So what does all this mean? Is it chart interpretation, or stuff transferred from futures DOM, or what? It sounds fascinating. If you have examples, that'd be great.

How to scalp small pips?

Planetary Cycles Trading (EUR/USD); also, Wave59 forum Looked at sunspot activity for the S&P once -- Interesting.

Truth about trading

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hit my stride. Trading is such a sharp edge, I'll go ahead and report it without traditional 100-1000 trades with the method profitably done. Seven trades, one that broke the method. Four percent an hour: THIS is what gets ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

demo — Wouldn't know if something was wrong. One of your trendlines, I like. (Not the multi-pivot-touch one, though of course it's fine.) It has power -- a high contrast of calm and jumpy candles shape -- divides candles to know which ones ...

Cable Update (GBPUSD)

With all due respect to you all and to the computer's limits, this formula is a convenient summary to play the span of with a single currency, if displayed in one or more of these ways: a quote sign that calculates every x minutes a one-line ...

Recent Strength indicator

Okay, so you're just shootin' the breeze. 1. Scale fixing was 'crossing the boundaries' for me -- I feel like I have control of the chart now. Leaving that darn warp how the chart looks when it progresses, annoys me. 2. Ever since I figured the most ...

Misdirections in retail trading / mt4

(post #1 rewrite) image . image . Attending variates emotions (right) to trade one's chart sketch (left), which measures shapes' (/entities'/objects') size-distance relations to align the best trendlines. Thus, TP,SL near BE until study right. ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

Thank you, jag1966! It's a pleasure reading and learning from your many charts. I should only live up to their effective clarity. ------------- (revised chart study) same prt's. Different words around them: --'Button', a stamp-sized selection of the ...

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The secret is........ .886 "a relatively new discovery.... one of the finest discoveries in technical analysis in the past 10 years.... I want to recognize Jim for his tremendous contribution.... the most effective Fibonacci ratio.... define ...

There are no secret patterns and there will never be one

I think next I work on reducing in-trade drawdowns to 20 pips (what a fast measure got as the average low # to get consistently through every trading day.) Most of the trades I do, practically all of which are on demo simulator and the rest, 1-2 a ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

-- This seems to be the most valuable post. In the chart below, I highlighted the trades you lost: They were are the start and end of the only clean break in the huge consolidation formation that you've traded since day one of this journal. To me, ...

My 30 pips Daily and my 45% Weekly Journal

(post#1: new) area: (psych only) of contrasting (1,5) or singular (2,4) distance (1,2) or size (4,5) (chart only) contrasting -- confused, impulsive, or distracted; singular -- fixated or demanding (psych or chart) ------------------- Hi, did some ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

demo — (tough crowd...) It's the easiest and best answer, because the high rollers use the best (perhaps insider fundies or order flow) and a lot of TA tries to derive as closely as possible from what others know of their methods. That's not ...

Is 90% of TA useless?

(continued) — Flaky time again -- I use my two chart study pictures to read and transfer to the trading plan my day's unresolved problems I may worry about and thus, subconsciously, try and resolve in trading: (replaces words above the two ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

demo — Hey guys! I want to trade using pure price action, but I'm getting a little bit confused.. I hear a lot of people saying trade only with the trend and people playing it all.. which is better? I guess I'm mainly confused about trading ...

Trend Following? Support and resistance Trading?

Thank you for your advice. Order flow as a language -- Yes, I've seen this a bunch of times. I think you're suggesting people use it as a way to get away from taking a trade so seriously inside of oneself. Sounds like a good idea. What I'm trying to ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

balance lines, microtized, figure direction — Logr and midline identification of each small 1'TF trend added to a directional "pull" of a trend's angle juxtaposing the other's angles, can tell the next major 1'TF direction: (ex.1) image ...

balance lines

Consider any (up or down) swing as having an initial (buy low or sell high) and a finishing (buy high or sell low) phase. Discover the finishing phase through studying the initial phase, thus providing more solid reasons to enter, profit or stop a ...

Is making money in FX that easy?

I think the solution was to see how obvious admitting I was wrong would be if I positioned the chart so that it would also show the stubborn side of me how wrong I was -- Look at the symmetry of this, and tell me it hasn't fully retained the ...

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal

(continued) — If the key is to trust one's reason with a solid stop in place, then this pair of trades tells it all: image image image image image image image

Pattern's Chemo-Electric Trading Journal