When I get done with this post, someone is bound to think, "Pips finally did it. He lost his mind."
(cough) Now that the rest of you are sticking around, check this out.
I've said this a lot how that there are cyclical flows in all markets, and they can be discerned with a graph or chart. This chart will give you some inkling as to why I so whole heartedly believe in my TA's, and in all due respect for the FA people, I could care less about them.
I could assemble an ichimoku cloud, but it would take too long to do it. Yes, I've already done it. But, the thing is we've talked about price action because of the current series. With what we have learned so far, you find a swing low or swing high, draw your line, then wait for the subsequent price action as per the directions given.
This is a chart of the Detroit Tigers won-loss percentages of their entire history, dating back to 1901 (I'm a baseball nut.). There are 9 sing highs and lows I've drawn on this chart. Do you see the strong break on the other side of them. In other words, if the swing low is broken, chances are the team is in for a very bad year, and if the swing high is broken, chances are the team is in for a very good year.
The yellow lines are drawn at the levels of .400 and .600. Those are levels that are rarely topped or bottomed. They would be the equivalent of a sigma 2 in measuring a standard deviation. Do you see what is going on here? If the teams had a year greater than a .600 win percentage, chances are the following year they are in for a sharp drop, and below .400, they are in for a sharp increase.
In trading, we look for these same opportunities. This is why I use my SD channel indicator. This is why others use the Bollinger Bands. Others use other means to determine an extreme condition in the market. Contrarian traders look for a market that has drifted the farthest from the mean in order to make for the most optimum trading opportunity.
So, if there are any baseball fans out there, based on our technical analysis, watch for the Philadelphia Phillies to have at least an 8-game drop from where they finished last year. 102 wins in one year is a very extreme condition.
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(cough) Now that the rest of you are sticking around, check this out.
I've said this a lot how that there are cyclical flows in all markets, and they can be discerned with a graph or chart. This chart will give you some inkling as to why I so whole heartedly believe in my TA's, and in all due respect for the FA people, I could care less about them.
I could assemble an ichimoku cloud, but it would take too long to do it. Yes, I've already done it. But, the thing is we've talked about price action because of the current series. With what we have learned so far, you find a swing low or swing high, draw your line, then wait for the subsequent price action as per the directions given.
This is a chart of the Detroit Tigers won-loss percentages of their entire history, dating back to 1901 (I'm a baseball nut.). There are 9 sing highs and lows I've drawn on this chart. Do you see the strong break on the other side of them. In other words, if the swing low is broken, chances are the team is in for a very bad year, and if the swing high is broken, chances are the team is in for a very good year.
The yellow lines are drawn at the levels of .400 and .600. Those are levels that are rarely topped or bottomed. They would be the equivalent of a sigma 2 in measuring a standard deviation. Do you see what is going on here? If the teams had a year greater than a .600 win percentage, chances are the following year they are in for a sharp drop, and below .400, they are in for a sharp increase.
In trading, we look for these same opportunities. This is why I use my SD channel indicator. This is why others use the Bollinger Bands. Others use other means to determine an extreme condition in the market. Contrarian traders look for a market that has drifted the farthest from the mean in order to make for the most optimum trading opportunity.
So, if there are any baseball fans out there, based on our technical analysis, watch for the Philadelphia Phillies to have at least an 8-game drop from where they finished last year. 102 wins in one year is a very extreme condition.
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