I keep running into good ideas. Just today, I read forex has a large following in its options, so options expiry timing is a good indicator. Another is the widely-publicized tone of the US stock market opening and its first 15-75 minutes. (For that ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

I'm sure you're right. It may be more a MetaTrader issue or somehow on my side. I glanced at another MT4 platform's data, and the MBT MT4 platform failed to record ticks for about how long you said at 5:30 and 11:30 of the downloaded time zone. It's ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

Thanks for the article. I was a psych junkie for a while and kind of jumped at it, sorry. Mr. Steenbarger likes to borrow material (however well-chosen), attaching various light logicisms here and there until enough pattern in them appear to call it ...

Personality and Trend-Following

Same here. Was connected, quotes stopped cold. Closed and reopened platform. 'No connection.' Are they experimenting with bucket-shop behavior that works around requotes etc.? Certainly is discouraging. I used this platform less than four hours and ...

MB Trading Futures - Introduction

That's fairly heavy borrowing from Owner's Manual for the Brain and the Big Five personality type approach. Credit is due to their author.

Personality and Trend-Following

They work!! Too bad the patterns don't... image WAIT. I switched platforms and something messed up on the lines, including the red lines pivotal to my claim that the lines work. I'll have to review what I've done, repeat the process several times, ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Creepy, freaky and refreshing. In stocks (and gambling), well yeah, it's done all the time. Forex, no. (a thought: Perhaps a byproduct of this is that stock marketmakers charge commission, with the opposite being true in forex, where marketmakers ...

Collaborative Trading to control market

image prt gonna work, what with the new newslines? Got a helper in there (a 50-60), still.... Return to the drawing board... ---- trading: Actually won a few trades, then off the rocker with the above. At least, the lines are right. ( ) ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Gotta put in my own two cents. (Voted 'yes'.) No discretionary system can ever be 100%, because of the human input; this'd argue for no holy grail. An argument for there being a holy grail, to me, would be a trader with decent control of trades and ...

Do you still believe in the perfect trading system?

news lines: newsbar centerlines, news crosschannels — Lost several accounts. ----- Figured news. You draw a newsbar centerline for the overall level perspective (tested April 8 to current date for all extreme-miss news items (excluding ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

finding a spread trendline — Here's a detailed explanation of how one may choose what kind of spread trendline to use for an area: image image image The idea faded into midpoints, when there really wasn't support (a bar channel instead of ...

bar channels

(continued from last post) Copied patterns from newsbar centerlines'd increase the method's precision significantly. I did find some more copying. Moreover, I found another principle to newsbar centerlines. Of course; trouble has to show, ha-ha. ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Sounds like patterns. Neural networking does this, I've read. nn works or not depending on what indicator it goes thru. Thus, it depends on how you decide to organize all that data that goes into a given indicator the nn's running for that counts, ...

A simple trading system - based on creativity

newsbar centerlines — Brought in news, after several recent threads, each with highly competent posters, were posted. Easy enough: Avoided time happens, returned to read effect news had, and applied pattern-line table to it. All I'm doing is ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

That's gotta be a good TA system that won't lose the few pips 4-700:1 allows.

broker with 1:500 leverage

Returned from 'bar channels' thread. Was there laying some groundwork for the trendlines I use, which are based on bar spreads. Left because I lost my way trying to make spread lines a method; that's why I'm here this time. Okay, so I gotta make ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Yeah, cool.

Is this the crock of gold formation?

Skippy, Most don't have the sense you do. I don't. I chase the projection pot o' gold at the end of the rainbow, like most. Seek camaraderie with this. Hope I turn a new leaf on trades. Wasting my time. (Lots of fun, tho. I feel committed, ha-ha.) ...

Revenge Trading

From this, retail forex is telling us to enter more trades in a given time period. This, when they also say 'no scalping'. It's an information squeeze: Big money can (, if broker, get an extra trade's spread or, if trader,) afford to buy the really ...

NEW MT5 Seriously Stuffed For Traders Platform

Most important, of course, is to capture the idea of a chart area enough to trade profitably on it. Thus, instead of giving examples of the bar-spread trendlines found to now, I'll go on and keep with the market, using contrast variables to describe ...

bar channels