Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

A preview each trade: Effect is too short, tho lasts slightly longer, sometimes, than the trade itself. Depends on how good the preview is, what situation I use to be the "current" one.
This one was light and balanced.



six mc's in a row, then last picture below:






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rewrite of when to use psych:

My habit is to describe, with the lower symbols in each visual field diagram ring in the picture above, my mindset as it is influenced by the situation and different roles in place just before the trade. The first and last higher symbols usually offer too many choices, so I concentrate on the middle higher symbol and draw the preview with the lower symbols. Describing me deep inside moves me into more proper action, when I also describe how I want to relate to what I face when I trade.

When, vs. trade:
separate, just before......influential.....affect modest
together, just before......accurate......affect none
during..........................divisive........affect destructive
together, just after........deep...........affect none
separate, just after........potential......affect strong

Symbols description:
"u(c)" is lack of conscious awareness, either literally and of anything or ranked into threats, missed material and the like; it is ingress or egress, boundaries and affect,
with --(>) a straight line segment with an optional vector carat that makes it an arrow,
and with .|_ the corner a box(ed-in area) and the dot representing something being (possibly) outside of the box, or |O a nondescript object (dot with contents) with something blocking or about to wrap around it;
"-> ei" overwhelmed attention (literally, too much of an energy spike from impulse to ecstacy),
with . , | anchor or reframe, respectively, from the shape, and logr or midline, respectively, using the shape, both being balanced, that is, ~'ed, often to where, for example, a midline may expand an anchor into a circle;
and," _/_/" brain speed (where, in junk science books, delta (the slowest) is serotonin (sleep, play/stiffness), theta GABA (social, negativity/strength), alpha acetycholine (endurance, awareness/criticism), and beta dopamine (power, positivity/delegating))
with +- plus and minus, and <> maturity or more or less.


* I am an amateur playing with this. The description is for entertainment purposes only.

(post#1)

arbitrary modification

a discretionary charting practice


preview*:




I draw the lower symbols (in blue, next) to form little kneejerk adjustments, which tend to fade in effect, to my overall trading pattern. The latter is an uncompromising cycle in which I may lose several times in a row before getting my best group of trades ever, or simply tread water losing and winning in turns.

time and effect:
separate from chart, just before......influential.. modest
together, just before.......................accurate... none
during........................................divisive.... destructive
together, just after.......................deep.. none
separate, just after.........................potential... strong

Symbols description:
"u(c)" is lack of conscious awareness, either literally and of anything or ranked into threats, missed material and the like; it is ingress or egress, boundaries and affect,
with
--(>) a straight line segment with an optional vector carat that makes it an arrow,
and with
.|_ the corner a box(ed-in area) and the dot representing something being (possibly) outside of the box,
or |O a nondescript object (dot with contents) with something blocking or about to wrap around it;
"--ei->" overwhelmed attention (literally, too much of an energy spike from impulse to ecstacy),
with
. , | anchor or reframe, respectively, from the shape, and logr or midline, respectively, using the shape, both being balanced, that is,
~'ed, often to where, for example, a midline may expand an anchor into a circle;
and," _/_/" brain speed (where, in junk science books, delta (the slowest) is serotonin (sleep, play/stiffness), theta GABA (social, negativity/strength), alpha acetycholine (endurance, awareness/criticism), and beta dopamine (power, positivity/delegating))
with
+- plus and minus, and
<> maturity or more or less.


* I am an amateur playing with this. The description is for entertainment purposes only.




(chart study)

logarithmic curve- (think ....................................and midline- (i.e.,
Gann Fan, ........................................................grid stuff,
anchor, ...........................................................center,
deviations, .......................................................balance,
and copies).....................................................and derivations))
- based groups of trend angles and their TL's

I usually modify the price-time line with TL's, rather than spend time with patterns. Occasionally, though, they can be helpful.


patterns:

1. formal L:M use: line patterns
2. observed in nature: condensed ssm (size-shape-motion still frames, abstracted from memory of past events and used to group trend angles with)
3. traditional, common (triangle, ellipse, frame),
   Attached Image

   

(trade)



mm:

1. make one reason for exit, in-trade drawdown to manually stop trade at, and absolute physical stop, changing entry if in-trade drawdown is unworkable
2. match leverage to stop, and 1/2 lvg to stop 1st trade after hit absolute physical stop
3. compound each trade
4. goal, 10%/h during a cycle of a # of trades

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(the new psych symbol description)

Symbols description:
"u(c)" is lack of conscious awareness, or more generally, ingress or egress, boundaries and affect:
--(>) level or direction,
.|_ something being (possibly) outside of the box,
or |O a nondescript object (dot with contents) with something blocking or about to wrap around it;

"--ei->" overwhelmed attention (ei: ecstacy-impulse, a range of being overwhelmed):
. , | anchor or reframe from and logr or midline using the shape,
~'ed, being balanced ;

" _/_/" chemical/brain speed or advancement, such as delta serotonin interaction, theta GABA resilience, alpha acetycholine confrontation, beta dopamine dominance:
+- plus and minus, and
<> maturity or more or less.


(and)

I draw the lower symbols (in blue, next) to form little kneejerk adjustments, which tend to fade in effect, to my overall trading cycle.

When, vs. trade, and effect:

Got carried away.

Return to trading:


'wanted to move forward, a wall between me and the point of it (the chart study)' -- Even internalized this, through removing 'wall' of extra bars to left of first couple of hours, which is how LFH Simulator displays an open chart window at first before one moves the mouse. Determined to go forward as have on proportioning how much chart study works for how much of a trade, thus improving my score on this, I put a red box over the bars I "accidentally" showed myself and then drew the hand-drawn GF which I then traded with, learning the candles' reaction to it along the way (for instance, a nice 90-degree angle above the top TL, which I only now consciously label.)
I'm not tempted to run the simulator and satisfy my curiosity as to whether my longterm prediction was correct, either. Usually have been -- why not. Because I need to trade the inside stuff to make it overall, and, after 4*'ing my 50:1 (thus, on 25-40:1) account in 3d and then doing one 10h trade with 4-5h of 1' bars for 35%, I progressed into the current account's trade cycle's pattern.
Another step toward consistency.




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just some personal psych notes. I was thinking about exercises to do to increase my ability to read temporary patterns.

 

1. is:..tm interdisciplinary though processes
2. .....sp activity P/L cycle
3. .....be trigger-point referral pattern and episode application
4. os observed ssm pattern
5. ar ff trace

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(post#1 dump)


arbitrary modification

a discretionary charting practice


preview*:




I draw the lower symbols (in blue, next) to form little kneejerk adjustments, which tend to fade in affect, to my overall trading cycle.

time and effect:
separate from chart, just before......influential.. modest
together, just before.......................accurate... none
during........................................divisive.... destructive
together, just after.......................deep.. none
separate, just after.........................potential... strong

Symbols description:
"u(c)" is lack of conscious awareness, or more generally, ingress or egress, boundaries and affect:
--(>) level or direction,
.|_ something being (possibly) outside of the box,
or |O a nondescript object (dot with contents) with something blocking or about to wrap around it;

"--ei->" overwhelmed attention (ei: ecstacy-impulse, a range of being overwhelmed):
. , | anchor or reframe from and logr or midline using the shape,
~'ed, being balanced ;

" _/_/" chemical/brain speed or advancement, such as delta serotonin interaction, theta GABA resilience, alpha acetycholine confrontation, beta dopamine dominance:
+- plus and minus, and
<> maturity or more or less.


* I am an amateur playing with this. The description is for entertainment purposes only.




