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Week in Review: Chipper CodersFirst Off If you enjoy these weekly publications and would like to keep up-to-date with the latest and greatest scripts, share this article and follow me on TradingView. *sigh* The TradingView community has been, unfortunately for me, very busy this week publishing useful indicators. Due to this, it wouldn’t be right to just glaze over everyone, so this week will be a little extended, taking a slightly deeper look at some of the work published and by who it’s published. I’ll still focus in on the coder that has, in my opinion, done the highest quality work. That aside, there’s no order. Water, Water, All Around... Someone (or some people) that’s no stranger to TradingView is BacktestRookies , who’s articles on their website have helped many budding Pine scripters. This week they published an indicator called “Volume Profile:Intra-bar Volume”. Through a function to loop, it looks at the close of lower timeframes and stores the volume as buying volume if the lower timeframe candle closed up, or selling volume if it closed down. This is as close as we can get to identifying volume flow imbalances without order flow data, but it’s not quite there (through no fault of its own). One issue I noticed was that during the current chart’s period the volume bars will stop updating volume and will only render it properly when current chart’s period finishes. This makes it difficult to use it within a trading system (as far as I can see) Sticking with volume, mjslabosz has created “Volume+ (RVOL/Alerts)”, which is a relative volume indicator. Relatively simple, but highly applicable in volume studies. mjslabosz has also allowed the user to select what criteria needs to be met for the volume bars to be highlighted. No doubt this will be a useful addition to many people’s ideas. Spiralman666’s “ETH HawkEye Aggregated Volume Indicator” takes NeoButane’s “Aggregated ETH Exchange Volume” and combines it with LazyBear’s “HawkEye Volume Clone Indicator”. This will give you an in-depth yet holistic overview of Ethereum’s volume. The concept can be extrapolated to other assets for volume analysis strategies. … And Not A Drop To Drink One issue I have with many reversal identification scripts is that they identify the conditions for a reversal as an instance as opposed to a zone or area. LonesomeTheBlues “Divergences for many indicators V2.0” attempts to rectify this by plotting reversal conditions as a line from one point to another, thereby giving you a zone/area from within which to take reversal trades should other conditions be met. The user has the option to choose from a range of indicators with which to identify reversals. Lines In The Sky Another familiar face to TradingView, and someone who constantly brings something new to the community, is alexgrover . This week he published a “Light LSMA” script. Rather than try and rehash the brilliant explanation he gave on it’s construction, I encourage you to visit his profile and view the trove of high-quality work he’s provided. Peter_O’s “EMA NoHesi - cutting noise in EMA and any other data signals” (rolls of the tongue, eh?) is a function to remove noise from indicators that use lines, like MA’s, RSI, MACD etc. The function will guide the line in the same direction unless there is a significant change is the price. The script could be improved to automatically calculate the hesitation value based off what asset you’re trading, but that doesn’t take much away from it. The “Multi Timeframe Rolling BitMEX Liquidation Levels” by cubantobacco allows users to gain insight into where a lot of liquidation may lie for BitMEX and where price may have to go to keep cascading in that direction. Combining this with some kind of sentiment index for Bitcoin can give great insight into what levels will cause huge reactions. In general the TradingView community can’t seem to get enough of tools for trading on BitMEX, so I’m sure this will see use. Last of the lines, shtcoinr’s “The Center”, which was inspired by half a sentence from Adam H. Grimes, takes the high and low of the higher timeframe, divides it by half and then plots the halfway line. The result is a line that hints at the prevailing trend, can act as a momentum indication (by measuring the distance of the line from the price) and acts as a line of support and resistance. Busy Bees Two people were very active in producing high-quality work this week. The first I’ll mention is RafaelZioni (who’s been included in the previous two articles). He’s published five scripts this week, with one of them being a simple “5 min volume scalper” with alertconditions() that buy and sell based off volume activity. Another script with alertconditions() for buying and selling is his “Keltner Channel signals”, which is just an alteration of puppytherapys “Keltner Channel - APEX”. It also includes support and resistance levels. “linear regression new” and “BollingerRS” apply the same concept, with “linear regression new” being an attempt to render a linear regression channel (something that TradingView should really provide for us, along with the volume profile formula). Last but not least is RafaelZioni’s “Linear regression slope as SAR”, which is a creative alteration to the standard PSAR. The other busy bee this week was xkavalis , who published three interesting scripts. The first was “Dynamic Price Channels”, which divides the price action into equal channels. When I first seen it I thought that maybe it could be a component for a volume profile overlay (combined with some other features). The “Manual Backtest Lines” can be used within another indicator for replaying price action and results. (He’s actually looking for a fix for a couple of issues, so if you think you can help him out, shoot him a message). “ATR SL Visualization (on chart)” plots appropriate stoplosses and take-profits for each bar (should you enter a trade on that bar) automatically and is, yet again, another script that would be a useful component within a strategy. Expect