Quote from bdixon619:
Deep, lol. When the subject matter is this rugged a golf cart just won't do!
I, too, appreciated the style with which that article was written. Sort of connect the dots in three dimensions. Let's see...if I can fog a little inspiration in here...we know the volatility is a measure of standard deviation divided by the mean. If we're trying to find a way to visualize volatility in a chart we can find the difference in two separate measures of the volatility, this gives us a visual cue. By using a 1 or -1 to describe the existence of a threshold value moving price either up or down we can create a nice impulse pattern on our chart coincident with and sometimes slightly preceding our movement of price.
We can then use this to confirm our deductions regarding volume moving price. I thought makosgu has done a fine job of bringing his description forward. Whether it is necessary to actually take the step of developing the method into a tick-based decision tool is a question of operational moment. What time frame is he comfortable making decisions from within?