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You rightly detected a bit of sarcasm, as I do not believe that NR8, NR9 bars etc. bring us any further, unless you undertake the effort to produce a backtest, which shows that they work better than NR 7. The IB4 and NR7 bars are a 20 year old concept, repeating this again and again will probably not give us an edge.

You've seen nothing yet. Wait till you see my JP7, GH8 and IOP6 setups in action. You'll be surprised

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Japanese candlesticks are an "old" concept.........and they still work.

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Japanese candlesticks are an "old" concept.........and they still work.

A candlestick is not a setup, but just a representation of OHLC. But if you refer to candlestick pattern, some of them work quite well, others do less, as they are exploited.

If you have a working setup (as Toby Crabel had or the Turtles had), at some stage this will induce predators which feed on this type of setup. One setup of Linda Raschke is called Turtle Soup. Guess on which traders this setup feeds. Richard Dennis, when interviewed by Jack D. Schwager for his book "Market Wizards", had stopped trading altogether, as the time of trading turtle style breakouts was over. Of course, this does not invalidate the original strategy, but markets are more difficult today, so you cannot trade that on its own, as was possible 20 years ago.

I have seen quite a number of candlestick pattern not working well. They only work, if placed in a specific context, combined with analysis of support and resistance or volume analysis.

I think that the same applies to inside or narrow range bars. Just blindly following those will possibly not give us any edge. It would be to easy. So you need to add something to get an edge. Even Toby Crabel saw this 20 years ago, when he tried to defined a preferred breakout direction.

Obviously you may disagree with this. I do not mind. Trading is a zero sum game, so I do not want anybody to agree with me.

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Sorry, if I confused anyone by hiding a serious idea behind intentional sarcasm.

that is a problem of being extreme efficient, trying to roll everything into one punch.

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that is a problem of being extreme efficient, trying to roll everything into one punch.

That is not efficiency. I responded to a prior post with light sarcasm. This made me replace the inside bar with a hindsight bar, and unfortunately this idea developped into a serious concept, something which I had not foreseen.

Maybe, when posting here, I look for two things at the same time

- education and
- entertainment

Trading is quite a boring occupation, if you simply follow your rules. There is a bit of distraction here and some fun.

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Trading is a zero sum game, so I do not want anybody to agree with me.

But I do

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That is not efficiency. I responded to a prior post with light sarcasm. This made me replace the inside bar with a hindsight bar, and unfortunately this idea developped into a serious concept, something which I had not foreseen.

Maybe, when posting here, I look for two things at the same time

- education and
- entertainment

Trading is quite a boring occupation, if you simply follow your rules. There is a bit of distraction here and some fun.

What about starting a thread about hindsight bars ? I am really curious to know how you define "visual "back testing (vs classic backtesting), and idea that you mentioned without defining .....

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What about starting a thread about hindsight bars ? I am really curious to know how you define "visual "back testing (vs classic backtesting), and idea that you mentioned without defining .....


Shortfalls of Backtesting

Backtesting has a major shortfall. It only allows you to evaluate an idea or system, and optimize it over various parameters and instruments. System means a set of rules, definining a setup, filters, one or several entry conditions (scaling in, pyramiding), exit conditions, money management rules, etc. The setup, entry and exit conditions may depend on price, volume, time of day, order book, market depth of underlying (index futures), correlation with other instruments, etc.

But before evaluating something, you need to create it. This can only be done by observing the market, you need to spend some screen time. The screen time should be well spent. So the question is what to look for.


R- Multiple and Win Rate

When I enter a trade, I do not know the probability that my trade will be a winner. The markets are nonlinear dynamic systems, and it is quite complex to have a set of criteria to calculate the win rate. But stop loss and profiit target are both part of my setup. While I have no idea of the actual probability that my trade becomes a winner, I can select my trades to achieve a favourable R-Multiple.


Hindsight

After the market has closed, I can apply the hindsight indicator, which checks for each single bar of my chart, whether a defined stop loss (you can use a fixed value or ATR multiplied with some factor), a profit target (R times the stop loss) or neither (for the last bars) was hit first. You mark the bars, which would have allowedthese favourable entries.


Know your indicators

I have a few favourite indicators that I am used to. I could easily replace them by a set of different indicators, it does not matter. But once you selected your indicators you should stick with them. So what I want to learn from the daily visual review is, which of the combinations of my indicators at which time of the day will allow me for a favourable setup that meets my requirements in terms of R-Multiple. Once I have generated a combination that does empirically well, I can backtest it. But backtesting is only an exam, after you have done your homework.

I will think about the subject and maybe create a separate thread, when it is mature.

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Shortfalls of Backtesting

Backtesting has a major shortfall. It only allows you to evaluate an idea or system, and optimize it over various parameters and instruments. System means a set of rules, definining a setup, filters, one or several entry conditions (scaling in, pyramiding), exit conditions, money management rules, etc. The setup, entry and exit conditions may depend on price, volume, time of day, order book, market depth of underlying (index futures), correlation with other instruments, etc.

But before evaluating something, you need to create it. This can only be done by observing the market, you need to spend some screen time. The screen time should be well spent. So the question is what to look for.


R- Multiple and Win Rate

When I enter a trade, I do not know the probability that my trade will be a winner. The markets are nonlinear dynamic systems, and it is quite complex to have a set of criteria to calculate the win rate. But stop loss and profiit target are both part of my setup. While I have no idea of the actual probability that my trade becomes a winner, I can select my trades to achieve a favourable R-Multiple.


Hindsight

After the market has closed, I can apply the hindsight indicator, which checks for each single bar of my chart, whether a defined stop loss (you can use a fixed value or ATR multiplied with some factor), a profit target (R times the stop loss) or neither (for the last bars) was hit first. You mark the bars, which would have allowedthese favourable entries.


Know your indicators

I have a few favourite indicators that I am used to. I could easily replace them by a set of different indicators, it does not matter. But once you selected your indicators you should stick with them. So what I want to learn from the daily visual review is, which of the combinations of my indicators at which time of the day will allow me for a favourable setup that meets my requirements in terms of R-Multiple. Once I have generated a combination that does empirically well, I can backtest it. But backtesting is only an exam, after you have done your homework.

I will think about the subject and maybe create a separate thread, when it is mature.

Well put . Its the consistent application of an idea/strategy/method through all market conditions and phases that causes the true potential of that idea to surface . Then you can tweak it or change it because theres proof that those changes are needed and can enhance the idea .

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Shortfalls of Backtesting


But before evaluating something, you need to create it. This can only be done by observing the market, you need to spend some screen time. The screen time should be well spent. So the question is what to look for.


I cannot agree more , proper discretionnary trading can be magnified knowing eaxctly odds of patterns ( that are found by scientifically and rigorously backtesting)

However , how exactly the hindsight bar will help you to "find" a pattern? From what I can understand below this only help you to find best Stop loss-target




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Shortfalls of Backtesting

While I have no idea of the actual probability that my trade becomes a winner, I can select my trades to achieve a favourable R-Multiple.


What is the R multiple ? How do you define a good or/and the best R-multiple ?


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Shortfalls of Backtesting

After the market has closed, I can apply the hindsight indicator, which checks for each single bar of my chart, whether a defined stop loss

Why when the market ahs closed ? I would think that it is better to have it real time .....


Catually it makes me think that with good computation power and a not too complex strategy , one can built an indicator taht is only a "backest-optimal " indicator


The input is the number of days back and the startegy parameters , the output would be best TArget and stop loss based on your favourite optimization pramater (mine is SQN -Drawdawn)

Come on lets start this new thread , these will be a brand new class of indicators .....

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