LOL... for the benefit of the newcomers, a little background history is in order... Marketsurf has been a intentional disrupter for many years. Not that he does not know what a tick bar or CVB is, he just takes pleasure in disrupting. One day Proflogic offers him to sit in his class for free, so that he can get all the material and evaluate the content in detail. Well, Marketsurf did not take up on the offer. (I don't think he could get his mother's permission to go.) Anyway he sent another ETer to attend, and a positive report was posted afterwards.
Looks like you and Plogic have a long strife going on; I don't want to get in either of your way. My trading philosophy is very different from that of Plogic's: I don't believe in any mechanical trading strategies. Having said that, I also believe that trading is a "personal" endeavor: it doesn't matter if I believe in Plogic's trading methodology; it only matters if the person trading the methodology believes in it or not. CVB, as Plogic has mentioned earlier, does dampen price oscillations created by [chronological] time. To me, this is just the beginning of one's attempt at understanding market action. The most important point to understand, according to me, is that markets are fractal, and CVB charts lets one measure market time on a quick and dirty basis. It is the combination of price, volume, and market time that gives one total understanding of market action. All the best! -MadSpeculator.