the way the big players trade?

Quoting resol

I met many interesting strategies over the internet. And many of them are based on the combination of technical indicators macd, stoch, rsi and etc. These strategies advice to enter the market when several indicators show signals at the same time. many backtests were made and they show that these strategies could be profitable in the past. I thought about these strategies, but I dare to suppose that not many of the big players, such as banks follow them. I suppose that people from banks do not sit infront of the screen watching when stochastic will cross, and macd and some other indicators will show an entry. When they trade huge volumes, i suppose, they can't afford to get the loss which a mini account trader can afford. i suppose their strategy is different form that based on indicators (this is my view about big players and I can be wrong.)
I would like to hear in this post opinions from professional traders who traded for the big players (traders at banks and so on) if there are any here. or from people who know/heard about how do big players trade. what their strategies are based on? can anybdy give an example of the big player's way of trading? every such information will be valuable.

Quoting emda

mostly... they use a big building full of computers calculating and scalping automatically the ticks like hell.

the traders are programmers now.

Quoting Pinkpanter

You think they gonna share here .I think they dont even wanna sell that what they are usingfor trading.

Quoting Pinkpanter

You think they gonna share here .I think they dont even wanna sell that what they are usingfor trading.

Quoting itechdev

I have a good mate who works in a bank (ANZ) as a fx trader here in Australia. He swears that they mostly use support/resistance and fib as tonyo524 said.

I've known him since primary school and believe what he says. Rich bugger too. Lives on the canals in Noosa QLD (5+ mill properties if you don't know the area - Mr Branson Virgin Blue lives nearby).

Quoting tonyo524

Info is supposed to be a secret, like magicians. FF is sponsored by brokers, and brokers are some of the big players. Hence, this topic being moved to oblivion lol.

Quoting resol

lol, it might have been worse, it's only in another forum but not deleted.

Quoting tonyo524

seriously though, here is a good read.

Multiple Time Frame Analysis
In my years as a trading educator I have found that most losing traders have a critical glaring weakness in their approach to analyzing a market. The majority of their focus is placed on mathematical technical analysis tools such as moving average convergence divergence (MACD), the relative strength index (RSI) and/or stochastic studies (among many others). All of these types of tools are derivatives of price movement and are lagging indicators. To make matters worse, many of these traders attempt to use these tools in isolation and they completely lose focus on reality; indicators don’t move price, price movement moves indicators! Then the nail in the coffin occurs when the trader uses this approach on only one or two time frames (i.e. a 1- and 3-minute chart or a 5- and 15- minute chart).

The problem with this approach is the trader is not focused on why the price is moving in the first place. Price moves occur because there is an imbalance of supply/demand in the marketplace and this imbalance is created from the activity of professional traders. These professionals are very cagey when it comes to disguising their true intentions and hiding their positions from the uninformed retail trader. The average retail trader doesn’t understand how to read a chart in order to determine the underlying strength or weakness in the market. Even for a trained VSA expert, it is nearly impossible to accurately forecast the near-term direction of a market by analyzing a single time frame; there just isn’t enough corroborating evidence if we only look at one or two time frames. Think of each singular time frame as a musical note, when we combine multiple time frame’s together we go from the market blaring out one note noises, to the market singing us a melody and revealing the message that is so often hidden to the trader who can’t read a chart; that message is where the professional traders are positioned. Before we move to our chart examples we must understand the following rules of multiple time frame analysis:

Quoting tonyo524

seriously though, here is a good read.

Multiple Time Frame Analysis
In my years as a trading educator I have found that most losing traders have a critical glaring weakness in their approach to analyzing a market. The majority of their focus is placed on mathematical technical analysis tools such as moving average convergence divergence (MACD), the relative strength index (RSI) and/or stochastic studies (among many others). All of these types of tools are derivatives of price movement and are lagging indicators. To make matters worse, many of these traders attempt to use these tools in isolation and they completely lose focus on reality; indicators don’t move price, price movement moves indicators! Then the nail in the coffin occurs when the trader uses this approach on only one or two time frames (i.e. a 1- and 3-minute chart or a 5- and 15- minute chart).

The problem with this approach is the trader is not focused on why the price is moving in the first place. Price moves occur because there is an imbalance of supply/demand in the marketplace and this imbalance is created from the activity of professional traders. These professionals are very cagey when it comes to disguising their true intentions and hiding their positions from the uninformed retail trader. The average retail trader doesn’t understand how to read a chart in order to determine the underlying strength or weakness in the market. Even for a trained VSA expert, it is nearly impossible to accurately forecast the near-term direction of a market by analyzing a single time frame; there just isn’t enough corroborating evidence if we only look at one or two time frames. Think of each singular time frame as a musical note, when we combine multiple time frame’s together we go from the market blaring out one note noises, to the market singing us a melody and revealing the message that is so often hidden to the trader who can’t read a chart; that message is where the professional traders are positioned. Before we move to our chart examples we must understand the following rules of multiple time frame analysis: