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Postby withnail » Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:58 am

Pro Trader wrote:Hi Withnail. How have you modified the fibo tool to show the risk:reward?


Hi Pro,
Like this:-

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Postby withnail » Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:59 pm

A supply and demand flavoured Rat trade from today. Similar to the last one.

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Shows power of extremes. 10 pip stop on this and it went to a possible 200+ profit and it only went one 1 pip against me. This is not to show off just to show what can be possible with some simple stuff and not paying a fortune to some idiots for rubbish training.

Thanks to TRO for opening my eyes and getting me to question why.
Cheers Withnail.
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Postby dojirock » Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:37 pm

Withnail,

Could you breakdown your thought process to drawing s&d lines, boxes?
This is one area where i dont have a methodical way of doing it...and is what I need to use them.... is there such a thing?

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Postby withnail » Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:31 pm

dojirock wrote:Withnail,

Could you breakdown your thought process to drawing s&d lines, boxes?
This is one area where i dont have a methodical way of doing it...and is what I need to use them.... is there such a thing?

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There are some rules that I know about
1 Demand include lower wicks up to tops of bodies.
2 Supply include top wicks up to underside of bodies.
3 Which bodies you include is a bit subjective try to get more than 50%.
4 Price has to move 2 times the depth of the s or d zone for it to be considered valid.
5 You need 3 candles at least to make a zone i.e no pivot lows/highs.
When I do them on one minute charts I do them a bit looser. Basically a good start is to look for a strong move, retrace it back to where price appeared to be in equilibrium (pausing ranging). Draw some lines around it and measure the risk to reward.
I spent a lot of time looking at it takes a some screen time but I think it's worth it. If you mark up a chart I will mark up the same how I would do it. I am no expert on it but am happy to share ideas.
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Postby Pro Trader » Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:20 pm

withnail wrote:
Pro Trader wrote:Hi Withnail. How have you modified the fibo tool to show the risk:reward?


Hi Pro,
Like this:-

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Cheers Withnail.


Thats great Withnail.

Many thanks

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Postby Pro Trader » Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:43 pm

Hi Withnail were your trades above just off the daily extreme or did you consider higher tfs?

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Postby Pro Trader » Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:57 pm

Another thing I wanted to ask is how you trade from higher tf charts.

Consider the chart below which shows a trade I took on Friday off a H4 supply with a nice R:R. I took the trade with an entry at the bottom of the yellow shaded area and sl just above it and let it run down to the demand below.

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Do you take H4 trades in a similar fashion or do you drop down to smaller tfs from a better entry?

For example the chart below is a H4 chart of EJ with what could be described as supply depending on your criteria.

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This chart shows the same area but on the 30m where there is supply further up within the H4 supply.

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My question is, assuming it met your criteria would you take the trade from the H4 level or from the 30m level within?

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Postby withnail » Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:51 am

Pro Trader wrote:Hi Withnail were your trades above just off the daily extreme or did you consider higher tfs?


Hi Pro, I always consider the bigger picture EURUSD higher tfs said short. Daily extreme is good then the old look left check. So it was a short with the htf trend off a new supply zone that was created within the same level as the old one we can see to the left. Momo then stalling and wicks where also a clue of reversal.

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Postby withnail » Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:46 pm

Pro Trader wrote:Another thing I wanted to ask is how you trade from higher tf charts.

Consider the chart below which shows a trade I took on Friday off a H4 supply with a nice R:R. I took the trade with an entry at the bottom of the yellow shaded area and sl just above it and let it run down to the demand below.

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Do you take H4 trades in a similar fashion or do you drop down to smaller tfs from a better entry?

For example the chart below is a H4 chart of EJ with what could be described as supply depending on your criteria.

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This chart shows the same area but on the 30m where there is supply further up within the H4 supply.

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My question is, assuming it met your criteria would you take the trade from the H4 level or from the 30m level within?


Nice trade Pro :D
"Do you take H4 trades in a similar fashion or do you drop down to smaller tfs from a better entry?"
Not exactly sure - do you mean look inside the 4H supply for a tighter level or look for a new supply level to form in the pull back to the 4H supply and take the pull back to that new level? In any case I do all of them. On the last 2 charts you have moved the level along to the pull back I don't do that as it is just a reaction to the initial level. If it comes back again to that level I would take it but only with confirmation. I am no expert on it that is just what I do. Maybe looking at Sam Seidens lessons from the pros articles and his videos from fxstreet would be useful to get a feeling of identifying levels. Then scroll through chart looking at where price turned and then look left to see why and get used to what s&d levels look like. Marking up levels and looking to see how it looks in other time frames is also useful. Then repeat and repeat it's what I do and finally and slowly the jigsaw is making some shape.
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