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  • #61
  • Jan 31, 2019 5:08am Jan 31, 2019 5:08am
Quoting dkrock
I don't know if this is any help to you because I cannot see your trading systems, but allow me to discuss some logic and then you can check it for yourself. First of all, what does moving average 50 or 200 or 21 have to do with anything? What is it aligned to? Did you just put it on your chart, or was there a specific mathematical reason? Let's pretend you trade 1HR charts, since I have seen them referenced. You put a 21, 50, and 200 moving average on it. This means that you want to trade the 21 moving average signal. The 21 applies to the 1HR...
Hi Drock. I hope trading is going well. I came to forex factory just to gain some wisdom from you. Since i am new here, I cant send you a private message. So I'll just post it here with hopes you will see and reply. I mainly trade from the 5minutes timeframe getting signal from 15 minutes timeframe. I use 12 SMA for 5 minutes chart because we have 12 candle in an hour on that time frame.

I use 4 SMA for 15 minutes timeframe because 4 15minutes candle make up one hour.
Now you talked about using the same value for an oscillating indicator like the CCI or RSI to measure equilibrum, please how do I go about it??
Secondly, is my idea of the moving average settings correct??. I am a line trader trying to cross over to indicator trader because like you, i would want the probability of any trade I enter to be in my favour.
Thank you.
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  • #62
  • Feb 4, 2019 5:20am Feb 4, 2019 5:20am
Quoting David0
{quote} Hi Drock. I hope trading is going well. I came to forex factory just to gain some wisdom from you. Since i am new here, I cant send you a private message. So I'll just post it here with hopes you will see and reply. I mainly trade from the 5minutes timeframe getting signal from 15 minutes timeframe. I use 12 SMA for 5 minutes chart because we have 12 candle in an hour on that time frame. I use 4 SMA for 15 minutes timeframe because 4 15minutes candle make up one hour. Now you talked about using the same value for an oscillating indicator...
I understand your logic, but it seems you are using the 5M chart value on the 15M as well. In your logic, you are adjusting the MA to a one hour clock, but in this case, since you are trading the 12 on the 5, and the 15 is 3 time frames away, then 12/3 = 4. It is the same MA on both charts. You lose the ability to slow the trading signal. While you might not like it, using the 12 on both the 5M and 15M will smooth out your signals and show you weak trades from strong trades, and ranges from trends. I never considered time as a way to establish a moving average, so I hope that works out for you. Time is a constant. For determining equilibrium, I need to know the average median of the high and low and turn that into a mean. Once I have a mean, I can use oscillating indicators to find apexes of price from the mean. So, I use price, not time, to find my MA's. Since price changes, but time is constant, I am not sure it will work, but Good Luck.
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  • #63
  • Feb 6, 2019 1:54am Feb 6, 2019 1:54am
Quoting dkrock
{quote} I understand your logic, but it seems you are using the 5M chart value on the 15M as well. In your logic, you are adjusting the MA to a one hour clock, but in this case, since you are trading the 12 on the 5, and the 15 is 3 time frames away, then 12/3 = 4. It is the same MA on both charts. You lose the ability to slow the trading signal. While you might not like it, using the 12 on both the 5M and 15M will smooth out your signals and show you weak trades from strong trades, and ranges from trends. I never considered time as a way to establish...
Hi DK, Good morning. I am just seeing this post. Thank you as always. You have given me so much to consider as well as pointing out some of my errors. I'm going back to the board to implement some things from this last post of yours. I'll write you soon and may ask you questions a maths and stats savvy person may consider as silly. Please bear with me as I'm trying to wrap my head around this as Math is not really my strength but it can't stop me either.
Thanks DK
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  • #64
  • Feb 10, 2019 4:02pm Feb 10, 2019 4:02pm
Quoting dkrock
{quote} I understand your logic, but it seems you are using the 5M chart value on the 15M as well. In your logic, you are adjusting the MA to a one hour clock, but in this case, since you are trading the 12 on the 5, and the 15 is 3 time frames away, then 12/3 = 4. It is the same MA on both charts. You lose the ability to slow the trading signal. While you might not like it, using the 12 on both the 5M and 15M will smooth out your signals and show you weak trades from strong trades, and ranges from trends. I never considered time as a way to establish...
Hi Dk, I hope your doing well. Please could you kindly explain the below statement of your in brackets, probably with a chart if possible. You can use any pair and time frame as I am aware you are also guiding your business secret. That statement of your is messing my head up, Loll. I'm really particular about knowing how to find the high and low of time period. You even mentioned it again in a reply you sent to me recently.

