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2012issue C1156-58

Pixel-grid pullback and sector color alignment

A 2012 review described a two-axis grid-chart that paired each close with a signal-bar and a pixel-field of colored squares. This note records the named shapes, the three-reading pullback-pattern, and the sector-array used for color-alignment, including one computer-hardware session in which those reads shared a date.

  • The grid-chart placed a colored signal-bar beside each close and treated the pixel-field as the surface where named shapes were read.
  • A pullback-pattern required signal-bars to alternate color across three readings and required same-color pixels to connect at 45 degrees from the first reading to the third.
  • A scan-window returned symbols with sector labels, and a sector-array showed whether a group's rectangles were mostly one color.
  • Editorial reading: a case-study setup is treated as complete only when a named pixel shape, the pullback rule, and color-alignment agree on one session.
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The daily grid-chart

The 2012 review described a two-axis daily grid-chart. A colored signal-bar sat beside each closing price. The pixel-field to the right was treated as the surface where shapes were read.

YPF SA (ADR) daily closes on the StockchartsPro grid

Closing prices taken from the date and price columns of the YPF daily grid. A trader sees the late-June rally into the 29 June buy at 12.35, twin peaks just above 13 in early and mid-July, the slide into the 30 July sell at 12.05, then a rebound that prints a second buy at 12.32 on 24 August.
Closing prices taken from the date and price columns of the YPF daily grid. A trader sees the late-June rally into the 29 June buy at 12.35, twin peaks just above 13 in early and mid-July, the slide into the 30 July sell at 12.05, then a rebound that prints a second buy at 12.32 on 24 August.YPF SA (ADR) · daily · 2012-06-22T00:00:00.000Z to 2012-08-24T00:00:00.000Z

Each row is one trading session; weekends and the 4 July holiday are omitted, matching the printed grid. Signal-bar colors and the pixel field are not numeric series and are not plotted.

Named pixel formations

The review named three pixel formations: a right triangle, a pullback, and a mini pullback.

The triangle-pattern rule asked for one color to leave a corner and travel outward and downward at 45 degrees. Observed examples were described as often having a cut-off top and a few opposite-color squares in the interior.

The pullback-pattern

A pullback-pattern required signal-bars to alternate color across three readings. It also required same-color pixels to connect at 45 degrees from the first reading to the third.

Scan-window and sector-array

A scan-window was a user-set date range. It returned a symbol list that included each name's sector so a later group screen could supply industry context.

Opening a subsector produced a sector-array with one company per column and one date per row. That matrix allowed a visual read of whether the group's rectangles were mostly one color.

Color-alignment treated a green marker in a mostly green field, or a red marker in a mostly red field, as the intended match. A lone opposite-color marker was treated as a mismatch.

A same-date computer-hardware case

On 31 July 2012, one computer-hardware name carried a green marker inside a mostly green group field. That name's grid-chart also showed a pullback buy on the same date.

Educational research material, not investment advice. Historical source context does not establish present-day performance.
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  1. 1997A two-gate held-out test of hand-labeled pullback nets
  2. 2004A 50-day average touch as a screening procedure
  3. 2005Write a moving-average pullback as one procedure
  4. 2005How to write a short moving-average pullback as one procedure
  5. 2007Failed-breakout shorts with a half-width exit
  6. 2008Three-gate pullback entries from exchange tick breadth
  7. 2010Clear-method noise alerts for swing entries and exits
  8. 2011Same pullback rules, different market modes
  9. 2012Pixel-grid pullback and sector color alignment
  10. 2013Untested pullback entries need quantified exits
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