Thursday 24 May 2012

Finding Entry Points

Where do you enter and why? Trading is not an impulse business. It requires quite a lot of thinking.


Before the DAX opened today, I looked at the overnight ES and then decided that I wanted to buy the DAX. I then had to find an area where I wanted to do business. When the market got there, my job would be to see whether orderflow supported the entry or not.


I split the MarketProfile, as you can see in the pic. I found the VAH of the distribution as a potential entry point. The 99EMA was support. When the price got there I decided that the trade was right to BUY. I managed the trade and exited at the 33EMA which has become resistance. Result: 16 DAX points per contract (400 Euros per contract). One contract, one chart. Maybe just one trade for the day?



4 comments:

  1. Tom,
    How do you synchronize your bar interval to the market profile? I used a 1.25 range chart on the ES today and the 33 and 99 had crossed up, the CCI was up but the MP was telling me a very different story. Had I changed the interval to a longer bar length then I would have the 33 and 99 and CCI all telling me what eventually took place.

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  2. TylerPM, I don't have "synch" issues. If you have a different periodicity that fits you better then you should use that. There is no magic in my particular chart periodicity. It all works.

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  3. "I decided the trade was right to buy."

    How? What told you this? Just saying order flow is far too abstract.

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  4. Anon 21:09, All the criteria are repeated here in the blog, over and over. You may want to use some or all of them in decision making. Context.

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