MicroTrends NinjaTrader Indicators and Strategies

Favourite Strategies, Trading Rant, Development Update, License Model

2012-01-19T11:18:00.002Z

My Favourite NinjaTrader Strategies are:

MT Generic Signals Trader
MT3 High Low Range Trader
MT ATR Breakout Trader

The MT Generic Signals Trader allows you to drop onto any NinjaTrader chart any number of MicroTrends Signals Indicators or 3rd party indicators that implement the Silver Bullet Interfaces and to effectively trade
multple signals, aggregated into 1 signal based on the % majority you define n order to take a trade. E.g. a Open Range + Momentum Trade + Trend Trader + Volume Delta + Order Flow Analysis signals - if 66% are long take the trade long… its awesome and addictive - The next planned version enables you to utilise a host of filter indicators across multiple charts n real-time - another first for MicroTrends :-)

I like the MT3 High Low Range Trader too for day trading- however I often manually filter trades based on HTF chart levels such as year, month, weekly, daily levels/trend support and resistance. Lining up pullbacks to zones where swing traders and position traders will be entering etc. sometimes even with a Bias Filter such as 50EMA, 200SMA or 533WMA. I look to take trades from one side of the market to the other - often this means stepping in front of a freight train, but there are ways of using price action to determine when its correct to do so… or to stay in the current trade and go for 100%, 200% of the daily range on a trending day… MT ATR Breakout

I love the ATR Breakout on a 100range for FX , 10 Range for Futures - using an ATR Stop loss ( quite huge!) to match the ATR Boundaries. and let it swing trade - amazing huge trades- but hey a lot of pain sometimes too…!

Trading Rant
I have yet to find a strategy that is not 10steps forward and 8 backwards though! sometimes 24 back and 10forwards - which is where most people loose faith - that's the behaviour we need to see and by testing in real-time over a few weeks preferably you see the nature of it and understand if its for you or not. I specialise in 4 to 6 FX markets - 1 it is cheap to trade live in when you need to trial a theory, 2 they are too big to be manipulated, 3 they display wonderful daily ATR and patterns… I am tuned into them and fish their shores…
Understanding the types of market day helps choose an approach… there is some middle ground which works great and not so good depending on the day - so on average its ok to good… that is the aim… probability, expectancy governs the profit/loss . You will hear a load of bs about winning ratios, its vanity on its own.. pure marketing hype.. I can show you a losing system that has a 85% win ratio…    you need win ratio and avg risk reward- from them you get expectancy…learn about that…. then also learn profit to maximum draw down ratio… can you stomach it? look at maximum loses versus winners etc….   99% of what you see on the internet is pure BS!    The only way to know is to learn to try it yourself and put the hours in… who the hell are these people who want a personal ATM for £99 without the need to learn? DREAMERS…. people the smart Vendors will take cash from in 1 minute… Don’t Dream… learn to trade like a Pro…   it might take you 3 years to 5years… so you need to use money management from the outset to govern the cost of tuition…so you stay alive long enough to get something tangible… You have to work for a living - hard… what you put in is what you get back…   You need statistical evidence gained from direct experience with a system over many weeks of structured approach and analysis to create a belief system for which you can trade with it…

Development and Support Update
We still have much to do and provide in the way of support, focus is currently on re-writing the strategy base engine used by all our strategies to remove the overfill scenario in NinjaTrader - we currently try to control it via general parameter - MT Reversal Over Fill Handling, 0 alert and close, 1 alert and try to resolve, 2, ignore - however - we do not have enough control using the NT intrinsic order management convenience layer -so we are refactoring right now!   The great news is that NinjaTrader in their wisdom allow an easy to use wrapper to pass orders through to the Fix layer - the same engine used by software companies charging $10K per month for a license…such as Quant House at the time of writing…so it must be good eh?

Strategy License model
All strategies are 100% free for sim account trading and always will be this applies for Live and Demo only NinjaTrader licenses. You don’t PAY nada!
Why should you pay if you are not making money with a strategy? There are too many "educator's/software vendors nailing traders with bs... best case advertising and excellent marketing"   The only way is via usage and direct experience - if you can use it and have tested for a long enough time you might consider live trading - but only those people who really test this stuff and have patience in the long run win, all traders who do not do this will get "killed off" by the market.. that’s a fact.
Our business model is not to charge then hope you don't ask for a refund within 30days and come back for another product - we would be raking it in if we did this! Sadly for us our code of ethics means we dont make money from selling products to people that wont suit them - which is why we don’t employ staff all dedicated at taking money from your pockets which is why we take more time to do stuff I guess.. Our aim is to provide you with a set of tools which enable to do a huge variety of tasks, research and learn and to decided what is good and bad for your trading etc...
With strategies only when you live trade will we ever need a license.

Indicator License Model
With indicators currently they are all free with Demo versions of NinjaTrader- and will have a limited free trial period on Live versions of NinjaTrader - When you need a license you will be prompted by the software.
Any questions or help needed please get in touch
support@microtrends.co

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework version 7.0.1.46

2011-12-27T13:45:00.001Z

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework version 7.0.1.46 has been released

MTStrategyBase changes: A Vital update that closes overfilled positions on quick reversals whereby a stop and a close order are both filled has been resolved - simply any positions long or short after the close order has been sent is then flattened. Also, a change so that when the TradeSetup(fired) method is called it is only effective for flat positions with working entry orders - this should alleviate overfills whereby orders marked for cancel are not partially filled or filled in fast reversal/ order cancellation scenarios.
Indicators - MT Speed Bar Speed Per Minute and MT Speed Tick Speed Per Minute has been released.
MT Easy Trader - Order visualisations have been switched on by default.
MT Ninja Control Panel - has been updated to allow a user to switch off the web browser that shows the quick links and connects to google analytics. You can download the latest update from the MicroTrends NinjaTrader downloads page:
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

Or by using the MT Ninja control panel which runs as a minimised program accessible from your Windows system icon tray next to the clock. Look for a blue icon with a white M and double click it view the control panel and use the Updates page to check and install the update. For more details please see the installation guide at: http://help.microtrends.co/

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MT Ninja Control Panel Home and Google Analytics

2011-12-22T11:36:00.001Z

The MT Ninja Control Panel is a small asynchronous program which runs minimised in your windows system tray - the icon list next to the PC Clock,

it can be viewed by looking for a blue icon with a white M, if you right click this icon you will see options for making it appear or exiting.

