Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(post#1, new version)
-- I realize the formula description is all over the place. The only portion I usually look at is the table to the right of the '='.

method

skill order

1. warming up / attune to using logr and midline to make TL's, i.e., detail (exercise (L,M-type trend angle ID's) given an example):
2. TL-type diversification, using the third and fourth columns of the shape-building prt (selected to the right of the '=' in "trading is life" formula) and, as desired, older posts' descriptions of the five types of TL's:
3. identification of ranking TL's and their appropriate lengths:
4. smarts for picking a TL that resolves price action's inter-shape direction:
5. mm math application, that is,
   balance #lots invested with #pips in SL,
   given a base # pips per lot according to a risk:reward percentage of how many pips I usually earn,
   the SL based on a TL,
   and average number of pips a TP
   (example: if average #pips a TP is 60 and base #lots is 20 (slightly adjusted to symbol's price), then, with a 1:2 risk:reward ratio, base SL is 30;
   since, after the average #pips a TP is used, then TP is ignored (since one may exit at any time, while SL is usually hit (in this formula's consideration),
   so that if SL is to be just above a TL 60 pips away, then risk doubles and #lots drops to 10 while guess likely TP to go for, regardless of this trade's TP.
   NOT doing this is a quick financial death --
   After a certain point, a TL is so far away that it may only serve as an absolute stop, in which case the mm approach is close to falling apart when I revert to a local-volatility guess for SL that is, at least, well below mc.
   After this is no stop, only doable if one manually exits -- An unlikely scenario if one's chart study failed to rank well-honed TL's and one is unpracticed in the type of exits (or entries). Mc is almost 100% probability: There is a one-way ("TP or bust") ticket to an mc.:

-- explanation --

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.

more on the leftmost area:
money is an object that signals one of the fastest, because the power of its level-erage is such that any entity wants it. Thus, special control it gets.


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 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.

The meaning of the 'shape-building prt' can also 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).

Explanations for prt's rows, with symbols described in more detail on the left --


Further detail, through related symbols, about the first column on the left:
..........5.......4.........3........2..........1
angles:

Attached Image

, or rather, 1 being a muted, cyclic, very rare switchoff of logr and midline, mostly midline because of it being muted; 5 being the opposite, an exaggerated, almost non- cyclicity through close and unusual-sized midline and logr to balance; 2,3,4 as noted, just relate with the formula's '=' area's prt.

(continued) this alternate version of prt: (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.

The third column from the left, still on the 'shape-building prt', and labelled " # " --
A nice approach is to take the words literally as types of PA's intersection with TL's. Leaps of progress'd be made, if this works.

My mm was a mess.

I changed it to this after reading a recent thread on the subject:


set SL to #lots to average TP.
Then, regardless of the current TP, set SL to the nearest chart indicator / device and reduce or increase the #lots proportionally.
If SL is up to twice the set amount, also exit half at half the SL; if SL is up to three times the set amount, also exit one third at 1/3rd the SL; and so on.



My chart study isn't much better.
I decided to include the 5'TF to draw disproportionate-L:M TL's as a cycle the 1'TF goes through. ( )
The 1'TF works fine, it's just my mm and higher TF I get a-feared on.

I also got another way to warm up on L:M 1'TF: I alternate highlighting with a box, same color all, L's and then M's, until I hit a pattern I can TL, at which point I will be warmed up enough.

I could include 6-(just under 1 week)TF's to get exceptional TL's from the several indicators -- Volume Teacher (or the other recent one) and Dutch Candle, at least -- and maybe big news, to make sure of the super-big cycle. Lastly, patterns on the 1W TF have been useful in the past.

I've done all this, so it's just a matter of spending the time. First, though, is making sure I get my 1'TF chart study reasonably okay, following the 'skill order' list and using the prt list, and older ideas that fit one of the five types of line patterns that the prt list describes, in the 'trading is life' formula.
I still hope the prt list's descriptions column works.

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Got another, about mm:

If your reason is disobeyed, it's basically a crap shoot. Now, the reason may be partially right or may be right about a day from now, which, if one can show this on the chart, is okay. Only, it's NOT okay to hold onto a trade and protect it with clever mm exits to see if one gets 'lucky'.
Thus, write down one's reason to make a trade -- even if it's on a notebook paper and not on the computer -- and then check the PA's action along the way to see if it matches how one's reason said it would act. If not, then filter the PA through one's reason to see where the reason is evident; if it's simply a guess and thus does not apply in any way, shape or form to the chart at hand, then DROP THE TRADE.

Okay, in short:
write down reason to trade (why: to see if / how much PA'll obey it, and thus to protect one's investment in that reason; because of this, one can exit a bad trade and lose almost nothing, break even or profit a bit, all better than a normal or extraordinary loss)
put in a physical SL, as described earlier (why: hey, anyone can be stupid about the reason)

Slightly revised, and shorter:
"lastly,
write down reason to trade, in case have opportunity to exit with less $ than the current TP and more $ than the minimum SL."

Of course, if one's extremely sure of the reason, then it doesn't matter about any SL. Only, it's only occasionally one knows oneself that well.

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new mm used --
Hey! That's it! I got the same effect as with using an unlimited SL, while risking much less than usual. This is great!
The key is to trust my reasoning skills AND my ability to interpret their current condition.

mm, review:

Set SL to #lots to average TP.
Then, regardless of the current TP, set SL to the nearest chart indicator / device and reduce or increase the #lots proportionally.
If SL is up to twice the set amount, also exit half at half the SL; if SL is up to three times the set amount, also exit one third at 1/3rd the SL; and so on.
manual SL's;
lastly, write down reason to trade, in case have opportunity to exit with less $ than the current TP and more $ than the minimum SL.
Of course, if one's extremely sure of the reason, then it doesn't matter about any SL. Only, it's only occasionally one knows oneself that well.
This can also change any of the mm rules above, as long as I also lose much less if I'm unconscionably wrong about the trade.
Reason-worth interpretation makes mm pliable. The key is to trust my reasoning skills AND my ability to interpret their current condition. Then, trading becomes a true game with oneself and the chart, in that the playing field is level.


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If the key is to trust one's reason with a solid stop in place,
then this pair of trades tells it all:

I think the solution was to see how obvious admitting I was wrong would be
if I positioned the chart so that it would also show
the stubborn side of me how wrong I was --
Look at the symmetry of this, and tell me it hasn't fully retained the original patterns' form while Momentarily changing direction (albeit in an awfully dramatic direction):



(That was the key to more sanity by dividing the first trade in two.)


Then, insanely, I did this third (original/actual) trade, mc'ing:




Thus, with this view, I could have exited the short and went long, exited the long at the repeating pattern's new change of direction, and went short, since that direction was that way, going with the direction until, as luck would have it, price returned to the original TL.
This is more, broken-up steps, infinitely more profitable and a bit more sensible and a good deal less dramatic: Big recoveries have a tendency to correct themselves into an mc, due to overconfidence from the globally-set reason that saved one's pair of trades carrying over to the locally-set reason in a third trade.
It's like, I guess I could have taken another hit like the first, only I was too exhausted -- that is, I took the trade personally, in that the global reason was the one that was exhausted, and thus, I made the critical mistake of investing myself and not only what I could detach in the third trade..
My reason(s)
-- global, still, with possible new direction DUE to the repeating patterns' new interrelation --
sense of the new, surprise, ...
Tunnelvision saw me through on the second trade,
and I hit inspirational New on the third trade:
A classically exhausting thing for the brain to do;
rejecting this, and yet feeling that a trade is imminent,
direction is ignored (the dark side of the last two trades)
and the brain does this instead of taking on the new trade's purpose / reason in an upfront way.
Thus, the anxiety in the second trade led to my failure in the third, because I didn't calm down and do the ENTIRE third trade.
I guess this was a cognitive error; I do know I switched how to stay with the trade in my brain dramatically, which led to my exhaustion of generating enough energy to do another reason and instead reverting to my animal, negative amygdalic side of learning through failure in a demo (or through losing money or ...) One big thing about trading, I DO know, is to Keep Going. So, the tunnel-expansion brain thingy I went through, which physically exhausted my brain, I MUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST avoid from happening to me.
-- Yes, I'm emotionally worked up, now. Amygdala, huh. Tunnel - save, expansion - disaster, emotion - damage control.
If I were calm, why damage? Why so MUCH damage? No reason.

