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Avoiding Major Trading Fallacies

A common fear among traders is that their methodology or system may no longer be relevant in a given market environment. They may ask, “Is my trading system dead?” upon experiencing a series of losses.

What many traders seemingly never ask is whether their trading approach needs just a few more trading checksups to get a better trade score.  (There is a substantial risk of loss in futures trading. Past performance is not indicative of future results).   

Think about it: Traders who are not critical about their trading tend to apply cookie-cutter habits to markets that may be incompatible with their general approach.

They may use the same style of trading, approaching the markets with the same perspective even when market conditions have changed, volatility has changed, and trend momentum has changed.

Effective trading is often predicated on what you do before you apply your method - i.e., how you identify opportunity and how you alter or adjust your angle of approach before you begin trading.

There is virtue in simplicity, advantage in clarity. 
Although your profit potential ultimately depends on your own personal trading approach, it is predicated on the agility of application, clarity of analysis, and efficiency in execution.

A method that consistently doesn’t work well might have been poorly designed. But often, it just might have been misapplied. 
What we are about to discuss here is a tool that can help you simplify your approach, avoid misapplication of your method, and potentially enhance your potential to seek returns.

The Importance of Speed and Clarity
When you fire up your charts to begin your day trading session, you’re likely faced with the same questions:

Will there be a trend to trade?
Will the trend be strong or weak?
Will there be a range bound market to exploit or evade?

Indicators should not clutter. They should be simple and provide "yes" or "no" decisons, NOT "seems like". 
Each scenario presents a slightly different profit potential: some moves may be smaller, others larger. Each scenario entails a different approach to risk: you may want to increase or reduce your positional risk depending on the market context.

And finally, each scenario potentially comes with a plethora of market data that can be sliced and diced from different angles, resulting in different market views. 

But here’s something else to consider: successful day trading requires clarity and speed of analysis and action. Analytical speed is competitiveness. Analytical clarity is the edge. 

Combined, they allow you to see faster and farther, presenting you the chance to act decisively in the moment of opportunity.b n=Analytical clutter, on the other hand, is anti-competitiveness, anti-decisiveness, anti-edge. 

Trend and Volatility - Two Critical Market Drivers
There are two factors that power the market: trend and volatility.
A trend defines market trajectory. Volatility powers the trend.

Without both, market conditions may be sub-optimal for day trading. But unless you can see both, with efficiency and range of vision, your capacity to act on trading opportunities in a timely manner may be compromised.

What you might need is a smart tool that can help you see the state of trend and volatility at the speed of an actionable glance.

Clearing the Clutter to Neautralize the Noize
If a chart were to map not only price but also the potentialities of direction and movement, then adding more movements to your map in the form of indicators and oscillators may obfuscate your view. 
What you see above is a cluttered network of possible interpretations. In short, analytical noise.

While some indicators may confirm others, different indicator groupings may contradict other groupings. Contradiction in data counters clarity. And the use of multiple indicators can often inject latency into an environment that demands speed. 
"What you might need is a smart tool that can help you see the state of trend and volatility at the speed of an actionable glance."
If the core impulse of markets were to display itself through raw momentum -- that is, relative volatility -- and if this impulse was to power the trajectory of price -- that is, trend -- then these two factors may serve as a critical basis from which every day trader may ground his or her bias and perspective.

You want to see both as clearly as possible. 

Similar to the act of driving from one location to another, you use a GPS system with a real-time traffic map to cut through the noise in order to efficiently steer yourself in the right direction.

Market charts aren’t any different. 

You can’t clearly see what’s behind price action when too many indicators and oscillators are superimposing their own interpretive possibilities onto your charts--possibilities that are often rife with mutual incompatibilities.

The trend in itself means nothing unless you can understand its current and historical context.

A price moves up or down by x% means nothing if you can’t tell whether it’s near the average exhaustion point--a potential fade--or whether it has just begun--a high-probability trade.

Given the importance of relative volatility and trend, fortunately, Trend Box can provide an at-a-glance solution to potentially enhance your real-time market analysis and trading. 

"Effective trading is often predicated on what you do before you apply your method--how you identify opportunity and how you alter or adjust your angle of approach before you begin trading."


Introducing Trend Box - Volatility and Trend Analyzer
The Trend Box presents eight lines containing critical volume and trend data to help you measure trend strength and forecast the likelihood of trend continuation or reversal.

