No apology from DJ
What you must do now DJ, is to do a covert deletion of your post. Get up at midnight, put dark glasses on, lift up your coat collars and sneak to your computer and delete that post. We won't notice.
The post still stands as is. Don't let your paranoia get the better of you.
Carry on talking shit to yourself here. There was a time when I would have been happy to help out in terms of technical analysis but you make it incredibly difficult to in any way want to contribute. Your steadfast belief in SMAs is ridiculous. They are not leading indicators in any way whatsoever, which is what you keep inferring, and you continue to advise people on the basis of SMAs relating to future trading ranges. This is basic stuff - SMAs are not leading indicators at all - they are the very opposite. If you wanted leading indicators you'd use a combination of EMAs and pricing curves, but even this method doesn't factor in much volatility, which is why if you really, really wanted to use a moving average as a leading indicator, you'd adjust your charting options to allow for differential coupling with a price slope. And you wouldn't be using an SMA. The reason that you continually see CML trade within the SMA, and the reason you continue to convince yourself that it is a leading indicator, is because it is in fact a lagging indicator, and will therefore always reflect the appropriate SMA range in terms of price. This is, once again, the mistake that amateurs make when attempting to read technical analysis. The issue here is that you punt your version of nonsense as gospel which at the end of the day is nonsense.
Allow me to reiterate that SMAs are not leading indicators and you can in no way make swing trading predictions (which is what you're doing) on SMAs alone. Especially to the degree that you're going at it.
I don't want a fight here. All I'd like is for you to try a little but of humility for a change and perhaps learn something out of this.
You also discuss future trading ranges, however you'd be looking at one of the oscillators to confirm, not SMA. You might also use a combination of fibonacci analysis as well, but these are very high risk methods. All you're doing is reading into technicals what you admittedly (on another forum) do not know.
I don't think that it's fair that you continue trying to teach others about technical analysis. If you are honest with yourself, you know that you have never ventured into the details thereof and are not in a position to be trying to help others. If you'd like to learn, you might want to start with the basics of lagging indicators and what purpose they serve, as they do not serve to predict future price movements in terms of the trading periods you're referring to.
I'm rarely on here to reply, but that doesn't miraculously make you correct...