I feel that it is very good to embark on a study of self consciousness. I understand that my perspective on things is uncommon and usually brushed aside. However, it is possible to have a coherent disposition. Some times I post the OODA diagram just to make evident the many factors that are part of a person's makeup, comventionally or traditionally. Each person's upbringing and adult experiences and environment are influential. I would say in our cultures around the world today it would not be surprising to see most people experiencing the Fight or Flight Response most of their waking hours. This continual stress orientation does bring the Bohr Effect to the fore. Most simply ignore their circumstance, situation and condition by accepting it as the way it has to be. Today survival is a part of mostly everything I read on ET. There are, however, places and times when those involved are not oriented to aspects of survival and both the FFR and BE are absent the environment. I have used the expression "never empty" a few times. The financial meaning to people who experience it can be conversed about and mutually understood. It is like you are not really part of the society and culture anymore. Occassionally or even often, people read my comments and conclude I am a whacko. Certainly it is true that I do not fit anywhere into their perception of reality. They may be able to sense I am always oriented to "never empty" culturally and financially. It turns out that my best unsubtle characteriztion of where I am is in a coherent state as measured by the emwave pc. Now, I do have the experience of being connected with others who are similar in this respect. Most of us who have this experience wish it on as many others as possible. The algorithm and its applications, are a short cut to "never empty" as many have found out. Of all the things in our environment that help to remove the FFR and BE, having an infinite supply of capital on the horizon seems to be one big inducer of coherence. I often mentioned being "right" or being "rich" as a choice some people push to the limits in the wrong way. Both happens as it turns out but forgoing being rich isn't a good idea. This thread makes the record for having coherence. And getting it is helped along best by understanding "never empty". One part of writing all of this up was noticing through the many iterations of trading technology advances and information becoming available how many levels of "never empty" occurred. At one time my life style prevented the director of marketing of Price Waterhouse from contacting me for social interaction. We were neighbors in Greenwich. I was conspicuously "never empty" in those days. The tangible part is not very important. What is important is using knowing "never empty" to get to coherence where FFR and BE disappear from the belief and behavior system of the person and, in this case, the trader. You can read two current threads to see how "never empty" is totally out of the picture (and so is coherence): one is on what a sucessful trader is and the other is the 2008 P&L thread. Going through the experience of having coherence and knowing it is there at that moment is very important. as you grow conscious of being coherent and its "symptoms" you get to use this conscious knowledge to be able to approach more and more a coherent state whle trading. The 'knowing that you know" can be a self guided tour since you can improve very purposefully by understanding how to do MADA more and more efectively. I have suggested that different thought processes are used for each part. As you switch from one to another you will be sseing that. Consciously and critically completing each part is a naturally a more and more coherent transition. I used to suggest to people that if they had the CW "feelings" showing up while trading, it was a prime indicator that they did not "know that they knew". The stark contrast of knowing that you know and knowing what must come next as compared to betting on survival (the CW game) IS the polar definition of the spectrum from coherence to non coherence, respectively. To do MADA in a binary vector manner is a "never empty" experience. I particularly like the beginner level of SCT Trading from channel FTT to channel FTT) because it is so certain and built so strongly on three levels of annotation of price and volume. Every day being in a non survival circumstance of certainty based on the P, V relationship. It is so beautiful that trends overlap and a person knows that he knows the overlap times. Establishing a person's mental differentiation going from a foundation using each building block along the way allows "never empty" to click in at some point and by then the coherence is every present. I am glad you are becoming aware of yourself and just what it is that is going on within you. Over many years I have used tells from others to enable me to advance their understanding a purposefulness. I add the next item to their activities when I feel that they are comfortable mentally, supported mentally and confident mentally. And they are being coherent. What must it be like to in the world's of Kiev or Steenbarger or Tharp? The OODA bet to survive world. The ET world it turns out. Could there be any other way to partner with the markets than pool extraction and its few principles? It is only possible if eliminating the FFR and BE is also there AND coherence replaces these two heretical beasts. Mankind was given a mentality to escape the beastial world. But the transition piece was not a mental one. It was a thing that uses the bodily funtions (the heart and lungs and glands) to get to coherence. Trust opens the door to all things. A lion will always be vigilant and reactive. But humans have the additional capability of listening, accepting, trusting and valuing. This kind of vigilance is what manifests "never empty". If you know you can always help others and the place where you are is "never empty" it is like there is an integrity of the system. The Hermatic Principle is manifest. For the time being the world didn't work out that way. There was a short term shortcut taken around integrity. Greed for capital, fees and commissions happened with manipulators. Induction didn't work out. Pool extraction gets to be quite rewarding as a consequence. It was fun to put up the contract added curves. Normalizing them with a family of ATR curves, shows how to do the partial fills level of trading when the market trading capacity is running between 500 and 10,000 active account contracts. The trader/market partnership works because it is based on trust. Coherence is the trader requirement to have trust. the market continually makes the offer. No one competes for it, it is simply there to take coherently.
