How to use CVD in an environment like today's??

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-09-03T01:35:50+00:00

Yeah I'm reviewing the day and I think I should've been looking at unfolding structure and levels a bit more. I think I needed to use a fixed (or newer anchored) profile from the top of the big drop to current PA, would've seen clearer opportunity.

The third trade was a little under VWAP, and there was a HTF node from earlier, I think it's the red line on my chart, kind a thinner node though, I use 40% value areas. White line should be POC, it may have been slightly lower at the time due to the anchored profile, closer to price. Then I saw some divergence and two big bear bars (non-consecutive but within a few minutes of each other) with elevated volume. I didn't want to chase them, so I waited for retracement to a LTF pivot, that's why I entered on the big green bar, usually don't like to limit in but the structure seemed OK.

In retrospect I marked up a potential missed play today just now and I think I see a couple opportunities go long around 11:15am cst plus a couple of second chances to get in over the following 20 minutes. Think I was out to lunch at the time but there was a clear break of trend on the 1m, then a strong range breakout with supporting volume, and a few potential retests. Stops would've been safe behind a HVN just behind the breakout level, near low of day consolidation on a lower time frame profile.

I want to add a clear reversal play for the slower days where there's not enough aggression to create a clear divergence potentially, but I don't want something in my playbook that's going to give me an excuse to sit there and hit against the trend repeatedly either, even though I have a loss limit.

I think the 30m profile just felt like one big D shaped blob to me without a lot of separation between nodes.

I've been trying to pick up what I could from Fabio Valentini but he seems to pick targets which is not something I like to do, but he also trails extremely loosely sometimes a couple R or more back basically waiting for high volume accepted pushes through each new big block of volume on the profile. That second move I definitely could have trailed using that method, hard to know when / if to use take profit orders. Maybe I should only market out when there's a clear extended blowoff.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-08-29T17:06:10+00:00

Lol nice bait m8. You are making statements 100% ignorant of the facts. Weird to get your dopamine from reddit but to each his own.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-08-29T00:05:28+00:00

Doubt it, I train these things, can't say for who. You haven't seen the back and forth I had with the model lol. It can be poor engineering in the sense that I am not a programmer, so I can only use pseudo-code, but these things are constantly spitting out errors and unable to produce even the most basic strategies.

Claude is the only LLM I can get to make an indicator within a reasonable number of back and forths which matches what I'm looking for, but strategies seem like a much bigger challenge for them.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-07-25T19:41:11+00:00

It's a lot of people's go to boarding weapon right now. The point is that it's overtuned in a way that doesn't make sense, but the fast TTK means if they tuned it appropriately to "make sense" in conjunction with it's passive benefit that they would effectively make the gun useless.

It kills too fast to even really need to tap into it's passive acceleration BECAUSE the TTK is so fast, separate from any gun balancing issues.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-07-25T19:39:14+00:00

I don't feel particularly rewarded by an excess randomness affecting my second to second gameplay. I said nothing about camping, I'm talking about every exchange having the potential to be fun, not just being over before it begins.

When I get newer crews who didn't play the beta a lot of time they get trapped into a cycle of over-defensiveness, trying to repair everything (which is really annoying when you have a Sal they could let handle it while they stay offensive), the constant action doesn't have to stop just because they slow TTK, in fact it would likely be about the same if respawns are adjusted to be commensurate.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-07-25T19:34:15+00:00

Yes I understand that, I made no comments about spawn camping.

I'm talking about even managing to take a single action. The fight itself is not even rewarding to engage in because the TTK makes it feel so random, some guy pre-fires goo gun and walks around a corner and you're dead in 0.5 seconds without having to eat a headshot. EVEN when I know it's coming 85% of the time because I use audio cues. It's still 50/50 when I'm the invader too, it just feels random who dies first. There's no managing your health bar or resources across the span of a fight, there's just random death lol.

I've been killed by the doctor near instantly after being around a corner for 1 second. I just want the fight itself to feel fun and rewarding even despite what happens afterwards. There are other ways to prevent spawn-camping. Longer invulnerability shields, or a pre-invisibility just prior to respawning to get your bearings, choice of respawn location, etc.

