Journal XburbX - My Plan

Quote from BobbiDigital:

One more question on the chart, did you draw the long term support on the 15 minute chart because price gapped above the next day both times (and it worked)?

Back to focusing on losing....a perfect day would be a handful of very small losers

Honestly the gaps on that chart never entered my thoughts - price rejection on both the upper and lower lines did..., as well as some consolidation areas

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Gaps could be thought of as form of rejection..., but I don't see them as such

Instead; I see them as purposely engineered pockets of liquidity/ risk management..., and eventual magnets - unless that is.., they fail pretty quickly


RN
 
Damn good BD…, but please allow me to refine your response


TM;

Market is uncertain

We never know which way price is headed

We never know how far price will travel

A set up (all set ups in fact) are nothing more than an indication that price will do one thing over another

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What we need to identify with price/ volume/ lines/ whatever

A condition were we think price will do one thing over another (price can only go up/down/sideways)

And

A low risk stop to find out

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once both are identified - we trade it

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Next logical question would be; What about identifying a profit target

Who knows – the mkt is uncertain… and we will never know where..., or how far - price will go

But to help us identify a target, we can use;

Measured moves
Time
Close of a bar
Other side of a channel (albeit a channel on our trading TF, or possibly a larger TF)
PA
Break of a line - horizontal or diagonal
Touch of a line - horizontal or diagonal
Volume

Just to name a few

Good Job BD

RN
 
Quote from BobbiDigital:

What direction price is going

and where you are wrong

btw, and an observation

Please try to stop thinking in absolutes

We never know which way price is going (no one does)

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Ease up on yourself a bit..., also divert your focus from you... and instead onto the process you're following/ your plan

A losing trade does not mean we were wrong - simply means the trade didn't work - this time



Food for thought Sir
RN
 
Quote from Redneck:...

But to help us identify a target, we can use;

Measured moves

...

RN

Can someone define "measured move"? I see that term used on the forum but dont understand what it means.

Is it perhaps ABC waves where price value change in wave C is the same price value change as in wave A, hence 'measured'?

Thanks,
tihfa
 
Quote from tihfa:

Can someone define "measured move"? I see that term used on the forum but dont understand what it means.

Is it perhaps ABC waves where price value change in wave C is the same price value change as in wave A, hence 'measured'?

Thanks,
tihfa


If no one else chimes in I'll respond this evening.. may even try to find an example or two


I know NOD posted an example on that thread bitching about TA - fwiw

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=247024&perpage=6&pagenumber=211



Your abc is correct A=C (or close to it)

RN
 
Btw I really like the words Rn used to describe what a setup is. Just an indication that price will do one thing over the other. There are a million setups.
 
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