MadMarketScientist

Agree with Tams, "We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose," is the quote of the whole story. Amazing what SJ has done. I hope MS took equity! Not that they need it ... thx MMS

Hi, Come on its not all that bad is it? Post counts have been on a steady rise since May, although Sept is a little slow, as was last Sept. But overall the activity\traffic on the site is growing. We are definitely not the size of ET or T2W but there are some great threads over here. What would you like to see different? thx MMS

We are in the process of removing the Blogs all together, thus that's why we haven't put any effort into fixing those issues. But thanks for the feedback about the HP, we will address that shortly thx MMS

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 27, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor NinjaTrader - Unleash Your Trading Potential with NinjaTrader | Traders Laboratory Registration TOP POSTS & THREADS Trading the Trendlines - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/day-trading-scalping/10814-few-questions-about-trading-trendlines-2.html#post128646 I always use them, together with my (customized) DTosc, which is a combination of Stoch./RSI. When using proper money management (duhh), they are VERY useful! IMHO ... Connection Speed Fast Enough? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/tools-trade/10781-connection-speed-3.html#post128457 A few other things people forget: 1. Latency is a double edged sword. Your latency is the delay for a quote to get from the broker to your platform, whereas the price may have moved ... Is Market Profile an Outdated Tool? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/market-profile/9865-market-profile-outdated-tool-10.html#post128680 Bob, there are little to no similarities between the electronic markets and auctions. I worked the auction circuit locally for a year to help put me through college when I was a kid ... S&P Intraday Range and VIX - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/5416-s-p-intraday-range-vix-6.html#post128725 Just jumped in this informative post(Ive recently joined), I trade in NIFTY Futures (Indian stock Index). I calculate the probable range for the Next day based on the Ranges of N days ... How to Trade Gaps from the Beginning - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10812-how-trade-gaps-beginning.html Did you see the gap of this week in EUR/USD? 100 pips gap! Let's start with a bit of annoying theory first (you can skip this part as this material is not examinable). Forex gaps occur ... Beyond Gann - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10788-beyond-gann-5.html#post128684 This is pure Gann, very clean and simple. Keeping an open mind, however, is essential to understand the Master as there is nothing esoteric in the application of the methods of charting ... HOT TOPIC The Price / Volume Relationship - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/6320-price-volume-relationship-383.html#post128633 Price or Volume its like Chicken or the Egg. You cant have significant price increase without volume behind it and you cant get to the significant volume until price gets to a certain level. I believe that they are intimately correlated but volume is much more important than price, though there are times where you can make good gains on low volume up-trends, like the latter part of this last bull run. But we all know how that ended ...

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 24, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor NinjaTrader - Unleash Your Trading Potential with NinjaTrader | Traders Laboratory Registration TOP POSTS & THREADS Day or Night Session - Which Hold More Upside Potential? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/market-analysis/10802-day-night-session-hold-more-upside.html#post128554 I suspect that you probably are completely unaware of the built-in bias embedded in your comments and that you didn't deliberately mean any offense, but you should know that night/day ... Anyone Have Experience with Currensee? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/general-discussion/7672-anyone-have-experience-currensee.html#post101522 If you check out the commercial section on FF there's an active discussion going on there about the broker password issue. I think the thread is called "Currensee Security Risk". With ... Optiontimer's Project Still Going Strong! - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-psychology/10158-optiontimers-project-47.html#post128223 If you'll pardon my obtuseness, I'm puzzled as to why you would have gone long the USDCHF trade (spot) in mid-January 2010, per the chart? When I look at the immediate chart only ... How High Can Gold Go? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/markets/10786-gold-s-ascent-fuelled-dollars-decline-3.html#post128492 In reference to my previous post, I am not promoting getting into real estate now, its not time yet. The gold rush and currencies deflation needs to take place and then as gold peaks ... Tick Volume in Currency and Commondities Market - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/forex-trading-laboratory/10810-tick-volume-currency-commondities-market.html My main method is VSA so when I join to currency and commondities market , I feel so difficult. Now I am study about to tick volume to use this like a real volume in stock market ... Intrabar Price Behavior Analysis - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/market-analysis/10529-intrabar-price-behavior-analysis.html#post128615 My strategy involves a lot of trades; exiting, and then re-entering trades in the same direction. In order to do this, I need to know intrabar price behavior. Looking at a historical chart, it may ... HOT TOPIC Trading the Trendlines - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/day-trading-scalping/10814-few-questions-about-trading-trendlines.html I've recently been trying to tighten up my ability to draw the right trend lines, horizontal lines, and identifying trade channels. Do you guys have any specific pointers that could help? Furthermore, how reliable are trend lines on smaller time intervals like a 2min? ...