The version you should have running is V 1.0.0.5, if you have v1.0.0.4 you will need to click the exit menu so that 1.0.0.5 restarts.

The MT Ninja Control Panel provides the following tab pages:

1. Home Page with quick links, for support, contact, purchase and user accounts - this is served by a special MicroTrends website and contains the Google Analytics (GA) tracking script- this provides us with demographics of which countries and the number of users.

2. User page, displaying your local NinjaTrader machineid , MicroTrends User account credentials, which should be the same credentials if you registered on the MicroTrends website, these will need manually entering.

3. License Page, which will list your licenses associated with your MicroTrends user account - this is not currently active in v1.0.0.5

4. Shop Page, with links for purchasing

5. Updates Page, Provides a utility for checking for updates, downloading and starting the update installation program

6. Help & Support Page, contains support links and program "about" information.

Why am I getting messages from Internet Explorer asking for permission to access http://www.google-analytics.com?

In relation to #1 on Windows Servers that have enhanced configuration mode enabled for internet explorer you may well see a message box popup which asks if you want to allow access to http://www.google-analytics.com - see the image below.

If you visit Google Analytics you will see it is the industry recognised and 100% safe, trusted and secure technology for providing web stats - www.google.com/analytics

It is not used to track personal or sensitive details and is used by all of our websites and 90% of the internet.

Some traders have raised this as something they would prefer not to allow access to - so I would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused or perhaps even puzzlement that Google Analytics is being used to track software usage demographics. There will be an update to the MT Control Panel to opt out of providing demographics back to Google Analytics via the control panel Home Page. This may be mandatory for Free users in the future unless we use a different technology which will be to simply track analytics of license usage - however GA is the best solution for us currently as it is 100% trusted and already developed and in use in all our website.

If you have any queries or feedback on this usage please do feedback.

Many Thanks

MicroTrends

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Notes to a Trainee MT3 Range Trader

2011-12-09T10:11:00.001Z

MicroTrends MT3 HILO Range Trader - Notes to a newbie trader 1-2 years.
The attached stats is of the MT3 2lots 1 short target 250 Break even + small offset, 2 long target 66% of daily ATR. targets are virtual and allow trades to trail up. Atr Trailing Stop that allows a load of room. But will catch reversals that give back too much. Session times 7AM to 16:00 – with a break between 11am and 13PM GMT - which prevents new trades- but keeps positions in.
Patterns are Top Reversal TB 7am to 16:00 2 weeks - mini lots - range 100. GBPUSD, EURUSD, USDCHF, AUDUSD. For those who are newbies you will get confused by the cash value – forget it– that's vanity – this is about pips... This blog was to just to answer a note from a trader... that the system wont work and they can't believe in the sense of following a plan that took every trade win or loose and then noted the results and conditions or the trade...
This is the system you couldn't stick with, you told me I am putting on trades I know wont work... what you were saying was, I have no idea what I am talking about yet and I am letting my short term experience influence and guide my beliefs so I am telling your system won't work and you don't know what you are talking about... I have lost faith in you and want to go looking else where.... I am a prima maddona and know better already... I have almost 1 weeks of stats – for the trades I bothered to note and know better than your 3 year trading record with the system...

That's exactly what I expect of traders who are new to the game – they think they know the approach and think they can stats and stick with it – without jumping off like a young gun dog after every rabbit that runs out of the hedge...

That is exactly how human nature reacts to danger - a trader learns to override that nature by experience. Your other chosen system whereby you wait for another bar as confirmation for shorts – top reversals TR structure break – SB to close with lower high and close below the low of the high -reverse for longs - Patterns TRSB BRSB - was put there alongside the 1 bar entry TR/BR
as an alternative that is easier for a newbie to swallow.... and indeed maybe as good in the long term if not better....that is your personal discovery. you need blind faith which is then proven or dis-proven over a term of time - by your record keeping... Your stats need to show all trades ideally during the day so you can see all of the potential Recency bias is what makes traders loose faith or jump in...by blindly following the system in your trade plan rules - you would have learnt that it can be a winner, however this is a hard path and takes many days/weeks to see fruit... and also the trading availability you have may mean it is never a winner or not as much as it should be. These stats have no filters with them - it is raw data of price action only... So the task is to note what elements are common in loosing trades or winning – and to write the rules for your success -test,stat, re-iterate... write your winning plan.
Go get something workable that doesn't keep you in test too long, go live and try it on a fixed risk and budget – that is the cost of tuition right there. There is no better school than experience – forget educators charging 10K,5K,3K they are only for the lazy or lost – learn for free on the sim and then use that money for live trading yourself when you see a viable system... risk and money management will provide you the budget to learn.

#1Give a man a fish, he will eat. Teach a man to fish he will eat for the rest of his life..
#2 So for all you traders asking me for best settings...please don't ask me for a fish. See #1
#3 Do any of your strategies work – send me YOUR settings – find them yourself..doh! See #1
#4 If I buy one of your race cars will I win the race? The driver and their car setup wins the race... #5 I dont have time to learn I want money now...i need to win now, just give me your secrets for $999... Give up you're dead already – trading has no time for your sort...you are doomed.
#6 I want to learn and have an open mind... Welcome to MicroTrends lets see what we can for you..
Why don't you start by relaxing and taking your time...this takes dedication and brains...

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Performance stats and strategies

