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For those interested, tomorrow will mirror today. The first FTT will end a short, so trade short from bar 1 to about bar 6 to 8. To go B2B next, you have to hold through declining volume hit the RTL trough of volume and then hold as volume goes to the peak at point 2. Then reverse short for the...

There are approximately 30. Doing a hold for about 24 ES points is considered a "tradeable signal" by most. Using the margin of IB it represents over 40% of margin with two reversals (into and out of a trade cyle). They (the signals) are bunched in time around the extremes of price movement...

There are no qualifications to be able to drive or read or do music. the young person who is learning to trade could, as a fact. not have even taken geometry. The mathematical scene for doing the opposite of the induction you say you do is to simply think of a simple set of rules for how the...

I find this vendor's thread to be humorous. I see a lot of threads that protect n00bies as well. Under two categories below any reader, expert or new, will find the 8 essentials of getting to be expert. A. Starting from scratch. There are five elements: 1. Going from the RTL...

And here is traderzones first post on ET in 2006. "Does Technical Analysis work? I think the best way to answer this is evidence. Opinions & beliefs are irrelevant. For many tech analysis indicators (for futures/commodities) i have been tracking this site for several years: Indicator and...

There are several ways. The 1 was probably referring to the ES or the YM. There are several types of "big traders" too. The extremes would include individuals who lease seats or employees who trade OPM on behalf of a financial entity. It can't be done on simulated accounts...

Here is a 2006 post from someone. His first post in ET. He believes and has duplicated this failure......... here you go: "Does Technical Analysis work? I think the best way to answer this is evidence. Opinions & beliefs are irrelevant. For many tech analysis indicators...

The markets are counterintuitive and a lot goes on as time passes. One thing that is helpful is to be able to see what is going on. This has two parts: Displaying the market on screens and doing a routine that sensibly examines what is there to be seen. Making money mostly invloves...

It looks like you are using PA on a one minute chart. You also have the Depth of Market showing. The DOM part of your post is stated in contracts and prices only. Below is an old snagit of a moment in trading. What you see is an executed trade, just past, and the snagit of the trade for...

After I retired, beginning about '61 or '62.

cosine was making very pertinent points for your benefit. Knowing what the problem is is very important. HFT is done for a set of reasons. The HFT happens among a set of players. Often decision makers do what they do because they do not know how to deal with what is going on. HFT is THE...

For the humor of it, in AZ (which is near the West) operates only in the am to trade a full day. Presently we trade 6:30 to 1:00 and then have lunch. Some traders use a ranching technique: Trade and have breakfast after the market pace dwindles. During part of the year in AZ (when the...

Alex: You opened the thread with: Then you asked RN for his opinion: "Thanks for your reaction, and we most certainly respect your opinion as well. Could I ask you to tell where you stopped agreeing with me in my initial post? (put differently, where do you think my reasonning is...

You and I are on the the same page. Further and obviously, it is the left and right sides of the data field that are more important. If you have an ATS and it is not getting real time data (right side), then do not expect to make money with it. LOL To get performance, the left side of...

For those who may be observing, here are two people caught in a coomon basic problem. Establishing a system requires dealing logically and only deductively with the structure, the process going on in the system, and the results the system produces. All markets deal with a subject named non...

You have one very small problem. It will take a couple hours on your machine to cure it. Schedule, please. regards, J.

The path to successful trading is a series of decisions. About 9. As a person goes down the path, he, from what the conventional wisdom says, takes a long time (by his nature to wait to learn). The tipping point could be at any time. In this thread, no one who has posted has reached it...

There are many pages of script and snippets for all sorts of things in the collection under the thread called Hershey softtware or the like here in ET and there is stuff at fidelity as well. On page 17 and 18 (@five posts per page) of the sicktrader trading thread he announced the open BO...

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I inked this chart Left half showing. Used WSJ year to date hi lo to find high Beta (not named that then, though) Back penciled the daily H,L,C and volume drew channels and could see overlap Volume coming out of dry up was signal. Peaking was what is now called FTT. Did 40...