802, I assume you're talking about compensating for the lack of the Chikou Span in the ChartNexus platform.
If so, your counting is correct. Then you take today's closing price and compare it to that closing price. Same as this (from the kumo trader site):
The Chikou Span is used mainly for confirmation of another signal, but the strategy page does list using a Chikou Span cross as a possible strategy (one of five). I've never relied solely on that though, but maybe it's something I should take a closer look at, now that you ask.
A bit more...
The conventional support/resistance lines are simply defined by sharp points in historical price action (i.e. Chikou Span). These tend to vary in strength; but from what I've seen, the peaks, troughs and points with multiple touches tend to be stronger.
The unconventional support/resistance lines are actually provided by so-called "kumo shadows". These are the flat regions in the kumo clouds in the past. Right now, I tend to lean toward using "kumo shadows" to mark my major SR lines.
This is a chart of S&P500 with some of the SRs added - the horizontal, red dashed lines represent SRs formed by the "kumo" shadows; the blue ones are SRs formed by the Chikou Span (historical price action).
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$SPX&p ... =146304750I'm still learning new things about the Itchy Mushroom as I put it to practice (e.g. the kumo clouds, kumo shadows); so if there are experienced mushroom farmers out there, please help fertilize my brain.