Well put, Thunderdog. I continually try to improve (read "complicate") what I do, and continually return to the basic system.
It was in a preface to "The Great Chain of Being," that I first became aware that many people are attracted to complexity and that which they can't understand. A reason may be that they mistake complexity for profundity, simply because they do not understand that what they are reading is nonsense.
Now I am not particularly proud of this trade. It was entered late and exited early, but no fucking way did SCT see it coming. I didn't want to trade the AM ratcheting (rat-shitting?) bear flag, so I waited patiently for the signals which triggered this trade. Times are Pacific, because as is well-known, I chart and test in PT and trade in CT to get a beneficial lead time on trades.
my take is it just looked complicated, one you understand it, it's pretty simple. I sometimes think darn, this is too simple, anybody with 1/2 a brain can see it.
I spent an hour articulating the pros and cons of this post and lost it when butterscotch stepped on my keyboard...lol... too bad. I'll pass on this. It will be evident to many, I'm sure, what the consequences are of approaching SCT with this sort of orientation.. Too bad i lost it would be helpful for the book on the assessor level.