Jack Hershey is not an engineer, he can't explain a concept to normal people without making their head explode (hence your "grenade" comment) :eek: SCT is just compound channel analysis. All price action happens within apparent trends within trends, each having an associated range. Price remains within these channels or breaks out based on volume patterns. Jack Hershey likes to describe the pine needles by the thousands, hoping to get newbies to "pay their dues" (and confuse the SEC) when the forest is the same one many of us have already seen, year in and year out. Where do you think "buy the dip" came from? It was invented by Jack Hershey!
whatever this method is ,it can be categorized in at least one of above fields .in channels it can be contrarian and in time of break out it can be a trend following depending on entries and exit time difference.or it can be categorized as a swing trading method.
Rather than just assuming we know what you mean, why don't you give a brief description of each choice/category? I'm not yet convinced they are mutually exclusive and comprehensive. For example, right now I can easily see overlap between swing trading and trend following, which means your definitions of those two things differs from mine.