Perfection! Making You Think and Go . . . Huh!

Quote from ProfLogic:

Ah the thread is degrading already . . .


So I guess today those who believe oscillation can be read . . . like radio engineers, audio engineers, acustic engineers, me, etc. are all crazy because there is no way frequency oscillation is the same or even similar to Market oscillation. Maybe I we all are but the thread started by asking a question to which I was looking for PROOF not opinions.


You can read a radio signal, just as you can chart a market, but the ability to read or record a signal does not allow you to predict what is yet to be transmited.

Runningbear
 
Quote from oddiduro:

Hi ProfLogic,

You seems like a sincere market researcher, so I will engage. First, while it is true that markets are cyclical, they are not SYMMETRICAL.

Next, there are multiple cycles that control a market. So if a twelve year top coincides with a 7 year bottom, what you will get is a lateral market. The question would then be, how long?

Next, when cycle dates come in, it only implies a CIT, not necessarily a top or bottom, so again the CIT could be lateral. What then?

If we detrend the data, which cycles should be removed?

The point I am making is that just knowing a market is cyclical is not enough in and of itself to trade it.

Comments welcome,
Oddi

Thanks Oddi for the input.

I completely agree that the Markets are not symetrical. That is the reason why it is imposible to trade cycles with any accuracy or why Elliott Wave can't ever be consistent. My point is that what is perfect about a cycle is ONLY that each cycle has a top and bottom. It doesn't matter the range up to the top from the bottom and it doesn't matter the range down to the bottom from the top.

Next, I agree completely as well that there are multiple cycles making up each Market. This is where Einstein comes in. Cycles are chart specific. The Daily will be different then the Weekly and you can create multiple interday charts by using different tick increments and each will have different cyclical patterns. (Example - If you look at a Daily Chart you will see that the S&P Bull Market, created in 1996 perfectly confirmed its completion in September 2000. The subsequent Bear Market, perfectly confirmed it's start in February 2001, and perfectly confirmed it's completion in March 2003. We are currently in a Bull with the first signs of it completing.)

I agree too that just knowing the Markets are cyclical is not enough. In order to be able to trade cycles you must know what Market price and Market momentum do together to perfectly confirm each top or bottom regardless where they occur

Oddi is correct, since the Markets aren't symetrical one must find something else to use to confirm that cyclical movement in the Markets.
 
Quote from Runningbear:

You can read a radio signal, just as you can chart a market, but the ability to read or record a signal does not allow you to predict what is yet to be transmited.

Runningbear

Is is not the ability to to predict what is yet to be transmitted that is important, it's the oscillation of the transmission. My reference is only made to the oscillation. when you watch radio waves they consistently and consecutively move from top to bottom or bottom to top. The Market moves just as consistently and consecutively but price makes the flow move irratic. That irractic nature is what perfectly confirms the tops and bottoms of each cycle but you have to look to see what happens at each top and bottom to see the consistency.

The problem is that traders have always looked toward patterns or equations to predict the market instead of looking at the raw data (price and price movement) to see if there was anything consistent there.
 
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
Eric Hoffer


Quote from ProfLogic:

Ah the thread is degrading already . . .

When the Model T Ford was running around the streets 100 years ago I can imagine someone was thought to be crazy to imagine vehicles exceeding speeds of 300 mph. I can remember from my history class that some idiots thought the world was flat as well. And in my day I can remember people laughing when the mention of telephones in cars was brought up.

So I guess today those who believe oscillation can be read . . . like radio engineers, audio engineers, acustic engineers, me, etc. are all crazy because there is no way frequency oscillation is the same or even similar to Market oscillation. Maybe I we all are but the thread started by asking a question to which I was looking for PROOF not opinions.

Show me 2 Market tops without a bottom in-between. Show me 2 Market bottoms without a top in-between. Show me a Market that either doesn't oscillate or one that STOPS oscillating. Show me don't try to tell me . . . PROVE to me I am wrong.

