Write today for your free copy: Traders Press, Inc. Box , Greenville, S. Edward D. Dobson Greenville, S. November, MAR. The book is divided into five sections, titled 1 Opening Range Breakout. Each chapter appears in the original form of the research report.
While I hope to have minimized any problems which may arise from the article format, the reader should note that there may still be certain redundancies and omissions which have gone uncorrected. I say these are tendencies because as of yet I have not been able to determine full cause. I began with the premise that the market followed mechanical laws, but have since taken a more moderate view and will say only that there are some aspects of price action that are predictable and only within the context that we are not omniscient.
In statistical testing, my purpose is to derive general principles, rather than specific applications. As a trader, my purpose is to develop a framework for understanding the market. The statistics can provide an indication, but can only be integrated by an understanding of the market.
It is this understanding, and not statistical tests for non-randomness, which is the best guide for analyzing the tests I have provided here. These tests have passed statistical analysis, but I have deliberately avoided including extensive digressions on such testing. In later testing you will notice that I use a constant value off the open rather than the stretch point. Experience has shown this to be a better method. As long as I used the same value throughout, I could generalize about market activity.
In other words, all comparisons are made with similar values so as to develop a consistent context. This chapter provides a control group for comparison with all other tests. Here, I have conducted tests on trades taken on the indicated amounts off the open on any day that a move of that size occurred.
Conclusions about other tests throughout the book should be reserved for a comparison with this control group. This will provide a better understanding of the testing. They attempt to quantify market action so as to test for significant directional movement. This section was inspired by Arther Merrill's work conducted on the Dow Jones Industrial Index over a 20 year period from to He used closing prices only and tested all combinations with volume for each day.
There are two main differences between my work and his. First, I have not included volume in my analysis. Second, I have found it to be much more fruitful to use direction of the open as the last piece of information in a pattern, rather than closing prices. The price patterns allow us to take large amounts of information about the market and condense it into a workable unit. Market action can thus be tested. The tendencies found within the testing can then be used as a partial basis for taking action in the market place.
This interchange between the phases of motion and rest is constantly taking place. It would seem that one phase is directly responsible for the other's existence, but has not been proven in the general case.
The evidence in this book suggests strongly that this principle applies to the particular case of price action off the open. Along with chapter three, this chapter sets a framework for the rest of the book. However, their power as tools for trading can be multiplied by integrating them into one system. The combination of these three can capture the essential action of the marketplace. These categories can provide a logical dividing line between different types of price action. There is still work to be done, but this provides an excellent starting point.
In this section, you will note a reference to daily bias. This is the present working application of the work in the book, the aspect of the work which is most helpful in day-to-day trading.
If I were to summarize the outcome of my studies, it would be: daily bias. This is not meant to be a mechanical technique, but a tool for analyzing the actions of the market. These patterns can be quite valuable, and should provide a direction for future research and integration.
DOJI When the predetermined amount the stretch is computed, a buy stop is placed that amount above the high of the opening range and a sell stop is placed the same amount below the low of the opening range.
The first stop that is traded is the position and the other stop is used as a protective stop. The Stretch is determined by looking at the previous ten days and averaging the sum of the differences between the open for each day and the closest extreme to the open on each day. Usually this is done in a market with a strong bias in one direction or just after a clear supply or demand indication. The procedure is similar to the ORB but the only order entered is the stop in the direction of the entry.
The protective stop is entered only after the trade has been entered. One qualification to this is if the market trades to the stretch in the opposite direction first; the ORBP is nullified and the resting order is cancelled. This requires you to moniter the market during the session. Intraday market monitoring is not a sacrifice by any means and serves to enhance the system in most cases. The ORB is effective after inside days that have a smaller daily range than the previous four or five days and for that matter after any day that has a daily range less than the previous six days NR7 whether an inside day or not.
Hook days also tend to precede big moves in one direction. A Hook day is any day that opens above or below the previous day's high or low then proceeds to reverse the previous day's close but does so with a narrowing daily range relative to the previous day. Inside days with the narrowest range in four days IDnr4 occur at c,e,g,i,n,b- - anii t.
