Identifying Your Own Personal Preferences for Trading In order to be a successful trader - either discretionally or algorithmically - it is necessary to ask yourself some honest questions...
An ideal neural network expert advisor must trade by itself, without human intervention at all. Regular advisor sooner or later has to be optimized, and you have to find parameters at which it begins to trade profitably...
Truncation Elliott used the word "failure" to describe a situation in which the fifth wave does not move beyond the end of the third. We prefer the less connotative term, "truncation," or "truncated fifth...
When markets pullback from the trend consider trading retracements Traders can time entries at support and resistance using oscillators...
High-frequency trading (HFT) is a type of algorithmic trading, specifically the use of sophisticated technological tools and computer algorithms to rapidly trade securities...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Using a Naïve Bayes Classifier to Predict the Direction of an Asset in R...
In 2009, high frequency trading was estimated to have accounted for 61% of all U.S. equity market volume. That was an all–time high. But today, it looks like that is no longer the case. In fact, some estimates claim that 2014 will be one of the quietest years for high frequency trading...
There are a couple resources out there for applying machine learning to trading, but none seem to go into detail on how to exactly implement a machine learning strategy. In this first article, I give an overview of machine learning and how it can be used to trade...
Extension Most impulses contain what Elliott called an extension. Extensions are elongated impulses with exaggerated subdivisions. The vast majority of impulse waves do contain an extension in one and only one of their three actionary subwaves...
Motive Waves Motive waves subdivide into five waves with certain characteristics and always move in the same direction as the trend of one larger degree. They are straightforward and relatively easy to recognize and interpret...
Degrees When numbering and lettering waves, the scheme shown below is recommended to differentiate the degrees of waves in the stock market's progression: The most desirable form for a scientist is usually something like 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, etc...
AUDUSD Technical Strategy: Longs preferred Doji highlights indecision suggesting range may persist Harami on the four hour timeframe yielded intraday recovery AUDUSD continues its consolidation between the 0.9320 and 0.9440 mark with a Doji on the daily suggesting indecision amongst traders...
Prices rebounded as expected after putting in a Bullish Engulfing candle pattern at support set from October 2013. A daily close above the 50% Fibonacci retracement at 10452, initially exposes the 61.8% level at 10743. Alternatively, reversal below the 38...
Artificial neural networks are sophisticated computer systems that mimic the working of the human brain...
USDJPY Technical Strategy: Pending Long Doji suggests bulls losing steam after bounce off-range-bottom The USDJPY bulls have seemingly lost steam in recent trading with the pair posting a Doji formation on the daily...
Essential Design The market's compound construction is such that two waves of a particular degree subdivide into eight waves of the next lower degree, and those eight waves subdivide in exactly the same manner into thirty-four waves of the next lower degree...
Basic Tenets Under the Wave Principle, every market decision is both produced by meaningful information and produces meaningful information...
Introduction: The Broad Concept In The Elliott Wave Principle — A Critical Appraisal, Hamilton Bolton made this opening statement: As we have advanced through some of the most unpredictable economic climate imaginable, covering depression, major war, and postwar reconstruction and boom, I have no...
Neural networks have been a hot topic for traders for more than a dozen years. Indeed, this author has written many articles about neural networks and how they can be used in trading strategies...