Now, THIS is a Trade Cycle.

Man! You're really giving your brain a working over.

I'm sure that all of your work will pay off but, most likely,
it will boil down to a reductio ad absurdum like:

"Buyers(Sellers) are obviously dominant now. I can see that
because they are consuming everything at the current price
range and demanding even more liquidity causing the market
move to even higher(lower) prices. I'll throw my lots in with
them as long as they remain clearly dominant."

Certainly not trying to discount your work at all! I hope that
I'm not coming across as smart or smug - I'm neither. As I
said before - I really admire incredible energy that you display.

Wishing you the best, my friend!
Brent

Thank you for your advice.

Order flow as a language -- Yes, I've seen this a bunch of times.
I think you're suggesting people use it as a way to get away from taking a trade so seriously inside of oneself.

Sounds like a good idea.
What I'm trying to do, because I've been through so many margin calls in simulator mode, is to understand and respect my brain's limitations so that I can avoid them and thus most losses.

Words like 'range', 'higher' and 'dominant' certainly simplify the matter after one determines the trade's reason(s). They have one join the crowd, so to speak.
I can see knowing and using my own limitations to check myself within that crowd, I suppose, so that I break away from it at the proper time. Other times, I recognize the crowd's limits (though I may not express them very loudly ; )


























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Now I'm kind of embarrassed for how I carried on.
I'll try and make the best of what I learned above.



















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method

 

1. Build an area from one little 1'TF trend: Angle, type (one of two (ex. of warmups: 1, 2)), reaction to other trends for next central angle, role in area angle type (one of five (a row of graphics in the prt below), and interaction with major TL's:
2. TL-type diversification, using the prt:
3. identification of ranking TL's and their appropriate lengths:
4. smarts for picking a TL that resolves price action's inter-shape direction:
5. mm math application:
   Set SL to #lots to average TP. Then, regardless of the current TP, set SL to the nearest chart indicator / device and reduce or increase the #lots proportionally.
   If SL is up to twice the set amount, also exit half at half the SL; if SL is up to three times the set amount, also exit one third at 1/3rd the SL; and so on.
   Lastly, write down (or do some other exercise to make sure one exits via one's) reason to trade, in case have opportunity to exit with less $ than the current TP and more $ than the minimum SL.
   Of course, if one's extremely sure of the reason, then it doesn't matter about any SL. Only, it's only occasionally one knows oneself that well. This can also change any of the mm rules above, as long as I also lose much less if I'm unconscionably wrong about the trade.
   Reason-worth interpretation makes mm pliable. The key is to trust my reasoning skills AND my ability to interpret their current condition. Then, trading becomes a true game with oneself and the chart, in that the playing field is level.

prt

formula

-- prt (on left) with its built-in explanation and the formula beside it (brain limits (1,2,3,4,...), extra-work (dis)advantages, order flow language) to think about while trading--

-- The pattern recognition table has been partially explained through examples in other, more recent posts.

-- prt's graphics definitions, by row:
0 The central purpose of the prt is to leverage the range from midline to logarithm in a chart, so that,
1 in the top row of the prt, midline and logr overlap into a cycle,
3 in the middle row, midline and logr are simple and plainly separated once,
and, 5 in the bottom row, midline and logr are complex / distinct in their relation with each other and plainly separated multiple times.

-- the prt's graphics column, in terms of axes of a regular shape (point, line, triangle, rectangle)
may at once be taken as the number of axes in a shape (triangle: row 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).

-- The meaning of the prt can also be holistic at times, so that, for instance, the graphics' rows match those below:
.

Flaky time again --

I use my two chart study pictures to read and transfer to the trading plan my day's unresolved problems I may worry about and thus, subconsciously, try and resolve in trading:

(replaces words above the two pictures. NOTE: I am an amateur at this pscyh stuff, so it's of entertainment value only. (I take it seriously, though, because it works.))

 

1. Build an area from one little 1'TF trend, to see what works for and against an interpretation of only itself: Angle, type (one of two (ex. of warmups: 1, 2)), reaction to other trends for next central angle, role in area angle type (one of five (a row of graphics in the prt below), and interaction with major TL's:

2. 1. TL-type diversification, using the prt:
   2. identification of ranking TL's and their appropriate lengths:
   3. smarts for picking a TL that resolves price action's inter-shape direction:

3. all day -- I like to think through, during down time, to represent all my daily problems with the (interaction formula and) area-building prt -- they serve a dual purpose --, so that when I'm about to trade, I can recall any unresolved issues I have that may control the pace of the trade cycle and, especially, subconsiously cause negative trades to happen.
   Only during the pretrade study, if I get confused, demanding, fixated, impulsive, distracted or something similar, I have to change my pace immediately and reconsider what I'm doing.
4. mm math application:
   Set SL to #lots to average TP. Then, regardless of the current TP, set SL to the nearest chart indicator / device and reduce or increase the #lots proportionally.
   If SL is up to twice the set amount, also exit half at half the SL; if SL is up to three times the set amount, also exit one third at 1/3rd the SL; and so on.
   Lastly, write down (or do some other exercise to make sure one exits via one's) reason to trade, in case have opportunity to exit with less $ than the current TP and more $ than the minimum SL.
5. Of course, if one's extremely sure of the reason, then it doesn't matter about any SL. Only, it's only occasionally one knows oneself that well. This can also change any of the mm rules above, as long as I also lose much less if I'm unconscionably wrong about the trade.
   Reason-worth interpretation makes mm pliable. The key is to trust my reasoning skills AND my ability to interpret their current condition. Then, trading becomes a true game with oneself and the chart, in that the playing field is level.

(post#1: new)


area:
(psych only)Attachment
of contrasting (1,5) or singular (2,4) distance (1,2) or size (4,5)
(chart only)Attachment
contrasting -- confused, impulsive, or distracted;
singular -- fixated or demanding
(psych or chart)Attachment Attachment




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Hi,
did some wiki-jumps. logic chains. a series of definitions which one concept began, arbitrary / intuitive selections continued, and logical relations finished. A method of thinking, such as free association, done to create new ideas that are then developed enough to go into consideration for practical uses. Sometimes, editing erases the sources, once such a conclusion is reached, because of the detachedness practicality brings to be justifiably without footnotes. Made of concepts newly introduced through logical fitting into the original concepts, a paragraph is typed to replace and/or order former sentences used as a summary toward completion of the logical chain (spec: wiki-jump).

ex.:

meme
-- a definition

 

1. How a relational database can be a meme : sign-related -> conceptual summarization of situation -> explanatory-logical (<)-> physical-signifying
   
2. "The connotative relation is the relation between signs and their interpretant signs. The denotative relation is the relation between signs and objects. An arbitrary association exists between the signified and the signifier." (a wiki)
   
3. Memes are a copy which has a connote-denote-arbitrary relation of signs, and are treated as having physical attributes which absorb the meme dependent on the mode of transmittal (that is, sender plus message).
   
4. Completion of behavioral attributes only within the definition of the meme modifies relational justification for calling a signified a non-meme vs. a meme.
5. A meme can be a process, a set of attributes, or a mutually-accepted definition.
   Basic relationals (survival themes and its venn diagrams of (sub)dominance-motive order) between the signer and signed modify relational justification to be a meme.
   
6. nature - opportunity positive exchange (toward 'evolve', or taken as purpose) or task encounter negative exchange - attribute (toward 'exist', or taken as process):
7. Serial evolution emphasizes one or the other, and parallel evolution has counterparties emphasizing their respective positions in describing the meme's condition in the signed.

