Best leadind indicator

What about Acceleration as a leading indicator? Of course you will never know how long a trend will stay trending- but it has to acclerate into a trend.

You also have Volatility. High volatility begets low volatility. Trends erupt from low volatility- hence the squeeze trade.

I personally do not use acceleration as a indicator, maybe I should look into it? I think most traders do use volatility as a leading indicator though.

Hence the name "Leading Indicator" not "Leading Fact"

I know it is a paradox that before you take any Trade, you should give the Chart a Full Physical Examination looking for all signs of health or weakness, but by the time you have done that you have possibly missed the Trade.

That's one of the differences between who appears to be a good Trader and a lesser one. The speed at which they can do this without actually requiring all those lines on the chart.

Have not posted for quite sometime. For past few months, I have been using the following to predict the next move with quite some sucess. Still trying to find out why. No explainations but it is quite reliable for me. I got it by chance. Try and give some feed back.

1. Open MACD Osma default Level - 0
2. Open MWCCI on same window Level 0,100,200,-100,-200
Mwcci without historgram

When the 2 MWCCI line crosses the 2 MACD lines you get an imminent move.
The problem : When you open/squeeze 4 charts vertically next to each other the crossing differs to that of the crossing on a single chart on the single window. As I said it is only chance ! !. Try play with it and see if it is of any worth for you. Sorry ! ! Have to go now.

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Basicly I agree, but what about an extrapulation?
You have a stream of data, you can find an equation that depicts it and extrapulate the data.
I know, sounds easier then really is, our data is a-linear & a-symmetrical (actually, I'm preety sure you can catalog this data stream as a chaotic dynamical system - search wiki for the details) so we will be using polynomial equations of an advanced order (don't worry, we can't make it beyond the fifth order, there is no general formula for those polynomials) for our polynomial interpolation.
Actually, this kind of data looks very much like statistical self-similar fractal.
The knowledge is present, the know-how is too. But we will need to have a mathematician for that (and that kind of mathematics is out of my league), and link him up with one of the MT4 programers.
This will be the only possible, as long as I can think of one, "leading" indicator, even though it will not be leading the price, just predicting it...

yes, absolutely, in the right circumstances

I am newbie, i study trade for 2 years and still can't find best method for my trading. But for now i made a conclusion that economic calendar show economic number and concencus before real number show is best leading indicator. Price most of them will follow trader expectation for the number. So i think good strategy is ( i said good not best because there is no best think strategy for forex it depend on trader style and what circumstance) open economic calendar ASAP, find concensus VS previous number and watch price movement on chart. ex : if NPF cons higher expected than pref number and price show USD stronger than you should follow buy on US. If not you should stay away because there something wrong and wait market reaction after real number of NPF (non farm payroll) appear.

That only my opinion as newbie trader.

In looking back over this thread if one decides that 'leading' means indicating in the future either, a direction and/or price level, then I would say that Akuma and Bemac are giving the best information.

Notice that neither of their comments have reference to a TA indicator.

Lou

Indicator - Yes

Leading - No

They haven't designed one yet.

I know from the responses I haven't convinced a single trader. In over 10 years of trading I haven't seen a single indicator that convinced either.

Come on then Bemac, spell it out for all us 'thickies'!!!!