Well here's the morning take. I don't like overtrading, so I think I'll let it stay right here and just observe these crazy markets continue to gyrate, making observations and taking notes (but I won't be posting any annotated chartes from my color printer, LOL). Markets are way too fast to call, so that ain't happen'in. And like I said before, the ES ain't the only game in town. Have a great weekend all.
Trades today - see chart attached Needless to say, I wouldn't have taken any of these trades because the MACD and Momentum are drawn with no history when Globex was shut down. I agree with MandelbrotSet - will step aside until opening gyrations are exhausted, then consider a long from a spike down Good article on EXITS Continued here: http://www.breakoutfutures.com/Newsletters/Newsletter1207.htm The Breakout Bulletin The following article was originally published in the December 2007 issue of The Breakout Bulletin. Exits for All Occasions When most people think about trading systems, they probably think about how the system enters the market. In fact, trading systems are usually described in terms of their entry technique, such as breakout systems, moving average crossover systems, Fibonacci retracement systems, and myriad other methods for entering the market. Even the terms "counter-trend" and "trend-following" refer more to the entry than the exit. Despite the common focus on entry techniques in trading, you may have come across the assertion that exits are more important than entries. In my experience, that's usually true. Why? One possible reason is that most market action is random. A good trading system finds at least some signal in all that noise. But with all the noise in the market, a substantial percentage of entry signals may be wrong. A long-term trend following system, for example, may be right only 40% of the time. Despite the low percentage of winning trades, it can still be highly profitable if it keeps the losing trades smaller than the winners. The way it does that is by cutting the losses short and letting the winners run. In other words, it's profitable because of how it handles the exits. Generally speaking, I think it's fair to say that exits are the principal method of controlling the intrinsic risk/reward characteristics of a trading system. Whether the system looks for a quick profit or holds the trade through the market's ups and downs depends on the exits. Likewise, whether a losing trade is cut off quickly or given more room to move is determined by the exits. Exits are truly the way to implement "cut your losses short and let the winners run." Note that I use the word "intrinsic" when describing the risk/reward characteristics of a trading system to differentiate the rules and logic of a trading system from position sizing. Certainly, position sizing can be used to improve the overall risk/reward ratio of a trading system, but position sizing is an external factor, apart from the rules and logic of the system. The focus of this article is on the rules and logic of trading systems, rather than on position sizing. Exit Types The following list is not exhaustive but it includes some of the most common types of exits you may encounter or consider for your own trading systems: Stop and Reverse. This is basically an "exit-less" exit. Stop and reverse systems reverse from long to short and back to long again. If you're long one contract, for example, you would sell two to close out the long trade and go short. You're never flat the market with this type of exit because each exit is also an entry in the opposite direction. N Bars from Entry. Exit the trade at the market N bars from the bar of entry, where N can be any number greater than zero. For example, you might exit the trade 10 bars from the entry. The duration of the trade will depend on the bar size; e.g., 5 min bars or 60 min bars. Time of Day. Rather than exiting relative to the entry, as with the previous method, you exit at a specific time of day, such as at 10:30 am. As a special case, this exit also includes exiting at the end of the trading session. <img src=http://elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2141782 width=800>
It's 11.07am. I am watching SPY with this, I see the zero line cross up at 10.50am, low of that bar was 86.75 and high 87.45. So was one whole trade with this basically buying in that fast move up and selling into that 87.50 area (also my keltner band target)? I think I am trying too much and too slow and clumsy with this lol. By the time I "saw" all this it was sort of over. There might still be a move higher but maybe that isn't what this trade is?
11.19a - 11.20a Cross above zero line long, saw about 87.50 to 87.70 as entries and then spike thru keltner clear thru to 88.50, would want to exit into there, that "wow this is great moment" exit. I think this long exit is into the resistance Jahajee mentioned. So we might have cleared the air for some more selling.
Yeah, the keltner channel makes an excellent tool for establishing potential support and resistance levels. Notice I said potential? No shorting until the MACD gives you the confirmation.
Price is testing the lower keltner band (cross delivered a profitable trade), and will probably find support and try to hold @ 877.00. If you didn't get the cross just look get short at the for the retrace (but the trade almost made itself) ...
I turned off my Ninja script until I have some clue about this manual. Looks like awaiting zero line cross to the downside. I see the MACD crossover tho, it seems to me on 2min chart it is above zero line still. Stochastics are crossing down from overbought. One thing I noticed when looking at the NT backtested charts was if one is patient you can be flat during the "developement" period and instead just trade the fast "here it really is" move lol. I wouldn't mind a room for this in othernet IRC....