I think next I work on reducing in-trade drawdowns to 20 pips (what a fast measure got as the average low # to get consistently through every trading day.)
Most of the trades I do, practically all of which are on demo simulator and the rest, 1-2 a week, on demo, are for 25-50 pips each with a few for as many as I can get (100, 150), and all 20 pips or more.
I still get aLOT of margin calls, a couple of dozen in the past few days.
I also want to use the charts prt above; these were all the best chart studies I've done as of recent, from a selection of 3-5 times more in the past 1/2 to 1 year. They are all 'with' the chart, that is, I felt some kind of connection with the chart for each of these methods; so, getting in groove with these will get ME in tune with the chart.
Oh, and the prt on the left, I use to clear my head of attention to nontrading stuff, through selecting single symbols from the prt and recombining them into a message I also describe verbally. The prt could be used for other stuff, only I want to have at least one solid reason to use it for now; and, versus most of my nontrading brought into trading being negative, I could bring in positive nontrading stuff over time, to inspire my ability to trade.
These --
Stop margin calls / stop the impulsive, careless, "have to trade" attitude ,
reduce loss to 20 pips / keep win-loss ratio at 80% +- 10%,
use the amalgam of best chart study methods / keep profits average above 60 pips each,
get rid of negativity nontrading brings in / bring in positive experiences to trading side of it
-- are next; the prt's I have now should work well enough.

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To this, I simplified my trading approach:

YOU GOT FIVE THINGS TO DO:

trendlines position map
one each: right (TP), wrong (50 pips), and break even (SL at 0 pips)

-- Thus, 'position map' is strategy to make TP - 0 - -50, one each, with trendlines for chart study, work.

Thank you, jag1966!
It's a pleasure reading and learning from your many charts.

I should only live up to their effective clarity.







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(revised chart study)
same prt's. Different words around them:
--'Button', a stamp-sized selection of the psy prt's symbols : Think of missed ways to draw on chart, for example to draw inspiration to understand a muddled portion of the chart, to clear one's mind of nontrading issues in order to turn those issues around and offer a structured way to apply own, nontrading life to the current trade, and to figure how trade will go before entering it.

trading: A few dozen more mc's. Had one good run. Not how it works, unfortunately.

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(revised)

PRT'S: nontrading, trading attention, and chart sketch
[c-line , or nontrading, prt][area build, or attention, prt][method, or sketch, prt]
Nontrading prt's uses:
(pre-study) to summarize and thus clear one's mind of nontrading issues in order to turn those issues around and apply from them an approach from one's own, nontrading life to the current trade,
(initial study) to draw inspiration to understand a muddled portion of the chart, and
(post-study) to draw a position map to interact entities/objects and thus figure how trade will go before entering it.

A trading attention journal would be both innocuous and profitable. Thinking carefully about one's attention can be the most important thing standing between a small loss and a margin call:
If you observe your in-trade drawdown over time, then you can know how you feel when you get a negative surprise or are in threat to lose face, turn desperate (fail to stop) or defensive (fail to start), and exit on time.

The sketch prt is a composite range of all the best methods (see former posts for #) I recall to have thought of.

It's a betting game. A very small percentage of the time, you know exactly what's going on and are on top of it; the rest of the time, you know a little of what's going on for a short or long time. So, mm is extreme: "Cut losses short and let your winners run." And, one big win makes up for many small losses.

(post #1 rewrite)






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Attending variates emotions (right) to trade one's chart sketch (left), which measures shapes' (/entities'/objects') size-distance relations to align the best trendlines. Thus, TP,SL near BE until study right. sources position map; trendlines; attention 1,2; emotion as pre-action

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hit my stride.



Trading is such a sharp edge, I'll go ahead and report it without traditional 100-1000 trades with the method profitably done.
Seven trades, one that broke the method. Four percent an hour: THIS is what gets me. Except the one, I followed the pt line to the letter, and could provide the statistics on this method as to percent of actual move, average trade hold, etc. It's that consistent.

The method:
I prefer gathering and ordering symbols to explaining an approach.
Anyway,
you find a small, TEMPORARY, somewhat traditional in terms of drawing device and definition, symbol-defined shape (group) and watch each example repeat for its change along the price-time line path. It has to be small so one can easily observe it repeat. It has to be regular so it's easily recognizable, only not mathematically regular: Its pivots have to reflect the same as the other shapes.
There are one shape at a time with each modestly developed from the last;
one in direct, reflective response to a strong move and its included shape;
an easily cycling pt line with 2-3 shapes taking turns;
and so on.

charts:








emotion prt : a shape's breakdown into its pieces, making a shape, and ID'ing it for a(mix of)n emotion(s)
Now all I have to do is reinclude emotion studies. The method prt has new stuff in the "-> build" box that I think I can use to tie in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method that I have above and in the link between post#1's two prt's.
The logarithmic curve with price (spatial) levels and time markers seem to connote, respectively,
task-level and behavioral control in language and in at least some physical activity,
with smoother curves perhaps denoting use of chemicals,
or, more simply, a balanced mix of logr and midlines
that has a hint of direction through a trace of worth or time.
Whichever, such smooth curves segue into the emotion prt's key's shapes' use nicely, especially for their power borrowed from these more space-oriented shapes.
-- This is all, of course, a wild guess a rank amateur makes.


A negative example of what not to do in the chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
Another negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture.
A third one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots.

(post #1 dump/record)























You always trade the way you are



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to make an environs within which a chart point may be found:
decision grid (row, ((two) un)important; column, ((two) not) timely):
major (3. {coherence of} Structural interrelation (action)) action.......|..major (1. Structural ) object.
minor (4. {density of} Ambient interrelation (action)) action .............|..minor (2. Ambient) object

each-chart-point breakdown:
emotion prt's shapes and the visual field diagram,
tracked on a price-time chart
and the former covering, to simplify, habit (more midlined, to keep the same) (x-axis, time) and emotion (more anchored ~ logr'ed, to initiate new) (y-axis, price)

chart points recorded and connected into patterns:
the range of distance-to-size examples of a chart area and its patterns,in the sketch prt


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entire article quoted, with rearranging and personal notes thereof, from Rensink article:

{ Information types:
A relational definition of Attention }

3. {coherence of} Structural interrelation (action).

1. {coherence is defined, here, through} "although several kinds of operations can take place. These include things such as determination of meaning (including emotional valence), as well as the formation of groups and other structures." " , the ability to perceive properties such as color, orientation, and emotional expression, "
2. No attention of any kind appears to be involved. At least some of these processes may be carried out via neural pathways quite separate from those underlying the production of conscious visual experience. ...blindsight, that is ..., even in the absence of any visual experience.
3. { -- enough of an area to define these limited properties;

1. 
   that is, emphasis is on the properties' summary of the material rather than the amount of material presented}
2. This form of perception occurs rapidly and without any conscious
   experience whatsoever, ...

1. Structural object

1. This is the experience of coherent structure, for example, particular

1. 
   combinations of particular properties at particular locations.
2. Focused attention {type} appears to be needed for this,
3. informational density involved is likely low.
4. This type of experience is{, in terms of speed,} relatively slow to emerge, and so it is not present during briefly-presented displays.

-- The failure of this mode results in integrative agnosia, where the structure of an object is not perceived, even though the constituent stuff is still experienced. Note that a further subdivision of this mode may also exist, with the experience of a structured item being separate from the experience of an individual object at a particular location in space.






4. {density of} Ambient interrelation (action)

1. In this type of perception there is a conscious experience (marked by

1. 
   a sense or feeling of something) but no accompanying visual experience. The existence of this as a separate mode of experience is still controversial.
2. If it is a separate mode, it would likely involve neither focused nor ambient attention, but it would rely on nonattentional or subattentional mechanisms.
3. {information density} One form of this might be the rapid estimation of statistical quantities or gist, which do not involve a strictly visual quantity.
   Another might be the sensing of change that can apparently occur in the absence of visual experience {, which may imply gravity, balance and other kinaesthetic senses}.
   {That is, defined through a limited information on each unit through an entire population of units.}
4. {speed: See information density}
   {and} {presence} Interestingly, some blindsight patients can “sense” an unseen event.... If this is related to the sensing reported by normal observers, it
   would suggest that {normal vision} is not involved.