More of the Same The user I’ll be focusing on this week is dasanc , someone who’s been focused on in the past. It’s difficult not to shine the spotlight on him when he’s pumping out truly empowering ideas. Last week dasanc published “Decent Martingale Strategy ”, which was inspired from a script with a similar name by RicardoSantos . Although it’s not ready for use in trading, it gives good insight into how to code strategies (although until TradingView’s backtester is suped up a little, backtesting doesn’t really mean anything in most cases, so don’t get too excited at those results) The “Signal to Noise Ratio [SNR}” by dasanc gives traders confidence that the signal being fired isn’t just a stray note in a noisy market, but a meaningful one. Keeping with Ehlers, dasanc has also published the “MESA Adaptive Moving Average”, which, rather than being a copy of the indicator, is, as dasanc puts it, a translation. His iteration seems to signal a period earlier than other versions without introducing any lag, due to how it’s calculated. Following from the “Interquartile IFM” and the “Cosine IFM”, we now have the last of Ehlers IFM bunch, the “Robust Cycle Measurement”. This is similar to it’s cousins in that it outputs an adaptive period, but the output of this script is usually higher than it’s two cousins. I’ll definitely be including it in some of my future creations. Last but certainly not least is dasanc’s “Multi-Instantaneous Frequency Measurement”, which is a script combining all three of the IFM’s that have been published, as well as the Hilbert Transform. Quick Mention I would just like to give nilux a shout-out for turning more than a handful of studies into their strategy counterparts. A lot of people seem to have trouble wielding the power of strategies and I’m sure many would learn something from studying his. Also, look at this almost-2000 line script that shtcoinr called “... longer than the bible”: Want to learn? If you'd like the opportunity to learn Pine but you have difficulty finding resources to guide you, take a look at this rudimentary list: docs.google.com The list will be updated in the future as more people share the resources that have helped, or continue to help, them. Follow me on Twitter to keep up-to-date with the growing list of resources. Suggestions or Questions? Don't even kinda hesitate to forward them to me. My (metaphorical) door is always open. Profile’s of Mentioned Dasanc: www.tradingview.com RafaelZioni: www.tradingview.com xkavalis: www.tradingview.com nilux: www.tradingview.com Spriralman666: www.tradingview.com shtcoinr: www.tradingview.com BacktestRookies: www.tradingview.com alexgrover: www.tradingview.com Peter_O: www.tradingview.com TheViciousVB: www.tradingview.com cubantobacco: www.tradingview.com LonesomeTheBlue: www.tradingview.com mjslabosz: www.tradingview.com
BITFINEX:BTCUSDEducation
by chrysopoetics
8
Week in Review: Hidden GemHonorable Mentions Some very nice work has been done this week again by the Pine community. Shout out to Covax for publishing an attractive "Bitfinex Sentiment Index", beautifully rendering longs and shorts with some creative code; mortdiggidy's "Fisher Transform MTF" includes a unique function for the MTF Fisher, which, if I'm reading it right, solves the upper timeframe repainting that's oft associated with studies; and "Relative Derivative" by byteboi is a simple modification of the RoC that's comparable across assets and smoothed with an SMA. Dr. Do-a-lot A scripter that some, but not enough, users of TradingView will be familiar with is RafaelZioni. He's been a user for ten months and in that time he's amassed a huge library. RafaelZioni's strengths can be seen in the details of his work and as such his broader body of work may go underappreciated, but it's worth venturing deep into some of his work if you want to learn tricks-of-the-trade. His most recent work, and the script that will be highlighted this week, is "zigzag%". Zig-Zags in the Bag A very famous and useful scripter by the name of RicardoSantos has published a slew of scripts for realising zig-zags on the chart, so what make this one special? Well, for a start (and as far as I can tell), the zig-zag paints in real-time and with no lag. It can also use upper timeframe data with (as per description) no repaint. But that's not where the value lies in this script. A problem with Pine is that we can't realise some strategy functions in studies. TradingView doesn't accommodate for this and we need to think out of the box in order to achieve fidelity. So if you look carefully in this script you'll see that RafaelZioni has done just that. We can set the backtest date, set the take-profit levels, stop-loss levels and more. For anyone who's trying to turn their strategies into studies so that they can get alerts for each action, look here for some great insight. The script is actually an implementation of a trading strategy too. Here's an example of some results you can get. What Else is in the Bag? It's a jungle out there, but there's treasure deep in the dark. I advise everyone to get down and dirty with RafaelZioni's scripts. There's a very RicardoSantos-feel from his ideas and I expect that they're only going to get more creative in the future. His "Bollinger ratio" was included in the honorable mentions list last week and is a creative way of merging Bollinger Bands with the MACD. The eloquently named "net volume of positive and negative volume buy and sell alert" is also a fantastic way to view volume, and it comes with buy and sell alerts. Want to learn? If you'd like the opportunity to learn Pine but you have difficulty finding resources to guide you, take a look at this rudimentary list: docs.google.com The list will be updated in the future as more people share the resources that have helped, or continue to help, them. Follow me on Twitter to keep up-to-date with the growing list of resources. Suggestions or Questions? Don't even kinda hesitate to forward them to me. My (metaphorical) door is always open. Honorable Mentions RafaelZioni: www.tradingview.com Covax: www.tradingview.com mortdiggidy: www.tradingview.com byteboi: www.tradingview.com
