Hey C, Just wanted to say thanks for this podcast. Interesting stuff for sure. I think it's great watching or listening to professional traders from time to time, and the bonus is that as well as the juicy content they all seem to be really nice ...

Diversified Trend Trading Approach

Yeah, that would be a nice present for sure One more thing... gold is near multi-year lows. Every man and his dog thinks that gold will drop more in the coming months. And last Friday's candle sure was a biggie in favour of bears, both in terms ...

The Really Useless Thread

Hi TF, thanks for your reply. You know, I really hope there isn't a big sell-off in stocks because I have a significant portion of my long-term retirement savings invested in them. But I know that they always go up over time, so not too worried ...

The Really Useless Thread

Hey Fool-san, "distributing the market" is just my parlance for selling strength being greater than buying strength during a ranging phase or upmove. It might be due to taking profit on longs, or it might be due to actively building up short ...

The Really Useless Thread

Well, it ain't easy, that's for sure But I'm sure most of us agree that psychology, especially discipline and having the right mindset about the nature of market, is very important to successful trading.

A jump to the beginning - chaos and market forces

About the machine? Not necessarily. If the coin was placed at exactly the same position each time, and the same way up, and exactly the same force was applied, then why wouldn't you get many more heads than tails (or vice versa)? And if you ...

A jump to the beginning - chaos and market forces

Great views and analysis on this thread, as always. Thanks to Sisse and everyone. We don't have to all agree all the time but it sure is interesting seeing what other traders think about it all. For what it's worth, here is my current view on the ...

The Really Useless Thread

Sharing and helping people actually makes you feel good, and encourages positive feedback from others which also makes you feel good. So if you can successfully tune out any negative feelings you might get from the small minority, then I'm sure your ...

Just a bit of advice, for anyone, for free

Hey Rtm, Did you hold on to your long during the NFP spike? I completely messed up and lost about 2%. It didn't start rising properly until after I'd gone to bed! Not a great start to the weekend but you live and learn. I'd be interested to hear if ...

Nikkei 225

Yeah, I use IB for both long-term investing (low-cost ETFs) and short-term trading (FX and futures) at the moment. I really like the fact that when I login I can see everything right there in front of me, both long-term and short-term performance. ...

Just a bit of advice, for anyone, for free

There's also the NinjaTrader route, which uses C# rather than MQL. You can build powerful "strategies" (EAs) that run in Ninja but execute trades through your broker. I know C# is different to C++, but my background is VB and it wasn't difficult for ...

Just a bit of advice, for anyone, for free

Hi Innate, Thanks for the nice idea and don't worry, you aren't hijacking the thread! One of the reasons I make my ideas and code public rather than keeping them to myself is to help generate new ideas and code from smart guys like yourself ...

Better ADL

That's it from me for now, unless there are any questions or comments. I hope you'll find these new versions of the ADL useful. I for one will certainly be using them from now to help with my trading decisions. Good luck everyone

Better ADL

On these charts: Blue (top): BADL calculating on 1 minute bars Green (middle): TZADL calculating on 1 minute bars, using +1 for Mid Up TZ and -1 for Mid Down TZ Red (bottom): TZADL calculating on 1 minute bars, using TZ heights (in pips) Both TZADLs ...

Better ADL

Transient Zone ADL Here is the NinjaTrader version of kprsa's indicator. I've renamed it TZADL (Transient Zone ADL): file There are three parameters that can be set by the user: Bar calculation period Period of each bar (in minutes) on which the ...

Better ADL

ADL transient So, here is the same chart as the last post but with kprsa's ADL_transient indicator added. I've removed one of the BADLs for clarity. The lines are: Blue (top): BADL calculating on 1 minute bars Red (middle): original ADL Green ...

Better ADL

EUR.USD M15 When you get to lower timeframes, the differences between Better ADL and Original ADL become less obvious. And I've found that a great way to use it, apart from looking for relatively rare divergences, is to gauge the relative strength ...

Better ADL

Nikkei Emini M240 Time for equities to rise? (yellow arrow) image By the way, the blue line is Include gap spreads = true (probably better for the Nikkei), and the green line is Include gap spreads = false. Actually it doesn't seem to make a lot ...

Better ADL

Thanks Innate. Yes, I need to play around with the parameters, maybe this weekend, in order to find the best combination. But I can't help thinking that smaller is better for the bar calculation period, even on the daily

Better ADL