If you spend some time looking at bop and a volume chart you can figure out what it is. Big volume spikes get weighted with the direction of the move.
Your thoughts on each of those indicators is roughly equal to my thinking as well. BOP gives no clear signal by itself for sure and MS tends to not fit my personal criteria. TSV has always been the one that I never found much use of. Thanks for your input.
BOP really tends to mark bottoms and tops on some stocks on how I apply it. I am currently trying to tie it together with some basing patterns (I visually scan charts) but have not developed a functional scan that will do it for me. Thanks for your input.