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Aug 22, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Oanda - Oanda POSTS & THREADS Realistic Goals... - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10790-realistic-goals-4.html#post128383 This all varies depending on the trader, and his style of trading. Many traders ONLY trade the first couple of hours, for example. For day trading--and by that I mean some trades will ... Moving Averages and the Lag - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10807-moving-averages-lag.html i've read an article from John Ehler. which explains mathematical nature of the moving averages. he has described that how to calculate the lag of moving averages. SMA's lag is ... What Happens to an Account in the Case of Death? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/money-management/10806-what-happens-account-case-death.html We're all young and healthy. The world is our oyster. So quite naturally none of us like to think about the inevitable. I for one plan to outlive y'all but -- just for the sake of argument ... The First Day of My New Trading Business - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/introduce-yourself/10671-first-day-my-new-trading-business-5.html#post128395 TWs, I've actually just changed over to NT and eSignal as my primary charting platform from IB, so I've only just started using the tick chart in the last two weeks. When i started using the ... Is Daytrading Right For You? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-articles/374-daytrading-right-you-5.html It is a commonly known fact that only 5% will ultimately succeed in trading. Unfortunately this is not mentioned in the article. Trading is extremely difficult and requires certain skills that you can ... Implementing Optimal Donchian Channel - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/coding-forum/10804-implementing-optimal-donchian-channel.html i've seen an interesting article that describes Optimal Donchian Channel. it's kind of adaptive. don't need to input static period. automatically finds optimal period to plot donchian ... HOT TOPIC Day or Night Session - Which Hold More Upside Potential? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/market-analysis/10802-day-night-session-hold-more-upside.html When do you think the most points are accumulated in the S&P E-mini market? During the day session or during the overnight session? To answer this question I developed two simple strategies. Both strategies only go long. They both use a daily chart and a 200-period simple moving average (SMA) as a market environment ...

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 20, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Lightspeed - Two promotions. Two reasons why now is the right time to switch to Lightspeed. | Lightspeed Trading TOP POSTS & THREADS Gold’s Ascent Is Fuelled by Dollars Decline, but How High Can Gold Go? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/markets/10786-gold-s-ascent-fuelled-dollars-decline.html#post128165 It could work, just as its been working denominated against the US dollar for the last 50 years or so. Problem is ... which currency would you pick? euro? But no matter which one you do ... How Much Math is Involved in Daytrading - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/8807-how-much-math-involved-daytrading-3.html#post128159 Yeah,this is an interesting question because there are so many ways to trade the market,and the answer,like so many trading questions,is yes and no (eg,should i use indicators? ... Zero Lag EMA - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10700-zero-lag-ema-2.html#post128179 I've been experimenting with this 4-bar/12-bar setup, and it looks great. What sort of results have you had with it? And, what time frame works best for you? I'm using it on 30-min/Hourly ... Zulutrade - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/automated-trading/7789-zulutrade-10.html#post128109 I have my account set up and set at custom settings generally using medium-risk settings, with $1500 deposited in the account (trading mini lots of course) following only 1 or 2 ... Beyond Gann - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10788-beyond-gann.html How many of you have studied Gann and concluded he was either a conman or that he didn't tell us everything.? Did you leave it at that and move on, or are you like me, fascinated with ... Share Price Increase? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-markets/10792-share-price-increase.html I'm writin a thesis about mobile trading platforms and I'm looking for an answer to this specific question: Does an increase in trader's number make general share prices higher? Let's ... HOT TOPIC Realistic Goals.... - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10790-realistic-goals.html I'm currently setting up my goals for my day trading and would appreciate your feedback. I paper traded daily on futures for the last six month, i used the time for educate myself..... mainly blogs, forums and books. I opened up a live account with 10K and would really like to know if I'm shooting to high on my goals ...