2. Ambient object

1. This is the experience of unstructured (or fragmented) qualities, namely, relatively simple properties at particular locations in space (Iwasaki, 1993).
2. Ambient attention, posited to be distinct from and simultaneous with focused attention, may be needed for this;
3. "It can also extend over relatively large areas of space, and so may be involved with the collection of information concerning global aspects of an image."
4. This type of experience can appear relatively quickly. As such, it may accompany some kinds of rapid visual processes.

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habit/emotion shapes collection; sketch prt:

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a chart study approach that uses all of the info above:

range
The "2-3 repeated patterns" method has a range of
. is the 2-3 temporary types of small patterns, each of which are repeated,
and ., where one uses one partial pattern and then repeats various features of its insides.

perspective
A negative example of what not to do in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
Another negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture.
A third one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots.
A fourth example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the only TL's and "areas covered" being the priority. Only, nothing was highlighted nor, once this area was done, TL'ed to from this area's unfound small patterns. So, failure is implied without followthrough in the central issues the method solves.
Similar to this example of the fourth type: Ex.
Skip repeated patterns and go only on visual perspective of their implied presence
with maybe a TL or pattern or two, only fail,
and don't leave any tracks or prior visual practice to draw in the repeated patterns to save you from yourself.














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(rewrite of the above)










1

Read ff!
(well, of Course...)



quote of the day: " "




You always trade the way you are




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2

entire article quoted, with rearranging and personal notes thereof, from Rensink article:

{ Information types:
A relational definition of Attention }

a. {coherence of} Structural interrelation (action).

1. {coherence is defined, here, through} several kinds of operations....determination of meaning (including emotional valence),... formation of groups and other structures..., {and} the ability to perceive properties such as color, orientation, and emotional expression
2. No attention....some of these processes...via neural pathways quite separate from...conscious visual experience. ...blindsight,..., even{,} in the absence of any visual experience
3. { enough area to retrieve property's value}
4. This form of perception occurs rapidly and without any conscious experience whatsoever

b. Structural object

1. coherent structure, for example, {all} particular{,} combinations of...properties...at...locations
2. Focused attention {type}
3. informational density involved is likely low.
4. {in terms of speed,}slow to emerge

-- The failure of this mode results in integrative agnosia, where the structure of an object is not perceived, even though the constituent stuff is still experienced {,or dissociation, where structure and example experienced and unconnected}






c. {density of} Ambient interrelation (action)

1. a conscious experience (marked by a sense or feeling of something) but no...visual experience
2. involve neither focused nor ambient attention....rely on non{-}or subattentional mechanisms
3. {information density} rapid estimation of statistical quantities or gist..... {or} sensing of change
4. {speed: See information density} {and} {presence} some blindsight...“sense” an unseen event

d. Ambient object

1. unstructured (or fragmented) qualities, namely, relatively simple properties at particular locations
2. Ambient attention, posited to be distinct from and simultaneous with focused attention
3. relatively large areas of space, and ... collection of...global aspects of an image
4. experience ...quickly. ...rapid visual processes

->


From above, a decision grid:

...................timely.............................................................................|..not timely
important.......major ({coherence of} Structural interrelation (action)) action.......|..major (Structural ) object.
unimportant....minor ({density of} Ambient interrelation (action)) action .............|..minor (Ambient) object




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3

stress tracking

habit (more midlined, to keep the same),
to
PSTD etc.: A high- and short-length emotional anchor; in a process, it's
1 ALL RXN mimic/track
2 VS.RXN recoil/shock
3 VS.ACT interrupt/distract
4 VS.ACT CONT'L affect/steer
5 ALL ACT create/produce.
The entire event replays in a different setting that has similar object cues.
to
emotion (more anchored ~ logr'ed, to initiate new)

->

visual field diagram
on the chart




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4


habit/emotion shapes collection; sketch prt:
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5

midline, exchange, balance, touch, logr

a chart study approach that uses all of the info above:

range
The "2-3 repeated patterns" method has a range of
. is the 2-3 temporary types of small patterns, each of which are repeated,
and ., where one uses one partial pattern and then repeats various features of its insides.

perspective
A negative example of what not to do in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
Another negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture.
A third one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots.
A fourth example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the only TL's and "areas covered" being the priority. Only, nothing was highlighted nor, once this area was done, TL'ed to from this area's unfound small patterns. So, failure is implied without followthrough in the central issues the method solves.
Similar to this example of the fourth type: Ex.
Skip repeated patterns and go only on visual perspective of their implied presence
with maybe a TL or pattern or two, only fail,
and don't leave any tracks or prior visual practice to draw in the repeated patterns to save you from yourself.

(post#1 rewrite)
Skimmed a book, ART OF THE TRADE, found after read this thread.
How it and thread's book noted were organized were sensible to me,
so I copied the audiotape series' titles on page 156 of ART OF THE TRADE
and included some of them between steps 2 and 3 and most of the rest of them as step 5. I feel confident about steps 2 and 3, only the only connection between them was that one overlays step 2 upon step 3 to filter its results in doing step 4. I feel lack of confidence in matching risk management with the charts': Technically, it's easy; emotionally, I just want to jam the circuits into a boom-or-bust situation.
So I do the latter, and have so for a while. I've noticed, in doing so, that there is a "circle" of the trade, of course within each trade and also for a set of trades. Next, the idea of separating "gain...loss" from "profit" appeals to the overall goal of earning a living at trading, through considering each of the former as something to adjust while getting the latter, thus making it a process rather than a single goal. Finally, anybody makes mistakes, and execution minimizes their effect.

The first post now puts step 5 in with step 4, puts a separate comment between steps 2 and 3, and makes a new step 5 of, as noted above, section titles of an audiotape series found in a book I just skimmed.


Separate:
I also modified, in step 3, a. for clarity and the decision grid for brevity.



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myth busted (in a sense):
Already busted the 'Sunday open retraces 80% of the time". Yes, it happens more often than not, so it's worth keeping in mind; no, it's not something to trade blindly.
Tested an idea that isn't a myth only because it's derivative of the last idea and thus wouldn't get popularity as much, 'Sunday open retraces and then retraces this retrace to continue in the initial, true direction the gap begins.' Busted, for same reason.

new (to me) idea:

1. "multi-currency S/R line". Something I could add to my 'good idea, I'll use it if I need something extra' list of single-pattern selectors, which currently includes
2. VSA Teacher Volume / Hidden Gap Volume Ver 5[b] / Compression -- the biggest volume, usually, with lesser patterns occasionally
3. DutchCandle -- extensive pattern-maker, have to watch for vagueness between patterns, the reward can be something like overall structure of a chart area one'd miss otherwise
4. Market Hours -- pivotal slow- vs. fast-price hours, which approximately divides the day in half, at 0800-1000 and 1600-1700 EST
5. VerticalLineWeekOpen (5) -- the huge time of almost nonexistent trading on the weekend, compared to a more or less continuous trading period the rest of the week, has got to be the best place to study around, and this indicator starts one up with a horizontal line at the week's open
6. Bollinger Bands -- the narrow-wide widths; may go with Keltner Bands, for their fading runups/downs; also goes with compression indicator, as I noted in a post
7. a homemade version (ten fib-# sma's) of rainbow -- triangular and other small crossover patterns
8. zigzag -- trend choice and one's training to select them
9. and CustomCandle6 -- can watch how fast price-tick changes versus each candle's countdown time (just thought of this idea, since would like to get in on a volume-per-tick plus time-between-ticks indicator).
   
