Not surprising at all. Most MM never needed to know these things, why would you, when the orders are on the books in plain sight. Some of them may place these trades without knowing all the ins and out, but just take the next best trade available. ...

Do you believe this market is random?

I was going to answer that questions when I got back on FF a few months ago, but I started getting emails from people with axes to grind and coupled that with someone who I helped to better his trading who now walk around and pretend that he learned ...

Order flow trading thread

Yes my method adjust to all market conditions such as what you described. But to answer your question I would have to describe what happens during thin and thick volume sessions. In thin sessions when you make a trade you can burn through liquidity ...

Order flow trading thread

No man, this statement went to far. That is one crazy statement to make. The market is moved by buying and selling, and by definition price always lags buying and selling. So that statement of yours is wrong all kinda ways.

Do you believe this market is random?

If you're a good trader you could make money scalping, but if you suck you probably won't make money scalping swinging or anyway you do it. It's not the style or timeframe it's the trader.

Do scalpers make money in the long run?

Hahah I don't think you will ever get that specific out of the market, and I think it would be greedy to be that specific. You don't need it to be that specific to make money either (I like to think of it in points). The most you can hope for is to ...

Do you believe this market is random?

I agree 100 percent. But to understand why let's go back to how it started.Back in the day when technical analyst were still fine tuning the market cycles and defining what was going on in the market. They were still using the ticker tape, and just ...

Illusion of Time(frames)

That's a good point man, really. Not all orders move the market and sentiment is another thing to consider for some. I do not listen to news or sentiment or anything of that sort, all my information is hard data provided by the market itself, so you ...

Order flow trading thread

Hey man that seems like a good strategy actually. I am not a coder so I can't test it myself, but the good thing about orderflow is that when you get your signal, the RR ratio is normally better than other means of trading where you just place a ...

Order flow trading thread

Welcome Zelo, You are in the right place man this is all things order flow, It doesn't matter which way you get your information as long as you are a flow trader then something that are said on this thread should help you. 24 winning trades in a ...

Order flow trading thread

Let me explain a little a about what I just said so there isn't any misunderstanding. The reason S/R, Trend, Patterns, or whatever you use can become unreliable are two fold, for example S/R since the market is designed to take out as many people as ...

Do you believe this market is random?

Whether you believe the market is random are not it still doesn't change THAT the market isn't random, the market could care less what we believe. Again like I said before it goes back to experience, trading style and if a person is successful or ...

Do you believe this market is random?

Great post man, I was thinking about doing something like this at some point, but for now it doesn't fit with my frame of mind. But it's glad to know that others are doing the same thing.Good luck, always good to hear someone who is outside the box ...

Trading Without a StopLoss

That might be the hardest lesson to learn Lol. I can lose now, but i never really thought about losing a million dollars like some guys do, but losing a million while having a few more millions would certainly we a nice problem to have.

Order flow trading thread

I think he means late because it took a week for price to get to the point, and all the while you were out of the trade sitting on your hands. It's a situation we all have to deal with, since the imbalances in the market change from day to day you ...

why have you accepted the price-predictability assumption?

It's true what you are saying.I think most people know by now know that FX might not be the best market, not only for order flow trading, but for trading period, but you do get some satisfaction with trying to put the puzzle together. My dad was a ...

Order flow trading thread

That's a very interesting Idea, I was wondering if there was anyway to measure the ticks in a bar and place them on a scale. Like for example, if a few bars had 5000 ticks, if it would be possible to count how many times the price ticked up vs down ...

Order flow trading thread

I figure I do something similar as well. When it all comes down to it I like to be in the market when stuff is about to happen, If I lose fast, that fine if I win fast that fine too, but being in the market the right time before price moves alone is ...

Order flow trading thread

"The neat thing about order flow is that it has proven to be a good momentum indicator. That is to say, a positive flow predicts a positive future return. This might seem trivially obvious, but you have remember that generally speaking, a positive ...

Quantitative and Algorithmic Trading