Purple Brain
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sorry - 590. I would lose enough at 588.
No its not, youre learning.This is absolutely pointless.
This is absolutely pointless.
I agree - PB, I'm guessing the feeling thats its pointless may be coming fromNo its not, youre learning.
I doubt it.Purple Brain gave up?
Purple Brain gave up?
As a directional trader you’re trading trends. Those trends must exist at the trading timeframe you are trading - or a lower one which you hope will subsequently manifest in your trading timeframe. Whether you wait for the trend to manifest in your operational timeframe or choose to take an early – and less probable – punt based on a trend in a lower timeframe, you’re still looking only at and possibly below your operational trading timeframe. Price action in higher timeframes have no bearing on your trading timeframe.
Does anyone have a logical refutation for the final sentence in the paragraph above?
I always believed almost as a Universal Truth that the higher timeframes somehow ‘carried’ the lower ones as an ocean swell might lift ripples on the surface, but as with all beliefs, they don’t suffer from an occasional challenge.
Yesterday saw a considerable number of FX pairs make useful moves on the 15 min chart counter the longer term underlying ‘trend’. Whether they subsequently revert to this underlying or not is immaterial. For the purposes of yesterday’s trading, it is my current view this could, and should have been ignored.
Probabilistically you would say that there is a 55:100 chance of there being more heads than tails in any subset of this set.Given a set of 10000 coin tosses, if I have 5500 heads and 4500 tails, then if I pick any set (at random) of 100 trades within those 10000, would you say it is more (than 50%) likely that I will have more heads than tails within those 100 coin tosses?
You’ve stated that the mechanism will favour more heads than tails so obviously the answer is ‘Yes’.Now consider that the bias of the coin dynamically changes (between favouring heads and favouring tails) over every 50 tosses (say) in such a way that over the long term heads are more likely over 10,000 tosses. Again does it mean that over a set of 100 trades within these 10,000 I am more likely to get more heads than tails?
The answer to the first part is that based on your assessment you believe that to be the case. To the second part I would say “Yes, you’re correct it has no bearing”.Or if coins are too annoying, suppose I am a knowledgeable fan of football, and based on my knowledge I think Man City are the best team in the premiership and will either win the title over 38 games or finish very highly. Does it mean that the probability of them winning one game is higher than 50%? What would you say to someone who said 'yeah that's all well and good, but it has no bearing on any 45 minute half in any game'?
Given a set of 10000 coin tosses, if I have 5500 heads and 4500 tails, then if I pick any set (at random) of 100 trades within those 10000, would you say it is more (than 50%) likely that I will have more heads than tails in that set?
Probabilistically you would say that there is a 55:100 chance of there being more heads than tails in any subset of this set.
You’ve stated that the mechanism will favour more heads than tails so obviously the answer is ‘Yes’.
The answer to the first part is that based on your assessment you believe that to be the case. To the second part I would say “Yes, you’re correct it has no bearing”.
As interesting a diversion as this has been though, it has no bearing. Man City’s performance over the last 20 years has no bearing on Man City’s performance during the next game, or the next 5 minutes of play.
Or was that your point – in that you were agreeing with my hypothesis that the longer periods have nothing to tell us about the shorter period’s performance?