Trad­ing Ideas Worth Sharing.

Pub­li­ca­tion of the TraderAs­sist® Inner Cir­cle of traders. “There is plenty of room at the top but its real damn crowded at the bot­tom, no?”

One of the first things a trader needs to mas­ter is 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 old school days, you need to get your head around these terms and cat­e­gories. It will make trad­ing life allot eas­ier, mas­ter­ing the terms of the trade. Plus, you can set up a risk reward matrix for your­self to make your ana­lyst process of our ( or any of our friendly com­peti­tors ) trad­ing sys­tems flow more precisely.

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.

A Day Trader (intra-day trad­ing more than 2 trades a day, every­day) can be labeled 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).

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.

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.

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. While many of us see our­selves as “Super­Man” most of us have to accept the way a sys­tem trades else the thing will not get exe­cuted. This is an area where you just do not want to lye to yourself.

Prod­uct list with categories.

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

Eclipsed Phase III 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. Eclipsed Phase II trad­ing RB is up $16,730 on a DD of $3,155 with a win rate of 59% and a per­cent gain of 83% in 4 months! (Source Futures Truth year end issue.)

%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.

Big Dog Day Trader: Con­ser­v­a­tive and robust. Cap­tures change of trend days to exit no later than mar­ket on close. 99% price based!

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.

Gator build2 (2012): Mod­er­ate and spe­cial­ized favors high priced head­line news futures (e.g., Oil, Gas, Gold and Sil­ver). Cap­tures chan­nel break­out for kick­off of a mul­ti­ple day swing. The old build one(1) ranks #7 at Future’s Truth for the last 12 months up a net 168%. Build2 is better.

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.
Great and Many Thanks,
Jack F. Cahn, CMT

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 CBI’s build­ing block. The indi­ca­tors, meth­ods and strate­gies I researched along the way cap­ture par­tic­u­lar trad­ing con­cepts and quan­tify its capability.

All of the build­ing blocks allow you to cus­tomize them directly into your per­sonal trad­ing style or risk pol­icy.
The goal of the CBI 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 favourite indi­ca­tors to it.
Full dis­clo­sure in Eng­lish and code 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. Vir­tual Aber­ra­tion: long term trend fol­low­ing sys­tem with scale out exit.
2. %C-Day Breaker Orig­i­nal: day trades S&P with sup­port and resis­tance zones.
3. Play Gap: day trades in the direc­tion of a open­ing gap surge.
4. Coy­ote: applies Com­mod­ity Selec­tion Index (CSI) into a real time trad­ing strategy

Events!

Futures Truth Mag­a­zine Issue #4 dated Feb 3, 2012 recorded: Eclipsed Phase II trad­ing RB is up $16,730 on a DD of $3,155 with a win rate of 59% and a per­cent gain of 83% in 4 months!

Big Dog Day Trader on 10 mar­kets plug in remains on sale 1/2 off utill the end of May , 2012.

April 2012 For TradeSta­tion Bro­ker­age Clients only via TS Net­work CBI’s Advanced Trader’s ToolKit is avail­able. Just go to the TS Net­work pages to sign up for a free 30 day trial. Again for TS bro­ker­age clients only.

PEOPLE WANTED! I am look­ing for a cou­ple of my TraderAs­sist mem­bers or some of my MTA /MTA Foun­da­tion bud­dies to join with me at TED. To help me kick around some of the new think­ing com­ing out of this gruop by join­ing the Ted Com­mu­nity abd watch­ing a few lec­tures. My pro­file pages list a few pre­sen­ta­tions that will stimualte some freash ways of see­ing the world. Here is a video that should change the way you look at lead­ing and amk­ing a last­ing impression.