Moving Averages discussion

[Tradex]

That's a nice hat, but it doesn't hide the fact that new traders have probably wasted more valuable time chasing MAs up, down, and sideways, than any other activity.

True, when used the wrong way moving averages can cripple any trading account fast.

Death by a thousand cuts, as they say...

 

[Tradex]

The charts are quite informative!

Hi there Stephanie,

Care to elaborate, love?

Thanks.

 

[formikatrading]

"You can observe a lot by just watching." - Yogi Berra

The charts are quite informative!

 

[expiated]

...it is about everyone shareing what they know to help everyone and anyone...

This is what I was thinking when I joined in 2017. But then I soon discovered that for a significant segment of the membership, it's about claiming that their approach is the only correct way to trade, and that if they cannot succeed using some other system, then no one else can either.

(By the way, in my previous post, when I wrote that there was the potential to recoup my loss by promptly selling EURAUD, I should have typed "buying" instead.)

 

[easymon1]

ENTRY AT OPEN OF BAR IF: CL.1>OP.2*1.10 OR CL.1>LO.1*1.08 OR CL.1>CL.2*1.08 OR CL.1>OP.2*1.10 OR (CL.1>OP.1 AND CL.1<HI.1*.97) OR (CL.1>OP.1 AND HI.1>OP.1*1.05)
EXIT: AT CLOSE OF BAR

Using just the first example of a short entry on an instrument you trade, ENTRY AT OPEN OF BAR IF: CL.1>OP.2*1.10,
If OP.2 = 314.00, and a legal entry was taken, what nearest price would CL.1 = ?
What instrument type do you trade?

 

[virtusa]

MA do not get whipsawed too oftenif that is the caae then you need to chang e period and or time frame.
hei post omost of my tradees and i dont owe you anythign and after seeing who you are on this blog nah you dont post shit and expect everyone else too take care loser

drunk, dyslectic, illiterate, or a combination of all that??

 

[virtusa]

MA's do not give effective entry signals. They do not indicate that a reversal will occur within the next bar. They do not confirm whether a pull-back will become a trend failure.

That's why MA's are useless as trading signals. MA's don't give information that is specific/accurate enough to enter or exit the market.

Reaction time of MA's are too slow to trade on, and if you make them faster (shorter periods or smaller timeframe) to get faster signals, your MA's will start to whipsaw you.

 

[themickey]

traderking007 said:

Ma's on there own get you whipsawed to often.

Details in need Somewhere to think out loud thread posted recently.MA do not get whipsawed too oftenif that is the caae then you need to chang e period and or time frame.
hei post omost of my tradees and i dont owe you anythign and after seeing who you are on this blog nah you dont post shit and expect everyone else too take care loser

FUCK off im not looking for help this was an open discussion foolssome how becuase i posted a thread about MA a few people think i need help

somehow because i make calls and actually trade and state when i lose and win people think i need help

some how I hve been successfully trading and been in the industry for 20 years without any of these trolls who think they are traders on this site.

1. 
   this was an open discussion about MA not hey i need help with ma or trading not sure how anyone who owns this site would create such a negative space of peopel but i get it
   it is the losers den

I can't help you, I doubt anyone can.

 

[futrstrdr]

I use Exponential MA's and I've found that using the (H+L)/2 instead of the close works very well. At least with tick charts

 

[panzerman]

MA's do not give effective entry signals. They do not indicate that a reversal will occur within the next bar. They do not confirm whether a pull-back will become a trend failure.

There are no technical indicators or price action patterns that give you indications with anything better than approximately 50% precision. You would be damn lucky to find something that gave a correct indication 55% of the time.