What?
When the indicator that guy was talking about says to sell, you actually buy. That's more like buying highs and selling lows, except not at the peaks, so there's still room for profit.
Here's what I'm talking about.
Someone posted an indicator with buy and sell signals. I coded it and realized that if you faded it you would do much better. I attached two charts:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=131870
Attachment on post 3
I found this posted on another site and thought I'd post it here. It's probably a repost but whatever.
edit - it says it's too long to post so I've attached it.
This guy says "always be fading." I think I might try that. Almost every time a popular indicator...
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14 period RSI. If RSI is over 75, you get a red down arrow over price meaning SELL. If RSI is under 25, you get a green arrow under price meaning BUY.
Looks like you'll be selling into a lot of uptrends and buying into a lot of down trends.
It gives sell signals at the...
http://www.programtrading.com/indicators.htm
Anyone been to this seminar or whatever?
Usually I can find whatever I want on the internet but I can't find anything about this. Did they make it up?
Your broker probably sent it to you because it has to be sent to all clients.
PDT rules only apply to stocks.
You can trade futures as much as you want with no $25k rule and no wash sale rule :D
Based on my interpretation of the rules and my limited SierraChart worksheet abilities:
(not backtested, I made this a few minutes ago)
Go short when prices are below the red MAs and candles are pink.
Go long when prices are above the red MAs and candles are light blue.
Don't do...
Plot the following EMAs:
In blue:
3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15
In red:
30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60
Here's a page that explains it with some rules:
http://www.guppytraders.com/gup329.shtml
It looks like this (see attachment)
I like the idea that that site promotes.
And I also like this system, with a compounded annual return of 609 million percent over 69 days:
http://www.collective2.com/cgi-perl/systems.mpl?want=publicdetails&systemid=32081816&session=878570512303523256190427653988741#atonly
It's supposed to be an add-on for many popular charting programs like SierraChart, NinjaTrader, Trade Station, etc.
http://www.scalpersoftware.com/
Tells you exactly where to buy for scalping. Oh and it says it might be inaccurate on trending days.
Remember that with Heiken-Ashi the candles you are seeing do not represent the actual prices. HA candles are derived by applying some formula to regular candles.
They are good for showing trends, but not for showing actual prices.
There's an article that was linked to here explaining why...