Degree bars?
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:28 pm
Hi Gang,
Got a degree bars prototype running!
To be clear what I'm talking about, just imagine a bar that wasn't based on clock-time (5min bars, 60min bars), but one that was based on astro-time (1 degree movement of Mars, etc). For those of you who have been around for awhile, you'll know that I've been talking about building these for years (decades?? ) now.
The problem I always had was that the data was just too tricky. To get it right, you need tick data, down to the second, so that you can split the ticks into the right bars. That's not so hard on its own, but getting that going back far enough to use anything longer than intraday charts is actually really hard, especially if you want multiple markets. It requires a massive local database, a way to update that database, and none of the data vendors that we plug into offer tick data going back far enough. Sure, I could do it, but just not in a way that would work easily and be scalable across all the universe of W59 fans that would be interested in working with it.
Anyway, the other day, I was curious what it would look like if we just relaxed the requirements a bit. So rather than using ticks, what about using something like 5min bars instead? Sure, our bar boundaries might be off by a few minutes and not *perfect*, but as long as you're OK with that limitation, they'll be pretty close. And (more importantly) I can actually DO those, rather than just thinking about it all the time. Perfection is the enemy of good enough, and all that.
So, check this out:
This is very preliminary. The axes aren't quite right at the bottom, etc, etc. But check out the time label at the top. Each bar represents 15 degrees of movement of the Moon! And, of course, it's scaled. So we've got a chart here perfectly squared to the motion of the Moon, running at 24 points per 360 degrees exactly. EXACTLY! Or... maybe it's more accurate to say, "exactly" with 5 minutes of slop.
Anyway, I threw a Gann square up. Note that this Gann square is now a Moon-based Gann square, since we have a Moon-based chart. I won't comment too much other than to acknowledge that I can see this is working. Sort of snaps right into place, doesn't it? (You can see it, right??)
So here we go! Not all the same old stuff after all. I'm not as fast programming all this stuff as I used to be, but this is officially the next build that I'm running here, so it's coming. You can do any degree by any planet, and we use minute data as the input. Someday I'll get my Ascendant bars built, but until then, at least we'll be able to use the planetary stuff.
All for now.
Earik
Got a degree bars prototype running!
To be clear what I'm talking about, just imagine a bar that wasn't based on clock-time (5min bars, 60min bars), but one that was based on astro-time (1 degree movement of Mars, etc). For those of you who have been around for awhile, you'll know that I've been talking about building these for years (decades?? ) now.
The problem I always had was that the data was just too tricky. To get it right, you need tick data, down to the second, so that you can split the ticks into the right bars. That's not so hard on its own, but getting that going back far enough to use anything longer than intraday charts is actually really hard, especially if you want multiple markets. It requires a massive local database, a way to update that database, and none of the data vendors that we plug into offer tick data going back far enough. Sure, I could do it, but just not in a way that would work easily and be scalable across all the universe of W59 fans that would be interested in working with it.
Anyway, the other day, I was curious what it would look like if we just relaxed the requirements a bit. So rather than using ticks, what about using something like 5min bars instead? Sure, our bar boundaries might be off by a few minutes and not *perfect*, but as long as you're OK with that limitation, they'll be pretty close. And (more importantly) I can actually DO those, rather than just thinking about it all the time. Perfection is the enemy of good enough, and all that.
So, check this out:
This is very preliminary. The axes aren't quite right at the bottom, etc, etc. But check out the time label at the top. Each bar represents 15 degrees of movement of the Moon! And, of course, it's scaled. So we've got a chart here perfectly squared to the motion of the Moon, running at 24 points per 360 degrees exactly. EXACTLY! Or... maybe it's more accurate to say, "exactly" with 5 minutes of slop.
Anyway, I threw a Gann square up. Note that this Gann square is now a Moon-based Gann square, since we have a Moon-based chart. I won't comment too much other than to acknowledge that I can see this is working. Sort of snaps right into place, doesn't it? (You can see it, right??)
So here we go! Not all the same old stuff after all. I'm not as fast programming all this stuff as I used to be, but this is officially the next build that I'm running here, so it's coming. You can do any degree by any planet, and we use minute data as the input. Someday I'll get my Ascendant bars built, but until then, at least we'll be able to use the planetary stuff.
All for now.
Earik