Friday, 11 July 2014

Anatomy of a Trade

I drew my FavFib lines onto the chart before the open of this mornings DAX trading. I also checked out how things fitted on my MarketProfile chart. The BUY on the MP chart had not much support but but the SELL had good resistance.

My plan was to take both trades. My backup on the BUY was to double down at the strong VAL support below the FavFib if the market went through the FavFib area.

As it turned out, the BUY was elected first and held. \price then moved up to the SELL where I took profit and reversed to SHORT. Not all the trades work out as envisaged but it's nice when they do. As I pointed out many times in this blog and in my training classes, envisaging is important as otherwise the market catches you by surprise. Envisaging looks at the possibilities and how they fit into my trading plan.

The Market Profile book will go through the whole process of constructing trades in this way.






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  1. Anonymous13 July 2014 at 15:57

    Hi Tom, so the question is...how can I get and use these oft bars ?

    Regards,
    John

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    1. Electronic Local13 July 2014 at 20:02

      John, MarketDelta has Volume Imbalance. The MultiCharts OFT bars have been programmed by a programmer. A NinjaTrader version will be available after the NT8 is released or maybe before.

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  2. Anonymous22 July 2014 at 21:13

    The longs were all taken with bigCCI < zero, showing trend was down. Will Flo take these trades? If so, what are the conditions Flo will enter counter-trend?
    Also, how long must bigCCI be above/below zero before a change of trend is identified? Does moving from plus 200 to below 100 signify a change of trend?

    -Mike

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