There was a request that I post my gold chart on 2/12 which I just saw. Here is the current look.
A few comments about the notations are in order.
The DeMark Sequential has two components, Set Up which begins when a close is higher (for sells) or lower (for buys) than the close 4 bars prior and continues to count if each subsequent and consecutive bar also bears the same relation to the bar 4 bars prior until a 9 is printed in black (but the range box (large red rectangles) continues until a consecutive sequence of closes higher/lower than 4 bars prior ends. ( Set up generally hits the thrust phase of a move.)
Then countdown begins after a set up 9 prints and it consists of looking back 2 bars prior to see if the close is a higher close (for sells) or lower (for buys). It does not require a consecutive set of bars and handles the situations were chop can occur or if the thrust continues until it completes on a 13 count. When that is the case one is alerted to a potential trend exhaustion zone and should await a "price flip" as a good signal that the trend, at least for a short term, has changed.
There are two versions of the Sequential on the chart. The "fully qualified" version, which uses Tom DeMark's recommended settings from his books prints in the small red numbers above or below the price bars, depending on the trend direction. A Sequential that uses Jason Perl's settings (he wrote the latest book on these indicators for Bloomberg) are in maroon and don't recycle (i.e. get removed from the chart) if a second set up in the same directions prints. In the fully qualified version, the countdown stops and is removed if a second set up 9 prints in the same direction as the countdown either before or after the countdown absent an intervening set up in the opposite direction.
The small numbers above or below the price bars in blue are the TD Combination which begins after a set up 9 prints but it looks back into the set up phase to begin counting higher/lower closes compared to 2 bars prior until it. reaches 13, as compared to the Sequential which can only have it's first day of the countdown begin on day 9 of the set up.
There is no grand theory behind the Sequential or the combo, Tom DeMark just experimented until he found something that worked. However, note how close the numbering is to a Fibonacci sequence, with one added for the first day (9-1(first day)v=8) (9-1+13=21)
There is a lot of data and analysis on this chart. Also important are the fib price and time extensions. I track both the usual Elliott Wave theory price extensions and the fib extensions from all prior inflections above or below the price bars per Larry Pesavento's books. The sacred ratio, key and golden ratios Larry highlights are framed in red boxes.
There is an Elliott Wave count, based on the work of 2 different experts, as well as my own analysis.
Finally, the cyclic analysis is based on Hurst as well as geometric cycle analysis a la Mandelbrot. The fib time extensions are tied to key Elliott wave turns, some going back to the 2011 top
I entered long gold, the miners, the 3x ETF's, silver and platinum Christmas week and sold just about at the top of wave 1 and reentered again on 1/27 at the .382 retrace but did not hold that long enough to capture most of the move. I plan to reenter when Wave 2 appears done
All the Best
Geo
By the way, if you view the chart on an iPad and newer windows machines you can explode the chart to look at the detail more closely.