FX_IDC:XAUUSDEducation
by chrysopoetics
5
Week in Review: New Kid on the BlockHonorable Mentions This week we've seen a flurry of new open-source scripts hit TradingView, empowering it's users with trading ideas and programming techniques. "By Traders For Traders" by Dunhua-Yao , a potent modification of JustUncleL's "Price Action Candles", uses tighter criteria for 'Hammers' and 'Shooting Stars'; "Blau Divergence RSI", by blindfreddy , gifts us with William Blau's RSI; Quansium's "Quansium Source Layout" suggests ways to use external sources with TradingView; and RafaelZioni's "Bollinger ratio" brings together the MACD and Bollinger Bands in a unique way. There Goes the Neighborhood But there was one coder in particular that really caught my attention, introducing new, interesting, accessible, exotic and useful concepts. In the last week he's published 8 scripts, with his most recent strategy garnering a seemingly-outlandish return of 6000%+, although he has been a member for seven months. So the shining light for me this week, a big fan of Ehler's (who isn't?), has to be dasanc: www.tradingview.com Magnum Opus Currere The script that encapsulates his talent (for me) is his most recent strategy, "Adaptive Zero Lag EMA v2": This piece of work uses Ehler's ZLEMA and the two methods for Instantaneous Frequency Measurement (IFM) that dasanc's published in the past week. You can also adjust your risk limit, change TP/SL levels and determine your gain limit from within the control panel. Not only that, but it's presented in a clean and understandable manner, allowing beginners and professionals alike to pick up and immediately get started with the algorithms. Cherry on Top... So what makes this script so special? Well, the two IFM techniques: (One) (Two) In what seems to be his typical fashion, he's provided excellent descriptions for how these should be used. In short, if you're using an indicator that uses a lookback period (RSI, EMA etc), instead of fiddling with arbitrary numbers you just use the output of either of these techniques as the source for determining the lookback. Realising this concept has resulted in the entire Pine community being gifted with something they might not even know they were looking for. ...And Some Cream Low Lag Exponential Moving Average: Cosine, In-Phase and Quadrature IFM: Moving Forward With a young account and a recent burst of activity, it's safe to assume that we'll be seeing more of dasanc. Hopefully his singular approach to signal processing (as far as the current TradingView library is concerned) will be emulated by others. Want to learn? If you'd like the opportunity to learn Pine but you have difficulty finding resources to guide you, take a look at this rudimentary list: docs.google.com The list will be updated in the future as more people share the resources that have helped, or continue to help, them. Follow me on Twitter to keep up-to-date with the growing list of resources. Suggestions or Questions? Don't even kinda hesitate to forward them to me. My (metaphorical) door is always open. Honorable Mentions
NASDAQ:INTCEducation
by chrysopoetics
2
Mission Statement for the "- in Review" seriesI'm not sure of the exact figures, but I think TradingView has about 7M+ users. That's 7M+ people working towards the same end. 7M+ people with insights and ideas. 7M+ people with access to an in-house programming language tailored for trading and technical analysis. Yet despite this there's only a small, mumbling community for discussing Pine, trading and how to bring them together. A few people have endeavored to change this and I'd like to play my part. So I'm going to begin publishing a series of articles through TradingView that will try to bring light to the secretly-active Pine community. The three titles I suggest will be: (1) "Week in Review", (2) "Coder in Review" and (3) "Script in Review". One of the reasons I want to do this is because I think it's incredibly difficult for new users to get recognition for their brilliant work due to the current TradingView search system being an echo-chamber. Those with the most followers get the most views and the most likes and then more followers and more views and... LazyBear, a cherished asset of the TradingView community, is all some people will know and search for. This can be disastrous for building a lasting community around Pine and for developing your own concepts around trading. So I want to give more exposure to those who publish now so that we can all have the opportunity to be involved in conceptual progress. Hopefully in due time TradingView will revamp their search engine. Most popular scripts of the week/month/year would be a start, but I'm sure more could be done. The articles written will never be defamatory or provocative. I don't want to rouse spirits, but focus minds. In that same vein, I will never shill someone's profile or scripts. All choices will be mine alone (unless I can poll effectively and transparently) and, as such, will have my biases (unless others join me in this effort) Week in Review Every Tuesday I'll pore through the scripts that have been published in the last week and select one for review, once it meets the minimum criteria. The criteria for being considered is: (A) for the script to be open-source and (B) not to be a direct copypasta-job from another coder. There's nothing wrong with using something not made by you to help you create something better though, but there has to be obvious improvements made from the original. The script reviewed is meant to be my pick-of-the-bunch, but that is by no means an ultimate opinion. Some qualities that I'll most likely be looking for are: (A) creativity and innovation; just do as Ezra Pound did and "Make it new!", (B) usefulness: it can either be useful in it's own right, or it can be useful when used as a component within another script; both will be considered, neither will be favored and (C) a decent