Anyone else wants to share his thoughts about timeframes?

Preferred Timeframe for Trading

How is that possible,when the swap rate depends on the base price and the respective forward prices url image where F = forward rate S = spot rate rd = simple interest rate of the term currency rf = simple interest rate of the base currency T = ...

Preferred Timeframe for Trading

Thats not true, not even the distribution of the real movement is the same between all TF because HFT generated price moves are totally different than those from large investors planning on Quarterly trades. And also the noise whatever distribution ...

Preferred Timeframe for Trading

Not really, you cant carry trade on M1 timeframe You can put the trade on by looking at M1, but usually for carry you need a longer term picture so, below H4 its probably not worth it. Also how can you mix scalping strategies of low TF with swing ...

Preferred Timeframe for Trading

Acceleration causes volatility, i didnt said that they are identical, when the market accelerates up, then it will most likely be followed by whipsaws. A not accelerating constant market has a very low volatility which is called consolidation in ...

Preferred Timeframe for Trading

Both, because you dont trade only the price you put the order in, but the price you get your order out, so that is called a price flow And the price flow is a function of both price and time Price charts like renko are flawed in my opinion, or ...

Preferred Timeframe for Trading

Ok so it has come clear that most of you guys would look for intra-day methods image But intra-day and intra week is a too broad definition so i made another thread where we should discuss the specific timeframe on which the strategy should be ...

Let's build together a system which makes 1000%/month

Can you share your results, or alteast specify what you looked at and what parameters you used for the test?

Let's build together a system which makes 1000%/month

Oops sorry for that, i meant to say david_akc as he is the one hedging right ? But not just him, it was meant to anybody who "hedges" is that way because that is not real hedging what HEDGEFUNDS do, that is just simply going flat, and paying spread ...

Hedging Because You Don't Want To Lose

That is not what hedging is, sorry ksofty but you are not hedging, and its totally a stupid idea to go long/short at the same time because you only pay excessive spreads. Go long 1 lot, go short 1.4 lot is like going short 0.4 lot, except that you ...

Hedging Because You Don't Want To Lose

Ok let me share my opinions, i prefer the H1 chart because it resembles clearly the daily picture but if there is a news event upcoming, it is just more clearly visible if i shrink down to M15, so that the initial impact on the market can be ...

Preferred Timeframe for Trading

Look i`m tired of arguing about martingales, amongst my 1180 posts that i have i already devoted like half of it to disprove martingale as a wise way of trading and talk about the risks of it, but there are just people that never learn. I hope you ...

Hedging Because You Don't Want To Lose

Not this guy again That strategy has already been debunked, its nothing more than a modified martingale. Sorry that i have to close your big opened eyes, but that strategy wont work and you will probably lose your entire account with it, or ...

Hedging Because You Don't Want To Lose

Yes i see now, i though it only repaints because it was coded wrongly but now i see that it works only with static data. If it were a classical lagging algo, then repainting is only due to bad programming skills, because in normal cases you can ...

Statistical mean of the market [quant corner]

I dont need the mean for the GARCH but i need it for so that i would calculate standard deviations off it, and then compare that with the GARCH volatility.I want to do a volatility estimation as precise as possible. But i also need the mean for ...

Statistical mean of the market [quant corner]

I`ve found a HP filter in MQL4, but it looks like its repainting Looks like i have to rebuild it myself, i hate repainting indicators, its better to lagg and to show the lagged bars than to repaint... image

Statistical mean of the market [quant corner]

So did any one of you guys checked out my indicator and experimented with the data ? url Any results, comments or observations?

Let's build together a system which makes 1000%/month

Well i would like to estimate a volatility later on and compare it with the Garch[1,1] volatility to see which one is better so first i need a mean. 1) That would be nonsense, as this doesnt tell me anything about future events, in a time series ...

Statistical mean of the market [quant corner]

% return or log returns are a pretty good tool to measure the profits, because the nominal return doesnt say anything, you need money to make money so the nominal value is not important. While the % or log returns are good to sort of give a unit of ...

Let's build together a system which makes 1000%/month