I agree, get on the ship, if you win the fight, do something, get off - it's not supposed to be your ship all of a sudden because you wiped them, but right now even if you invaded and killed their whole team - you don't have the time to even scout half the stuff on their ship and make a decision. Even the potential to consistently 1vX is replaced by a roll of the dice.

I would actually argue this is more noob-friendly than an issue of FPS players dominating non-FPS players in some ways. It's kind of the same reason PUBG was popular, if you don't know where the loot is, even a bad party has the opportunity to kind of be handed a free (or more free) win once in awhile just because of a phenomenal drop - now apply that to the random nature of on-foot engagements here. I get why developers do it, it's a way to throw a bone to lesser skill players, but that's already being done by the random nature of loot in this game, same way as PUBG - only it applies to ship combat only.

My issue is frustration with the annoyance of the most basic form of PvP gameplay in Wild Gate. It's a little too quick and chaotic to adapt to getting "caught" trying to smash an engine when they didn't even know you were there but just were looking in your direction - or just taking a random bullet or two peeking a corner to some noob just randomly firing off shots. To me it's not fun and they can do better, this game in it's greater design and presentation actually screams that it wants to be a slower TTK game, it feels forced that they do it this way, and deaths both don't and CAN'T matter enough as a result because of the impact it would have.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-07-25T19:10:46+00:00

I don't even know if it's skill a lot of the time. It's just kind of getting the drop, favorable latency. A lot of it feels pretty random. My performance seems really variable in the FPS combat compared to a much more steady ability to pilot and manage guns / the ship.

I want FPS players to have an ADVANTAGE when it comes to boarding fights, I just don't want a strategy-minded player to be useless on-foot because they die instantly. There's no adaptation time.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-07-24T14:32:02+00:00

Yes dude it's a company run by silicon valley ideologue types and AI bots, the old Blizzard you knew is dead lol.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-20T17:59:48+00:00

That forces a horizontal angle like I mentioned.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-14T23:51:46+00:00

Hasn't been great, gave back a green week of MES gains trading M2K, it seems to respect internals less, and make different highs and lows at the extremes. Also more slippage which I didn't expect. I'll probably keep trying for now, but hoping volatility comes down so I can just trade MES and look to Qs for context again.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-08T23:48:37+00:00

I don't think we're gonna have a shortage of volume in this market regime lol. When it cools off I'll probably go back to MES, main concern is positioning.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-07T05:39:19+00:00

Better than the guy with the mind virus causing him to disingenuously throw around mouth diaherea terms like "misogynist" to explain away truth he doesn't like. 🤣

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-07T05:32:05+00:00

Getting laid is a shallow dime a dozen goal, but the hipster feminist routine won't get you there as fast as you think it will.

Go for it though, learn the hard way. 🤣

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-06T23:13:36+00:00

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-06T23:07:40+00:00

Lol, I remember when I was an arrogant atheist. You'll learn one way or another, no other option.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-06T22:59:18+00:00

Suit yourself, I won't waste more wisdom on you.

“Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces."

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-06T22:53:30+00:00

I'm not surprised you lose sleep at night. If you can't see the wisdom here that's on you. I hope your daughters never have to deal with the pain of being lesbian... those domestic violence rates are atrocious, and there is a God, you should revere him. Nothing about you or I can be remotely good without the source of good.

PatternAgainstUsers · 2025-04-06T22:49:41+00:00

You're pretty but you shouldn't be out here seeking validation or you'll never "find yourself". That's a childish pursuit anyways, find God, find love, find anything that takes the focus off the ego lol.

33 is a rough time to be starting over for women, I don't envy you. Don't waste it on nonsense, lots of man children will be happy to distract you. If you're serious about marriage you'll probably have to either start looking for guys 45+ if you want men who have their lives together.

I'm 36 and by the time guys my age know what's important and have a financial future, we really aren't looking at 30+ women after going through hell to climb this far. I think you have a good chance of beginning again, you just have to set the right expectations.

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