Quote from bundlemaker:
OK, I looked over the link that Nkhoi provided. Now I'm waaaaaay more confused than ever. Jack talks about adding/subtracting 2 and 7 from something. He talks about numbers ending in 0 or 5. He speaks of trough/peaks (that sounds like pivot points to me) and then also says to take reading every 7 1/2 minutes.
My apologies to those that "get this" for asking the same thing again. My sincere question still stands: can somebody explain in precise, unambiguous detail, exactly what a stop log is, how you determine what you log, and how specifically you use it.
I have really worked hard to understand this stuff. I've spent scores of hours printing and editing and thinking. Every new post and I'm more confused than before. Can anybody help?
Sorry about that. that came up a few years back and the post is on the DJXX. It is a 10 point oriented operation.
Here is a short statement to cover things.
Stops are best set up for protection. You do not trade using stops.
the market moves in patterns and there are values that relate to participants that are more important than other values.
If a stall occurs (A stall is a block of bars about a few minutes longer and each bar resembles the others), then you know there are a cluster of persons associted with those values. The volume tells you the interest level.
The boundaries of patterns thus formed, are influential in near term future moves.
I recommend that you keep track of these values.
I have a log. It has numerous columns. In the top of each column, I enter these numbers going downward.
numbers occur over time and they go up and down.
Below is a chart with wite spots and dashes of such values. This is the thrid post today.
Make a vertical list of all the values as they occur. Note they are boundaries of formations. Note that if you go to 1 min you get more of them.
Start at the top of the list, See when a retrace of the primary direction occurs. The direction is down (smaller)., I cross out numbers that are retraced. The ones left all go down and each one is smaller than the one before it.
You now have a descending list.
We circle a number back from the last one by counting back.
we have a rule for how far to count back.
When C&R time comes we use the circled number.
you may have more Q's.
The rule for count back is based on how fast the market is oscillating in a period of time. We use slow medium and fast. The count back is 4,3, and 2. You have notes and you can see the list of speeds.
I do not want people to be tripped up by scalpers if they are around. we offset the stops "away" from our hold value. The decimal point in a value is followed by 0,1,2,3. 0 is no quarters; 1 is one quarter, etc. I say plus one tick after 990. 990 plus one tick. That is 990.25. I write it in my log as 990.1. Viola.
I am glad you got confused. It is helpful to me. To get stop logs straight is very important. To work on all of this is important too. You have my attention. this post will help out.