Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Didn't.

Waited for a motivation. Here it is.
The creativity and luck involved in finding the right small-spread TL's to show the pivots of the next chart area makes them so random as to be nearly useless in charting anything.
Take any one significant area, and yes, you can, with a little practice, draw bsTL's to trade that area. Try and go rapidly along the price-time line at fully condensed 1' TF, and you get a big mess. You can skillfully interweave a trend, countertrend, deviation and local extreme spike type of bsTL; only, this delays the inevitable, that, looked at closely, the chart represented with bsTL's alone will fail.

So I need an approach that skillfully uses bsTL's and avoids their inconsistent, localized nature for an overall view at any separation of 1'TF bars.

One way is the varying lengths of horizontal line, imagined or close to real. Another is contrast, dealt with very carefully. I guess I'm ready to include small bsTL patterns and their intrinsic ability to say which direction the price-time line will go.


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Oh yeah, forgot round numbers. Great center line, as noted in another thread.

Horizontal line (segments):
(dot) logic dot from midlined balance areas
(short line) positioned sides (including patterns in middle or on either side of a TL, such as balance lines)
(medium line) hyperdot
(long line) midlined balance areas
((infinite) line) round numbers
-- Choose a bsTL pattern that deviates from each type of horizontal line in the (1*1-scaled) chart area, noting the pattern's intrinsic angles to be derived.

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Alright, I think I finally have THE idea of what higher TF's are to the 1'; that is, I know why charts work. Uh-huh, Yeah. Here it is. When there's high contrast of one spread pattern that points in one direction and the type of spread pattern (lo, mid or hi) usually points in 90 degrees from that direction, and then a spread pattern of the opposite type happens, both spread pattern lock the chart into a cycle pattern that goes sideways with no chance of escape. (Reference, 'balance lines' thread's newest post.)
There's more to it. EVERY OTHER MAJOR PATTERN CONTRAST OF THIS MAGNITUDE CONTROLS THE ENTIRE CHART, EVERY DAY AND EVERY TIME!!
Oh, there are intervening smaller unusual-spread bars and patterns which disturb the price-time line and thus the original major pattern contrast that happened, as well as the end of the week and logic dots (which measure longer-term, implicit/embedded logarithmic curves underlying the market, and happen from balance areas, mostly between larger gaps between news items).
The bottom line is, This Is It. My security, the randomness explained, direction identified, speed ordinary.

Hey, and I just lost another account not doing it. I'd better get going with the Plan!

That was fun.

Got my longterm, at least in sketch. It does feel right, this time.



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Sunday open, after the fact:

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Another, 431pmEST:



"Climbed the ladder" on this one -- the midlines on the right. Missed the first one, caught below the second and exited on the third.
Price continued (1) based on a 2120/2127gmt+2 average-spread pattern's horizontal line, ignoring the third, my lapse in judgement, the third's upper TL midlined from was too old to be spliced with. Instead, price merely returned to it and then to the longterm lines, found in this explanation, done yesterday, because, after a good while, they were obeyed -- Note the yellow dot-dash line, that's a midlined midline from the longterm lines, and thus a longterm line. On that note, it's also the 00 line, which in my guesstimation is what the longterm line returns to center around, eventually; here, it was resistance.
Next, lost big time on a jump I missed another small-spread pattern for -- . -- and the crossover with a vertically-closer small-spread pattern that looked similar (the former, focusing and stable (the usual for a break-from type), and the latter, also focusing only in a simpler, more adaptable way) on a horizontal where a couple of shapes (one of them with the left side of the first spread pattern) crossed paths.





After that, I lost my account. I forgot the average-spread patterns' horizontal lines, once they catch on, make parallel lines midlined off them; couple this with the longterm line being passed in this area, then returned to gather energy, and you have another breakout past the (light blue) spread-pattern lines I was counting on. Regardless of whether there are any small-spread patterns available, which is what I was relieved to not have found any more of. A mistake, not a relief. 1,2.

What's tough about this method? You gotta really be on top of logically interpreting small spread patterns and weighing which to include when of the temporary horizontal lines from average-spread patterns and of the longterm lines. "Shouldda coulda woulda" is never a reason, and listen to your gut instinct, it's right when it's ready to pitch in, once you stop whining.

What the f_? .

This pattern RULED.


