Truly disturbing. k

Living Off Fx

Second attempt. image

The Great Pumpkin

I am not sure that what I proposed is fully equivalent to the snowball, since in the snowball one buys above the price and sells below. In my version one buys and sells at every point of the grid (and trails stops). It's been a while, but it seems ...

Hedge a losing position?

Nedging can be conceptually preferable, like in this example for a pure momentum strategy. Of course one can always find a way to rewrite the same idea by using non-nedging, but it would be far from transparent that way. Cheers, k

Hedge a losing position?

Seems to still want to go down... image

The Great Pumpkin

If the self-similarity assumption holds with no clear reversal signs, tp at ~50. rr~1:10. image

The Great Pumpkin

Similar pattern occuring on the 10-second timescale. image

The Great Pumpkin

supply/demand+self-similar pattern recognition. West Texas oil. image

The Great Pumpkin

Just to mention, due to power/internet outage last week, my two winning trades at Oanda have turned into loss. After two emails to the support, they have more than compensated the potential win of the trade. After staying with them for a year and a ...

OANDA Discussion

Today the crowd appears to follow the price, i.e. behaves rationally (unlike on Friday, when there was a bear slaughter) so EU may not really go anywhere. Also it is a US bank holiday. On the other hand there was a lot of accumulation last week, so ...

EURUSD

OK, the alert seems to work. There is one little bug which can occur if updateeverytick is set to true, it sometimes resulted in both positive and negative histogram on the first candle. In version 2 below it is fixed. file Cheers, k

I need a histogram tool developed

Hey, I found a minor bug in the alert code, please redownload... k

I need a histogram tool developed

EDIT: version 2 is in this post below, please use that one! Jmn, please see the indicator here and let me know what you think. Parameters: period (=2), updateeverytick (=false), alert (=true) The indicator calculates the differential between the ...

I need a histogram tool developed

Just to generalize: it is a secret hidden away from the average retail trader. image Proof: Oanda order book. (1) First look at the net positions in E/U (plot right on the image above). It shows that the most open volume below the current price ...

High hit rate vs big R:R - Which one do you prefer and why?

Well, for what is worth, I fully agree with you. k

What is the MOST important level on your chart today?

Hey jmn, If nobody does it before, I'll try to do it in the next days. Cheers, k

I need a histogram tool developed

I think this is true. I would say something even more dangerous: that high levels of (mathematical) intelligence may be actually counterproductive in this business. Smart people are used to success, and feel that they should achieve their goals easy ...

What works, and what doesn't

Here is the latest public version with some bugs fixed. k file

Transient Zones - Basics

The oscillator mode of the ADL_transient: file The positive and negative contributions separated (ADX-like): file Cheers, k

Better ADL

Digging out the parameters of the true system response (in-phase and out-of-phase response to market activity) buried in the noise (following PipMeUp's previous post). The lock in amplifier allows one to find the response parameters even though the ...

Breakout, Fakeout or a Reversal?