To Fade or Not to Fade: Horizontal Support and Resistance
Office was quiet as a mouse today so carpe diem: made a video, answering a question that I have been getting from my early days of writing this blog. Key points: Confluence rules above all. Confluence...
View ArticleThe Essentials of Retail Forex Broker Models | How They Work and Finding the...
The sell side of the retail Forex industry can be as opaque as the market itself, and few individual traders actually have a clue about how they are being quoted, if their trade is going out to market,...
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Triple Tap / 3-Drive Measurement and The Rule of 3
Over time, we have talked quite a bit about the “rule of 3″, which is a very common yet underestimated component of trading. And the reason I use the word” underestimated” is because for learning...
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Trading High Probability Shock Announcements – Interest Rates Edition
I have had some pretty good success this past week selling into this EUR/USD move and thought I would write about a few encouraging things that happened along the path. Euro pairs have been running,...
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How to Avoid Getting Slaughtered by V Tops and Bottoms
Today I decided to write about something that rarely gets attention, although is easily classified as one of the major killers for both discretionary and systematic strategies. “V” tops and bottoms of...
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A Quasimodo / Over and Under Price Pattern Revision
I have been treating this blog like a personal log of observations for years, and one of the first patterns I wrote about was the over and under (nicknamed “Quasimodo” by some of our members). The bulk...
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5 Trend Following Rules That Have Bailed Me Out of Trading Purgatory
In an effort to keep this site moving along I wanted to dig a little more into the trend following category today. There are few explanations I have ever read that leave me truly satisfied in terms of...
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Trend Continuation, or Failure? An Analytic Roadmap.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted up a few quick notes in regards to some trend following rules in order to get this blog moving again. Today, I am literally writing a response to a question I received...
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How to Exploit Crude Oil in Its Relationship with Currencies
Finding any form of leading indicator for just about any market is perhaps one of the better tools at your disposal, as the anticipation and confirmation of a major shift is already present elsewhere....
View ArticleRatio of Market to Limit Orders: Determining Liquidity Instrument by Instrument
This is a follow-up video based on questions received from this one: https://paracurve.com/2017/10/6834.html “Delta” varies instrument by instrument based on the ratio of market to limit orders. This...
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What I’m Using to Trade with These Days, and Why
A lot has changed over the years with this site, and along with it, me. I see other people out there with an unwavering system of beliefs, sticking to (what I view as) an archaic way of looking at...
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Volumes in FX: Useful or Useless? Putting a Bad Debate to Rest.
There is a neverending debate that goes on in regards to transparency in FX, or more precisely, the “fact” volumes are nearly useless because: the market is decentralized, and because of this, volumes...
View ArticleDetermining Broad Volatility / Environment Using Previously Executed Volume
I realized it had been almost an entire year since I made a public video so I recorded the following in regards to a fundamental principle using volume profile. This is almost always overlooked by...
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Up and Down the Profile
I haven't been nearly as active on this blog as I would like to be in the past few years, and so please consider this post more a framework so some of you can better understand my own interpretations...
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Day Opening Types as a Precursor
I have a ton of posts on my backburner here and just wanted to do some spring winter cleaning and push some of them out. As many of you know by now I'm a user of volume-based profile, which stems from...
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