10. Usually, I only keep a multi-width-visible candles indicator on the screen, the only one I know of being ToggleRegandHACandlesshift, now in its ninth version. The rest of the indicators would be useful if I went MTF and thus needed a crutch to see patterns in other TF's.

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(post#1)

condensed the attention article a bit more:

"attention

a. structural{: coherence, action,} interrelation
1.properties {(}color, orientation, and emotional expression{,)}..., meaning (emotional valence,),... {and} "structural" {such as} groups
2."Blindsight". No "conscious visual" attention
3.{enough area to retrieve value}
4.rapid
b. Structural object
1.{all} particular{,} combinations of...properties...at...locations
2.Focus
3.informational density ... low.
4.slow to emerge
--failure : integrative agnosia -- ...structure of an object is not..,..constituent stuff is...experienced {,or dissociation: both perceived,distinct}
c. Ambient{: density, action,} interrelation
1.conscious (...a sense or feeling of something) but no...visual....some blindsight
2.neither focused nor ambient attention....rely on non{-}or subattentional mechanisms
3. rapid estimation of statistical quantities or gist...{,} sensing of change
4.{Speed is dependent on presence:} “sense” an unseen event
d. Ambient object
1.unstructured (or fragmented) qualities{;} simple properties at particular locations
2.visual. Ambient attention, ...distinct from and simultaneous with focused attention
3.relatively large areas of space, and ... collection of...global aspects of an image
4.rapid"

decision grid
..............timely.....|..not timely
important.......a.....|..b
unimportant....c.....|..d


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(new post#1)

reward

Read ff!
(well, of Course...)


quote of the day: " "

You always trade the way you are

midline, exchange, balance, touch, logr

(mm)

. basics of trader evolution
gains and losses
accumulating profits

. requirements of a net winning art form
the circle of the trade
record keeping
identification of opportunity to profit

. becoming a trader
proper execution
money management
physical health

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stress

habit (more midlined, to keep the same) -- review trades and trace each one's action path to look for commonalities --
to

PTSD etc.: A high- and short-length emotional anchor; in a process, it's
1 ALL RXN mimic/track
2 VS.RXN recoil/shock
3 VS.ACT interrupt/distract
4 VS.ACT CONT'L affect/steer
5 ALL ACT create/produce.
The entire event replays in a different setting that has similar object cues.
to
emotion more anchored ~ logr'ed, to initiate new visual field diagram on the chart.

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basics of creating art --
identifying your starting point
clarity of observation and the desire for profit
cultural myth and self-sabotage
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"attention

entire article quoted, with rearranging and personal notes thereof, from Rensink article:
a. structural{: coherence, action,} interrelation
1.properties {(}color, orientation, and emotional expression{,)}..., meaning (emotional valence,),... {and} "structural" {such as} groups
2."Blindsight". No "conscious visual" attention
3.{enough area to retrieve value}
4.rapid
b. Structural object
1.{all} particular{,} combinations of...properties...at...locations
2.Focus
3.informational density ... low.
4.slow to emerge
--failure : integrative agnosia -- ...structure of an object is not..,..constituent stuff is...experienced {,or dissociation: both perceived,distinct}
c. Ambient{: density, action,} interrelation
1.conscious (...a sense or feeling of something) but no...visual....some blindsight
2.neither focused nor ambient attention....rely on non{-}or subattentional mechanisms
3. rapid estimation of statistical quantities or gist...{,} sensing of change
4.{Speed is dependent on presence:} “sense” an unseen event
d. Ambient object
1.unstructured (or fragmented) qualities{;} simple properties at particular locations
2.visual. Ambient attention, ...distinct from and simultaneous with focused attention
3.relatively large areas of space, and ... collection of...global aspects of an image
4.rapid"

decision grid
..............timely.....|..not timely
important.......a.....|..b
unimportant....c.....|..d


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details

habit/emotion-type interaction; chart sketch
.

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perspective

a chart study approach that uses all of the info above:

range
The "2-3 repeated patterns" method has a range of
. is the 2-3 temporary types of small patterns, each of which are repeated,
and ., where one uses one partial pattern and then repeats various features of its insides.

perspective
A negative example of what not to do in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
Another negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture.
A third one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots.
A fourth example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the only TL's and "areas covered" being the priority. Only, nothing was highlighted nor, once this area was done, TL'ed to from this area's unfound small patterns. So, failure is implied without followthrough in the central issues the method solves.
Similar to this example of the fourth type: Ex.
Skip repeated patterns and go only on visual perspective of their implied presence
with maybe a TL or pattern or two, only fail,
and don't leave any tracks or prior visual practice to draw in the repeated patterns to save you from yourself.



optional list of ideas, in case ever decide to go MTF:

1. "multi-currency S/R line". Something I could add to my 'good idea, I'll use it if I need something extra' list of single-pattern selectors, which currently includes
2. VSA Teacher Volume / Hidden Gap Volume Ver 5[b] / Compression -- the biggest volume, usually, with lesser patterns occasionally
3. DutchCandle -- single-line candles; extensive pattern-maker, have to watch for vagueness between patterns, the reward can be something like overall structure of a chart area one'd miss otherwise
4. Market Hours -- pivotal slow- vs. fast-price session hours, which approximately divides the day in half, at 0800-1000 and 1600-1700 EST
5. VerticalLineWeekOpen (5) -- the huge time of almost nonexistent trading on the weekend, compared to a more or less continuous trading period the rest of the week, has got to be the best place to study around, and this indicator starts one up with a horizontal line at the week's open
6. Bollinger Bands -- the narrow-wide widths; may go with Keltner Bands, for their fading runups/downs; also goes with compression indicator, as I noted in a post
7. a homemade version (ten fib-# sma's) of rainbow -- triangular and other small crossover patterns
8. zigzag -- trend choice and one's training to select them
9. and CustomCandle6 -- can watch how fast price-tick changes versus each candle's countdown time (just thought of this idea, since would like to get in on a volume-per-tick plus time-between-ticks indicator).
   
10. Usually, I only keep a multi-width-visible candles indicator on the screen, the only one I know of being ToggleRegandHACandlesshift, now in its ninth version. The rest of the indicators would be useful if I went MTF and thus needed a crutch to see patterns in other TF's.

copy

(post#1)
TOO MUCH!!!!!!!


I'll keep psych at PTSD and chart study a blend of shapes use and psych; extras, only for extra TF's. 99.5% of the time, I use only the 1'TF.

stress

PTSD etc.:
1 ALL RXN mimic/track
2 VS.RXN recoil/shock
3 VS.ACT interrupt/distract
4 VS.ACT CONT'L affect/steer
5 ALL ACT create/produce.
The entire event replays in a different setting that has similar object cues.

_________________________________________________________________________

(midline, exchange/parallel, balance, touch/(im)mature, logr) and the best area ex.'s I have (unexplained, as of yet)

"attention

entire article quoted, with rearranging and personal notes thereof, from Rensink article:
a. structural{: coherence, action,} interrelation
1.properties {(}color, orientation, and emotional expression{,)}..., meaning (emotional valence,),... {and} "structural" {such as} groups
2."Blindsight". No "conscious visual" attention
3.{enough area to retrieve value}
4.rapid
The "2-3 repeated patterns" method has a range of
. is the 2-3 temporary types of small patterns, each of which are repeated,
and ., where one uses one partial pattern and then repeats various features of its insides.
b. Structural object
1.{all} particular{,} combinations of...properties...at...locations
2.Focus
3.informational density ... low.
4.slow to emerge
A negative example of what not to do in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
A third one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots.
--failure : integrative agnosia -- ...structure of an object is not..,..constituent stuff is...experienced {,or dissociation: both perceived,distinct}
c. Ambient{: density, action,} interrelation
1.conscious (...a sense or feeling of something) but no...visual....some blindsight
2.neither focused nor ambient attention....rely on non{-}or subattentional mechanisms
3. rapid estimation of statistical quantities or gist...{,} sensing of change
4.{Speed is dependent on presence:} “sense” an unseen event
A fourth example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the only TL's and "areas covered" being the priority. Only, nothing was highlighted nor, once this area was done, TL'ed to from this area's unfound small patterns. So, failure is implied without followthrough in the central issues the method solves.
Similar to this example of the fourth type: Ex.
Skip repeated patterns and go only on visual perspective of their implied presence
with maybe a TL or pattern or two, only fail,
and don't leave any tracks or prior visual practice to draw in the repeated patterns to save you from yourself.
d. Ambient object
1.unstructured (or fragmented) qualities{;} simple properties at particular locations
2.visual. Ambient attention, ...distinct from and simultaneous with focused attention
3.relatively large areas of space, and ... collection of...global aspects of an image
4.rapid"
Another negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture.


