You just added "prediction" to the content of what you had read.
A zig - zag chart shows market sentiment changes. Add two slower fractals like 5 minute and 30 minute.
Use a simple system of three arrows (30, 5, and zigs) and you see 8 combos that dictate the timely actions.
4 for short and four for long.
up , up , up is enter long.
down, up, up is enter early long.
up, down , up is.sideline
up, up, down is "hold through" the signal.
the other four for short are opposites.
To be a system based millionaire, draw zig zags for 20 days on a five minute fractal.
keep a log of the bar where zig occurs and columns for the arrows and a column for what the market dictated.
To make as reasoned profit on each entry; set a trailing three tick stop just three ticks I use 100 contracts away from the extreme of the traverse and use as an early exit.
trading 5 to 8 ES conracts and sweeping profits weekly on Friday makes about 500,000 a year.
this systemic effort takes 20 days to learn and 2 years to become a millionaire. To shorten the time, use 6 to 9 , then 7 to 10, then 10 to 16 contracts. Personally, I have posted opening trades consecutive days using 100 contracts in prints.
I know this is a complex system requiring RTM regression lines and three arrow columns. Assigning the action to the three arrow sets will be quite a challenge for most.
Programming it all in SQL would take about 1/2 day for slow programmers.