I took 2 days off. It was necessary. Smoking cessation is hard these days.
The way I see D now, is that it’s a point at the end of an n+(at least)1 bar that follows an n bar that was either under B or C status.
Reviewing the Cycle 1 softened version 3 by JH, I’d say that :
B goes to F, C goes to G. To pass from B to F, we need D conditions to be filled. D conditions is finding a trough on prior bar (n) or before. At first sight, what I see here is that there will ALWAYS be a trough on bar n or before. I DD that even though there will always be a trough on prior or before prior bar, the D node searches for a specific trough. I think it’s the reference trough, and according to what I recently posted, it would be the trough that initiated the trend we’re in a non Dom leg of.
The question would be to ID the reference trough in question. But wherever this trough is, how could D conditions not be met at any n+1 bar following a n bar = B/C status ? So could B/D status be found on several bars in a row if the prior DD was true ? NO, it could not. So this way of understanding D node would impede a repeat of B/C to happen. So, let’s begin again.
So B/C must be able to surge several times in a row. This would be the continuation of non-Dom, and that’s where, I assume, Cycle 2 would be what would make us take advantage of this move.
We’re in Cycle 1 so we exclusively focus on Dom moves.
I know B goes to F, and C goes to G. When we pass from B to F, or from C to G, it means both D and F/G conditions, depending upon the destination node is, are met. That’s what I understand.
I am pretty clear with F conditions and G’s. To have an n+1 bar that makes us enter, we need to meet D conditions AND either (have at sec288 an increasing vol bar compared to n bar w/ color change) or (have at sec288 an increasing vol bar compared to last midday’s peak).
D node is described as the node that establishes the reference trough. This reference trough can either be on prior bar or it can be before prior bar.
It has recently been mentionned that one must ask oneself :
Which Node D is ‘On’?
Which Node D is ‘Before’?
There is no way these questions cannot lead to DD there are 2 kinds of D nodes, or there are 2 D nodes, however we call them.
Now something more that I wonder is : are there at each and every time we look back at beginning of n+1 bar, 2 D nodes that are backwards along the path AND we’re to select the one that is the reference = the one that initiated the trend that has its non-Dom leg just finishing ? (if F/G conditions are met of course)
OR
Is there each time we lookback at the beginning of n+1 bar, only ONE D node, which is, at times on prior bar, and at other times before prior bar ?
I can’t clear up for now this issue in the understanding although I’ve built on what I knew for sure and went back recently to last kown good.
F ‘OR’ G.
One is not like other.
What happens with D if one is coming out of midday?
From my current LOU, I’d say there are two different possible happenings.
Either after IDing prior trough and distinguishing which of the « 2 D nodes » it is, then at 12sec PRV of the current n+1 bar exceeds prior midday’s peak (1) or it remains below (2).
If 1, then we have C>>D>>G and we enter and hold for L etc..
If 2, then we have C>>C.
I wanted to have a break, but I finally thought about something.
Ok. I’ve just had another little Aha. D node is a point at the end of a bar (cf MADA doc). I had not understood this statement completely nor concretely up to now.
Even though I have previously mentionned the little Aha I had had about the fact that D node was a point at the end of a bar, I had not realized up to now that the word « action » was uncounsciously still stuck into my mind with the D node. As we say in my language, les vieilles habitudes ont la peau dure (old habits have hard skin)…
So, if D node is a point at the end of a bar it means in my mind now that D node IS a bar, or better said some bars ARE a D node.
And D node bars are the bars that are troughs. Rephrased, D node bars, are bars bounded on the left and right by higher bars.
The way I see and sense the being of D node reminds me the retro action we, sometimes, are to perform inside a lat when Lat4 is in the shadow.
So D, according to what I just said is the name in Cycle 1 terminology for bars that are troughs, when trough means a trough in terms of form, not a merely decreasing move. Any trough is, compared to before, a decreasing one, but not all decreasing moves are troughs.
Moreover, how I see D node now clears up a bit why in some exposed-as-true paths linking A to F for instance, D was sometimes not present. It must be because it’s an implicit gate. Passing B to F implies D. Maybe D was not always put along the paths in the ExSc thread because of its implicitness aspect.
Now the thing is : when a bar is determined as being a B or C, then we wait. It’s EOB now. So next one begins. 12 seconds later, we look backwards and search for D node. I wonder : which D node ? The last one ? Or the reference one, in the sense that « the 2 in R2R/B2B ? ».
To be continued…