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I am hoping that your sarcastic emoji means your statement is a joke.

Trendlines, pivots, and any other indicator on the chart is like the waves on a lake. The waves themselves do not move the water but are evidence of the wind's effect on the water. A trendline is evidence of an action being taking on price. Did the trendline cause price to move? No. Are trendlines, pivots, fibs, etc helpful? Sure, as long as they are seen for what they are and treated as such.

Price is much like a lake. It is the flow in and out of that lake that directly moves it. With price it is the flow of money in and out that cause price to move. In the days of the pit you could watch and see the movers and shakers pull and push price up and down all day long. Today we only have the screen with price and a few indicators.

Understanding this has allowed me to understand that any thing I put on my chart will work and it will fail. And now when it fails I am no longer caught off guard. If something works, use it. If it doesn't remove it. Problem we all have is to really know and understand when something stops working and how to move forward with out.

If what causes price to move is important then tell me what was causing the NQ to move up and than down today? And how important it was in your decision making.

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If what causes price to move is important then tell me what was causing the NQ to move up and than down today? And how important it was in your decision making.

Being a US holiday today would be heavily influenced by Euro and algos. And it wasn't important to me at all as I wasn't trading.

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Being a US holiday today would be heavily influenced by Euro and algos. And it wasn't important to me at all as I wasn't trading.

You can only second guess what caused price to move today and most probably you'll know it after the fact. By your answer, i can see you have no idea what caused the NQ to move up and then down today. If you are a day trader then knowing what drives price on a higher scale will make no difference to your bottom line.

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If you are a day trader then knowing what drives price on a higher scale will make no difference to your bottom line.

I beg to differ it can actually make all the difference. Because once you realize that you will move to trade longer and less intraday.

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If you are a day trader then knowing what drives price on a higher scale will make no difference to your bottom line.

Five years ago I would have said something similar.

What's changed, for me, is the realization it is simply much easier to make money on bigger time frames. And for that, you do need a fundamental understanding of why price is moving -- not just where it moved. Context is king.

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The Swiss National Bank roiled global markets this week by unceremoniously removing the 1.2000 floor put under the EUR/CHF cross back in 2011, prompting the franc to gain as much as 35% versus the euro on Thursday. Social media christened the move "Francogeddon" and the CEO of Swatch called it a tsunami. SNB Chief Jordan said his strategy was to "take markets by surprise," and he succeeded. The SNB move was widely taken as another confirmation that the ECB will move on its QE program next week. Just 24-hours earlier the EU's highest court gave the ECB a green light to proceed with QE, even as December euro zone CPI data showed most member states in negative inflation. Front-month WTI and Brent crude reached parity on Tuesday for the first time since the summer of 2013, as both February contracts traded below $46, but prices regained some ground later in the week. In the US, December inflation readings slipped lower, giving the doves on the Fed ammunition for their arguments that rate hikes can wait. Note that the yield on the 10-year UST has contracted nearly every session in January, and traded as low as 1.70% after the SNB's move on Thursday. Gold rallied pushing the futures back above the 200-day moving average for the first time since late summer. For the week, the DJIA fell 1.3%, the S&P500 dipped 1.2% and the Nasdaq lost 1.5%.

Eleven out of 18 euro zone nations reported negative inflation rates for the month of December, while total Eurozone CPI in December was -0.2% y/y, at its lowest rate since September 2009. The biggest downward impacts in the reports were from fuel prices, clearly demonstrating the impact of the oil meltdown. ECB's Coeure responded to the data by saying the euro zone is still not in deflation but the risk of deflation has worsened.

With inflation on a slippery slope, few doubt that the ECB QE is right around the corner (the SNB least of all). On Wednesday, the European Court of Justice handed down a non-binding opinion that the 2012 OMT bond-buying blueprint did not break EU law. Anti-QE German hawks had brought the case, hoping to forestall what they saw was bad policy. Not surprisingly, Bundesbank Chief Weidmann claimed the court's opinion also showed that there were legal limits on the ECB, citing commentary in the opinion that said the ECB's activities need safeguards to prevent violations of the prohibition against direct financing of governments. By Friday reports were suggesting Draghi presented Merkel and her staff a plan for QE that they could live with which will be centered on national central banks purchasing their own countries bonds.

US rates saw a wild week of trading as events in Europe and Asia, softer US economic data along with sliding commodity prices kept downward pressure on inflation expectations. The 5-year forward breakeven rate fell to its lowest level since 1999 and the 5-year TIPS breakeven fell below 1.2% after surprise central bank moves overseas. The US 10-year yield plunged through the October low to trade as low as 1.70% at one point, down close to 30 basis points on the week. Short rates fell also, leading traders to bid up Fed fund futures contracts, pushing out rate hike expectations modestly towards Q3 2015.

The strength of the US holiday shopping season is still in doubt after disappointing retail sales data for December. The Advance Retail Sales reading on Wednesday was a worse than expected -0.9% m/m, and still disappointed after removing the volatile auto sales segment. Meanwhile, shares of Best Buy and Tiffany both fell hard, after the electronics retailer said holiday sales fell slightly y/y while the jeweler cut its FY15 forecast citing headwinds from the strong dollar.

The Q4 earnings reporting season kicked off with Alcoa's numbers on Monday afternoon. Alcoa's earnings were better than expected on decent automotive demand, higher aluminum prices and lower energy costs, although its FY15 global aluminum demand growth forecast was in line with FY14's +7% y/y estimate, and it warned of a possible decline in commercial transport production in FY15.

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Data continues to reflect China's gradual economic slowdown, adding to the case for additional PBoC action in the first half of 2015. The China December trade surplus was in line with estimates, but imports fell again, evidence of soft domestic consumption. China's Customs Bureau also remarked that for the entire 2014, trade growth would be just 3.4% - well below the official 7.5% target - and weak conditions could persist in Q1. Foreign direct investment for all of 2014 rose just 1.7%, the slowest rate since 2012. Chinese banks issued 697.3 billion yuan of new loans in December, well below the 800 billion yuan forecasted. Perhaps the most telling was China's 2014 power consumption which is one of Premier Li' favored economic indicators, as its growth slowed to just 3.8% from 7.5% in 2013. The latest economic developments prompted Beijing to add to targeted stimulus, with the PBoC offering 50 billion yuan ($8.1B) in discounted credit to banks to support loans for farmers and small businesses.

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Lower high major trend reversal late morning for my Brooks fans. Got short on the 12:05 bar, looking for a bear close on the day...

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Lower high major trend reversal late morning for my Brooks fans. Got short on the 12:05 bar, looking for a bear close on the day...

Saw it but was unable to trade as I was out and about.

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That dirty TL held price down.



We are above the AWN High and now wedging beneath the TL. I think a good break that closes above the TL will see some follow through. If we close beneath the AWN high then we should be looking to test the AWN low.



TL from hour + TL from daily + AMN low and that is solid resistance above. Again I believe a good break of this will see a good rally up.

Tomorrow if the low is above the 5 SMA that should be a Pascal Buy Signal.

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Price found some resistance from a couple of lines. But we all know, it's just an illusion.



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