Nice post to bearbelly, Todd.
The sweep chart is a nice version too. Thanks for the effort.
Some supportive comments follow.
The SCT is Seamless Continuous Trading.... lol...
Todd is so very correct and instructive in how to take the trip. SCT follows being great at PVT (Position Vector Trading)
This is going to be a short sucinct post.
One PVT cycle occurs 20 to 40 times a day on ES using full blown SCT.
The major mental shift is going from entry/ exit trading to hold/ reversal trading.
Start just doing portions of the day using entry/exit pieces augmented by wash peractice during midday.
Consider EVERY exit by using the data set and the analysis conclusion set elements as if they were for an EXIT and momentartily do the analysis for an ENTRY. You DO EXIT appropriately and then sweep for an entry. (See min-max camtasia if it is posted)
The above begins to ease you out of entry/exit trading actions and into taking reversal actions.
SCT is not part of the conventional orthodox foundation of the financial industry. Everyone is briming with this orthodoxy and it will always be with you. Stepping over to the paradigm of making money deals with looking at the money that is in the huge pools of capital and making the determination to EXTRACT it from the pools and into your accounts.
In a nutshell, you continually extract via price change over time, occassionally changing sides of the market. The repeated routine (monitor, analyze, decide, and take action) is the enabler.
In SCT, most often the "take action " is HOLD. The data set is from monitoring (taken just sufficiently by looking in the ever changing "right places"). This sensory process engenders the emotion of success as determined by taking the right data set and not a single data element that surprised you. Analysis is a paring of an element from the conclusion set with the data set. a finite set process. deciding is only one of five elements from a set: HOLD, Wait, REVERSE, Enter or Exit. HOLD dominates and is a consequence of continuing price movement on the right side of the market relatively speaking.
Optimizing is done occasionally at turns of the market sentiment. this tacking is a timely reversal. Less than optimum is no problem, you just are off like putting to some degree or other.
So the paradigm is pool extraction by taking out what is offered at the time. No probabilities, no pascal, no Fermat, No predictions, just a two directional flow and watching the valves that do the offering most all of the time.
Pool.
extraction.
optimizing
using a bigger and bigger account as time passes.
Read Todd's post over and over. Do drills going from one to another as you synthesize it all.