Recent content by mike_g4

This is my whole point, If I new when it would go sideways in to range territory I would do exactly that sit and wait until it break into a trend, but I don't know when this happens so I have to bare with the losses when the market is ranging. So far the systems outweighing the losses but it is...

The only useful thing I have found is historic volatilty but I have only found this useful to show when the volatility is low (at a certain point where the market moves sideways). If volatility is high and moves sideways the historic volatility doesn't show any difference from a range day or...

I find that it's more difficult or at least I haven't found any way of making money on range days with my indicator setups but it does make money on trend days, Good buy, sell signals. Thanks for your post's

The lines do help. The main line green/red. the light brown lines show minor movements and help with range periods, the purple lines are helpful in non volatile periods of the day and the moving averages and indicators below are trand reversal and overbought over sold indicators along with...

I would love to be able to stay away from range days as my system does well on trending days and makes losses on range days. Does anyone have any idea how to see when a range market is about to commence. I'm trying to minimise losses when the market is in range mode. Please see my other thread...

thanks for the info, i'll have a read later...

Thanks, During the Range days my system works ok if they are big swings. The attached graph on the left shows a day where my system lost money due to the trend changing in to a choppy range day. My system makes money the longer the trend continues or on the big swings in range days. The graph...

firewalker99, what do you mean by trending days? or ranging mode, would you be able to elaberate a little for me. thanks mike

thanks for your reply. I spreadbet on the S&P500 using a 1 min chart, making anthing between 2-8 trades a day. I have discovered with the market two types of sideways movement. 1. where the market (S&P500) is low volatility and has a tight/short trading range 2. where the market has high...

Hi all, I have a system that i'm using which works ok when the market is going up or down, but it loses money when it goes sideways and usually quiet a lot, what i need is some indicator which tell's me that the market is looking like it may be a sideways kinda day. Can anyone help me with this...

Hi all, I have a system that i'm using which works ok when the market is going up or down, but it loses money when it goes sideways and usually quiet a lot, what i need is some indicator which tell's me that the market is looking like it may be a sideways kinda day. Can anyone help me with this...

charts attached,i think!

Hi all, I have a system that i'm using which works ok when the market is going up or down, but it loses money when it goes sideways and usually quiet a lot, what i need is some indicator which tell's me that the market is looking like it may be a sideways kinda day. Can anyone help me with...