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    db wanted to thank you for critiquing my chart, it helps lot. I have been under the weather for the last few days or I would have gotten back sooner. After reading your responses I went back to matinthehats thread I feel there is a lot there for me to digest and maybe it won't be so repetetive on the threads anyway thank you John

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    pretty good, DbPhoenix I want to thank you and all the others for all your posts on this and all the other threads(especially wickoff) I have been reading as many threads as I can for the last month and I am struggling with this price/volume analysis. There are times when a bulb will light up (faintly) but just as soon I feel lost again.It seems the clearest indications are on retests of s/r at least that is when it seems the clearest to me.matinthehats thread is good maybe I'll just go read it again and hopefully something will break loose.Any suggestions would be appreciatted thanks

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    And of course lets not forget buying to open, buying to close and selling to open, selling to close.;)

     

    pretty short statement blowfish, but it got my attention in a big way light bulb is getting a little brighter thanks never thought about it like that before

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    OEC is certainly having their problems this week, it seems. I am with AMP, using OEC charts and they have been messed up all week. Something to do with the upgrade over the weekend I suppose.

    Frustrating...

     

    JH

    hey jeh i am on oec sim and i've had the same problem this weekend I hope they have it fixed by Tuesday

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    Here's to a good trading week for all! Well..except for the guys on the otherside of my trades :)

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    jonbig04 just wanted to say thanks for your log, i've read it over twice because it really struck a chord with me. we trade similar styles, I to came from the anek school and will always be grateful for so many helpful people in the trading community. wish you well boru

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    Well, I believe it's not that simple. And I am not happy with my inability to write down what I've been doing. I have guide lines. I have even my 2 main setups written down. Often I trade them by the book. But this trade, for example, was not the case. In fact I am a very lazy person and if I was more diligent with systematical replaying and testing, I could probably formulate my setups more specifically.

     

     

     

    It's not a feel or intuitive sense. I just learned to perceive the market as an auction in real time. There is nothing more to it. And if I hadn't been blind for so long I wouldn't need such a long period of screen time at all. But as many experienced traders point out, beginners cloud their view with obsolete things and ideas.

    I can never know what is going to happen, I draw trend lines and I use an indicator (though it doesn't cross :) ). Trend lines and the indicator are suplementary tools. I don't necessarily need them. The indicator I use is of my own design and it calculates and plots value area since a selected bar on my chart. Of course I can see the VA of a range even without calculating it, as well as I can see that a trend is slowing down even without a trend line. But these tools can give you some (more or less) objective measure and also a way to double-check. But it's a double-edged sword, because if you focus too much on what these tools are doing or how price is behaving in relation them, instead of how it behaves in relation to what they represent, you are detaching yourself from what matters. That was my problem for a long time.

    And I don't know if all can come from sreen time. First you must have some logical framework for understanding the market (Or maybe you could even develop it while watching, but that wasn't my case). I had a logical framework in AMT and Wyckoff. They are both easy and simple to understand intellectually, but it took me way too much time to see how their principles are demonstrated in real time (because of before mentioned reasons). And that is the purpose of screen time.

    I appreciate your appreciation :) but I am still at the beginning. Maybe I've made a couple of first steps.

     

    Head2K i know what your saying as far as writing things down. it is something ive always struggled with thanks for pointing this out. the amount of information available is overwhelming if i don't start getting more organized i'm only going to slow down my progress thanks

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