description of what it's supposed to do or how it's supposed to be used. Clean charts are a plus too: you only need the indicator you're publishing on the chart most of the time. Aside from the script, there will be a brief mention of the programmer and their body of work. Coder in Review This is where I'll look over the portfolio of a user on TradingView and comment on their body of work, some of their best (my favorite) scripts and how they've helped the community to grow as a whole. The criteria for being considered are: (A) must have an account for over six months and (B) must have published at least ten scripts. These won't be published regularly (at least not at the start), so I'll just push them out when I get the itch. From referencing so much of RicardoSantos' work in my initial builds, I felt indebted enough that I wanted to write him an essay explaining my thanks. I've since had that feeling for a lot of programmers. Some qualities I'll be looking for will be: (A) breadth of analysis and (B) efficient code. Script in Review Some weeks we're going to have a handful of top-notch scripts, most which we don't want discluded from the narrative. So in order to accommodate for them there'll also be a "Script in Review" thread of articles. This will also give me the opportunity to discuss scripts that were published a long time ago. Criteria to be included will be the same as the "Week in Review" selection. Like the "Coder in Review", these won't be regularly publications for the time being, but may become so in the future. Disclaimer I'm going to talk about scripts and programmers that I like, but that is by no means an endorsement. If someone I talk about sells products or services, I do not want you to make a decision to engage with their products or services based on my opinions. I'm not selling anything or trying to get you to buy something. I just want to open up the discussion about Pine and bring together a community of like-minded people. Want to learn? If you'd like the opportunity to learn Pine but you have difficulty finding resources to guide you, take a look at this rudimentary list: docs.google.com The list will be updated in the future as more people share the resources that have helped, or continue to help, them. Follow me on Twitter to keep up-to-date with the growing list of resources. Suggestions or Questions? Don't even kinda hesitate to forward them to me. My (metaphorical) door is always open.
FOREXCOM:EU50Education
by chrysopoetics
2
Approximating A Least Square Moving Average In PineLeast Squares Moving Average, Running Least Squares, Regression Line or even Running Line, this method is among the most popular ones in statistics and technical analysis. The LSMA is extremely useful, it approximate the price pretty well and can be considered as one of the best low-lagging filters out there. Knowing how this filter is made can be really interesting. May the methods i share below inspire you to create great indicators or start coding in pine :) A Least Squares Moving Average is defined by Tradingview as : A line that best fits the prices specified over a user-defined time period. It is calculated using the least squares method. The result of this function is calculated using the formula: linreg = intercept + slope * (length - 1 - offset), where length is the y argument, offset is the z argument, intercept and slope are the values calculated with the least squares method on source series (x argument). Alright, we wont use the offset parameter for our approximations, so how to calculate a least squares moving average ? If you find the mathematical formula of it you will certainly ask yourself "what are all of those maths" . But its ok, in the Pinescript you can just use the linreg() function, or you could calculate it like that : slope = correlation(close,n,length) * (stdev(close,length)/stdev(n,length)) intercept = sma(close,length) - slope*sma(n,length) linreg = slope*n + intercept Ok, but can we use different estimation methods ? Certainly, the key of the LSMA is only the correlation coefficient after all, all the other parameters can be estimated. Standard Score Or Rescaling A Line To The Price Rescaling a line to the price is easy to do, it will give a similar result as the LSMA but it is faster to write, here the code : A = (n - sma(n,length))/stdev(n,length) * correlation(close,n,length) B = sma(close,length) + A*stdev(close,length) Easier no ? We first standardized a line (n) and multiplied it by its correlation with the price, our first parameter A is dimensionless . Then we rescaled the result to the price by multiplying our parameter with the price standard deviation and summing this result to the price moving average. here the difference between our method and the classic LSMA of both period 100 If you put both together you wont see any difference. Overshoots can be reduced by modifying the standard deviation size. Correlation Rescaling The correlation coefficient is the core of a LSMA, if we rescale it we can approximate a LSMA, here the code : a = (correlation(close,n,length) + 1)/2 b = sma(close,length) + stdev(close,length)*1.7 c = sma(close,length) - stdev(close,length)*1.7 k = c + a*(b-c) The correlation coefficient oscillate in a range of 1/-1, we first scale it in a range of 1/0. Then you may have recognized the b and c formulas, they are the one used in bollinger bands, the standard deviation is multiplied by 1.7 because it was the number who best approximated a LSMA, but it could be any number defined by the user, something interesting is that this method to can fix overshoots in a classic LSMA using lower multiplier. Since our correlation is in a range of 1/0 we can rescale it to the price thanks to the method used in k. In red our method, in blue the LSMA of both period 100. Here the standard deviation is not multiplied by a number, this result in less overshoot. In order to have even more manipulation over the LSMA i will try to estimate the correlation coefficient the best i can :) So here you go, i hope you will find a use for it.
