or... it does not matter WHAT it is that you called "right", it is whether you are in sync with the market's projected message.
I apologize if anything I have to say has been brought up in last 100 pages or so. I've been quietly working away at printed out static charts. I'm up to 20 charts at this point, and will continue with this until I get what I'm supposed to Having said that, I'd like to make a couple comments/question: 1) Learning to trade has nothing to do with learning to trade. It's all about becoming much more flexible in ones perspectives. I suspect that once somebody really gets this stuff life changes in significant ways. 2) So far I have not had any aha moments, other than to realize that I do INTELECTUALLY get resolutions, I do not get them in any sort of INTERNALIZED way... yet. 3) I'm sort of grabbing at things to sort this out. One of those things is noticing how tapes and point3's can sort of morph into channels by becoming wider than usual. I noticed this much earlier, but now realize something more profound is going on. These "fractal shifts" are not something I consistantly see in real time, but are obvious on EOD charts. 4) By doing chart after chart in succession, I began to see that variations in daily volatility provide me with a challenge; it seems like how I annotate has to change.... yet I know annotations should always be the same (process wise). 5) Just before reading Spyder's post on the very same subject, I started to think in terms of whether laterals formed a retrace, a traverse, or a channel. Seems like there is huge reward in being able to tell which is which during formation of the lateral. Don't yet know how this will happen. And, while I haven't had a chance to use them yet, thank you so very much SPydertrader for posting so many charts recently. I see all your various trials of tapes to see the pt3's as early as possible. I'll be using these as a standard of comparison when I get caught up in the thread. EDIT: oops, sorry for how long post got, didn't realize it until posted