I have to do the 8 EE's of the Aband first. Keep "The Pattern" handy. We see trends develop bar by bar. Three price legs make up the ordinary trend. Trends are BEST contained in parallelograms. Three points determine a parallelogram A trader, mentally, shifts from up/down TO LEFT/RIGHT as he gains reasoning abilities. Notice most ET folk have not gotten this far. Sit and reason with me. You have to reason FROM a neutral bias. BE neutral so symmetry can work for you. This cuts the work in half. All trends have the three legs in this order: Dom to non dom to dom. Dom is dominant. Making money proceeds by price advancing in the dominant direction. The parallelogram has two sides which enclose and bound price. As price moves in a trend the dominant movement is from right to left. Notice the RTL and LTL of the parallelogram. Price begins at Point 1. It goes to the left to get to point 2. The OODA of CW trading cannot perceive of this pathway. Betting replaces the path. We have a design thaqt gives a point 1. OODA does not. point 1 is on the dependent variable. We work witth the independent variable to get the dependent variable. DOing WORK is required to build the mind so that the mind has "inference (LTM) to match sensing with the eyes. MA of MADA is DOing work so that the context and PROCESS is percieved. Leg 1 (M1) is a peak to trough to peak movement in the independent variable. P1 to T1 to P2. This (M1) is the dominant move. Next we have a non dominant move in the trend. Point 2 to point 3 in price and, correspondingly, P2 to T2 of volume. T2 is labelled and called T2P for reasons that will be explained later. Bear with me. This non dominant move (M2) goes from left to right as do ALL non dominant moves. Now, you see three points that define the container of a trend. WE learn to enter on the beginning of a ttrend and take its full offer. We take the dominant direction and HOLD. Volume gives us the moment of the turns in trading. Turns occur between legs as momentary events. To handle turns in a timely manner a trader has to be expert. So we BE experts from day one. We spend almost all of our time holding. Holding is where "anticipation" can be carried out. We see EVERYTHING is orderly. So all orders are broken into mathematical elements whereby each progressive piece is defined one after another. Iff someone wanted to step out of CW and OODA, they might think the above schema would define their sought after "Holy Grail". Not so , the above is "gibbberish" to them. In trading, to take the full offer, the process begins at the very beginning and ends where the full offer occurs. We have done M1 and M2, the full offer ends at the end of M3.. M3 is from point 3 (T2P in volume) to FTT (specific EE's in volume). A trend can go on and on as we all see. Similarly, a trend can be cut short by circumstances and various contexts. We will dwell thoroughly on both cases. Fortunately, all of this is handled by using precision and including each and every thing. Thus, completeness is part of the research. I tooled all of this up by using shhets that have precise experssions for all the parts. All that is left is "Putting the Pieces Together" or as others have named it "Getting Tomorrow's Newspaper Today".
A Band The above post prepares you for the A band. A band comes when the parallelogram is formed. Since volume is in bars I named this oontext as "four bar". The sequence to four bar is: P1 to T1 to P2 to T2P. On a parallelogram it is Pt1 to BO of RTL to pt2 to pt 3. I have explained thoroughly and repeatedly why up/down of CW's OODA is screwed up as compared to the triads of trends in a right/left context. Google if you wish. Even A. Lo of Tech misses this fine point. A band's EE's are found in a four bar context. If the T2P is prevented from occurring, the context is still established pragmatically. Volume a band is there in place. It has three zones: inside, above and below. Inside has no 1 band EE's; new later bands are slipped into place. 7 are above as HVBO's. One is below as LVBO and specifically Ab in name. I will present them on pages to make their absorption simple.
Ab LVBO If a bar, after P1 to T1 to P2 occurs that is less than T1, it is an Ab LVBO. These are fairly frequent and often occur in pairs near one another.
Ac HVBO You have three P1's BUT they do NOT accelerate. So you always chack for acceleration which gives a PP1. A NOT PP1 sets the scene for an Ac. you get a T1 to P2 then you are in the A band. Internals can happen on the way. If the bar comes along thaat is a HVBO of the band, then you have an Ac.
Ae HVBO You are logging from an assighed P1 and you get two T1's, then you have a P2. A band is there without the T2P. After the 2 T1's and P2 you are on alert for an Ae, When you get a HVBO it is an A (A T2P was replaced so to speak.)
Ah HVBO The say ending is nigh. Bar 78 happens and there is no T1 in the sequence. You have a P1 or P1's to P2 and a HVBO occurs. The first P1 is acting as a synthetic T1. A HVBO occurs. (probably the next day near open.) At the HVBO you have a Ah HVBO.
Aa HVBO We did the easier ones. Whats left is caveat land. A four bar gets built. It cannot be simple and straight forward. If it is then the next bar takes you to other bands or is just a new P1 BUT if the four bar contains an internal (wait) somewhere along thel ine, the four bar is primed for ending. A four bar including a wait is a HVBO Aa if a HVBO comes along.
Ad HVBO You absorbed the Aa HVBO this sequence is similar BUT..... You get a P1 or P1's to T1 to P2....... there is an internal somewhere as well .... But there is no T2P to give you a four bar (with internal)....... What happens on the next TWO bars are P1's. The second consecutive P1 is designated Ad HVBO. Whew!!!!!
Ag VEBO No typo. You are tooling along. You get to P2 one way or another (carte blanche)..... Check out that P2 is > P1. So after P2 consider seeing a P1 or a T2P. IF a P1 then designate the bar as Ag VEBO. This could be a bar where a UL is "on the row". Just saying.....
Af HVBO This is the old A2 of long ago. You are in a lat. You are getting the job done. Suddenly a HVBO occurs in the lat after you have the P1 to T1 to P2 in the lat. What you see is what you get; designate it as Af HVBO.