Tasuki

Interesting discussion, folks. What I'd like to see is a compendium of VSA setups, with a dozen or so examples of each, to show how the same setup might look with different scenarios. I've only been studying VSA for a little while, and Tradeguider says it has over 400 signals, but they seem to come down to a common few, really: 1) tests (successful and unsuccessful) 2) shakeouts 3) no demand 4) stopping volume 5) pushing through supply 6) upthrust 7) selling/buying climax 8) climactic action 9) support/weakness coming in 10) trap up/down move 11) no result after strong effort 12) selling/buying pressure 13) bottom reversal 14) end of a rising market Well, that's all I can find. Probably missed some. The key, IMHO, is to get these patterns in your head, watch them as they unfold in different situations. A few, like stopping volume, are so obvious they reach out of the computer screen and slap you in the face. I'm slowly starting to see a few others, like no demand, upthrusts and shakeouts, but they take time to see them as they unfold. In my experience, Tradeguider (and the rest of you who have posted charts here) are missing half the volume information. For my money, I really need to see upvolume vs downvolume. With Tradestation, you can easily put those two on one subgraph. I've got mine set up with thin green line for upvolume, to which I overlay a big fat red bar for downvolume. The amount of added information you get this way is amazing.