Most people start out using the free Ninjatrader indicators that come with their platform, only to find that many of them are either too lagging, or too "simple" to use in any robust trading plan. In 2008, we decided that in order to compete with algorithmic traders, and professional institutions with trading computers, we would…

Trading time cycles can be challenging. Many of the time cycles that people look at when they are trading are based in very theoretical and murky waters. They end up in pretty subjective pools - either fibonacci or gann....wave theories...trading time cycles can be a very alluring but often times very ambiguous endeavor. It becomes…

Time and price prediction methods and techniques for trading the futures, forex, equities, and commodities markets are possible now using the full processing power of your trading computer. Time and price predictions, as a concept, have been discussed for the last 100 years, and were probably made most famous by the trader, WD Gann -…

When trading higher time frames, traders often look for higher time frame confirmation to identify trend, and establish the dominant trade direction of the markets. Many traders when studying the higher time frame, often use traditional lagging means of analysis on the higher time frame itself, using a multitude of older techniques. These higher time frame…

Predictive indicator development traditionally hinges on the idea that a real time market analysis can be made with a real time indicator like a Shaff Trend indicator, or something from the Ehlers series of indicators that have a built in cycle component. However, the markets in the last 2-3 years had fundamentally shifted from a…

I liken predictive time cycle indicators to the example of a mailman, or a postman, near my house. Time cycle indicators as they exist in the world today - in the lagging sense of the words, would have you measure for cycles in the following way. They would have you listen for the mail truck with a…

When we first started time cycle trading, there was a phase of unbelief. When we looked at the time cycles generated by the Flux software that depicted the internal behavioral cycles of the markets, we began to really think that we were tumbling down some rabbit hole with no bottom. All of our suspicions about…

The older I get , the more I believe that learning how to trade the markets is one of the deepest processes of self discovery that a person can take on. This is of course provided that the person is highly motivated to understanding the art of trading and has satisfactory introspection and flexibility to learn understand develop and grow. In…

Cycle indicators have been notoriously lagging in the past, in the sense that they are attempting to measure something that is happening in the market real time. Most cycle indicators are not much different than an RSI for example, which is looking at market conditions as they are unfolding - measuring the average of some…

Trading Psychology. It tells you what kind of trader you are. If we really spent some time upstairs, between your left and right ears, what kind of thoughts would see and hear swirling through your head? Trading psychology, as touchy and feeling as those words are, are detrimentally important to your overall success as a trader. There…

Trading psychology fascinates me. On the surface, it appears to be the simplest thing to do. See this signal - do this do that, right? But any veteran day trader will tell you - if they're honest - that there's inexorably more to trading the futures, forex, commodities, and equities markets than just seeing a signal and…

Listen to this quote, from Mark Douglas and "TRADING IN THE ZONE"... "...The psychological dilemma that virtually every trader has to resolve is that you may be aware that the next trade is simply a trade in a series that has a probable outcome. Yet you’re still afraid to put the trade on and as such are…