Quote from clambill:
I've just found an easy way to describe it. This strategy would be like instead of trading a moving average crossover, it would be to trade the slow stochastics in a shorter time frame. So, I disagree with the idea that it wouldn't work simply because "it's not logical". I wouldn't expect trading a moving average crossover would be any more/less logical than trading the slow stochastics.
You are exactly right do not do those dumb things.
You do NOT know how to determine market SENTIMENT. Sentiment means "WHICH WAY THE MARKET IS GOING AND LEANING.
Making money in markets means "BEING ON THE CORRECT SIDE OF THE MARKET.
Here is a slowly excutable solution to your problems.
Keep a line drawn to the right of price. Always be in the market according to the slope of that line. +is long; - is short.
Notice when you need to draw a new line or when you CAN draw a new line. There you see two lines of opposite slopes. You trade is in the "old" slope. End the trade and go into the sign of the new slope before the two lines cross in time.
Pretend you are redneck and have three charts running all the time. Will all the charts have price to the right of the lines drawn on the charts. NAW.... that is not going to be true most of the time. Which chart is the correct chart? and which chart makes the most money? and which chart has the most trades?
How many times can you keep in a trade where the line is changing sides and still make money? This is not a trick question.
Lets play before and after the parallelogram. Can you take a trade before you can draw a parallelogram that contains its price?
Can you take a fade before you can draw the parallelogram?
Why is waiting to take a trade after drawing the parallelogram giving you such small amounts of time in the market before you have to get out to not get stopped out?
Why is the best entry just when the price can no longer make it to the other side of the parallelogram? Why is this trade the opposite of the sign of the slope of the parallelogram?
To answer all these questions, what variable of the market do you use?
These questions were figured out by a group of Presidents. To celebrate this they close the markets on next Monday.
Extra credit:
What is the name of the guy who stole the HF codes from GS that he designed before he left? Does transporting stolen property include internet transportation?