Measuring Trend

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Quote from Eight:

Consolidation can be a very short affair, two bars sometimes... trading across the sideways channel that is consolidation is hard enough to do and when the consolidation ends you are going to be on the wrong side of the last trade across... you are guaranteed one losing trade if you are scalping across the consolidation channel.. some think it far better to detect the ending of a trend, use the consolidation period to get a good price for entry to the next trend by watching the consolidation channel.. that improved entry price guarantees that your loss will be smaller if you get the direction wrong and your gain will be greater if you get it right and you can skip the hassle of scalping across the sideways channel

If I understand correctly, modest or slow trends do not end up with consolidation but fast trends do. All consolidations end with successful breakout. :)
 
Quote from kut2k2:

This thread is about measuring trends. When you measure something, you get a number. This number is known as a measurement.

There are no measurements produced by channels and trendlines. They are utterly worthless for measuring trends. Maybe they can detect trends, but that is not the same as measuring trends.

C'mon, a Trendline has a begin point on an X,Y plane and a slope!! It's as quantifiable as it gets! A channel has two such lines [and the slope is the same to boot]..

If you persist, I may no longer class you with "the best and brightest", in fact it might be more like "the ones where you want to talk a little slower and use little words"...
 
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I'll put this out for anybody to answer: Would an accurate measure of how much of a given time-series interval is trend be of use to your trading?
I'll give a few reasons why it matters:

1) If I'm looking to make money capturing trends, I need to know that trends exist. Maybe it seems obvious that they do, but it would be nice to verify every now and then.

2) If I'm picking markets to trade as a trend follower, it would be nice to know if there are markets that consistently trend more than others so I know where to spend my time.

3) If I'm trend following a certain market and not doing so well, I can measure how much it is trending and see if the reason I'm not doing so well is because my method sucks or because the market sucks.

I don't know how you could accomplish any of this without an objective measure of trendiness.
Thanks for the great post. :cool:
 
One key thing I'd like to cover is ranking. Assume you have both a trend strength indicator (e.g., ROC) and a trend quality indicator (e.g., TSI). Assuming for the sake of argument that you were satisfied with the measurement performance of both indicators, would you rank them equally or should one type of indicator rank higher than the other? What I'm looking for is an overall performance indicator that will allow ranking of a basket of securities. Thanks.
 
The trend is not easy to measure because there are trends within trends within trends and the measurement must be done relative to the other trends for this to make any sense.

On top of that sometimes bigger trends dominate smaller trends, sometimes its the opposite.

It's one big randomness, no edge in trend.

FoN
 
Quote from FreakofNature:

The trend is not easy to measure because there are trends within trends within trends and the measurement must be done relative to the other trends for this to make any sense.

On top of that sometimes bigger trends dominate smaller trends, sometimes its the opposite.

It's one big randomness, no edge in trend.

FoN
The markets are not random, as proven in this thread.
 
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first, what is a trend ?
is it a price move in one direction on a certain time ?
or, second
is it a price move that is repeating itself over and over again,
backtested for over 30 years with over 1000 examples and over hundreds trades in real time with real money ?
or, third
is it the constant average daily or Weekly profit on a traders account?

Price is ruled by the big money, and that big money is in the second example here. That will lead you to number three.....

Number one is worth nothing, because price always move in cycles, dosnt matter if its going up or down on the big picture....

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The markets are not random, as proven in this thread.

Yes and No.
For me, the markets are 100% random until a trading pattern/situation i know appears. Dosnt matter if i would trade this or not.
When a situation have appeared where i can say that price will move with a 90% in this or that direction, there is still a 10% chance that i am wrong. So thats still 10% randomness.

Beside that, you have to know, when your are wrong, because price can do everything everytime, thats the complicated risk thing in trading. A lot of time, price will fullfill the overall pattern, after it shaked out the traders with their stop on the high and lows.

Its the average price prediction what is the only thing that you can count in trading. Average nothing else.....

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When you ve reached the point, where you know the most important price moving situations or patterns, you can "measure the trend" in the lower time frame cycles, bcuz price have to fullfill the higher time frame pattern.............

Without knowing these patterns of the markets, everything else is just bullshit and will cause dead on your account........

And there are a lot of different price moving situations, a lot....

Sorry, just my kind of view.....
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first, what is a trend ?
is it a price move in one direction on a certain time ?
or, second
is it a price move that is repeating itself over and over again,
backtested for over 30 years with over 1000 examples and over hundreds trades in real time with real money ?
or, third
is it the constant average daily or Weekly profit on a traders account?

Price is ruled by the big money, and that big money is in the second example here. That will lead you to number three.....

Number one is worth nothing, because price always move in cycles, dosnt matter if its going up or down on the big picture....



Yes and No.
For me, the markets are 100% random until a trading pattern/situation i know appears. Dosnt matter if i would trade this or not.
When a situation have appeared where i can say that price will move with a 90% in this or that direction, there is still a 10% chance that i am wrong. So thats still 10% randomness.

Beside that, you have to know, when your are wrong, because price can do everything everytime, thats the complicated risk thing in trading. A lot of time, price will fullfill the overall pattern, after it shaked out the traders with their stop on the high and lows.

Its the average price prediction what is the only thing that you can count in trading. Average nothing else.....

-----
When you ve reached the point, where you know the most important price moving situations or patterns, you can "measure the trend" in the lower time frame cycles, bcuz price have to fullfill the higher time frame pattern.............

Without knowing these patterns of the markets, everything else is just bullshit and will cause dead on your account........

And there are a lot of different price moving situations, a lot....

Sorry, just my kind of view.....
:confused: :confused:
:p :p :D

Ahahhhohohohohehehe
 
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