strategy classifications

CBI trad­ing strat­egy categories:

One of the first things a trader needs to do is mas­ter the lan­guage of trad­ing and that includes basic def­i­n­i­tions. So while I may be run­ning the risk of remind­ing a few of you of the bad ole school days, you need to get your head around these terms and categories.

Activ­ity risk:
The more “Aggres­sive” is the more activ­ity it exe­cutes. The less a sys­tem trades the more Con­ser­v­a­tive it is con­sid­ered. And some­where in between it is Mod­er­ate strategy.

CBI Trad­ing Style:
Day Trader (intra-day trad­ing more than 2 trades a day, every­day) can be labelled aggres­sive when an exit MOC Day Trader is seen as moderate(1 &1/2 trade a day 4 times a week) to con­ser­v­a­tive ( 1 time a day 2 times a week).

CBI Daily Swing Strat­egy (Any sys­tem that holds past the close into the globex ses­sion is a swing trader). An aggres­sive Swing trader would be 6 to 7 times a month for posi­tions that last 1 to 3 days, the Mod­er­ate Swing will trader 3 to 4 times with hold­ing peri­ods of 1 to 3 days.

CBI Gen­er­al­ity:
A trad­ing strat­egy / method can be robust or spe­cial­ized. That is, it can trade gener­i­cally well over any liq­uid mar­ket or it is spe­cial­ized to only trade a par­tic­u­lar mar­ket or seg­ment, but not both ways.

CBII Trad­ing Con­cepts: There are six (6) basic types of sys­tems: Bar chart pat­tern (flags, pen­dants, etc.); volatility-expansion or break­out; trend fol­low­ing; momen­tum dri­ven, trad­ing range or anti break­out and change of trend direction.

 

CBI Eclipsed Phase II Day Trader: Mod­er­ate and spe­cial­ized its focus is on High Vis­i­bil­ity Com­mod­ity futures like pre­cious met­als or energy. It is a volatil­ity break­out day trader. Exits are money and price based.

CBI Eclipsed Phase III Day Trader: Mod­er­ate and spe­cial­ized on stock index futures. Volatil­ity break­out day trader. Exits are money and price based.

CBI’s Eclipsed Phase IV Day Trader: Mod­er­ate risk and spe­cial­ized on stock index futures. Volatil­ity break­out day trader. Exits are money and price based. The Aber­ra­tion strat­egy remix into a day trader.

CBI %C– Day Breaker builds 3 (2012): Mod­er­ate activ­ity and spe­cial­ized S&P/DAX day trader. Trades break­outs and rever­sals from sup­port and resis­tance zones. Only three vari­able con­cepts all of which are fil­ters includ­ing %C. Top ten all time Future’s Truth last 7 years.

CBI Big Dog Day Trader: Con­ser­v­a­tive and robust, trades 10 mar­kets. Cap­tures change of trend days to exit no later than mar­ket on close. Ninety nine per­cent price based!

CBI Big Dog Swing Trader: Con­ser­v­a­tive and robust. Cap­tures change of trend days hold into a 1 to 3 day swing. Entries 100% price based and exits are money based.

CBI’s Super Fund ( devel­oped my me for HedgX-Securities, its bet­ter than Aber­ra­tion ).

CBI Gator build2 (2012): Mod­er­ate and spe­cial­ized favours high priced head­line news futures (e.g., Oil, Gas, Gold and Sil­ver). Cap­tures chan­nel break­out for kick­off of a mul­ti­ple day swing.

CBI Wolver­ine:Con­ser­v­a­tive and robust. Trades FX and Futures; Cap­tures momen­tum serge kick­off for mul­ti­ple day swing. Exits are mostly price based and a per­cent profit money target.

 

CBI advanced trader’s toolkit:
A basic under­stand­ing of mar­ket indi­ca­tors is essen­tial to being a good trader. It is the lens through which the mar­ket is seen by hun­dreds of thou­sands if not mil­lions of tech­ni­cal traders each and every day. The power of the tech­ni­cal trader has no rival in power or scope.

pric­ing pol­icy

Think­ing Man’s Trader
Over the last 25 years I have worked with many of the big names as well as the quiet achiev­ers. I have devel­oped hun­dreds if not thou­sands of strate­gies that are valid trad­ing con­cepts. I call them my basic build­ing block. The indi­ca­tors, meth­ods and strate­gies I researched along the way are research qual­ity to cap­ture a par­tic­u­lar trad­ing concepts.

Strat­egy GiveAway

The goal of the build­ing block series of indi­ca­tors and sys­tems is to allow you to:

1. Learn a trad­ing strat­egy, under­stand it and apply it to your trading.

2. Cus­tomize the strat­egy based upon the risk and reward you’re most com­fort­able with.

3. Trade the strat­egy either sys­tem­at­i­cally or add your favorite indi­ca­tors to it.

Full dis­clo­sure is given with each strat­egy. And each strat­egy is pre­cise – there is no guess­ing as to what to do – you have the exact trad­ing rules and the his­tor­i­cal results based upon those rules.

The first four in the series:

  1. CBI Vir­tual Aber­ra­tion:long term trend fol­low­ing sys­tem with scale out exit.
  2. CBI %C-Day Breaker Orig­i­nal: day trades S&P with sup­port and resis­tance zones.
  3. CBI Play Gap: day trades in the direc­tion of a open­ing gap surge
  4. CBI Coy­ote: applies Com­mod­ity Selec­tion Index (CSI) into a real time trad­ing strategy

We offer NEW sets of build­ing block trad­ing strate­gies monthly.

pric­ing pol­icy
Glossary:

  • Resis­tance — a price level that may prompt a net increase of sell­ing activity
  • Sup­port — a price level that may prompt a net increase of buy­ing activity
  • Break­out — the con­cept whereby prices force­fully pen­e­trate an area of prior sup­port or resis­tance, usu­ally, but not always, accom­pa­nied by an increase in volume.
  • Trend­ing — the phe­nom­e­non by which price move­ment tends to per­sist in one direc­tion for an extended period of time
  • Change of trend, when the series of price move­ments change from up to down or down to up.
  • Aver­age true range — aver­aged daily trad­ing range, adjusted for price gaps
  • Chart pat­tern — dis­tinc­tive pat­tern cre­ated by the move­ment of secu­rity prices on a chart
  • Momen­tum — the rate of price change
  • Cycles — time tar­gets for poten­tial change in price action (price only moves up, down, or sideways)

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