AndrewS

It is not a chart pattern for me as much as I simply look at where price is relative to the current candle and give some attention to the range of previous candles.

I am no trading Guru, but I will try to get back to your comments. You can look at my comments which I think can give a good idea of how I trade.

No comment.

You just identify something which appears non-random and trial it on your support-resistance grid. The last 5 hourly candles all had lower highs, so you may provisionally adopt the highs and lows of hourly candles as an area of interest.

Well I may be coming down from 40 trades a day now because I doubt that it is optimal, but I can give a clear example when I was on the wrong side of a trending market and it was a definite improvement. I had been scalping on the Dax for 4 hours one day and I decided to go for a big swing trade on the Nikkei and sold it. I was wrong and hedged it by opening a long position. For the next 12 hours I was continually opening and closing long hedges ( this was when the spread on the Nikkei was 15 points!). The Nikkei dipped a bit in its early trading session to a point slightly higher than when I went short and I closed the lot and was finally flat. The trade analytics look like this. True P/L #Trades #Profit trades Win rate Avg profit Avg loss P/L ratio Return rate Japan 225 Cash (A$1) AUD309.70 42 33 79% AUD32.11 AUD-83.34 0.39:1 1.09 I estimate that I paid about $700 in spreads. I am not planning to do this again.

A few things: 1. I am addressing your comment that “People who actively trade lose money” which is not universally the case at all, although many beginners perhaps should avoid scalping. 2. The video is from 2007 which is before IG had an association with DailyFX.com. 3. Steven Ickow was primarily working off the bids and offers displayed on the Level 2 screen for the Nasdaq which provided much better transparency than the specialist book on the NYSE. He also looks at daily and 5 min charts for the Nasdaq, S&P and E-mini Russell futures. 4. In the book he says “I don’t like to buy highs and sell lows. I like to buy pullbacks.” That gives some context to his comment in the interview about not chasing stocks. 5. He does not average down on losers, but does scale out of winners. 6. Now I have been averaging 40 trades a day but if my trade size is 10% of someone who has 4 trades a day the spreads/commissions are the same. 7. The spread on the Dow at the moment is about one twentieth of the ATR of a five minute candle.

Not everyone’s experience is the same. I have thought of this interview often when I have seen your comments about trading on shorter time frames and have only just managed to track it down. Interview with Boris Schlossberg (co-creator of DailyFX.com) and a Steven Ickow who did about 250 trades a day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK58oT5GTGE

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I do not know if what I write is of interest or usefulness, but I like to see my name on the screen. An alternative to “buy and hold” and “all in then all out” is a staggered entry and exit. You could have taken some profit when you were up 1,500 and then increased the position when it was on its low.

Thank you for your reply.

Hello Elle, I have a question. What would be the maximum number of candles per hour during active trading you would consider for a tick chart. Would 30 candles per hour be too many?

I use a 60 and 240 period MA to compensate for Sunday's candle.

The reason I was profitable going short was because I had closed all my shorts at the blue 20 hour MA.

Well you have to have your bearings. It is possible for two people to take opposing positions and both do well due to trade management and a few minutes can make a big difference. The message was posted when the third green candle was forming on the Dow and S&P on the 15 min chart. I sold because of a retracement of a big bear candle on the hourly, a retracement to the 5 hour moving average, a retracement to the daily R1 pivot and a retracement towards some chart structure around 2800 on the S&P and 23850 on the Dow.

I could comment on this because I saw this message in real time and had just gone short the Dow.

It is a good thing to demo because you need very high probability setups to scalp and you may find that scalping stuffs up your ability to swing trade. Being insane is not a qualification, but it certainly helps.

That is the 50% retrace for the Dow and S&P.

Funny you should mention that because there was another from Cyprus I was trying to find and then I realized it had disappeared. I am just going to use the demo when it is too tough to trade and probably look into another one.

I will probably check out the E-minis. https://portal.ampclearing.com/account/commissionquote.aspx https://www.ampglobal.com/trading/metatrader5.html

If it were not for hedging I probably would have been shaken out at a large loss after being caught wrong footed. But there were opportunities to close out one leg of the hedge then the other in a fairly relaxed manner.

Approaching a yearly mid pivot.

Nikkei225 rallies to December 2018 lows.

Because I would not want everyone to know that the way to make you “sad” is by posting a 1 minute chart. 😇 😈

I would delete it if I could.

Well, I am on the scrounge for a substitute for the 1 minute chart as you can see.