Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

post #1 dump:

(a variant of the last post's pictures)





post #1's new:

(a lot not explained; hope it pans thru, most don't)




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also, to anyone interested:
I updated my Trader Explorer to the current demo account I occasionally trade.

my first majority-of-time-on-demo trade (in a long, long while),
used gann fan off a spread indicator for mb trading (which is not a fixed-spread broke r),
and this is a pre-trade-exit chart -- note only the bright green, thicker lines:
0923 EST --
Well, the bright green, thicker-line Gann Fan was a bit ambitious, at least thus far. A more-candles-proven Gann Fan, in bright blue, regular (thin) lines, was more effective, if still very lacking. The lower yellow line did fine.
Only, on this trade, I feel I got the general direction in a vague way, I just don't feel I did as good a job as I could have. And, the spread-based Gann Fan idea was bogus, that I can see. I'll keep testing the spread indicator, it's just that I have to keep my platform open to record bars.
And the way I let go of the last trade, with an overly large loss, needs correcting.

The main things I want to get from this concentration on demo trading, is regular correction of my psychological errors with chart technical habits...

0933 -- I closed the trade, since the lower yellow horizontal line proved the most exactly worthwhile, and then since price went to a related, higher yellow horizontal line.

In general --
I'm trying to be more honest with myself and others about my trading abilities, which is why I now concentrate on demo trading. I'll also change my attitude in my future posts elsewhere in ff to reflect my quality (%/Hr) and level (paper, simulator, demo, pennies or full) of trading.
Don't think this is an overly passive way of being, because I have a lot of confidence in my discretionary trading, my technical chart drawing, and my ability to correct psychological mistakes. I'm much more about theory than application, though, so looking over my trading abilities, they're unevenly matched and some of the abilities lack so much as to drag the rest down all the way. So, the whole package is aligned at the level of demo or less, and thus I have a lot of work in front of me.
I mean, one day I want to live off this stuff using a very low initial capital, so the motivation's definitely there to do well at this from this point on.

Oh, and my chart studies are all over the place, in terms of what type of method I use, since I've been studying this stuff since '97 and seriously since '04. So this may deter lots of people from reading my stuff. I do have half a dozen unique ways to draw TL's etc., plus some simple theories about chart drawing in general, so that may interest some people.
On the other side of the coin, my psych stuff may deter people, due to its intense involvement, big gaps in apparent credibility, and poor explanation. I just hope others will look at it for what they can take from it, and go from there.

It looks like my thick, green lines of a Gann Fan may pay off..
That's good news for using the spread indicator.

I know so much technicals, and can go pretty much anywhere in psych, and I'm fairly set on how to get to profitability while now at a concentrated demo at most, that the journey itself may interest some people. From the PX90 site, which I read of in someone else's recent ff post:
" constantly introducing new moves and routines so your body never plateaus, and you never get bored".
That's me. I hope I can turn it into something that also progresses (my bank account).

1910 EST HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!! My spread-based Gann Fan was EXACTLY right (well, as much as a Gann Fan can ever be right) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe I should do a little touchdown jig....

I've got an idea: 80 in 15. (that is, 80-pip drop using 15 minilots off my 10k demo account, which is 2/3s of my usual leverage used)
But price is going up. It just settled on some old Gann Fan lines with an opposing-angles pattern, and I didn't keep my computer platform to gather bars for the spread indicator.
Well, it looks like it's going up. Maybe it's the first tier of a logr-expanding set of tiers going down, I don't know. This opp-angle pattern is more of a settle, and I'd prefer to find a support it's reacting to before calling a turn.
The reason I got the idea is the TL 2011.07.12 02:46 1.584953 2011.07.13 04:30 1.592866 . I was playing with the indicator , which simply puts all candles along a horizontal line, and found there were at least a few isolated, big red candles in several places long before this big up move. So I drew a line that connected in the exact (I guess, using a midline) middle of each candle, and the second candle's close bars helped me through using the TL for support. With this confirmation, I was encouraged to follow the TL more and found more support from the price-time line, all the way up to the big turn around 2011.07.13 0957 PST (mb trading platform's time).