2011-12-06T18:16:00.001Z

MicroTrends does not supply performance stats, I would not believe any stats from anyone at all ever! - unless they are proven from a live account and are NFA compliant and checked. Even then you need to know the capital used and have access to executions history. What happened in that trading - was it luck or consistency?
MicroTrends is not regulated and cannot offer advice on how to trade as such - only how to learn to use software as a tool within your trading and to see why or what can be profitable or not. The usage of it is down to the trader.
I can tell you that in the right hands many of the strategies can work well with popular Forex and Futures markets but for most the experience, skill and patience, capital required to be successful is the issue not the system.
The best idea is that you use a system to suit your psyche, gather/ test your own stats in real-time - for that reason all strategies are free for sim trading -so traders can learn how to trade mechanically and see the results first hand.
To trade professionally if that is your aim - you really need to find your own parameter sets/ gather stats and settings to trade with, you need direct proof and experience of a systems natural profile to trade it and understand you winning runs, consecutive losses/wins, drawdown's, win ratio, risk reward, expectancy and capital required to assess it as viable for you and to stick with it. Even better to diversify systems, parameter sets, time series and instruments.
Most Traders tend to start out with a trend following system, single,double,triple crossover MT2- crossovers are very popular - perhaps the ES tick chart 144, 196, 256, 512, 987 with a short target and running target could suit you. Or perhaps a 60min chart.. For mean reversion High to Low strategy such as the MT3 can work for you on a 5min,10min, 30min, or a renko 10, range 10 chart around high energy times of trading times etc..
There are some who report that they think the MT2 is great and it works for them, there are others who struggle and give up. So it's really a personal journey - all we do is faciliate that and offer support on how to use the technology features. For example you might want to scalp or to let winners runs and only trade during high volume at the open etc.
Personally I run the MT3 over a basket of Futures and Currencies as I love hitting a home run trade that goes from the low or high for the whole of the expected daily ATR. However the win ratio is very low around 30% to 35%- but risk reward very good - 99% of traders cannot stick with it. Most opt for more signals/filters and tighter targets - I am not sure how profitable it is waiting for too much confirmation or trading short targets but some prefer that method. So again you can have a winning system but it cannot be used for all traders the only way to know is to drive it yourself over a period of time with a parrallel test of markets and parametersets / time series - then assess if that's viable weekly/monthly.
The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework provides you with most if not all of the popular ways to trade and many more ways too. . For advanced traders the MicroTrends NinjaTrader framework allows you to mix and match many strategies/signals, weight them over multiple time frames, apply filters, nuances and consolidate them into 1 signal.. That is sophisticated and can be fairly complex, sometimes just 1 pattern on 1 chart is the best solution..

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7.0.0.45 releases

2011-12-05T13:21:00.001Z

Traders, an emergency release for version 7.0.0.45 has completely removed all that "expired anti hacking functionality" and has been rolled out today. It also included many othe enhancements and features - some of which were de scoped or frozen for later completion in 7.0.0.46.

This situation will not arise again.

Please install the version 7.0.0.45, this version was completed over the weekend and tested against against replay, and live market data today, however due to the urgency of the release, please do report any anomalies, so they addressed in 7.0.0.46 – which will shortly follow.

Installation
Via the download package: http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

Or via the MT Ninja Control Panel
.
http://help.microtrends.co

After installation please - right click the M icon near clock and click exit so that the MT Ninja Control panel restarts with version 1.0.0.5 in the title bar - it will also show you which version of the Framework you have installed.

7.0.0.45 will notify you of any updates such as 7.0.0.46 - but will never expire!

Many thanks

MicroTrends Support

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Framework Expired Message

2011-12-02T22:17:00.001Z

Traders

I have to hold my hands up and admit that there is an issue and an oversight with some of the security features to try to prevent the friendly hackers who sell our free software to traders who pay for pirated software. Unfortunately the update that should have come out first is late and the expired date message displays and prevents use of the software after the 1st Dec 2011....which was an oversight it should have been for much later.

I apologise for the inconvenience and have taken time to re-address the code and remove this so it can never happen again, it will simply display update information and text and not disable or affect the software in this manner again.

Work is continuing over the weekend to get the update tested and rolled out for Monday 5th December.

Thank you for your patience and understanding, any issues please contact support@microtrends.co or drop by the support center at http://www.microtrends.co/support

Many thanks

Tom Leeson

MicroTrends

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Woodies Bars Collection Trading Seminar

2011-10-18T15:55:00.001+01:00

The attached image is of a live market TF Futures Woodies pattern trade - straight off the open today a 100 tick trade on the TF is an easy $1000 for a running trade. The best way to trade this would be to use 2 lots, 1 for a near target T1, then let the 2nd run, trail along the highs or in this case the CCI Bands. The reversal trade took profit at 10:00 - then a reversal short followed by reversal long and so on. A text book trading day and around $1500 profit by 10:30AM.

To see how Woodie trades these types of patterns, bars and CCI Patterns you can attend a free seminar at November 9th at the following location: http://onlinetradercentral.com/presenter_AQRG3C.asp

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Woodies Bars Subscribers also get the MicroTrends Easy Trader Position Size, Order Entry, Advanced Trade management
To learn more about how to trade these patterns for live market trading, trade coaching, chat room membership and how to get the Woodies Bars Collection for NinjaTrader including a free demo realtime Futures and ECN Forex you can visit http://woodies.microtrends.co

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Michael Cook Focus futures Performance Snapshot

2011-10-04T16:35:00.001+01:00

Dear Trader,

MicroTrends is an authorized broker for WorldCupAdvisor.com AutoTrade™ programs. WCA lead accounts are traded by talented professionals from around the world who have their own money on the line. Subscribers can automatically make the same trades in their own accounts.

Please review monthly data for the featured program and contact us online for more information.

Featured program:	Michael Cook Focus (futures)
Methodology:	Momentum, cyclical, pattern recognition, calendar spreading
Program duration:	45.36 months
Initial investment:	$20,000
Net profit:	$54,443 per unit
Net return on investment:	272.2
Peak-to-valley draw-down:	-45.5% (10/08 to 6/10)
Subscription fee:	$300

Trading futures and forex involves significant risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
Performance includes open trade equity through market close, Aug. 31.

Account performance shown is for a proprietary account owned by Michael Cook and is not necessarily indicative of subscriber rate of return and drawdown due to execution, slippage, funding level and other factors. A unit is equivalent to the quantity traded by the advisor on each trade, and may vary from program to program. Net-profit calculated using initial investment of $20,000, WorldCupAdvisor.com subscription rate and standardized commission rate available through any authorized AutoTrade™ broker. There have been no cash additions to this lead account. Drawdown is the greatest cumulative peak-to-valley percentage decline in month-end net equity during the life of the account. Subscribers funding with a balance equivalent to the advisor's initial investment subsequent to the program inception date could experience a drawdown that exceeds the advisor's historic drawdown on a percentage basis. Subscribers should take this into consideration when determining the funding level of their account.

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Why the Woodies Bars Collection?

2011-09-26T22:29:00.001+01:00

Woodies Bars Collection has recently been targeted by "not so good" traders who saw fit to try to post the secret to the Woodies Bars Collection in several forums and hacker websites on the internet. The main trouble with that is apart from the fact that they don't know how to use it and the overlooked fact that they only have a few shards of a prototype version wheeled out early on in the launch. They know nothing of the WoodiesCCIPower Bars, nothing of the WoodiesCCIPower Cross or the official CCI pattern recognition system for NinjaTrader 7 that melts the two worlds of price action and indicator together without all the fuss of dozens of patterns to learn... patterns that have statistical evidence from a broad selection of traders from all types of background and level of skill...”Just Trade the Damn Patterns”

Pictured is a glimpse of some of that technology that is offered to chat room members who become woodies bars collection subscribers. But even better perhaps the best thing about this kind of trading is that you get mentored and coached by moderators with many years of trading experience. And 1 to 1 support with MicroTrends who will provide email, Skype and remote assistance 5 days per week in regular US Trading times.

