Old Posts Tagged with "measured-moves"

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Here you can find links to old content I had on the blog, prior to switching to our group pages. Have fun looking around... some of it is pretty good! If you are looking for the best of the best posts from both the old and new eras, then go to the Articles Page. If you want the newest material, browse the public group (and the google waves associated with it).

Market Rhythm, Part 2

Posted on November 10th, 2009
Written by Richard

In my last post on the topic, I talked about how the market often establishes a rhythm which can help you set price targets. One mistake a lot of traders make is that they play setups that are smaller than the main rhythm of their chart, but expect the resulting move to be [...]

Market Rhythm

Posted on October 26th, 2009
Written by Richard

I know you’ve seen me post a few times on measured moves now, but I’d still like to drive home the point further. Many people ask me how to know when to get out of a trade… but often the chart itself tells you all you need to know, well in advance. [...]

Range Bar Measured Move

Posted on October 19th, 2009
Written by Richard

I normally post measured move examples on point and figure charts, but you can find them on other types of charts as well. Here is a potential top in the market, as shown on the 4-tick range bar chart.

Confluence of Measured Moves Example

Posted on August 21st, 2009
Written by Richard

I was talking to the eotpro live room some more about measured moves today. The technique has been working very well for me. Today, I discussed how you can measure moves inside of moves, and pay attention to the confluence when two measured moves project to the same target.
Here is my 5-tick reversal [...]

More Measured Move Examples

Posted on August 19th, 2009
Written by Richard

Today in the eotpro live room, I was asked if the measured moves I was talking about on ES happen on markets like ZN. I was pretty sure they would, but I checked anyway. I pulled up a 4-tick reversal ZN chart and looked at a few days. There were a number [...]

Measured Moves Example

Posted on August 10th, 2009
Written by Richard

I just went over an example of a nice measured move in the ES with the folks in the live room. I measure them like I showed on my recent PnF tutorial video. Here’s the image I was looking at today (click to enlarge):

When you can talk about the extent of the move [...]

Point and Figure Charting Tutorial

Posted on July 29th, 2009
Written by Richard

I haven’t talked about point and figure charting techniques since my triple top/triple bottom tutorial last December. So, I thought I’d make a quick video showing a couple ideas:

This video gives you some ideas about how to use volume in combination with the point and figure ‘bars’, and also a rule of thumb I [...]