Oh, if I see a confirmed Support at let's say 1000 and the last Resistance is at 1050. If I am positive the Market will retest 1050 and I buy from even 1010, then if the Market only gets to 1040 and confirms failure . . . I profit. I didn't predict . . . I knew direction. I didn't need to know how high it was going either.

Challenge. - If you, ig0r, think I'm nuts, email me . . . I will tell you where the Market is going everyday for a week or a month, whatever . . . if I'm wrong I will post itin a thread . . . if you are wong . . . you run a thread in ET expounding on your mistakes and misconceptions.
 
Quote from ProfLogic:

What if the price action and the direction of every Market were perfectly readable. Then "Predicting " the direction of the Market would be unnecessary. A trader would only need to "See" the direction the Market was going and take it.

It seems that you are that guy who can "see" the direction.

Concentrate on your own trading--you will take all the money in the market.:D

Good luck.
 
although i appreciate proflogic's sincerity and enthusiasm, and he has a cool website, "seeing" the future of the market based on oscillations is a common trap befalling those of engineering type backgrounds. i have seen this type of faulty thought pattern regarding financial markets numerous times in the past. your challenge is similiar to saying--" a circle is round, prove me wrong" simple logical semantics, not executionable techniques. a challege was issued to you earlier------ are you up for it ??



best wishes in your quest, but you are looking in the wrong direction.

surfer
 
Quote from marketsurfer:

although i appreciate proflogic's sincerity and enthusiasm, and he has a cool website, "seeing" the future of the market based on oscillations is a common trap befalling those of engineering type backgrounds. i have seen this type of faulty thought pattern regarding financial markets numerous times in the past. your challenge is similiar to saying--" a circle is round, prove me wrong" simple logical semantics, not executionable techniques. a challege was issued to you earlier------ are you up for it ??



best wishes in your quest, but you are looking in the wrong direction.

surfer

My question was to Prove that the market doesn't perfectly confirm it's cyclical tops and bottoms. Or that the Market doesn't cycle specifically incrementally. My thread has nothing to do with my site as well. I will give away all the information on the site here if I can get individuals to think for themselves instead of trusting someone elses assuptions. Read my original statement and prove me wrong . . . don't manipulate what I said to justify not even trying to disprove it.

I have spent 8 years researching market movement from a standpoint of naked oscillation. I have used NO EXISTING theory to base anything from. My only goal was to confirm what is perfect in the Market and what was a variable. If you know of another individual that has researched the Market from the same standpoint, for the same length of time or longer . . . I would love to sit down and compare notes. Everyone I have ever spoken to though has studied the Market from someone else's theory . . . not taking the time to figure anything out on their own. Why is it so hard to believe something exists, just because you weren't aware of it?

I'm delusional just because you say I am . . . prove me wrong. I'm a researcher looking for that person that see's something I might have missed. I'm not perfect. Prove what you say is valid. Not with words but with fact. I can prove that Market Price is cyclical using tick charts. I can prove that Market Price moves from cyclical top to cyclical bottom. I can prove that every top and bottom of a cycle does one spacific thing to confirm it's completed its move up or down. Now . . . prove that I'm wrong.
 
Quote from ProfLogic:

My question was to Prove that the market doesn't perfectly confirm it's cyclical tops and bottoms. Or that the Market doesn't cycle specifically incrementally. My thread has nothing to do with my site as well. I will give away all the information on the site here if I can get individuals to think for themselves instead of trusting someone elses assuptions. Read my original statement and prove me wrong . . . don't manipulate what I said to justify not even trying to disprove it.

I have spent 8 years researching market movement from a standpoint of naked oscillation. I have used NO EXISTING theory to base anything from. My only goal was to confirm what is perfect in the Market and what was a variable. If you know of another individual that has researched the Market from the same standpoint, for the same length of time or longer . . . I would love to sit down and compare notes. Everyone I have ever spoken to though has studied the Market from someone else's theory . . . not taking the time to figure anything out on their own. Why is it so hard to believe something exists, just because you weren't aware of it?