Alright, the current pattern may've finished. I'm going to risk it and short the regular #minilots. Maybe I convinced myself writing down the description, which makes no sense. I can split the difference and go to 40 pips, as this area's awfully midline-ish.
0530 EST Whoop. Okay, I took a fast profit (off a retrace confirming the recent triple top (on the 1', which is all I trade (for now; may include other TF's for weightier pivots, etc.))). It's certainly easier to max the speed on a simulator and see what the heck'll happen next, than sit here; I guess I can trade a bunch while I think price'll go this certain overall direction.
Traded another fast one.

0546 EST Okay, entered the big one for 35 pips short. My problem is the TL I explained in detail is rising and I'm shorting, so I compensated for that a good bit. The thing is, price often goes sideways all the way to such a line, so I may get in trouble.
Nervous that I am, I moved TP up 15 pips to a 20-pip short. The double bottom's heavier on the second bottom, so that favors me for a third bottom and maybe a break....

0914 I'm now watching how I trade, good bad and ugly. I'm now on the ugly

0921 Yep, lost it all. New env't, etc.: If this isn't psych, I don't know what is.

It's my form.

I've been going through various ordinary activities in different environments through the day, and was able to use the picture on post#1 --

-- and found how much I depended on my form to get me through one of the activities with a set sub-environment, and how the form and/or my rl set dealt with mec's physiological positions (on the high, w/serotonin-dopamine) w/and with different microevents (on the low, w/acetycholine).

It surprised me, how simple a mistake I've made.

Okay then, on with the work.








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on randomness and why fail rather than be half right --

Because you went with an assumption, like any human would. Or you're not depressed. Or, "When You Have Fewer Choices, You’ll Go After What You Choose with Gusto".
Saw an experiment where chimpanzees and rats got R:R right in a puzzle and humans failed because they wanted to be right about the theory of it (, etc.); can't find it now.


"It is theory that decides what can be observed. " -Albert Einstein

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Alright, form.

form#1: made loose plan, worked, saw firm shape to take, got greedy and lost all.
form#2: made partial, loose plan, failed, lost all.
I need an injection of a new idea. How about rl reading of my chart study.
form#3: saw a gf stretch whose finish midlined, so thot down in opp angle, before put the gf on at the start and thot up and 100 pips at that. Hmmm. That all confused me, so I went above the fray to MTF and found an excellent GF there to replace the rest, and it brought me good profit. Yay!
form#3, redux: Lost all.
I didn't do a good job of rl reading, and so will try again.
form#4: step -- unusual pattern. castle -- Two unusual points connect between two small, square candles. roll -- Those two with the latter's one makes an l.p.3, which, with a nasty in-trade float, works.
form#2, redux: Yeah, don't ask me why I repeated form#2. Lost all.
start on rl reading as in #4 until catches part of the trend, using loose TP to catch as in #2:
form#5: Overtraded past where reading was effective, and into unknown MTF without doing #3 along with it. Lost all -- And guess what, twice as much.
form#6: Undertraded with just-as-good reading, the MTF a modest double-check of just-as-big area right before it. Profited.

I like this.

form#6, redux: The partial add-on was about as wrong as possible, more of a cover-up for greed, and the complete reading did fine. Didn't count on the real reading that I missed, that of localized L:M attachments on my lines leading to an understanding that there's a pattern that explained both areas in the last trade. Lost all.
explain one best can, double-checking with area before. Make sure it's a small trade. Next trade, explain both. Again, small trade. Repeat.
form#7: Yeah, that worked. Two profits in a row. Got a little "realistic" in the second trade, i.e. more pips with more justification. Let it ride.

I guess you could call these chart-study strategies.
I have yet to introduce post#1's method; if form#7 works another time, I'll try to.

Ran form#7 through adjust'ts in new area: Studied current area, got overview, compared to last area of same size. Only, Small patterns kept getting in the way, and thus inadequacy of study of them makes the overall study partial.
form#7, redux: Lost all. Too much big-area - tiny-area contrast, unlike in form#7. I think I get frustrated in the need to search. In #7, I began a passion for the area; this time, trial and error got the best of me.
So, even though I lost in form#8, I uncovered what post#1's 'adjust'ts', or, rl, may be applied to in order to make it past rough spots along the way of how I study the chart.
Too, the redux gave way to the "I got good lines, just mistraded them" syndrome. Aargh. And, bul___it.

