Day Types
Watch the market enough, and you understand that certain days have different characteristics that other days. Some days the market starts going in 1 direction and it just doesn’t look […]
Category Archives: Trading
The Initial Balance (IB)
Definition The “Initial Balance” (IB) is often used in Market Profiling and Volume Profiling techniques as a way to help classify the type of day we can expect to have. […]
Testing Trading System Entry Methodologies
Having a trading system, or a set of rules/guidelines to follow, is essential to the success of a trader; particularly a beginning trader. Not having a set of rules tends […]
A Review of Dr. Van Tharp’s Peak Performance Course Volume 1: How to Use Risk
I came across Dr. Van Tharp when I first listened to the CDs that were included in Robert Kiyosaki’s Cashflow 101 game. Robert did an interview with Dr. Tharp and […]
Initial Balance (IB) Research Study for the ES (S&P500 E-mini)
Part of volume profiling includes day classification, or categorized a trading day based on how the day’s trading unfolds. However in order to categorize a trading day, the initial balance […]
SQN and Harmonic Rotation Study for the ES (S&P500 E-mini)
I wanted to take a look and see if there was any correlation between the way Dr. Van Tharp categorizes market types using SQN and ATR%, and the size of […]
Cumulative Harmonic Rotations After a 2 Standard Deviation Rotation for the ES (S&P500 E-mini)
While doing my Harmonic Rotation and Pullback and Continuation Studies, I was wondering if after a large harmonic rotation (Greater than 2 Standard Deviations) the ES would generally tend to continue in the same […]
SQN Report for August 13, 2012
I’ve been following Dr. Van Tharp for a several years now. I first found out about him on a CD interview included with the Cashflow game and as I was […]
Overnight (ON) Day Range Study for the ES (S&P500 E-mini)
After my RTH ES Daily Range study, I wanted to look at if there is a statistical correlation between the overnight range of the ES and the corresponding regular trading hours day range. […]
Regular Trading Hours (RTH) Day Range Study for the ES (S&P500 E-mini)
After my Harmonic Rotation research study, one of the things I’ve identified as an area to research to help me with my trading system creating is what the average daily range […]
