Grob109 licked the tip of his No.2 Eberhard and scribbled the following in his epic journal
Here is a drill for you.
Its called the emergency exit (reversal) drill.
The optimized SCT makes entries on the TL (right channel line) and exits on the left channel line where price movement completes the most progress on a move.
Through out annotation, your observation that a forming bar and its prior bar used as a reference is de rigour.
A trading day has three levels of channels at work for us as we trade. The market puts up the bars and we put up the annotations on these three levels. Channels within channels within channels.
The small short term inner channels we do in almost unobtrusive grey lines that are projected.
Here is the drill.
Trade on the grey channels. Trade the long diagonal of the parallelogram staying in the channel on the "right" side as long as price stays in the channel.
When you have an FTT in the grey, reverse. This is the end of forward progress.
IF YOU MISS THE REVERSAL OF THE GREY CHANNEL, REVERSE INTO THE NEXT GREY CHANNEL AS THE RIGHT CHANNEL LINE (TRENDLINE) IS BREACHED ("THE BO") as an emergency exit action
Do this until you never have to do an emergency exit and you are, then, catching the optimum traverse for each profit taking.
The amount of profit from doing emergency exits to doing FTT reversals gives you about half the points available per day. Emergency exit strategy will give you a multiply of the H-L as a starter.
The drill is more about doing good annotations of channels than anyhing else and it keeps you glued to adjacent bars and to seeing that you are always making money when you stay on the right side of the market.
You will always notice, too, that you cannot be "holding and catching your breath between spurts of doing work" while thinking that this is an "okay" way of working out in spurts.
NB: Trading through a whole day using SCT is not a possibility at the beginning. A normal trader would get too pooped to continue to put forth the effort. When you start doing this working at an SCT level for an hour is an accomplishment. SCT trading is a severe mental effort and it requires being in shape mentally. When you get to "sports memory" it is much less taxing.
There are six drills for getting in shape mentally. they have not been posted as yet except to say they replace the six drill propsed in Forbes a while back.
Well here we go again. Another Hershey Drill. Instead of posting his "log", maybe he'll show us all how its done and post his "prints" to the P&L journal as he claimed he would do. Wonder why he never shows real executions? Hmmmm.