<U>An Introduction To Chaos</U> Many people believe that twentieth century science will be remebered for three main theories: quantum mechanics, relativity, and chaos. Chaos theory is a blanketing theory that covers all aspects of sciece, hence, it shows up everywhere in the world today: mathematics, physics, biology, finance, and even music. Where classical sciences end, chaos is only beggining. The term chaos theory is used widely to describe an emerging scientific discipline whose boundries are not clearly defined. The terms complexity theory and complex systems theory provide a better description of the subject matter, but the term chaos theory will be used throughout this document as it is more widely accepted. Chaos theory is a developing scientific discipline which is focused on the study of nonlinear systems. To uderstand chaos theory, you must first have a grasp upon its roots: systems and the term nonlinear. ... Prior to the devolepment of chaos theory, the majority of scientific study involved attempting to understand the world using linear models. Beginning with the work of Sir Isaac Newton, physics has been the has provided the processes for modeling nature, and the mathematics associated with them have been in a linear nature. Afterwards, when a study resulted in strange answers, when a prediction usually held, but not this one time, the failure was blamed on experimental error, otherwise know as noise. After research into complex systems, we now know that noise is actually important information about the experiment. When noise is inserted into the graph results, the graph no longer appears as a straight line, nor are its points predictable. At one time, this noise was referred to as the chaos in the experiment. The process of studying the noise in an experiment is one of the major parts of the chaos theory. Another important word which has been used repeatedly is complex. What is the determining factor making one system more complex than another? The complexity of a system is defined by the complexity of the model necessary to effectively predict the behavior of the system. The more the model must look like the actual system to predict the system's results, the more complex the system is considered to be. The most complex system example is the weather (e.a. or finance), which can only be modeled with an exact duplicate of itself. keyowrds: chaos theory complex systems self-organizing system http://library.thinkquest.org/3493/noframes/chaos.html
How to take the chaos out of the market. Eliminate as many of the variables that create the chaos as humanly possible. Apply strict boundaries to your trading environment. Use Volume Bar Charts to eliminate the contact or share variable that Tick and Minute charts infuse in them. Use "an" indicator to verify the now created consistency in your chart instead of the multiple indicators needed to wade through the chaos. Using the indicator, not as a trading tool but as a verification tool, greatly increases the success rate and eliminates a huge amount of the inflicted chaos.
I do, but you are just not getting it. I don't mean that you are not smart enough, it's that you are not on that level yet . So you cannot understand how come I know something when you don't .
"Use Volume Bar Charts to eliminate the contact or share variable that Tick and Minute charts infuse in them. " prof, could you please expound on what you mean here? are you also saying to eliminate price charts?
Volume Bar Charts are price charts. Each bar is a specific number of contracts or shares traded per bar. This is different from a Minute chart where there is a varying number of contracts or shares per bar. Even Tick Charts, where there is a specific number of ticks (transactions) still contain a varying number of contracts or shares per bar. I've attached a Long Term or Position E-Mini Dow Chart created with Volume Bars so you can see it looks no different than any other price chart. Each bar is just a specific number of contracts per bar. The more bars the longer the time increment. The lines and prices on the price portion of the chart are computer generated in real time as is the lines and prices on the indicator portion of the chart. Rules based objective programming, for such things, can be created when there isn't the variable aspect in your charts.
Thank you and interesting. Objective programming can also take place on normal bars but it appears you feel there is a benefit to having a bar constructed from x number of contracts. Is this so a bar is not confined to a parameter of time but rather it may be clearer to observe which direction the next x number of contracts would be pushing the market?
I know creating an environment where the variables are eliminated makes reading price action a whole lot clearer. Yes, you can objectively program time or transaction bars but the accuracy of the results aren't consistent do to the fluctuating environment.
What's that? I'm here to learn. Bye! "walther" http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30920&highlight=walt*