Structural Price Orbit (Polar Coordinate Trading Chart) AMA

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This is a wholly new creation from my mind, It is an orbital chart and allows for a better perception of structure as price moves within orbits. Instead of the cartesian chart where time moves linearly, instead we have time as a circle.

There’s a lot that can be gleaned from this new map and even I am still learning.

I share this to again reinforce the fact that as trader, you needs to use their imagination, we have to revive our mind’s eye back to the same energy of childhoold when we could imagine things, but now applied to adult things… uh money, that is.

I built this with Claude, and I’m willing to answer any questions you may have about its logic.

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I’m not too sure how I feel about this yet. I’ve tested similar methods before, even with simple Excel radar graphs, and they usually ended up adding more confusion than clarity.

In the end, I was never fully satisfied with the results. I hope your version came out cleaner and more useful. thumbs up

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Its a new perception requirment which takes time and requires time to comprehend and grasp, but I get your point. Its good for seeing structure as a mean reversion trader.

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I’ve also tested radar integration directly inside the chart, with one radar scanner below the bars and another above the bars.

The idea was to let the radar detect patterns automatically and connect that data with machine learning, instead of relying so much on manual machine labeling.

To recap, this method was actually pretty good. It worked well and gave cleaner pattern detection without creating as much extra confusion and extra work, lol one thing I run from and hide is from machine labeling, hahahahah

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If you look at my current image, you’ll see a couple of patterns from a structural standpoint. If you noticed that as price drifts further into wider orbits, noticedthe red, that is selling, so we know that at that orbit, or at that extension, harbors selling, and notice how price comes back to it multiple times, so we know that structure has been defined.

So it allows for a quick view of the structure at a glance. Additionally, at different areas you see green that is buying, and there are points where buying was attempted, but price did not drift further out into orbit so that’s a trading opportunity right there. So I primarily engaged this type of chart as a way to see a global structural pattern during the day.

And I imagine it as an astronaut in space, there are different orbits that are pushing in pulling, and being able to see it quickly globally adds to a perception that is helpful.

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This is some great work,

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People think of some crazy stuff when it comes to trading. :joy:

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Its the mind at play.

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It’s a very clever looking chart and concept. However, I see a major issue compared to regular charts: very little room for price scale. I bet Friday’s chart looks awful.

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The purpose of the chart is to identify structure, and so when we move out of the Cartesian view, new perceptions are open to us, this type of chart has different physics, and I interact with it differently. The price is a moving comet, and as it moves around, we are able to identify structure, and this is structure that either repels, or structure that pulls.

This particular chart doesn’t rely on any type of indicators, but I’ve built in contextual sensors that convey how price is reacting at different orbits, when an orbit registers as buying or selling, etc, so it opens up different opportunities in intraday trading, but you can also imagine over larger time frame frames.

Trading can be engaged in many different ways, and this is just a new novel approach that I’ll probably spend the next few years better understanding, but I wanted to put it out here because it’s an idea, and everyone can run with it.

After one has learned price action, the relationship between the ES and the SPX options, orderflow, market profile, this is a akin to my PhD whereby I am introducing new knowledge.

I’ve extrapolated this into other relationships and markets that I will not share yet, where there are immediate benefits. But this is the fundamental base layer. Moving out of the Cartesian perception of the market and into a polar coordinate view. But again is the mind that play. This keeps me from being bored.

I’ll add that this isn’t a radar chart, this is a polar coordinate structure chart. To better understand it, think of physics and bodies and mass etc.

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I probably do not understand your intentions then. To me a better analogy would be electron energy levels rather than orbital physics.

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You’re very right. When I bring up ‘physics’ it is in that sense pertaining to interaction of different entities/bodies, their properties and relationships, and that very well includes how electrons react. I/e, the physics of tapping my fingers on a desk…(produces certain sounds, vibrations, etc)

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To learn more about polar coordinates concepts, check this out Polar coordinate system - Wikipedia