When Lance Beggs says - people trade the shadow and not the reality ?
What does he really mean ?
Explanation by ST da..........
He means traders trade price patterns, indicators etc assuming that this is the real market......but this is a shadow and we keep trading shadow without understanding the cause or the reality which has caused supply- demand imbalance which is creating the shadow...so he says understand the reality or the cause which is causing the market move and not just concentrate on shadows or price patterns, indicator OB/OS etc.....so if the reality is strong enough to create supply / demand imbalance, then the shadow trading meaning if the fundamentals of the market has changed to bullish, trading on shadows like expecting to fill the gap, expecting correction , expecting exhaustion in overbought area etc wont work and market will keep going up and trading on shadow will infact mislead the traders....
So according to Lance Beggs, we must understand what is the cause ( reality) and then trade the shadows( Price patterns etc ) togather with reality and not the shadow in isolation.