Monday 22 March 2010

Perfect example of a Standard setup


Hi Everybody,

Here is an absolutely perfect example of the Standard setups and standard trade management guidelines in action.

If you look at this 3min Dax chart you can see that we had a TS2 sell earlier in the day that resulted in a -1R loss (triangle on the chart). This was followed by another TS2 sell, and because this short was so far in Profit, stops should have been at least at break-even, if not slightly in Profit.

Then we had some potential buy setups unfold................ But the STF was red, so these were ignored. Then we got another TS3 sell this time that nailed the high before the Dax declined sharply. Notice how this was still with the red STF direction.... The STF was weak (less than the strength band) so Profit was banked at the first profit target – The result a nice +5.9R Profit (ignoring slippage and commission)

But do you see how the STF has kept us in the main down trend, and helped avoid the weaker buy setup. Even when a loss was made it was kept small, much smaller than the +5.9 Profit, meaning money was made overall. No second guessing, all was under control and managed carefully, all the way....

Thanks, Steve

3min YM


Yesterday was a quiet day with only a few setups, for example there were no automatic setups on the 3min ES, and only 2 on the 3min YM

As you can see, the first TS2 buy was with the STF colour so resulted in a -1R loss. The second was against the STF colour so should have been avoided............

Thanks

Steve

PS, but the Advanced Traders would have had some good trades..... please see http://elliott-wave-trader.blogspot.com/

Standard trade setups vs. Advanced Analysis

Hi Everybody,

A number of you have emailed in saying that my Advanced Analysis has been confusing you as you are new to the software and have found it hard to see how it relates to the Standard trade setups and guidelines...... I do understand, and I must admit this is my fault as I do love sharing more Advanced Analysis to show you all what MTPredictor is really capable of.........

So wheat I have decided to do is to keep the examples on this Blog more in line with the Standard trade setups and guidelines. But then I will start a new Blog that is dedicated exclusively for my Advanced Analysis. In this way you can choose to follow which Blog you feel most comfortable with.....

I hope this allows you to all feel more comfortable with what you are seeing here on this blog. But I do hope that you sneak a peek at the Advanced Blog, as that is where MTPredictor really starts to come into its own with the Advanced Analysis. I think you will all be blown away with what the software can do once you become more experienced

Thanks

Steve