mister ed

I know you are busy James and this may have slipped your mind, but the original charts were recovered and posted back into the thread - all except for about 5 charts were recovered. This was done in March 2008.

Anton - if you go and actually look at the thread you will see that the missing charts were restored to it at the end of March, 2008.

Hi kuky - I think you are asking in the context of CandleWhisperer's postings and charts, right? You should find some information on these concepts on the threads dealing with Wide Range Bars and Wide Range Body candles. Try this one: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/f151/wide-range-bodies-or-big-candles-1480.html

As a back-door idea perhaps look for a settlements job, I would say in FX preferably. There should be vacancies in both Melbourne (ANZ, NAB) and Sydney (WBC, CBA, MBL, plus the smaller operations). To be honest, prick of a job, but you will have a foot in the door and then you need to pester the sh*t out of the chief dealer and the senior dealers on the desk (in the nicest possible way) to get an assistant's job on the dealing desk.

snackly, forgive me if I have misinterpreted your comment, but here goes... This near 100% negative correlation between EUR/USD and USD/CHF is because these two are quoted inversely to each other. If EUR/CHF didn't move at all then the negative correlation between the two would be exactly 100%, but only because one is quoted with USD as the base currency, while in the other it is not.

So much for the thread quietening down, more excellent work. I found some info elsewhere from a very knowledgeable Wyckoff trader and thought I would copy the link in here as it relates very closely to VSA. I found the info at aussiestockforums.com, do a search for 'The Wyckoff Method' thread. (The specific link is in post 71, but all of the posts from 'motorway' are of excellent quality for those wanting to learn Wyckoff analysis). The link is at: http://www.wyckoffstockmarketinstitute.com/wyckoff_articles/Wyckoff_Articles/price_vol_relationships.htm

Test Your Tool ... :rofl: (sorry)

And retail FX is ... a flea on the dog (dog's name is Spot!).

Just thought I would repeat your post smwinc as it seemed to answer the question but somehow appears to have been missed. My understanding of EBS and how it works is this data would be a good proxy for total volume in certain cureency pairs. Anyone have any thoughts on the EBS data available through CQG? Pros, cons etc.?

Lars - while this thread has been slow lately there is much value to be found by reading through the earlier pages (the entire thread) and the the entire original VSA thread. Principles don't date. Those who have made positive contributions to these threads have provided a gift to us all, a gift that keeps on giving (corny, I know, but true). There are 5 videos from Sebastion found on this page: http://www.videos.traderslaboratory.com/search_result.php?search_id=sebastian

Great opportunity Aaron. Is it out of line for me to ask you to report back on your impressions etc.? Could be a great help to us all. And you could change your username to Jack Schwager!

Well, you are certainly on the right threads (this one and the other massive VSA thread) to figure out VSA.

James - what a cutey (Buddy, not you)!

Hi all Nothing more than a distraction, and hopefully some smiles with our friends ... http://ihasahotdog.com/ and for the cat people: http://icanhascheezburger.com/ and some more: http://failblog.org/

It is terrible how we miss our animal friends when they are gone, shows what a big part of our life they are. Hang in there BF and try to do some fun things, just like Patches would do!

Great sites so far. Also, don't forget this thread, Best of TL.

Sledge, I reckon that's probably getting very, very close to the definition of passion!

If a spot FX broker was showing a DOM then it would be limited to the orders passing through that one broker and would not include the orders being input into all the other spot FX brokers. So the DOM with any one spot broker would be a sample only, and would not be complete, like you would see on a futures market DOM. Just the nature of the FX market, where it is not centralised like futures.

fs, Chad - I might be completely wrong here, but if you plotted a very short-term chart (let's say 10 seconds, or even tick-by-tick as you suggest, fs) and report the CCI result for this very short-term chart (close only like you say Chad) into one of the "Variables" (V1, V2, etc...) and then plotted the "Variable" as an OHLC or candle under a longer timeframe chart (Chad, you have used the 5-minute in your post), would this work? I could try it but I am not proficient at manipulating the Variables. So just an idea which may or may not work, Chad?

Thanks for the comments on MP btfox - if you would like to expand on the comments that would be appreciated too. Regarding the criticism of ET - I think there is no denying that there is excellent info on ET and some excellent people there, it is just that there is a lot of personal attack and abuse there, and some posters who seem to concentrate on distracting threads. To be honest, it is quite an entertaining read sometimes! But what we try to do here at TL is focus on the quality input and get rid of the attacks and distractions. It is hard work sometimes, but hopefully you, and others, can spot the difference.

Alternative titles for this thread: The bad side of holding positions over the weekend The bad side of holding long equity futures positions over the weekend The bad side of holding long equity futures positions over a long weekend The bad side of not accepting a small loss initially

Good luck to you and the dog mea - our friends and family are always the most important things in our lives, whether they have 2 or 4 legs (or whatever!)

Goodonya Abe!

atto, have a look at the "Top Gun" software - while I haven't used it the examples on the site show bars with a horizontal distribution of volume on the vertical price bar. Similar to the Market Delta presentation of the data. It is funny how bits and pieces of ideas can be found spread across numerous products... Sometimes to see how the volume is distributed across a bar I will drop down a frame and look at the distribution of the lower frame bars. Using constant volume bars this can be helpful (though not precisely what you are looking for of course). About representing time on a non-time bar chart, I have thought that a vertical line in the background (like a grid line found on many charts) but spaced every minute, or 30 seconds, or whatever, would serve a purpose in showing how the price changed over time. Most vertical grid lines (that I have seen anyway) are spaced evenly, every 10 bars (or again, whatever), which is fine on a time-based bar/candle chart, but on a non time-based chart spacing the vertical grid lines according to time would impart more information.

I think the thread has moved on .... but I will have to (briefly) disagree with you atto. Gladwell's message is to trust the power of the trained mind to make split-second decisions. If my brain is seeing what I want to see (and not what is actually what I am looking for) then I have not honed my skills enough. In reference to trading the ES in a very short time-frame pausing to have a think can cause either a missed trade or a significantly less favourable entry price. Not always of course, but very often. ------------ Back to where the thread is now ... the Market Delta program can do some of what you are after. I use Investor R/T and that too can do some of this trade-by-trade (or very small packaged summaries of the action) analysis. For example, I R/T can plot the VWAP of a bar/candle on the bar/candle (which is basically your volume POC) - so your 96 tick example chart could have the VWAP (VPOC) plotted on each bar/candle. You are right about this indication, when the bar VWAP plots at or near the extreme of a bar, maybe for a few consecutive bars, and the price fails to continue on in the direction of the swing that took it to that point there is often a significant (read potentially profitable) reversal. It's not as simple as that obviously, but its a good indication. AFAIK it doesn't plot the VAH & VAL on each candle though (I have tried to have I R/T do this and it either doesn't or I am not skilled enough with using it). It doesn't do what you want Darth in combining discretionary with algo execution - probably something you will have to build or contract to build yourself... atto the expanding the width of the price bar is often done to represent the volume on that bar - this is the Equivolume bar, but haven't seen this width-adjustment based on time etc. Interesting direction this thread has taken thanks all.