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Forum: Trading Journals March 7th, 2017, 09:32 PM
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Posted By RielA
To decide whether or not to place an order in the...

To decide whether or not to place an order in the market for your stop, you first need to know where it would go.. Devise an appropriate exit strategy for your setups. I've mentioned it to you before...
Forum: Trading Journals March 5th, 2017, 11:40 PM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
So you have an admitted failed scalp trade that...

So you have an admitted failed scalp trade that didn't work out. You then decided to turn it into a swing trade even though the reasoning for entering in the first place (a quick 10 point bounce) has...
Forum: Trading Journals February 22nd, 2017, 09:53 AM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
Then why are you consciously making bad trading...

Then why are you consciously making bad trading decisions if you agree? You have to define what your trade is. The criteria for your scalps from before is now the same as this long term trade you are...
Forum: Trading Journals February 22nd, 2017, 08:44 AM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
You are letting a losing trade run and it should...

You are letting a losing trade run and it should stop you from trading.

You are reinforcing destructive trading habits.

You missed the trade this morning because you never exited your previous...
Forum: Trading Journals February 7th, 2017, 05:30 PM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
Yes, as i mentioned a few posts back you are at a...

Yes, as i mentioned a few posts back you are at a disadvantage trying to scalp a market that does not have volume information available to you. You essentially need to find a way to trade...
Forum: Trading Journals February 7th, 2017, 04:24 PM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
Its most certainly the start of it or the...

Its most certainly the start of it or the mechanicsas you so well placed it!

Considering there are always two prices (bid/ask) just having a market order trade into a limit is still not enough to...
Forum: Trading Journals February 3rd, 2017, 09:44 AM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
'Interest' and the volume trading that interest...

'Interest' and the volume trading that interest directly results in the direction of prices.

Volume >> Direction

You seem to be content with only using the OHLC of a price bar to derive your...
Forum: Trading Journals February 2nd, 2017, 05:23 PM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
What do you mean by risk? If you mean dollar...

What do you mean by risk? If you mean dollar amount, your risk is proportional to your account size not your time frame. Now while being in the market longer does require you to give your trades more...
Forum: Trading Journals February 2nd, 2017, 04:32 PM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
my friend, due to the nature of your responses I...

my friend, due to the nature of your responses I wonder if scalping is the right outlet for your trading. you might have a better time using your analysis/interest of cycles for longer term or swing...
Forum: Trading Journals February 2nd, 2017, 03:17 PM
Replies: 117
Views: 16,560
Posted By RielA
I have a question for you to answer for yourself...

I have a question for you to answer for yourself as you are getting into intraday trading.

1) How does the Futures market operate and how do prices move up/down?
2) Regarding your answer to #1,...
Forum: Sierra Chart December 27th, 2016, 03:59 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 23,861
Posted By RielA
Sierra has the pulling and stacking feature as...

Sierra has the pulling and stacking feature as well. And you can apply levels and indicators to your DOM. I have profile, vwap, daily weekly overnight highs and lows, initial balances etc. But its...
Forum: Trading Reviews and Vendors November 18th, 2016, 12:57 PM
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Views: 502,028
Posted By RielA
You have the Trailing Max Drawdown in place....

You have the Trailing Max Drawdown in place. Considering it trails up to the $0 mark anyways I wonder why that alone isn't enough and the 10 day rule has to be in place? Makes it difficult for...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds November 3rd, 2016, 03:49 PM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
my settings for my profile and subsequently my...

my settings for my profile and subsequently my value areas, poc, and vwap start Jan 1 2016.
as of the moment..

HVN for the year is at 162 21/32
current DVAH is around 170 17/32
DVAL at 157 5/32...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds November 2nd, 2016, 01:57 PM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
We've reached that level i've spoken of earlier...

We've reached that level i've spoken of earlier (right around the HVN of the year). If prices can hold under the yearly VWAP and last months POC (Black box on TPO chart), we could see a flush under...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds October 27th, 2016, 09:24 AM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
We've seen prices reach the Annual VWAP and trade...

We've seen prices reach the Annual VWAP and trade within the Monthly DVA in that area. Expecting some back and forth but it was important that the MDVA Highs held and they did. Now we're seeing a...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds October 4th, 2016, 10:55 PM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
My trading is all done day to day, I don't even...

My trading is all done day to day, I don't even have a chart on my screen when trading haha! I've never been very good at meshing my analysis and my trading so I keep my directional market biases...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds October 4th, 2016, 04:43 PM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
This is what I am seeing with Bonds for the rest...

This is what I am seeing with Bonds for the rest of the year..

1) We had that rotation I spoke about to the high of the monthly DVA and a nice rejection of that area. Now it does appear prices are...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds September 23rd, 2016, 08:27 AM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
We'll likely finish the week somewhere above Y...

We'll likely finish the week somewhere above Y Low and below LM Low.

Id like to see LM Lows trade as that would pretty much finish the rotation from the Monthly DVAL > DVAH. As another bullish...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds September 21st, 2016, 08:39 AM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
I think Treasuries/Bonds have priced in that the...

I think Treasuries/Bonds have priced in that the FED wont raise rates. So if that is the outcome, from a TA standpoint i am seeing prices to move higher from here. But all depends on what is said at...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds September 9th, 2016, 09:22 AM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
Out of interest lets use some of those statistics...

Out of interest lets use some of those statistics to determine the likelihood of today moving higher. Ultimately, there's no real news going on today, I think it'll be slow and we'll likely just see...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds September 8th, 2016, 01:08 PM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
We saw prices trade up to that MCPOC of 170'12...

We saw prices trade up to that MCPOC of 170'12 and get rejected to the tick, not even a double test and now we are back at the lows of this monthly range we've been stuck in. There is a lot of...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds September 8th, 2016, 09:40 AM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
There is an excellent webinar here done by...

There is an excellent webinar here done by FuturesTrader71 about using statistics to develop and edge, so all credit goes to him. I basically used the same methods only using OHLC data from the RTH,...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds September 8th, 2016, 09:36 AM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
So far this week I'm seeing this POC from most of...

So far this week I'm seeing this POC from most of August of 170'12 as a kind of Over/Under line. Prices have opened this week below it, shot up right over the HVN and traded above and now we've...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds September 3rd, 2016, 10:19 AM
Replies: 465
Views: 123,524
Posted By RielA
Thats part of the issue, I dont know how I would...

Thats part of the issue, I dont know how I would exactly define it so that it could be consistently tested! haha

I'd probably say that a swing high/low is in place after a minimum 50% retracement...
Forum: Treasury Notes and Bonds September 2nd, 2016, 02:05 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,544
Posted By RielA
The High in ZB was 171 7/32, so your stop of 171...

The High in ZB was 171 7/32, so your stop of 171 3/32 (it being a lower price) was hit.

Also your chart is only showing RTH (prob 8:30 start time CST?), unlike Stocks there is no close day to day...
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