'Analysis and Insights: 1. Trend Analysis:

This system appears to be a sophisticated method

for analyzing trends in financial markets

and cyclical systems' - Claude LLM

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'Analysis and Insights: 1. Trend Analysis:

This system appears to be a sophisticated method

for analyzing trends in financial markets

and cyclical systems' - Claude LLM

Visit Us on youtube

visit us on gumroad

Deep Research, Relentless Innovation, Unique Tools

Unbiased Research

Market research should always be based purely on price action. Learning how markets really move is the only way to trade them successfully long-term.

It is our hope that what we've learned from markets and the tools we've created will empower many traders to free themselves from corporate and economic slavery, and achieve the goal of permanently profitable, professional, and personal (at home) trading.

image illustrating push/pull terminology used in Magenta

Magenta: A Full-Featured Counting System

Magenta is our flagship counting framework used to understand movement in all markets at any time frame. Developing gradually over 7 years of rigorous research (from March 2017 to November 2024) it has spawned many new concepts such as 'curved trends' and 'trend continuity' to name just a few.

The values a sequence uses to move are defined early in the trend, and can be re-defined later within the same trend. Calculations using these values also play a part in determining where trends turn and sequences end. Our SandTiger tool helps you count and keep track of all these changes throughout the sequence.

Additionally, Magenta explains concepts such as cadence, count path, typing, grouping, mid-marking, and signaling. Magenta is a flexible, robust framework that is fully capable of modeling real markets.

Event Locator & SandTiger

Unlike Elliott Wave, Magenta literally shows you what to count, no guessing involved! Our event locator tool does this by marking all countable points in a chart. This means that all traders and analysts will be counting the same points when using Magenta. Event locator uses the market's natural tendency to isolate candle tips to create countable events.

SandTiger is an amazing tool that can quickly count and label a price sequence as well as calculate and redline potential endpoints as they appear.

Our Philosophy on Markets...

With the advent of AI, humans are learning more about swarm behavior in large groups of insects, birds, and other animals. Emergent behavior helps swarms in nature to act intelligently as a group. Humans are now attempting to codify and mimic this behavior to control swarms of drones, robots, and other devices for military, medical, and other uses...

If you think about it, What really is a financial market?

A market is essentially a human swarm of traders and investors. As such, markets are prime candidates for intelligent emergent behavior. Emergent Behavior (EB) is recognized by some experts as "a defining property of complex systems," and "an almost inevitable consequence of any multi-agent system." Some don't believe that humans have "the natural ability to form a swarm intelligence" (Unanimous.ai). We believe the evidence within markets themselves prove otherwise.

Even if all markets did was trend, that alone would be strong proof of swarm behavior. But markets do much more than trend! They count themselves. They define specific values and then use those values to manage movement and shift direction. They can signal observers in ways that have only recently been discovered. They can recognize multiples of a number. They can add, multiply, divide, and create meaningful numeric relationships. Even volatility is tied to numeric meaning in markets. Any intelligent system needs a memory. Markets have short and long-term memories and can re-hit an exact price level, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and even months and years later. Everything markets do is about creating internal meaning.

Unfortunately, markets are not seen as the information generators that they are. Due largely to the financial media, they are instead viewed as systems that require a constant influx of events in order to move.

Lastly, EB is not mass sentiment or mass psychology. Think of it as a "brain of brains," the emergence of a true super-intelligence. Just as billions of neurons within a single brain create consciousness, millions of brains active in a market produce something larger than the parts. You cannot trade as you should, without understanding how the market mind thinks. And the manifestation of its thinking, is price action.

Beginner to UltraPro: Trading Real Trend Turns in FX

Unmarked Movement

Understanding 'Cadence'

Recognizing 'Events'

Attempting to make sense of unmarked movement can lead to futile analysis, such as counting 'waves'. We might only count 2-4 waves here but if we could see every countable event...

Recognizing 'Events'

Understanding 'Cadence'

Recognizing 'Events'

...such as we can here, we might realize that we're missing most of the information markets are trying to convey. An 'event' is any point where a candle tip extends above or below its immediate neighbors. Events are not 'fractals' since the calculation used to determine them is different. Event Locator (current version) source code is available on Gumroad (search for 'sandtiger').

Understanding 'Cadence'

'Cadence' refers to the up-down-up-down pattern that markets follow when counting. Understanding cadence can help us discern 'smooth' or inferred events (yellow marks) that appear between 'rough' or hard marks (blue/green tips) and 'see' the count path surrounding difficult areas such as DMC's (red tipped candle). If two rough events appear next to each other, a smooth event is inferred to be between them. We draw lines like this to help us visualize the 'count path'.

Trends VS Sequences

Understanding 'Cadence'

The traditional way of identifying a 'trend change' is based solely on what a trader views as a sizable (or profitable) move in the opposite direction. A Magenta 'sequence' however is a technical term that uses specific calculations to determine where processes can end and begin. 'Sequences' allow for 'curved trends' that may not hold to what a trader intuitively understands to be a "trend".

Using SandTiger

Trends VS Sequences

Using SandTiger

SandTiger is a tool that counts and labels events and is able to redline potential endpoints as they appear. Most trends should not require skipping any events, except where a curved trend plays out and the pivot point has to be skipped in order to invert cadence. SandTiger (current version) source code is available on Gumroad (search for 'sandtiger').

'Analysis and Insights: 1. Trend Analysis:

'Analysis and Insights: 1. Trend Analysis: