Back on a roll again:
Here's another one. This time, I dump all pre-conceived notions of what a pattern will be, in favor of measuring it. Also, I get even closer to my own ptm with this chart method; in turn, I am at a loss as to how to explain it to the uninitiated, except that if it works, then I'll do my best.
-- I practiced this a little. I got one trade studying, lost one not studying, and middle-of-the-road trade with too big a drawdown. Focusing on how I get the pattern, rather than any one pattern, works better for me. Of course, I've tried this approach before, if only to get a feel for different patterns; now, though, I can get deeper into the chart without loss of proportion about what's going on for the trade, and visa-versa.
More practice: I find I forget when a small, medium or large frame ends or begins, and this method requires that I know. More loss...only, not due to the method nor to its over-general way of applying itself.
Oh, yes. This will be a very difficult rule set for me to apply to a chart. I much prefer a set-size box to which I draw lines in that align with points in the same box.
Okay, another trade: I chinzed it by lowering the commitment, feeling secure about the line to go to yet unsure about when it'll get there. Murphy's Law, wouldn't it turn out to have a lower than average drawdown before got the trade.
interesting chart approach, from here : 1 ; vague background, noted in interview 2
p1 dump:
another goofy self- / discretionary- trading approach, this one ignoring the charts- and gestalt-derived ones of my past for purely/mostly-psychological ones mind-body - derived:
-- for some reason, this post ignores all attempts to upload pictures onto it, even freshly-made 19 kilobytes of a picture.
Thus, refer to post #920's photo for the chart method.
-- Haven't yet tested it; my guess is that I'll need frames a lot more than this implies, and thus the entirety of my own ptm. The above should hold ground within well-formed frames.
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Okay, tested it over three trades. Noticed I was missing 'focus' after first trade, had to redo patterns list. Got three of three, no overly-long trades and each of about average size.
Make that four of four, and the last trade won double that of the average ones and about the same as the high-risk first trade.
I'm thinking Ecstatic Postures, to project path/action, and, body contortions to support certain emotions adjoining with face's FACs, to motivate self to do that path/action, filled a particular frame of mind I'm in today, rather than the method itself. So coincidence / first-timer is likely in play.
I do feel the chart method covered all it can. It'd be nice if chart used focus from the gut trace, and thus emotion and then action and then path in the trace and its rings, unconsciously from said chart use, instead of me having to bring in the rather cumbersome EP/(whole-body)FACs, much less my own ptm, during regular trading. I only want to keep my trades aligned with what's to happen on the chart. I would not mind checking on my own mind-body set before a session, or occasionally check on this at significant points during the session (say, breaks), to keep the chart method able to work with me on its own.
Heh-heh, I lost everything once I wrote this lack of confidence in sustaining the chart method's win streak. Speed is a big issue, here. I'll identify brain speed and its relevant chemicals with 'speed', since it also fits into my own ptm.
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Still using the picture above as a chart method, with the following caveat:
Dropped the 'unique' etc. column and reversed the order of the first(after the title row) and last items in the first column.
Here's another one. This time, I dump all pre-conceived notions of what a pattern will be, in favor of measuring it. Also, I get even closer to my own ptm with this chart method; in turn, I am at a loss as to how to explain it to the uninitiated, except that if it works, then I'll do my best.
-- I practiced this a little. I got one trade studying, lost one not studying, and middle-of-the-road trade with too big a drawdown. Focusing on how I get the pattern, rather than any one pattern, works better for me. Of course, I've tried this approach before, if only to get a feel for different patterns; now, though, I can get deeper into the chart without loss of proportion about what's going on for the trade, and visa-versa.
More practice: I find I forget when a small, medium or large frame ends or begins, and this method requires that I know. More loss...only, not due to the method nor to its over-general way of applying itself.
Oh, yes. This will be a very difficult rule set for me to apply to a chart. I much prefer a set-size box to which I draw lines in that align with points in the same box.
Okay, another trade: I chinzed it by lowering the commitment, feeling secure about the line to go to yet unsure about when it'll get there. Murphy's Law, wouldn't it turn out to have a lower than average drawdown before got the trade.
interesting chart approach, from here : 1 ; vague background, noted in interview 2
p1 dump:
another goofy self- / discretionary- trading approach, this one ignoring the charts- and gestalt-derived ones of my past for purely/mostly-psychological ones mind-body - derived:
-- for some reason, this post ignores all attempts to upload pictures onto it, even freshly-made 19 kilobytes of a picture.
Thus, refer to post #920's photo for the chart method.
-- Haven't yet tested it; my guess is that I'll need frames a lot more than this implies, and thus the entirety of my own ptm. The above should hold ground within well-formed frames.
...
Okay, tested it over three trades. Noticed I was missing 'focus' after first trade, had to redo patterns list. Got three of three, no overly-long trades and each of about average size.
Make that four of four, and the last trade won double that of the average ones and about the same as the high-risk first trade.
I'm thinking Ecstatic Postures, to project path/action, and, body contortions to support certain emotions adjoining with face's FACs, to motivate self to do that path/action, filled a particular frame of mind I'm in today, rather than the method itself. So coincidence / first-timer is likely in play.
I do feel the chart method covered all it can. It'd be nice if chart used focus from the gut trace, and thus emotion and then action and then path in the trace and its rings, unconsciously from said chart use, instead of me having to bring in the rather cumbersome EP/(whole-body)FACs, much less my own ptm, during regular trading. I only want to keep my trades aligned with what's to happen on the chart. I would not mind checking on my own mind-body set before a session, or occasionally check on this at significant points during the session (say, breaks), to keep the chart method able to work with me on its own.
Heh-heh, I lost everything once I wrote this lack of confidence in sustaining the chart method's win streak. Speed is a big issue, here. I'll identify brain speed and its relevant chemicals with 'speed', since it also fits into my own ptm.
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Still using the picture above as a chart method, with the following caveat:
Dropped the 'unique' etc. column and reversed the order of the first(after the title row) and last items in the first column.