Bump. It seems the VSA group was trying to increase the accuracy of volume to get past forex's nonstandardization of same, and unearthed tick indicators. I want to find candles that measured the time, variable, between when ticks arrive to the ...

another version of tick volume?

bump.

Simple Tick Proportion Indicator - Would it be useful?

mm -- Keep track of potential loss in terms of what % it'd take to make up for that loss. So, if your average range trade earns you 1% on the account, your drawdown in probable range-trade areas is 1/2%, where the SL goes if a technical reason also ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

trading is a sport, of risk compared to the military (I've read) — 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.' -- Emerson. Consistency's easy. I regularly lose, and about the same way, too. It's just habit. Being the one to step ...

The Holy Grail - Found

image detail of random pattern: image post#1 dump: CYCLE action process ('octopus' is a concept at its center one acts upon and thus with action pathways attached to it. R-points, on vertical body center around the viscera, off-center for ff the ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Sorry.... addition to post#1 (and to the picture there): 'Y,_- useful' not explained elsewhere. Y has its axis where the graphic mec's is, and spins to lock into position at the x, y, upper left to lower right, and ur to ll axes. One way to consider ...

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If "equity" means your own trades' account equity and then one charts equity between trades, then why not? One can journal during and between trades and study most-recent P/Ls' chart. I still look for a candle version with shadows from possible ...

if 99% fail why not reverse what we trade

another post#1, partial: (the cycle descriptions stay, and I cleaned up the graphic mec) (say/gut series -- speech, divided into concepts -- included much after the rest of this partial rewrite) image image image While these are the correct ...

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features that justify such a dramatic turn image post#1, new: cycles of using the graphic mec: ('octopus' is a concept at its center one acts upon and thus with action pathways attached to it. R-points, on vertical body center around the viscera, ...

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continued (ran out of room for pictures) — Last chart, continued -- (I was close-minded and avoided a technically obvious trade that I did figure before taking the trade below. It was a kind of partial compromise for my former emotional ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

introduction to emotions trading 101 (just kidding) : image image image image This last one is very different from the others. It uses, for the first time that I recall and too late to save the trade from going into margin call, the complete ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

demo — Countdown to what broke rs hate most: 10. ... 1. latency arbitrage I read on ff that they stop this early, similar to discouraging scalpers perhaps using a fixed spread. I have, however, noticed significant differences between, say, fx ...

Have your ever heard about latency arbitrage?

Wow! I haven't kept up about the bank bailouts, having left trading stocks as they crashed. I was only going with the "clean" version of TARP, similar to here.

Essentially the world is protesting against YOU

continued (ran out of room for pictures) — Sorry. Another post#1: image another: graphic mec -- With it, on left and then right side: starter lists for pure-axis and emotion-and-axis types, a complete-for-purposes cycle of market emotions ...

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That, I agree with: TARP was a success.

Essentially the world is protesting against YOU

Gotta be a K-wave or sunspot explanation somewhere... At first, territorial dependence (in US vs. England) led to democracy, then capitalism. Now, financial dependence leads the opposite direction? China's approach to currency trading is only ...

Essentially the world is protesting against YOU

continued — That was a messy one. Another version: image NOTE: The charts in the last post displayed an example of a 'type&angle reversal'. And, '1/4-turn grids' are regular grids where price turns at a split between two lines, or even ...

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a standard for a trading method: (from fxstats.com) Name.......Profit.........Performance...........Drawdown........Account...Trading..Verified......Provider ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

demo — A list of cognitive biases is one way to go; what threw me off was the long, somewhat thrown-together list at investopedia. A compact diagram one can more easily relate to the trading chart is the way I prefer. I wouldn't be too ...

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