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TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 17, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Oanda - Oanda TOP POSTS & THREADS For Those of You Good at Math and Probabilities - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10771-those-you-good-math-probabilities.html#post127899 you should read up on volatility expressed as a standard deviation. try a google of that and/or black-scholes pricing model which basically assumes prices are random, and the current ... The Science of Highs and Lows - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-markets/10776-science-highs-lows.html Looking at historical price bars and trend lines on a chart tell very little about the real behavior of price. All kinds of things happen intra-bar that are not readily apparent on a static, historical ... Is It True That 90% of Traders Never Make a Dime! - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10469-true-90-traders-never-make-dime-9.html#post128147 This is great advice/ Most of the time consistency is more important than anything else. Also, I think it is very important to limit your losses on a daily basis as well. As long as your ... Connection Speed - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/tools-trade/10781-connection-speed.html what is the minimum internet connection speed you think you need for your trading, and what is your trading style? I trade discretionary, index futures and stocks. I normally enter a ... 20 EMA and Patterns - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/candlestick-corner/4461-20-ema-patterns-30.html#post128009 If you ask your platform to alert you when price touches the moving average you might be able to trade multiple instruments in 5m or higher. Alternatively, you can trade off a 3m or 1m ... Again Lower Lows in Net New Trade! - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10597-early-warning-again-2.html#post126300 Intra-session when NNT makes new lows and price is sideways it is usually a warning that new lows in price are soon to come: Given that the current formation is a horizontal consolidation ... HOT TOPIC Gold’s Ascent Is Fuelled by Dollars Decline, but How High Can Gold Go? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/markets/10786-gold-s-ascent-fuelled-dollars-decline.html In January of this year the gold bull market had its 10th birthday. Investors who’ve had the patience and fortitude to hold gold since 18 January 2001 when it made its low of $257 have been richly rewarded since today the yellow metal trades at $1,784 an ounce. ...

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 15, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Oanda - Oanda TOP POSTS & THREADS Position Sizing - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/money-management/10767-position-sizing.html Hello, I've been reading about the art of position sizing and many people say that is the only "holy grail" of trading. I recently found the articles writen by the Dr. Van Tharp. Does anyone ... Favorite Trading Sayings / Quotes - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/general-discussion/7027-favorite-trading-sayings-quotes-13.html#post126992 The trend is your friend. Plan your trade and trade your plan. Let your winners run and kill losing trades quick. Follow the biggest money (trend). Don't overtrade. I live and trade by all the ... Tape Read (Time & Sales) Strategies - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/market-analysis/10748-tape-read-time-sales-strategies-3.html#post127828 "The tape" is time and sales, it is not the DOM. The DOM represents orders, which can be changed. Time and sales are the tape, they are transactions that have occurred. "Reading ... Data Feed for E-mini's - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/e-mini-futures-trading-laboratory/10759-data-feed-e-minis.html i have a broker (IB) and need raw data (futures) to my ninjatrader platform. Any suggestion would be very appreciated. I had in mind Zen-Fire, Iqfeed ... The Heck About Trading for a Living - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading/10583-heck-about-trading-living-3.html#post127956 Old news but relevant: Currency Trading | Foreign currency trading is an easy way to lose money - Los Angeles Times. An estimated 615,000 Americans are dabbling in foreign ... Walter`s First Forex Research (various ideas) - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/forex-trading-laboratory/1916-walter-s-first-forex-research-various-20.html#post127845 Has anyone idea here if the forex techniques have been changed since the crisis hit the market again with it’s bankruptcy and losing job effects. I was in a forex trading firm but after market ... HOT TOPIC For Those of You Good at Math and Probabilities ... - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10771-those-you-good-math-probabilities.html This might be a dumb question but I'm compelled to ask anyway. Does anyone here know how I would go about calculating the probability (percentage wise) of price reaching a certain point completely disregarding past behavior? ...