Make the area slightly (maybe 25%) larger and divide it into several sections, comparing the sections against each other with one method -- for example volatility, any lines covering that section's entire area, and the area's overall angle.
form#8 Got the trade, which was conservative of the actual move.
really large, half-baked plan, more worked on than #2 and not as worked upon as #4 . As much work as #3, only the study needed twice as much work on it as I did to come together properly.
form#9 which failed to lose or win, just had large floating loss for a while. Oh no, wait, yes, I lost it all.

I'm acting irresponsibly. It's either lots of mc's in a row or a hit-or-miss whether I get a trade done right.

discussion
#6 was reminiscent of #8, and both did good. #7 was the best, though, because I started to feel passionate about good trading. Whenever I put in TP's that match most of the next trend and each trend is of a relatively different length, I feel I'm "with-it" and can keep up with the crowd. The redux, tho, is a reminder to adjust my ratio to what's presented.
Put #7 and #7 redux and #8 together as a range, and you got a new approach.

put in two sections when there's three or more, forget to combine them into a unifying method, and overextend the validity of how loose a method this is.
form#9 Lost all.

So a big deal is knowing how to evaluate what an area offers for study, before emplacing my devices on it.


repeat form#8a as a good thing
form#9 redux Got trade.
bounce off success of another trade's stuff, or do so by rejecting that trade's stuff. adjust't to #2.
form#10 Yeah, don't ask me why. It was an add-on to the last trade. Lost it all.

post#1, new method picture:








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extreme longterm, line-bracketed immediate area, advanced lines
form#11 two trades, first manually exited and second small
form#10 redux Worked this time, tho the looseness caused confusion earlier and very big in-trade float later. Three trades, including a very fast and large one.

(post#1 dump)


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An amateur's interpretation:


The purpose of chart study is to capture longterm regularities and trade with them: Looked for longterm regularities, expanded upon them, and read the current bars for direction.

ex.:


(the rest of it, I didn't study so close, but it worked...

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... and I did it for about five seconds, before another (demo) margin call.


I like to determine only the TA immediately around and, less so, exactly or logarithmically between, ff's red-flag news minutes for g/e/u (since g/u's what I've been practicing on.)
I'm also thinking about multiple-symbol correlations, as I read from an expert trader that "if things are confused, there's no reason to trade", which may increase the chance of my TA working.


chart study strategies

This is a new section (as of 07182011) that applies the picture above to making one's form (as in exercise form, for example a form that needs to be very stable and is often tested) while drawing up a chart for the next trade. Various reading patterns will be displayed, with explanation and examples of use.




mm (example): what I look at regularly --
1' TF g/u PST mb trading demo platform, as usual) logr as noted.
I exited the trade. +75 pips (at, as usual, 3/5's of maximum leverage (50:1 the maximum), and compound #lots per trade), and a fairly clean trade, that is, [(floating loss) : (exit)] in pips, about 3:1, even if %/hr was low (about 1 1/2 %).





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post#1: new










0453 07212011 group i-evil, that is, one must obey all at the cost of others' individual freedom and in override of environmental controls:
an extraordinarily large appreciation for those much lower or higher in status than others,
from
sharp, irreversible activity, of a speed, unexpected, permanent negative-for-others-and-self results activity from;
to
implant, steal and mock private information of the lowers to blend in with the environs;
to
leverage activity to purvey critical negative, temporary/fixable information for self that also is with group, to/from one in charge of current environs;
to
acitivities done adjustable to what intractable to existence and voluntarily or involuntarily in existence and its encounter with the one, that prompts sharing with the one;
to
forcefully fake warmth for certain others, done individually and to position with other; :
individually, they disappear.
individual supported by one, they fade.
balanced with necessity and self-deception, individual stays.
group that hides significant activity, balances.
concentrated-activity group (thus with entire existences separate), thrives easily.
-- THIS is how you lose or gain money from trading. The market has no shame, cannot be turned against itself and still go on, bury what it's about in exchange for survival: That won't cut it with them.

