Quote from makosgu:
Mon ami, you emphasized the wrong part. The anticipation is a CONSEQUENCE! If you take your umbrella with you out the door, you are anticipating rain. It is a PREPAREDNESS consequence, much like a bracket trade. You bracket so that IF the breakout occurs, you are taken with it. So in looking at the definition of anticipation we see there are several definitions. One of those definitions says "to feel or realize beforehand; foresee". This is like the example I mentioned to you earlier of watching the BIDSIZE/ASKSIZE and seeing BEFOREHAND (ie. PRECURSORS) the precursors to price changing. So just like when I take the umbrella with me to work, it is because I am anticipating rain. When the clouds start rolling in and thunder is heard in the distance, I am not caught by surprise in a sudden downpour. When it happens (ie. becomes NOW), I am PREPARED. Storm clouds rolling in, thunder in the distance, these are indications that the time for rain is drawing close. When the time arrives, there are NO SURPRISES because I was in anticipation of the EVENT. Surprises happen when you don't see them coming. Parents anticipate the birth of a child. Usually, the birth does not come as a surprise. This is because, by the latter terms of the pregnancy, it is very apparent that physiologically, something is happening to the woman that is indicative of a pregnancy. In anticipation of a child, parents prepare a place for the child. Parents do not prepare the child's room as a prediction consequence, it is an anticipation consequence. Trading can be done the same way... Most people just never see it that way...