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Trend Reversal Setups!

In today's chat, we discussed a Trend Reversal Setup, which is based on a short term trend of 15 minute candlesticks followed by a hammer pattern signal.  Attached are the original "Trend Reversal Setup" strategy and my slight modification ("Trend Reversal Setup B").  The logic of this strategy is quite simple, look for:

1.) A three period downtrend based on descending (OH+L+C)/4 values
2.) A Hammer Candlestick Pattern
3.) Price to close above the high of the Hammer (the confirming signal)

Scalp-Based BB RSI Dips and Rallies Strategy

The strategy developed in today's video session has a relatively simple premise:

"Looks for scalping-based short opportunities for stocks (assumed to be relatively consolidating) based on High being above the Upper BB and RSI crossing above 70."

Market Aware Trend Following

The focus of today's chat was on creating a market-aware strategy that leverages opportunities based on underlying relationships between composite instruments, such as market indices and the stocks that comprise them, or Equity Tradable Funds (ETFs) and the symbols they consist of.

Effectively Using the Bollinger Band Squeeze

Today we discussed in detail the underlying mechanics of a Bollinger Band Squeeze strategy.  It's still one of my favorite indicators due to its simplicity yet timeliness in terms of opportunistic trade signals.  If you missed it, I encourage you to watch the chat under the Video Archives.

Using Correlation to Find Hidden Trade Ideas!

Today we discussed how to find hidden relationships between trading instruments by scanning for correlation.  Attached is the discussed strategy.  If you haven't seen it, I strongly encourage you to watch the video in the Video Archive, where I try to explain in down-to-earth language what Correlation is and how you can use it.  It's a powerful tool to have at your disposal to find underlying relationshipps that aren't immediately obvious!

The video explains everything in detail, but to summarize, I've included the following description in the exported strategy:

RSI Mean Reversion Strategy

One trick that I've learned that has added tremendous value to projects I undertake is to leverege the power of simplicity. In this weeks chat, I discuss how to look for relationships between technical analysis studies.  It's the relationships, more than the formulas by themselves, that help you identify trading opportunities.  Some of these studies, like the beautifully simple but extremely useful MACD, incorporate this concept into the formula directly.

Bollinger Band System

In today's video chat, I discussed how one can create an automated trading strategy based on a system of Bollinger Bands.  The idea is that you can easily use two different "speeds" of Bollinger Band studies to identify trend movements and reversal opportunities.

Consolidation Breakout Strategy

A Consolidation Breakout/Breakdown strategy was the topic of today's chat. The main idea behind this strategy is that it looks for periods of relative consolidation, then looks for prices to break out of its Bollinger Band range.  This idea presents a two-step scan that searches for opportunities for instruments that "decide" a price movement direction.  When using this strategy, you should also consider other market factors, such as the broad market direction.

Optimal Entry Points Using Oscillators

In this week's chat, I discussed an approach to finding optimal trade entry points by taking advantage of systems of oscillators.  The strategy I developed is attached below for import into Prodigio.  Right-click and "Save As" to your computer, then simply "Import" into your Wizard Lab environment.

Concepts from an RSI/Bollinger Band Strategy

In this week's chat, I discussed aspects of a Wizard Lab strategy that seeks optimal entry points for trade positions under a market direction bias.  Attached below is the Wizard Lab strategy which also contains the rule, which you can save to your computer and import into Prodigio.  Remember that the key concept here is that you can add multiple filtering conditions to your automated signals to create scanning systems.  There will always be a tradeoff between the quality of the signal and the quantity of s