We here at the Forum all have the same motive. Make Money, now some traders behave like scientists, others like All Knowing Inside trading Guru’s. Then the mix among the rest goes in and out of branching phases. I have been a member here nearly a decade. I'm not much for social media, texting etc. But I have on occasion rambled "This and That" on this forum. Not near as many posts as most of the other long timers here. Some members have "Wow!" numbers in the amount of posts here. I don't usually post Puff; I mostly say something more than utterances of noise.
Now as for trading it's probably the easiest thing to become involved with the most difficulty in the world Right? If you read the pun and you have been doing this for a while then you know that statement sounds cheeky! It's meant to and here's why. When we start looking for ways to decipher price we come to places like HERE. And thus the saga begins.
Most traders gather an arsenal of trading systems, pdf, word copies of trading how to books, hundreds of Meta Trader indicators and other popular platforms. Then slowly reality sets in that nothing is working or you are left with that unlimited urging to hunt and hunt for someone else's success package free for the taking.
In reality this is ridiculous! Like 500 golf techniques on how to "Swing A Club". NASCAR has a tight set of requirements and hardware rules, it's quite indicative that to win a race with everybody having the same guidelines to follow the approach cannot be exotic or shades of gray, but rather a fine tuned perception to the obvious.
Contrary to popular belief a "Proper" A text book trading education is not necessary to trade effectively and generate profit ongoing. It's the ego of the individual to want to look impressive to peers and such with inside lingo, expressions and bantering.
Ever take notice how most of the lottery winners are just run of the mill people. No special math skills, no creatively devised lotto number picking systems. It just does not work! They simply are fortunate enough to have chosen the precise numbers that's all they have Right!
So here we are another let's go thread posted in the "Trading System's Forum".
Dynamic Expansion & Contraction. Sounds Cool... It's actually nothing more than saying Price Goes Up and Then Go's down and vice versa all while being dealt with real-time by machines, people individually and in favored herds.
Now how it does this is simple. Way back before electronic networks were around trading was done on paper. Fast, noisy and un-intelligibly to a non informed bystander. "The Pit" it was called. Ever play card games? Of course. Eye contact, bluff, etc. Friend Foe and reverse again. Well this was a mechanism of function. Sometimes order flow was straight forward, others distortion and deception would ensue. This is a short version of talking about this.
As time evolved electronic networks expanded trading outside the pit to call in's and such across further distances. And again more time goes by and we get to the right now like environment and trading is done so heavily electronically that the people part has vanished from the pits replaced by T.V. News broadcasters in the floor space and Rows of server racks that we know as HFT (High Frequency Trading rigs) Some seem to come to the conclusion that being closer to the exchange gives a time nuance advantage of the order flow both real and spoofed.
This probably true but for us humans it is no use, other than a benefit of the digital fight between computer frenzy actions that we can capture on occasion. This two dimensional up and down action sometimes gets described as an abstract presentation of a circle. Everything is a circle if taken from that perspective.
I rather like to compare it to an elevator that’s mimicking a circle. Start at any floor and go thru a random walk up stops and you can doodle out a row of circles big and small as a rotates back and forth thru the floors with stops and go’s.
Now enough of the pillow talk let’s see this for real.
I plan to work on this a bit at a time. I have included some starter material to get this story going.
For sake of word play let’s not call this a SYSTEM but rather a Specific Perspective Reference to trade with.
Keep this in mind it’s not about order flow as in trying to figure out who’s doing what, that’s ridiculous. It’s about learning to watch the BID/OFFER Dynamically as in while it’s moving!
And getting a mental rhythm of ebb/flow while glancing at the chart for stall points within this motion. Use whatever external tools you like to determine Support and Resistance obvious points of interest. Pivot Points, simply drawn lines of S/R, Fibonacci Lines, and Elliot Waves on and on. It all works about the same.
It’s watching the Spread that is where your eyes need be while hand on the mouse looking for entry!
**Note we really never know who’s causing and Who’s stunting the moving of price, News outlets always present themselves as know all’s but this is always after the FACT of the happening sequences.
**Places where I will say COMPUTERS and HUMANS are a hunch from 10’s of thousands of hours watching the Bid/Offer movements and applying it to learned patterns of motion.
P.S> I always chuckle when traders present Big Talk trading Studies and make sure they include a resume of a Former PIT TRADER Or Floor Scout, hedge fund manager etc. Whatever Man! You learn some valuable things from this but,
What about the Technicians that make the Hardware Infrastructure that runs underneath this bloated action? Yes it’s the unappreciated electronic technician that spends much time behind the wizard’s curtain keeping all these trading gateways running. Might they know things of further benefit?
Need say no more, NASCAR racers know more about the cars they drive than they do about themselves.
