Quote from Joe Doaks:
Jack, it is so bizarre that for years you belittled my testing, and now I have given it up and you have started it. I gave it up when I began to understand what is really going on behind those enigmatic price and volume time series. I still think that, if it is true as your intimates claim that you do trade, and profitably, that you must be doing something like that subconsciously and just occupying your conscious mind with SCT voodoo to keep it out of the way.
You can do what you want. I have been doing what I do the same way for quite a while. I don't express what I do too much.
Maybe someday some scientists can begin to evaluate how high velocity traders, in general, trade. Then maybe they can move on to some really fun stuff. I do not expect it until after these four books. The fifth will nail it.
It hasn't happened yet with others.
I am lucky. When I am in a place with highly skilled traders; there is a lot of agreement on how it works.
The best people I have seen relate it to the public are:
John Letto.
Jon Anderson
Farmer (with consideration to post 911)
and five or six others.
All have different methods and they overlap greatly. None of them use the conventional orthodoxy. they are way past the wizard documentation.
Non puiblic commentary does exist. And the persons do not tout publically what they do privately
Senters and Parker would be examples.
The best online guy who has a feel for "scale" meaning how you can estimate coarsely from formations, is Kahn of Barrons.
All of the above guys have highly developed BS detectors. they shut down in a NY minute.
Some people get really good at trading; they have a common bond. It just arrives in the space in a short time when they are together. Uniqueness is recognized and there are no power struggles, feelings of competition (since there is none in trading), or other flak in the space.
The last thing to note is that the mind operates in a way that can be explained . It may not be possible for the listener to get it usually but I have seen it happen with people who are either highly skilled practitioners or people who know, for real, a lot of the science of the mind.
So far in ET I have just stuck with the sports memory description. It is not what people who do it ultimately come up with when they are getting down and dirty. It has more to do with intimacy as related to another thing that is recognizable as a living thing.
People who do the work on a valid schema do get to become part of the group that can know and witness markets as they really are.
Thats the way it turns out.
Playing around isn't part of the above. Too bad you can't give it a break once and for all.