Tooth & Snails

What is painstaking so long?

This must be someone else’s glory.

Like a chip on the shoulder…

VC stands for volatility crossback – means getting back inside the hourly 30-sample BB

E32 (/S30) is the fair value reset (can continue from there)

RSI2<3 – self explaining

 ///cover divergence dn
 
 if (i>0 && Close[i]<(iBands(symbol,0,30,2,0,PRICE_MEDIAN,MODE_LOWER,i)-50*Point) && Close[i-1]>(iBands(symbol,0,30,2,0,PRICE_MEDIAN,MODE_LOWER,i-1)-50*Point) 
 && RSI2[ArrayMinimum(RSI2,2,i)]<1
 ){
      ObjectCreate("Talmi"+DoubleToStr(i), OBJ_TEXT, 0, Time[i], Close[i]- 50*Point); 
            ObjectSetText("Talmi"+DoubleToStr(i), "V-C->E32->R2<3", 28, "Impact", Green);
 }

This current move with today’s beat and the reversal divergence speaks of a Wave 3 ending.

A Wave 4 should conclude with a daily RSI2 above 87 reading whilst price would have to be below of what Wave 2 produced (1.1064).

…I need to improve on my targeting. I have projections…

…that I ignore based on lack of counter volatility. What I need to settle in my brain right, that if I got in at the right prices, there is no rush. Target the projection and lock in gains with the protective stops and let the whole thing develop.

////first & second encounters - downside stratosphere    
        
if (Low[i+2]>stratod[i+2] && Low[i+1]>stratod[i+1] && Low[i]<stratod[i]){
          ObjectCreate("Poet"+DoubleToStr(i), OBJ_TEXT, 0, Time[i], Low[i]-60*Point); 
            ObjectSetText("Poet"+DoubleToStr(i), "x", 32, "Wingdings", DarkGreen);
          if (Close[i]<stratod[i]) { ObjectSetText("Poet"+DoubleToStr(i), "a", 32, "Webdings", Crimson);           
            ObjectCreate("Talmi"+DoubleToStr(i), OBJ_TEXT, 0, Time[i+6], stratod2[i]+150*Point); 
            ObjectSetText("Talmi"+DoubleToStr(i), "TGT:"+DoubleToStr(NormalizeDouble(stratod2[i],4),4), 32, "Impact", DarkGreen);
            T3[i]=stratod2[i];  drako[i]=stratod2[i]-320*Point;
            }
     }     

I should have made at least 2x of this toay:

I had 25, 26, 27 filled in for targets for a slight undercut (F for Fawed thinking), but could not wait it out as per usual (F for Fawed execution).

For scaling in and sizing I get a BB+ for Bigger Balls next time.

There is definitely something odd going on right now when everyone is trying to be first to assume a crash position. The market makers aren’t famous for handing out free money.

The 3 downside cancellations:

Reel of Vulture

What’re you gonna do if this reel lets you drown?

When the market goes deeply oversold, it is unable to carry out a sharp turn, it has to do it in 3 steps with a relapse in the middle which sets up a reversal divergence.

For a kick start low the stoch18 below 9 is too low. On the bright side, this market is turning back up.

Count 3 + Money Flow fresh peak = trend continuation divergence => 7 hrs of selling, lower low guaranteed.

prior example

current example

The relative location of 3 to the Green River is also interesting. Weren’t these hijackings? Point of view, I give the benefit of the doubt to the Zero not the Aggressor, as the latter steps in front of the current direction.

There’s one more tip.

Evaluate the printing of a reversal-low.

If there is going to be counter directional volatility within say 5 hours (10x 30 min candles) from the new low, you have a usable low. If the market just go sideways after stepping back inside the 30-sample Bollinger, and does not care to cross to the other side of the 8 EMO, then another low would be coming after some consolidation. White ovals.

My car has no engine, stop acting new, I bet you could win.

Zombie eye colors, I’m in love with another song.

Vicious blames….

My life goal is to get my name registered in the Something-something Almanac between Shapiro and Sharapova.

Reversal Divergence

H&S

The second Cover high was the Wave 5 up. One of the weakest echos I’ve seen. My thinking is a volatility whip back up to the right shoulder’s hight (1.1035+, could go a bit higher than the 1.1064 echo high as well but I don’t think it would likely not get to the 1.1149 swing high ) before the Wave 1 down.

So my plan would be matching the short holdings around 1.1030 or even earlier if I see 3 failures before that, then building a short holding the higher price gets.

This unraveling of Euro long holdings would have a long long way to go down.

The “dollar peaked” theme on Bloomberg was shining bright inside my ear today. That’s the honey trap.

You would be right to tag along. For 77-90 pips that is.

COT Observations+

The direction gets decided by the large speculators by either taking a loss or by reversing their positioning (cross & stay on the new side of 0).