It could work, just as its been working denominated against the US dollar for the last 50 years or so. Problem is ... which currency would you pick? euro? But no matter which one you do, the ones in power will always spend and print money they don't have. Its happened throughout history and is happening right before our own eyes with BOTH the euro and the USD thx MMS

In January of this year the gold bull market had its 10th birthday. Investors who’ve had the patience and fortitude to hold gold since 18 January 2001 when it made its low of $257 have been richly rewarded since today the yellow metal trades at $1,784 an ounce. A 7 fold move in a little over a decade certainly isn’t bad but given that this bull market shows no sign of stopping, the question is: How High Will Gold Go? In order to answer this question, it’s first necessary to understand what’s driving gold. What’s Driving Gold? Gold has two primary drivers, currency debasement (which shows up as inflation), and interest rates. Currency Debasement As a response to its unsustainable levels of state and federal debt, and in an attempt to stimulate economic activity, the United States has adopted a deliberate policy of currency debasement. As with any market currency prices are set by supply and demand and as the Federal Reserve creates more dollars their value falls, and since gold is denominated in dollars, as the dollar falls, so the price of gold rises. Gold then is the anti-dollar, and gold’s decade long advance runs counter to the dollar’s decade long decline. Back in 2007 the US dollar index [DXY] broke down through 80 – a level which had acted as support for 34 years – and with the likelihood of QE3 not too far away, the outlook for the buck is distinctly negative. In fact, famed technical analyst Louise Yamada, has a long-term downside target for the DXY of 60. Mark Hanney, Valbury Capital Chief Executive Officer, says “Given the Fed’s announcement that it will keep interest rates low until at least the middle of 2013, investors who are long gold and short the dollar might well feel comfortable staying that way.” It is just over 40 years since Richard Nixon took America off the gold standard and over that period the greenback has lost more than 98% of its value compared with gold. Buyers of gold are simply trying to protect their wealth by moving out of paper currencies into the ultimate hard currency that cannot be created at will by central bankers. The question of how high gold can go is really a question of how low paper money can go. Interest Rates Gold becomes attractive to investors when the rate of return they can achieve on their savings falls below the rate of inflation – a condition faced by most of the world’s savers today. The persistence of negative real interest rates – a form of financial repression – erodes the wealth of those holding cash on deposit and forces them to go in search of better returns. The attraction of gold in this environment is easy to see especially since gold has risen for 10 years in a row and has returned on average 18% with no down years. A Different Animal Although some of the conditions that drove gold in the 1970’s also exist today – namely high inflation and negative real interest rates – today’s bull market is a very different animal. Today gold is also being driven by fears over sovereign debt default, the solvency of the banking system and the threat of global recession. Inflation Adjusted High One popular method for calculating the target for gold is to take the 1980 high of $850 and adjust it for inflation. Many in the mainstream tout the inflation adjusted figure as being equivalent to $2,400 an ounce in today’s money but if we use the same methodology for calculating inflation as was used in 1980, we find the true inflation adjusted high is $5,467. The Last Gold Bull Market Another way to gauge the length of gold’s current bull market is to compare it with the previous bull market which ran from early 1970 to early 1980, exactly one decade. In January 1970 gold was $35 an ounce, ten years later on 21 January 1980 gold reached an intraday price of $850 – a 24 fold increase in price. If gold were to match that increase, based on its January 2001 low it would reach $6,245. Even if gold simply achieves the gains made in the previous bull market, we can expect a price in excess of $6,000 an ounce. However multi-decade bull markets almost always end in a mania and in a mania gold could far exceed $6,000. Article syndicated from http://www.valburycapital.com Valbury Capital Limited was established to provide Asian clients with a London based broking service fully regulated by the FSA, and to give European clients a doorway into Asia - one of the world’s fastest growing marketplaces. Valbury Capital’s investors bring with them over 20 years’ of corporate experience and their Asian heritage gives it unique market insight and expertise. Valbury Capital Limited focuses on providing individuals and institutional clients with a premier service.