(post #1: revised)

Returned emotions to fray --






After much consideration of how the different variables in this picture work with each other,
I broke my run of hundreds of margin calls (punctuated with a winning trade here and there) and had three winning accounts of 5, 6 and 5 trades, respectively.

Thank you, market emotion cycle makers.

Just now sparking my interest in who else explored mec further, this idea led me to this link, which has a graph of actual numbers to support the mec theory :


It's apparent I condensed and changed the emotions listed in my version of mec. Essentially mine is the same. .http://www.cbn.com/finance/SMI_marketcycle.aspx : Links late '90's stock investing with the mec. Thus, one problem I had with mec is that it resembles the mindset of a naive stock investor too much, and not that of any trader.
A difference there may be that a more experienced trader of another financial instrument would be more aggressive in how to choose a financial opportunity.
I chose 'anger' instead of what's there in order to oppose fear and so have a true x axis,
and removed 'desperation' and 'panic', which both seem to me to be mixes of fear of capitulation.
Again on anger, I figure anger also contains the optimism of achieving one's goal, if in a simplistic two-choice way of "not your way", since being opposite fear.
Others: I dropped denial; even though it sounds good, it's more of an anomaly, and I included in the graphic definition of anxiety the concept of denial.
Finally, I dropped desperation and relief because of their similarities to the emotions nearby.

post#1, addition:



I have to be aware of the situation which impresses me with a wrong emotion-pattern emphasis (i.e., too independent of a good chart study.) It's the 'don't bring your problems to work' syndrome: This is further away from, and often outside of, trading.
And, I must work to create a high R:R. This is further into, and often very detailed inside, trading.
Thus, good mec-and-pattern use has redundancy.

Without redundancies, margin calls are certain. Even if trade demo or less when this happens, dampened trading ability will follow for a while.



-- The summary of this is a change in the locus of control from another person whose voice is louder / more life-important, to the chart and one's trade with it, and various other examples. Even an interrelated situation between entities, that is, another job's current status and, especially, interrelation of two situations within another job, can be a locus of control, if a special one called situation locus.

Thus,



I believe the concept of locus of control
covers the philosophy I'd espoused below the picture;
thus, I dump it from post #1:



one must obey all at the cost of others' individual freedom and in override of environmental controls:
an extraordinarily large appreciation for those much lower or higher in status than others,
from
sharp, irreversible activity, of a speed, unexpected, permanent negative-for-others-and-self results activity from;
to
implant, steal and mock private information of the lowers to blend in with the environs;
to
leverage activity to purvey critical negative, temporary/fixable information for self that also is with group, to/from one in charge of current environs;
to
acitivities done adjustable to what intractable to existence and voluntarily or involuntarily in existence and its encounter with the one, that prompts sharing with the one;
to
forcefully fake warmth for certain others, done individually and to position with other; :
individually, they disappear.
individual supported by one, they fade.
balanced with necessity and self-deception, individual stays.
group that hides significant activity, balances.
concentrated-activity group (thus with entire existences separate), thrives easily.
-- THIS is how you lose or gain money from trading. The market has no shame, cannot be turned against itself and still go on, bury what it's about in exchange for survival: That won't cut it with them.

One example of locus of control used in chart study
is
locus of control -- the only spot where angle is vertical

(post #1 dump)




(last picture)

basic:
in tune with mec and its patterns
average SL, natural TP, high W:L

redundant:
loci of control fully investigated
low SL, natural TP, high W:L



(new post#1)



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Often, my posts not in #1 of this journal help me define possibilities that lead to a significant improvement in my chart study and/or overall trading method.
There was a post I made yesterday, in which I figured this --
"(I avoid SR levels more often, it seems to cherry-pick tiny TA areas rather than combine larger areas with an explanation) chart that is only one (perhaps not logical, only w/a little knowledge) explanation of why you "randomly" picked your SR levels"
The thread starter was being addressed; I found myself being ignored by both the individual and others (except perhaps for a "tedious" note, given very generally, a couple of posts later.) I realized posting in this thread helps those who post more than others who read the post.



So how can I use what I wrote?

1. First, the chart makes a good case for defining an SR level.
2. Second, one can divide different types of drawing devices, or at least uses of drawing devices, through how much chart area they explain.
3. Third, any one area will have some way of telling which of several amounts of chart area is more valid.

