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  • Dec 10, 2012 6:15am
  • Rust ● Online
    Joined Jul 2007 | 832 Posts | Status: The more things change
Quoting sam0182
No kidding. Redirected from twitter.

Hello lurkers
Hehe
To be honest i was redirected from twitter, too
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  • Dec 10, 2012 6:44am
  • daveone
    Joined Jun 2012 | 92 Posts | Status: Member
[quote=Mezzy;6276666]
Quoting daveone
Ok here are two screenshots of the charts iam talking about. maybe now somebody is willing to contribute .



Well yeah, it is bearish because that's what it's been doing.

What is your goal? Do you want to fade the market? Join the trend? Pattern trade?
EU has a triple top on the daily and is going full bear, I think the gap will close on open then resume its way down.
GU is making consistently lower highs, and the macd is pointing the way down.

Just my thoughts mate. Not exactly sure what your after.
On friday i was like 'woah pinbar alert longlonlong!'. But after reconsidering the setup during the weekend several times i realized i was totally wrong on this one. to be honest for a beginner like me its extremely difficult to stay out of the market. but with the help of you guys ive managed to be patient and stay out of a shitty setup . thanks!
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  • Dec 10, 2012 6:57am
  • daveone
    Joined Jun 2012 | 92 Posts | Status: Member
Quoting the_wizard
Some stills from a trading video on YouTube from School of Trade.

Interesting.

Ive seen exact the same thing in a book about 'market technique' written by a german trader called micheal voigt. in general the book is about trend trading. He states that in these 1-2-3 patterns price accelerates when breaking point 2 because many people have their stops laying at point 2.
E.g. when price reaches point 2 in the long setup on the left of your picture, people who were short and who had there stops at point 2 are now being stopped out and must therefore take a long order (to get rid of their short position) so there are even more long orders and price accelerates up.


dunno if that makes any sense at all .
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  • Dec 10, 2012 9:05am
  • Quidsey
    Joined Dec 2009 | 244 Posts | Status: Member
[quote=daveone;6278211]
Quoting Mezzy

On friday i was like 'woah pinbar alert longlonlong!'. But after reconsidering the setup during the weekend several times i realized i was totally wrong on this one. to be honest for a beginner like me its extremely difficult to stay out of the market. but with the help of you guys ive managed to be patient and stay out of a shitty setup . thanks!
Dave, be careful where you lay responsibility for your trading decisions, don't forget you're on your own all the way in this game.

If EURUSD rallies to 3050 who you going to kick first, James16 or Mezzy?

"the guys" have at the moment talked you out of a 50pip move north to close a gap, an actual Fail Better strategy.

I know it's tough man but you've gotta grow those balls big and steely.
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  • Dec 10, 2012 10:24am
  • daveone
    Joined Jun 2012 | 92 Posts | Status: Member
[quote=Quidsey;6278642]
Quoting daveone

Dave, be careful where you lay responsibility for your trading decisions, don't forget you're on your own all the way in this game.

If EURUSD rallies to 3050 who you going to kick first, James16 or Mezzy?

"the guys" have at the moment talked you out of a 50pip move north to close a gap, an actual Fail Better strategy.

I know it's tough man but you've gotta grow those balls big and steely.

True words concerning the balls! But trading the gap has never been my intention even though i would have loved to trade the gap. But due to technical difficulties markets on Oanda opened too late last night and i had to get up early today.
In terms of PA there was no bullish setup. It is rather a bearish setup if you check out the weekly timeframe.
You could argue that friday's daily candle is a SFP which formed into resistance. But since the resistance zone was tested once already AND the setup was not valid in terms of PA AND there was a weekend in between i passed on this one.
I dont know if you have read the 'how to make money trading' thread on t2w. but i imagine that wiz aka trader_dante would not have called it a high probability setup back then .

Still you can blame my indecisiveness and my relying on somebody else's oppinion. But thats what made me stay out of the trade in the end and i dont feel bad about it at all .
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  • Dec 10, 2012 10:29am
  • Mezzy
    Joined Nov 2012 | 179 Posts | Status: Member
[quote=Quidsey;6278642]
Quoting daveone

Dave, be careful where you lay responsibility for your trading decisions, don't forget you're on your own all the way in this game.

If EURUSD rallies to 3050 who you going to kick first, James16 or Mezzy?

"the guys" have at the moment talked you out of a 50pip move north to close a gap, an actual Fail Better strategy.

I know it's tough man but you've gotta grow those balls big and steely.

^.^ thats why I asked him what are his goals, I even said the gap should close (up) before going back down. J16 looks at longer time frames, mostly daily with weekly bias. So it really depends on what TF your looking at and what your goals are, what kind of movement are you looking for? 10pips up? you can get that in a bear market. It all depends on your plan/strategy.

I'm definitly a beginner as well. I think conceptually I understand the game pretty well, however in market execution I'm still failing. So what I say might be right, but I have trouble with the follow through.
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  • Dec 10, 2012 10:34am
  • Mezzy
    Joined Nov 2012 | 179 Posts | Status: Member
Quoting the_wizard
Some stills from a trading video on YouTube from School of Trade.

