Thank you all for your responses and information, smwinc the visual representation helped a lot! I also found that elitetrader thread and will be reading that through.
I haven't given much thought to incorporating the DOM along with the tape, due to the many games that are played. With the tape, these are actual orders that have gone through and nothing can change that, so that's what I've been focusing on the most.
Harlequin, I've seen a couple Hubert's videos, one was on tape reading the YM, and I've been to the Trade the Markets site before and it's gotten my interest. Have you ever been in his chat room or studied under him? If so, did you find his information on tape reading to be helpful?
I noticed that in Soultrader's and Hubert's videos on tape reading, both of them bracket price on the tape. I'm in the middle of reading
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by
Jesse Livermore and he too, from what I understand, would try to bracket price between S/R levels and then watch how price reacted when it approached these levels. I'm going to start paying much more attention to this.