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Your opinion needed - regarding my choice of indicators

Sep 25, 2009 at 13:08
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Medlem sedan Sep 16, 2009   10 inlägg
Sep 25, 2009 at 13:08
Hello all,

I am considering trading on daily charts. For this purpose i am planning to use Stochastics Oscillator(default settings) for entry signals and ADX(default settings) for trend confirmation. Is it correct to use these indicator for the above purpose? If not can you suggest any alternative?

Your inputs much appreciated
Thanking you
Medlem sedan Sep 23, 2009   17 inlägg
Sep 25, 2009 at 17:28 (redigerad Sep 25, 2009 at 17:29)
Shankar,

No one can really answer that question for you. There are so many variables here we would have to write a book. First and foremost is the volatility you will encounter taking signals from a daily data-point. It means you will typically be in a trade for weeks while things develop. This can lead to very deep draw-downs. Proper account funding use of leverage are paramount here.

Your best bet here is to sit down and learn first and foremost how to properly test a system, then apply your questions to the test method and see what returns are generated. You will need significant data to back test and you need to know how to extract the right information from that. Read Evidence Based Technical Analysis as a start for your testing and expand from there.

In your style of trading Data Mining and Parameter Optimization, from a statistically significant data sample, are your friends.

Remember; Good Trading, like Brain Surgery, is the result of hard work, diligent research and study. You don't start there, that's where you end up.

Forexanadova
forex_trader_2062
Medlem sedan Oct 24, 2009   186 inlägg
Oct 24, 2009 at 23:56
You can use any indicator as long as you know what those mean, how they work etc, now, you are mentioning a daily chart,if you have a lot of money in your account, good, otherwise, use the daily to ID the trend and use 1Hr for placing trades.

Good trading
Medlem sedan Oct 22, 2009   3 inlägg
Oct 29, 2009 at 04:37
Go with no indicators

Learn real price action trading
Medlem sedan Nov 20, 2009   20 inlägg
Nov 20, 2009 at 22:30
I use the stocastic-slow but the setting is not on default it is on 36 days, the reason being, the forex market is 6days a week multiplied by 6 = 36days that is a square root number which works good in forex per W.D. Gann, he was a wiz when it came to #'s and 36 days is a month and a week so its a good indicator for me, because it shows when the trends are begining and ending levels above 80 are over bought and levels below 20 are over sold, I hope this helps, I'm a price action trader also but I trade on the 5 minute chart. 25minutes in and out, 5 candles, target hit! but sometimes hr and 4hr charts to get major swings, my indicators are ichimoku, 20 moving avg and stocastic 36days, along with Gann lines as support and resistance, heres a live trade from last week on 11/09-11/10/2009 that took 15hr on hr chart +99pip.......gann lines are green, blue lines are open and close of the trade red lines are resistance and support.......the cloud, red,blue, and white lines are the ichimoku, and the green line is a 20day moving average I put up two charts so it won't look confusing but just look @ the stocastic telling you the swing is about to happen, and if you notice price crossed below the 20MA, when price crosses 20ma tenkan/kijun all at once generally you'll have a swing, thats 1 price action method😁


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Bilagor:

Early Birds get the worms!!!
Medlem sedan Sep 20, 2009   21 inlägg
Nov 20, 2009 at 22:51
your indicators are good for the purpose you describe and providing you are using the stochs to trigger entries after pullbacks in a trend you should be ok. I would use 5.3.3 setting for a quick response from the stochs. I would suggest including price action and technical analysis to find trends and entry levels. Eventually, with practice and experience, you will out perform the indicators by a wide margin
Medlem sedan Nov 09, 2009   27 inlägg
Nov 26, 2009 at 16:53
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YOU DON'T NEED INDICATORS!
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The only thing you need is a SMA - but its not much useful.

Indicators suck!
The market moves UP and DOWN. This movements (up and down) are based on opened trades and the trades that are executing right now.All technical indicators takes these movements and draws something on your screen. But these movements are different in days, weeks, months and years. So for example, if you see today something with your indicators and you see the same before 2 days - these thing are based on different data and this information is useless for you.

