This depends on which markets your trade. Trading the Emini, for instance, would not yield you much benefit... however, let's say you trade interest-rates, well your entire method(s) can be based solely on open-interest on the orderbook. Hope this ...

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It doesn't really work like that. Volume of say 1000 (buying + selling) on a bar represents the total number of contracts lifted on the offer and total number of contracts hit on bid for that time period. There could be any number of contracts being ...

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Understanding how the markets really work

Thanks — Thanks hanover. Fairly happy with what you've said. You're right, it's not about spot-forex specifically (especially because of the lack of volume information), but the price-action (and macro-psychology) analysis works for any ...

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Forex Trading Strategies - 3 Things You MUST Know Before Trading (2 of 2) — Forex Trading Strategies - 3 Things You MUST Know Before Trading (2 of 2) London is still the financial capital of the world. Therefor, the London Forex session is the ...

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What we're showing you is not so much a strategy; it is seeing what is actually happening in the markets. Order-flow, where traders get forced out, etc. Volume is only a part of it; it is the easiest way to initially explain the concepts for those ...

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Tom — We've written it down Tom and will do our best to get something to you soon. Very busy just now. Cheers.

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Emini — Emini from Monday... (A) - Initial Range formed. (B) - New highs and break of IR. Sellers absorbing all buying. (C) - Buyers take another push, further highs, but sellers continue to absorb all buying. (D) - Market attempts to push ...

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ttteee — Hi ttteee, I am most pleased you have found value in your purchase. Thank you. Yes, I agree there is not huge amounts of written content, we spent considerable time trying to keep each concept as brief as possible and focus on the ...

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Other markets — Will probably post some European markets soon as well - there is a lot of interest from you on that. DAX, Bund, ... that kind thing.

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Emini pt. 2 — Emini S&P 500, 3-min chart. In the chart we can see point (A) from the chart a couple of posts previously. The market ranged for a while after a climax of buying at (A). The market then started to rally steadily again. We can see ...

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Forex — I'll start getting some forex-based material up on here soon. I've had some great feedback and will make some posts that are closer to the instruments the majority of traders here are trading. Cheers.

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Fake new highs that suck you in. — A little of todays' action on the Emini... (5-min chart) We get 3 bounces just below the 1205.00 level (1', 2' and 3'); traders shorting each time the price comes back up. But, for each seller, there MUST be ...

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Emini intraday — Some recent analysis of the Emini - you'll definitely learn something good from this... (it's long, but I'm confident you will learn a lot) Analysis of price action and volume for the emini for 2010-04-19. This analysis is of ...

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Order-book — Not for how we look at it. We're looking to see what has been traded and where. Where are traders likely to be long or short and if enough of them are going to be trapped in a position that is going against them. The order-book is ...

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Tom — That's fair enough Tom. I hope you will learn from this thread also. Cheers.

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