(chart study)

logarithmic curve- (think ....................................and midline- (i.e.,
Gann Fan, ........................................................grid stuff,
anchor, ...........................................................center,
deviations, .......................................................balance,
and copies).....................................................and derivations))
- based groups of trend angles and their TL's

I usually modify the price-time line with TL's, rather than spend time with patterns. Occasionally, though, they can be helpful.


patterns:

1. formal L:M use: line patterns
2. observed in nature: condensed ssm (size-shape-motion still frames, abstracted from memory of past events and used to group trend angles with)
3. traditional, common (triangle, ellipse, frame),Attachment

(trade)

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(new method, post#1)

1. do psych eval* via graph above thru entire trading session
2. graph above also supplies the chart study: make one reason for exit, in-trade drawdown to manually stop trade at, each interim trade within a reason-defined greater trade area, and absolute physical stop, changing entry if in-trade drawdown is unworkable
3. match leverage to stop, 1/2 lvg to stop 1st trade after hit absolute physical stop
4. compound each trade
5. goal, 10%/h during a cycle of a # of trades

*I know nothing of psych; this is for entertainment purposes only.



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mc:
testing the decision grid for technicals (psych, ran thru in mind, is fine)

10 more mc's.

testing the middle portion of the decision grid for technicals (psych untested)



testing all of it, seems to work now.


1 mc.

I'm catching on to the brand new approach, slowly.


It's nice to have a method that doesn't yell "logr - midline" all the time. They're there, just in proportion with everything else.
chart one, drawn-up shape inside GF on left and before the first trade, discussion:
It had a 2 ( | ) amidst a 4 ( . ), and 2's work well with replication and 4's don't (from the rows' '+', '-'). 2 in the GF was not alone, and so at least an implied |_ was somewhere there.
I found a balance, then, so a 1 was definitely in the works. This led me to 3, comparing the balance pattern |_ with the Gann Fan and its anchor point. Only one (or a third, of which I saw none) would win, and my money was on the balance pattern and its midline or a <>1 - column copy of it.
This paid off, and I later used, in chart two, a horizontal line that price was heading vertical toward, and thus which I counted as an anchor point for the purposes of the second and third trades. I also figured the highlighted tension-/functionally-opposing tiny triangles highlighted in chart two held support in place, and the ' . - |_ ' going on was enough for <>1 to carry price far above. There was a hint of inter-GF (latter not shown) symmetry I then unconsciously must have realized, which is like decision grid space 1 (upper left), except that the white line segment is deviation-like, which is 2 and in the middle of the turnaround.
Anyhow, price rebounds to the (first) GF's lowest line, which also correlates with the balance pattern within it.

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on the decision grid called 'chart anchors for TL's':
I'm fairly certain I discovered an important relation in trendline drawing, and am anxious to share it with others. The above does sound a little mixed up; I'll have to explain in full detail what the decision grid says, because others will realize it's only several common-sense notions about (random) patterns that tie together neatly in one graph. This decision grid, in its current form, is something I hope a lot of traders will use one day. (I THINK I can get through the week without more rewrites....)
It is very simple, unlike most of the stuff I write on or how I write about most of the stuff I write on. Just give me a little time to explain why it works so well. (Though I'm likely the only reader, currently. ; )


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Here's a phrase: " attitude-behavior consistency ". "logical consistency between beliefs and attitudes, attitudes and intentions, and intentions and behavior" source. It goes on: " rationality cannot be achieved for [a certain] behavior unless people have a threshold level of how-to and awareness knowledge ". I guess rationality is a predecessor of logical consistency, since logic . another: "The word 'logic' involves the attempt to describe rules by which reason operates, so that orderly reasoning can be taught."
"orderly reasoning" is a tough one. I'll try a chain of definitions:

" Facts are verifiable information.[5] Simple facts are often stated as propositions: "Apples are a type of fruit." The opposite statement—"Apples are not a type of fruit"—is still a properly formulated proposition, even though it is false (not a fact). Most statements of fact are compound facts: e.g., that apples exist, that fruit exists, that there are multiple types of fruit, etc.
A premise is a proposition that is used as the foundation for drawing conclusions. For example:
Premise: "Apples are a type of fruit."
Premise: "All types of fruit are food."
Conclusion: "Therefore, apples are food."
If either premise is false, then the conclusion will also be false. Even when both premises are true, the conclusion can be false if the process of combining the premises is logically invald. " -- proposition
"A propositional attitude is a relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition. They are often assumed to be the simplest components of thought and can express meanings or content that can be true or false. In being a type of attitude they imply that a person can have different mental postures towards a proposition, for example, believing, desiring, or hoping, and thus they imply intentionality.
Linguistically, they are denoted by an embedded "that" clause, for example, 'Sally believed that she had won'.
Propositional attitudes have directions of fit: some are meant to reflect the world, others to influence it.... We can accept it, assert it, believe it, command it, contest it, declare it, deny it, doubt it, enjoin it, exclaim it, expect it. " -- propositional attitude
" An agent's intention in performing an action is his or her specific purpose in doing so, the end or goal that is aimed at, or intended to accomplish. Whether an action is successful or unsuccessful depends at least on whether the intended result was brought about. Other consequences of someone's acting are called unintentional. However, recent research in experimental philosophy has shown that other factors may also matter for whether or not an action is counted as intentional. Intentional behavior can also be just thoughtful and deliberate goal-directedness. " -- intention
" In logic, an argument is a set of one or more declarative sentences (or "propositions") known as the premises along with another declarative sentence (or "proposition") known as the conclusion. Aristotle held that any logical argument could be reduced to two premises and a conclusion.[1] Premises are sometimes left unstated in which case they are called missing premises " -- premise
" Cause and effect (also written as cause-effect or cause/effect) refers to the philosophical concept of causality, in which an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event. " -- cause and effect
" Linguistics . pertaining to a relationship among linguistic elements that can substitute for each other in a given context, as the relationship of sun in The sun is shining to other nouns, as moon, star, or light, that could substitute for it in that sentence, or of is shining to was shining, shone, will shine, etc., as well as to is rising, is setting, etc. " -- paradigmatic
" An abstract object is an object which does not exist at any particular time or place, but rather exists as a type of thing (as an idea, or abstraction). In philosophy, an important distinction is whether an object is considered abstract or concrete. Abstract objects are sometimes called abstracta (sing. abstractum) and concrete objects are sometimes called concreta (sing. concretum). The type-token distinction identifies that physical objects are tokens of a particular type of thing. The "type" that it is a part of is itself an abstract object. The abstract-concrete distinction is often introduced and initially understood in terms of paradigmatic examples of objects of each kind:
Examples of Abstract and Concrete Objects
AbstractaConcreta
TennisA tennis player
RednessAn inscription of the word "red"
FiveFive cats
JusticeA court
HumanismA human being " -- abstract object
"Abstract nouns, on the other hand, refer to abstract objects; that is, ideas or concepts (such as justice or hatred). While this distinction is sometimes exclusive, some nouns have multiple senses, including both concrete and abstract ones; consider, for example, the noun art, which usually refers to a concept (e.g., Art is an important element of human culture) but which can refer to a specific artwork in certain contexts (e.g., I put my daughter's art up on the fridge). " -- abstract noun
" Reason is a mental faculty found in humans, that is able to generate conclusions from assumptions or premises. In other words, it is amongst other things the means by which rational beings propose specific reasons, or explanations of cause and effect. In contrast to reason as an abstract noun, a reason is a consideration which explains or justifies. " -- reason

So reason crosses the boundary between abstract and concrete objects. ' explanations of cause and effect ' involves logic between events, where much plausible logic between ingredients of an event may be left to belief etc. generalized from other events not directly, logically related, that is,
logical consistency between beliefs and attitudes, attitudes and intentions, and intentions and behavior" involves paradigmaticism and all precede action, which reason serves.
Thus, reason between events and logical consistency between different approaches to physically approaching action upon a reason's wideness of information necessary to reach a conclusion, is the transferability of an event to be reasoned.

on information:
" The Information Mapping Method (The MethodTM) is a systematic approach for writing and organizing information more effectively.
Unlike traditional writing, The Method is based on research into how the human mind actually reads, processes, remembers, and retrieves information, and...
providing training, coaching, and editing support to help everyone in your organization master the Method as a new way to think and write, and
establishing efficient new systems and processes for developing, managing, and maintaining your communications. "

While the transferability of an event to be reasoned is most easily done through a business-like position and rank social order paper/computer-shared thought, physical action needs must first involve beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behavior in transferring nonjob activity habits (say, trigger points' activation of muscle sets used in a particular activity, as noted in last post) to perform whichever is needed to do what the information says to do.

expectancy:
"{if} There is a positive correlation between efforts and performance,
{then} Favorable performance will result in a desirable reward,
The reward will satisfy an important need,
{and} The desire to satisfy the need is strong enough to make the effort worthwhile."

belief -- You don't know. Solid ground a method is, and There. Skills must be at dependability-consistency stage.
attitude -- Let go / adapt use-of. It's gonna happen; can set a situation from an attitude, use a situation created with an attitude to guide a trade, etc. Also can ruin thousands of trades. Can be turned into a method, for instance if one uses one like the blue highlighted text and the circles picture and other text it goes with.
intentions -- mm. Protects device -- leverage and base cash -- while do skills involved to position device. Perhaps there is a cycle of intentions that the last quote above deals with.
behavior -- Disinterested money-earner, fascinated skills performer.