My guess is that the mec patterns in the picture above, comparing and selecting differently-proportioned smaller areas of the chart area being studied, can handle the third task, and in turn, it's what emotions are about.

So, a new post#1:

(testing on simulator.... )
Whoa! I just discovered another chart-study method.
Do the P. fractal for significantly straight trends, to figure if price'll go south or north, noting old SR levels from especially horizontal straight trends or otherwise (see chart above):


I seem to count on the two straight trends crossing in an imaginary TL from each, also, to make a complex angle.

I tried a third time, and the volatility and angle both compromised in a third straight trend; only consider those with arrows:


Alright, a fourth time, it failed (no picture); I measured the straight trend (down) immediately before the last picture's last frame's s.trend, and price went up in a measured way, then down below the s.trend pair in a measured way, then up for good. I believe it was the balance of the vertical-candle of a straight trend that is framed, with these two that influenced the complex reaction.
A fifth time, and the account went into margin call. The method is necessary to include, at least.

Note new post#1, to reflect the method with the rest of the overall method.

New post#1.
It's comprehensive and simple, if not self-explanatory -- I will with time. I've talked about the unexplained concepts in older journal posts.





new post#1







new post#1




new post#1






fair definition of a cup and handle type of pattern? maybe..



above: Next pattern more vertical instead of Gann Fan, midlines more pronounced -- so, failed.

Hi-mid-lo compro- of a straight trend, where curving in to the middle --







new post#1

Sorry, more meaningless, minor, unexplained, inaccurate revisions
of a method that's never earned a penny;
that is, new post#1:





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idea: shapes with distinctive volatilities provide clue to direction in past, present and future --


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explanation of post#1 picture's "expansion" under volatility:
Expansion-contraction, under the volatility heading, works with compromise / a pure run's hi-mid-low.



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1025 EST
I had an anxiety crisis at work today -- not that I wanted or expected it -- and, from it, learned a few things about my place in life and how to deal with it better.

balance -- ability to transmit shared attributes
maturity -- the same actions, and difference of ego allowed in group
impulse/level -- viewpoint, what to interact with so'll exchange in kind
exchange/detail -- everything's alright, nothing's alright again

From that, the next rewrite:

curve DOT exchange/detail
angle LINE impulse/level
dim PATTERN maturity
volatility AREA balance

rested, unconsciously thought, inspired:

thought more, multiple interactions separate from me happened:

had a day of it elsewhere, pared and retitled:


L:M newly put into perspective -- example of use of new post#1:




another post#1:

(clarifies meaning a bit more)

sorry, another one....

new post#1:

(simplify!)






new post#1:




Still couldn't figure how to use mec patterns.
So, converted to another use, other than to ID chart areas in a relative way:

Alright, this one worked.

... as long as I followed it, which was a couple of times.
Maybe clarity will help:



Thought about how picture above may apply in nontrading situations;
it's like counterweighting energy use from opposing sides, to see which side wins.
Instead of the e/ - /e flip in trading, where depression is great to enter a trade on,
depression may be terrible to act upon if, for instance, one side is built to move as a single, timely, large striking object, and the opposite side is built to move as a near-infinite, time-constant, tiny group of latch-onto objects. The latter merely feels a shock, while either dispersing slightly to the former's strike or losing a few in its group. Since the latter is attached to the former, most of the energy the former puts upon the latter in its strike goes toward itself, so that an apparent depression->ecstacy attack has the effect of an ecstacy->depression attack in its energy transfer from the strike. Thus, the strike is the worst possible way to take advantage of this nontrading opportunity of a strike.

One tiny, critical error in the last post's last picture,
reflected my eventual attitude that lost me the longest-held account (24 trades, before a six-trade spin to margin call) I've had in months.
I was facing my fears, taking on the market as if it were an entity that obeyed the physical universe, when I wrote that last picture and then took a break from trading.
The picture newly said, "different properties for various objects", which spreads the blame, and, since it failed to connect to "each side" of the box above it, created a vacuum between recognizing different things on the chart and the usual 1-2 struggle of the trade with the chart. So, I fell into that hole of a vacuum and lost my soul or whatever to the vagarities of irresponsible risk.

