The FUTURE price of OIL ?

Wow, where to begin? First the ellipses are not a part of the chart. They are there only for illustrative purposes for those unfamilar with this kind of chart. These show what the chart looks like where there is a high probability of at least a short term UP trend. The same can be done for short term DOWN trends. The longer term trends can also be identified, but it beyond explaining here in this forum. It involves the shapes and patterns of the different groupings of +'s and -'s that form the background figures. Here's a link with some of what I've written elsewhere about this chart. http://www.allbusiness.com/banking-finance/financial-markets-investing/10598397-1.html As to your suggested changes, there is just too much information being conveyed all at once to change much. I've literally played with it for years, to even include layering multiple charts one upon the other which you have to scroll through. This is actually the best I can do other than possible changes in shading and color. Where there are 'turning points' indicated by this chart, can not be taken to indicate a change of trend for a specific duration. Turning points can be found with a high degree of accuracy. How long the trend changes is really not easily or as accurately determinable as people would like. When a bottom or top is found, how long the trend will last in the opposite direction is anyone's guess. This chart can not tell you when the trend will change, only that it just changed or is changing. "It has the potential to convey broad information perspective very, very quickly. I suspect that tweaking the design to capitalize on how quickly and efficiently you convey that info will mean the difference between just any old graphic, and the type of graphic that builds a positive repution." You bet it does. It actually is a 5 dimensional chart. The human mind can not even begin to conceptualize the interactive result of several hundred simutanous trends and their conflicting converse schedules of reinforcement. This chart creates a picture of a process that is beyond the power of possibly any human to imagine visually. I expect this line of research to eventually lead to a whole new branch of statistics. The new statistics will not be 2 dimensional like a normal curve but will be 3d or higher. I have done research with distributions of frequency distributions that convince me statistics as we know it is very much an infant in the field of mathematics. I hope this helps you to understand most of your questions. To answer them all specifically, I'd need to have a chart I could point to and explain specific things. Hard to do in a forum. I'm willing to try again. Ask the confusing questions I have not given you info to understand again.

Only the first 2 charts are relevant to this post. The others are the year long projections for the US DOLLAR (DXY0) and Gold (XGLD). As you notice these last 2 move in opposite directions. That is not a coincidence.