All EAs and strategies, based on technical indicators, ARE DOOMED!
if you see working EAs here - they are on demo accounts... its different when you play on live account.
Memento mori!
Medlem sedan Aug 06, 2009   397 inlägg
Nov 26, 2009 at 17:17 (redigerad Nov 26, 2009 at 17:17)
mettall posted:
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YOU DON'T NEED INDICATORS!
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The only thing you need is a SMA - but its not much useful.

Indicators suck!
The market moves UP and DOWN. This movements (up and down) are based on opened trades and the trades that are executing right now.All technical indicators takes these movements and draws something on your screen. But these movements are different in days, weeks, months and years. So for example, if you see today something with your indicators and you see the same before 2 days - these thing are based on different data and this information is useless for you.

All EAs and strategies, based on technical indicators, ARE DOOMED!
if you see working EAs here - they are on demo accounts... its different when you play on live account.

i agree with you metall, i believe that most of the successful traders do not use indicators at all.

Street Pipz, i've just noticed your chart, and quite frankly i would like to know how are you handling so many indicators and so many different colors 😱? i've stared at it for 10 seconds and already felt a migraine starting to work its way😀.
Sleep is for the weak.
Medlem sedan Nov 20, 2009   20 inlägg
Nov 28, 2009 at 09:32
It's very simple, each color represents something different (there are only three up on the chart), you are both totally right you don't need any indicators, BUT the traders that are on Paternoster Square, and 2-1 Nihombashi, probaly have indicators, or they would lose they're jobs, and every propfessional trader that I know (as in I can go to their houses, not heard of), uses indicators also, when I mean pro, I mean people that their only source of income is trading........................so we kinda want to mirror those guy that use $1000.00 pips right? besides I get my info from the streetz!!! but the most important thing in trading are not even on the charts, it's called money management/risk management, if you can't master those two tactics and have them written down and follow them in every trade you will always fail in the long run, and that is something that I have not seen alot on this site.......managing your denero is the most important substance in trading, thats why you have people that have alot of drawdowns.....Shankar make sure everytime you click, you have a stop/loss and take profit in place always, think about it, some people think if you have a s/l and t/p in place on your orders that the trade may go against them to fast or that they dont want to loss that trade....then maby you shouldn't place that one, you should only press that mouse if you are confident that you won't loss and if you do, that you already know where and how much you are going to loss, does anyone have a trading plan in place written down?
Early Birds get the worms!!!
Medlem sedan Nov 20, 2009   20 inlägg
Nov 28, 2009 at 10:23

I just looked at your RSI breakout post and I thought you don't use any indicators? when u said that in reply to my post, I thought u meant, you use a price line, no candlesticks, no indicators, no trend lines, nothing on your chart but just raw intellect, using price action? so you don't use fibonacci tools neither huh?
biz0101 posted:
    
mettall posted:
    <red_blinking_text>
YOU DON'T NEED INDICATORS!
</red_blinking_text>

The only thing you need is a SMA - but its not much useful.

Indicators suck!
The market moves UP and DOWN. This movements (up and down) are based on opened trades and the trades that are executing right now.All technical indicators takes these movements and draws something on your screen. But these movements are different in days, weeks, months and years. So for example, if you see today something with your indicators and you see the same before 2 days - these thing are based on different data and this information is useless for you.

All EAs and strategies, based on technical indicators, ARE DOOMED!
if you see working EAs here - they are on demo accounts... its different when you play on live account.

i agree with you metall, i believe that most of the successful traders do not use indicators at all.

Street Pipz, i've just noticed your chart, and quite frankly i would like to know how are you handling so many indicators and so many different colors 😱? i've stared at it for 10 seconds and already felt a migraine starting to work its way😀.
Early Birds get the worms!!!
Medlem sedan Nov 18, 2009   27 inlägg
Nov 29, 2009 at 00:22 (redigerad Nov 29, 2009 at 00:29)
Hi Shankar.

A couple of things to think about.

