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I find it hilarious that the guy baits with "trading chaos" and then he switches to the ol' Fibber McGee numerology. :D :D :D

My cutoff point is an average daily volume of 100,000 shares. TRID qualifies, GMP.TO doesn't. In general: yes, volume matters.

You gotta be careful with the word "volatility" because it means different things to different traders. The "official" definition of volatility comes from option trading, where it means that funny variable you put into an option pricing model (usually Black-Scholes) to determine the premium...

Forget the range comments, it was information overload. The main thing is that the momentum is currently in your favor. Good trading.

FWIW, the filtered momentum has been positive since Thursday, although only slightly. The filtered range is steady at $0.29. To give some context to that number, the raw range has a monthly high of $0.58 and a monthly low of $0.12. The filtered range has a monthly high of $0.45 and a...

Yeah, I'm so "anti-TA", I even developed my own velocity indicator. There are none so blind or deaf as the willfully ignorant.

This is more sophistry from you. TA books give recommended usages for their techniques. Those usages can be objectively tested. The fact that few authors ever supply test data is evidence that they know they are selling fluff and nonsense for the most part. They couldn't very well supply...

Are you a drunk, a nut or both? How could you possibly know what opportunities I assessed, and when? Dude, lay off the hallucinogens. I finally found somebody to put on my ignore list. If nothing else, I'll be spared the absolutely psychotic waste of bandwidth you spew.

I didn't say that. No wonder you have such an understanding problem. Reading is an active process, not a passive one. You still can't deal with the basic issue. Fine, expand my comment beyond indicators to whatever. The issue remains, why do most TA books have zero performance data? The...

John Ehlers has written a lot about determining the dominant cycle length or whatever he calls it. You can check out the free info on his website here: http://www.mesasoftware.com/papers.htm As always, caveat emptor, and good trading.

Thanks. Good luck to you also. :)

Your innumeracy is duly noted. Ask any mathematician, he or she will tell you that the diff between 99% and 100% is infinite. :D Sounds like the average TA author to me. :D Yes this validates your lack of perception quite nicely. Let's review your so-called offering: "TA is really not...

I didn't suggest it should be. You have difficulty staying on topic. You said "How do you know that 99% of TA is crap if these books have zero performance data? This is one of those typical hater posts that has no basis in reality." I replied that academia as well as myself separately had...

The TA book I got the most out of, and I admit I didn't read the whole thing (maybe someday), is Perry Kaufman's SMARTER TRADING. His adaptive moving average was a real eye-opener for me: the first indicator I saw that was the result of thinking outside of the box. The idea of letting the data...

Another of the hard-of-thinking chimes in. Yo, innie, for you and any others having trouble using simple deductive logic, what I said was that most TA books (not all, most -- sorry if that's too much nuance for you slow learners but that's life) aren't worth the paper they're written on...

Because they've been tested by academia, clueless. And many have been tested by me as well. Hard of thinking, much?

I agree with this. It can be shown (in fact, has been shown) that 99% of TA is crap. Guess what? 99% of TA books insist in shoving that crap 99% of TA down your throat anyway. :mad: The authors obviously aren't interested in educating you and making you a good trader. They just want to...

I like AmiBroker for most-value-per-dollar advanced trading software but, to be honest, all you need is a modern spreadsheet, i.e., one that has a built-in optimizer function (I think Excel calls theirs 'Solver'). You'll have to learn how to program the cells yourself but it's worth it for the...

Nice! Thanks :)

http://www.elitetrader.com/tr/ :cool: