You are not alone in feeling overwhelmed or struggling to make sense on how to make it all fit together. OODA can sometimes work, but get heavy DD and need "medication" to work. So the minority of the minority continue down the rabbit hole, though one need to make sure whatever one builds is robust, not a house of cards that looks good and only work in the hindsight example. I can't stand repainting, so only annotate bar-by-bar. Maybe that's a mistake, but I don't want to relate to rewriting the past too much. Though try to understand future bars may alter understanding of history, so seeking to minimize that effect on the NOW. It's slow progress, but any progress feels real to me when issues of repainting get marginalized. Some repainting / correcting wrong ID is necessary. For P1, my understanding is that first P1 is "assigned". This could even mean first bar in your chart/log: You may "assign" (a choice!), and any mistake will be corrected (by later DOM or BM Rev). Typically, P1 assigned is first pt1. You already know pt1 as price. P1 assigned is ideally the same point, as volume, though not sure of all permissible permutations. For later, you know P and T, as volume. You start to see the difference between D and nD.
First half of my attempt. Next coming soon. I've had troubles with the VTP when OB surge. I have received already an answer to that (do the VTP dividing the cell in two rows), but I'm for the now unable to produce anything on it. The reason why I only did half of the VTP is because I have to change something inside of me if I want to work this way. I'm not here to find my way to get what I want, I'm here to obey to the rules that are in action, in order to extract all that is disponible on the market. As I was drilling and doing the VTP, I almost had physical reactions : I am not used to do something while knowing it's partly wrong. I am used to wait until I'm 100% sure and then go. I simply MUST and WANT TO CHANGE that. It's the very first day I kind of feel something good with the VTP. I have tried to let myself go towards a full of mistakes drill. But the more I talk with you guys, the quicker I feel growing inside of me this thought I've had since the beginning (5 years ago) : this work is way more than a work, it's a journey, an adventure which requires a lot of inner force and power, and especially one -> the virtue of being able to change our mind. That is an intense positive contribution to my inner vibration. I really need to BE how it's to be in order to be able to DO what is required, until finally HAVE. As I'm writing this message, I deeply feel that the benefit I will get from BEING how it's to be, will exceed from FAR the ones I'll get from DO and HAVE combined...
Those are some good insights. A couple of things. You have a working grasp of tape/traverse/channels and identifying ftts and FTTs. Doing volume rays seem to be progressing for you as well. Good work. This alone can get you to profitability with JHM as long as you trade the LTL and not the RTL. The ID's of turns being coupled to gaussians is also going well. Even though this is NOT the way to ID turns in RDBMS via the Modrian table, this is building a baseline of reference to successfully ID turns in the Modrian table at a future point. The pattern of D-D to D-nd to nd-D is a basic principle that can be applied on all fractal levels. What will make this more effective is to place a subscript on your log at Turn Type of the bar's sentiment. The info is already captured in your log with price case, but I've found that it's easier to scan down the log. For example, a C turn would have a subscript of B for long or R for short. You can also fill out the columns under action. 30m and 5m are for the bar's form, the last column is for the bar's sentiment. You can also fill out the column under degap (as the bars required it) and UL if the bar calls for it. The log has recorded your sequencing. You have - wait, repeat, rev chron and next. VTP on laterals and retro are up next to complete in understanding it. So in a way you are already more that halfway there through the VTP. VTP cycles and sequences one through the OOE. The dataset of the log is performing MADA. VTP is a subset of the log. Here's the sequence I see that doesn't include the previous day's degapping. Bar1 OB, you have a BM Long and BM short. Bar2 XR, this bar forms a T1 compared to the previous bar. It's the first tape constructed by 2 bars. The prior bar was a peak compared to this bar. Bar3 XO, of the BM long, therefore a BM,rev as an EE on your log. Failsafes and A band EE's have the P1 assignment on that bar. EE's are ends of the trend segments. A BM-short is placed at the high of this bar. Bar6 XR, an 'X' is place in the P1 cell only when in the OOE, one has a False for a T1. This reinforces going to the next cell in the OOE when one get a false for T1. Bar8 XR, there is such a thing as a P3 but not in this case. This is a repeat of the P2, therefore a P2 repeat. Bar's 4 to 7 form the Ae - hvbo EE. At this point a BM long is placed at the bottom of the bar. EE's are ends of trend segments. Bar8 XO and closed beyond this recent BM. Therefore BM,rev and a P1 assigned. A TL for the long is not possible. Since we are at P1 assigned, looking for the pt3 of price or T1 of volume to establish the new TL. Bar10 OB is a PP4. It has a higher high in volume, therefore P1 repeat. The BM long at the low of this bar has a close beyond it. Therefore another BM,rev. This is also a PP3. This is also the assigned P1 of a PP4. However, the bias is long due to EE's are the end of trend segments. This trend is not complete and requires more segments. There's a difference between the TL's drawn via nested fractals and the accelerating/fanning of TL's with SCT and the TL's drawn with RDBMS. It's best if you discern the difference by reviewing Jack's charts. Have you constructed a matrix of all the EE forms yet? ie, what the volume profile looks like for a PP1 vs a PP3. You need a sheet for each of the bands. PP!'s, A-Band, B-K bands. They are necessary to perform MADA during RTH. HTH
It takes me a bit of time to change my mind, my way of working (I mean entering in a the territory of "accept to make mistakes"), and being as the VTP is the core of the stuff, it's even more legitimate. @Sprout, thanks a lot for your last debrief, it's helping me a lot. I just need more time than along the last 2-3 years to work, cause some damages in my mind have happened, that make me unable to work hours and hours in a row each and every day. But anyway, if I could do so I don't know if it would be a good idea. I prefer now quality to quantity, and to take it easy and slowly but surely than rushing to get what I want because I've been on the stuff for long. I wanna stop that kind of thinking. Let's work at my right pace. Right now, I'm completing the second half of the VTP, trying to also include what you say in your last and generous debrief, and will post all i've done when I'm ready. Until this, take all care of you, and have the best iterative refinement. See you later in the day or tomorrow
Ok Yes, I understand. Can you just help me with placing it ? where is it better to put it on the log, precisely ? It's ok for the very last column, Senti, also for the 5min being as it's my timescale so i can check the form (it's the price case isn't it ? but if it is so, then why write it two times in the log ?), but what about 30min ? Am I to change the timescale at each end of 5min bar and see the form of the 30min' bar in which my 5min bar is ? Great that subject came out ! I don't know what "Degap" mean. So I cannot fill the column yet. What does it refer to ? As for UL, I know it stands for Use Larger, and is used for the SYM price case when volume is increasing. Is that all ? I really need to understand that Degap concept. I don't remember it cause I made the mistake a long time ago not to note about it. This sounds new to me To follow the last advices I've received, I'm currently focusing exclusively on the VTP and have not done it yet. Now, studying your debrief.
Can you help me with that ? -> - why does time appear "Delayed" on my chart ? as circled in red. - can you see the grid lines you talk about so that I can see the 30min form ? I can't locate them