I could add an intentions cycle from the Expectancy Theory variables to project my attention circles method of guiding attitude. Kind of a psychological mm -- Great!
Something, at last.

As noted earlier, I believe in my newly-done decision grid for anchoring TL's. This starts its own cycle of trading high and low of its existence, thus lessening the burden of an attitude ABOUT trading this or that method, about my skill at trading etc. This all adds up to effectively entering and exiting a chart for profit when all charts naturally work on an emotion or manic-depressive cycle; the trader would impulse into a bad trade via to other-situation copy-and-answer (see above), have an overly simplistic attitude about how to trade, and otherwise malabsorb this cycle, intermittently saying 'what am I doing here?' for all the losses and inconsistencies one gets and does. Thus, I use the blue-text / circles approach to watch for negative influences on my skill and trade using the TL-anchor decision grid.

Then I guess I need rules : " Norm (philosophy), a kind of sentence or a reason to act, feel or believe ".
A directive for each type of application of the "attitude-behavior consistency" phrase's range, from belief to attitude to intention to behavior. Thus, what to make attitude/behavior consistent, written well enough.
The rule is to obey the TL anchors decision grid in drawing TL's one then trades PA around, and protect each trade with the blue-text / circles psych and mm rules.

mc'ed on a new idea again. Circle appears to be a perfect compactness (credit, this thread) of price exuberance.

(Here's the rest of it.)
So what I did wrong, was read the direction right and the compactness/expansion wrong, so that price twice bounced close to my price on the major circle, never going through, bounced a few more times on the hz at the major circle, and once extensively on the minor circle.

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2 more mc's. Changed decision grid's order and row/column names.

Another mc.
2 more.
-140pips after missing a series of deviations that superceded an older TL. mc.
mc.

FINALLY.
I hit one. Get ready for some charts.
Nah. The thrill didn't even last. I wanted to show even spatiality between TL's. 1
Really, it was just a glorified GF, capturing on a different chart the concept of deviation series I missed last time.


Then I did this. Painful to watch price lowering itself to my exit, and hesitant to tackle this area after spacing it so well.


Weird -- I blocked the chart and looked only at the fast-changing tick, exiting exactly when I'd thought and not recorded where it'd exit: Fight going still, drop, and split the spike, (apparently) ignoring line (with mid-'ing it.) Some kind of attention deficit benefit.


09312010 1642 24 Apr 2009 2pct an h, 3 trades, 19h
Alright, I'm trading again.

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(new rules)
the work involved:

1. Proportion is always skewed and focus overly much, when prefer to follow a trendline over a shape, that is, a set of trend angles;
2. handdraw, whether or not one draws each shape, and rank trendlines, once understand them;
3. understand big view, refresh small view, and even chart spatiality between lines;
4. match trade to lines decided on, and keep stop within and trail limit beyond the current trade's reason(s);
5. and give P/L hourly rate (ex.: 09312010 1642 24 Apr 2009 2pct an h, 3 trades, 19h).

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Whoops, not. mc'ed. Am cutting off mc's when I get tired of watching my trade fail, which is often at 55 pips loss, not my standard 200 pips or an occasional 125 pips. If I put in the work to get a trade, then I want to get it, not sit around for the Reason to go through and thus waste time.
In this one, continued the handdrawn shapes, as noted below in

.

mc'ed full score this time.
Major shape drawn, was the result:

Got this trade; it's a case of laziness. Laziness and fooling oneself seem to be different sides of the same coin.






the work involved:

1. Proportion is always skewed and focus overly much, when prefer to follow a trendline over a shape, that is, a set of trend angles, and, on correctly projecting the set of trend angles from a single trendline's shape, single-reason trades deserve a saying, "Laziness and fooling oneself seem to be different sides of the same coin;"
2. handdraw, whether or not one draws each shape, and rank trendlines, once understand them;
3. understand big view, refresh small view, and even chart spatiality between lines;
4. match trade to lines decided on, and keep stop within and trail limit beyond the current trade's reason(s);
5. and give P/L hourly rate (ex.: 09312010 1642 24 Apr 2009 2pct an h, 3 trades, 19h).

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(post #1: new)

on a few cognitive errors I make often:

1. Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I don't trust them' when refuse to work;
4. and, on having simple defiance vs. the probable, thus understand big and refresh small view, and even and rank chart spatiality.

Match trade to lines decided on,
and keep stop within and trail limit beyond the current trade's reason(s) and over 1:1 rr,
and give P/L hourly rate (ex.: 09312010 1642 24 Apr 2009 2pct an h, 3 trades, 19h).

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(new post#1)

Attachment (similars: trad'l, Attachment )

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the ordering, with examples, of cognitive errors that go with my method:

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. the obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings:
   or ignored or undrawn patterns' trendlines,
   arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      in concerning a small, readily doable structure without concern for or deriving as an important pattern the significance of the rest of the overall structure,
      fear the big, get lost in the small, get stuck from moving from the perfectly drawn, overly static(ly considered) average;

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Breakdown of each cognitive error into its components and then application of those components in the older blue text and circles approach has one realize how all cognitive errors may be fit together.

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Attachment


I draw the lower symbols (in blue, next) to form little kneejerk adjustments, which tend to fade in affect, to my overall trading cycle.

time and effect:
separate from chart, just before......influential.. modest
together, just before.......................accurate... none
during........................................divisive.... destructive
together, just after.......................deep.. none
separate, just after.........................potential... strong

Symbols description:
"u(c)" is lack of conscious awareness, or more generally, ingress or egress, boundaries and affect:
--(>) level or direction,
.|_ something being (possibly) outside of the box,
or |O a nondescript object (dot with contents) with something blocking or about to wrap around it;

"--ei->" overwhelmed attention (ei: ecstacy-impulse, a range of being overwhelmed):
. , | anchor or reframe from and logr or midline using the shape,
~'ed, being balanced ;

" _/_/" chemical/brain speed or advancement, such as delta serotonin interaction, theta GABA resilience, alpha acetycholine confrontation, beta dopamine dominance:
+- plus and minus, and
<> maturity or more or less.


* I am an amateur playing with this. The description is for entertainment purposes only.

________________________________________


Example of a cognitive error described through the blue text and circles approach:




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Match trade to lines decided on,
and keep stop within and trail limit beyond the current trade's reason(s) and over 1:1 rr,
and give P/L hourly rate (ex.: 09312010 1642 24 Apr 2009 2pct an h, 3 trades, 19h).