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contrast pattern + logr trace: longterm
news interrupt + patterned-with spread TL patterns: intraday
or
logr TL'ing

Okay, enough obscurity. Was just trading above, and a small-spread pattern, which I later connected to another of less pedigree, happened to represent the finest of the 10192009 1800gmt+2 news, which promoted pairs of irregular small-spread patterns, a contrast to the big Sept 15 event that put everything onto a grid (See 'balance lines' thread.)

The revision is of my technical studies approach. I now figure logarithmic curves run in the background of the chart one after another, and that logic dots demarcate their start and end, with isolated balance lines, the major (boiled down from higher TF's) small-spread pattern not attached to a contrast pattern, positioned sides, trend centerlines (with example in the 'balance lines' thread's post showing the logarithmic nature), trace each logarithmic curve along its path.
Resisting each logarithmic curve is contrast patterns and other news items, including news-item midlines and their spread pattern(s) at the midpoint. While news carries the day as to which spread pattern defines one's TL's, the overall sense is the logr trace's. In turn, various contrast patterns / news items over the months will be more important, I suppose, changing this logr : news even more. Thus, common sense goes with contrast patterns / news items, while a clean reference without much to pin on it is with logr trace.

Also revised journal entries. Have a graph version, with ordinary-language translation of own psych model (not worth showing); should be understandable, once show and explain a little. It's antiseptic of anything personal, only relating intangibles in a readily useful approach.
With this psych explanation, is charts and account record.

stupid .. lazy .. unstable .. abusive .. unlucky (paraphrased from a now-deleted post on this page; author adjusted, then reposted it)
-- Just read the above advice list to rookies. It's on the harsh side, which distinguished it from a lot of bland, 'good luck' types. I'm gonna see where I am with it.

I ain't stupid, tho I act it, which is lazy of me. The prepared are lucky, so the streaky hit-or-miss I get is due to being irregularly prepared and shows instability. If I'm abusive, it's upon or to further ideas, learning of which undermines intelligence used effectively in a trade. Which returns me to....

Hmmm... The best traders on ff seem to hit it because they know their system so well and are comfortable with it in every trading situation. They accept the few losses they get, and add up the several and/or big wins they graciously take.

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Anybody interested, here's my take on the huge drop:

11:30 (gmt+2) -- When else!?

and, the yellow dashed lines being referred to (the blue lines, just temporary range lines akin to average-spread pattern lines) and chosen last night before drop, with two lines, the lowest and highest, drawn then:

This trade may still have validity to it, unsure, just traded my portion:

Holy cow! Just pissed somebody off. The person got over it, though. The way I see it, that person needed help in explaining their view, through my contrary opinions. The view was fairly major to the thread I happened to be at -- Hope I wasn't being in the thread too long and unnecessarily, i.e. disturbing its flow -- and one I'd support anytime. It's up to the thread starter, though, from there.
I don't think I'll be visiting there for a while, . Gotta do what I said there that I'd do, and stop just hanging around.
Here, at least, I'm working on that goal, that of trading my method and not just discussing it, especially not discussing it in places others already have working methods. They let me 'test' my method there, and I got lucky. Now... My bad.









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Okay, it's the weekend, and I was going to run my method on a trade simulator. One way, I've found with my posts in that thread, to think of my method is that small-spread patterns work best around traditionally big news items, which leaves the rest of the time
to average-spread patterns,
the remainders (carrying to different pivots the crossover point of a TL on each of the high and low) of large-spread patterns,
momo lines, with the help of vertical midlines, through very small balancing bars, i.e. spinning tops, and also through locally large-spread bars
trend centerlines, which sometimes do a ninety-degree turn as part of what appears to me as an overall logarithmic curve,
and other times simply is worth doubling
or halving with a midline to get an extra s/r line;

and, other ideas. Right now, I favor the momo lines with candlestick-reading for details, only that could change to yet another approach to non-news areas. Kinda lame, I know.


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Alright, time to do the trade simulator. I think I'll actually do it, because my trading style in demo spun from a few posts ago, where another's highly informed post brought me to the conclusion that if I understand clearly anything at all in the next portion of the chart, I should trade it and be happy I got it.



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Upon reflection, I've become an old windbag. Guess it's time to change my tune. I have several ideas....

*ff DOWN FOR REPAIRS*
Withdrawal symptoms! Made me feel guilty for not doing my homework -- trading simulator, that is -- and then I was happy I did when I did.
Trade, chart, account, over and over and over and over.... If that's what's necessary. Will stay with filling up each post as long as possible, to avoid annoying people too much, as before.