Amen - I think we've discussed this topic long enough. Once I am back from vacation the last week of Sept (on my way to Vienna then Salsburg and then Munich if anyone cares!) we are going to add the icon and then close this thread so that everyone can get back to discussing trading. thanks, MMS

We are working on a new Reviews section and there will be forums for this - thanks for the feedback. MMS

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 13, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Lightspeed - Two promotions. Two reasons why now is the right time to switch to Lightspeed. | Lightspeed Trading TOP POSTS & THREADS Zero Lag EMA - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10700-zero-lag-ema-2.html as I see it, you look for a situation where the Candles are clustered all on one side of the green line (Zero-lag (20). enter the trade as soon as a candle closes across the green line ... Thought Process while in a trade - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-psychology/1259-thought-process-while-trade.html If your profit target is not hit, do you have indicators that tell you why the profit target was not hit? For example, there was not enough buying volume. If I see weakness on my indicators ... How valid is technical analysis? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/224-how-valid-technical-analysis-2.html I'm new here (obviously), although I have a lot more experience as a value investor. I've (at best) dabbled in TA and that's what I'm here to learn. The thing with Buffett (yes, he's a genius ... Free Charting Tool That Can Import Custom Data? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/tools-trade/10766-looking-free-charting-tool-can-import.html Hello Traders. as title says i'm looking for a Free charting tool that supports custom data importing (OHLC or just Close). and provides various popular technical indicators. i know ... Calculations to Help Fine Tune Your Trading Strategy - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/markets/10750-calculations-help-fine-tune-your-trading.html Once you’ve placed some trades with your strategy you can begin to analyze the data. A paper trade account is a great way to tweak and fine tune, but switching to a live trading account ... Trading F&O by Time and Sales - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/options-trading-laboratory/9610-trading-f-o-time-sales-8.html#post127798 Please help with this question. How does large institutions enter or exit positions? I know about the following options: 1 Large block trades and 2. Algorithms ... HOT TOPIC Stationarity and Trading Regimes - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/tech-analysis/10755-stationarity-trading-regimes.html People spend most of the time trying to ‘find’ a better indicator but it is ironic that very little time is spent to analyze phases in which a particular indicator works well and how these phases change. Stationarity is the statistician’s term for regimes in price behavior. It is defined as a lookback period for which the averages and other statistics ...

Just an icon like what T2W does - just haven't implemented the system or found the exact icon yet. thx MMS

It was the featured thread in the Aug 25 newsletter ... just didn't update the Top Posts thread until now ... internet access was a little intermittent the last few weeks here on vacation! thx MMS

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 10, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Oanda - Oanda TOP POSTS & THREADS The Question of Randomness - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10728-question-randomness-5.html I have to say that this thread is really something special. One can say what they want but the sheer reality really scares me...Perhaps it is time to accept the "fact" stated decades ago ... Momentum Is Essential to My Trading Plan! - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10742-momentum-essential-my-trading-plan.html I look for momentum on a chart. I look for: a) Broad Trend patterns. b) Rising/ falling candlesticks. How do you use momentum in your plan? Divergence Trading - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10734-divergence-trading.html#post127514 I strongly agree but I don't think he/she was looking for such because he/she seems very focused on divergence that's counter-trend trading on his chart due to the fact it's fighting an ... 20 EMA and Patterns - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/candlestick-corner/4461-20-ema-patterns-27.html Cool--I ask because I have found it much easier to get into the rhythm of a single market. A while back I was watching CL and ES at the same time, and it proved too tiresome for me ... Calculations to Help Fine Tune Your Trading Strategy - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/markets/10750-calculations-help-fine-tune-your-trading.html Once you’ve placed some trades with your strategy you can begin to analyze the data. A paper trade account is a great way to tweak and fine tune, but switching to a live trading account WILL ... Tape Read (Time & Sales) Strategies - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/market-analysis/10748-tape-read-time-sales-strategies.html I wonder if you can help. I've spent the last few days trying to track down information on tape reading (time and sales) strategies. I searched the four corners of the internet ... HOT TOPIC Zero Lag EMA - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10700-zero-lag-ema.html Does anyone here use this EMA? Ive been tinkering around w a 20 period ZLEMA w pretty nice results (so far). If anyone has any info and input on this indicator, or strategies using this, please post here ...