Education
by alexgrover
6
Supports and Resistances : Everything You Need to KnowSupports and resistances are horizontal lines on the edges (borders) of congestion areas. The bottom line is the support: the level where buyers strength overcome sellers, and buys are strong enough to reverse the downtrend. The top line is called the resistance: level where sellers strengh overcome buyers, and sells are strong enough to reverse the uptrend. It is more preferable to create your support and resistance lines along congestion area's borders than extreme price action, since these borders illustrate the point where most traders changed their mind, whereas the extremes are only reflecting a few people panicking. Psychology Traders remember at which price they bought or sold, and this is what create supports and resistances. Support and resistance zones often switch roles: when a support is broken it will become a resistance, and vice versa. This happens because as the market makes a breakout downwards, buyers feel pain and wait for a rally to free themselves without cost, whereas sellers regret and wait for a rally to have a second chance to short. The buyer's pain and seller's regret create the new resistance. A support or resistance is going to be more significant if the preciding price action was steep rather than a slow ascending or descending trend. Volumes Low volumes around a resistance or support area indicates its fragility. Traders aren't feeling quite involved in it. However huge volumes show strength in this level. Trading Rules 1. When you are surfing a trend that is reaching its support or resistance, move your protection stop closer. The trend will reveal its health at this point: it can either go faster and your stop isn't triggered or it can bounce on the Trend line and your stop securises your profits. 2. Supports and Resistances are stronger on a bigger timeframe. Weekly charts are stronger than daily charts. This way, if on the weekly the price is flat and on the daily the price action is hitting a support or resistance then the signal is less important than if price was reaching a support or resistance on the weekly. 3. Resistance and support levels are usefull to setup stoplosses and take-profits orders. If you are buying, the lowest value in a support area can be used as a stop if you place it just underneath. Breakouts A breakout happens when the price breaks out of its trading range, but most of breakouts are fake breakouts. Be careful of fakeouts : it is more often an opportunity to position against them, with a protection stop. "Fakeouts" or "fadeouts" are when the price tries to break a support or resistance but end up returning in its trading range. How to know when a breakout is fake or not? True breakouts are confirmed by high volumes and technical indicators showing new highs or new low. Also we should be able to see the new trend on a higher timeframe. Fake breakouts tend to happen on low volumes and indicators divergences. In order to trade fadeouts, wait for price action to stop making new highs or lows. This is when prices fade. Then, place your stop on the extreme, risk is low, but chances are that price will make a pullback in its congestion zone. You liked this article? Make sure to leave like or a comment :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Website - Automated Strategies with Backtest and Alert Setup blockchainfiesta.com PineScript Development, Reverse Engineering Comissions open (1 slot)
Education
by cyatophilum
3
How To Read Charts (Sec. 2) Mastering Reversals, Trends & RangesHey Traders, Here is Section 2 of the "How to read structure (Charts) Tutorial". In this Section, you will learn some of the methods that professional trend traders use to bring home a profit week after week, month after month, & year after year! In this Section, I will be explaining- - The Characteristics of a healthy trend (Chart 6) - A simple method that makes identifying trend reversals easy (Chart 7) - Why you should not rush your trades plus when & why you should have a neutral biased as a trend trader (Chart 8) - Mastering Reversals & how to trade them properly (Chart 9) - Continuation of GBPUSD Structure Analysis ~ How To Identify & Avoid Trading Ranges To Improve Your Trend Trading Strategies ~ The Importance Of A Candles Closing Price. (Chart 10) - One of my trend trading rules to avoid trading ranges & Intro to the 1st part of Section 3. (Chart 11) Section 1 of this tutorial is linked below. Please start with section 1 as it will lay some of the ground work for this section & will also show these methods on actual charts. This section of the tutorial is a breakdown of the methods taught in section 1 and when studied together, can really give you a good understanding of how trends, reversals, ranges etc work. Please feel free to leave feedback below regarding if these tutorials have been helpful. I will be releasing many more of these tutorials in future ideas and your feedback really helps me to improve them! It may take you a couple minutes to get use to the format of these tutorials so take your time & read over the charts multiple times as there is a lot of good information provided within these tutorials. Chart 6- Characteristics of a healthy trend Chart 7- A simple method that makes identifying trend reversals easy Chart 8- Why you should not rush your trades plus when & why you should have a neutral biased as a trend trader Chart 9- Mastering Reversals & how to trade them properly Chart 10- Continuation of GBPUSD Structure Analysis ~ How To Identify & Avoid Trading Ranges To Improve Your Trend Trading Strategies ~ The Importance Of A Candles Closing Price. Chart 11- One of my trend trading rules to avoid trading ranges & Intro to the 1st part of Section 3. You Have Completed Section 2 Of The "How To Read Structure (Charts) Tutorial. Charts 6-11"! Thank you for taking the time to finish this section of the tutorial! I hope Section 1 and 2 have been helpful to you! In section 3, we will start looking at how you can use price action/structure & the methods taught in this tutorial to design your own trading strategy! After all of the sections are complete, you will have the tools needed to read structure, create your own rules based trading strategy and much more so please stick around as this is only the beginning of a very educational tutorial. Thanks Traders!