This is no easy road for the lazy trader though, those who help themselves will be helped and the market will reward them or punish them accordingly. For the most part though the Woodies Bars Collection traders are on the winning side of the trade. We thank those scrabbling to copy for being on the other side of our trades. Not only do Woodies Chat room members get assistance from a trade coach but, also they get help with trade psychology, position sizing, order entry and trade management, each trader is provided with the MT Easy Trader to allow them to set and forget according to the trade plan they use. There are also auto traders which can be used in a semi automatic or fully automatic mode within NinjaTrader for more advanced traders. MicroTrends is proud to have been chosen as the official development and support partner for the Woodies CCI Room and for the construction of the Woodies Bars Collection. More details available at http://woodies.microtrends.co

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7 v7.0.0.44 Released

2011-08-19T23:08:00.001+01:00

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7 is a 2 year project which is still in the final stages of development, the end stages were to add in indicators and filters for strategies consisting of levels of support and resistance, volume indicators, order flow analysis, time and sales. Also Generic trading signal multiple time frame/ signals consolidation combined with higher time frame filtering.

MicroTrends has created a true tool set for the trader, allowing a pick and mix approach. For example drop a few indicators on a chart and the framework will automatically work out what indicators are present and when to trade the signals from all of them in confluence. All you have to do is to add signals indicators such MT Fibonacci Grid levels signals and the MT Chop and Trend, now add the MT Generic Signals Indicator on the chart, and set the threshold parameter to require 100% signal confluence or less and manually trade the signals!

Or add on the auto trading robot NinjaTrader strategy MicroTrends Generic Signals Trader, set a signal threshold,click enable and trade alongside with the interactive position sizing and advanced trade management interface.

Pictured on the chart is the MT chop and Trend Signals, MT Levels Auto Fib Grid Signals which are drawing trade setup and entry signals on the chart, at the lower panel of the chart the signals are consolidated into just a few high probability trades!

You can simply drop more signals indicators on to the chart and this will automatically get pciked up, with zero configuration required. For developers you can even create your own indicators which implement the IsilverBulletSignals interface and your indicator signal state will be picked up, no compiling into the same assembly required.

The framework is not far from the finish line! The very end task is to produce video guides, walkthroughs and online, then to provide better templates and settings. There will also be an optional facility to allow traders to store and share settings, rated by realtime performance summaries, plus loads more great indicators and strategies!

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Download
100% free & unlimited for demo sim trading, testing & development with the MicroTrends Chart Indicators & Trading Strategies - no funds required, no obligation, no hard sales, no hassle, no money first refund later trials!

Download your latest copy from:
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/
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MT3 ES HILow Trader with Woodies Bars

2011-08-16T19:10:00.001+01:00

MT3 ES Hi Low Trader with Woodies Bars is pictured trading the ES Futures contract in NinjaTrader 7.
The Woodies bars allow the MT3 to wait for market movements instead of over trading for small time based data series.

Today was a text example of High Low trading, the picture shows results going back some 30days using the Woodies bars. Maximising profit opportunity, entry timing and momentum based entry is a feature of this system combination, allowing huge risk reward and positive expectancy in your trading.

Woodies bars are available for subscribers and by special arrangement/purchase at:
http://woodies.microtrends.co/

Traders subscribe here at Woodies Bars Subscription Page to obtain a Woodies Bars license
http://talkslive.com/stocks/donate/woodiesbars.html

or alternatively contact Woodies CCI Club http://woodiescciclub.com/index.html

The MT3 is available as part of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework. Download a free for sim version with a free demo copy of NinjaTrader with an ECN Forex, Futures real-time datafeed at: http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/ This chart was created by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader is a FREE application for advanced charting, market analytics, automated strategy development and trade simulation. Download it now at www.ninjatrader.com

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MT3 FX HiLow NinjaTrader Strategy

2011-08-10T23:37:00.001+01:00

The MT3 Hi Low Range Trader NinjaTrader Strategy is pictured from MicroTrends for NinjaTrader 7. Yes you can pick the tops and lows and yes you can predict the market low from the high using classical technical analysis. The MT3 can set its targets automatically using self adjusting target modes to take 25%, 50% ,75% and 100% or trail of the daily predicted range from the low or high. This is the maximum amount of risk reward and trade profitunity rfom any system. The MT3 is best set for trading only the hours you want such as the open 3 hours, managing the trading automatically during the trading day with an ATR trailing stop for example from a choice of 13 trailing stop types. Also includes adaptive risk management and anti martingale money management and an API for developers. The MT3 is available as part of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework. Download a free for sim version with a free demo copy of NinjaTrader with an ECN Forex real-time datafeed at:
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

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Open Range Breakout

2011-07-11T12:56:00.001+01:00

Open Range Breakout Indicator and autotrading strategy is available with MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7.0.0.43. Works for Forex or Futures

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Framework 7.0.0.43 Released - new ChopAndTrade Strategy

2011-07-06T22:09:00.001+01:00

MicroTrends NinjaTraer Framework 7.0.0.43 Released - new ChopAndTrade Strategy for NinjaTrader - pictured trading Woodies Bars.
Works for futures and forex.

Awesome!

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7.0.0.41 Released

2011-05-02T12:20:00.001+01:00

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework is the most advanced position sizing, risk management, indicator, strategy, advanced trade management system for NinjaTrader. It's 100% FREE to use too.!

Pictured is the MT3 High Low Range Trader, trading one of the 1000,000s of parameter set permutations possible with MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7.0.0.41 generic trade signals and filter user settings interface.

Released today available for download:
100% FREE for Simulator,Demo,Back Test, Replay and disconnected walk backwards/forwards
http://downloads.microtrends.co/MTNTF7-Setup.exe

This is a very new product and guides are in the process of being written, there are free forums, an online live support helpdesk for you to get started.

Live Licenses are available from: http://www.indicatorstrategies.com/

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Single Moving Average Crossover

2011-05-01T23:12:00.001+01:00

Single Moving Average Crossover
with advanced trade management
Stop and Reverse signal fired
Position size calculated on stop size
and spread across target units.