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 8, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Lightspeed - Two promotions. Two reasons why now is the right time to switch to Lightspeed. | Lightspeed Trading TOP POSTS & THREADS Price Remains Stagnant for 35 Seconds - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/futures-trading-laboratory/10709-price-remains-stagnant-35-seconds-2.html#post127385 The main reason for the post was to get opinions on approaches when these situations occur. So putting this trade to one side for a moment, I would like to hear thoughts on what may be occuring ... Please Comment On My New Strategy - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-markets/10729-please-comment-my-new-strategy.html I have been working on trading strategy that I have been paper trading for a while. I will attempt to explain it in as much detail as I can - if I forget to add some crucial information let me know ... Divergence Trading - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10734-divergence-trading.html I am trying to learn how to trade divergences in price versus Stochastic. Attached is a 15 minute chart of EUR/USD for 9/7/2011. There are two divergence trades I indicated ... The Heck About Trading for a Living - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading/10583-heck-about-trading-living-3.html#post127195 I agree in that when you begin to draw profits out the account each week or month trading takes on a whole new meaning. Even if it's $100, physically removing those profits from your ... Understanding The Process Behind The Movement In Price - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-videos/10648-sam-seiden-understanding-exact-process-behind-5.html#post127183 You have hit the nail on the head. I wrote about supply/demand zones in my thread "An Institutional look at S&P Futures". I do it differently than Mr. Seiden..but I am guessing that the concept ... Why You Stay Stuck in Fear Based Patterns - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/psychology/10732-why-you-stay-stuck-fear-based.html Matt had been here before. On paper his trading was methodical – just like he had learned. He had done his review. He knew what he was looking for. He knew his symbols, entry points ... HOT TOPIC The Question of Randomness - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10728-question-randomness.html When I first came across this ages ago it made me sit up and it did the same when I came across it again recently. Take a look at the chart I have attached. What is it you ask? Oil, gold, S&P 500 ...

Here are a couple of good threads with some resources: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/1077-tape-reading-how-i-started-learning.html http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-markets/8327-tape-reading-resources.html http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/306-learning-tape-reading-time-sales.html Good Luck! MMS

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 6, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Oanda - Oanda TOP POSTS & THREADS What a New Trader Needs to Know About Trading - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10316-what-new-trader-needs-know-about-2.html#post123519 Respectfully I disagree... There are many things a trader should know if they are going to work in this profession (I am not talking about hobbyists or other amateurs). I would like to post ... Price Remains Stagnant for 35 Seconds - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/futures-trading-laboratory/10709-price-remains-stagnant-35-seconds.html Last week, while trading the mini-dow, I noticed there were occassions when the price remained fixed (didn't go up or down) for over 35 seconds. Is this normal behaviour and what ... The First Day of My New Trading Business - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/introduce-yourself/10671-first-day-my-new-trading-business-3.html#post127071 What i would really like (my goal) is to be in a position to take advantage of index futures trading (Asian...K200, MHI, SPI) when there is some movement, so either on the open or during ... New to Trading and Seeking Guidance - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/10523-new-trading-seeking-guidance-3.html Where do I learn how to develop a system for the forex market? Where can I learn how to back test or paper test a system? (don't know what a papertest and I think a backtest is where ... Looking for Position Trading Strategy - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/forex-trading-laboratory/481-looking-position-trading-strategy.html#post127224 I have one that you might be interested in but it's for stock market indices, not Forex. The rule is enter a long position whenever a stock market index closes at least 10% lower than the ... Depth Market: is It Useful Information? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/day-trading-scalping/10689-depth-market-useful-information-2.html There is nothing exact nor scientific about it. There is an incredible amount of detail needed to describe it, but i will give it a shot. Take an example of when price is high in a range ... HOT TOPIC William Dunnigan's Methodology - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/tech-analysis/10710-william-dunnigans-methodology.html Dunnigan researched extensively on technical analysis before his major publication in mid-1950. However, similar to most other technical analysts in his era he was neglected because fundamental analysts largely ...

