Thanks Charts (and thanks again for the invaluable recommendation of FastStone and the advice on image-editing much earlier in the thread). With the stakes being so high, anything less than a concerted effort is simply not good enough. When I dedicate myself to something, I develop an unremitting fixity of purpose, and everything extraneous seems to just coalesce into the background. Now that I have adopted this as a cause, I can't stop until I reach the end. While it was a massive setback to lose Jack, it was not a crippling one. He has already contributed far more than was expected, and moreover, he was instrumental in propagating a self-perpetuating momentum. Instruction is offered daily by the market, and as various people have said, all of the relevant material is already encoded in four journals, and freely available for all to use. I don't need to trade before I'm fully prepared. I have neither dependents nor a lavish lifestyle, so can comfortably support myself for many months on savings and occasional freelance work. As long as it takes, I'll be right here to the very end.
Just finished my post-work hindsight charting. Thought I'd finish in time to do some realtime work, but the YM is one tough nut to crack. ES feels like a breeze to chart in comparison. YM chart still has lots of holes. Again, simultaneous annotation is really starting to explain a lot of the mechanistic whys and hows. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2187012>