4 Trade Units - Scale out at 4 Targets
4 Self Adjusting targets - selects targets based on algorithmic risk reward and expectancy:

1st Target at 25% of Long Target
On 1st Target move stop to breakeven + offset On 2nd target trigger atr trailing stop on each trade unit

In today's markets to get an edge you need highly configurable sophistication in your choice of technology so you can mould it to the way you trade, or let it tell you how it should be traded, MicroTrends NinjaTrader technologies adapt, learn and teach.

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FREE Forex and Futures Positon Sizing Tool

2011-02-15T23:34:00.001Z

The MT Easy Trader is a FREE Forex and Futures Positon Sizing Tool

MT Easy Trader is available as part of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Download is 100% free & unlimited for sim trading, testing & development with the MicroTrends Chart Indicators & Trading Strategies - no funds required, no obligation, no hard sales, no hassle, no money first refund later trials! The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Public Beta download comprises all of the free and licensed NinjaTrader strategies and Indicators in one easy pack.
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/
Live Trading Licensing details are available for live trading from MicroTrends

Get MT Easy Trader for free from particpating brokers:
Get a free live account verson of MT Easy Trader from Optimus Trading Group
http://www.optimusfutures.com/Positions-Sizing-and-Advanced-Trade-Management.htm

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Installation Guide 7.0.0.38

2011-02-15T14:22:00.002Z

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework7 Installation guide
Support url www.micro-trends.co.uk/support
Help Desk contact support@micro-trends.co.uk

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

MTNTF7 NinjaScript
Download
Manual Download
1. Open Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome or your prefered internet web browser and
navigate to the following URL: http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/downloads/
2. In the section “MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Download” click or right click the
hyperlink which says “Click here to download indicators & strategies for NinjaTrader 7”
3. A popup dialog box will appear:
4. A file Save As dialog form will appear browse to your “My documents” folder and click the
Save button:
5. The file will download to the “My Documents” folder and a “download complete” form will
popup -which you can close.
Automatic Download
After installation the MTNTF7 will download automatically to the following location:
My Documents\MicroTrends\NinjaTrader 7\MTNTF7\
For example version 7.0.0.26 will be located at:
My Documents\MicroTrends\NinjaTrader 7\MTNTF7\7.0.0.26
NinjaScript Installation
Backup
Please backup your config files,ninjascript files, workspaces and templates from NinjaTrader
Control Center:
1. Click File
2. Utilities
3. Backup
4. In case of errors later you can restore the current version
Remove any existing NinjaScript MTNTF7
Please Remove existing MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework NinjaScript before Importing New!
1. From the Control Center window select the menu File > Utilities > Remove NinjaScript to
open the Remove NinjaScript dialog window.
2. Select the file you want to remove e.g MicroTrendsNinjaTraderFramework7.
3. Click the "Remove" button.
4. Now Restart NinjaTrader
Import the NinjaScript MTNTF7
1. From the Control Center window select the menu File > Utilities > Import NinjaScript to
open the Import NinjaScript dialog window.
2. Select the file you want to import e.g: “My Documents\NinjaTraderFramework7.zip or if
auto downloaded install the most recent version – for example if that was 7.0.0.26 install
from: “My Documents\MicroTrends\NinjaTrader7\MTNTF7\7.0.0.26
3. With NinjaTraderFramework7.zip selected - Press the "Open" button.
4. A Popup box saying successfully imported....will appear. If not then please visit
www.micro-trends.co.uk/support or contact support@micro-trends.co.uk
5. You can now access the indicators & strategies from within NT7.
MTNTF7 Workspaces & Templates
Important Notice
Workspaces and templates are not to be imported into NinjaTrader via the control center but are
instead extracted to the NinjaTrader 7 workspaces and templates folders.
Backup
Please backup your workspaces and templates from NinjaTrader Control Center:
1. Click File
2. Utilities
3. Backup
4. In case of errors late tou can restore the current set of templates and workspaces
Download
1. Open Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome or your prefered internet web browser and
navigate to the following URL: https://www.micro-trends.co.uk/downloads/
2. In the section “MicroTrends NinjaTrader 7 Tempates & Workspaces” click or right click
the hyperlink which says “Click here to download workspaces & templates for NinjaTrader
7”
3. A File download popup box will appear:
4. Click the Save button and a File Save as dialog form will appear – you need to save the file
to the folder “My Documents\NinjaTrader 7” so that is is easy to extract the contents.
Automatic Templates Download
After installation the MTNTF7 will download automatically to the following location:
My Documents\MicroTrends\NinjaTrader 7\MTNTF7\
For example version 7.0.0.26 will be located at:
My Documents\MicroTrends\NinjaTrader 7\MTNTF7\7.0.0.26\workspacesTemplates.zip
Installation of Workspaces & Templates
Manual Installation after Manual Download
1. Browse to the NinjaTrader7 folder – and locate WorkspacesTemplates.zip
2. Right click on the file WorkspacesTemplates.zip
3. Click Extract here or all:
4. Confirm Yes to all if previous versions exist
Assisted Installation of auto download
1. Locate TemplatesSetup.exe
2. Warning this will remove all previous versions of templates and workspaces which are
named containg “MicroTrends” or “MT “
3. Double click to run
MTNTF7 Online Deployment Utilities and Archives
A browsable web folder has been setup to allow access to archives and utilites used for download
and installation of the MTNTF7. All future versions will be stored here as Zip files and folders.
Location: https://www.micro-trends.co.uk/downloads/mtntf7/
Trouble Shooting and Support
Access to support from via the web
You can always contact support, access the helpdesk or use the forum in which many issues have
been resolved before. On the right hand side of the front page of the microTrends website there is a
quick links menu for contact and support options.
Technical Help and Assistance
MicroTrends Forum
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/forum
Help Desk
http://microtrends.zendesk.com/home
MicroTrends Support
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/support
Send an email to support@micro-trends.co.uk

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MT3 HILo Trader with Virtual Targets & Trailing Stop

2011-02-15T12:19:00.001Z

MT3 HILo Trader with Virtual Targets & Trailing Stop allows you to specify a target but without taking you out of the trade. When the target is triggered the stops for that trade unit are trailed into lock in profit and to let the trade to continue to run. The template for this can be found in the forum: http://forum.micro-trends.co.uk/forum170-mt3-high-low-range-trader.aspx

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Another Very Bullish Grain Article Corn Futures to rise?

