pipforme said:
7th, despite our differences on "other" forums, i am still intrigued by your methods, but find myself confused....so if you could clarify some things for me, that would be great, and please, do not take this as an attack, IT IS NOT, but i would hope you would answer these questions
1) the new dashboard you are posting, are you trading it, or just testing it?
2) did you lose the day trade short? or did you not, because you were not trading that signal?
3) why is "news" a factor to you now? you used to say that news has no affect on price structure? but you seem to be mentioning the effects quite frequently now?
i believe i have asked 3 simple questions, that all have very simple answers, in a manner that does not disrespect what you are trying to do, please answer accordingly....
1a) I’ve recently made additional tweaks to the way the Day Trade profile
“responds” or “listens to” to the Swing Trade profile. Basically, I’m trying to expand the dialog between these two major components of the system. So, last week was live, but this week is Beta – I simply forgot to type the word “Beta” on the Dashboard for this Swing Trade. I actually don’t have a lot of time for monitoring trades this week and even in Production mode (live real cash trading) I’m still under my standard 90 day cooling-off period where I really need to be front and center on
all live Production level trades. That cooling-off period got truncated by this new tweak. When I get a new idea, I don’t like to put it on the back burner anymore, so I make the change quickly and then Beta the alterations until I can tweak them to where I’d like them to be. So, I’m Beta Swing but Production Day – when I am actually trading a Day profile. I’ll try to remember to switch the Mode indicator to the right setting so you will know whether a trade is Beta, Test or Production – sometimes I forget especially over the weekend if I’ve been doing some development work on the system.
2a) Correct – that profile was not being traded. However, if it had been traded there was no failure. Go look at any 15 minute chart for the EURUSD and then please read my protocols for operating this system.
I have three (3) options on any failure to meet at least minimum pip requirements. Day Trade profiles are 24 hour trades – refer to Dashboard description in the very first post in this journal. Any day trade that fails to launch will either be:
a) Closed at breakeven or minimum design profit.
b) Closed at end of session regardless of p/l.
c) Converted into a
matching Swing Trade profile.
I’ve been trading the Dashboard this way since its inception. Those are the protocols that I have posted here and on Dailyfx as well – so people on Dailyfx already know (if they’ve read) that these are the rules.
Now, taking a look at any EURUSD chart you will see that on 4/24/06 it struck its break-even point
3 times from above the entry point and below the entry point and then yet again for the first 3-4 hours of the 4/25/06 session on
3 more occasions. That provided a 27 hour window for making a decision on the above
three options. If I had actually been trading this profile on 4/24/06, one of the above three options by rule/definition and protocol MUST be executed.
Lastly, (if you check this journal) you will note that what you see on your screen is only a
snap-shot of a Dashboard flowing in real-time. So, you cannot possibly see or know about every real-time change in the way the Dashboard looks for an entire trade session because I cannot sit and post pics for 24 hours a day on every single market tic. The system was designed to recognize
abnormal price behavior and adjust its projected targets (Limits and Stops) accordingly. Some of the adjustments are small while others are large. However,
all are done in real-time just like you have been seeing this week with the Swing Trade profile’s Limit projection. Day Trade profile Limits get moved just like Swing Trade profile Limits – but at different rates of speed. So, the Day Trade profile and the system performed as designed on 4/24/06 – the rest would be up for me to decide relative to which of the three (3) options I would have selected as the best alternative.
3a) Can you please post a link to any indication where I have said this? I’ve never said that “news has no effect on Price Structure.” That would demonstrate that I don’t know my own creation very well.
I’ve always said that the one thing this system (and any system on the planet) cannot account for is “News”. I’ve been stating that for six (6) years now. One very good way for you to answer your own question would be for you to simply post a link to any web server anywhere in the world indicating that “news has no effect on Price Structure”. That would be really helpful and it would offer some substance behind the claim. If there is one single post on the internet, a single email, or single private chat session where I have stated that “news has no effect on Price Structure”, I’d really appreciate seeing it. It would really help. Otherwise, you will have to explain where you heard that, saw that, or came to that conclusion about this trading technology.
News is the ONLY wild-card that I cannot account for and for that matter – no one can.
Secondarily, there is more than one Price Structure. Each time-frame, or bar of data has its own Price Structure. Thus, there is a Daily Price Structure, Weekly Price Structure and a Monthly Price Structure. If I wanted to build them, there would also be a Quarterly Price Structure, Semi-Annual Price Structure, Annual Price Structure, 2 year Price Structure, 5 year Price Structure and15 year Price Structure. I have not yet begun work on those additions to the long-range components of this system.
There is another person that has taken the baseline information that I shared with him and gone on to create his own real-time intra-day trading system using 1 minute Price Structures, 5 minute Price Structures, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120 minute Price Structures and he’s got trading signals popping off over several minutes depending on which bar of data he’s using at the time.
Price Structure is a “concept” that is applied to any bar of data for any financially traded instrument in any financial market anywhere in the world using the standard OHLC bar format. And, there has never been any Price Structure created in this system that cannot be blown to bits by news.
News is the great equalizer and I’ve been using that phrase now for years wherever I have a journal and talk about this system.
Lastly, I’ve
ALWAYS talked about the effects of news on trading, this system and the market in general. For years I’ve always stated the effects of news on this system. So, it would be wise of you to read the record, do the homework and get better understanding of what has been said in the past and what is being said now. What’s being said now, is no different than what’s been said in the past.
The Weekly (Swing) Price Structure is very much intact and inline with all extreme possible outcomes. There is nothing unusual about 13 to 103 pip drawdown for a
Swing Trade Profile. Most people that follow my trades have become so used to the 1 pip to 7 pip drawdown on
Day Trade Profiles that I think they have become a bit too spoiled. Day Trade profile Magnitudes are much smaller than Swing Trade profile Magnitudes (I’ve stated this before as well).
Much of what I’ve responded with here, I have written about for years and at least several times in this thread alone before now. I would strongly suggest
reading the history of this thread and reviewing some of my posts on DailyFx regarding the “use” and “protocols” behind this system. I often times repeat myself on questions that have been asked and answered in the past.
No new questions were presented here – but I answered them fully anyway – for the record.