The ACD Method

[Samsara]

Quote from Maverick74:

Great article MS. Thnx for posting.

Just wanted to say thanks for mentioning this method Mav. I hadn't heard of Mark and wouldn't have paid attention if someone of your credibility hadn't stood behind it.

After spending some time studying it, his method and just his general way of thinking makes a lot of solid sense. It blends well with my own approach and I'm considering investing serious time incorporating aspects of it. Seems like a stand up guy too. Thanks again, seriously.

Also nice article, surf.

 

[1prometheus]

What is the name of mark's CTA?

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from 1prometheus:

What is the name of mark's CTA?

His management company is called MBF Asset Management. It looks like they are re-building the site as we speak. Not sure specifically what the name of the CTA is.

 

[Robert Yanks]

Quote from Maverick74:

Let me explain so my response doesn't come off as rude. Here is the thing about trading. When you use standard stuff that everyone is using or watching, it creates traffic. It means obvious entries in the market are going to generate lots of stops in that area which means the market is likely to test that area and stop you out. This is the problem of making obvious trades. The idea is to find a part of the highway where there is little to no traffic. This means there will be a minimal amount of stops there and more likely you will be able to stay in the position. Telling everyone where my OR's are is like putting a sign out on where I'm entering the highway thereby creating more traffic or noise. So it would be better if you found your own quiet spot to enter trades. Hope that explains it better.

Your post came off as someone I listen to.

That’s a damn fine nugget of information and I’m surprised more people haven’t mentioned that. What you say makes perfect sense as I’ve been spending far too much time in the obvious area.

I’m hopeful that I’ll see the tie in and a way to use EOD data with the ACD methodology. Currently I swing trade breakouts. Scan at night, look for best PA and take my best guess.

If anyone is interested I picked up the book yesterday and my method of learning is to scan, then quick read and finally to slow read and type key points, observations and questions (I type very fast thanks to the Army).

Here’s my first chapter notes.

 

[Robert Yanks]

Quote from Robert Yanks:

Your post came off as someone I listen to.

That’s a damn fine nugget of information and I’m surprised more people haven’t mentioned that. What you say makes perfect sense as I’ve been spending far too much time in the obvious area.

I’m hopeful that I’ll see the tie in and a way to use EOD data with the ACD methodology. Currently I swing trade breakouts. Scan at night, look for best PA and take my best guess.

If anyone is interested I picked up the book yesterday and my method of learning is to scan, then quick read and finally to slow read and type key points, observations and questions (I type very fast thanks to the Army).

Here’s my first chapter notes.

 

[Samsara]

Quote from Robert Yanks:

Thanks for your notes man, seriously.

Down the road, if you keep this alias, I'd consider helping you out likewise if I can put together some tools related to this method.

 

[RedDuke]

This is a thread from few years back. there si a decent amount of ACD info there: http://www.strategybuilderfx.com/showthread.php?t=11961

 

[kinggyppo]

FM: There has been a strong belief in many corners that speculators in general and long-only commodity funds specifically are distorting the price of oil. Where do you stand on this?

MF: That is rubbish. Basically if you look at the [commodities] that don’t trade on futures markets – coal, iron ore, uranium and those with a limited market like rubber, LNG (liquefied natural gas) or rice – they went up just as much as those [commodities] that trade on active futures markets. People who believe that will believe anything. You can blame the governments themselves because of all this quantitative easing and printing money will end up someplace. So the money went into commodities. Because commodity markets are so much smaller than the equity and debt markets, it is a huge tidal wave that gets reflected in price. So I don’t think you can blame speculators. You should blame the printing presses, not the speculators.

word.

 

[Rodney King]

Quote from Maverick74:

His management company is called MBF Asset Management. It looks like they are re-building the site as we speak. Not sure specifically what the name of the CTA is.

As with anyone in the futures business, you can search NFA for his activites -- http://www.nfa.futures.org/basicnet/ -- in this case, using NFA ID number 0065924.

 

[Maverick74]

Quote from Rodney King:

As with anyone in the futures business, you can search NFA for his activites -- http://www.nfa.futures.org/basicnet/ -- in this case, using NFA ID number 0065924.

http://www.nfa.futures.org/basicnet/Details.aspx?entityid=sda+eIotDT0=&rn=Y

Actually this is it. NFA ID: 0409839

It turns out I was right, CTA is actually called MBF Asset Management.

Thanks Surf!