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optional list of ideas, in case ever decide to go MTF:

1. "multi-currency S/R line". Something I could add to my 'good idea, I'll use it if I need something extra' list of single-pattern selectors, which currently includes
2. VSA Teacher Volume / Hidden Gap Volume Ver 5[b] / Compression -- the biggest volume, usually, with lesser patterns occasionally
3. DutchCandle -- single-line candles; extensive pattern-maker, have to watch for vagueness between patterns, the reward can be something like overall structure of a chart area one'd miss otherwise
4. Market Hours -- pivotal slow- vs. fast-price session hours, which approximately divides the day in half, at 0800-1000 and 1600-1700 EST
5. VerticalLineWeekOpen (5) -- the huge time of almost nonexistent trading on the weekend, compared to a more or less continuous trading period the rest of the week, has got to be the best place to study around, and this indicator starts one up with a horizontal line at the week's open
6. Bollinger Bands -- the narrow-wide widths; may go with Keltner Bands, for their fading runups/downs; also goes with compression indicator, as I noted in a post
7. a homemade version (ten fib-# sma's) of rainbow -- triangular and other small crossover patterns
8. zigzag -- trend choice and one's training to select them
9. and CustomCandle6 -- can watch how fast price-tick changes versus each candle's countdown time (just thought of this idea, since would like to get in on a volume-per-tick plus time-between-ticks indicator).
   
10. Usually, I only keep a multi-width-visible candles indicator on the screen, the only one I know of being ToggleRegandHACandlesshift, now in its ninth version. The rest of the indicators would be useful if I went MTF and thus needed a crutch to see patterns in other TF's.

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(another)

the patterns

(midline, exchange/parallel, balance, touch/(im)mature, logr) 1 ALL RXN mimic/track 2 VS.RXN recoil/shock 3 VS.ACT interrupt/distract 4 VS.ACT CONT'L affect/steer 5 ALL ACT create/produce.

the patterns' areas

(entire article quoted, with rearranging and personal notes thereof, from Rensink article)
and the best area ex.'s I have (unexplained, as of yet)

a. structural{: coherence, action,} interrelation
1.properties {(}color, orientation, and emotional expression{,)}..., meaning (emotional valence,),... {and} "structural" {such as} groups
2."Blindsight". No "conscious visual" attention
3.{enough area to retrieve value}
4.rapid
The "2-3 repeated patterns" method has a range of
. is the 2-3 temporary types of small patterns, each of which are repeated,
and ., where one uses one partial pattern and then repeats various features of its insides.
b. Structural object
1.{all} particular{,} combinations of...properties...at...locations
2.Focus
3.informational density ... low.
4.slow to emerge
A negative example of what not to do in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
A third one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots.
--failure : integrative agnosia -- ...structure of an object is not..,..constituent stuff is...experienced {,or dissociation: both perceived,distinct}
c. Ambient{: density, action,} interrelation
1.conscious (...a sense or feeling of something) but no...visual....some blindsight
2.neither focused nor ambient attention....rely on non{-}or subattentional mechanisms
3. rapid estimation of statistical quantities or gist...{,} sensing of change
4.{Speed is dependent on presence:} “sense” an unseen event
A fourth example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the only TL's and "areas covered" being the priority. Only, nothing was highlighted nor, once this area was done, TL'ed to from this area's unfound small patterns. So, failure is implied without followthrough in the central issues the method solves.
Similar to this example of the fourth type: Ex.
Skip repeated patterns and go only on visual perspective of their implied presence
with maybe a TL or pattern or two, only fail,
and don't leave any tracks or prior visual practice to draw in the repeated patterns to save you from yourself.
d. Ambient object
1.unstructured (or fragmented) qualities{;} simple properties at particular locations
2.visual. Ambient attention, ...distinct from and simultaneous with focused attention
3.relatively large areas of space, and ... collection of...global aspects of an image
4.rapid"
Another negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture.


_________________________________________________________________





optional list of ideas, in case ever decide to go MTF:

1. "multi-currency S/R line". Something I could add to my 'good idea, I'll use it if I need something extra' list of single-pattern selectors, which currently includes
2. VSA Teacher Volume / Hidden Gap Volume Ver 5[b] / Compression -- the biggest volume, usually, with lesser patterns occasionally
3. DutchCandle -- single-line candles; extensive pattern-maker, have to watch for vagueness between patterns, the reward can be something like overall structure of a chart area one'd miss otherwise
4. Market Hours -- pivotal slow- vs. fast-price session hours, which approximately divides the day in half, at 0800-1000 and 1600-1700 EST
5. VerticalLineWeekOpen (5) -- the huge time of almost nonexistent trading on the weekend, compared to a more or less continuous trading period the rest of the week, has got to be the best place to study around, and this indicator starts one up with a horizontal line at the week's open
6. Bollinger Bands -- the narrow-wide widths; may go with Keltner Bands, for their fading runups/downs; also goes with compression indicator, as I noted in a post
7. a homemade version (ten fib-# sma's) of rainbow -- triangular and other small crossover patterns
8. zigzag -- trend choice and one's training to select them
9. and CustomCandle6 -- can watch how fast price-tick changes versus each candle's countdown time (just thought of this idea, since would like to get in on a volume-per-tick plus time-between-ticks indicator).
   
10. Usually, I only keep a multi-width-visible candles indicator on the screen, the only one I know of being ToggleRegandHACandlesshift, now in its ninth version. The rest of the indicators would be useful if I went MTF and thus needed a crutch to see patterns in other TF's.

up-to-date copy of my approach

(post#1 rewrite)


Sorry, another one.

This one makes logical sense all the way through, and its different sections are short and/or well-divided. As usual, the logic is subtle and, I hope, enough so it's easy to jump from one place to another.

attention

a. Ambient, source-dependent -- (rapid statistics)/movements/velocity
A third example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the only TL's and "areas covered" being the priority. Only, nothing was highlighted nor, once this area was done, TL'ed to from this area's unfound small patterns. So, failure is implied without followthrough in the central issues the method solves.
Similar to this example of the third type: Ex.
all negative: Skip repeated patterns and go only on visual perspective of their implied presence with maybe a TL or pattern or two, only fail, and don't leave any tracks or prior visual practice to draw in the repeated patterns to save you from yourself.
b. Structural, source-dependent -- precision/focus
A negative example of what not to do in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
A fourth one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots.
--failure : integrative agnosia -- ...structure of an object is not, and constituent stuff is, experienced; or, dissociation: both perceived, distinct
c. Ambient, rapid -- fragments/count
Another negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture.
d. structural, rapid -- orientation/sound
The range of the "2-3 repeated patterns" method: Each example in . divides the cycle itself into 2-3 large pieces; . is the 2-3 temporary types of small patterns, each of which are repeated within a larger cycle; and, . is where one uses one large pattern that is partial or whole and then repeats 2-3 features of its insides.



