I did some work with just the tapes at one point, well it was a voting scheme for guessing the best direction to scalp the next bar using the tapes mainly [price tended to trade towards the tape center]. Other votes were from the larger channel which was just drawn as geometry with no volume clues and I forget what else... it was sort of workable. I'm still in the mode of "scalp the next bar" and it looks more profitable on average than SCT for a really small account, it's shaping up like SCT is better when scaled up.