The hedgers don’t get any decision rights.

Their ability to go into a paper draw down without limits guarantees to not be the one having to stop out. They don’t ever blink first.

Once the loss is taken by the speculators, they get to write off those contract-burdens which increases their account size. On top of this they have a steady stream of income from every transaction.

The loss taken thus shows up as a divergence in the price movement and the holding size – this is the starting point of unraveling that goes on until 0 on balance holdings remain in the hand of the speculators.


Other. I need to ditch habbits like closing out core holdings before the 3rd cancellation and develop the habbit of marking them up along with the anchor highs & lows and adding a reminder of 3/60 every time. New virgin level made at 1.0852

Today closing out 2.2 lots of core (hedge) holdings for a total of $16 let me endure a $750 draw down unnecessarily. This is why obeying the count and sticking with the anchor provided direction is a must.

The one yellow is in place, two plums up on the histogram and the 3/60 anchor low would be made.

Hedge shorts, $350 left on the table just by not touching anything today – and most other days.

I got myself paranoid instead of counting to 3.

…anchor low made. There is no better system out there.

Almost Got The Last Tick

First, let’s gather some thoughts around this squaring:

The first question about this Aggressor that got squared (the two upper wicks coming back beyond A), who is he to have enough market moving power to push price back up to be able to get out of the market better than flat?

Squaring is a market maker tool, this is how commercial hedgers get back their money after being in draw down (sometimes for a year).

Of course, if you are not market maker sized, you can tempt their thirst for liquidity. Say you put your target to break even and sweeten the deal with the same or larger size pending order in the opposite ditection. Around the end of the day, if your orders are within 20-30 pips, there is a good chance they would be reached after for pairing orders out taking the commission.

Now let’s talk about the market setting divergences and not being able to reach the lower 30-min 30 samp. BB mean. It means a much too oversold market with no new money coming in. There would have to be discount given to attract more downside commitment.

I would list positioning under market mechanics.

It is an opex Friday, pegging is a likely event until the hour of expiration.

1.0860 is the statistical weekly S3, it was the reason for closing my short order. 1/2 a pip off the low print.

I could picture a bounce back up to the red neckline-trendline before continuing lower.

90+ pips bounce at a minimum.

MR Feast

This was one of the best things that could had played out for a bear.

There were 3 canclellations – and someone covered. Not everyone is heeding the same signals.

The market is staying in the channeling mode, and you get a fresh count.

This is a new anchor high and we are pushing against the incomplete low.

I would suggest to add to shorts when price comes back to the upper 30 sample, 30-min HL2 Bollinger and cover on the 3rd spike down.

Helter Keltner

The rigo squeezis is staring to set in.

& there seems to be no predicting power for which way price would end up breaking.

Somebody looked up my Hijacking #2 post. Since there is FOMC today, this is good thinking.

You can see the clear and present Aggression coming from below. The 2nd “0” attempt is going on right now. After the close back candle prints at the upper 30 nin 30 Bollinger, the break out setup will be in place.

Aggressor pulling down pants. He got squared since.

Today’s topic is preparing for the 3rd spike out.

The hot mess with the black frame (& count 3) was an anchor high.

So far we had 2 spikes outside (yellow impressions down on the histogram) and the 2nd one made a coast lower to set a reversal divergence.

The 30-min fractal that prints inside the 30 BB would be a D| or a D-pitch.

Normally the last spike would come from the other BB, but since it is too far away, there could be an aggressive Zero response from just beyond the S30.

The last spike is usually very strong, from the 0 it can go 58-100 pips. Also, becoming parabolic is a possibility which would mean more divergent pitches until an anhor low gets made.

The mentioned 1.0820-1.0810 is quite possible now.

Feat Eric Lymon

Astonishing stuff. Eric gives a boost to Dave Gahan with samples borrowed from earlier DM albums such as the Violator, the Devotional etc. Too bad not many have heard of him.


Trading appendix.

Dr. David Paul said: when you need to go long, you would not want to.

If the market is not going after the 1.0821-1.0811 end, then it is going after the 1.1117-1.1127.

I was asked about support / resistence lately.

The daily 50, 20 and 9 are converging as we speak. It would be terribly easy to flip the boat, an 80-pip, regular daily ATR move would do it.

The momentum is up for the 2nd day.

If this would pop the upper daily Bollinger, it could use it as a conveyor to work its way higher.

FXE max pain for the 18th is 102. 150 pips up.

The Impossible Beat

I don’t need to be a hero, I don’t need to be a poet.

I knew I didn’t like that pullback that ended up not closing beyond the 8 EMO for some reason.

Weekly swing high & swing low money flow lecture.

It’s starting at the 3rd number approximately.

Remember the top at 1.1276? It was just getting in the zone, the Autozone.

