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Definition of a trending day

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Trending goes both ways...


Fat Tails, is there anyway to post a template of your chart. Looks really clean and easy to follow.

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Fat Tails, is there anyway to post a template of your chart. Looks really clean and easy to follow.

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@hector24: I have never used such a chart, you need to ask @ThatManFromTexas, where he stole it.

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@hector24: I have never used such a chart, you need to ask @ThatManFromTexas, where he stole it.

Sorry about that. I meant to write ThatManFromTexas but I wrote Fat Tails, sorry.
That Man From Texas is there anyway to obtain a template of the chart you have.

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@hector24: I have never used such a chart, you need to ask @ThatManFromTexas, where he stole it.


@Fat Tails

You're just worried I'll learn enough from studying all your code to take over the color indicator, draw arrows," sound of cat getting run over by a lawn mower" audio alert market that strives on futures.io (formerly BMT)...


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Sorry about that. I meant to write ThatManFromTexas but I wrote Fat Tails, sorry.
That Man From Texas is there anyway to obtain a template of the chart you have.

@hector24

Check your PM's

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@Fat Tails

... "sound of cat getting run over by a lawn mower" audio alert market that strives on futures.io (formerly BMT)...


I have coded that one, but had a number of unforeseeable problems.


- First of all, the alert only triggers once, maybe something wrong with the code.

- Then my wife did not like it and ever since she refuses to continue the supplies with hot fresh coffee.


I am very much afraid that she has possibly watched me, when I was in the garden of my neighbour to record the sound for the indicator.

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- Then my wife did not like it and ever since she refuses to continue the supplies with hot fresh coffee.


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You're lucky she's just withholding coffee ...

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You're lucky she's just withholding coffee ...

What was your age again?

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What was your age again?

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It's a Texas tradition....


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Here is an article that should be of interest to the readers of this thread.

Definition of a trending day-1-2010-article.pdf

In this study, both concepts of "trending" and "choppy" days are used respectively representing 25% and 30% of the days. So, a third category exists for non-trending and non-choppy days.

I love how the resulting filter turns off some strategies and help avoid "bad" trades.

I tried to reverse engineer the indicator basing the calculation only on the open and close:
- if Close/Open < 0.3% then Choppy
- if Close/Open > 1% then Trending
The Excel chart looks similar, but not the same.
I did not try to apply this on my strategies yet.

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In the book "Enhancing Trader Performace", Brett Steenbarger mentions 3 types of days to analyze trading performance:


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Uptrend days open near their lows and close near their highs; downtrend days do the reverse.
Reversal days trade well off their opening prices only to close near them or at the opposite extreme.
Rangebound days close near the middle of their ranges, close to their opening prices.

Does anyone know if he defined these types more specifically (for example with formulas)?

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