NR7's occur at a,d,f,g,h,j,m,n,p, ands. Hook days are b,q, and r. Notice the proximity of the next day's open to one of the extremes for that day and the general tendency of the close of the same day to be at the opposite extreme. The ORBP provides an effective trade entry at times of a clear bias in one direction. On any inside day the ORBP should be taken.
Inside days act as springboards for an immediate continuation in the direction of the run. The July Bean Oil Chart displays a running market between numbers one and two.
Within that run inside days a thru e all resulted in successful ORB's with the open on or near the low of the session in each case. Direction is not as predictable at ID days; f. A gap in the direction of the run is a strong indication of continuation and an ORBP can be taken in the direction of the gap with an overnight position held if a big day follows. The October Sugar Chart shows three gaps a,b,c within a very defined upward run.
Note the tendency for the open to act as the low of the day in each case. If an ORB to the downside had occurred, in this case, no trade would have been taken. The Nov. Bean Chart displays upthrusts at 1,3 and 5 and Springs at 2,4 and 6. Note openings the days after the Springs and the marked tendency for them to occur near one extreme of the day. The upthrusts were not as successful. A clear upward bias did exist. Again, this is most effective after an inside day or NR7s'.
In general the earlier in the session the entry is taken the better the chances for success. In fact , the ideal is an entry within the first ten minutes of the session. In that case an immediate continuation in the direction of the breakout is likely.
When you get action like that the protective stop can be moved to break even very quickly and the trade is free. The worst entry is just before the close when time is running out and it is difficult to realize a profit. It should be kept in mind that the objective of these entry techniques is to establish a position for a two to three day run, but this can be considered only if a substantial profit is realized by the end of the session.
Trading: :OO Central Min. This report covers trades of this sort on the day following an NR 4 pattern.
NR 4 is defined as a day with a daily range that is narrower than the previous three days daily ranges compared individually. As in previous studies the hypothesis is that the NR 4 tends to precede trend day activity and consequently successful Opening Range Breakouts. It displays results for four markets during varying tine periods. There are four tests per market, with the only difference between them the point of entry above or below the open.
After you have familiarized yourself with ORB in the Market Concepts and Definitions section, you should find this to be self-explanatory. Trades were assumed to be entered on stop at the indicated level with exit on the sane day's closing.
The day's action following the NR 4 and the position of the open of that day relative to the high or low is instructive. NR4 's are displayed on the days indicated by letters. The tests on Table A were consistent throughout for all the markets.
The best results occur in the Bean market. Cattle shows surprising success on entry 25 points off the open in either direction. It has been my observation that the Cattle is not as reliable as the other markets with this technique. The number of trades was high indicating the frequency of the pattern. This pattern and a resulting move off the open appears on average once in every market days. Gross profits were high because of the frequency of the pattern. This canparison is demonstrated in Table B.
In 15 of 16 canparisons the NR 4 showed a higher percentage of winning trades than the control group. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Nov 05, Tadas Talaikis rated it liked it Shelves: besttrading.
Someone commented under my How to 10x an account? The chapter of the theory with a link from someone called Marc Brown, who claims he found "holy grail" e. Further, found that Marc Brown had read this book back in with high praise. Haha, short this morning's story how I came to this book.
Then I looked into Crabel's fund performance. It's a loser in several past years. I think it should be if strategies aren't flexible enough, because 1 patterns w Someone commented under my How to 10x an account? I think it should be if strategies aren't flexible enough, because 1 patterns work best only with higher volatility regimes, 2 a lot of good patterns are missed by purely mechanical systems, you should be much more creative in defining broader terms, 3 exits are usually worst part for short term pattern based trading, 4 any pattern strategy doesn't catch all available profit.
Problems in this book: 1. Although it provides price action patterns, which are testable, the author misses the entire point of quantitative - to rely only on data. TA indicators in provided form have nothing to do with this concept - publicly known indicators provide no signal, trading on them is trading on noise if you don't transform them into more useful ones.
If he still uses this erroneous process, no wonder, fund is not profitable. Trading on 5M "day trading" is useless usually, first, the lower the timeframe, the more random it is, second, any test will show that it will give you less gain most often - negative compared to higher TF well, due to randomness and higher costs.
Currently better to use market making strategies instead on such frames. So, from this book some good ideas can be derived, but also it is too old in understanding the theory behind the random processes i.
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