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 3, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Oanda - Oanda TOP POSTS & THREADS What Would Traders Consider As EXCESSIVE TRADING....? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/support-center/10682-what-would-experienced-traders-consider-excessive-2.html It's very simple...if these are trades that are not valid trade signals from your trading plan, it's overtrading (excessive). Therefore, it's never the number of trades you take. Thus, if you took 300 ... Zero Lag EMA - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10700-zero-lag-ema.html Does anyone here use this EMA? Ive been tinkering around w a 20 period ZLEMA w pretty nice results (so far). If anyone has any info and input on this indicator, or strategies using this ... Value Area And Previous Days Range - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-videos/921-value-area-previous-days-range-2.html Cool stuff. i recently started using VAH/VAL studies on S&P e-mini futures to gauge market bias for intraday option trades and EUR/USD and your observation is definitely interesting ... Order Flow Second Day Testing Indicator - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/market-profile/9646-order-flow-advice-10.html#post127101 I've been looking for such an indicator for quite some time. I assume it bundles trades based on milliseconds, since I see a lot of prints that have the same second-timestamp? Anyways ... The First Day of My New Trading Business - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/introduce-yourself/10671-first-day-my-new-trading-business-3.html Your right to pick me up on those things. Ultimately trading is one mans opinion vs another and that is what I love about it. I also very much enjoy the banter and differences in opinion ... Top 10 Trading Blogs - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/beginners-forum/8604-top-10-trading-blogs-6.html EverBank: Daily Pfennig: This guy keeps me amused most days with his thoughts on currencies. This one isn't a blog but as a free internet magazine it contains some very interesting articles ... HOT TOPIC IEM - New Futures Market - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-markets/10703-iem-new-futures-market.html There is a new futures market called the IEM. But you can only invest $500 dollars, and it's based on things like political outcomes. Iowa Electronic Markets. There is a $5 dollar minimum deposit ...

TradersLaboratory Newsletter - Sept 1, 2011 This newsletter is brought to you by our sponsor Oanda - Oanda TOP POSTS & THREADS Understanding The Movement In Price - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/trading-videos/10648-sam-seiden-understanding-exact-process-behind-3.html Here is the unfortunate problem. I've become cynical and skeptical about subscribing to trading services and products. Now I have an emotional and psychological block that I ... Intra Day Margins Trading Eminis - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/e-mini-futures-trading-laboratory/10688-intra-day-margins-trading-eminis.html If you have traded eminis for few years, can you list the best and the worst of platforms and also their providing brokers. Also the brokers that offer self directed trading with low intra day ... Depth Market: is It Useful Information? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/day-trading-scalping/10689-depth-market-useful-information.html Times and sales is useful information. But what about depth market? Can we determine buy and sell pressures? I have watched ES and down trand day were more orders on offer ... 10 Min Chart Vs 3 Min Chart?? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10683-10-min-chart-vs-3-min.html Will someone please explain the difference ... and pros and cons of these 2 time frames? less noise w a 10 min chart= higher probability trades?? I've been trading 6E, 6A, CL, GC, and TF ... Virtual (Paper Trading) The ES? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/e-mini-futures-trading-laboratory/10685-virtual-paper-trading-es.html Im new to futures and Im looking to practice trading the ES, what are some could places/services/brokers that will let me virtually trade the ES? Help please! Data Visualization - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/technical-analysis/10675-data-visualization.html Technical Analysis can help only if you can identify patterns which are non-random. So the important part is identifying profitable patterns- either through graphs or through machine ... HOT TOPIC What Experienced Traders Consider As EXCESSIVE TRADING....? - http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/support-center/10682-what-would-experienced-traders-consider-excessive.html Specifically, if a trader pulled the trigger 30+ times in the opening hour....would or could it be considered in your learned experiences as excessive and/or lunatic and/or moronic and/or suicidal.... and/or all the above combined together....?