Essentially the only application I can think of regarding the OP's post and trading is that if there is no such thing as 'motion' in trading, then prices do not technically 'move', but they skip.
This becomes more and more apparent as you 'zoom in', or in trading terms, look at shorter time frame charts. Sometimes you see this happening when you see what we know as 'gaps' happening in even the larger time frames. There are more gaps occurring in shorter time frames due to larger volume pushing the pips up before they are registered, giving the impression that it is going up in a non-smooth manner.
Does this have any bearing on me as a trader? For now no. I don't trade 5 second charts, so I still see prices moving, not skipping. But it does pay off knowing that prices will not move in a smooth manner, and that when it moves, it sometimes moves huge. The key therefore is to be there before it moves huge, to hold on when it is jerky, and to exit after it has reached its destination.
I find it a pretty pointless discussion though. A rehash of what most people already know, whether intuitively or otherwise. What will be cool is if one day a mechanism is invented where it is possible to trade 5 second charts accurately. Probably we'll have to wait for extreme high speed internet and even faster processors than what we already have now for normal people like us to do something like that. I'm not sure if scalping robots/automated trading has evolved to that stage, but if something like that can be done for an extended period of time, accurately, we can essentially capture almost every pip on the market.
This becomes more and more apparent as you 'zoom in', or in trading terms, look at shorter time frame charts. Sometimes you see this happening when you see what we know as 'gaps' happening in even the larger time frames. There are more gaps occurring in shorter time frames due to larger volume pushing the pips up before they are registered, giving the impression that it is going up in a non-smooth manner.
Does this have any bearing on me as a trader? For now no. I don't trade 5 second charts, so I still see prices moving, not skipping. But it does pay off knowing that prices will not move in a smooth manner, and that when it moves, it sometimes moves huge. The key therefore is to be there before it moves huge, to hold on when it is jerky, and to exit after it has reached its destination.
I find it a pretty pointless discussion though. A rehash of what most people already know, whether intuitively or otherwise. What will be cool is if one day a mechanism is invented where it is possible to trade 5 second charts accurately. Probably we'll have to wait for extreme high speed internet and even faster processors than what we already have now for normal people like us to do something like that. I'm not sure if scalping robots/automated trading has evolved to that stage, but if something like that can be done for an extended period of time, accurately, we can essentially capture almost every pip on the market.
:/