The diamond notation (phasing)

Phasing's handwriting on the chart: a diamond under every low, a stack for synchronized lows — the taller the stack, the longer the cycle that just bottomed.

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A quién sirve esta entrada — Phasing analysis produces a map of dated lows: this is its handwriting. One glance at the diamond stack and you know which cycle just touched bottom — and hence how much push sits underneath.

Fuente: JM Hurst's Cycles Course (Cyclitec, ≈1973) and the Hickson / Sentient Trader tradition. A course convention — it does not appear in the 1970 book.


The convention

In phasing analysis every identified trough is marked with a diamond under the bar of the low:

Mark Meaning
One diamond The trough of one specific cycle
A stack of diamonds Synchronized lows of several cycles (the synchronicity principle in action)
A taller stack A longer cycle just bottomed → more push coming
The lowest diamond in the stack The shortest cycle of the conjunction

The stack is the graphical version of Ch. 8's nest of lows: when all cycles bottom together, the diamond column is tall — and that is where the book bought Screw and Bolt.

How it is used

  1. The first diamond comes from phasing's entry: the dominant cycle's trough.
  2. The extension fills the chart backward and forward with the shorter cycles' diamonds.
  3. The completion climbs the hierarchy: every long low must rest on a stack of short lows — no stack, revise the phasing.

The operational reading is immediate: the height of the next expected stack says how far the move born from it can go; its expected date comes from the model's current wavelengths.


Summary card

Element Value
Mark Diamond under the low; stacks for synchronized lows
Reading Tall stack = long-cycle trough = more push
Kinship Ch. 8's nest of lows, made systematic handwriting
Source Cycles Course ≈1973 — not the 1970 book

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