Craig Harris Stochastics Method

You may be right. But I was referring to when the market is trending or ranging on the M15 TF, not the daily. The trend on the D1 TF IMHO is quite a different thing than the trend on the M15. I believe there are 3 different trends in actuality, the larger "real" trend which is caused by fundamentals (seen on the Weekly and D1 TFs), then there is the "market makers" trend...which is more of an intraday trend which is determined (by the market makers) on a daily basis (they choose the high and low of the day and try to catch as many people in their nets as possible in between those levels) and then there is the trend that we see on our charts on the lower TFs that we look at, the one that takes place in between the MM's trend. The 3rd "trend" is the least stable, as we don't know what goes on behind the scenes to create the MM's trend...but once the MM's trend takes shape for the day, if we are on the right side of it, we can be in for a good ride.

Yes, that is the best time to trade. But in defense of my previous comment, please look at the 4 pics below I just took of the GU on the M15 from the last week or 10 days. I chose 2 days which (on the M15 TF) seemed to be trending. Notice how there is only 1...or maybe 2 CH entries (that would have been winners) in the whole 12 hours of decent trading time. Then look at the 2 pictures that show a range-bound market (with swings that go both ways). Do you agree that the ranging market (on the M15) is the better looking chart to trade the CH method? That's what I meant with my comments...that there are more opportunities to get in on good trades with range-bound markets than trending (again...on the M15 TF, since CH is traded only on the M15).

I love it, actually. Hands down, CH's Natural Flow is my favorite technical trading system. I've been through dozens of systems and nothing comes close to CH's as far as understanding how and why it works and how and when and where to enter the market...even exits. There is no "iffy" guess work that a lot of other systems left me with. As in all trading strategies, market conditions have a great impact on their performance...that is why time is the best tester. Knowing how to adapt to market conditions will help mold a system into something that will work for the lifetime of our trading experience.

Kind Regards,
Neo

Merry Christmas Everyone... Bless all of you and your success in 2011.....

I have decided to retire from trading the forex for at least 6-12 months or maybe for good. You have all been a blessing in my life. I really appreciate all your hard work and willingneess to help traders on our thread. Thank you for posting and sharing.

I'm hoping the thread will continue. We have many great traders here. Please step forward and take this thread as your own and take it in a direction that will be helpful to all.

There are so many to thank...

God Bless you all

Big E Eric

So sorry to see you go (again), Big E! But if history repeats itself (and it has a tendency to do so)...I hope we will see you and all your generosity around here in the near future.

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your wife and her health.

Kind Regards,
NeoRio

CYA Big E....good luck in your future pursuits. Thanks for your kind help.

Same to you Eric and I will never forget your generosity.

I feel so sad to hear you go. and hope you still will be around to help some time when you can.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your wife, to Neo, to Xaphod and everyone.

Kind regards
Kulvadee

Thanks Eric for great input on this thread.... and thanks to all who have contributed to the education of so many of us. We all want to be better traders; and I feel there is a synergism here that helps each of us. Merry Christmas to all, and may we all prosper beyond our wildest dreams in 2011.

Trading CH is about the natural flow, IMO not all swings are of equal quality. I tend to think Non-overlapping swings, the bigger the better produce better trading results.

By the time the MM trend emerges it is to late to trade...so we are left to trade w/o this insight...though we have other information like DR, etc...


Neo, I think we just see this differently. IMO, Range bound markets are the worst to trade. That is why trading the LO is good...as you can trade on the expectation the session range is still EXPANDING and we won't be range bound.

I can't comment on your charts since they don't have the CH template. Without the template I'm not sure what's really happening from a CH perspective. Sorry about that. If you can repost a chart or tell me the date/time perhaps I can offer my opinion as to the opportunities...or lack thereof.

I copied today's GU Chart and there are 2 valid entries IMO. I think the limited number of entries has more to do with trading a 15 minute TF than anything else.


Lastly, it seems lately there's been a lot on interest in trading higher TF's. People are saying that's were you make more pips, ergo, that's where you make more money.

I don't understand this logic. In order to trade higher TF's you need to trade smaller lot size. Therefore you NEED more pips just to make the same relative returns. I don't mean to state the obvious but regardless of the time frame it's not about the pips but about the ROE (return on equity). i.e. percent change of your account. There are many days where I make negative pips but have positive account growth. In the end that's all that matters, right? I know this is obvious to most...what am I missing?

Regards.

[quote=eelfranz;4255769]Merry Christmas Everyone... Bless all of you and your success in 2011.....

I have decided to retire from trading the forex for at least 6-12 months or maybe for good. You have all been a blessing in my life. I really appreciate all your hard work and willingneess to help traders on our thread. Thank you for posting and sharing.

I'm hoping the thread will continue. We have many great traders here. Please step forward and take this thread as your own and take it in a direction that will be helpful to all.

There are so many to thank...

God Bless you all

HI BIG E,THANKS TO YOU,FOR SHARING THIS ALL,AND VERY GOOD CHRISMASS AND BETTER NEW YEAR,REGARDS SKY from Finland

I downloaded Neo'sZip file...thank you.

Is there a place to learn what each indicator does and what it is used for? I see there have been lots ot tweaks and other systems discussed so I want to look at the right one...I know Indicators but I mean within this system...thanks

Documentation for the dashboard indicator is included in the zip file and a link to it was posted on the previous page.

Watch the CH intro videos at the beginning of this thread.

Watch the CH webinars. nhct has been kind enough to provide links to them. Look to his posts for the links.

Also Look through the thread for 'Loss recovery' strategies. This post by nhct is a start:
http://www.forexfactory.com/showthre...ry#post3647076

You can find links to some of the above resources here:
http://m15-swinger.weebly.com/

You should watch all of CH's videos...you can find them here.

Kind Regards

Hello, I am new to this thread and am excited with trading this method and have learned much from videos. I have made three trades and 19 pips on micro lots and have not had a losing trade. My question is that only the 5 minute chart shows the fractal and support lines? Is there a way to incorporate those in the larger time frames. Thanks

Just finished reading through the whole thread (took 10 days) and saved many post into a word doc so I wouldn't lose them. I've been looking into the various trading methods talked about here and now it's a matter of determining the one or two that suits me and my personality best.
At the moment I seem to be using a combination of things that I've picked up in the thread sorry if the chart is a bit confusing.
I've been trading for about 9 months know, mostly demo trading, I feel for the first time I'm beginning to get it. I'm going to demo trade this for a while until I really get the hang of it and then start trading micro lots and build up slowly.
I'd like to thank everyone responsible for all the imformative posting and for the very useful indicators developed by Xaphod. Sorry to see you leaving Big E all the best to you.

Another trade from 27th Dec. Being in the UK makes it a lot easier to trade this. This thread really has opened my eyes to how the markets move and capturing the pips available during those swings up and down.

Meanpips...

CH trades his system on the 15 minute charts...

Hello, and Happy New Year, Big E. Hope all is well with you and yours, Good to see you!

Thanks Big E.

Have read through the thread over the past few days and have about half left. I have learned a lot, sorry about the lame question. Also thanks to all that have put so much into a great platform, hope everyone has a happy new year.

The two screen shots are both using 15m charts, I've been demo trading since 20th Dec 18 trades 13 winners with a 70% strke rate. Average SL 25 an encouraging start.
At the moment I can't quite get my head around the higher TFs but I'm working on it.

Ctrl-I -> Select Fractals -> Click Edit Button -> Click Visualization Tab -> Check required Timeframes