2011-02-15T10:46:00.001Z

Feb. 11, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EST

Corn’s rally feeds a ‘global food fight’

By Myra P. Saefong

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — With higher food prices already sparking riots and protests in several developing economies, corn’s impressive price gains and falling global supplies certainly won’t help.

Corn futures have nearly doubled from a low around $3.60 per bushel in late June to about $7 in Chicago.

On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Agriculture slashed its forecasts for domestic and international ending stocks of corn in its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report.

The report “sends a warning shot that food inflation is not just becoming a direct link to emerging countries, as [U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman] Ben Bernanke has stated in recent days, but now according to the USDA, it is partly due to domestic demand as well,” said John Person, president of NationalFutures.com.

U.S. corn stocks at the end of the 2010-2011 marketing year will be at 675 million bushels, down 70 million bushels from last month’s estimate, according to the report from the USDA. That’s equivalent to a decline of 1.8 million metric tons to ending stocks of 17.1 million metric tons, according to Ned Schmidt, editor of the Agri-Food Value.

For the U.S., that cuts the stocks-to-use ratio to 5% - the same level seen in the 1995 to 1996 marketing year, which was the last time ending stocks fell to multi-year lows, the USDA said.

The report also cut world ending supplies by 4.5 million metric tons to global ending stocks of 122.5 million metric tons, Schmidt said.

“For the grains, and the headliner of corn in particular … the bullish trends have been well established and data, news, or events can only make the situation more dire as we prepare for the crucial spring planning in America,” said Alan Knuckman, managing editor of the Resource Trader Alert and contributor to the Daily Reckoning.

“The reality is that we are a long way away from refilling the bins and correcting a near record tight stocks-to-usage ratio,” he said. “We can probably only find less corn or increased demand, not the opposite for now.”

The U.S. corn stocks-to-use ratio may even end the marketing year at a record low of 4.9%, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley, “intensifying the acreage battle in the coming months.”

“Prices still need to move higher to ration demand, even if corn is able to garner the absolute minimum 91.2 million acres needed to prevent balances tightening further,” Morgan Stanley analysts said in a recent research note.

Fueling the fire

It’s hard to believe corn prices can move higher, given their already lofty prices, but most analysts say that’s a good bet given the strong demand, shortage of acreage and ongoing risks linked to weather.

“Quite literally, farmers will be using brooms and dustpans to empty the bins of the last kernel of corn,” said Schmidt, adding that “demand is strong all along the corn value chain, from ethanol to corn sugar to corn starches.”

The emerging markets, and especially China and “their hunger for new and better quality food means demand is growing, not slowing,” said Kevin Kerr, editor of Kerr Commodities Watch. “The conclusion is that higher food prices are here to stay.”

China, a heavy commodity consumer, has almost half of the world’s corn reserves, according to Schmidt, who also said that the nation maintains its food reserves as a matter of national policy.

Scott Capinegro, president of Barrington Commodity Brokers said China must build its stocks after it sells from the reserves and the country needs “to buy before the market goes to $7.50” for corn.

That would certainly offer a significant boost to consumption.

It’s no wonder that demonstrators in Algeria and Tunisia took to the streets in violent protests last month over the high costs for food commodities — and such protests are likely to continue.

The spike in food prices “is partially because of supply problems — floods in Australia, drought in Russia, freak snow storms in China — but is mainly because of rising demand,” said Tony Sagami, Asia analyst for Weiss Research.

And a slowdown doesn’t appear to be anywhere in sight.

“Corn does not grow overnight,” and according to the USDA, U.S. corn stocks at the end of the marketing year will be at just over an 18-day supply “if we do not curtail demand or see an increase in supply,” said Person, who is also co-editor and author of Commodity Traders Almanac.

“We know we can’t increase supply soon” and right now, demand for corn is strong for human and animal food consumption as well as for ethanol production, he said.

Growing obstacles

And as demand climbs, so does the scramble to find enough land to produce the crops.

“The problem is [that] cotton needs acres, corn needs acres, beans need acres and so does wheat,” said Capinegro. “Where is all the acreage going to come from?”

Corn also depletes soil, so the land has to be rotated to replenish the soil’s nutrients.

So whatever land farmers are devoting to corn now just means that much more land to be “left fallow or converted to wheat or alfalfa or something else next year,” said Christopher Ecclestone, a strategist at Hallgarten & Company LLC.

“There is little more acreage to be employed” and “all land will have to be mobilized,” he said. “Asia may be farmed intensely,” but Western countries have much less land under crops than they did 100 years ago.

All the while, weather has been uncooperative.

The world has already seen droughts in Australia, Ukraine, Europe and Russia as well as floods in Australia, Brazil and the U.S., said Jonathan Barratt, managing director at Commodity Broking Services.

“I feel we are factoring in production risk around the world that is based on adverse weather risks ... we have witnessed last year,” he said.

Add in uncertainties related to the La Nina weather system, and the outlook for crop production is “unclear” this year, he said.

Chain reaction

Whatever the case, consumers will continue to be the victims.

“Higher prices paid for corn ... mean higher costs to millers, feedlot owners and ethanol producers, which will end up costing the consumer,” said Barratt.

It’s a cost they may not be willing to pay for.

“People will put up with many things but not being able to eat or feed their children is usually the tipping point,” said Kerr Commodities Watch’s Kerr. “We have seen exponential increases in many foods already as producers past those costs right on to the consumer or mask it in other ways like reducing portion sizes or amount of product in a box.”

“A true global ‘food fight’ is on and it is hard to tell who, if anyone, will win,” he said.

But for now, even the current highs in food prices aren’t enough to hamper consumption.

“Demand rationing has not even entered the picture with corn prices trading over $6.75 a bushel,” said Person. “It is a strong possibility that we will continue to hear and read about continued food riots in parts of the world throughout the globe until [the] 2011 harvest time.”

Against that backdrop, prices for corn aren’t likely to calm down any time soon.

“The highs in 2008 for corn were above $8 per bushel so at the present $7 level … there is still more upside,” said Resource Trader Alert’s Knuckman.

Corn prices could even surpass their record levels from 2008.

If the U.S. has “a hot dry summer and yields are under 160 [bushels per acre] and we only plant 91 [million] to 91.5 million acres of corn” instead of the 92 million to 94 million acres the market needs, $10 a bushel is a possibility in July or August, Capinegro said.

Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. The risk of loss exists in futures trading.

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7 - Version 7.0.0.38 Released

2011-02-15T00:51:00.001Z

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7 - Version 7.0.0.38 is is now released:

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Download
100% free & unlimited for sim trading, testing & development with the MicroTrends Chart Indicators & Trading Strategies - no funds required, no obligation, no hard sales, no hassle, no money first refund later trials!

