.
Quote from romanus:
This indication of market intentions, was it evident:
- by Pace Acceleration on 1120 bar, or
- even earlier than that - by Pace Acceleration on 1005 bar, followed by decreasing volume on 1010 bar and another pace increase on 1015 bar
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Quote from romanus:
To me it appears as if the market has finished what it started yesterday by 1035, then began building a down traverse from that point (1035) forward. And then changed it's mind and decided to build the green channel. Your placement of point 1 of the first blue traverse on 1120 OB sort of indirectly confirms that suspicion of mine but I am not entirely sure if that's how one should have viewed the market.
Quote from romanus:
I'd like to avoid any ambiguity in my interpretation of your comments and make sure that annotating a lateral beginning 1120 containing 1125 and 1130 bars, which ends on 1135 bar (which signals change in mode in a fashion similar to 1035 increasing red IBGS bar on 8/22) - is not what the market told us to do in terms of annotation.