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Sadly, I've been away from trading (and NT) and won't be able to get back to it until next week, so I'm not even clued into the details but when I can I'll put something together if nobody beats me to it.

Couldn't agree more!

Been there, been there. Sadly, it's a textbook illustration of a counter AHG type trade and what can go wrong in that situation and then what can happen avging down too, since it was clearly a rescue move. It happens to the best of guys from time to time. Just don't do it again!! ;) Still...

If there is a holy grail in trading it's this kind of thinking. Good for you.

You must have mistaken my point, I'm not challenging the utility of slope based trend analysis, only the nature of the specific slope calculations and claims of the value of a specific slope without further chart scaling info. Like gann angles, the actual slope is completely dependant on your...

I've always found the 45 degree trendline thing to be problematic, 45 degrees on which chart? The same price move occuring on different time or volume scales changes the slope. If it's a visual slope, the axis scaling changes it too.

Congrats man, thanks, have fun, be safe and see ya when you get back!

whoa I think you may be misunderstanding where I'm coming from here, I'm not in the least trying to step on your toes or any of that kind of thing, I pay attention to what you say and I was confused by what appeared to be a contradiction. You have clarified your position and in that regard I...

I missed this post after writing others, oops. I understand but the "something" is important and the implication extends to some odd possibilities. I don't think you would take time to observe astrology charts or casting runes to get your entry confirmation would you? It takes time to find...

It might hurt, it depends on the trader and how much weight they would put on a derivative of price. Like OBV and other money flow oscillators, it leads into all kinds of slippery thinking, like looking for divergences and all that indicator mindgamery. Otherwise, you are just looking at it...

Anek, I'm on your side here and think the concepts in this thread are indispensible. Thanks for doing that. That said, I'm a bit disappointed in the indicator proffering since it seems to conflict with your basic "evil indicator" ideas. Just to put my 0.02 in, I find the TMF "indicator" a...

I set my T&S to take every tick, but the chart I left on 250mS, the real problem is the NT OpenTick combo, trying to reload the chart inside a fast market after the stream goes down. After a while it just wouldn't even come back up, it tries to reload the days ticks and well, it's a bit of a...

I knew NinjaTrader is kinda slow from how it handles tick updates but the last part of the day was ripping so hard the opentick feed kept cutting out of NinjaTrader. I wonder what NT it would do under a live account condition? Couldn't even put in an order so it was a non-winner there, if it...

I agree, I wouldn't find that info useful in real time, but for looking at historical charts it might save a little time in checking the timestamps for pace if that's of interest. I did find it interesting to see "time bars" on a CV (constant volume) chart as the analog of volume bars on a CT...

Here, I just threw this together, it will give you a "time volume" in seconds for each bar in NinjaTrader. It just takes the current bar time minus the previous bar time and converts it to seconds. So, slow bars are tall, fast bars are short. I hope this helps...

I'm new to constant volume charts but I realized how it's very handy in determining the commitment of moves at a glance. The # of bars in a swing is the total volume of that swing. So, the volume that goes in pushes prices up by an amount, if those trades are unwound it would take the same...

I'm glad you made this point a bit more specific. "Watching the tape" is a bit too vague but this helps. In terms of analysis this is the extra info that a chart cannot show, which is good to be aware of when you look at old charts. I would recommend using NinjaTrader's market recorder and...

Thanks a boatload for posting the times, I'm off to check out the charts now.

Hope you feel better, it doesn't seem to hurt your scalping! Sorry these trades don't have timestamps, then we could go back and try and see what you saw on our charts (especially to see how the heat came out) I found today was too twitchy (lots of long adjacent bars red/green) for the...

Hi, this is my first post on ET, Anek you have done a great service here thanks for all of this. I've traded equities for years but just now am considering futures (for daytrading). They have better tax treatment and mark to market makes dealing with the IRS so much easier too. Plus, the...