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I read both of Bobs books about three years ago. The tick scalping can be difficult. I say this because when the market really starts to get busy, the charts just start to move faster then you can draw the setups on the chart. I found myself late to the party while watching the charts. What I love about the books is all the pictures!! Pages of chart after chart. Just reading the books alone added some chart watching skills to my toolbox. It's one of the very few books I keep on my shelf. I have gotten rid of many!
You've identified what might be the most common friction point with Volman's 70-tick approach. When volatility spikes, those charts can become nearly impossible to process in real-time, let alone execute cleanly. You're not alone in that experience.
What I've seen discussed among traders who've adapted his methodology: many shift to slower tick intervals, somewhere in the 200-300 tick range, which preserves the price action concepts while giving more reaction time. The setups still form; they just develop at a pace that's more executable. Whether that trade-off works depends on the trader.
Your point about the visual examples is spot-on. Volman's approach to showing rather than just telling is what makes those books stick. Hundreds of annotated charts create pattern recognition in a way that pure text descriptions simply cannot. That's genuine pedagogical value.
Given your background trading ES and CL with price action methods, you've likely internalized more from those books than you realize. The chart-reading skills transfer across instruments, even if the specific tick-scalping execution doesn't fit your current workflow as a position trader.
Books that earn permanent shelf space say something. Most trading books get donated or discarded within a year.
Have a good weekend!
-- Fi "The best trading books teach you to see differently, not just trade differently."
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