14 mc's in a row, avg 2 1/2 trades each.

redid graph; new language with it.
10042010 corner originates, corner-dot aligns, lines simplify and balance [either side of the dashed vertical line on the graph] at a dot of opposing angles breaks a second shape
Got the trade backwards (thinking it'd hit the top first, then the triangle below); still, it made it through after the stupid in-trade drawdown.
Mc'ed after this, for 14, having made a short a little after the long's exit.
cognitive error on it: 5D
What was interesting, after the fact and on the first trade, was how so much balance merged with a deviation of a triangle to run the price upwards.


why so much balance with dvn:


I have an idea to draw on the graph with arithmetic math symbols, to show the series of actions the price-time line took. This'd help a lot to understanding and thus breaking through this low-trade-count problem I currently have.

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While not exactly original, getting a different perspective via slowly rolling the chart in one direction while keeping the scale unfixed provides new technical interpretation of the chart. It's similar to changing scale running left-button-held mouse along right or below chart, only not of my own volition in a sense, so a view I may not think of usually/consciously.



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(method)

any update ha pattern ?

Of course! Ever closer.

And thank you for visiting.

(update)


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trade process




1 Identify interference.

(psych)


limits of thought
within self * -- description of upper middle symbols in TL anchor graph (found below):

"u(c)" lack of conscious awareness, or more generally, ingress or egress, boundaries and affect:
.|_ something being (possibly) outside of the box, or |O a nondescript object (dot with contents) with something blocking or about to wrap around it

" _/_/" chemical/brain speed or advancement, such as delta serotonin interaction, theta GABA resilience, alpha acetycholine confrontation, beta dopamine dominance:
+- plus and minus, and <> maturity or more or less;
(angle) ~'ed, being balanced, that is, with an angle or between angles

"--ei->" overwhelmed attention (ei: ecstacy-impulse, a range of being overwhelmed):
. , | anchor or reframe from, logr or midline using the shape; thus, for instance, the first may stumble one and the second block oneself

* I am an amateur playing with this. The description and use are for entertainment purposes only.




2 Adjust view.

(cognitive errors)


cognitive errors vs. drawing pattern symbols that represent the price-time line effectively:

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings, example of being:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings:
   arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. A during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. B during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. C partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. D partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      a (readily) perfectly done structure treated statically, the big surroundings unknowable, and thus either fear the big and wander lost in or refuse to budge from the small.

3 Define function.


(TL anchor graph)


This graph's symbolicized patterns each start TL's; NOTE, top middle symbols optional:
[center]

pattern-symbol examples: trad'l,




4 Protect trade.

(mm)


Match trade to lines decided on,
keep stop within and trail limit beyond the current trade's reason(s) and over 1:1 rr,
and give P/L hourly rate (ex.: 09312010 1642 24 Apr 2009 2pct an h, 3 trades, 19h).



5 Trade.


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This is an mc I drew the second picture's TL's of after the fact. Just thought it was noteworthy, what with all the opportunities to draw nearly any TL within it.
I've never fully considered a top and bottom of a run separately, which, having done so, I find is beneficial.
Also, I used a rep type of line pattern, which I've not done in a while; a (forward) screen went with it. The rep is the two TL's of the two copied patterns right before the final climb before the big drop.
The two midlines also had a lot of 'umph' to them, embracing the strength of the entire drop in two fell swings.








I tell you what, I hated to bring into the fray the mess line patterns are. I'll just have to clean them up, because some kind of guideline to drawing TL's is necessary, the TL anchor graph being only good for functional continuity of (self and) chart areas.

Here, I have overlain some TL anchor graph symbols effectively in a small, pivotal area of the pictures above:

(update)

NOTE: Exact same pictures.
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trade process




1 Identify interference.

(psych)


limits of thought
within self * -- description of upper middle symbols in TL anchor graph (found below):

"u(c)" lack of conscious awareness, or more generally, ingress or egress, boundaries and affect:
.|_ something being (possibly) outside of the box, or |O a nondescript object (dot with contents) with something blocking or about to wrap around it

" _/_/" chemical/brain speed or advancement, such as delta serotonin interaction, theta GABA resilience, alpha acetycholine confrontation, beta dopamine dominance:
+- plus and minus, and <> maturity or more or less;
(angle) ~'ed, being balanced, that is, with an angle or between angles

"--ei->" overwhelmed attention (ei: ecstacy-impulse, a range of being overwhelmed):
. , | anchor or reframe from, logr or midline using the shape; thus, for instance, the first may stumble one and the second block oneself


* I am an amateur playing with this. The description and use are for entertainment purposes only.

The TL anchor graph is just as balanced as it is contrastive, unlike the other line pattern cycles, which is why I use it with the above psych symbols to record how my own life may influence my trades.

Attachment





2 Adjust view.

(cognitive errors)


cognitive errors vs. drawing pattern symbols that represent the price-time line effectively:

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings, example of being:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings:
   arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. A during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. B during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. C partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. D partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      a (readily) perfectly done structure treated statically, the big surroundings unknowable, and thus either fear the big and wander lost in or refuse to budge from the small.

3 Draw chart.

(line patterns)


logr-midline cycles: uses logr, midline over a space of two or more inconclusive patterns to compare balance with contrast, where matured patterns ( trad'l, Attachment ) or single candles (importance selected through news, etc.) are used separately/differently
b devsym (continuous),
b>c viral (with anchors),
b=c tag (that is, the TL Anchor Graph (psych graph minus the psych descriptions and middle top symbols); centers with one or both),
c>b rep (-etition, which often skews on the chart), or
c lc ("logarithmic cycle"; contrastive size or obvious contrast balancing logr's with midlines)



4 Protect trade.

(mm)


Match trade to lines decided on,
keep stop within and trail limit beyond the current trade's reason(s) and over 1:1 rr,
and give P/L hourly rate (ex.: 09312010 1642 24 Apr 2009 2pct an h, 3 trades, 19h).




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5 Trade.


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(update)

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trade process




1 Identify individual response.

(psych)


limits of thought



Attachment


The purpose of the graph above
is to correct the trader's responses to discovered facts gotten while creating a chart study
that subvert trading that study.



2 Adjust overall view.

(cognitive errors)


cognitive errors vs. drawing pattern symbols that represent the price-time line effectively:

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings, example of being:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings:
   arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. A during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. B during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. C partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. D partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      a (readily) perfectly done structure treated statically, the big surroundings unknowable, and thus either fear the big and wander lost in or refuse to budge from the small.

3 Draw chart.

(line patterns)


logr-midline cycles: uses logr, midline over a space of two or more inconclusive patterns to compare balance with contrast, where matured patterns ( trad'l, Attachment ) or single candles (importance selected through news, etc.) are used separately/differently
b devsym (continuous),
b>c viral (with anchors),
b=c tag (that is, the TL Anchor Graph; centers with one or both),
c>b rep (-etition, which often skews on the chart), or
c lc ("logarithmic cycle"; contrastive size or obvious contrast balancing logr's with midlines)



4 Protect ongoing trade.

(mm)


Match trade to lines decided on,
keep stop within and trail limit beyond the current trade's reason(s) and over 1:1 rr,
and give P/L hourly rate (ex.: 09312010 1642 24 Apr 2009 2pct an h, 3 trades, 19h).



5 Trade.

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(yet another: ignore at will)


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method







Overall.

1. chart: 1'TF with this indicator (since built-in MT4 candles are not fully adjustable) w/o a grid and fixing various scales.
2. chart study with: Trendlines (rays, dotted, solid, of different colors, and with a drawn-in arrow); squares, ellipses, triangles; equidistant channels and Gann Fan
3. # lots = stop's # pips then reduce both depending on leverage (about 25-40:1) and current price
4. usual trade 30-100 pips on the g/u, depending on the reason(s) I obtain from the chart study
5. record, "(date and 0000 time) (trade's chart study period) (percent P/L an hour) (# hours studied AND traded) (# trades in entire trade cycle)"

I switch off using groups of trend angles for direction, sets of trendlines for path along that direction, and special bars for exceptions.
From there, I'll do a good job focusing if done with a reasonable perspective.