Average True Range Metrics
Daily Range: Based on a 5-Day Average True Range (ATR), this line tells you what % of ATR price has moved during the course of the day.
4H Range: Based on a 12-bar Average True Range (or, the last 48 hours), this line tells you what % of ATR price has moved during the last 4 hours.
1H Range: Based on a 24-bar Average True Range (or, the last day), this line tells you what % of ATR price has moved in the last hour.
Trend Metrics
Daily Trend: This line tells you in percentage terms how far price has moved away from the 10-day exponential moving average (EMA_, whether up (+) or down (-).
4H Trend: This line tells you in percentage terms how far price has moved away from the 4-Hour EMA.
1H Trend: This line tells you in percentage terms how far price has moved away from the 1-Hour EMA.

cTF momentum: Based on current price, this ADX-derived metric tells you whether price is in a strong trend (Trend ++), trend (Trend), Range, or whether the trend may be slightly overextended (Fade) or severely overextended (Fade ++).
hFT momentum: This metric measures the same trend data but is based on a higher timeframe.   

A Trading Example:
You’re trading your favorite intrument using a the 1-hour chart. The market, from your one-hour chart perspective, is plunging. You check your Trend Box. 

The 1H Range indicates that the market has exceeded its 24-bar ATR by nearly 200%. But the Daily Range indicates that it the market is approaching only 98% of its ATR. You cTF momentum line is reading Trend. But your hTF momentum is reading Fade ++.

Now, considering the 1-hour range, might this mean that a short-term pullback is imminent? Clearly,  your trading instrument is in a downtrend, as confirmed by the cTF momentum. But the hFT momentum also signals a strong “Fade.” 

Obviously, you don’t just jump into a fade trade. If the Trend Box reading confirms your own personal assessment of the situation, you may want to reposition your perspective toward a trend reversal, waiting for a short pullback toward the upside, while preparing for a much larger and more substantial reversal in the sessions ahead.

As you can see in the example above, Average True Range plays a critical role in evaluating the quality of a trend. 

Why is this so important?
Average True Range is simply the average movement (over a specified time period) that an asset has moved both up and down from high to low.  It measures volatility which can be used to speculatively determine whether price has room to move or whether it may be reaching an exhaustion point. 

Here’s a scenario: Let’s suppose that your trading instrument has moved, on average, 120 ticks or pips a day for five days. That is it's 5-day ATR.
On a given day, this trading instrument is experiencing a strong rally, perhaps one supported by positive fundamental conditions. You want to participate in this rally by going long.

What if, according to its Daily Range, the trading instrument has exceeded it’s 5-day ATR by 130%? Would you still enter the markets long, or exploit the potential pullback by fading the market?

Now, what if, according to its Daily Range, the trading instrument had only moved 25% of its 5-day ATR? Would this signal that it might have at least another 75% to go should it continue moving in the same direction?

The importance of ATR, at least in terms of this application, is to help determine whether price has more room to move or whether it has reached an exhaustion point.

The overall purpose of the Trend Box is to help you quickly determine: 
1) Whether there is a trend to begin with
2) Whether that trend may be continuing or reaching a point of exhaustion on various time frames, and
3) To allow you to analyze this complex scenario at a glance, giving you the potential advantage to position yourself on the right side of the market for your next trade.
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Risk Disclaimer: The development of the MTF indicator is based on what we considered some of the essential elements in trading, but we cannot possibly encompass all the variables necessary, especially when each trader finds different variables for trading based on his/her risk tolerance.  Trading indicators on their own do not generate gains. Your experience, discipline and market conditions may prevent you from having any financial benefits. 
Trading futures and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. The risk of loss in trading commodity interests can be substantial. You should therefore carefully consider whether such trading is suitable for you in light of your financial condition.
Trading in the off-exchange Foreign Exchange market (FX, Forex) is very speculative in nature, involves considerable risk and is not appropriate for all investors. Therefore, before deciding to participate in off-exchange Foreign Exchange trading, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience and risk appetite. Investors should only use risk capital when trading Forex because there is always the risk of substantial loss. Most importantly, do not invest money you cannot afford to lose. Losses may exceed deposits. Any mention of past performance is not indicative of future results. Account access, trade executions and system response may be adversely affected by market conditions, quote delays, system performance and other factors.
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