1. When you open a position, ANY position, you need to know that if all goes wrong, that you can fully afford to lose the amount you have your stop loss set to.

This sounds like obvious logic, and it is, but often one tends to try risk more than what is safe to get that extra dollar. So it often gets pushed into the background. Don't allow your greed gland to overide the obvious.

2. On daily charts, the movement that the price ranges between means that you can only safely trade with fractions of a percent of your balance, and you are looking at trading long term rather than catching the short term money. So if you intend to trade on the daily charts you need to look first at the monthly charts to get a longer term view.

3. As far as indicators go, they are all hindsight instruments. They are delayed by their very nature, and can only represent patterns based on past movements. The bars themselves are the closest you can get to real time indicators, and even they are past tense.

4. If you are trading short term trades, do not EVER forget to be aware of when the various News events are due to occur. It often happens that a perfectly good trend for a quick 20 pip trade gets turned on it's ear by a news situation. If you are in a trade and a news event is about to happen, it is always good to tighten up your stop losses.

5. Most important of it all..... If you rush, you crush.

  On this Friday just past, I was in a long trade on AudUsd and it was going way south. So I was hedge scalping with NzdUsd shorts to keep it alive till the retrace. All was fine. About 20 minutes before market close, I began to calculate exactly how many lots of NzdUsd I would need to go short with to keep an even keel till Sunday opening. I then put in my short, only to discover that I overlooked WHICH pair I was opening the trade with. It ended up being AudUsd. I trade with Navigator (not MT4) so going short with an live long in the same currency closes the long, while on MT4 it would have said 'Hedging not allowed'. So basically by one 'small' oversight, I trashed my account.

The two things I did not pay attention to which are paramount. I traded with more than I could afford to lose. I rushed what should have been a simple trade.

Lance.
"Whatever you focus your attention on, your consciousness becomes." - Lex Lungold.
Medlem sedan Nov 09, 2009   27 inlägg
Nov 30, 2009 at 20:30

streepips posted:
 ...but the most important thing in trading are not even on the charts, it's called money management/risk management, if you can't master those two tactics and have them written down and follow them in every trade you will always fail in the long run, and that is something that I have not seen alot on this site.......managing your denero is the most important substance in trading, thats why you have people that have alot of drawdowns....

yes, this is the most important...

Only with constant rules for money management and risk management you can survive in the most volatile market.
Memento mori!
Medlem sedan Nov 20, 2009   20 inlägg
Dec 02, 2009 at 22:18
yes mettall they are rules, that one should follow, I've seen it time and time again, even when I first start trading I was using more than 2% of my account balance blowing it out badly, naturally the markets are driven by fear and greed so you are right in your first emotions whether it be to buy or to sell but sometimes we don't go by our instints, no more than 2% on any trade is the best policy!!!
Early Birds get the worms!!!
Medlem sedan Jan 16, 2010   4 inlägg
Jan 31, 2010 at 16:51
i think the very best way is to trade with NO indicators :) Look at https://www.nobrainertrades.com/ i use this technics.

Remember

trading is simple but not easy !!!

on this acc i'm trading very agressive. Hard progress.

https://www.myfxbook.com/portfolio/agresive-one-topfxsignalscompl/14166
pipinvestment0
forex_trader_6207
Medlem sedan Jan 27, 2010   59 inlägg
Mar 27, 2010 at 11:50
Indicators can be useful for an experienced trader that already understands the markets cycles, but A beginner will never achieve their goals by relying on indicators. Your best bet, is focus on a clean chart and multiple time frame analysis. Good Luck.
Medlem sedan Sep 04, 2009   879 inlägg
Mar 27, 2010 at 14:30

pipinvestment0 posted:
    Indicators can be useful for an experienced trader that already understands the markets cycles, but A beginner will never achieve their goals by relying on indicators. Your best bet, is focus on a clean chart and multiple time frame analysis. Good Luck.

Since u seem to be such an experienced adviser show us plz your myfxbook account.....😉
Medlem sedan Feb 15, 2010   54 inlägg
Apr 11, 2010 at 18:31
use no indicators
You will never go broke by taking profits
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