Two Intermediate reversals later, concurrent Traverse and channel point 3s, in close proximity to the Intermediate RTL. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2229596>
Interesting series of events. Price, sandwiched between the long channel RTL on one side and the intermediate RTL on the other, wriggles into a lateral sub-fractal traverse, before cascading through the thicker RTL (which coincides with the expected short traverse FTT) and bouncing back. (n.b. on second thought, a regular sub-fractal traverse may work too) <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2229798>
The Day The channel point 3 didn't feel right... need to debrief and look at a few different angles. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2229814>
Thanks for your comments, Jack, and sorry about my delay in replying. I always try to read these a few times to let everything sink in, before writing a considered response. The very brief results on the EmWave were eye-opening to say the least. Assuming that the results are duplicated tomorrow, this would suggest that my natural disposition is something other than the calm and imperturbable persona I may have imagined for all these years. Perhaps even my definition of calm will need reassessment. Objectively, I have no reason to be stressed. Iâm healthy, financially secure and with a job that affords virtually limitless flexibility. My family live nearby, and although my friends are scattered, a rendezvous is never too much trouble. A shortcut to ânever emptyâ is the modern-day nirvana, but although I donât have a prodigious supply of capital, I certainly feel wealthy. BE DO HAVE is a rhythmic and meaningful mantra, but at some point, I unconsciously modified it to BE DO, BE DO. My first major hurdle was the absence of critical thinking. I canât quite pinpoint the moment it emerged, but once it did, the technicalities seemed to quickly fall into place. Monitoring is clearly the bedrock of MADA, and an initially flimsy base would frequently cause the entire house of cards to collapse. Somewhere between the repeated hand-drawn annotations and the baptism by YM, things began to shore up, such that I now have far more faith in my rendering of the evolving market landscape. The initial intellectual hurdle overcome, the imposing and monolithic emotional one came into view, and all the while the unholy triumvirate of distraction, denial and fear of the future held sway from afar. Today, I haltingly welcomed Trust into the fray. He helped me stay in the present, which in turn, heightened my appreciation of the P-V relationship in real-time. However, our association is still a fickle and uncertain one. The conversation is stilted, the humour strained. A pervasive unease still rules the fledgling friendship. An illicit liaison then weeks of neglect turned MADA from a servile mistress to a cool and distrustful one, who shall need to be enamoured afresh. My only hope of restoring âsystem integrityâ lies in strengthening the bonds with these two, and with their aid, surmounting the obelisk that casts its shadows far and wide and vanquishing the triumvirate. Only then will Golconda come into view.
Is this something I should do?... if so, could you explain how? Thanks. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2230378>
Outline results of the brief N=1 trials of this morning. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2230574> 1 - Listening to relaxing music and gazing out the window 2 - Listening to the same music and looking at the computer screen 3- Gazing out of the window, no music. 4 - Reading a book 5 - Listening to seriously unrelaxing music and looking at the computer screen Some interesting observations can be made: Watching shapes form on the computer screen did not affect coherence. The less relaxed reading posture - and perhaps faster mental activity - reduced coherence. Although I felt distinctly on-edge while listening to the hardcore trance music (darkpsy and 'full-on' goa trance), there was only a small reduction in coherence. Gazing out of the window, in the absence of other stimuli, seemed to elicit the best coherence levels. I suspect that if the amateur experiment had been allowed to continue beyond the five or so minutes, coherence levels would have steadily risen with this example. All of this highlights the pivotal role of proper breathing in the attainment of coherence. I'll elaborate with a technical diagram.
First, some definitions: Tidal Volume (TV) - the amount of air that moves in or out during normal breathing. Inspiratory Capacity (IC) - The amount of air that enters with a maximal inhalation Expiratory Reserve Volume (ERV) - The amount of air that can be expelled after a normal expiration Residual Volume (RV) - The air that doesn't get shifted Although all of the above activities involved varying degrees of stimulation, the depth of the breathing most closely resembled tidal breathing throughout. The high coherence values that I had attained during RTH were associated with deliberate, deep inspirations and slow, measured expirations. There's obviously much more to balance of the autonomic nervous system - which forms the basis of the EmWave's Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measurement - than merely breathing pattern, but this presented the quickest way to both achieve and maintain a highly coherent state. <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2230589 width=800>