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Avoiding the whipsaw

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lombardo
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Does anyone here know of a indicator or tactic that would help with avoiding whipsaws for either moving average crossovers or using a unirenko ? This seems to be a big challeng in trading, or knowing when am instrument like the es will start trending

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Search for 'chop' in thread titles, this has been discussed a lot before.
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Short version, if you are experiencing chop then you are trading too small of a time frame. Stop trying to eliminate chop and instead stop trading noise of tiny intraday moves.

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