Technical Analysis = CRAP

[ProfLogic]

First, time isn't removed from the chart it is just not a displayed factor of the bar movement of price. Instruments are traded based on shares or contracts not the time of the day.

Second, by having equally weight bars the past problems of vastly varying bar outcomes are eliminated.

Third, how can surf see my posts if he is suppose to have me on ignore?

 

[ProfLogic]

Quote from bone:

Prof, that is indeed the sharpest, most comprehensive piece of chartwork I have ever laid eyes upon. I am also gratified at the absense of wavecounts and Gann lines. Well done.

Thanks bone but I prefer not to call it art seeing that this a fully & completely programmable, fully objective and non discretionary environment.

Art is discretionary.

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from ProfLogic:

First, time isn't removed from the chart it is just not a displayed factor of the bar movement of price. Instruments are traded based on shares or contracts not the time of the day.

Second, by having equally weight bars the past problems of vastly varying bar outcomes are eliminated.

Third, how can surf seeing my posts if he is suppose to have me on ignore?

Ok, number 1 makes sense. number 2--the bars will vary in regard to time by having equally weighted tic bars. I don't get the point.

The critical question is what will happen next after the far right edge of the chart? What's the purpose of the art work without an answer?

Please tell

Thanks,

Surf

 

[ProfLogic]

Quote from marketsurfer:

Ok, number 1 makes sense. number 2--the bars will vary in regard to time by having equally weighted tic bars. I don't get the point.

The critical question is what will happen next after the far right edge of the chart? What's the purpose of the art work without an answer?

Please tell

Thanks,

Surf

They aren't tic bars they are Constant Volume Bars and they do not vary in weight. Tic bars vary in volume weight.

What is critical is what happens at the "oscillations" in real time, not what is happening on the next bar to the right. I don't make decisions based on the individual price bars, only the oscillations (color changes) of the Histogram and the ERG.

GREEN to BLUE - Support
BLUE to GREEN - Resistance

Art is discretionary and I don't do art.

 

[bone]

So, for the sake of arguement, if I stack two offers of one thousand lots each on the best offer and next best offer, cross orders with myself, and spoof twenty guys trading off various volume indicators like delta footprint into buying into me, and then take the whole shebang sellers to fuck all the locals over. When Globex calls (big if) I will tell them just an errant fat-finger on my part. Oops. Especially if Harris or Paul or whomever trades 30K RTs per day anyway.

Personally - and this is just me, I get paid on price and not volume. Since there is a counterparty to each trade, it just never has sunk into my thick skull why volume is an important indicator in terms of trumping other considerations.

Order book liquidity in terms of volume is another matter.

 

[Fireplace]

Same here.

Quote from bone:

for my own personal trading, and with my client work, we use mulitple timeframes. Overlaid. On the same instrument/spread.

 

[ProfLogic]

Quote from bone:

So, for the sake of arguement, if I stack two offers of one thousand lots each on the best offer and next best offer, cross orders with myself, and spoof twenty guys trading off various volume indicators like delta footprint into buying into me, and then take the whole shebang sellers to fuck all the locals over. When Globex calls (big if) I will tell them just an errant fat-finger on my part. Oops. Especially if Harris or Paul or whomever trades 30K RTs per day anyway.

Personally - and this is just me, I get paid on price and not volume. Since there is a counterparty to each trade, it just never has sunk into my thick skull why volume is an important indicator in terms of trumping other considerations.

Order book liquidity in terms of volume is another matter.

Volume isn't the indicator.
It's clear you are caught up in the verbage and not reading what I wrote.

 

[ProfLogic]

Quote from Fireplace:

Same here.

I use multiple chart increments as well, both independently and on the same chart.

 

[marketsurfer]

Quote from bone:

So, for the sake of arguement, if I stack two offers of one thousand lots each on the best offer and next best offer, cross orders with myself, and spoof twenty guys trading off various volume indicators like delta footprint into buying into me, and then take the whole shebang sellers to fuck all the locals over. When Globex calls (big if) I will tell them just an errant fat-finger on my part. Oops. Especially if Harris or Paul or whomever trades 30K RTs per day anyway.

Personally - and this is just me, I get paid on price and not volume. Since there is a counterparty to each trade, it just never has sunk into my thick skull why volume is an important indicator in terms of trumping other considerations.

Order book liquidity in terms of volume is another matter.

Good point. You are just confusing these chart artists with the reality of how markets really work.

Surf

 

[bone]

"I use Constant Volume Bar charting to stabilize the chart structure. What I mean by this is that Constant Volume Bar charting allows each price bar to show or depict the exact same weighted volume based on volume. "

So, Prof, I am feeling slow today. This is a 'smoothing' function that has nothing to do with traded volume at that price point ?

Or, is it more like MP, where you are counting the volume of price print tics as a function of time ?

Or, am I just hopeless...