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focus



At times, I really want to focus and tear down something:

trad'l patterns, regular shapes, or

How I focus :

-- symbols, top to bottom --


(where one tests the top vs. the bottom, then the second with the fourth, and all for the chemoelectric necessity of the flow of interaction (middle) )

1. being overwhelmed with something against one's supposed nature, sense and greater benefit, and then going along with it to see what one keeps ('ecstacy - impulse')
2. perspective on what impression received ('reframe-anchor')
3. the cycle of one's existence, reacting to something ( '.') along one's baseline path ('_')
4. (un)consciousness, how much information one can hold at a time
5. balance, especially a gut-instinct trace of the fight-or-flight response

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perspective

Sometimes, it's easier to switch off my brain and draw the same way over and over again, as if in cycles. b=balance, c=conflict; methods in posts:

1. b devsym (continuous),
2. b>c viral (with anchors),
3. b=c tag (that is, the TL Anchor Graph; centers with one or both),
4. c>b rep (-etition, which often skews on the chart), or
5. c lc ("logarithmic cycle"; contrastive size or obvious contrast balancing logr's with midlines)

Because I naturally switch my perspective often, I'm bound to make mistakes in doing so. Thus, I made a list of cognitive errors for such a time:

 

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings, example of being:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings: arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. A during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. B during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. C partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. D partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      a (readily) perfectly done structure treated statically, the big surroundings unknowable, and thus either fear the big and wander lost in or refuse to budge from the small.

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purpose: (energy collections) Collect opportunities. (space diligence) Financial due diligence is critical. (time timeliness) Strike while the iron's hot.
study: (perfection) You can never do so well as to lose it all. (serendipity) One thing leads to another. (wrong way ignorance) Treat every day anew.
loss: (effort control) Magnify the smallest loss. It's about consequences: “the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective”. Make a mountain out of a molehill: Take control. (proportion) Cut losers short and let winners run (taking care to protect some of win, lest one lose it).


trade
Diligently control collected timeliness, ignorant.
Financial due diligence is critical.
Magnify the smallest loss. It's about consequences: “the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective”. Make a mountain out of a molehill: Take control.
Collect opportunities.
Strike while the iron's hot.
Treat every day anew.



reason
Proportion focus, perspective's perfection serendipitous.


Cut losers short (letting some in-trade drawdown happen, so one captures a bigger one) and let winners run (taking care to protect some of win, lest one lose it all).How I focus :

-- symbols, top to bottom --


(where one tests the top vs. the bottom, then the second with the fourth, and all for the chemoelectric necessity of the flow of interaction (middle) )

1. being overwhelmed with something against one's supposed nature, sense and greater benefit, and then going along with it to see what one keeps ('ecstacy - impulse')
2. perspective on what impression received ('reframe-anchor')
3. the cycle of one's existence, reacting to something ( '.') along one's baseline path ('_')
4. (un)consciousness, how much information one can hold at a time
5. balance, especially a gut-instinct trace of the fight-or-flight response

You can never do so well as to lose it all.

perspective Because I naturally switch my perspective often, I'm bound to make mistakes in doing so. Thus, I made a list of cognitive errors for such a time:

 

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings, example of being:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings: arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. A during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. B during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. C partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. D partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      a (readily) perfectly done structure treated statically, the big surroundings unknowable, and thus either fear the big and wander lost in or refuse to budge from the small.

One thing leads to another.

Sometimes, it's easier to switch off my brain and draw the same way over and over again, as if in cycles. b=balance, c=conflict; methods in posts:

1. b devsym (continuous),
2. b>c viral (with anchors),
3. b=c tag (that is, the TL Anchor Graph; centers with one or both),
4. c>b rep (-etition, which often skews on the chart), or
5. c lc ("logarithmic cycle"; contrastive size or obvious contrast balancing logr's with midlines)

(more nauseating nonsense that looks about the same as before)

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method



1




data

1. chart: 1'TF with this indicator (since built-in MT4 candles are not fully adjustable) w/o a grid and fixing various scales.
2. chart study
   for: groups of trend angles for direction, sets of trendlines for path along that direction, and special bars for exceptions
   with: Trendlines (rays, dotted, solid, of different colors, and with a drawn-in arrow); squares, ellipses, triangles; equidistant channels and Gann Fan
3. # lots = stop's # pips then reduce both depending on leverage (about 25-40:1) and current price
4. usual trade 30-100 pips on the g/u, depending on the reason(s) I obtain from the chart study
5. record, "(date and 0000 time) (trade's chart study period) (percent P/L an hour) (# hours studied AND traded) (# trades in entire trade cycle)"

process

point -> frame -> at ((body's) TL's)
-> ep (with a set accepted pattern, explore along a cycle of the same type how well such a perspective when used into the rest of the chart)
-> cc (the reaction to surviving through this encounter, a tradeable sense of the chart)


Collect opportunities. (Taleb)



errors

 

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings, example of being:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings: arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. A during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. B during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. C partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. D partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      a (readily) perfectly done structure treated statically, the big surroundings unknowable, and thus either fear the big and wander lost in or refuse to budge from the small.

________



Magnify the smallest loss. It's about consequences: “the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective”. Drive can turn into addictive perfection: 'You can never do so well as to lose it all.' Make a mountain out of a molehill: Take control.



angles

(where one tests the top vs. the bottom, then the second with the fourth, and all for the necessity of the flow of interaction (middle) )

2

chart angles: as it looks like (takes practice, examples)


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3
the same pictograph may be used to keep one's own self in tune with trading:

 

1. being overwhelmed with something against one's supposed nature, sense and greater benefit, and then going along with it to see what one keeps ('ecstacy - impulse')
2. perspective on what impression received ('reframe-anchor')
3. the cycle of one's existence, reacting to something ( '.') along one's baseline path ('_')
4. (un)consciousness, how much information one can hold at a time
5. balance, especially a gut-instinct trace of the fight-or-flight response

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cycle

4

It's easier to switch off my brain and draw the same way over and over again, as if in cycles. b=balance (/channel, symmetric pattern that projects TL's for a far-reaching area, etc.), c=conflict (/deviation, grid- / midline-like bouncing around a wide area, etc.); methods in posts:

1. b devsym (continuous),
2. b>c viral (with anchors),
3. b=c tag (that is, the TL Anchor Graph; centers with one or both),
4. c>b rep (-etition, which often skews on the chart), or
5. c lc ("logarithmic cycle"; contrastive size or obvious contrast balancing logr's with midlines)

5

At times, the chart shows distinct patterns, which are exceptions to any of the noted cycles:

trad'l patterns, regular shapes, or

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angle
trade
stretch
run
line * angle patterns:
big area
medium area
small area
TL's



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(yet another lousy update)



(environs for trading: ):

 

1. chart: 1'TF with this indicator (since built-in MT4 candles are not fully adjustable) w/o a grid and fixing various scales.
2. chart study
   for: groups of trend angles (opposite, same) for direction, sets of trendlines (bunch, ends) for path along that direction, and special bars for exceptions
   with: Trendlines (rays, dotted, solid, of different colors, and with a drawn-in arrow); squares, ellipses, triangles; equidistant channels and Gann Fan
3. # lots = stop's # pips then reduce both depending on leverage (about 25-40:1) and current price
4. usual trade 30-100 pips on the g/u, depending on the reason(s) I obtain from the chart study
5. record, "(date and 0000 time) (trade's chart study period) (percent P/L an hour) (# hours studied AND traded) (# trades in entire trade cycle)"

Magnify the smallest loss.
It's about consequences: “the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective”.
On the other hand, drive can turn attention to detail into addictive perfection: 'You can never do so well as to lose it all.' which is done for the high, and not a solid, profitable cause.
Make a mountain out of a molehill in order to Take control: Support the demise of loss emotionally.








Note how angles fit into which line pattern.

