The 9:55 bar (5th bar - spike with increasing black volume) doesn't break the down tape and closes inside the previous bar. As such, the mode of that bar is short - which would mean continuation down ( as evident from increasing red gaussian). The next bar 10:00 (red dojo) on decreasing red volume becomes signal for change due to lack of continuation and point 1 in the blue up traverse.Quote from Spydertrader:
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Quote from ljyoung:
Seemed to me to be a snippetless kind of question, but perhaps not.

Quote from tobbe:
ES for today.
Quote from dkm:
rt annotations 20081204 - afk after 15:30
Quote from WGTrader:
Spyder, is this at all close?
Quote from bi9foot:
Still waiting for point 3 of final down traverse to finish the channel
Quote from romanus:
Is this logic correct?
Hi lj,Quote from ljyoung:
Thanks for the clarification Spyder. ALL posts of a querulous nature.
In the attached EOD snippet of today's chart, I have presented an annotation like that of tobbe's for purposes of discussion.
What is of interest given the 2 interpretations of the data presented by tobbe and ehorn is the first 5 bars which address the question,"What is necessary for a traverse segment?" Put another way, do the first set of points 1,2,3 (bars 1, 3 and 5) constitute a traverse?
If they do then what we are doing at EOD is building a down channel. If they do not constitute a traverse but are rather a in a ''subtraverse/supertape'' fractal, then we are still in the first down segment of today's final down traverse.
The Gaussian represents what one would expect for a full down traverse = IRV then DBV then IRV. The R2R occurs at bar 4. If this is correct, then given what happened after 15:15, in the AM we would expect to continue the first up traverse of the day.
To any and all - is this correct and if not, why not? It seems to me that the inability to answer this question is what is screwing people up right now, myself included. This is not a new question. Spyder has asked it multiple times but no one has answered. So here's my go at it.
Quote from ljyoung:
the channel construction began with the 11:40 bar.
Quote from ljyoung:
Do the same rules apply to a 'tape' RTL that apply to a traverse RTL? Break on low V = fan, break on high V = optional fan, with the close in both cases being back 'inside' the original tape.. Thus while 'adjusting' the tape under such circumstances, we still have a tape.
Quote from ehorn:
Hi lj,
IMO, on the 5M ES fractal R2R (\/) cannot be constructed at the time in question, therefore the market is indicating that PT2 has not yet arrived.
HTH
Quote from Spydertrader:
On my chart the Bar labeled Pink Point Three by Romanus represents the 11:30 Bar. The market stops heading higher and begins to head lower on this specific bar.
I encourage you to understand what a tape does, rather than, seek 'rule sets' for tape creation. Altering one's thinking ever so slightly can often show much more than simply how to 'define' a tape.
- Spydertrader