Quote from jonnyy40:
Jack.
Is it better(best) to use OHLC bars in order to 'see' (form a picture)? FBPs, FTPs etc.I've been using candles almost since I started as OHLC seemed 'dead'.Am I likely to be missing things (placing emphasis incorrectly) by using them?I'm playing catch-up at the moment and may have some remedial questions - should I post them here?
Posting here is helpful to others. I posted in MSN to get some stuff organized. I can't do tasks thoroughly as yet.
Candles are "new" to me. I read a lot of stuff so I know about them. I think from seeing them that they form during the period they cover.
For making money, it isimportant to assign importance to numbers you are using. Since O, H, L, and C occur once at least and sometimes at most, I rank them equally in unimportance.
I wish that MA could be done like candles, the lag would be emphasized. Putting the answer 1/2 the bars back relative to the total interval would keep the value far away from the current price. LOL. It would prevent x overs too.
I believe there is a philosphy of candles. There are names assigned to their appearances and their adjacent relationships.
I call such things "gimicks" relative to the P, V relationship of the two market variables. I am looking forward to volume candles and combined price and volume candles.
Supply and demand candles would be neat too. I should do an Andy Rooney on this.
Segway.
We need to view price in the moment primarily. The supply/demand journal named Price Volume has lines drawn here and there that emphasize, often, the "moving" side of bars. It is the opposite of channels it turns out. And comes out tellingstories that lag like MA's do. Like news, it is all recent history and not what relates to making money due to continuing price change.
Chunking data into bars is done to make money. Think about music. We "listen" to songs. We like songs because they "make sense" and appeal to us.
We believe in the music we like. Singing and dancing is immemorial. We acquire skills to participate. We sense and emote. We are also able to judge music.
I like making money the same way I like to make music. One I hear the other I see.
To see making money I use representations of the variables of the markets performance.
Pace, volatility, etc........ Up and down the scales......... All market compositions are originals but they are like music.
What is very very important is to be able to sense the market like you sense music. You can write out the tune you are hearing. The reasons are that you know notes and harmony and most important you "have memory" of the unravelling of the music. Further you "remember" songs.
81 bars compose the day for ES everyday. A W or M describes the am , mdday, pm sequence of the song. Four intraday trends.
Trends begin with a right to left traverse. Then they rerace to the right again and the new point 3 sets the trend.
I could type the above two sentences for a year or so and hardly anyone would "get" it. If I sang a few bars of a trend, everyone would "hear" it. the 5 minute choice is made by me to get81 bars for a day. They combine to let me "hear" the "tune" of the market.
Bars are "dead" to you and that is fine because we do not want to be using them for anything except to support making money. They give us boundaries of market movement. Most important they provide pictures of our beliefs.
We can get to "know" that song by its tune..
We are trying to get to "seeing is believing" and making it as easy as "hearing that tune of long ago"
Here is a killer "gimick" with plain bars just like knowing a candle gimick. Do this every day and you will make more than the daily H/L range. 2500 points a year for 125,000 bucks a year per contract.
Print five days of charts. Take a red ball point. Mark the 6 to eight lowest volume bars. Take a green ball point, circle the two tick bars. Circle the three tick bars.
You see that if volume is very low (Do PRV), you have a range of three entry prices max.
On the next bar enter in the direction of the extension of the next bar. Hold until the extension on that bar or the next one or two comes to a halt. Exit.
You do eight trades a day. You are in the market up to ten minutes eight times.
For candle people, they see this as a named pair of bars. You just see it as one bar and trade ahead of the cnadle crew.
VDU gives you a short bar before a BO. you know what value VDU has. You enter when the following bar goes "outside" the VDU price bar.
This is a nice "edge" trade that comes up 8 times a day.
Why can't this trade ever go against you?? LOL.
Bottom line. Keep bars simple and learn to know their "tunes". Making money is a musical experience.
We use bars to form melodies of trends that we exit at the end of.
Trading just the first right to left traverse of the first of four daily trends gets you 75,000 a year per copntract for 30 min a day. This is a "tape" set of bars that comes to an end and you exit.