However you were the only one to reply.. I was attempting to bring interes to the origins of technical analysis in order to jointly research it.

Trading by the newspaper

Just doubt everything you hear and you`l be fine ) Theres no truth, and no lies.

Trading concepts and questions

Anyway this will die off just like all the others... Anyone interested for a slack/discord to dig in the past ?

Trading by the newspaper

Lane described the origins of the %K and %D stochastic oscillator as follows: “These were research days: 20 hour days, all calculating done by hand. The staff expanded to five. I shall not mention names, as they are all well-off financially, still ...

Trading by the newspaper

Oh no... racism hysteria brought to forex factory now. p.s. do you often if ever hear Russians complaining about Russophobia ? Even though they are the ones shat on in the media with no remorse right now.

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Yeah you summed it up ) After all what else could the price do... However what can be used in my opinion, is the "lag" of each of those 3 phases. When a phase happens, it could continue for some time. And violently switch in to the other phase. So ...

Trading concepts and questions

Here`s the problem. Unless the spread is 0. The 1:1 R:R will straight away kill your account provided that your profitability is below 51%. In reality to be break even, your reward needs to be greater than risk in order to factor in the spread. P.S. ...

Question on probability based trading idea

Great questions you have there ) To start off, most people share around quotes without even trying to understand what they mean. Why ? To feel cool, thats how we as humans are. I totally agree with you on the first point, I believe the quote ...

Trading concepts and questions

Great to see this topic brought up I used to have a 7*8 grid of currency charts. Every combination of USD EUR JPY GBP NZD CHF CAD AUD. As in each currency is shown as a basket in a column. For example the USD basket would be made out of : ...

(binned per thread starter’s request) World Currency Unit

How many % of times price will close within 1 standard deviation of its mean on a rolling timeframe ?

95% of the time Price will close above or below the open price

The DDE which I know of only allows to export the d1 high/low bid/ask and date. Which is not enough for me. And manually exporting csv`s is not efficient

Live historical data to excel

Why the average exactly though ? And not the median for example or mode. Was it only because it is the easiest to calculate, or because it was the average which was used in the calculation of Standard Dev ? Also is there an exact term or method used ...

Theory on the first creation of indicators

Thanks allot for your reply ) The analogy is golden. I simply don`t have anything to add since you covered it from a to z

Theory on the first creation of indicators

Thanks allot for your replies ))

Theory on the first creation of indicators

Quartiles probably gave birth to the so called "overbought/oversold"

Theory on the first creation of indicators

Im assuming that the HLC bar was the first successful data set. On the range of which quartiles were applied along with standard deviation. I really need everyones critique, opinion, knowledge !!!

Theory on the first creation of indicators

Dear coppernicus, I apologise in advance for writing this here but I had no other means of contacting you. Please check my latest thread in the trading discussion, this is crucial !!! I'm in real need of your knowledge.

Diversified Trend Trading Approach

The data set of price changes, were sampled in to time frames/ranges/etc. Its all about what goes on the vertical Y, and horizontal X scale. This gave the ability to start quantifying the "random" price changes.

Theory on the first creation of indicators