I'd like to gather examples of small-spread pattern use, about a hundred of them, to give others the idea about them. I'll include news (now that ff's on.)
Variables to describe small-spread patterns may help:

appearance (dot and vertical run, two distinct patterns
appearance: agreement of
appearance: number of groupings
line group pattern's direction (one-directional, two-directional, fan, crossover fan ),
line group pattern's line angle limits (horizontal and upward, horizontal and downward, overly and only nearly vertical, with-trend simple, with-trend complex,
line group pattern's probable area of affect (pure deviation (one-directional), directional limits

(position of pattern ,
position of pattern: limits of effect ,
position with known time and approximate effect of an arriving bar, usually news pre-news compensator in-trend, in-trend spike, in-trend hi/lo thus more horizontal so news jump rebounds speedily, or trend hi/lo thus more vertical so news jump holds, trend hi/lo thus more vertical so news jump holds
at-news special balance line: midpoint of newsbar, bar channel to first 1psb,
position with known time and approximate effect of an arriving bar, derivative of major one

and continues position of pattern (segue on an advancing trend, a long side,

This is embarrassing. I lost my account after nearly doubling it, once more; the difference is, I lost the most when my technicals were at their best!
I think the problem was, I was emphasizing another rewrite of psychologicals, and, facing the recurring problem of losing a lot the next day, I was distracted from even trusting what was in front of me.

The good thing, of course, is that my technicals worked splendidly. Price bounced exactly with them. One well-positioned fan-and-narrow small-spread pattern and a couple of ss patterns in lesser positions. The area recently has been overwrought with 1- and 2-pip spread bars, and I'd been somewhat at a loss to follow them. Apparently I'd done something correctly for this to happen.

(Moved interpretation to 'bar channels' thread, as it systematically explained the switchover from older to newer TL's.)

Today's lines began with a small bsTL pattern (red). A little dependence on the red TL's from the pattern (one 1psb and, across the wave, three nearly vertical 1psb's) showed near the right side of the chart.

4h later: Second picture shows today's new bsTL's taking hold, including a precise measure of the shown jump's top's base. (A side note is that the pattern this jump copied was the old bsTLs' swan song. (See 'balance lines' thread.))

I want to figure why there were so many localized midlines around the bsTL's showing, in the second picture. Maybe the price-time line is sideways, or there's a bsTL pattern I'm missing, either old or today's new; it's unlikely the missing one is new from yesterday.

What I found, in the fourth picture, was the first of several repeats, in the third picture. The fifth picture shows the fourth picture's influence in further engaging the price-time line in today's new bsTL patterns.

I don't know why so many localized midlines around the new, of yesterday, bsTL's showing; perhaps it's an affect from unused TL's from Sunday's fall's high-spread pattern, or from 00/50 hz's.

The fifth picture's orange-red bsTL pattern lines "hold in" the repeated jump's first spiky top with a midline, as the orange-red bsTL's happen to have a central horizontal line for midlining from conveniently.

Went to 100:1, per NFA rules. Compounding now 8% each 4%, approximately (at g/u 1.6382). Counting in pips now, like everyone else. Self-imposed margin call 10% of account, usually manual.


1445-1645est 10272009 , 14 pips. Not listing number of trades yet, too chicken.


addition to last post: After the fifth picture, the price-time line went into trend centerlines and average-spread patterns, I guess; I need to work on this sort of stuff. Here's what I tried. (Those deep sky blue TL's form ninety-degree angles, versus the Three Methods smashing in lines symmetrically.)

1955est another 5 for 19 pips total. Lame, in most peoples' eyes. It is 100:1 (compounding every 4%) and 10%, or about 17 pips at 1.6400, margin call, which so please cut me some slack.

I see most people racking up 50, 200 pips, and don't get how they do it. Well, I'll see where I can go.

2045est Lost account. No sense of overall, big drop hit me. Lines hit, I just didn't trust them.

Representative or exception or even a piece of isolated, the chosen bsTL pattern depends on the area.

0425est Downward bsTL's last night (.), split one this morning (.). Ready for a fresh chart. Lost account, new chart told me why. It's below.
also: Went auto- on stop, 17 pips; going to try it for a while, would like to go to 20 or 25, will see if I can increase the number of pips per trade earned first.
Last thing, earned 20 pips off the drop from the double grey lines, toward which I had lost my account on. Why earned? Actually studied where to exit. Still didn't fully trust the lines, as the second picture shows would've been okay to do.

