Mak Your willingness to share your hard work is inspiring. I think the recent pause was a good thing and the thread has gotten a second wind. This is some really good stuff. Is what Jack was talking about on the dom kind of what they have now on the current dom ladders? I like the way you set your charts up and am in the process up duplicating it as we speak.
In case anyone is wondering why my charts are different I am now using QT alone as some of you Ensign users might have noticed in my charts. QT has some really neat features and while Ensign is a great application it is really overkill for what I need. QT allows you to arrange your studies the way you want, get rid of all lines with one click and best of all when you set the right third of the chart blank it stays there which I just discovered recently. The only thing that QT cant do is overlay charts but Mak has now solved that problem for str/squ. It also has built in bar countdown timers. Life is good.
Thanks again Mak, really valuable to read your comments, I´m gonna try to watch stretch/squeeze today. I guess it takes a while to learn how to monitor it so one can filter out the noice. But Mak, I thought you were the math genius here? That stretch/squeeze was the opposite of how jack usually presents it I figured out months ago, simple reasoning /Stalker, not always stupid
Glad you posted about your charts Easy, I appreciate the advice. I will take a look at them since I do not use any special features of Ensign. Does QT have a "parallel line" option like Ensign? What studies are attached to the bottom of your trading chart?
Yeah. After a while, I found out that most people just don't give a sh!t... Then I noticed that the market is exceedingly vast and the fear of being front-runned by someone else is an absolutely ridiculous reason as to why something is not successful. I won't say that I feel like pts can be picked at will, but perhaps one day, it will feel like it. I'm hoping that soon enough I can throw all of this into collective2, as suggested by some B team person, as a legally compliant way. As for the DOM, it is as you say. I'm sure Grob uses IB's Market Depth/Breadth (???) since it fits his desired picture of the DOM. As for the chart setting up, there is one thing you have to be careful of and that is the overnight activity. Because of the chart app I use for posting, in pre-flight, I check the overnight HI/LO of the YM since INDU doesn't open till market open. Currently, the current day's (ie. post 12 am midnight) range is about 10 pts. This means, I will have to manually manage matching the ranges after synch as long as both the HI & LO of the overnight is in effect. Once BOTH are taken out, the range match is synch and good for the rest of the day. If anyone is using the same chart app I use, I usually set it up by having the YM chart show only the current day's chart. The same setup is used for INDU. The ES is the usual 5/15/30 depending on where you monitor. I usually only care about the current bar, and sometimes the previous bar... But that's just me. Next week may be different since I like to try new things to broaden my perspective... MAK!
Yeah... Did you see the INDU run to catch up with the YM... Synch is essentially complete (< 5M). I think I figured out how to avoid the previous post's ordeal... BRB MAK!
I, for one, am either at or below par with the rest of you fine folks if not a few notches below. You will never hear me saying I am smart in any sense because it is simply not true. I just put in effort and focus and continually iterate refinements. Again, we are all peers. I have alot to share so I do so as not to forget things, basically posts serve as documentation. There isn't any real math just a few bits of common-sensed truths. I strive to figure out "what is what". It's such a powerful investigative approach. I get lightbulb flashes in the cranium all the time. As for the STR/SQU, I have verified it to be as Grob has previously mentioned/posted. When the market "OFFSET" is LONG, STR/SQU is as he has described. When the market "OFFSET" is SHORT, STR/SQU is the reverse as described here. We are currently in the latter. My earlier post with the pic is a way of always monitoring from a NEUTral market OFFSET. It is simple as long as you have the overlays synched, it is absolute key to KNOW that your STR/NEUT/SQU is properly calibrated. You know the ranges are synched because the vertical scale on both charts will match in both range and scale. Then its just a matter of the usual M.A.D.A... MAK!
Yucky morning. Think Im going to go take care of some business as I think market is going into preholiday mode a day early.
I was just joking Mak, I´m very impressed by what you´ve done and I very much appreciate that your sharing it. Some of you guys are way out of my league when you talk about programming and algebra, but you have a way to make it understandable even for me. /Stalker