Maybe I'm just tired but I don't see much on today's chart: Isn't IHS normally a bottom, though? What happened there?
Simple, the right shoulder broke, so the head was taken. If you are going to study patterns, study their breakout scenarios, failures, and fake outs. Otherwise you are at a great disadvantage if you using them vs traders that actually studied them. An inverse head and shoulder is not a reversal formation, but one of consolidation with various outcomes.
I really wish you well, but I am missing what you are trying to show us. I see your notes on the charts, but what does that have to do with anything? Are you sim trading? If so, then show your trades. Then perhaps you may get some responses from more experienced traders. Sorry if i have missed something. BMW
I'm trying to figure out how to predict where price will go based on price action. I'm just doing it in a thread to hopefully facilitate discussion rather than just doing it in a journal of my own (which I am also doing on the side for my own notes, and will probably keep doing once this thread dies out since there doesn't seem to be much interest).
This post would've been better if it said: 5,000 constant volume is too short because... Instead of 5,000 constant volume, you should try... Here are some reasons why this other time frame works better... As far as I know, 5,000 volume charts are a fine timeframe. As I said in the first post, I'm 5,000 volume charts as the middle timeframe, daily ES charts to determine overall "trend" (even though I still don't know how "trend" can be quantified in real time), and 5 second chart to see if I can figure out why some of the reversals on the 5,000 volume chart work and others do not. And Time and Sales and DOM. I even tried to make a thread about the DOM but it got moved to another forum and filled up with obfuscation.
They represent on average only about 1.3 minutes per bar during RTH. A longer time frame. There is no "magic" time frame. But there is generally less "random noise" (for lack of a better description) in longer time frames. The S/R levels tend to be more significant yield bigger moves when broken and are being watched by more participants. The RTH ATR of the ES 5000 CV is only 1 point. Then why are you struggling to find any repeating consistently exploitable patterns?