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The object of the thread, for me, is to educate. I have made it clear the lines are random. Now if price seems to interact with these lines, you can imagine how people would feel if they did not know they were random. What if they were told it was an indicator with a fancy name and 200 lines of code? They start to "believe" it has predictive value.
That is the point. Education. Open your mind type thinking. Evaluate how you are looking at your own charts and how you describe the interactions of price and objects on your chart.
Then let's take a real object people use every day in their trading, namely the MACD. Ask people how they interpret the MACD and next how they could get free of it and trade without it but still get the same results if not better results. What does this object show you that you can't see without it ?
You can start that new thread and discussion if you like, but I'd like to keep this thread about random lines or generalizations, nothing about a specific indicator.
I respect your goal very much and certainly don't want to be negative.
Unfortunately it won't be possible to demonstrate it this way.
It's just not possible to draw any lines "at random" regardless if the person that tries to do so is an educated trader or a newbie.
Especially interesting the postings of cavedave ("Humans cannot pick random numbers". Don't miss Shannon's "mind reading machine": https://www.cs.williams.edu/%7Ebailey/applets/MindReader/) and Capt'n Midnight (with nice cartoon and other visualizations).
To overcome the problem it might be worthwhile and good enough to use a simple random number formula in Excel if only a horizontal line is needed.
I had to close my eyes and plot the lines to make them random because I felt compelled to put them at "logical" levels . Ill check back after rollover tomorrow .