The dosing guide, based on volume, is listed at the top of the SS Recipe.
The reason you have no chlorine showing is because you have not yet added CYA (cyanuric acid, also called stabilizer). CYA is kind of like sunscreen for your chlorine. Without it, you cannot keep a chlorine reading in your pool as you are finding out. Dichlor adds CYA as well as chlorine. As you use dichlor for the first few weeks, your CYA level climbs. When it gets to around 50ppm, then you should just switch to bleach so your CYA level does not get too high.
If you don't want to use dichlor (and it is the easiest way to start up a new pool), then you have to just add CYA separately. Let us know if you aren't going to use the SS Recipe so someone can walk you through needed steps.
In the meantime, add bleach a few times per day. A pool with no chlorine doesn't take long to give algae a chance to start! It would be a shame for a fresh pool to turn green!
(By the way, BBB doesn't mean that you use bleach, Borax and baking soda exclusively and never anything else. It really is more of a philosophy of getting to know your pool, testing accurately and only adding what you need without a lot of extra unneeded stuff.)
Hope this helps.
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