xxxskier, Congratulations - you're off to a great start. Winning on a tough day should make you feel good - I'll best most traders gave money...
Decidely uneventful trading today on the ES with the market "rotating" or "bracketing" around 1268 all day. We only ventured outside the VA once,...
Thanks PT - you too! I'm GMT+8 so it's 10:55pm. Time that most normal people are in bed snuggling with the wife - preferrably you're own.
Good weekend? Excellent! I always like Monday mornings - starting with a clean slate and the week ahead harbours all sorts of wonderful...
Updated Volume Profile Charts below. I changed the start date for the accumulation period on the ES and YM to 1/12, but left the ER2 @ 1/1. I...
And I respect your right to disagree K-Rock. Thanks for your input.
Believe it nor not Ripley MP is not a trading system per se. It is a methdology for understanding the auction market process. Steidlmeyers' bible...
PT, Excellent point - I didn't make this clear in my post. TICK divergences are very useful in identifying short term momentum swings. MM is...
Just one last thought on TICK extreme levels .... In "They"s thread he had an ingenious method for dynamically determining his TICK levels by...
PaperTrader, For a guy with 5 posts to his credit you sure ask excellent questions. Good work - this is exactly what I had in mind with thread....
Now slacker on to your second question... When I learnt MP (way back when) real-time MP software wasn't available. Also after you've been...
slacker, Ok, let's examine the theory (or my distant memory thereof) first. MP is predicated on examing relative levels of "activity" at...
PaperTrader, I'm on medication for a flu bug I picked from my 5 yo and one of them is a little speedy. Anyway, I gotta song for you:...
Papertrader, Ba-da-bing-ba-da-boom! 9 times out of 10 that's the gameplan, with a stop just above the HVA (remebering that I like to work the...
RiskArb - Coming from one so august I feel especially complimented. Thank you.
slacker, More excellent questions. I'll tackle them tomorrow. It's late here and I'm feeling somewhat less than chipper. Nighty, night.
PaperTrader, There is a saying in physics that "nature abhors a vaccuum". This is probably true of markets also - at least that's theory....
Thanks Jason. I'll dig out your article. It's hard to find people who really understand the COT data. Cheers
I'm not trading the open today - I have a business dinner. So no trading plan. If I want to trade the afternoon it will have to be Perrier at...
slacker, Excellent question - you're not living up to your handle. Steidlmeyer and Dalton prescribed calculating a single VA for a days...
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