Wanted a way to easily visualise the MFE (max favourable excursion), entry & exit on the chart from various signals to aid research. After a little thinking, triangles I thought would be nice (entry, exit, MFE).

So, here we have MFE in pts from BIAS changes in indie.
Here's another one. I like looking at MFE like this. Gives me a better idea of what you can actually shoot for and helps me avoid bailing early. Not sure many people optimise on MFE. It makes sense to me (at the moment!)
Going to turn the indie into a library I can use with any of my BIAS outputs/strategies. This is proof of concept hard coded into HA bars at the moment. Looks good to me! Must have the rose-tinted specs on again...
Observation - In a wider uptrend (like this low volume drift! Urghhhh). Failed opposing signals may be good pullback opportunities. OK - That gives me a pyramiding idea...
OK, I am LOVING these triangles! Not sure what it is, but trading with them is really nice!
Just fixing a few 🐛 in this. #Ninjatrader Performance tip - (and the cause of bug!). Drawing objects, even historically before the chart shows, takes a LOT of resources. Try to draw them once, rather than every bar. A bit of thought and you can do this, historically, at least.

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Dec 12
If your fingers are not too cold to click, I am looking at this for an opening play. Just a guess.

Also, I am going into Christmas semi-hibernation! Smaller size, not so much trading. Volume will be likely falling and I will just do some small scalps until the new year now. Image
Will probably spend the time researching stuff, trying to get presents for family, etc. So, if you have any interesting ideas ;)
That was quick... Buggers could have waited for the open!
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Nov 27
I came up with a new scalping strategy today.

I will share it here, in case anyone wants to review it. It really is extremely simple, but I think with discipline, it can probably be executed profitably (I am hoping so - I will find out this week)
So, NQ (though may work with others, especially DAX), but you need a reversal type bar for reasons I will explain. I am using 34 ticks here (not optimised - It's just what I use).

Here is a clean example chart. The bars of interest are marked with the coloured diamonds here Image
What we are looking for here, is a bar that has run for 21pts or more (arbitrary value). These are marked with diamonds here. Then you look left and locate the nearest cluster of bars (like I previously showed for levels), and simply take a fade scalp, maybe for 5 pts.
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Nov 27
Perfect walking weather...
This ring dates from 1530.
So relaxing...
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Nov 26
Morning all. Been catching up on the feed. Saw some re-labelled 1h OR stuff. Low/High in after a close above, etc. Been following this for years, so thought I would check the latest stat, in case of interest.

NQ 1hr OR, last 400 days, ex Sundays
Hey-ho - Enjoy your weekend 👍 Image
What the hell. Let's re-check the 5m (B&B) whilst I have the chart open. Same 400 days, ex Sundays ImageImage
So, the above is actually NQ, but with the EU timing. 0800-0805. Here is NQ stat with the US session opening time (UK), 1430-1435 Image
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Oct 8
I have just built an algo, that builds algos! It's taken me a few hours and it's still learning to talk, but, damn, that's pretty cool!
Had the idea this am, out and about. Build an NT8 strategy that can be optimised to use all (or none) of the 50 algos I have, look for their output, +, -, don't use, and it will build a new algo from all the component parts, selecting only the most profitable mix.

First test Image
It's like the 'AI generate' optimiser function they have built-in, except this actually works and can use any indie I wrote. It also throws in some optimisations around times to trade, if we are above/below the open, vwap, etc., but it chooses.

I'm feeling all clever... 😁
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Oct 3
Seems quiet here today, though I've not really been paying much attention, I guess (sorry - not really ignoring you).

So - EU close play. Mentioned it a 'billion times. - My idea of it, anyways... 1/
If like today, we had a nice run somewhere obvious, the context is not ultra bullish/bearish, start plotting some levels/trend lines/whatever once 16:00 passes (GMT). Sometimes it is up to an hour or so later, sometimes, not at all! 2/
What you are looking for is a return to a more 'neutral' area or one where a decent amount of volume can also be transacted. Examples are prominent HVN, VWAP (24hr and RTH). 5m OR is good, too. Anything like that. Your target is typically the first of these to hit 3/
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