Now as for trading it's probably the easiest thing to become involved with the most difficulty in the world Right? If you read the pun and you have been doing this for a while then you know that statement sounds cheeky! It's meant to and here's why. When we start looking for ways to decipher price we come to places like HERE. And thus the saga begins.
Most traders gather an arsenal of trading systems, pdf, word copies of trading how to books, hundreds of Meta Trader indicators and other popular platforms. Then slowly reality sets in that nothing is working or you are left with that unlimited urging to hunt and hunt for someone else's success package free for the taking.
In reality this is ridiculous! Like 500 golf techniques on how to "Swing A Club". NASCAR has a tight set of requirements and hardware rules, it's quite indicative that to win a race with everybody having the same guidelines to follow the approach cannot be exotic or shades of gray, but rather a fine tuned perception to the obvious.
Contrary to popular belief a "Proper" A text book trading education is not necessary to trade effectively and generate profit ongoing. It's the ego of the individual to want to look impressive to peers and such with inside lingo, expressions and bantering.
Ever take notice how most of the lottery winners are just run of the mill people. No special math skills, no creatively devised lotto number picking systems. It just does not work! They simply are fortunate enough to have chosen the precise numbers that's all they have Right!
So here we are another let's go thread posted in the "Trading System's Forum".
Dynamic Expansion & Contraction. Sounds Cool... It's actually nothing more than saying Price Goes Up and Then Go's down and vice versa all while being dealt with real-time by machines, people individually and in favored herds.
Now how it does this is simple. Way back before electronic networks were around trading was done on paper. Fast, noisy and un-intelligibly to a non informed bystander. "The Pit" it was called. Ever play card games? Of course. Eye contact, bluff, etc. Friend Foe and reverse again. Well this was a mechanism of function. Sometimes order flow was straight forward, others distortion and deception would ensue. This is a short version of talking about this.
As time evolved electronic networks expanded trading outside the pit to call in's and such across further distances. And again more time goes by and we get to the right now like environment and trading is done so heavily electronically that the people part has vanished from the pits replaced by T.V. News broadcasters in the floor space and Rows of server racks that we know as HFT (High Frequency Trading rigs) Some seem to come to the conclusion that being closer to the exchange gives a time nuance advantage of the order flow both real and spoofed.
This probably true but for us humans it is no use, other than a benefit of the digital fight between computer frenzy actions that we can capture on occasion. This two dimensional up and down action sometimes gets described as an abstract presentation of a circle. Everything is a circle if taken from that perspective.
I rather like to compare it to an elevator that’s mimicking a circle. Start at any floor and go thru a random walk up stops and you can doodle out a row of circles big and small as a rotates back and forth thru the floors with stops and go’s.
Now enough of the pillow talk let’s see this for real.
I plan to work on this a bit at a time. I have included some starter material to get this story going.
For sake of word play let’s not call this a SYSTEM but rather a Specific Perspective Reference to trade with.
Keep this in mind it’s not about order flow as in trying to figure out who’s doing what, that’s ridiculous. It’s about learning to watch the BID/OFFER Dynamically as in while it’s moving!
And getting a mental rhythm of ebb/flow while glancing at the chart for stall points within this motion. Use whatever external tools you like to determine Support and Resistance obvious points of interest. Pivot Points, simply drawn lines of S/R, Fibonacci Lines, and Elliot Waves on and on. It all works about the same.
It’s watching the Spread that is where your eyes need be while hand on the mouse looking for entry!
**Note we really never know who’s causing and Who’s stunting the moving of price, News outlets always present themselves as know all’s but this is always after the FACT of the happening sequences.
**Places where I will say COMPUTERS and HUMANS are a hunch from 10’s of thousands of hours watching the Bid/Offer movements and applying it to learned patterns of motion.
P.S> I always chuckle when traders present Big Talk trading Studies and make sure they include a resume of a Former PIT TRADER Or Floor Scout, hedge fund manager etc. Whatever Man! You learn some valuable things from this but,
What about the Technicians that make the Hardware Infrastructure that runs underneath this bloated action? Yes it’s the unappreciated electronic technician that spends much time behind the wizard’s curtain keeping all these trading gateways running. Might they know things of further benefit?
Need say no more, NASCAR racers know more about the cars they drive than they do about themselves.
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"Look Left Think Right"
Cuddly Maybe today Tomorrow and so on.
Will Resume Later.
For reasons of legality I can not provide here a motion segment of price transmission in specific form with narration without written consent from a providing broker.
I had anticipated with the diffusion of common interactions among traders, (mostly new and or inexperienced to the trading arena) this could be a potential outcome. 
Had I of inserted "Animated Confederate Flags playing banjos while spoon feeding lab monkeys out of date Lucky Charms morsels". The road less traveled might have at least been more entertaining. 
