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Friday, January 28, 2011

Taking Control

Friday, January 28, 2011
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          In my mind, control is an important issue that has a great deal to do with understanding the process of trading and doing it successfully. There many parts of the trading process where exercising control is relatively easy and other parts of the process where control is much more difficult. For example, the entry into a trade is a point where we are very...

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Friday, January 21, 2011

ADX Has it's Limitations

Friday, January 21, 2011
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(I'm referring to Welles Wilders Average Directional Index in case you are a "newbie".) After many years of extolling the virtues of the ADX in articles and lectures all over the world I have become closely associated with this indicator. That's fine with me and I don't mind being considered the resident expert on ADX. It is an excellent measure of trendiness and a good indicator to be linked with. However,...

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Parabolic Trigger for V Tops and Bottoms

Saturday, January 15, 2011
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Our previous article about using the ADX for V shaped tops and bottoms was surprisingly well received. We had a great deal of very favorable feedback from our members who experimented with it. This very valuable pattern seems to do an excellent job of spotting major turning points in almost any market from Palladium to Natural Gas to Soybeans or even Lumber. This pattern seems to work extremely well...

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Contradictions in using ADX

Friday, January 7, 2011
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          In our last article we described how the ADX works best when a move develops out of a basing pattern. Someone sent us a very courteous email questioning this strategy and reminded us of our "25 X 25"Bond system where we want the ADX to be above 20 before looking for an entry. He commented that by the time the ADX gets to 20 any move out of a base pattern...

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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Switch Time Frames For Better Exits

Saturday, January 1, 2011
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I just returned from a weeklong Trader's Camp hosted by Dr. Alexander Elder in a beautiful island nation in the South Pacific called Vanuatu. When I studied geography in school many years ago, Vanuatu was known as the New Hebrides islands. Vanuatu is located about 1,000 miles west of Fiji. If you have read Elder's excellent book, Trading For A Living, you will recall that Dr. Elder is an advocate...

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