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optional list of ideas, in case ever decide to go MTF:

1. "multi-currency S/R line". Something I could add to my 'good idea, I'll use it if I need something extra' list of single-pattern selectors, which currently includes
2. VSA Teacher Volume / Hidden Gap Volume Ver 5[b] / Compression -- the biggest volume, usually, with lesser patterns occasionally
3. DutchCandle -- single-line candles; extensive pattern-maker, have to watch for vagueness between patterns, the reward can be something like overall structure of a chart area one'd miss otherwise
4. Market Hours -- pivotal slow- vs. fast-price session hours, which approximately divides the day in half, at 0800-1000 and 1600-1700 EST
5. VerticalLineWeekOpen (5) -- the huge time of almost nonexistent trading on the weekend, compared to a more or less continuous trading period the rest of the week, has got to be the best place to study around, and this indicator starts one up with a horizontal line at the week's open
6. Bollinger Bands -- the narrow-wide widths; may go with Keltner Bands, for their fading runups/downs; also goes with compression indicator, as I noted in a post
7. a homemade version (ten fib-# sma's) of rainbow -- triangular and other small crossover patterns
8. zigzag -- trend choice and one's training to select them
9. and CustomCandle6 -- can watch how fast price-tick changes versus each candle's countdown time (just thought of this idea, since would like to get in on a volume-per-tick plus time-between-ticks indicator).
   
10. Usually, I only keep a multi-width-visible candles indicator on the screen, the only one I know of being ToggleRegandHACandlesshift, now in its ninth version. The rest of the indicators would be useful if I went MTF and thus needed a crutch to see patterns in other TF's.

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phenomenology

I reduced attention into space (price, etc.) and time , put on each a range -- space: distance, that is, local and global; time: existence, that is, temp(orary) and abs(olute) -- , and matched one space and one time range variable for each side of the colon in the little pictures a. to e. (graphic formulae of different value, from the 'patterns' drawing at the top of the post) in post#1.

What I got was this:

(midline-logr) is, if considering midline and logr as one unit, temp-global.
That is, midline and/or logr covers/decides the entire price-time line's space for only a short time. Tension of pressure, without definition of its extent.
(balance) is, with any of the several versions of balance that the 'patterns' drawing depicts, abs-local, that is, they cover/decide a small portion of the price-time line's space so as to interpret that entire space for whenever, from then on, future pt lines interact with it. Extent (shapes: TL's, ellipses, etc.) of pressure, without definition of its tension.
(single touch of pt line upon a shape (depicted: a TL)) is temp-local, for the obvious reason.
(multiple ordered intersection or touch of pt line upon a shape (depicted: a TL)) is abs-global, defined in relation to the temp-local given.

Okay, so that gives
a. temp-global ........................ temp-local
b. (temp-global)(abs-local).........temp-local
c. (temp-global)........................ abs-global
d. (temp-global)(abs-local)......... abs-global

Subtract words in each line that there are two or more of,
and you end up with:
a. 'global-local', which are both space and is nonsense. Thus, it could be called "confused space", which then puts the emphasis on time, or "all-time", when watching for mistakes doing a.
b. 'abs global', which is the accordian-like line with a straight, horizontal line segment that runs through the middle of it; thus, look for highly-involved TL's (or other shape) as a remedy for mistakes doing b.
c. 'temp-abs', which are both time and is nonsense. Thus, it could be call "confused time", which then puts the emphasis on space, or "all-space", when watching for mistakes doing c.
d. 'temp local', which is the single touch of the pt line upon a TL (or other shape); thus, look for barely-used TL's (or other shape) as a remedy for mistakes doing d.

Or not.

Okay, finished.

Here's my first direct use of the 'balanced attention' method:

11122010 01092009 c. ambient, rapid -- fragments-count, shadow b. precision-focus -- correction, all space 1
The shadow is in the fantastically curved logr shape, in the biggest yellow rectangle. This resolves the bunch of fragments between the copies leading to this pattern, and allows a clean area for midline to counter all those logr's.





template, EST (MBT)

Yes, I lost, moreover, mc'ed this (demo simulator) account.


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attention

a. Ambient, source-dependent -- (rapid statistics)/movements/velocityAttachment
An example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the only TL's and "areas covered" being the priority. Only, nothing was highlighted nor, once this area was done, TL'ed to from this area's unfound small patterns. So, failure is implied without followthrough in the central issues the method solves.
Similar to this type: Ex.
all negative: Skip repeated patterns and go only on visual perspective of their implied presence with maybe a TL or pattern or two, only fail, and don't leave any tracks or prior visual practice to draw in the repeated patterns to save you from yourself. corrections: all time.
b. Structural, source-dependent -- precision/focusAttachment
A negative example of what not to do in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
Another one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots. corrections: busy TL's (or other shape).
--failure : integrative agnosia -- ...structure of an object is not, and constituent stuff is, experienced; or, dissociation: both perceived, distinct
c. Ambient, rapid -- fragments/count Attachment
A negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture. corrections: all space.
d. structural, rapid -- orientation/soundAttachment
The range of the "2-3 repeated patterns" method: Each example in . divides the cycle itself into 2-3 large pieces; . is the 2-3 temporary types of small patterns, each of which are repeated within a larger cycle; and, . is where one uses one large pattern that is partial or whole and then repeats 2-3 features of its insides. corrections: single-touch TL's (or other shape).



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optional list of ideas, in case ever decide to go MTF:

1. "multi-currency S/R line". Something I could add to my 'good idea, I'll use it if I need something extra' list of single-pattern selectors, which currently includes
2. VSA Teacher Volume / Hidden Gap Volume Ver 5[b] / Compression -- the biggest volume, usually, with lesser patterns occasionally
3. DutchCandle -- single-line candles; extensive pattern-maker, have to watch for vagueness between patterns, the reward can be something like overall structure of a chart area one'd miss otherwise
4. Market Hours -- pivotal slow- vs. fast-price session hours, which approximately divides the day in half, at 0800-1000 and 1600-1700 EST
5. VerticalLineWeekOpen (5) -- the huge time of almost nonexistent trading on the weekend, compared to a more or less continuous trading period the rest of the week, has got to be the best place to study around, and this indicator starts one up with a horizontal line at the week's open
6. Bollinger Bands -- the narrow-wide widths; may go with Keltner Bands, for their fading runups/downs; also goes with compression indicator, as I noted in a post
7. a homemade version (ten fib-# sma's) of rainbow -- triangular and other small crossover patterns
8. zigzag -- trend choice and one's training to select them
9. and CustomCandle6 -- can watch how fast price-tick changes versus each candle's countdown time (just thought of this idea, since would like to get in on a volume-per-tick plus time-between-ticks indicator).
   
10. Usually, I only keep a multi-width-visible candles indicator on the screen, the only one I know of being ToggleRegandHACandlesshift, now in its ninth version. The rest of the indicators would be useful if I went MTF and thus needed a crutch to see patterns in other TF's.

another that is optional for others and not for me; for me, it adds on psychological-model symbols to the list of four:

(post#1 dump)

attention

a. Ambient, source-dependent -- (rapid statistics)/movements/velocity
An example is a positive that could easily turn negative. It depended on small-shape proportioning with pivots getting the only TL's and "areas covered" being the priority. Only, nothing was highlighted nor, once this area was done, TL'ed to from this area's unfound small patterns. So, failure is implied without followthrough in the central issues the method solves.
Similar to this type: Ex.
all negative: Skip repeated patterns and go only on visual perspective of their implied presence with maybe a TL or pattern or two, only fail, and don't leave any tracks or prior visual practice to draw in the repeated patterns to save you from yourself. corrections: all time.
b. Structural, source-dependent -- precision/focus
A negative example of what not to do in the "2-3 repeated patterns" chart study method, or perhaps only a variation away from the method to build upon its value, is that of medium-sized shapes that are very close to and fairly aligned with each other, along with (line patterns' #4 rep's) skewed lines and not continous lines, here.
Another one, this one getting into the details correctly for a while and then tripping up through focussing on the trees for the forest, that is, the midruns for the pivots. corrections: busy TL's (or other shape).
--failure : integrative agnosia -- ...structure of an object is not, and constituent stuff is, experienced; or, dissociation: both perceived, distinct
c. Ambient, rapid -- fragments/count
A negative example, this one using offbeat lines within the method, albeit with area-crowding taller shapes, which results in less told on direction. The lines did fine, only I paid too much attention to the shapes' importance to realize where I was overall and thus missed where the lines fit in with the rest of the picture. corrections: all space.
d. structural, rapid -- orientation/sound
The range of the "2-3 repeated patterns" method: Each example in . divides the cycle itself into 2-3 large pieces; . is the 2-3 temporary types of small patterns, each of which are repeated within a larger cycle; and, . is where one uses one large pattern that is partial or whole and then repeats 2-3 features of its insides. corrections: single-touch TL's (or other shape).