, where






angles:

(where one tests the left vs. the right, then the second with the fourth, and all for the necessity of the flow of interaction (middle) )
(psych interpretation:

1. being overwhelmed with something against one's supposed nature, sense and greater benefit, and then going along with it to see what one keeps ('ecstacy - impulse')
2. perspective on what impression received ('reframe-anchor')
3. the cycle of one's existence, reacting to something ( '.') along one's baseline path ('_')
4. (un)consciousness, how much information one can hold at a time
5. balance, especially a gut-instinct trace of the fight-or-flight response )

patterns:

line patterns....b=balance (/channel, symmetric pattern that projects TL's for a far-reaching area, etc.), c=conflict (/deviation, grid- / midline-like bouncing around a wide area, etc.):

1. b devsym (continuous; any line-segment-only and -one-after-another approach),
2. b>c viral (with anchors; any grid-excessive approach),
3. b=c tag (circles (points) or other shape(s) of regular volume and line segments: tag being the TL Anchor Graph; centers with one or both; an alternate to tag is shape zones, which attaches TL's at time divisors between groups of loose shapes and uses the overlap of these TL's; ),regular shapes (ellipse, rectangle, triangle, line segment with a dot in its middle)
4. c>b rep (-etition, which often skews on the chart; or, any complex pattern and line segment approach),
   Attached Image

   
   or trad'l patterns
5. c lc ("logarithmic cycle"; any approach exactly contrasting logarithmic curves with midlines (fairly much, any trend(s)-divided and thus hand-drawn GF, etc.))

Check shaping process, TL view, and trade.


, where




area:




point -> frame -> at ((body's) TL's)
-> ep (with a set accepted pattern, explore along a cycle of the same type how well such a perspective when used into the rest of the chart)
-> cc (the reaction to surviving through this encounter, a tradeable sense of the chart)
Collect opportunities. (Taleb)





trendline:

 

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings, example of being:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings: arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. A during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. B during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. C partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. D partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      a (readily) perfectly done structure treated statically, the big surroundings unknowable, and thus either fear the big and wander lost in or refuse to budge from the small.

trade:



L ....."Cut your losses short."

Sell a little at a time.
- Disobeys margin-call rule, that is, you can keep going and never really know when to stop.
+ Lose a little, gain a lot.
absolute stops
- Hit too often, too easily bro ker-abused.
+ Encourages active work around this absolute.
Sell when reason ('s area of effect) broke.
- Unclear reason (-ing ability) when wrong, so won't obey it.
+ Similar to "Sell early", only stated so more obviously adjustable.
Cut losses partially and let (the rest) return to BE, then exit.
- Selling at small P/L offends ego after ego gets a taste of a reason that takes care of a much larger area, which conjoins and gets confused with the bigger in-trade drawdown that goes with such an area.
+ Creates sustain-type emotions that go with a dissociation from immediate reality.
Stop early. (That is, "Nip it in the bud.")
- Distracting interruption from the swiftness of the action, may throw off entire session as much as a late exit would.
+ Invokes intuition, thus ego halted, although it's given potential energy to create an excuse with later.

P ......"Let your profits run."

Limit at first reason .
- Small: "checked" ego or big: 'hesitant' ego
+ Big-reason error avoided.
Trail-limit to each partial reason at a time, staying in, what I call soft exuberance level.
- > No-reason, thus blind of a reason
+ Saves spread over a lot of reentries
Limit preset , no-reason .
- Ignores self, circumstances
+ Easier to surround with reason.
Label any reason and treat same-side combos.
- "bottomless", too-trivial feeling that's difficult to target. Reasons mismatched, regardless of pattern that fits partial reasons together being wrong.
+ errors speedily adapted-to.
Intuitively match reason measure in-trade old, slow and regular, to building one profit-pattern. Works pattern-recognition-wise, same with small variation every time.
- Shady controls.
+ Fast.



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Okay, enough rewriting of my method.

Here's some charts, playing off another post's (press "balance"):
. This is a NEW way of drawing TL's for me, using a vertical line so much.
I guess this latter one was an example of devsym, since it involved trend angle changeovers and single candles.

I had an inspiration on how angles and line patterns fit together much closer than I had originally thought.
Maybe this'll allow me to use the latter psychologically.

angles:
(left to right, 1 to 5: Test 1,5; 2,4; 3 (the necessity of the flow of interaction). Logr - | vs. a . at base and/or top, at 5; and, balance (midline) - | vs. a . at middle, at 1. A . with 2 and 4 go with a large space, 4 with a defined frame (/perspective) that may reframe and 2 with emphasizing the | and thus how one side is known and the other unknown and so may incrementally move something across that line.
Finally, 3 has a . vs. a |, which is anchor, . , vs. a | used as a stability (4 reframe, 1 balance, 5 logr (jump), or 2 one side of a line-defined area). All build to 3, which then can go on to any of the line patterns, with respective #'s help.

Thus, angle is a breakdown of (the respective) line pattern(s) into . references.

Testing 5 with 1 in angles' . leads to a | that can logr or midline, which is line pattern 1; testing 1 with 5 cycles via logr's (and the possible occasional extra logr's TL or, conversely, midlines' TL) with a continuous measure of midlines.
2, grid in line pattern, emphasizes line infinitely, and thus, in angle, goes so far as to create all space with a single line; 4's line pattern, repetition, does so with a sharply-defined, lines-delimited space (screen / proxy included) from the point of view of an angles turn, a traditional TL, a trio of copied patterns, or a couple of long-shadowed candles. So, 4's angle takes that point of view as an actual point and takes the lines-delimited space as an actual frame.

Finally, 3 has balance and contrast happen in line patterns.
The extreme idea of balance found in 2 angle and thus basic to that line pattern (which then often skews any sense of contrast),
combined with the point-of-view generalization of contrast in 4 (which then often skews any sense of balance), leads
-- as do 1 and 5 's combination --
to 3's equalling balance and contrast through the . in angle being any regular, and thus center-enabled, shape, and the | in angle being only that,
whether, for examples, part of a larger GF whose lines are broken-up into different places
or the only line so that the price-time line reacts to it in balance, that is, through tracing along it, and later in contrast, that is, dropping or rising precipitously from it. This latter example suggests that balance treated the TL as a | and contrast treated the TL as a . , thus connecting line pattern with angle.

Satisfaction may be all I get from trading.
I believe my current prt, the pattern decision grid on the first post, is about all I can do.
And yet, it's not tensegral enough. It's so piecemeal on the chart, even though the different choices fit together well enough on the grid itself, that I need to figure every one of the choices on the chart and then, somehow, decide which one is more important than another.
So either I figure how to translate the choices' grid fit to use this feature on the chart, or I scrap the prt.
Well, I played a software game a few decades ago that labelled me a "craftsman" (for which "technician" is a synonym)....

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Anyhow, here's a quote from a site I wandered through while trying to figure a complicated ff post today:

" 1/ conflict (antagonistic) games, in which somebody's win implies somebody else's simultaneous loss;
2/ non-antagonistic games, in which the initial data and tasks are equal for all participants and the achiever of the best parameters is the winner. "

This says, to me, that ta/fa study is 2, 'non-antagonistic', and mm (and the trade itself, by implication) is 1, 'antagonistic'.

So, I don't mind sharing my method, by definition.
When it gets to mm, though, I WANT My slice. for

A little silliness until I can get this going again...
And, it's really the broke rs and unknown traders trading against my supposed position, so the antagonistic game 1 naming is moot. The attitude may help, though, somewhere on my journey.

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Okay, after the 15th mc after the last ones reported,
I guess I'll try this "craft" approach.

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(Aargh, I've got to break me....)
CRAFT....!

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Okay.
Now that I'm paying attention to this difficulty that addresses my all-important fault -- mc's -- I've found that yes, on occasion, I AM able to trade effectively without listing line patterns 12345abcde (ten of them). It's knowing when to throw the book at the chart, and when to lay cool and reap the rewards early. I have to read myself, as in poker, I suppose (having only played the game a few times in my life; seems a lot of people here experienced the game regularly, and it seems to fit the occasion.)

In fact, This is worth doing a journal for.
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I guess, then, it's absurd for me to check them off, and instead instructive to note when I use fewer than the maximum number of (ten) patterns. Tomato, tomahto.

