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Volume would be the simplest one. It differentiates all the possibilities as a leading indicator of stochastics and price. If you have any charts you use, pick any one of them and then go to any others to see that the theme is consistent. Stochastics is not a primary qualtiy indicator...

The settings I recommend are 5,3,3. For a short going to a long, you will see a spike down as the signal prior to the trend (long) commencing. the MAV5 does a dip, then RSI, then MAV30. The Xover of MAV5 on MAV30 was what we used to show the D to A shift. The RSI falling between the two...

The five elements you combine to make money have a very weak interdependence. Have you migrated to this place by building on former successes?

You are in a rather tough place at the moment. I remember on channel 13 in NYC (In the 50's) there was a PhD from Columbia University explaining the influence of agriculture on the Constitution vis a vis the Hartford Convention. I had to call in to the station and get him "fixed". When he...

Failing to debrief myself. This requires leaving the market; getting out a sheet of paper or two; 1. writing up what happened; 2. writing up what I want to be happening for myself (skip what the market is supposed to do); 3. Accepting what I want my performance to be under the circumstance...

What we are beginning here at this point is to look at the market participants more closely and we are also beginning the process of separating the "smart money" from the "other money". There are a few creative practioners who have gotten to the essential babis for making money and they are...

You can classify a lot of the TA formations as "change" situations. traderkay is stuck on trading after the pennant ones; she has learned that she needs to not enter around pennants because of her risk. This is a defined risk area for her and it falls into the general category of market...

The essential ingredient of using a reversal strategy to make money is to only use it when the market is in a state of "change" as opposed to a state of "continuation". Trends represent "continuation" but is is not a sufficient condition to try to determine if a trend does not exist. This is...

You put it very succinctly. I will try to catch up om my posts by going backwards from the most recent ones that have been made by others. As skill develops, a person can add to their performance efficiency. Going from just rockets to trends is the first step. Rockets give you experience...

The way to play the failures and the "real" moves can really put you in the clover. Symmetric pennant is a sure thing for making money. If there are failures before the "real thing", play each of those too. By getting to place where you can do the retrace successfully, you can a;so...

there are lots of definitions of scalping. thanks for telling us yours.

Sorry for the gap. I will get my schedule readjusted shortly. as part of my sets of 1000 day life segments I am trying to finish up some stuff. The A/D can be done using any one of many alternatives. My fav is BOP by worden bros. The ratings by IBD work too. For a while I worked through...

Success. this is the analytical spread sheet that can be used to determine how to make money trading or investing. You can compare the potential that is there with how you are doing. The efficiency is there to use for both yourself and the market. you can, of course modify the equations...

that was a different file than yellow brick road. I will try to find it and repost it.

Here is another try.

Nitro will tell you more as time passes. The many concepts of mentoring that you see here each have a different focus. My experience in this is oriented to several things that are valuable to learners. Answering their questions is at the top of the list. Mentor answers would fall into...

se the yellow brick road (Attached). As a spread sheet you can play with it to get acquainted with making money. The market efficiency and player efficiency are adjustable and you can also rearrange how they are applied to the maths. The potential of a type of trading can be related to the...

Scaling price , volume and your indicators is a major factor.

Be sure each day to note the VDU's and what happens on the 5 min within a couple of bars. This is a training exercise for doing BO's off the 50% of STOC and the neutral of MACD. The last two days the slow paced icebergs showed you how the MACD entwines "off" neutral. You can see that you...