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optional list of ideas, in case ever decide to go MTF:

1. "multi-currency S/R line". Something I could add to my 'good idea, I'll use it if I need something extra' list of single-pattern selectors, which currently includes
2. VSA Teacher Volume / Hidden Gap Volume Ver 5 / Compression -- the biggest volume, usually, with lesser patterns occasionally
3. DutchCandle -- single-line candles; extensive pattern-maker, have to watch for vagueness between patterns, the reward can be something like overall structure of a chart area one'd miss otherwise
4. Market Hours -- pivotal slow- vs. fast-price session hours, which approximately divides the day in half, at 0800-1000 and 1600-1700 EST
5. VerticalLineWeekOpen (5) -- the huge time of almost nonexistent trading on the weekend, compared to a more or less continuous trading period the rest of the week, has got to be the best place to study around, and this indicator starts one up with a horizontal line at the week's open
6. Bollinger Bands -- the narrow-wide widths; may go with Keltner Bands, for their fading runups/downs; also goes with compression indicator, as I noted in a post
7. a homemade version (ten fib-# sma's) of rainbow -- triangular and other small crossover patterns
8. zigzag -- trend choice and one's training to select them
9. and CustomCandle6 -- can watch how fast price-tick changes versus each candle's countdown time (just thought of this idea, since would like to get in on a volume-per-tick plus time-between-ticks indicator).
   
10. Usually, I only keep a multi-width-visible candles indicator on the screen, the only one I know of being ToggleRegandHACandlesshift, now in its ninth version. The rest of the indicators would be useful if I went MTF and thus needed a crutch to see patterns in other TF's.

another that is optional for others and not for me; for me, it adds on psychological-model symbols to the list of four:

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(the new version, which combines all of the examples into a 'maybe any of them' approach)

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*The percolating plant bulb is gut instinct tracing a chart move (dots, viscera) -- digester angles, that is, whatever is midlined/logr'ed is 'digested' as miscellaneous modifier to the pair -- high lead-follow paradigm use.
-- Midline/logr works as a range up to twice a pattern; thus, the asymptotic X, almost-X, and circle (which can also be parallel lines.)
*The flattened granddaddy longlegs is the heart -- thus, a storage device for memories of desirable actions in their respective environment, and transmitter of energy the stomach provides (wavy lines, veins/arteries) -- and, doer angles, that is, whatever is in the area all works together to do a balance that leads to coordinate with other areas -- high individualism, contrast.
-- Balance has a range of nonexistence as balance parity(), partial balance ..., and randomness (the 'random ghost' shape); because balance is a range in and of itself, there is nothing outside the range of its usefulness, however small, to the concept.
*The horizontal line segment is symbolic of conditioning, as in have someone do the same activity the same way until they do it all the time, or more simply of ongoing pressure -- and thus may be another regular shape -- reflects within, any area that responds heavily to it;
*and, the box-enclosed plus sign is a chart for a specified area, thus any combo that is impulsive and buildable.
[b]-- range: The two intersect/touch shapes fail if the pattern studied is less than the one most closely resembling it. The one-touch does not make equal in any way the curve to the TL and its area of origin; the multi-touch does in abundance. The one-touch, after it happens, can convert into being like said TL area of origin; and, the multi-touch, after it happens, can convert from a flaw within itself that is then leveraged upon escape from, and thus inequality of, the multi-touch.










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on the lighter side:

hedging

(more rewrites)


(post#1 dump)
Extra stuff just confused me. Moved logr-midline range to options box.




PATTERN -- Midline/logr works as a range up to twice a pattern; thus, the asymptotic X, almost-X, and circle (which can also be parallel lines.)
PATTERN -- Balance ("optional") has a range of nonexistence as balance parity(), partial balance ..., and randomness (the 'random ghost' shape); because balance is a range in and of itself, there is nothing outside the range of its usefulness, however small, to the concept.
PATTERN -- range: The two intersect/touch shapes fail if the pattern studied is less than the one most closely resembling it. The one-touch does not make equal in any way the curve to the TL and its area of origin; the multi-touch does in abundance. The one-touch, after it happens, can convert into being like said TL area of origin; and, the multi-touch, after it happens, can convert from a flaw within itself that is then leveraged upon escape from, and thus inequality of, the multi-touch.



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MIDLINE-LOGR BALANCE

areas: patterns:
((pattern formula)balance and imbalances, lead-linked with the other patterns through stomach, heart, and their angles;
intersect and interrupts, conclusion-linked with the other patterns through chart and shape effect with contact);
and, midline-logr, its tense-relax repetition, which internally structures all areas with the formula's math symbols.
*AREA The percolating plant bulb is gut instinct tracing a chart move (dots, viscera) -- digester angles, that is, whatever is midlined/logr'ed is 'digested' as miscellaneous modifier to the pair -- high lead-follow paradigm use.
*AREA The flattened granddaddy longlegs is the heart -- thus, a storage device for memories of desirable actions in their respective environment, and transmitter of energy the stomach provides (wavy lines, veins/arteries) -- and, doer angles, that is, whatever is in the area all works together to do a balance that leads to coordinate with other areas -- high individualism, contrast.
*AREA The horizontal line segment is symbolic of conditioning, as in have someone do the same activity the same way until they do it all the time, or more simply of ongoing pressure -- and thus may be another regular shape -- reflects within, any area that responds heavily to it.
*AREA And, the box-enclosed plus sign is a chart for a specified area, thus any combo that is impulsive and buildable.
NOTE: Reason stops once emotion, especially fear, starts. With same model, watch for areas that'd cause one to avoid or otherwise be impulsive following through it with reason.





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More-involved use of intersection and interruption:









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1. THAT'S EXACTLY IT.
   pattern -- locally unique shape, separate from others, next joins
2. SIMPLIFY AND MULTIPLY!
   with o/a curved (including logr) and straight (including midline) tension ( : adds up) angle (sometimes a TL) marking break
3. WELL, IF YOU ONLY CONSIDER THIS...
   series -- 1 maturity (is: moves on); 2 balance; 3 nerves; 4 affect; 5 path
4. IT JUST MOVES SOMEHOW, HERE
   period only of space or time bracketing volatility; std area; and, area signifier type of pattern -- looks same, overlaps other, next replaces

simpler: Act as if a std area IS a pattern and ignore angles for a really wide in-trade drawdown, thus simplifying what put into series --
0427-8 2009, g/u 1'TF it's gonna wander in this area, because lots of paired candles and light opposers are here, whereas it'll visit the lower stuff, which is a bunch of levels, and then leave, because it wants to explore the upper stuff (and see if it can get a level price there);
then, all one does is study for a couple of exceptions within each vast area, for the turn's possibility.
Sometimes, I just can't concentrate enough, and relaxing to be a successful trader is far better than pushing myself into being a high-performing one.

This one works okay, and so does angles made to be tiny patterns that continuously fill up areas, allowing for the series to happen. An opposite to the last, to be sure; tougher, since there's lots of angles; and with this, more exact, in an almost lyrical way.

The idea is to simplify identification of every area and its structure and projections.
To this, the picture below has a local turn, which produces a line segment for its structure,
and a global level, which produces a line ray for its projection:

Its context is here.


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