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YES! I lost small, about 14 pips, when I sensed I had picked the right chart shape to pay attention to and misinterpreted the direction it told me.
I lose like anybody else, only I usually mc.
I think I took on the mm attitude noted above. It certainly helped.


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(post#1 dump)

core method

What finally got me to "Cut losers short and let winners run" :
[font="Lucida Sans Unicode"]here's a quote from a site I wandered through while trying to figure a complicated ff post today:

" 1/ conflict (antagonistic) games, in which somebody's win implies somebody else's simultaneous loss;
2/ non-antagonistic games, in which the initial data and tasks are equal for all participants and the achiever of the best parameters is the winner. "

This says, to me, that ta/fa study is 2, 'non-antagonistic', and mm (and the trade itself, by implication) is 1, 'antagonistic'.

So, I don't mind sharing my method, by definition.
When it gets to mm, though, I WANT My slice. for

A little silliness until I can get this going again...
And, it's really the broke rs and unknown traders trading against my supposed position, so the antagonistic game 1 naming is moot. The attitude may help, though, somewhere on my journey.

BUILD-A-SHAPE PRT..............how: one frame + one row -> frame's row; prt rules (rows 1&5,2&4 same except for 1,2 i, 4,5 o) apply.

Attached Image

Columns 1,4 description:

a more exacting explanation of the range from trend angles to condensed patterns to line patterns

...........5.......4.........3........2..........1
angles:
(left to right, 1 to 5: Test 1,5; 2,4; 3 (the necessity of the flow of interaction). Logr - | vs. a . at base and/or top, at 5; and, balance (midline) - | vs. a . at middle, at 1. Neither 1 nor 5 are plainly midline or logr, respectively; they each contain an exact shadow of the other, that is, 1, as a midline, balances any logr's that may show themselves, and 5, as a logr, logr's any balances that may show themselves.

A . with 2 and 4 go with a large space, 4 with a defined frame (/perspective) that may reframe and 2 with emphasizing the | and thus how one side is known and the other unknown and so may incrementally move something across that line.

Finally, 3 has a . vs. a |, which is anchor, . , vs. a | used as a stability (4 reframe, 1 balance, 5 logr (jump), or 2 one side of a line-defined area). All build to 3, which then can go on to any of the line patterns, with respective #'s help.


patterns

line patterns....b=balance (/channel, symmetric pattern that projects TL's for a far-reaching area, etc.), c=conflict (/deviation, grid- / midline-like bouncing around a wide area, etc.):

1. b devsym (continuous; any line-segment-only and -one-after-another approach),
2. b>c viral (with anchors; any grid-excessive approach),
3. b=c tag (circles (points) or other shape(s) of regular volume and line segments: tag being the TL Anchor Graph; centers with one or both; an alternate to tag is shape zones, which attaches TL's at time divisors between groups of loose shapes and uses the overlap of these TL's; ),regular shapes (ellipse, rectangle, triangle, line segment with a dot in its middle)
4. c>b rep (-etition, which often skews on the chart; or, any complex pattern and line segment approach) [, with more description under 'angles and patterns']
5. c lc ("logarithmic cycle"; any approach exactly contrasting logarithmic curves with midlines (fairly much, any trend(s)-divided and thus hand-drawn GF, etc.))

Thus, angles and patterns, a geometric relation, the former is a breakdown of (the respective) line pattern(s) into . references.

Testing 5 with 1 in angles' . leads to a | that can logr or midline, which is line pattern 1; testing 1 with 5 cycles via logr's (and the possible occasional extra logr's TL or, conversely, midlines' TL) with a continuous measure of midlines.
2, grid in line pattern, emphasizes line infinitely, and thus, in angle, goes so far as to create all space with a single line.
2 also has more balance than contrast. Thus,
or re the only line so that the price-time line reacts to it in balance, that is, through tracing along it, and later in contrast, that is, dropping or rising precipitously from it. This latter example suggests that balance treated the TL as a | and contrast treated the TL as a . , thus connecting line pattern with angle.
Vs. 2's, 4's line pattern, repetition, does so with a sharply-defined, lines-delimited space (screen / proxy included) from the point of view of an angles turn, a traditional TL, opposition via a pair of matching copied patterns, a trio of copied patterns, or a couple of long-shadowed candles. So, 4's angle takes that point of view as an actual point and takes the lines-delimited space as an actual frame.

Finally, 3 has balance and contrast happen in line patterns.
The extreme idea of balance found in 2 angle and thus basic to that line pattern (which then often skews any sense of contrast),
combined with the point-of-view generalization of contrast in 4 (which then often skews any sense of balance), leads
-- as do 1 and 5 's combination --
to 3's equalling balance and contrast through the . in angle being any regular, and thus center-enabled, shape, and the | in angle being only that,
whether, for examples, part of a larger GF whose lines are broken-up into different places.


Condensed patterns (

or trad'l patterns ) sometimes show. I separate them, because they are exact, and line patterns need a surrounding area to define a pattern with respect to its usage.

Nevertheless, I've been putting the more distinctive versions of each of the shown picture's shapes with, respectively, 1, since it's extreme balance; 5, extreme contrast (one change in the picture, and TL's skew from the condensed pattern into several directions);
5, again, since this matching of logr and midline has one side of the condensed pattern be, on the price-time line, an expanded midline and the other side a logr, resembling a 3 except that there is a very large amount of price-time line involved in the contrast and thus I include it, a condensed-logr (since logr is usually the latter, right side of the price-time line that I've seen), with 5.

Next are the two boxes, a 3, which 'divides' a regular shape into two of the same, and two significantly parallel lines, because of the diagonal line between them creating a little tension, a 2.

Anyhow, identifying condensed patterns with one or another line pattern / angle is only conditional in aligning with one or another #, which is why I treat them separately.

other stuff

............5.......4.........3........2..........1
angles:
(psych interpretation:

1. being overwhelmed with something against one's supposed nature, sense and greater benefit, and then going along with it to see what one keeps ('ecstacy - impulse')
2. perspective on what impression received ('reframe-anchor')
3. the cycle of one's existence, reacting to something ( '.') along one's baseline path ('_')
4. (un)consciousness, how much information one can hold at a time
5. balance, especially a gut-instinct trace of the fight-or-flight response )

(environs for trading)

 

1. chart: 1'TF with this indicator (since built-in MT4 candles are not fully adjustable) w/o a grid and fixing various scales.
2. chart study
   for: groups of trend angles (opposite, same) for direction, sets of trendlines (bunch, ends) for path along that direction, and special bars for exceptions
   with: Trendlines (rays, dotted, solid, of different colors, and with a drawn-in arrow); squares, ellipses, triangles; equidistant channels and Gann Fan
3. # lots = stop's # pips then reduce both depending on leverage (about 25-40:1) and current price
4. usual trade 30-100 pips on the g/u, depending on the reason(s) I obtain from the chart study
5. record, "(date and 0000 time) (trade's chart study period) (percent P/L an hour) (# hours studied AND traded) (# trades in entire trade cycle)(highest in-trade drawdown)"

Magnify the smallest loss.
It's about consequences: “the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective”.
On the other hand, drive can turn attention to detail into addictive perfection: 'You can never do so well as to lose it all.' which is done for the high, and not a solid, profitable cause.
Make a mountain out of a molehill in order to Take control: Support the demise of loss emotionally.









area:




point -> frame -> at ((body's) TL's)
-> ep (with a set accepted pattern, explore along a cycle of the same type how well such a perspective when used into the rest of the chart)
-> cc (the reaction to surviving through this encounter, a tradeable sense of the chart)
Collect opportunities. (Taleb)





trendline:

 

