So now we have to check for End Effects before we chack for categories
Quote from BSAM:
Very good brother Corn.
Many seem to think it's (only) triangles and squiggly lines.
Quote from logic_man:
I think it makes sense to distinguish between PA trading based on "visuals" (can be anything from "patterns" to candlesticks) and PA trading based on "algorithms" or "statistics". I am a fan of the latter, but not the former. I think on some level they are both in the same category, since price is the only input, but I think the latter has the potential to be much more rigorous than the former. Not to say that a skilled practitioner of the "visual" sort of trading can't outperform a novice algo or statistical trader, but I think the the upper echelons of the industry, the algo/statistical PA trader predominates. These are the guys from schools like MIT/UChicago/Stanford. I've known some of those guys and they never talk about "visual" PA.