Quote from NYCMB:
Hi Jack
The attached chart was taken from your 12-14-09 02:02 PM post. I slightly edited it to make 5 min chart portion bigger.
Could you kindly mark your Comparison one and Comparison two in the chart?
TIA
Thanks for the reference chart.
The two pink boxes are the times after point 3.
Both have VE's after point 3.
Comparison One
Compare bar 8 to the bar 1 for the short VE. The VE is less. And there is no IBGS.
Compare bar 18 to bar 12 for the long VE. The VE is greater. And there is an IBGS
Comparison Two (a difference)
Take difference of two bars .... 8 minus pt 3 (bar 5). Difference is small for that market PACE.
Take the difference of two bars .... 18 minus pt 3 (bar 16). Difference is great for that market PACE.
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Now we go to work.
You took the time to get that chart back into ET. We all thank you for the effort.
On the short you didn't get past step 2 simply because you went long on the faster fractal completion (That happened on bar 8.)
For some it (bar 8) was the third trade of the day. For others it was an FTT to FTT trade from bar 1 to bar 8.
Either way, a bookmark is in place at the bottom fo bar 8 and it extends to the right called the future.
A person who is doing MADA and annotating thoroughly is also looking at accelerating the slow fractal container by using bar 9 top. With no zone at play (meaning "handling" took place), bar 9 is an accelerated new point 3. Bar 8 and 9 are a container with no FTT, just translation long on a fast fractal. Bar 10 gives an early ftt and "look out below" to the bookmark.
I know life is tough as a person "transitions" to expert.
Bars 8, 9 and 10 are 15% of capital per contract margin. When "grooving" on these bars a person is seeing two ftt's and a ve when a bookmark is being busted. Note: On any two bar container if pt 2 is on the second bar it is a ve on that container (this is the case on bar 10).
I really feel that all this time being available and clear thinking puts a person in the groove and setting reference volumes for nailing "market sentiment" all of the time.
What you see on the first 11 bars is the opening range being set. A traditional CW type of thinking. It also shows that the range is the range and volume PACE is shifting.
The OB on bar 14 was a nice clincher for the rest of the day. 15 and 16 were cozy guys who set the opening range in stone and no overlap on 17 said to the FTT to FTT guy that lunch could be 15 miles away.
bar 18 is the educational bar. Further on less PRV a VE spike, zone is dead, nailed by an IBGS; you are going through logging paper faster than a speeding bullet: super bar........
condition 1 condition 2.
On the RTL and no volume. Lower than the trough on pt 3.
There is NO acceleration to be had after the VE AND dominant volume is LONG........ you open bar 21 with a flat top pennantand increasing PRV.
So for the next 30 minutes or so the market screams at you through the log to HOLD.
Circle key things on your log for quick reference. What the heck, go over this chart and make a log fo the changes on each bar and "feel" that post VE period "grow" to the ltl.
Feel the last black bar only be black so briefly. It gapped open long, and .... it was over .......
My annotation was poor since it did not drill down to the fastest observable fractal. But my log was crystal clear. Even the troughs were getting better (increasing black, after all).
See if you can read this post enough times to get out a log and log the chart.
This is the kind of pre xmas experience that lets you buy diamond earrings for xmas presents. Look ahead. Do the log for this so that next xmas you are running 50 contracts.
Tomorrow, make 15 copies of the log ; use 10 of them tomorrow. Make a real mess.