0853est Missed the second picture. Seems the split bsTL patterns are active.

0951est Lost account. Margin called twice, really thrice. *&^%^$#@ move ran like crazy to then past the grey pair of lines. No midline between red line and double grey line. Everything temporary s/r lines. EVERYTHING.

1106est Took me an hour (and did other stuff) to regain composure for a situation-effective perspective and a 2-3 minutes of study of the OLD chart, and that larger, in terms of the details the current chart (usually) provides, perspective of fewer, simpler bsTL's that are relevant and to deal with. Price-time line just covered the space between two very relevant, which is how having only two lines in the first place and two double lines at that, (yellow-green) bsTL's, doing a midline and then a quarter midline, the double grey line slowing it at the quarter midline. Plus, two spikes on top midlined the quarter midline, rather than just hitting it. That's all it was. Picture three.
No great overhaul, then. That's a relief.

It does make me wonder if the older bsTL's are still relevant, in that they happen to be there where today's split (yellow-green) bsTL's and the grey double bsTL's provided only general guidance that only an overall perspective, not a focused-in one, would've gotten. Or, of course, there' some/a bsTL I missed. Going in...

Drew these (the peach (255,141,121) lines) around noon est:

supremeChaos,

Thanks for the voucher! And your visit. You'd be surprised how much such interest in an unfinished method means and how little it's done.
And, good luck in pursuing your climbing dream. (I tried it below ground: A blast!)

Alright, it's time for logic dot.
The reason to do it daily is because it structures, through spanning the distance between the regular times for news, and noting red-flag news of irregular and regular times, midlines that pick structure-identifying bsTL patterns.
Enough, hold off on the new ideas.

I guess this means I'm committed to one method.

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method
Linear continuance -- Small-spread patterns, with the occasional average- or high-spread patterns if necessary. Usually 1-3 groups of ss patterns a chart, until older patterns fail to be immediately relevant to getting major pivots. This is the myopic view, which the overall structure helps in perspective.
Overall structure -- Logic dot approach, with internews midlines and logic dot from comparing midline and 5' pattern sets for a starting point. Some internews midlines' ss patterns may be included, if only to get the shape of the direction. This is the perspective view, which the linear continuance helps in effectiveness.
Logic dot approach structures around ss(,) patterns' bsTL's to trade from the right area's info.

To really get this method going, I'm following a couple of pieces of advice from here:
"* You rarely need more than a few seconds to decide if you have a scenario or not
* You get more picky (and conservative) about trading-scenarios"
The former, on the time taken, needs preparation to allow to happen.
Also, anybody reading this, the method is in no way exhaustive of the possibilities of using news chartwise, and you may want to doublecheck the numbers. I'm going for the stepwise plan.

preparation:

Logic dot --
First is putting dotted vertical lines at red-flag news items for the past couple of weeks; colors, yellow for weekly regular-time (at gmt+3 (sorry, just looked, InstaTrader is Russian thus gmt+3, which already have, charts to now have been correct only I've been saying it wrong), 1130 (1230, winter) for gbp, and 1530 and 1700 (which is 1630 and 1800 in the winter) for usd) symbol-only news items, gold for monthly regular-time (1400 for gbp's bank rate etc., also 1100 for gbp and 1515 for usd), orange for irregularly scheduled time (2115 or thereabouts for usd's fed rate etc., and any speeches from either country). The 5'TF is fairly easy for this, except for some of the fed rate announcements.

Alright, I gotta stop goofing around.
Simulator
or demo trade
news midline + natural small-spread patterns,
with the occasional average or large spread pattern
and maybe, if figure a reasonable one, a logic dot.
Four hours a day, every day, every week of the year.
I gotta get going, here. Distractions....


Statics and naturals
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Statics
Holding off on logic dots. Did news midlines' ss patterns for Friday and a pivotal area or two, tho, as well as special hi,lo areas' pip lines. Learned how to draw pip lines better: A lot of bars look like 1,2,3 pips wide, and are 1 pip wide, and visa-versa; also, only a particular range within the 1psb's is the body, even though it is only with a 1 pip spread. example,

naturals
ss patterns along the path, through the day, as shown in 'bar channels' thread

Practicing simulator with preset lines, and amazed at the number of ways I miss a trade. Will be practicing simulator regularly, now, so I can learn to just trade my lines , and, eventually, make so rules to standardize doing so.