1. too close to a trendline and its immediate surroundings, example of being:
   Fooling oneself does, in the latter, proportion skew and focus overly much, when prefer trendline or shape over their contents, trend angles,
2. too close to a trendline even while considering the overall surroundings:
   vs., to be lazy in the former, with a single trendline's shape do single-reason trades with good, lax proportion make and wide in-trade drawdown happen;
3. shaky on depending on an overall surrounding's trendlines:
   handdraw and rank trendlines, to avoid switching from lazy of a device and then 'the somebody else's lines, I mistrust them' when refuse to work;
4. ignoring a trendline in one's immediate surroundings:
   on having simple defiance vs. obviously probable trendline against one's direction
5. ignoring a trendline somewhere in one's overall surroundings: arrogance vs. the missing, as an example attitude, thus toward being able to understand big and refresh small view and to even and rank chart spatiality:
   1. A during study or trade (experience), in the explained:
      missing,obvious in overall viewed structure;
   2. B during study or trade (experience), in the unexplained:
      (proportional structure) have one reason and its direction with so much unexplained area that it works surprisingly well, sloppily long, or painfully wrong, with respect to the unexplained area;
   3. C partially explained, on study side not/less:
      (time ordering structure) (blind) skip old for new or new for old or (stubborn) pass on old into new completely to resist the new and embrace the old or resist the old and embrace the new;
   4. D partially explained, on experience side not/less:
      a (readily) perfectly done structure treated statically, the big surroundings unknowable, and thus either fear the big and wander lost in or refuse to budge from the small.

trade:



L ....."Cut your losses short."

Sell a little at a time.
- Disobeys margin-call rule, that is, you can keep going and never really know when to stop.
+ Lose a little, gain a lot.
absolute stops
- Hit too often, too easily bro ker-abused.
+ Encourages active work around this absolute.
Sell when reason ('s area of effect) broke.
- Unclear reason (-ing ability) when wrong, so won't obey it.
+ Similar to "Sell early", only stated so more obviously adjustable.
Cut losses partially and let (the rest) return to BE, then exit.
- Selling at small P/L offends ego after ego gets a taste of a reason that takes care of a much larger area, which conjoins and gets confused with the bigger in-trade drawdown that goes with such an area.
+ Creates sustain-type emotions that go with a dissociation from immediate reality.
Stop early. (That is, "Nip it in the bud.")
- Distracting interruption from the swiftness of the action, may throw off entire session as much as a late exit would.
+ Invokes intuition, thus ego halted, although it's given potential energy to create an excuse with later.

P ......"Let your profits run."

Limit at first reason .
- Small: "checked" ego or big: 'hesitant' ego
+ Big-reason error avoided.
Trail-limit to each partial reason at a time, staying in, what I call soft exuberance level.
- > No-reason, thus blind of a reason
+ Saves spread over a lot of reentries
Limit preset , no-reason .
- Ignores self, circumstances
+ Easier to surround with reason.
Label any reason and treat same-side combos.
- "bottomless", too-trivial feeling that's difficult to target. Reasons mismatched, regardless of pattern that fits partial reasons together being wrong.
+ errors speedily adapted-to.
Intuitively match reason measure in-trade old, slow and regular, to building one profit-pattern. Works pattern-recognition-wise, same with small variation every time.
- Shady controls.
+ Fast.

(new discretionary system)

core method

mm
Closely relates chart study to attitude.
"Cut losers short and let winners run" is mm, a conflict game :
" 1/ conflict (antagonistic) games, in which somebody's win implies somebody else's simultaneous loss;
2/ non-antagonistic games, in which the initial data and tasks are equal for all participants and the achiever of the best parameters is the winner. "
: Study is 2. So, I don't mind sharing my method, by definition.
When it gets to mm, though, I WANT My slice. for
Keep a diary afterward: Am I aware of my trade cycle's spin position before I act; and, do I have the effective, contrastive chart-study - then - mm attitude follow-through? Do I allow myself to watch proven concepts, put low physical stops on my chart method ideas I'm testing, and keep flexible enough to change my trade via new chart info's change of the risk?

chart study
BUILD-A-SHAPE PRT.....How: one frame + one row -> frame's row; prt rules (rows 1&5,2&4 same).

-- I believe my system embodies this (to which here concurs):
" create a strategy where u should know how u going to act in advance before u put on trade and not after.and more importantly when u lost control over ur risk and reward. "

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(old post#1)

the 'system' above

(new post#1)
on only two pictures to explain it all: Yeah, that's right. Two almost ... alright, no negative attitude. It's just that ....well, okay. Anyhow, this is right for me, and I will explain it if it works for a while. It includes lots of ingredients from the recent past, so anyone may consider its value.

The method:

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the "trading is life" formula (on the left):
On the leftmost side of the "trading is life" formula,
'p' is physical TP or SL;
'n' is manual TP or SL;
and, '-' is there to note no TP or SL was used, that is, no trade is taken.
In the second and fourth areas of the same formula,
a (higher and lower area) is distinguished.
Especially --
middle, to the left of the "=" in the 'trading is life' formula: The higher is the brain and the lower the body, as in,
a | (level) on the lower portion is, if to the right, the vertebrae and thus a line that transmits a signal to the body and its action string to do or be something.
The brain then picks up on the string's action taken upon this order and combines it with what it already knows of the string and the | (level) working together, before transmitting to the body's | another signal. Note that the brain may only be passing on sensed knowledge of an object that the | plainly gives to the string, and the string then does most all of the work with the object.
rightmost: The body is | (level) and exchanges back and forth
with the brain's sensed _ (field) -- which suggests the example noted about the brain sometimes only passing on sensed knowledge of an object, only also opening up the possibility of the brain having more of an opportunity of creating an original field and the body, when it has the _ and the brain has the |, going more for a sensed field.

"real"
and "true", second from the right and at the '=' in the 'trading is life' formula:
Overall truth is a combination of sense remembered and observed. Reality is an inter-entity - enforced exchange of truths and imaginings that benefit the entity exchanging in relation to continuing its survival as it perceives it.
_ Field is a perception, a careful balance between one's own and competing motive-and-dominance groups
of .'s in (my model of) the brain;
| level, where one's exchange of objects/signals lies, depending on one's usual field(s).
Entity is that brain-body individual that only contains this formula.

The plus-sign, third from the left in the formula and at the '=', is a graph that puts 'true' on the x- and 'real' on the y-axis. Through careful use of the definitions above, as reflected in the subject's (profitable trading through reading charts technically) ability to achieve its goal which is a truth (in this case, exactly how the chart will look during and around the trade), a reality may be achieved that creates
upper left of graph -- real profit, false understanding of the chart (either through body (gut) understanding being true and acted upon, or a temporarily true brain interpretation of the chart that is, overall, wildly inaccurate);
lower right of graph -- real loss, true understanding of the chart (acted on a level signal that was different than what the body and brain understood as true (such as a distraction, negative attitude, or impulse) that suggested that another level told oneself to respond to a nontrade issue that superceded doing well at trading).
(balance)
and (maturity (the <>'s) have been explained previously.

The right-hand picture, a pattern recognition table, has been partially explained in other posts, especially the first and fourth columns from the left.
The meaning of the 'shape-building prt' can be holistic at times, so that, for instance,
the second-from-left column may at once be taken as the number of axes in a shape (triangle: 3; line: 2; etc.) and in several shapes (a triangle with a line emerging from it: 3, because the line is a given; three triangles, two high-low and one, later, at a price between them, within a rectangle: 5, because a line helps define the overall pattern, along with the three triangles, or, alternately, if the pattern is used as a rectangle and the center point drawn from extensively, also 5, or the latter drawn simply from with a line, 4).


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It was only after a post I did this morning, that I realized the connection between logarithmic curves and midlines:
They're a range.

Thus, my 'build-a-shape prt' expresses this range:

The central purpose of the build-a-shape prt is to leverage the range from midline to logarithm in a chart, so that,
in the top row of the prt, midline and logr overlap into a cycle,
in the middle row, midline and logr are simple and plainly separated once,
and, in the bottom row, midline and logr are complex / distinct in their relation with each other and plainly separated a bunch of times.

PA does seem to react as described in column 3, thus far.