Trading Dummies
- Thread starter Babak
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Missed my screens too
Would have been an easy inside bar breakout entry for a good 1.20 or so. Oh well!
These are still the early days of me playing this system...Babak and I are making tinkers to fit our own style, and in the future it will be even more effective. We both reccomend you make adjustments so it works for you (time parameters, risk profile etc.)
Good luck and I will post the charts later on!
Couple of points re PDLI (I know this is hindsight!):
Using 30 min. would have not gotten you whipsawed like that. I read MaoXian say on his site that traders using 5 min. last 5 years, traders using 15 min. last 15 years...or somthing to that effect. I think he was being facetious to get across a point.
As well, you could have technically gotten back in (using the 15 min chart) after being shaken out. The entry would have been the 8th bar (NR7 just above $29.25) after the shake out. It offered a really good (tight) entry.
Again, this is hindsight so take it with a grain of salt.
Using 30 min. would have not gotten you whipsawed like that. I read MaoXian say on his site that traders using 5 min. last 5 years, traders using 15 min. last 15 years...or somthing to that effect. I think he was being facetious to get across a point.
As well, you could have technically gotten back in (using the 15 min chart) after being shaken out. The entry would have been the 8th bar (NR7 just above $29.25) after the shake out. It offered a really good (tight) entry.
Again, this is hindsight so take it with a grain of salt.
Note: this is for 5 min. interval (frowned upon by classical 'dummies'):
ICGE had my attention from premkt when it gapped up (around 8-9%) with good volume/liquidity. It started trading briskly but faded a bit. Since the gap up move wasn't very large I was looking to get long.
The signal according to dummies comes from price above the downtrend candles. Entry would have been $8.40ish with stop below signal candle at $8.32 appx. You would have required very nimble fingers to get in as well as out. The spike up surprised me with its speed and I wasn't able to get in. I just wanted to show this as an example of entry/stop/exit. Hypothetical result: around +2R
The grey box is where I think most people should have been successful exiting this trade (partial or complete). You could have trailed a stop based on R or below prev. candle's low or as Kevin suggested 5 EMA.
Again, this one required lightning fast response - both to get in and out and I don't think anyone would have been successful at both. I just wanted to show it as an example of 'dummies' so that the strategy would be clear.
The green circles would be what we watch for on the next candle. That is, in this case we would want it to trade above that price level and entry would be using a buy stop at same.
ICGE had my attention from premkt when it gapped up (around 8-9%) with good volume/liquidity. It started trading briskly but faded a bit. Since the gap up move wasn't very large I was looking to get long.
The signal according to dummies comes from price above the downtrend candles. Entry would have been $8.40ish with stop below signal candle at $8.32 appx. You would have required very nimble fingers to get in as well as out. The spike up surprised me with its speed and I wasn't able to get in. I just wanted to show this as an example of entry/stop/exit. Hypothetical result: around +2R
The grey box is where I think most people should have been successful exiting this trade (partial or complete). You could have trailed a stop based on R or below prev. candle's low or as Kevin suggested 5 EMA.
Again, this one required lightning fast response - both to get in and out and I don't think anyone would have been successful at both. I just wanted to show it as an example of 'dummies' so that the strategy would be clear.
The green circles would be what we watch for on the next candle. That is, in this case we would want it to trade above that price level and entry would be using a buy stop at same.