I'm going to mention a few things from an IRL perspective.
FS
BM
- FS stands for FAIL-SAFE. It is meant as a safety valve so the trader can "always" be on the money-making side of the market.
- The Failsafe VTP sheet CLEARLY states FS can be applied to ANY bar. FS is meant as a safety valve for the trader, applicable on ANY bar, therefore applicable at any time whether it be during bar formation or end-of-bar.
In the "normal" course of VTP/OOE annotating, FS has rules and/or guidelines (depending on one's POV)
- BOTI... T1 exists. P2 has not been annotated. Band A has not been established via annotation within the current segment/trend.
- BMRV... Penetration on a BM
BM stands for BOOKMARK and is used to "mark" a turn. BM's are placed on EE's and P1's, at the high or low of the bar, more specifically, at the OPPOSITE SIDE of the price movement. For instance, a turn in a down trend/segment changing to up would have a BM on the LOW of the EE or P1 being BM'ed.
BM is related to container point geometry... You are attempting to mark the container "points". The caveat is that "trends overlap" therefore each fractal, and each trend/segment has BM's, including sub-fractals! Done correctly, BM's will help you to recognize and keep focused on your trading fractal.
Back to BOT1...
Thread: butt, Post: #903
Frenchfry explains...
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Quote from Jack (just in case Jack or somebody else has doubts):
"...You may only have a TRUE BO of the rtl if and only if. a T1 is there and a P2 has not appeared before (at a lock in) the BO of the rtl. If you have not annotated the P2 it has not appeared as yet just for the time being..."
Simplified: You either have a BO of a RTL or you have a BO of a RTL WITH(!) a T1.
There is further discussion on BOT1 with Jack in that thread.
Since I've reread this passage by myself a bit before you wrote it, I have begun to think about it. It began to make sense to me, and the more I thought about it, the more it was making sense. After you mentionned it, it's making even more sense.
I feel there's something very very very important here, that is to be discovered and studied.
Usually, I notice that each time I have to incorporate a new level of differenciation/knowledge/piece, it destructurates my prior work in a way that affects me psychologically.
It's the first time ever since I'm on the path, that incoporating something new yes does destabilizes me AND at the same time yields some more confidence.
I feel I just need to slow down the tempo a bit, just take a blank new chart, assign P1 to its first bar, and go with my current level of understanding/knowledge/differenciation as for true/non true BO,T1 (or better said BO,T1 or BO of rtl) and BMrev, in addition to all I know already.
A note on BMrev : I've been taught to consider there is BMrev when the close of the bar breaks out the BM. You're talking about penetration only. There can be penetration with close not breaking out BM, but there can't be close breaking out BM without penetrationof it. Jack also states BMrev is when there is penetration of the BM. Since the beginning of January 2019, I consider BMrev when the close breaks out BM. It may deal, one more time, with differenciation, but from now I'll stick to what Jack states. I'll consider then there is BMrev when there is penetration, regardless of where close is.
I'll take a new chart then, apply all this to it in order to practice a bit with these new inputs, and then I'll be back to my last uncomplete chart of 07/08/19, will reset MADA on it and begin it again.
Week end will be filled.