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Getting confused about which areas to represent, the number of lines need to represent, the range of lines which can represent, whether to represent with a continuous application of lines which one keeps the lines short on or to represent special areas for horizontal lines to go with.....

I prefer a thick number of lines with gaps price will fill, to a thin number of lines price will cross a large space to get from one to another line. In the former, you really only have one decision: What direction at the start. It'll reach the gap, from there.
In the latter, you have several decisions: What direction from line a, b, c, d, e. If the energy direction is decided, though, one could surmise direction for all of them, making each decision a puzzle piece of a sophisticated one decision.

It's really a logical problem on which areas to represent.
It's always made sense to me to use the biggest symmetric small-spread pattern, the pip lines of the area containing the most small spreads, and the given spreads to represent the biggest-spread areas. The first channels the biggest chart area, the second horizontalizes the same, and the third retraces the same. Each lasts until the next area just as big hits.
Then, a little edge to slice into the local move from any small-spread pattern or, with a recent unusual pattern, set of pip lines, one can trade on.

Or maybe it's any large balance area's pip lines or large imbalance (jump) area's large-spread pattern's lines, internews midlines' ss patterns, and the biggest symmetric small-spread patterns. Then locally, add a mix of ss patterns and pip lines to slice into the local move. That'd go for one idea, balance.

four layers:
biggest symmetric small-spread patterns, which lasts for 5'-1hTF moves
any large balance area's pip lines or large imbalance (jump) area's large-spread pattern's lines, until the next large pattern area which could be a week
internews midlines' ss patterns, interday
a mix of ss patterns and pip lines to slice into the local move, intrahour

Okay, here's a plan.

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two layers:
standard wave
big news (regardless of apparent impact: NFP, pmi manufacturing; fed rate, bank rate) with crossover line and, optionally, balance line
large, balanced, flat area with pip lines
large, balanced, vertical area with given-spread lines
optional, big small-spread pattern
temporary waves
--medium
internews midline ss patterns with mix of pip lines; small, or occasionally average or relatively large, spread pattern lines
a pattern with pip lines from it
an isolated pip bar, with an older one
--local
ordinary line needing a little adjusting to understand, with pip lines; small, or occasionally average or relatively large, spread pattern lines
isolated objects
balance lines, especially from very high-spread bars
logic dots
isolated balance lines (connects high-and-dry 1psb's)
super-big symmetric ss patterns
00/50 horizontal lines

Note the character of each line, how it goes through the chart and affects the price-time line in terms of support/resistance/channelling, particular patterns isolated, etc.
You invest according to the concept you have. If going with medium-term lines, invest 50:1; longterm lines, 25:1; shortterm lines, 100:1 .

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Well, great, I got one trade this method. Five pips.. That's irrelevant, the number; I've tested for number.

Added 'isolated objects' because either didn't find any or found no use for any of these in my first making of the long, mid and short term lines system. I actually only tried a little, having forgotten them when the high-spread pattern's crossover lines worked so well.

Here's a sample of what I hope to achieve:



How's that for precision!

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Use small-spread patterns' TL's locally and globally to trade within its (or its deviations') boundaries. Isolated balance lines work with them.
Existing grid is, vertically, super-high spread patterns, with balance lines working with them, and the trio of average patterns, news midline small-spread patterns, and big flat symmetric area and their pip lines, with logic dot working with these three. 00/50 lines are good for centering, also.
The TL's you use to trade with run through the existing grid and bounce around within the use lines.

That's it. The use lines anchor one's opinion of one's trade, what one can do with the existing grid to make money. Perspective runs per the last revision:
two layers:
standard wave
big news (regardless of apparent impact: NFP, pmi manufacturing; fed rate, bank rate) with crossover line and, optionally, balance line
large, balanced, flat area with pip lines
large, balanced, vertical area with given-spread lines
optional, big small-spread pattern
temporary waves
--medium
internews midline ss patterns with mix of pip lines; small, or occasionally average or relatively large, spread pattern lines
a pattern with pip lines from it
an isolated pip bar, with an older one
--local
ordinary line needing a little adjusting to understand, with pip lines; small, or occasionally average or relatively large, spread pattern lines
isolated objects
balance lines, especially from very high-spread bars
logic dots
isolated balance lines (connects high-and-dry 1psb's)
super-big symmetric ss patterns
00/50 horizontal lines

Note the character of each line, how it goes through the chart and affects the price-time line in terms of support/resistance/channelling, particular patterns isolated, etc.
You invest according to the concept you have. If going with medium-term lines, invest 50:1; longterm lines, 25:1; shortterm lines, 100:1 .



