Hi again. I'd be truly interested to hear what your preferred definition of the RTM method is. I can't quite figure out what aspects of RTM you favour. Is it flag limits, engulfed without hitting the target, trade on the retrace? Is it following the ...

Thanks, hendzwoter. I plan to stick with it. I can analyse ok with hindsight, but my trading on tester software just seems crazy random lol.

I tried looking up the data for IF's very first example on this thread. As the data appeared slightly different on my testing software, I have ended up re-imagining that scenario, using my current understanding of flag limits etc. The first engulf ...

I hadn't really considered the compression in that example but sure, well spotted. It certainly does move back upwards very easily at the end of my image there!

Something like this:

I believe the idea is that you draw each of the flag limits, as you describe, as price rises, and then when one of them gets engulfed downwards, you know that price will hit the next one down before it can break the one above the broken one. The ...

I'd be keen to join the group if it's an option. I'm not sure how to find the details though

Thanks, ahdat! Appreciate the input. I have a habit of mixing up different ways of drawing things as I don't have a fixed method in my head yet. Still learning...

Here's my hindsight take on GBPJPY around that time. Not sure how valid this is:

No worries. Those are the million dollar questions aren't they! I'm about to start using Forex Tester 3 to forward test a method I've been back testing recently. Basically look for H4 LS levels, and find the kink (LSK) of those, which will be a ...

Hi libracat. This is how I see the FL for the break of the high you are looking at: The FL should always be at the point where the high got broken. If you can't see a kink that covers the line you've drawn from the high, then you must use the entire ...

Although there was indeed a swing low here, libracat, I think what we need to see is an engulf that is a reaction to a higher TF zone, rather than just a lower low in any situation. In this case, the lower low appears to have reached a lower zone as ...

If it makes you feel any better, libracat, the engulf didn't even happen on my Tickmill Demo chart.

@BeefStew - I appreciate your posts. Good stuff. In this case I don't see the same engulf that you did at the time, so maybe something is amiss and this explains why the sell trade did not pan out that time.

In this case I would look at the obvious supply level where you were expecting to sell from and think that this is a great place for the ITs to find liquidity just above (taking the stop losses of people thinking the same as you). So if we have a ...

@fx-slaver Am I right in thinking that your buy zone is at the kink of where this significant level was broken upwards?

Thanks for this. I also had to use OutputDebugStringW in place of OutputDebugStringA and it now works fine.