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Inspired by this thread I've started back testing a Momo setup with volume bars rather than time bars and I have to agree, at least for intra-day trading. It becomes "event oriented", which the price book is since it needs trades to occur in order to move in the first place. I'm not sure either...

Just exercise outside or at a gym. Sit and focus on your work. There's a time for everything.

As mentioned in another post you either end up buying the new "high" every time there's an uptick after the first "high" which is obviously rediculous, so you then have to specify when is the "high" that you're going to go with as the "high", which is usually contained within an arbitrary time...

Where do you place your stop and profit targets? How do you define the high? Is it the high after the cash open? for that 24 hour period beginning with the overnight session? The high between some arbitrary time intervals? What if there was a higher high in the premarket and spot is now down...

Just buy the American Funds you can't go wrong

The success or failure to make a higher high or lower low, I think that most of the shape-oriented drawings on charts such as wedges and whatnot are simply visual cues that are tied to this concept. The arrows on that chart make me think of the Elliott Wave method which may also be the same...

Had bad earnings numbers the last two quarters because of cat losses and lower than expected private equity investment results, statistically unlikely to happen again and revenue has been growing due to investment returns from bonds with higher rates and increased premiums collected. I think...

I usually don't give any credence to analyst upgrades or downgrades but in the biotech/pharma space I have found that Opco typically has good insights.

I second the question on the bar speed indicator. I have ninja trader and they have volume bars but I don't think they have a timer for it. There is an indicator called "bar timer" but to my disappointment it just counts down the time until the next time bar, no connection to constant volume bars.

Very interesting stuff. Thank you They and Xela for shedding some light on the subject. Are there any rules of thumb for bar size, such as a percentage of average daily volume or some such? Do you ever change your bar size based on market conditions or do you rely primarily on the speed of their...

Interesting...do the constant volume bars have their own set of quirks then? I only ask because I'm familiar with the quirks of time unit bars such as a big move happening within one time bar etc.

What is a constant volume chart? I've never heard of that.

Ryan, Is Earn2Trade and Helios Trading affiliated with the private equity firm Helios Investment Partners? Also, I realize everyone and every situation is different and Earn2Trade seems intent on being flexible based on people's different styles etc. but assuming one passes the Gauntlet, how...

The arguments about "what about the discount brokers" etc. are garbage from people who haven't done it. If you're a good salesperson you will be able to cold call and raise tens of millions of dollars in client AUM. I did it three years ago, not in the 90's. Do not call list sucks, yes, but it...

This. I read so many books and blogs and forum posts ad nauseum before I finally got what the hell it means. A defined strategy (entry, exit, and possible adjustment criteria for trades) that has positive expectancy. That's it. It's not as mysterious as innovating some new technology like a lot...

Just trying to make the point that human behavior is response to stimuli, not random. I agree on the normal distribution in many cases, central limit theorem comes into play, but with some degree of market efficiency (emphasis on some) present at any one time, or perhaps just shared expectations...

List every single thing you did today in chronological order such as: wake up, pee, get a glass of water/coffee, shower, get dressed, eat etc. etc. etc. Now tell me how many of those things or the order they happened in are randomly generated.

If your body is running gluconeogenesis do you have the same amount of blood and brain glucose as if you eat carbs?

Question is in the title, I'm trading ZB futures intraday off of the 5min chart on market replay/playback connection using NT's data. I want to make sure my results will translate to live. Just to clarify they have one set called 'Historical Data' and another set called 'Market Replay' data, I...

I know someone who stopped paying their mortgage for a whole year and is still angry at the bank for foreclosing.