Showing posts with label Weekly Stochastic Divergence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weekly Stochastic Divergence. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Day that I broke Rules on 2 pairs at one go... So does my Mentor & Ms P!

Hi All,

yesterday night was an exciting night :D I saw the effects of our excellent analysis of charts going into full swing :) Power of Weekly SSD!

Pretty amazing after 5 weeks of Bull Rally for GBP, Weekly SSD once again predicated ahead of time that a major trend change will come :) And Courtney sees that now it's the time to break the rule as Principle always (ALWAYS) wins the rule :) Hence, despite EUR/USD's ADX is trending down, he went in an order of TA! :)

This was then I realised that how powerful and important Weekly SSD is when comes to when to break the rule! :D And of course, I copied his trade though 10pips later :( as I took notice of his TA only at night. But better late than never ^^. Anyway, thanks to Ms P, I was highlighted a Weekly SSD for USD/CAD. Similar situation as EUR/USD, ADX is trending down, but I went in an order of TA since there is a higher high and a higher low.

To round up, I think this week will be a rather exciting week where we are seeing a revival of USD, I will be shorting AUD, EUR/USD, EUR/JPY, GBP and longing CAD :) Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Side Note: Ms P confessed that she broke some rule too... this is what she said,"Today mark the first day i broke rule without Courtney's approval!" haha so funny ;)

Your Friend,
Max

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

CoFlex Enhancement

Hi All,

Today we are going to talk about CoFlex Risk Management and application of Weekly SSD on CoFlex.

As Ash from KL brought up a very good point in the KL Course, that if CoFlex is a trend following technique, how does ADX Filter applies in this technique? The following is what Courtney said. He said. Basically CoFlex works when the 2 lines crosses. TEMA is on top we go LONG and if Moving Average is on top we go short.

However, using this technique will create lots of paper cut. Hence, he looks at ADX Filter to increase or decrease the number of contracts for Risk Management. If ADX Filter trends down, he will put in a smaller position. If ADX Filter trends up, he will put in a normal position. (ADX measures how strong is the trend)

And regarding about Weekly SSD, when it happens, Courtney is always looking for reasons to go inline with the Weekly SSD direction. CoFlex is always one of the main reason in there to make it happen. Oh he also added he might break the rule of Reversal Bar to go inline with the Weekly SSD direction even if there is no confirmed trend :)

Hope this helps.

Your Friend,
Max

A Great Lesson Learnt about Weekly SSD

Hi All,

This week I finally understand why I was at USD900 for my total equity beginning of last week and this week I am at USD587.52.

Because I didn't heed myself to weekly SSD and that was a killer. I saw the weekly SSD but I just continued adding more contracts e.g. EUR/USD and GBP/USD. In the end what happen? Both got killed :) I lost probably more than USD100 this time round, most of them got stopped out :(

Application of Weekly SSD is rather "chim" (deep) and I guess we just need to go through more often to make sure that we know what's happening.

Your Friend,
Max

Monday, August 10, 2009

What to do if I got trades in and then Weekly Stochastic Divergence appears?

Hi All,

Today I learnt a very important lesson about Weekly Stochastic Divergence (SSD). I asked Courtney that what if I have trades in and Weekly Stochastic Divergence appears? What should I do since I know that probably 1 to 5 weeks, most likely 2 to 3 weeks time, the market will change direction?

He replied it would be good to combine all the trades into 1 trades, meaning lock in the profits for the 2 smaller ones and leave the biggest profit on the table for the market to move, hence reducing the risk further :) E.g. I have now 3 contracts of EUR/JPY on LONG, but since there is a weekly divergence, I closed my 2 smaller profits contracts and leave the largest profit still open. And combining the 3 contracts based on difference techniques, I am only taking a 0.33% risk now per technique. And I didn't put in a CBO Order but using that existing to be my CBO Order if it ever breakout - then I will be taking only a 0.25% risk per technique. Bearing in mind to change the stop to the tighest one of all which is the last bar of the CBO Order.

Vici versa for losses trades, I just closed my EUR-USD trades. I have too 3 contracts on LONG, but since there is a weekly divergence, I closed my 2 bigger losing contracts and leave the smallest loss still open. And combing the 3 contracts based on difference techniques, the risk is 0.33%. Changing the stop loss to the tighest one which is my TA Swing Low.

The understanding of Weekly SSD is so important as it have to deal with Risk Management and Profit Increment. Meaning we take a smaller position (less than 1%) when there is a weekly SSD and going into opposite direction (predicted to go SHORT but system show signals to go LONG) and taking a bigger position (maybe 2%) when the weekly SSD is going into the same direction (predicted to go SHORT and system show signals to go SHORT).

Your Friend,
Max

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Weekly Stochastic Divergence

Hi All,

After losing the profits of my 2 weeks in 2 days, I have consulted with Courtney who shared with me about Weekly Stochastic Divergence.

He said that generally he uses Stochastic as a tool to determine the size of the contract. If there is a Weekly Stochastic Divergence, there is a major trend change. Hence, the opposite direction trades have more contracts e.g. based on 2% where as the same direction trades will have lesser contracts e.g. based on 1/4%.

In general, depending on the Seasonality, other than that, Risk Management should be at 1% :) BUT it's still quite hard for me as a newbie to identify the Weekly Stochastic Divergence... T.T

Your Friend,
Max Tay