NinjaTrader Indicators & Strategies download
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/
The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Public Beta download comprises all of the free and licensed NinjaTrader strategies and Indicators in one easy pack.

Simply save to your PC & import into NinjaTrader:
Control Center > File> Utilities > Import NinjaScript.

Version 7.0.0.39 is still being worked on to provide the long awaited settings persistence and retrieval addon.
NinjaTrader Workspaces and Templates will auto download for all versions of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7. to \My Documents\MicroTrends\NinjaTrader 7\MTNTF7\7.0.0.38\

There is a complete version of 7.0.0.38 in the following location: https://www.micro-trends.co.uk/downloads/mtntf7/7.0.0.38/

Please do send help requests to support@micro-trends.co.uk

or visit our forum and ask a question: http://forum.micro-trends.co.uk/

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Strategies - Virtual Targets

2011-02-14T22:17:00.001Z

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Strategy Virtual Targets

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Strategies - Virtual Targets allow you to specify up to 4 separate targets unit to scale out at. As the name suggests they do not exist and are virtual – when the target is triggered instead of a limit order to sell or cover your position - the stops are moved to the virtual target within an offset you can define. This means you can control your desired exit points – but still give yourself a chance to stay in the trade and gain more profit as the stop up to 4 of trailing stops 1 per trade unit can then trailed in from the virtual target.

Available as part of version 7.0.0.38 of the MicroTrends Strategy Base which you can download at:
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Public Beta download comprises all of the free and licensed NinjaTrader strategies and Indicators in one easy pack.

Simply save to your PC & import into NinjaTrader:
Control Center > File> Utilities > Import NinjaScript.

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NinjaTrader Position Sizing and Advance Trade Management

2011-02-14T18:21:00.001Z

MT Easy Trader is the ultimate in money management, risk management and advanced trade management for NinjaTrader.

Allowing you to trade purely discretionary with auto calculated adaptive stops for long or short and position sizing in real-time simply by selecting a static stop or adaptive stop and hovering over the buy or sell button.

Trailin stop types include:

SMA, ATR, Price Low/High, Previous Price Low/High, Close, Current Bid/Ask All can be triggered by profit,time or even manually with the Easy Trader UI.

Whats more you can pause trading or change settings without restarting!!

You the ability to trade alongside a strategy and interact with it..

see your risk, target and risk reward for every trade,

Trading just got so mcuh easier and a lot more fun!

Version 7.0.0.38 will be released later today - which has tooltips and help on how to use it.

Available for download here:

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

100% free & unlimited for sim trading, testing & development with the MicroTrends Chart Indicators & Trading Strategies - no funds required, no obligation, no hard sales, no hassle, no money first refund later trials!

NinjaTrader Indicators & Strategies download

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Public Beta download comprises all of the free and licensed NinjaTrader strategies and Indicators in one easy pack.

Simply save to your PC & import into NinjaTrader:
Control Center > File> Utilities > Import NinjaScript

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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MT2 Trend following moving average strategy gets a new trailing stop

2011-02-14T17:37:00.001Z

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Strategy MT2 Trend Trader - moving average strategy gets a new trailing stop to allow you to trail the stop down the fast,slow or triple moving average with an offset in ticks. This is a great addition to the trend trading strategy which can function as a single, double or triple crossover strategy - optimised for Forex and Futures. The trail stop is addition to the available following trailing stop types:
SMA, ATR, Price Low/High, Previous Price Low/High, Close, Current Bid/Ask All can be triggered by profit,time or even manually with the Easy Trader UI.

These enhancements are available as part of version 7.0.0.38 of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Download. Release for tomorrow: 15th february 2011

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The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Public Beta download comprises all of the free and licensed NinjaTrader strategies and Indicators in one easy pack.

Download for free with not payment details required!!
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

Simply save to your PC & import into NinjaTrader:
Control Center > File> Utilities > Import NinjaScript.

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Killer Trading - Let winners run

2011-02-14T12:39:00.005Z

The clichés are many in trading and the truth is that most traders agree with them but it takes a lot of time to put it into practice and to keep your interference with a trade to a minimum... So it is one thing so say I understand but it is another to have the direct experience that makes you feel the truth and put it into action.

“Let winners run”
You can see 2 trades on the chart on my live Forex account robot test server. Last night I went long using Easy Trader which is a strategy UI that allows you to interact and manually trade alongside a robot using advanced trade management The MT3 Hi Low trader in the morning went short. I was away from the machine - asleep - the best trading for me is when I am locked away unable to change the trade destiny. The stop was trailed on both trades and worked well - when I stepped up to the server today I closed the trade and moved the stop in for the kill - had I left it it well have earned more - however - these were two lovely trades.

It is easy to simply trail in your stops... you can do this with a ATR Trailing Stop – available as an indicator or with the Easy Trader strategy at: ninjatrader downloads
Never mind what the egg heads tell you in books - trading can be fun and should give you a thrill - why not? If it doesn't why the heck are you doing it?

The secret of letting winning trades run is this:

In letting the trades run - we can achieve a larger risk reward - the risk reward ratio is the amount you risk via a stop loss compared to the profit you book on a trade.

If your winning ratio is 50/50 the risk rewards needs to be 1 risk 1 reward to break even. - but with commission and costs that is not good enough. Flip a coin and pay yourself $1 when you win and pay out $0.50 when you loose – that is a winning ratio of 50% with a risk reward of 1:2 - that is a winning system with a positive expectancy. You can get incredibly rich with a system like that..

Positive Expectancy

To have a positive expectancy without looking at clever equations, common sense will tell you that if you only win 33% of the time your risk reward needs to be greater than 1:3 - i.e. 1:4. This does not mean you trade simply for 1 to 4. You trade for a much larger amount if you can. For me trading the GBPUSD it is 1:15. For example if the daily market ATR was 150 – your stop 10 that would achieve a 1:15 risk reward if you were going from the high to the low.. The issue is that you won't always achieve that ideal target so you need to have an ideal and an acceptable threshold - the acceptable will be found with back testing and by setting a target smaller than the ideal – there will a tipping point.... it all boils down to letting winners run and having a exit based on the ideal maximum trade target intra day...