Education
by Alec40
16
Simple Patterns Tutorial, The Correct Way To Trade Double Tops In this short tutorial, we will look at the three most common Double Top formations along with how to properly trade them and when/where they typically appear on a chart. Double Tops work very well as trend continuation patterns for the obvious reason that you are trading with the underlying trend (strength) in the market however, Double Tops can also be a great tool for identifying and trading trend reversals. I do not recommend trading these patterns as reversals at every support or resistance level, as trading this way will most likely not be a consistently profitable trading strategy. One method to trading these patterns as reversals is to use higher timeframes to identify important price levels. For Example- You may use the Daily chart to identify important support/resistance structure levels while using the 1hr chart to actually identify and trade the double top itself.. Every strategy should have something called conditions and criteria's for entry.. If you follow my work, you have heard me say this in the past. In the case of this example, A daily level of structure Support/Resistance would be our condition and a double top on the 1hr chart would be our criteria for entry.. You rules should state this: Condition: 1) Price must retest a daily level of support or resistance in order to look for entry criteria. Criteria: 1) After price has retested a daily level of support/resistance, I am allowed to look for a double top entry on the 60 minutes timeframe. -See example of this exact trade at bottom of description (Chart 4 and 5) Chart One: Most Common Double Tops Chart Two: Examples Of Double Top Reversals & Trend Continuation Chart Three: Double Top Trade Examples Chart Four: Daily Retest Of Support/Resistance: Chart Five: Double Top On 60 Minute Timeframe: Often, you will notice that price is up-trending on the daily chart but down-trending on the hourly charts. Many traders get confused regarding how to handle this confliction of trend.. One way to handle this is by doing what is stated above. Use a higher timeframe like the daily chart to find important price levels, and use a lower timeframe like the hourly or minute charts to trade at these levels. Just because the daily trend is up does not mean we cannot trade a double top reversal on the 1hr chart as that timeframe may be down-trending in a perfectly healthy daily uptrend.. I hope this was explained clearly, please feel free to ask me any questions you have in the comments below or via private chat & I will be happy to help. Also please let me know what double top you think is the best to trade (see chart 3) in the comments below. I will do a follow up lesson to answer this question I am asking you. I think the answer may surprise you & know it will be a AAH-HHA moment in your trading journey! If you would like to put in a request regarding what trading content you'd like to learn more about, please use the link below to submit a vote for future trading tutorials and topics! tradersnsights.myshopify.com Free Position Size Calculator: goo.gl TradersNsights Facebook: www.facebook.com Thanks Traders, as always I hope this was helpful to you!
Education
by Alec40
8
Today's Lesson (#5) : How trade possible market manipulations.Before playing that video, be aware that I'm a very agressive trader, which means high level of risk into trying to copy my trades. The quality in those videos comes out of their content, not just following blindly. I'll be trading this with low leverage as this is highly speculative. So please don't just follow blindly but just take the educational content out of this to learn how to trade manipulated market more "safely", still being aware that this remain high risky thing !
