Quote from smilingsynic:
Boucher's article does not set forth any system. Rather, it merely shows that there are plenty of swings 2.5 points or greater in the NQ every day.
From what I read there was an ATS who nomenclature was Zig Zag David 1. The only thing reported out were the results of applying systems and ATS's.
Often a system has major filters that estimate and filter impending moves. That is broadly known.
the subject of the article is on how traders determine, from a vast array of strategies which ones to use.
naturally, these choices are tempered by market conditions. the key market condition chosen was the daily range.
In this strategy moderated thread the OP has chosen likewise anhd in reference, he says, to a nonprobabalistic always in the market strategy. Zig Zag david 1, an ATS, is kindered to the OP's choice.
For anyone who has traded the NQ, this is rather obvious. OF COURSE the NQ makes moves.
Of course, the difficulty is in CAPTURING those moves after factoring in bid/ask spread and commissions, as well as an inability to trade moves that have already happened and ended.
the article author makes it his business to deal with this matter and he deals, in among other things, using an ATS that addresses the issue you have articulated as a problem you face.
Boucher's article provided little info. I am surprised FUTURES published it. The again, I get the magazine free of charge. One often gets what one pays for.
Your vantage point turns out to be a poor one. Too bad. Lets hope in the future you progress somehow.
The article does not deal witrh anything that is less than 10x the daily range as a ROI.
Boucher provided absolutely NO EVIDENCE that he himself has actually captured 10X atr or, for that matter, that he has actually captures any part of the NQ on a daily basis.
The article is address to the opportunity YOU have as revealed by an ATS and systems the author HAS. Ordinarily the goal of a HAVE NOT is to get something and use it to become a HAVE.
My goal in informing you was to help YOU become RICH. Reread the article five tiomes and do the code to move the Zig Zag
David 1 dots to the left a little so the ratio runs up to 15 or 20. Also do it for the ES and three foreign markets so you cover RTH's 24/7 throughout the world as it turns.

