UNDERSTANDING THE DOM FOR DAY TRADING: (thread>>>)
Make sure to read till end.
Topics Covered in This Thread:
1. Primary concept of the DOM. 2. Understanding the features of the DOM. 3. Explaining use of order flow. 4. Settings you can use to organise your DOM.
Primary Concept of the DOM:
- To read where positions of limit are of use at price lvls.
- Used to understand live liquidity of a market.
- Analysing trade environment and entry positioning.
How to Access:
> Simply open up the DOM via Exocharts desktop to access,
Understanding Features of the DOM:
- The key features you should know when it comes to reading the DOM.
- I've highlighted the info here >>
Features of the DOM pt 2:
- Other features of the DOM i haven't mentioned include...
Understanding the order flow of the DOM:
- By filtering DOM values to show only larger values, filtering out low liquidity at price lvls, overall liquidity can be seen.
- Trend health can be observed via buy and sell walls and potential reversals.
Explained in detail below.
2 Settings you can use to organise your DOM:
Bid, Ask > Combine Bid and Ask columns.
This allows for more real estate on your charts as well as not interfering with info.
Filters > Bid-Ask hide text if <insert.
Filters out smaller values of vol for easier observing.
So much more info i'd like to cover on DOM coming in the future.
Such a useful and interesting tool to use when trading.
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A way of measuring a strategies performance with no risk involved using historical data available.
Pros:
• Requires the trader to make no risks before hand.
• Provides hindsight confidence to a traders nerves (especially when in periods of drawdown).
• Gives a clear plan to what you are trading.
Cons:
• Does not reflect the real performance as does not account for mistakes, emotions and convenience in times.
• Does not account for real-time market changes in the world.
Best and simplest way to back test, is through using a simple excel spread sheet layout. Google sheets works just as well.
Positive expectancy (3/8)
When it comes to understanding profitability in trading, the first thing that comes to mind would be to have positive expectancy.
This gives a measured outlook of your strategy to classify it as profitable.
When this value is positive, you can expect this strategy to be profitable. You can apply this to any backtested strategy by keeping
Calculate this by the following...
Expectancy = (Win rate x Average win) - (Loss rate x Average loss)
Get the values for these either through backtested values or your journal.
• The 4 sessions
• Asia Break
• London H/L
• Discretion
• VWAP retests
The 4 sessions
Something I've used on an every day basis throughout my trading to make it easier to analyse price through different time sections of a trading day.
This was specifically as Bitcoin operated and traded on a 24 hour clock. A market that never ends.
All based on UTC time and I never change these throughout the year, regardless of adjustments to time zones. This keeps the time a constant which can help measure other factors of price more fluently.
The 4 sessions are as follows. Asia, London, New York & Close.
Using the sessions has helped me develop an understanding to the way Bitcoin trades and operates. This thread will discuss a few.
...below shows the 4 sessions on a TPO chart basis (this is how I view the sessions) ↓
• Order types
• Depth of market
• Tape
• Footprint
Order types
Orders come in the form of two types.
1. Limit orders. These are orders that are set at a pre-determined price level above or below price.Fundamentally, these are traders who are willing to wait for their positions to be filled by the market.
Limit orders provide liquidity to a market and are referred to as 'maker' orders. Fees when using a limit order will be cheaper than market orders as they provide liquidity to an exchange, which is good for a market.
2. Market orders. These orders will execute immediately and fill at the current price of an asset. They are bad for liquidity as they remove it from the books. However, market orders are what actively move price as they fill the limit orders, moving price to the next best level.
Market orders will have higher fees than limit orders as they remove liquidity from the traded exchange.
Understand that market orders are what move price by removing limit orders from a price level.
When the liquidity (volume of limit orders) at a price level is completely bought up or sold by market orders, price then moves to the next best level.
Positions are onside when they are in unrealised profits.
Offside positions are those who are in unrealised drawdowns.
Being in drawdown, means that the trader within that position has become trapped by the market, and must now look to make a decision to remain in or exit the position they are in.
The factors that may effect a traders withdrawal from the market are most commonly time & displacement.
The more time spent underwater the less convicted a trader naturally becomes. As well as the further the move away from one’s entry is , the more likely they are to look to close their position.
• Price and time
• Single print volatility
• News volatility
• ATR
• Liquidations
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Price and Time
Volatility occurs when there are high price fluctuates under a short span of time.
Moments of volatility occur based on the time-frame of a chart you are looking at.
Higher time-frames will have less volatility as higher time-frames require removal of much higher liquidity to become volatile.
Hence we can see volatility based on the size of deviations from the average percentage returns or the average price of an asset over a given span of time. Below compares low and high volatility in this way.