Gyrations are no more than the days upmoves and downmoves. I would count the YM yesterday as 5 and half gyrations .. up, down, up, down, etc (one up/down or one down/up being treated as a gyration). The number of gyrations which show to you, depends on the charts/bars you are using .. less if slower half hour bars or say more if faster five minute bars apart from using other choices such as range, tick or volume bars of faster or slower 'sizes'.Quote from sgsaxton:
Ok I think I see your point. In other posts of yours, you've repeatedly alluded to "gyrations" which, from what I can tell, are price oscillations from an extreme to an extreme through some sort of 'mean'. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that, so long at the price moves sufficiently to an extreme, its worth trading regardless because these moves will be missed if one waits for some sort of trend confirmation.