SP:SPXEducation
by PRO_Indicators
6
Lesson 3 : Amazing Trading Method (Swing High / Low)Hello Traders, Here I am again with an interesting but extremely helpful lesson. I’ve given you plenty of time to go over Lesson 1 and Lesson 2. This lesson is going to be a little longer as I have tried to be as simple as possible in my explanation. So, let us get straight to it. Get a pen and a paper if you want to make notes. It’ll be helpful. I learned this great strategy from a course long time back, and I found it very helpful, and it changed the way I used to trade. Knowledge is power and I love spreading it. Note: Here we will be ignoring the main chart, instead focus on the charts in between the post. We all know of indicators such as MA, EMA, MACD, RSI, DMI, Stochastic RSI, etc. but we all know that as much as the indicators are very helpful, they don’t always work. In fact, nothing working perfectly as we want. What if we can use the indicators as a first step, and along with that use some amazing shortcut tricks that will position us better and give us an advantage to be in that trade? That is what we are going to try and work on today. Lets develop some great skills. I will mainly focus on the logic that we can use once we have determined a trade position after using the indicators. We will be working on understanding the logic of trends once we determine a specific pattern using indicator triggers. I have so much material to cover, so forgive me if somewhere I make any mistakes. Enough of the intro. Lets begin. Indicators and What to look for before you can use the price-action logic (You do not have to use all the indicators for a signal): MACD: - Crossover over/under the signal line - Crossover over/under the zero line DMI (Directional Movement Index): Look for the +DI line and -DI chart cross each other. This will tell us whether the price action is going down or up. EMA (Exponential Moving Average): - Shorter term moving average crossing over or under longer term moving average. - Closing prices of the candles crossing over or under a single moving average. Note: The length of the moving averages depends on you. For shorter term, we can use 30 or 50, and for longer term 100 or 200 is preferred. So, now we have these 3 indicator which we will go over first to confirm the trend of the price chart. This lesson is not a tutorial for the above three indicators. I will have separate lessons for each indicators. Once we figure that the chart looks bullish that is when we move on to the below logic tricks I am about to explain. I hope you understood whatever I told you so far. Basically, we will have two steps, the first one being using the above indicators to make sure it is looking bullish, and then comes the second part which would be using our logic to get an entry and look for a possible move out. Got it? If not just ask me in the comments. I am here for you. So now we know what indicators we can look for and assuming we want to enter the trade after all the indicators giving bullish signals, we now move on to the logic before entering the trade. THE TRICK I want to remind you to have your complete attention on this now. Really want you to understand this very well. We will be going over the following patterns as a part of our strategy after the preliminary analysis using the above indicators: - Swing High Pattern (For Buying / Long) - Swing Low Pattern (For Selling / Short) - Inside Intervals - 1 Candle / 2 Candle Pullbacks - Inside Intervals + 1 Candle/ 2Candle Pullbacks - Using it all together - Risk Control ( Will have a separate lesson for it later on) We have lots of topic to cover people, and this is going to be long, so bear with me. Lets go over it one by one, and don’t move on to the next topic unless you have understood the previous one completely. Remember information is powerful but wrong information is dangerous. I will be updating this in sections, so see below to continue reading this.
COINBASE:BTCUSDEducation
by MoneyChartz
3
How To Read Structure (Charts) Tutorial. Charts 1-5By the time you are done with this tutorial, You will understand Structure, Trends, Reversals & much more! This tutorial will teach you how to dig deep into the charts & analyze where price is likely to go next! Reading Structure can be difficult when you first start trading, however most professional traders (if not all) understand structure very well and it is definitely a skill that will dramatically help you on your journey to becoming a professional trader. I tried to make this as clear & simple as possible for anyone to understand but do not worry if this is complicated or a little confusing at first. If you are new to trading, you will benefit by studying and looking over these charts multiple times. I have found that it is also helpful if you grab a piece of paper and a pencil so you can draw the chart that you are looking at. Draw a very simple line chart and mark the highs & lows as shown in the tutorial with support & resistance lines.. You will learn much faster by doing this while training your eyes to identify trends & reversals. After you do this enough, it will start to become 2nd nature & you will spot these crucial moments in structure with a quick glance at the charts. This is the first section of the Reading Structure Tutorial. This section will consist of 6 Charts total: Chart 1- An Easy and effective way to determine trend. Chart 2- Following The Trend with Support & Resistance (Highs & Lows) Chart 3- Continuation of Chart 2 Chart 4- Identifying Possible Trend Reversals Chart 5 - When Structure Doesn't Make Sense, Do Not Trade! Chart 6- Another Reversal I have put a lot of time & effort into this tutorial so feel free to ask any questions you may have.. I will be publishing section 2 of the "How To Read Structure" tutorial next week. Please leave a comment below or message me with your thoughts regarding this lesson. I am happy to continue publishing them if they are helpful to you. We are going to scroll through this chart & follow structure. This is a 60 Minute Chart of GBP-USD. Chart 1 Chart 2, In this Chart we are going to look at the highs & lows shown on Chart 1. Chart 2 Continued, (Continuation of Chart 2.) Chart 3, Identifying Possible Trend Reversals. Chart 4, In depth Analysis of Chart 3. Chart 5, Another Example of a trend reversal Section 2 of "How To Read Structure" will be published next week & I will be sure to update this tutorial with the new charts as well as publish a separate idea. Take your time & really study these charts. There is a ton of valuable information in this tutorial & by the time you get through all the sections, you will have a much easier time reading structure. Please be sure to give this tutorial a thumbs up if it was helpful & you would like me to continue posting them. Thanks Traders & I hope you enjoyed the 1st section of this tutorial!