Here is the corrected picture. I hope to be returned to grace (or whatever, as long as it's not that stupid high-risk thinking again.)



NOTE: the "properties" are the little shapes in each of the patterns in the cycle shown, to show proportion etc.


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AARGH.
Nobody likes to draw charts anymore.
Where are all the candle-and-line traders?!?


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Removed second frame in upper left altogether.




Removed both frames and reemphasized emphasis of cycle, that of identifying the quality of a trade before entering it.




Forgot, /e valence opp of /e's.



Okay, that restored my dignity. 6 trades in a row.
Also, began trading EURUSD, to be able to post on some of the interactive trading threads or on my beginner's thread of "EUR/USD patterns". Everyone's treating me like a beginner who's unable to explain him(/her)self, so maybe the latter thread's the best place for me.

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I keep missing the real use of angle, that of opposite angles, especially to signify a turn.



Lastly, I could draw moving optical illusions from a photo of a nature scene, and then draw my chart study on it, as a warmup.

OR I could recognize how my day would frame the cycle of chart study so that my trading'd act like my day went -- this happens a lot, so it'd be really useful to clear the day, or at least the distractive portions of it, from my mind so I can concentrate on how well I trade.
How I'd do this has perplexed me for several years. One way may be to do some practice trades before attempting to trade what then would be serious stakes.


On reusing more than one of the pictures above:

"trading has 0 nrg xchg; nontrading, diff't nrg @ sd"
-- I do need to remember this if I'm to at least partially clear myself of the day.
"i.e. an obj't,ntt's phys'l prop"
-- This, implying more space than the 2D (price-time) chart, can also return to the screen.

Thus,



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dump, from profile:Explorer:account#1:Explorer Options:
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that have the help of a spread recorder indicator and DutchCandle (which isolates candles along a horizontal line)
I like ff's red-flag news, or at least the more important ones, for G,E,U; right now, it's incidental to my technicals, only I have found promise, and'll likely reinclude it soon.

current, from same place:

candles with drawing devices (mostly TL's; also learning to switch off Gann Fans, that is, momentum (what I call 'logarithms', or 'logr'), Andrews Pitchforks, that is, a stable area (what I call 'midlines', or 'mid-')), and circles
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One project I'm interested in is combining every chart into three complex drawing devices:
Andrews Pitchforks
Gann Fans
circles, as described here
I'm not sure it could be done, but it would increase mechanization of the chart beyond simpler drawing devices such as regular polygons (TL's, triangles, frames).

In several of my more recent posts in others' threads, I posted and described charts that were both technically deep and tradeably effective. This encourages me to go forth with such a project as just noted.

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Sorry, another.


post#1, new:
(lost focus)





post#1, new:
(wasn't comprehensive)




post#1, new:
(extreme experiences after last)

sorry, again. This time, w/some explanations.

post#1, new:




enlarged --



post#1, new:
(combined variables to fit all)
Why so big? I plan to make psych notes, as a page in a journal.


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post#1, new:



first journal entry:
(the tiny word on the left of the first chart is 'channel')

Okay, gotcha another'un.




This organizes, purty darn well,all PA and PA-close stuff. (I do NOT count language overlays (order flow), extra approximations (VSA or that sideways volume, both for nonstandard volume) or lagging stuff (you know...)).
There is value in drawing devices I didn't note, such as Fib retrace and grid; people seem to get stuck on one or the other, tho, so I naturally shied away from them altogether.
I really, really want to use volume, just haven't gotten there yet. And, I'd love to see a bonafide indicator/bar with the real time between (batches of) ticks included.
Forgot about correlation -- may be nice to place better drawing devices at important news times.

Oh, and "anchor" is "anchor -- channel,fan, and polygonal, 2(+)polygonal, and complex patterns", in order.
To recall, an l.p.5 is a triangle and a frame together, Koombj circles links one or more circles, and an l.p.3 is about three amorphous shapes each with a definable top (,mid,bottom) pivot and a screen of a partial shape later to center a line from each of the same-level pivots to intersect at a point in the (,usually, middle of the) screen.


