I see the time to break-out trade as when the 6 & 12 shift simultaneously and there's still plenty of room to the 30 or 60 and price just bee-lines to that higher time frame level. One of the draw-backs to the method is when we know the patterns have aligned and the market won't dip -- or rally -- to let us in. That's what I"m working on next month. Get down and dirty on the intraday charts and trade those shallow retracements -- the center line on a refined bollinger band may be the ticket