I don't want to play censor, which I wouldn't be able to do anyway since I'm not a moderator. But I don't especially want to play traffic cop, either. To do so, or even to try, would throw a blanket over free discussion, and that would defeat the purpose of the thread.
That having been said
, I equally don't want this to turn into yet another debate about
VSA, MIP, SMI, candles/uncandles, bars/lines/dots, LII, and so on. What's being said in the book and in these posts is independent of all that, or should be. You may think that top and bottom-fishing is not a good idea while others do quite nicely by doing just that. You may think that candles are indispensable. Someone else may think they're silly. In other words, just because someone doesn't understand something doesn't mean it's nonsense; just because someone doesn't know how to do something doesn't mean that it can't be done.
Using inaction as a weapon means simply that one must learn to be "aggressively inactive" while waiting for what he has proven to himself and for himself to be high-probability setups. Someone else may think that his HP setups are completely loony, but that's not the point. They are his bread-and-butter setups, and whether or not anyone else can profit from them is irrelevant. He wouldn't be implementing them if he weren't making money with them. Unless, of course, he himself is loony.
It is the nature of trading that the trader is going to spend a great deal of time waiting, unless he doesn't have the discipline to wait for what he wants (though he must of course also know
what it is that he wants, which is where defining the setup comes in). If the trader doesn't know exactly what it is he's looking for, then he is far more susceptible to being sucked into low-probability trades, particularly if he is eager to trade. By thinking of inaction as a weapon and using it as such, he will find himself aggressively withstanding the Sirens who are tempting him to act impetuously. He will be "aggressively inactive".
As to the "flow", no one should be concerned with interrupting it because there likely won't be one. There will be quite a few rules touching on a variety of subjects and there's no particular linearity. But keep in mind that these rules should apply to everyone, regardless of what he does or how he does it or when he does it or how often he does it. If everyone avoids being judgmental, everything should go swimmingly.