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post#1 --
had to include something weird:

(post#1)

I had some positive results with this picture, which is explained further in post #1:

The 1-4 patterns' subcategories need some rewriting, such as putting 'corner' w/o 'sep(arated)' in 1 and instead putting the idea of being separated in 4.
The central idea is that of different cycles -- whether or not overlapping -- each having a loc, and that I need to pay attention for when a new loc arrives and the consequences of trading with, without or against it.
Very helpful, as in life.

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The loc cycle approach, I can appreciate.
I don't like tying down mec patterns into an artificial meaning.
So I make stories using more specific and including alternate definitions for each mec pattern.


The ranking is still valid, and may make an effective framing for stories:


My guess -- I'm accessing my right brain with the story, left brain with the technical study, and both sides of the brain with the loc positioning.


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Testing; mc's, be's to now.
Last real mc --
myth: divergences always returned to.
truth: That line pattern #3 is a simple compromise.

Too much, not direct.

This combines the four and the mec directly.
Attachment

Yeah, alright, much better. I even immediately understood the context of a 4, at least after I missed the opp ; )

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Too many mc's, can't stand it.

post#1 dump:

trendline: Draw a line through the pivots, centers, and midline-momentum divisions of as many areas as possible, until you can't anymore. Then project a ray from that line to see if it makes a difference.
-- This is a beginner's definition. There are also typical places and special circumstances where TL's are more effective or where TL's make a difference when they apparently do not.
General rule of the extra stuff is, where ever there is a symmetry, there is an exception. So you weigh the definition above with the presence of a symmetry. And a symmetry can be equal, curved or Gann-Fan-added areas, loosely speaking mathematically.

method:

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This organizes, purty darn well,all PA and PA-close stuff. (I do NOT count language overlays (order flow), extra approximations (VSA or that sideways volume, both for nonstandard volume) or lagging stuff (you know...)).
There is value in drawing devices I didn't note, such as Fib retrace and grid; people seem to get stuck on one or the other, tho, so I naturally shied away from them altogether.
I really, really want to use volume, just haven't gotten there yet. And, I'd love to see a bonafide indicator/bar with the real time between (batches of) ticks included.
Forgot about correlation -- may be nice to place better drawing devices at important news times.

Oh, and "anchor" is "anchor -- channel,fan, and polygonal, 2(+)polygonal, and complex patterns", in order.
To recall, an l.p.5 is a triangle and a frame together, Koombj circles links one or more circles, and an l.p.3 is about three amorphous shapes each with a definable top (,mid,bottom) pivot and a screen of a partial shape later to center a line from each of the same-level pivots to intersect at a point in the (,usually, middle of the) screen.

next for chart study approach:
I have a way to read candles.
I want to group candles so that each group is a single unit like a candle, thus raising the bar for reading a chart.
I have this, thus far --
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I don't know, maybe this is too much of a stretch.
4 is a group of line segments, like 1, the differentiation being that 4 is big-small, like the x axis, and 1 a more natural tiny-all.
2,3 are single items, the former more natural (i.e., being part of the price-time line rather than a forced idea about the pt line.)
Oh, 'cycle' lies halfway in, between 2 and 3. It's the loc. The pieces I suggest a 3 is made of, I've seen in 1'TF price-time cycles recently.
A loc's accompaniments of 2 and 3 widen the idea of the loc; thus, how much it groups -- bh -- or resists a single object or line -- df . I suppose 3 is more like group, since 4 is so much about big vs. small; since both 2 and 3 are dependent on the loc, which is (about -- variance of definition of the loc between 1 and 4) in the center, either could be about the other.
So this is why I think the picture may work in somewhat logically explaining through the price-time line an approach that uses groups of candles as a unit of measure.

-- the stuff, edited together (note new idea on why bh,df may work):

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It highlights an overweaning concept, that of loc cycles. The central idea is that of different cycles -- whether or not overlapping -- each having a loc, and that I need to pay attention for when a new loc arrives and the consequences of trading with, without or against it. Very helpful, as in life.

My guess -- I'm accessing my right brain with the story, left brain with the technical study, and both sides of the brain with the loc positioning:
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journal:



something weird:

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new 'un:
(technical studies organized a little better)
(warning about the influence of nontrading groups included)

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I got an idea. I can start posting what I consider (chart) loc's (on the 1'TF g/u),
and then later show how they interact. It's really interesting (to me).


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