Recent content by Mike Smith

Maybe it can be useful to look at difference between some EMA values and high/low values for some period of time.

Hello. All info about fees is here http://www.iqfeed.net/index.cfm?displayaction=data&section=fees I pay for datafeed $75+$6 for each exchange monthly (I use NYSE+NASDAQ)=$87. My friend got link from vismast and waived start-up fee last year (I don`t know conditions for today). As I know they...

Mysteron, but here you are right, detective. Finally I waited that someone will detect my style here. But not so soon as you made.

Thanks for your words.

Mysteron, No. I am trading alone and sometimes it is very boring to sit down before monitors. Initially I wanted to write one short post and ask daytraders how they trade trend-following strategies, what filters and parameters they use to pick stocks during trading session. But there are so...

How I trade strategy and some more comments In the first post we found stocks with $1 potential move. Also I try to remove stocks moving with gaps usually (manual filtering). Finally there are about 400-500 stocks. And as we are going to trade strategy with stock screener let`s think how to...

Entry and exit points There is no strategy without entry and exit points. Below some ideas for reasonable entries and exits on the chart. This is for long trades only (vice versa for short trades). Entry points: Within consolidation (better to get the lowest prices of the consolidation). When...

Strategy building Usually strategy building process starts when trader likes some kind of charts and decides to extract useful setups (I use this way). Let`s extract some useful features for our strategy from chart below. This is type of charts when all is clear (as usual ex post :)). This...

Hello. I think that all newbie traders have period when they think: "All that I need to make money is just to find my setup (they read in a book or found anywhere else)". Their main mistake is to try trading their setups at any time without any background analysis. Usually they see their setups...