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Either getting in early and missing a substantial move against my idea, or exiting early and missing a substantial move with my idea.

Been doing the research for use lines, namely finding big small-spread patterns. This time, I went for the lowest (CDRW Spread indicator's) spread bars on the 1H TF, at .0001 . None were especially big, just well-placed. And fascinating. Traced June 07 to now from one, g/u's all-time high from the next, and a significant drop's entire run from a third. That third's drop found its base with, get this, a 1H-TF one-pip-spread bar! It's at 2008 12 31 2100 gmt+3, at a price of 1.4537 . There's a large data gap there, only InstaTrader's not known for data gaps in my experience, so it may be legit?; anyhow, it may work. All I got from the fourth one was a bunch of very wide midlines, accurate without any contribution to trades. After this fourth one, the fifth worked with extrapolation, same as the fourth one, only better, since the fourth had a large gap time- and pricewise. The fifth one worked until the next, relatively close one.

I've done this before. Some of the extremely low-spread 1hTF bars work, and others are bogus. The second one worked, the one that called the all time high (ath). Most of them are too general to be of much trading use.

Ways to get a big small-spread pattern:

1. Look on the 1h for spreads at .0001 .
2. Simply look through the 1'.
3. Look on the 15' for large flat areas.
4. Look on the 5' for very low areas around very high areas.
5. Midline especially high-importance news.

1), due to data limitations, works occasionally.
2) tends to bring one to shorter-effect ones.
3) must be used with others, to account for extended vertical jumps.
4) works great, the inspiration for the rest.
5) untried

On " Either getting in early and missing a substantial move against my idea, or exiting early and missing a substantial move with my idea." :

As long as you're underneath someone else, you don't want to know or use exactly why someone else did so-and-so, because you want to preserve levels between you. In trading, as long as you know where you are, go ahead; everything either is or isn't, there. That lack of knowledge buffering between you and another can be used in trading for a while, only it's an approximation, and must be dropped because you're comparing apples and oranges in ultimate effect, and invite qualitative judgement calls into your chart and news decision.

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Already done fair with this one:

Only looking for 30+-spread bars and putting TL's around them.
Divided it into a series of time slots: relatively any, close and separate before, just before, at, at and just after, and at and separate after.
relatively any -- very big vertical bars and horizontal symmetric areas (pip lines)
, close and separate before -- regular of the just-noted
, just before -- isolated balance lines
, at -- average spread patterns
, at and just after -- balance lines. These are tricky to get: Ratio how one finds them with the effect of the average spread patterns, if there, and possibly also the isolated balance lines or flat (horizontal symmetric) or other vertical-bar areas, which are less often there. Balance lines generally cross a large empty space, only sometimes they just align with the major trend away from the 30+-spread bar concerned. Think of the 30+-spread bar relaxing into a symmetric triangle or two at its peak, and you're there: The balance line forms from the spinning triangle at the symmetric triangle's right-hand tip. Theoretically. Anyhow, it is worth doing.
, and at and separate after -- (energetic-waves' pivots' tops/bottoms used with) multi-high vertical bars crossover lines (that is, all of the lines crossed over onto one point and then carried all at once to a significant pivot later on); and, small-spread patterns to help with trends, etc.

Don't get me wrong -- Ss patterns are still important. They can call a big news item to the microsecond. It's just that most of the time, the price-time patterns they address are somewhat chaotic or nearly horizontal. Their lines sit too long, as a result, with no real continuity between them besides the fairly regular flat areas.