Education
by Alec40
110
Trading Applications: How To Use Oscillators Correctly! You need to read the tutorial first before this post. Here is the tutorial : This is an example of how to apply the concepts I explained in the oscillators tutorials. I have numbered the text boxes so that you read them in the correct sequence. Start from the left hand side and move along the chart. In this example we have applied some basic concepts like support and resistance and candlestick patterns as an additional tools to the oscillators. It is always important to use more tools to support your view (but not too many). Also it's always important to put things in context of the the price action. Whether it is trending up or down or sideways. In addition, remember to look at the bigger picture, as an uptrend on the daily chart , might be merely an upwave in a sideways market on the weekly or monthly chart. Best Technician
Education
by Technician
18
USDJPY: Bearish Bat + ExplanationHi Traders, Here is a bearish bat pattern setup on USDJPY with D pattern completion at 103.950. Read below if you are unsure how to identify a bat pattern. 1) Look for an impulse leg, which will mark the beginning of the pattern. I like the analogy of seeing the impulse leg as a "Sore Thumb" high or low point, something that immediately sticks out on the chart. This is the X point. 2) Grab your fibonacci retracement tool and draw from the X (sore thumb high or low) to the lowest/highest point of the move. This is the A point. 3) Price must touch the 50% retracement of the XA leg, BUT NOT TOUCH the 61.8%. This is the B point. 4) Draw a fibonacci retracement from the A to B point, we are looking for AT LEAST a 61.8% retracement. If price exceeds the A point the pattern is invalid. This is the C point. 5) To find the completion at D, draw a fibonacci retracement from XA and if price reaches the 88.6% retracement the pattern has completed. This is the D point. 6) I place stops 10-15 pips above or below the X leg. 7) Targets go at the 38.2% and 61.8% retracement of the A to D leg. Hope that helps! Remember to leave me a like or comment below if this helped you. Good luck and good trading, Luke
Education
by Beebags
LEVERAGE: The Legitimate UsageImagine you have a strategy and you found that the optimal risk you should take is 4%. In other words with this strategy you should put 4% of your capital at risk in every trade to grow your account the fastest. If you enter a trade with 100% of your capital, the SL % is the % you put at risk. NOT the whole position size. So by entering a trade with all of your money and setting a 4% SL you only put 4% of your money at risk at all times ! Now let's examine the following situation keeping our strategy in mind. Imagine a perfectly oscillating market (for demonstration only). We are at the point where the red line ends and we expect the price to go the dashed path with a very high certainty. Our optimal & desired risk is 4%. However in this trade that we want to enter rightnow we can set a stop loss tighter than 4% because we are very certain that it wont be hit. So we can use a 2% stop instead. If you now put 100% of your capital in this trade you only put 2% of our money at risk at all times. However we want to put 4% of our money at risk for the best returns possible taking optimal risk (4%). That's where leverage comes into play as a LEGITIMATE tool and not a gambling tool. You already have 100% of your money in this trade, you can't put in more (without leverage) although your risk management tells you to do so. You want to increase your risk from currently 2% to 4% = double it. This means you have to take a 2x leverage. Now you are 200% invested in the trade and if your stop loss of 2% (in price action) gets hit you will lose 2 x 2% = 4% which is the optimal risk we wanted. More in-depth information about optimal risk for fast growth: en.wikipedia.org www.youtube.com
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by MagnusTradingGroup
12
New Video Series! What Questions Do You Have About TradingView?We Need Your Help!!! We're Creating A Complete Video Tutorial Series For All TradingView Members...From The Brand New Person...To The Most Experienced Users... What Questions Do You Have About The TradingView Platform? If Your New To TradingView...Please Ask Questions! Your Questions Are Extremely Valuable To The Community. It's Surprisingly Difficult For Us To Understand What A Brand New Persons Experience is Like...Since We've Seen TradingView Every Day For Years. Your Questions Will Give Us The Ability To Create A Complete Tutorial For You, And Our Brand New Members. What Types Of Questions Will Be Covered? While Your Welcome To Post Any Thoughts...Only Questions On Current Features Will Be Covered In The Video Series. We Will Add Additional Tutorials As New Features Are Released. EXAMPLES OF GREAT QUESTIONS: 1. It takes me a long time to get a chart ready to post. Is There a Way To Save Templates So I Can Post Charts Faster? 2. How do I put custom indicators on my chart? 3. How do I insert a chart when I'm making a comment or asking a question on a existing chart post? Looking For The most Basic To The Most Advanced Questions... IF YOUR THINKING IT...ASK!!! BECAUSE HUNDREDS OF OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME QUESTIONS YOU DO.... All Videos Will Be 10 Minutes Or Less, Covering 1 or 2 Topics So They Will Be Easy To Reference. Please Post Questions Below
Education
by ChrisMoody
51