By time period, are you referring to time zone or time frame or numbers of a particular candles or what?? could you please explain with a chart???

When you say experiment with a moving average, are you referring to the moving average of the high and low you discovered??

And why is it that no body ever has an idea of some of the things you post or say??? Lol.
I sent a message to you some days ago( a gentle reminder).
Here is the statment I'm referring to
(For instance, if you use a CCI set to 14, then find the highs and lows of your time period and experiment with a moving average that the CCI will cross after the high or low is reached. Usually it is a factor of the period setting. So, if you use 14, then sample SMAs of 7, 14, 28, 42. When you find the MA that provides the most consistency, then remove it from your chart. Add the Bollinger band that matches your choice. Then attach the MA again with a different color.)
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  • #65
  • Feb 11, 2019 1:58am Feb 11, 2019 1:58am
Quoting David0
{quote} Hi Dk, I hope your doing well. Please could you kindly explain the below statement of your in brackets, probably with a chart if possible. You can use any pair and time frame as I am aware you are also guiding your business secret. That statement of your is messing my head up, Loll. I'm really particular about knowing how to find the high and low of time period. You even mentioned it again in a reply you sent to me recently. By time period, are you referring to time zone or time frame or numbers of a particular candles or what?? could you...
Hello. This is not my thread, so it might be impolite if I start taking it over. Please copy and paste your post to this thread. Thank you.
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...1#post11960961
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  • #66
  • Feb 11, 2019 2:25am Feb 11, 2019 2:25am
Quoting dkrock
{quote} Hello. This is not my thread, so it might be impolite if I start taking it over. Please copy and paste your post to this thread. Thank you. https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...1#post11960961
Hi Dkrock, your right. Sorry about that. It's in your thread now. Thank you.
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  • #67
  • Mar 7, 2019 9:27pm Mar 7, 2019 9:27pm
as a newcomer my favorite indicator was Moving average , i was profitable much in demo , but when trading in a live account , the result was more different than demo, this indicator not worked as like before , actually its the real difference between demo and live thats all about psychology.
  • #68
  • Mar 8, 2019 8:09am Mar 8, 2019 8:09am
I've got several, maybe too many!

MA 20, 50, 100, 200

The 200 I think helps to see a longer term view of where the markets have been. Moving towards and away from the 200 can also give you some insight into there the market is going. And when they cross over each other, you've got some potential signals.
  • #69
  • Mar 10, 2019 5:15am Mar 10, 2019 5:15am
Quoting MarkFxAnde
as a newcomer my favorite indicator was Moving average , i was profitable much in demo , but when trading in a live account , the result was more different than demo, this indicator not worked as like before , actually its the real difference between demo and live thats all about psychology.
Also try learning the fibonacci which can be a helpful tool in my opinion rather than checking the moving average my fellow new commers.
  • #70
  • Dec 3, 2019 12:41am Dec 3, 2019 12:41am
I like 34 or 60 SMA as my standards if this doest adapt the volatility of that time frame then i manually do + or - to it in increment of 5 till volatility gets absorbed
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  • #71
  • Dec 6, 2019 7:15pm Dec 6, 2019 7:15pm
Why should we tell, the Moving average setting. Mine is as per my strategy so that is not going to work for you. Even using RSI for trading, those setting are also different.
  • #72
  • Dec 11, 2019 4:57pm Dec 11, 2019 4:57pm
all multipliers of 9..
  • #73
  • Dec 28, 2019 1:43pm Dec 28, 2019 1:43pm
Quoting the redlion
I think a better question is WHY do you use the settings you use? 5,10,20,21,50,180,200 is irrelevant....they are NOT dinamic support and resistance, they are NOT more effective at setting x as opposed to setting y. a moving average "averages" x observations / N time period ......21 SMA gives you the average price for 21 closing periods be it daily or hourly or perhaps monthly. EMA, WMA, are just more fancy ways to give more weight to the current period. to answer your question I use the 21 SMA on my daily chart because there are 21 days approximately...
A wonderful quick explaination!!!
  • #74
  • Dec 28, 2019 6:55pm Dec 28, 2019 6:55pm
Its Very Subjective, Depend What Strategy you use, As Long As I using 12,36,200,600.
  • #75
  • Last Post: Dec 30, 2019 8:38am Dec 30, 2019 8:38am
Quoting mrleila
I've got several, maybe too many! MA 20, 50, 100, 200 The 200 I think helps to see a longer term view of where the markets have been. Moving towards and away from the 200 can also give you some insight into there the market is going. And when they cross over each other, you've got some potential signals.
I used all of these parameters & I found EMA 21 works much better than these setups!
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