Has anyone ever explained how you know when a rocket becomes an iceberg, instead of a failed rocket?
Quote from oddiduro:
Hello Jack,
Since you confirmed that I was not looking at the wrong things, I concluded that I must be looking at the right things in wrong way. So now, we have congestion and convergence taken care of. I have a picture of both of these concepts. The only thing that remains now is the concept of centering. Once the amplitude of the MACD approaches zero, we exit and bracket the market.
you will notice some more stuff as time passes. esp in slaloming when you are making 20 points a day
Now, my problem is, what exactly are we bracketing?
the C of CCC. centering is a sym pennant, or FTP, or FBP. You see channel for C, tree trunk for CC and CCC is centering pennant. draw in the axis of the pennant. use the nearest value to what would be the point of the pennant. we will add and subtract a value to/from this price. get and approximate value for the stop offset that you have been using. add this to half the bar width of a very recent bar. This is the value to offset from the axis. you achieve two things: you stay out side scalping range and you stay outside the Failure to BO range for continuation of the CCC. sometimes CCC prolong themsleves by failing to BO; it is uncommon. we go in as the price moves to the bracket.
My understanding is that we go to a slower fractal, select the VDU bar and bracket the high and low of the bar.
there is a VDU during the centering portion. Maybe two so you are prepared by the first one. try to use the 5 min as a standard.
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Or, do you mean drawing a channel based on a point 1-2-3 on the five-minute fractal and taking a break out of the line in that way?
This is a channel BO. You are reversing out of a failure to traverse flaw card long before this. If by chance you missing this more profitable place, then REVERSE on the BO.
After we clarify this point I will have most of pictures in my mind as far as the sequences we should use.
Yes you will be adding several common and repeating sequences.
On an aside note, I have noticed that icebergs on the 5-2-3 stochastics precede rockets on the 14-1-3 stochastics. Am I looking at this in the right way? The 10-2-3 stochastics seems to make an effective bridge between the two. This combination seems to be helping me remain in iceberg trades with a little more confidence.
This is a key comment. huge actually. you are now doing a thinking process that is extremely important. In other threads we see mostly give and take and carping. rarely much enlargement of scope. here you are doing a three step process that comes after "getting by on your good looks". you do look good also but you are processing info. most people just take it in (1) and regurgitate (2). Here we do what you are doing. A step in between 1 and 2. you see that the leading edge of the shorter STOC gives you an earlier powerful signal. GO FOR IT!!. you saw before that a person can use a divergence off 50% going to outside 20/80 band as a signal. both these are processing results. you see that the trailing edge of the slow STOC keep the trade on longer. there is only one more step. To see that the traverse from 20 or 80 to 50% can keep you in longer too. All of these are itierative refinements that are like nuances of driving a car. This is style stuff. people trade with style once they have confidence and character. We are developing great character here as you are finding out. there are no weasels hanging out amongst us.
Regards,
Oddi