Gut instinct, broken down into a lost account's general actions into being:

5) at-spot early warning: Faint reaction to rising-tension series in 1) at the time before last trade, which was conjoined with a sweeping of the eyes, unconscious mostly and perhaps didn't happen only recall the sweeping, within that rising-tension series, and offering a solution to pay attention to, since the sweeping is somewhat of a counter-cartilagal response, since it's not directly related to the fight-or-flight response's patterning and instead objectifies, nontrading-like, (s/r lines') extra space (noted in an earlier post on gut instinct) in a distancing approach

1) last warning: Chart of inner tension, one bar per trade, of trades' effectiveness, completed and ready to peak and thus break down the trader

2) inclusion, same-cell-entity level, at over-(impulse-ecstacy) possibility at peak of 1), of other to take advantage through inclusion in environs at that time (that is, law of the jungle, which is ((forcing of) something that exists into ) evolution)

3) a new gut instinct interpretation with spatial exist/evolution line at one's center of gravity, the latter of which would weigh the balance of consideration upon nontrading ideas, namely overly spatial ideas such as the other in 2)

4) put-within exception: inclusion of e/e produces a split -- reaction to the other and its reaction to the over-ei creates a resistive counter-cartilagal response in the brain, an activity similar to the gut instinct patterning the fight-or-flight response into the chart's next move, only to project possible spatial move of the environs made new with the other and its reaction to the over-ei ; that is, another part of the body, which is a spatial version of the gut instinct, is now included because of allowance of the over-ei into the picture, thus removing self completely from time-oriented consideration trading and gut instinct (patterning of the fight-or-flight response) and moving the gut instinct on to representation of the compromised situation




That's it. Complicated and unproven, I know. It's a lot better than the theoretical posturing I was doing earlier, because it directly addresses the issues gut instinct use must go through to be effective in trading, especially in a series of trades which is uncontrolled after the initial technical indicators' usage and the chart area it covered to help the trader (me, in this instance) make the series of profitable trades that in the trader was the cause, each step of the way, of the rising-tension series of trades in 1) that led to 2)-5).


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technicals:

Made progress on very shortterm work with small-spread patterns, which can be difficult to segue into candlework explanation; it's at 'balance lines' thread, post #10, and goes somewhat well with posts #3 and 4, exploring this segueing idea for a great possibility of continuity: Ss patterns that go to very small views of candles, and 30+-spread bars' sets of patterns that go to comprehensive views of lots of candles.

STORAGE

from post #1: "precise entry and range exit, on 100:1 leverage with regular compounding, and 10% (ex.: 17 pips on g/u at 1.6500) stop; if account builds, withdraw savings just before double original deposit, and if account breaks down, drop real-money trading at first 10% loss plus a controlled loss for less than 5%
sessions either scalping 3-8 pips more off countertrends, turns or channels than trends at a rate of four to ten times in a row profits before effort breaks down, or trend trading 10-35 pips at a rate of one to two times in a row if scalping breaks down before four times is up or if psychologically able at time a decent trend arrives; if trend trading also breaks down, drop 1-4, based on extent of breakdown, levels of format (real,penny,demo,simulator,paper) and stay there until comfortable to return to next-higher level (rules)"



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Am playing with trailing stops, trying to boost my pip count per trade to twenty each. Nerves often get the best of me, so this allows a worthwhile early exit. Also, it allows a way to be involved, changing the trailing stop manually, and thus avoid trouble. Even will resort to flipping a coin, to break the tension.
Most moves are at least twenty pips wide on the 1' g/u and doing my best to take this from five of the couple of dozen 20+-pip trends a day is a worthwhile endeavor.



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I've lost a lot of accounts, and today was no exception.
Despite this, I'll begin counting the trends I capture, starting over (while leaving the older account's count there, to see how consistent I'm being in getting 20+-pip moves) if I lose an account (return to 0). I need some sort of satisfaction to curb overtrading:
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After this last one, I checked what was to happen next, just enough to get an impression and not do enough to commit to a trade for. Later on, this action framed as noted in the context of the rest of my trading, allowed me to let go of impulsive trading from 'what I missed' since I made the right call in that impression (or, alternately, made the wrong call and wanted to correct myself to get in the game.)
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Now, rl balance is necessary to understand the g/u. I thought only superficially, in small, isolated 1'TF areas. Darn. That's why I avoided the e/u, which is a more even mixture of rl balance and contrast balance (technical chart) languages.
Also: Twice the run, twice the upsetness. That's where psychological difficulties increase, for the extra pay. I'm pulling in 10% per 20 pips, fairly impressive. I'm losing 10-20% every other trade, also impressive. Driving me up the wall.
Actually, it's 2-4 times the run and allowing ten times (40 pips.)

I was thinking it over, and although I lost big and got upset, in truth, I was only down about 14%, which is within the limits of the mm the last post has in storage. So I'm still good. (Although, I dropped the account.)
Of course, then
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