Interesting.
There's a thread dedicated to this kind of movement called the SonicR method. Which is essentially Raghee Horner's method with a twist. Imo its essentially elliot wave or 123 patterns to join the trend.

basically when price closes above/below the 89 ema they believe the trend is changing and enter the market, however they also use a 34 ema h/l/c to form a wide wave to confirm their notions using clock positions: 1-2= up 3=flat 4-5 = down

works good if you're good at recognizing the correct wave patterns.

edit: lol i hope you guys understood that, im not very articulate in the mornings.
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  • Dec 10, 2012 10:43am
  • daveone
    Joined Jun 2012 | 92 Posts | Status: Member
[quote=Mezzy;6278964]
Quoting Quidsey


^.^ thats why I asked him what are his goals, I even said the gap should close (up) before going back down. J16 looks at longer time frames, mostly daily with weekly bias. So it really depends on what TF your looking at and what your goals are, what kind of movement are you looking for? 10pips up? you can get that in a bear market. It all depends on your plan/strategy.

I'm definitly a beginner as well. I think conceptually I understand the game pretty well, however in market execution I'm still failing. So what I say...

In the end iam not quite sure where i set my goal. On the h1 it probably would have been a valid setup if i had got the entry down at the resistance but when i saw the setup friday night it was already too late.
Initially the daily candle was the reason i wanted to enter and ive already explained the reasons for not entering the trade on the d1 in my last post.
Imo 'Being unsure about a setup' is enough a reason to stay out of a trade.

Thanks to you mezzy and quidsey for helping me working out the mistakes in my train of thought .
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  • Dec 10, 2012 10:52am
  • Quidsey
    Joined Dec 2009 | 244 Posts | Status: Member
Just a reflection, a thought, on responsibility and awareness of unhelpful influence really guys, not having a pop at anybody's strategy... although can't remember the last time I looked at a weekly chart

All the best.
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  • Dec 10, 2012 11:18am
  • DaGrizlyBull
    Joined Sep 2011 | 379 Posts | Status: Hybrid in the making ...
[quote=Mezzy;6278964]
Quoting Quidsey
I'm definitly a beginner as well. I think conceptually I understand the game pretty well, however in market execution I'm still failing. So what I say might be right, but I have trouble with the follow through.
You are in the right place. Learn to Fail Better
I don't need easy. I just need possible.
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  • Dec 10, 2012 11:42am
  • vlazaf
    Joined Feb 2006 | 100 Posts | Status: Member
Quoting the_wizard
Second still of the "indicator".

My annotations marked with question marks.
Anyone know where one can get hold of that swing indicator for MT4?

thanks
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  • Dec 10, 2012 11:54am
  • Mezzy
    Joined Nov 2012 | 179 Posts | Status: Member
IMO he was pointing out it misses swings, use your eyeballs. They work better.

Grizz, - working on it mate.
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  • Dec 10, 2012 12:41pm
  • the_wizard
    Commercial Member | 1,385 Posts | Joined Jan 2007
Quoting Mezzy
IMO he was pointing out it misses swings, use your eyeballs. They work better.

Grizz, - working on it mate.
Actually, the point I was making is that this strategy is based on going long on a break of a swing high / short on a break of a swing low which is exactly the area where we WAIT to see if we are going to get a counter trend trade and thus take the other side of the position.

The question mark swings that the indicator would have highlighted presumably with the intention of getting long; we see an SFP occured which of course would give us a short setup.
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  • Dec 10, 2012 12:47pm
  • vlazaf
    Joined Feb 2006 | 100 Posts | Status: Member
Quoting the_wizard
Actually, the point I was making is that this strategy is based on going long on a break of a swing high / short on a break of a swing low which is exactly the area where we WAIT to see if we are going to get a counter trend trade and thus take the other side of the position.

The question mark swings that the indicator would have highlighted presumably with the intention of getting long; we see an SFP occured which of course would give us a short setup.
and hence why it could potentially be indicative of a contra indicator..

where can one find one for mt4?
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  • Dec 10, 2012 12:57pm
  • Mezzy
    Joined Nov 2012 | 179 Posts | Status: Member
Quoting the_wizard
Actually, the point I was making is that this strategy is based on going long on a break of a swing high / short on a break of a swing low which is exactly the area where we WAIT to see if we are going to get a counter trend trade and thus take the other side of the position.

The question mark swings that the indicator would have highlighted presumably with the intention of getting long; we see an SFP occured which of course would give us a short setup.

Oo, I already assumed that. My bad. I still think eyeballs are better =D
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  • Dec 10, 2012 2:38pm
  • Quidsey
    Joined Dec 2009 | 244 Posts | Status: Member
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As we're on a SFP tack, GBPJPY (one I don't trade) has recently gone range crazy on the H1.

Trade 1, nice support level that price has rejected with some nice big swings away, the mythic V.

Trade 2, back to range highs/previous swing. Possibly a 'leaver' as there is a higher swing point not that far away. This one is also a squeezer if you took it, technically you haven't got a close above that SFP candle to signal an exit, but these ones can make you sweat.

Trade 3 is a fill your puke tin trade. Stick that SFP pin bar up to the hard right hand side of your chart and tell me you wouldn't have thought xmas was coming early.... and then slowly roll it forward and feel the bile rising lol!

Look at that 'kin last candle that just closes below the pin, you are out and you are thankful.....4hrs of pain is over..... and then they f#ck ya!

Trade 4, I would need robocop balls before I had the courage to slam into that one.

Trade 5, I know I'd be thinking, man 4th time back... time to breakout no? but there's no spider here baby.... lol

(sorry, one to many Baileys)
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  • Dec 10, 2012 2:52pm
  • Mezzy
    Joined Nov 2012 | 179 Posts | Status: Member
lol I for one enjoyed reading it.

Nice drunken analysis.
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  • Dec 11, 2012 12:51pm
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This is my watchlist for the next few days...any comment is greatly invited.
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  • Dec 11, 2012 12:56pm
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