Post #22 at Spiral Forum: Trading Futures with Groundzero on Facebook, Patrick Slevin asked in the discussion called "3/25/08 9:53 am EDT A BUY SIGNAL CONFIRMATION YESTERDAY!!!"
Have you ever gone back to check if using the EOD numbers is better than taking a signal intraday? I wonder because of time periods that involve chop.Post #32 at Spiral Forum: Trading Futures with Groundzero on Facebook:
I get out of the Spiral now & then because I tend to be watchful of impending chop. I guessed it was coming after Tuesday & seems that's what we have, although tomorrow should start a seasonally bullish time frame.
Pat, the indicator I find to be very helpful is the 5 day moving average of the NYSE advances... when the 5 DMA is above 2000, then you can expect a sell off at any time... when the 5 DMA is below 1500, then you can expect a rally at any time... the tide of buying and selling moves in and out with high reliability... when the 5 DMA reached 2266.4 on the 25th after that great rally, the market began selling off... as of yesterday's close the 5 DMA is still at 2008.4, but will drop off rapidly over the next two days since the 5 DMA will drop the two earlier daily advances and bring the 5 DMA into allignment for a rally... GZ
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Patrick Slevin (no network) replied to Ground's post2 hours ago.
Thanks, that would tend to help with respect to chop.
I'd been looking at an Advance.Decline Ratio (which calculates the ratio between advancing versus declining data sets).
Can't say that it's been helpful, so I drifted away from A/D charts these past few weeks. However you've given me new hope.
Ground Zero (no network) replied to Patrick's post 2 hours ago.
Pat, the ratio is not as sensitive as the simple DMA, and also the decline data is a variable which only contaminates the data, the decline figures mean nothing and only gets in the way... the only figure than means anything is the advances... I keep the 5, 10, 20, and 50 DMA of the NYSE advance ONLY... you will see how nicely it works for the day to day moves... I use the spiral for the general direction, then I can focus in more closely with the 5 DMA of the NYSE advances...
A good example is when prices reach the WP and the 5 DMA is above 2000, then you know we've seen the highs for a while...
GZ
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