ON 'ROUNDING'
Following an earlier comment about interpreting figures using our mentor's description, I wonder which way you all 'round' figures.
I was always taught that a figure of say 10.5 was rounded down to 10.0 . And a figure of 10.6 was rounded to 11.0.
I think some of my learned friends here are only rounding up, and all the way from a 0.1, and thus making the picture appear a little sweeter than it actually is.
'Rounding' - to me anyway - has always meant a balanced adjustment up or down, and not in one direction only.
Congrats by the way to those who did well later. I should have stayed around but decided to go back to bed and then look at other markets after the morning rush/spikes.
mish
I plumb my MA figures into a simple excel speeadheet I developed that does the rounding for me and also gives the the exact figure. I jot them daily into a A5 notebook whole, enter then in my spreadsheet then look at what the spreadsheet tells me.
Today it told me XXX27 to XXX28 rounded, a rise of 1 with lots of flats inbetween and a trade. Only 0.7 exact. Had I not been on ETX offer for my net loss cover over the next 10 days I would have gone with the heard here and say no trade.
The Parabolic SAR thing is interesting mentioned earlier, switched that on and it screamed a Sell not a Buy so could be useful indicator where the MA is below 2 and we are getting caught out.
Above 2 MA it often contridicts NT looking back, especially MNT / INT variants and would have caused a missed 50 pips the last 3 weeks with a MA of 4.
But when MA is under 2 and you are unsure it seems it might be a good stay out deciding tool or even as Tang suggested a fook it bet the other way tool, or straddle trade tool.
Will watch this long term now for weak NT trades but you have to be careful not to let it infulence stong NT signals to not take NT trades you might have.
Also I notice in the last 3 weeks the P SAR has agreed with NT but the trade still hit a market change and lost despite NT and P SAR agreeing the trade direction. The P SAR changes direction after trade is entered. Again could be risky to start using it as a get out of the trade early tool.
But as a helper for weak MA days I will consider it from now on.
Crickey we are learning lot on here as we go along.
M