I'm delusional just because you say I am . . . prove me wrong. I'm a researcher looking for that person that see's something I might have missed. I'm not perfect. Prove what you say is valid. Not with words but with fact. I can prove that Market Price is cyclical using tick charts. I can prove that Market Price moves from cyclical top to cyclical bottom. I can prove that every top and bottom of a cycle does one spacific thing to confirm it's completed its move up or down. Now . . . prove that I'm wrong.

i am not saying you are delusional, simply that it is delusional to view the market in this manner. it is extremely seductive, but it remains delusional. you can only prove the cyclical nature of the market in hindsight, and if you could project this into the future--the "ever changing" cycles would soon alter the game. there are exploitable edges all over in the markets, but oscillition is not one of them, cyclical studies are fun for analysis, however not very accurate for practical trading.

your statements can not be disproved by semantics, however -- a challenge was issued earlier--are you up for it ??

8 years is not a very long time to have studied something. there are teams of quants backed with practically unlimited budgets that searching in vain for what you claim to have found--- market seduction does not discriminate on the basis of intelligence or wealth. you know the old double a penny for 30 days routine, if you found what you claim to have found, i await the markets to stop functioning since they have been 'cornered'.

surfer :)
 
Quote from marketsurfer:

i am not saying you are delusional, simply that it is delusional to view the market in this manner. it is extremely seductive, but it remains delusional. you can only prove the cyclical nature of the market in hindsight, and if you could project this into the future--the "ever changing" cycles would soon alter the game. there are exploitable edges all over in the markets, but oscillition is not one of them, cyclical studies are fun for analysis, however not very accurate for practical trading.

your statements can not be disproved by semantics, however you are able to PROVE them-- a challenge was issued earlier--are you up for it ??

8 years is not a very long time to have studied something. there are teams of quants backed with practically unlimited budgets that searching in vain for what you claim to have found--- market seduction does not discriminate on the basis of intelligence or wealth. you know the old double a penny for 30 days routine, if you found what you claim to have found, i await the markets to stop functioning since they have been 'cornered'.

surfer :)

I am up to the challenge but would prefer to have someone try to prove me wrong.
Quants are lazy. I worked with the head quant for Deutsche Bank, he retired 10/01. We had long discussions. He got tired of trying to prove me wrong.
Greed will undo any Methodology . . . where would the fun be in that.
As long as there are people such as yourself telling me that it is an impossibility that what I claim works . . . it will work. "It is foolhearty to think that there is perfection in the Market . . . I will continue to do what I do because THAT won't work. And besides, I refuse to spend a second on MY valuable time or brainpower confirming it IS possible" Sound familiar. I rely on the apathy of traders in general to keep the Market flowing just as it has since day one. Cyclical trading works because no one believes it can. It will never become a standard because I won't let it. I just want people to start thinking for themselves and to stop following "gurus" to the poor house. I don't want one single trader to trade what I tell them to I want traders to trade what they see and can confirm with their own 2 eyes. If they can not confirm anything . . . don't trade anything. What a concept.
 
Quote from ProfLogic:

I am up to the challenge but would prefer to have someone try to prove me wrong.
Quants are lazy. I worked with the head quant for Deutsche Bank, he retired 10/01. We had long discussions. He got tired of trying to prove me wrong.
Greed will undo any Methodology . . . where would the fun be in that.
As long as there are people such as yourself telling me that it is an impossibility that what I claim works . . . it will work. "It is foolhearty to think that there is perfection in the Market . . . I will continue to do what I do because THAT won't work. And besides, I refuse to spend a second on MY valuable time or brainpower confirming it IS possible" Sound familiar. I rely on the apathy of traders in general to keep the Market flowing just as it has since day one. Cyclical trading works because no one believes it can. It will never become a standard because I won't let it. I just want people to start thinking for themselves and to stop following "gurus" to the poor house. I don't want one single trader to trade what I tell them to I want traders to trade what they see and can confirm with their own 2 eyes. If they can not confirm anything . . . don't trade anything. What a concept.


do i detect shades of welles wilder's "delta phenomena" in this statement ?? cyclical analysis works, cyclical trading does not--- those who understand this will always be one step ahead....

:eek:
 
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