Believe or not, this code would scribe up a single line for the money flow beat call.

if (mfi[i+12]>mfi[i+13] && mfi[i+12]>mfi[i+11] && mfi[ArrayMaximum(mfi,3,i+11)]>mfi[ArrayMaximum(mfi,23,i+15)] && mfi[i+12]>79 && iStochastic(symbol,0,120,3,3,MODE_SMA,PRICE_MEDIAN,MODE_MAIN,i)>28){
            ObjectCreate("Sal"+DoubleToStr(i), OBJ_TEXT, indicator_window+1, Time[i+10], mfi[i]+mfi[i]*.2); 
         ObjectSetText("Sal"+DoubleToStr(i), "Sell Beats: "+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iHigh(symbol,0,iHighest(symbol,0,MODE_HIGH,16,i+1))+80*Point,4),4)+", "+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iHigh(symbol,0,iHighest(symbol,0,MODE_HIGH,16,i+1))+140*Point,4),4)+", ("+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iHigh(symbol,0,iHighest(symbol,0,MODE_HIGH,16,i+1))+220*Point,4),4)+")", 22, "Impact", Black); 
         if (iStochastic(symbol,0,120,3,3,MODE_SMA,PRICE_MEDIAN,MODE_MAIN,i+12)<88 || iStochastic(symbol,0,120,3,3,MODE_SMA,PRICE_MEDIAN,MODE_MAIN,i+12)>96.8) ObjectSetText("Sal"+DoubleToStr(i), "MFI strength", 22, "Impact", DimGray);  
      }

I wait an extra 6 hours (12 samples on the 30 min to settle the measuring high / low).

Recently added filters on the downsode are the 240 sample BB width to eliminate calls around a squeeze

 if (mfi[i+12]<mfi[i+13] && mfi[i+12]<mfi[i+11] && mfi[ArrayMinimum(mfi,3,i+11)]<mfi[ArrayMinimum(mfi,23,i+15)] && mfi[i+12]<21 && iStochastic(symbol,0,120,3,3,MODE_SMA,PRICE_MEDIAN,MODE_MAIN,i)<72){
            ObjectCreate("Sals"+DoubleToStr(i), OBJ_TEXT, indicator_window+1, Time[i+10], mfi[i]*1.4); 
         if (Low[i]<iBands(symbol,0,240,2,0,PRICE_MEDIAN,MODE_LOWER,i)) ObjectSetText("Sals"+DoubleToStr(i), "Sell Retract: "+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iHigh(symbol,0,iHighest(symbol,0,MODE_HIGH,8,i+1))+80*Point,4),4), 22, "Impact", Crimson); 
        else ObjectSetText("Sals"+DoubleToStr(i), "Buy Beats: "+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iLow(symbol,0,iLowest(symbol,0,MODE_LOW,16,i+1))-80*Point,4),4)+", "+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iLow(symbol,0,iLowest(symbol,0,MODE_LOW,16,i+1))-140*Point,4),4)+", ["+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iLow(symbol,0,iLowest(symbol,0,MODE_LOW,16,i+1))-220*Point,4),4)+"/ "+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iLow(symbol,0,iLowest(symbol,0,MODE_LOW,16,i+1))-500*Point,4),4)+"]", 22, "Impact", Black); 
         if (Low[i+12]<(stratod[i+12]-400*Point)) ObjectSetText("Sals"+DoubleToStr(i), "Buy Beat: "+" ("+DoubleToString(NormalizeDouble(iLow(symbol,0,iLowest(symbol,0,MODE_LOW,16,i+1))-220*Point,4),4)+")-> LL", 22, "Impact", Magenta); 
         if (iStochastic(symbol,0,120,3,3,MODE_SMA,PRICE_MEDIAN,MODE_MAIN,i+12)>10) ObjectSetText("Sals"+DoubleToStr(i), "MFI weakness", 22, "Impact", DimGray); 
        

& for a projection to be made price must be below the aforementioned 240 sample BB

As it turns out, the 3rd number is the start of a 30-pip block, so from now on I will have the other end listed too. Or I could make it contingent of the Money Flow extreme being outside the 240 BB.

I don’t need to be a pilot, I don’t need to be a pirate.

I’m your best friend, adream.

Here’s the two plums opposing the yellow that I’ve been talking about.

Feat Dr. David Paul

He will certainly be missed.

The one question I have is what is wrong with wanting to solve a puzzle, what is the downside of making an effort for being in picture?

Based on the filter I made on Sunday I concluded that the light green strip warns of a move back to beyond the hourly 8 EMO and forecasts 20-40 pips downside. That is 3 different trades pending.

Maybe there is more sophistication to be had after perfecting shooting from the hip plus having a magazine full of kitchen sinks.

2nd strip = as is

…all she wrote

next up popping the 60 min 30 samp Bollinger before liquidity break back down for higer low