Quote from Wide Tailz:
One Sentence Summary of the Hershey Method:
"The market offers a series of profit segments defined by a trapezoid constrained by the first and second support, and first resistance, of a trend channel of compound size, the breakout of which can be anticipated with volume inflections"
But I still can't figure out what CW means.
Here's Wide TailZ's one sentence summary of his trend following method:
"The market gyrates continually and some of the energy can be harnessed with a moving average, breakout filters, and a reversal entry / exit"
There are many successful approaches.
From what I read of your posts, you could be failing to grasp any one or most of them.
This is very common.
Your "personalizing" of what you believe I said is a tradegy for you.
Elsewhere, Intradaybill does the same with respect to another approach.
Intraday bill attaches "induction" to a genre of approaches. Induction certainly cannot make any approach workable, ever. Intradaybill believes scientists use induction to prove things.
For you, you are deploying degrees of freedom determined by a vertical examination of whatever. This is another form of induction based non science.
Would it be possible for a portion of potential traders to actually reason through the basis of a market's operation? It is a rare opportunity for anyone to go through.
Since you are passing it up and focusing on a translation containing fewer words, you will continue to get the consequences.
It is the same for how Covel missed the boat when he interviewed many many people and didn't ask the correct questions. They all played him and he went away happy.
At one time, interest grew with respect to dancer who traded as an anateur. First off he was interviewed nd then asked by another financial organization to write a book. He did "box" trading and used Western Union to communicate to and from his broker.
No one in the financial industry got his message then or now.
At that time making a milliion dollars trading stocks was not part of the financial industry.
SKO has asked me to explain how to keep making all the market's offer and not have any mental turmoil while doing so. So I shall.
I do believe Ammo looked up "orthogonal" and maybe he "coonected"; Wide talesz didn't "connect".
Three people. One wants to vut down turmoil, another may see something in "orthogonallity" of hypothesis which are "like Kind", and lastly, a person has a principled system pass in one eye and out the other. Intradaybill remains in the dark.
Trends have two non opposite but orthogonal conditions. Anyone's heritage and training does take him down the opposite trail. Could it be possible for such a person to not think in opposites for making money?
The answer is a resounding NO!!!! for most of the world. Wide talesz is sticking with NO I cannot. Ammo looked up (see it is UP to look) orthogonal to deal with the trend states continue and change. Covel does not know this as yet.
Atrend contines and then comes to a period of "overlap" and then springs forth as a new independent trend. Trades make the most money if done as I will explain to SKO using cases. CW uses TA to do BO's of RTL's and their failures to BO. Both are lagging types of trades.
The beginning of overlap is when to maximize trading. Here is when continue ends and change begins. Change ends when the BO of the RTL occurs.
Volume tells you when the left and right side of markets is occurring. Wide Talesz is stuck (by his beliefs he decided to put and keep in his mind) with up/down and cannot adjust to another mental construct called left/right.
If you look at a box it has ends. Ends are formed by events. What are the other two sides used for? Wide talesz uses them for guessing support and resistance.
For the mind it is tough for a person to coordinate his timing with price. I suggest this as what is oging on because, in posts, I hear a lot about timing. Some funny posts come from Lucrim. He actually thinks (or just posted) that he wants to see the "equations" for leading indicators of price.
A parallelogram is a trapezoid as has been switched to. Do the parallelograms have tops and bottoms? Yes. They have names: RTL and LTL. respectively. BO's are always on RTL's regarding late profit taking on trends.
The Depression we are in is not going to have a BO on the RTL for 10 to 12 years. But what about the LTL of the last move of this Depression?
As it steepens, the LTL will be breached four times and each breach has a name: VE. VE means the volatility of the trend move increases (Expands).
If a person can draw containers and can recognize there are four parts, then he can use this to make the optimum take for each profit segment.
Thus we have eliminated guessing tops and bottoms and they are replaced by FTT's and faster ftt's and fastest ftt's. All involve left/right brain power.
Directions of trends are always from right to left. This is called the dominant direction. trends all have three moves as determined by deduction.
Can anyone go through this deductive process. NO!!! Read all the posts in ET. Most are telling. People who post mostly confirm they are using induction and the associated inductive non reasoning to do trading and formulate the equations (See Lucrim) of their non reasoned playing the markets.
Go back to the garden of EDEN where the first trend occurred. It was on the fourth day that God invented point 1.
This market move was the first move and it was good. So God called it dominant since that was the way he was lining up the troops for his campaign.
Later, point 2 occurred. Points were good. To get to point 3 it was required to retrace and this is called a non-dominant move.
With three points there, an acorn lying in the poop sprouted and said "Gee I'm a tree" Geometry was then put to use to contain price.
Deducing that three points can form something required a lot of deduction. A triangle could come to mind and perhaps it is not possible for anyone the think out of the triangle.
to be fair, it probably doesn't work out that an uneven number of supports and resistancecould be assigned if a neutral bias is maintained.
But lets face it Adam and EVE did not have girls.
To deduce that a parallelogram is most reasonable is a tough undertaking. But I assume that the constant volatility is a good choice unless told otherwise.
Bookmarks were invented by religious monks much later but that is another story.
Look at deducing that a dominant move and a non dominant move can set the scene for a slower trend that could come to fruitition (garden of EDEN talk later shortened to fruition).
Imagine the non dom ending at point 3 and an RTL could be put in place. Then think of dominance returning since non dominance is not there anymore.
What kind of a guy or gal is God? He or She is not an ad nauseum type.
So we get to deduce that this slower trend made of three sub trends so far, COULD be considering wrapping it _____.
That is why the FTT was invented. A dominant going from point 3 will or will not get to the LTL. this is a binary situation and is dictated by the fact that the market demands a binary math only. No equations are allowed. there is not even continuous functions in the space. Why? The tickedness of the markets. Cain and Able did wickedness. (one was dis-abled) Trends do tickedness.
A dominant trend move goes from point 3 and only gets so far; price fails to traverse to the LTL. We are in the middle of a perallelogram.
We take the profit segment from point 1 to FTT.
We reason that if the FTT happens, then it is the baginning of a new trend. So we call it point 1. And use clean page 4 to assureourselves that point 2 MUST be outside the trend that just ended.
Since this is deducable, then it is also true their is only one pattern in markets. And so it is cast in stone our paper of choice.
Most people can't understand this type of foundational reasoning.
Certainly, we have to include the 10 cases and plan for VE's. So we do and it all ends happily ever after. See one pagers.
Moral: left/right and hold/reverse replaces up/down and entry/exit.