Good stuff as always, bluesteele. I trade several different methods, but always in the context of this chart, these levels, and that timing window. image

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With all due respect, you should not be posting to this thread advising others about this method without you having done the 10-trade challenge following the rules on one instrument in the live market. You're the one finding this method difficult. ...

Highest Open / Lowest Open Trade

What the whole world should do is revert back to standard time this Fall and stay there. DST screws with us because it messes with our natural biorhythms. "[S]leep experts say evidence strongly suggests that staying on standard time all year is ...

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The "lagging" charge is made by newbs and by those who never really progressed from newbie stage. Even the price printed on your price chart "lags," as it cannot be printed until AFTER a transaction takes place. Everything lags, which is why edges ...

Williams%R, SAR X-over 15 minute candles

Forgot all about it being the end of Q1. Thanks, goma.

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Maybe they are expecting the market to rally off the GDP numbers tomorrow morning so they started today? Maybe "buy the rumor, sell the news?" image

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That late day rally looks very much like a news spike. Does anyone know if there was a news catalyst?

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It is always difficult in hindsight with these renko HA charts to say exactly what I would have done. But had I taken a long there, it would have been with a buy stop order using the bar status indicator to determine the exact order placement.

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Yes, I think so. However, I think the level at which you marked yesterday's high is not quite altogether accurate. I have yesterday's high at 15598.50 on NQ on the renko chart.

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A new work project that I was just made aware of last week i staking far more time than I had initially thought it would take. My trading and therefore posting will be severely curtailed at least through the end of this week. Friday the NYSE is ...

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Just finished my last conference call and now I am leaving for an afternoon of off site meetings. Here are the notes I have made as I was able to this point on the NQ renko chart. image

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I have no experience with crypto, and I haven't traded spot forex in many, many years. I don't use MT5 or MT4 for that matter, so I can't be much help to you with respect to the platform. The method itself should work in any market that has enough ...

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Pre-open observations on the NQ: Nq is in bear breakout mode, below the 34 ema, and has been in a range for the last hour or so. I'd not trade the open until there is a break with a candle or candles closing outside that range. image

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Ed777 and I both took this CL HOLO long this morning with a target at the highest open. +40 ticks and done with CL for the day. The entry at 80.80 and target at 80.79 was an accidental short I took when trying to enter the long. I quickly scratched ...

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ES HOLO Long set up with entry long at 5275.75. Stop loss is 5272.25. I usually use +60 ticks as a take profit on HOLO trades, but since the market is in bear breakout mode and both yesterday's low and today's open are between my entry price and a ...

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That looks correct. Your candles look a bit different than mine but that is likely because your tracking oil as a cfd and not trackiing the CME futures contract?

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Is anyone following this journal interested in the HOLO (Highest Open/Lowest Open) method? Please let me know. You can simply like this particular post, you can reply, or you can send me a PM is you're too shy for eith of those lol.

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What is the Heikin Ashi formula? The Heikin Ashi formula is the method used to calculate each candlestick on the chart. Some of the formulas or calculations are more complicated than those used for a standard candlestick. Here’s a simplified version ...

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