The point is that often heard claims that Gann was a loser in the market, and that he had to resort to teaching are demonstratably false, and that the fact that he did not have an extraordinary wealth at the time of his death is not really a strong ...

A jump to the beginning - chaos and market forces

With all due respect, Mingary, "something positive" is a serious understatement to a 1000% in a month. As I've said before, having read much of Gann's work, including his two semi/fully religious works, I doubt that "making more money" was the ...

A jump to the beginning - chaos and market forces

An untested idea, borrowed from my profession (experimental physics): When we want to find out the (periodic) response of the system compared to the periodic driving perturbation, we use a lock-in amplifier. In trading, the perturbation of the ...

Breakout, Fakeout or a Reversal?

Actually, there are records of Gann's spectacular trading results in Wyckoff's newspapers, which you'd know about had you invested some effort into checking your claims. Cheers, k

A jump to the beginning - chaos and market forces

A serious comment this time: It appears that there is some misunderstanding of W. D. Gann's life and debated success. One thing: Gann has predicted the great economic crisis almost a year before it happened in a spectacular bull market of the 1920s. ...

A jump to the beginning - chaos and market forces

A useful level can be seen by looking at the highest volume bar of yesterday's hourly chart. The closer level of the two (o/c) is regularly retested and bounced back from the next day. Those interested should study posts of pres78. k

What is the MOST important level on your chart today?

Hey guys, sorry I was away from ff a bit. currency strength meter makes sense with the indicator in oscillator mode, not in the aggregated mode. I have this version and would upload it here soon. then it can be in principle applied to indices etc. k

Better ADL

Cheers, buddy!. k

The 3-plan

Version 1 of Better ADL as proposed by NorthTrader: 1. No fractionalization -> I am not sure how to achieve that in MT4 or if it is possible at all. The idea is to calculate the ADL on low TF bars (~1 min) and show it on higher tfs (for example 1 h, ...

Better ADL

Hi sinqua, can you just write the iCustom() call line that your ea uses? Then I can try to detect the problem. Happy you find it useful. Cheers, k

Better ADL

You are right, this scenario would be a disadvantage. k

Quant basket trader? I need your help!

Complexity is the richness of fulfillment, and of us. You and I are messengers of the quantum cycle. We believe, we self-actualize, we are reborn. The galaxy is electrified with bio-feedback. We are at a crossroads of freedom and suffering. We are ...

A jump to the beginning - chaos and market forces

Again, the trend begins when the period of movement in one direction overtakes the period in the other. So, in your frame of reference one would label the bars as green if their max number would be higher than the previous swing low max number. ...

Quant basket trader? I need your help!

Like this, for your AUDUSD example. I am not sure in which sense you are comparing it to Parabolic SAR or HA - they are very qualitative. IMHO this indicator roughly answers the question of what maximum Zigzag parameter will have a vertex on a ...

Quant basket trader? I need your help!

Check out this thread if you haven't already. The idea is to make decisions based on the size of the push versus the size of the pullback. It might fit with what you're trying to do... k

Quant basket trader? I need your help!

Hey Copernicus, Thanks for your thoughtful answer. I understand what you say. And I do agree: It is reasonable that the larger scale events would be less prone to, say, false breakouts (stop hunts etc.), and that they should reflect better the ...

Reverse Engineering a Profitable System (REPS)

Hey NT, Thanks for starting the thread and sharing your ideas in the first place! If you don't mind, I would invest a bit of time to code your ideas for ADL for MT4 (as far as I can understand them) and share the indicators here? Cheers, k

Better ADL

I agree and I can see you're a big fan. atokys <-> s(e)ykota k

Who is making profit in the forex market?

As Seykota said: Everybody gets what they want from the market. k

Who is making profit in the forex market?

The first one I have coded (with binary additions of the ADL) before, now I made also the non-binary one (adding the height of the zone). It looks to me that the first one is kinda better for trading -> by divergences, like standard ADL. The second ...

Better ADL