Thanks DB, I will do all this over the weekend. Would you suggest replaying also specially for the trades that are losers or break the line before going in your favor? In terms of bringing it all together I was searching for a long time and have to say that OneNote from MS Office seems to be very good. One can build a very good journal and implement pictures and also excel stuff nicely. This should not be an advertisement, I just found it to be usefull and maybe others too.
I suggest tons of replay until it all becomes second nature. It's the ones who are in a hurry who take the longest to get this.
I am still finding this very hard to interiorize, I use the 1 min SMA in order to see the waves forming, and do the recording to tell the story as it unfolds, it is just that I feel a huge mind wall when trying to turn that into actionable information. I guess time will change that. Meanwhile, will keep on working on that.
Because the default on a line plot is line-on-close, and this can give a wildly inaccurate display of what's happening with price. If the charting program can plot a line of the mean of each bar, i.e., an average of the high-to-low, fine. If not, the 1m MA provides a better approximation. There is also the potential problem of plotting a line chart and a bar chart in the same space. Again this depends on the charting program. The objective in all this is to clarify, not to muddy it all up.