The model ends up as:

1.Win Ratio 33%

2.AVERAGE Risk reward 1:4.5

So it is all about an ideal trade target but an overall averaging down of risk reward and winning ratio that is where you take the expectancy measurement. so lets see:

33% and 1:45. is yes a viable robust set of figures.... but can you suffer 12 losses in a row and keep the system?

I use dynamic position sizing based on an adaptive technical stop to control the position size and keep the risk constant. Where stops are too large I filter the trade out. And wait for another day...

I cut my losses at a fix value - I control my risk... So I never control my winners – just the losers– “I let the winners run” I trade the cliché

How to take advantage with Futures: Oil prces set to rise - Food Prices here to stay!

2011-02-09T10:56:00.001Z

Egypt unrest could trigger oil prices to $110 a barrel

BIKYAMASR

February 7, 2011

Global oil prices could rise above $110 a barrel if the current political unrest in Egypt continues, said a member of Kuwait’s Supreme Petroleum Council on Sunday.

Nearly two weeks of unrest in Egypt have already led to a rise in oil prices, with Brent crude LCOc1 reaching $100 per barrel for the first time since 2008. Fears that instability could spread through the Middle East have greatly contributed to the increase in prices.

The Middle East and North Africa pump more than a third of the world’s oil.

“I expect oil prices to reach $110 during the first half of 2011, however, it could go above that level if Egypt’s current crisis continues,” Imad al-Atiqi, a member of the OPEC member’s highest oil policy body, told Reuters.

“A huge amount of oil passes through the Suez Canal and the country’s stability is essential for the Middle East’s stability, particularly Israel,” he added.

Potential impact on the Suez Canal is one of the major concerns. The canal ships 1.5 million barrels per day of crude oil and the nearby Suez-Mediterranean oil pipeline, which passes near Cairo, carries 1 million barrels per day.

Together, they account for nearly three percent of daily global oil demand.

Egypt’s new Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq, said on Thursday that the Suez Canal is operating normally despite the internal political unrest.

Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

The risk of loss exists in futures trading.

Higher food prices here to stay: analysts

By Paul Handley

February 6, 2011

From McDonald’s burgers in the United States to sugar in Bolivia and chilis in Indonesia, food prices across the globe are soaring.

But consumers and governments should brace themselves for even higher prices, experts warn, as demand in populous emerging economies will put pressure on supplies for years to come.

A “perfect storm” of bad weather, rapid growth in emerging economies -- with people eating more higher-value, resource-intense food -- and low interest rates has sent prices for a broad range of farm and non-farm commodities climbing often at double-digit rates: from wheat to corn, cotton to rubber, and oil to boot.

And while it resembles the sharp spike in food and oil prices of 2007-2008, analysts say the current trend is less speculative in nature and not likely to end with a price collapse, as it did two years ago.

“Things were quite different in 2008... You had price spikes, it was a couple of food grains,” said Chris Delgado, an agriculture specialist at the World Bank.

“What is going on now is more broadbased... It’s not led by grains.”

And it’s widespread, and feeding into political worries, not just in the Middle East.

In Indonesia, where even the price of chilis has soared, the government suspended import duties on key food items after inflation hit an annual rate of seven percent in January.

In Bolivia, sugar is being rationed despite a 64 percent price hike.

In the United States, much higher meat prices are forcing restaurants from fancy steak houses to McDonald’s to hike their prices, even though the pocketbooks of consumers remain tight.

On Thursday, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said food prices have reached their highest level since it began measuring them in 1990, and pointed to the political problems that can spark.

“Not only is there a risk, but there have already been riots in some parts of the world because of rising prices,” FOA chief Jacques Diouf said.

There is little relief in sight, say experts.

“I think commodity prices are going to be trending higher,” said Gerard Lyons, chief economist for Standard Chartered Bank.

“What’s interesting is that even commodities that aren’t heavily traded are rising in price. ... That suggests this is fundamental, not speculators,” he told AFP.

The 2008 commodity spike was only a handful of food grains plus oil, and driven in large part by political decisions amounting to hoarding and heavy trader speculation.

This year the problem is more fundamental: prices are being driven by growing demand from huge emerging economies like China, India, Russia and Brazil that is unlikely to slacken until prices get much higher, say analysts.

The World Bank’s Delgado said that supply shocks are exacerbating the price hikes: weather and policy moves that have cut grain supplies from Russia, Argentina and Australia, among others.

But the trend is rooted in the fundamentals of soaring demand, say economists.

“More and more people are moving up the scale of income, so they tend to have higher value food,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.

Lyons said there is not much relief on the horizon because of the time it takes farmers to expand acreage and production.

“It takes a long time, two to three years, for new supply to come on stream,” Lyons said.

“I think commodity prices are going to be trending higher.”

Commodity traders are saying the same thing.

Last week Morgan Stanley commodities specialist Hussein Allidina said key items like corn, soybeans and wheat still face strong upward price pressure -- with corn possibly going up another 20 percent from the current level of $6.60 a bushel before demand weakens.

“We see record tightness across the agriculture complex and believe that higher prices will be necessary to ration demand and incentivize acreage,” he said in a report.

Behravesh said he thinks the problem is mainly a short-term one, more like 2008, and have limited economic impact overall.

But policy-wise, he said governments don’t have many tools to bring down the cost of food and other commodities, especially if they are import-dependent.

Aside from pushing up interest rates to slow growth, said Behravesh, “There’s not much central bankers can do about food prices.”

Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

The risk of loss exists in futures trading.

How to take advantage

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7 - Version 7.0.0.34

2011-01-28T00:27:00.001Z

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7 - Version 7.0.0.34 has been released. NinjaTrader Workspaces and Templates will auto download for all versions of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7. to \My Documents\MicroTrends\NinjaTrader 7\MTNTF7\7.0.0.34\

There is a complete version of 7.0.0.34 in the following location: https://www.micro-trends.co.uk/downloads/mtntf7/7.0.0.34/

The MT Levels Horizontal support and Resistance HTF - Indicator has been reworked and is now extremely useful on any timeseries and any market...
It functions on bar close or first tick and 2 second period.. There is a template called "MT Trading Levels ATR Range Divergence" which shows the use of divergence,atr, range, intraday levels and daily levels of support and resistance.
This release includes the MicroTrends Easy Trader for adpative riska and money management featuring easy to use position sizing advanced trade management and trade execution for Forex and Futures.

The silver bullet also gets released - however 7.0.0.35 will provide some more features for it- settings loading and persistance of consolidated signals indicators..

A new extremes CCI indicator and strategy was also part of the release.

This is quite a large release - please do send help requests to support@micro-trends.co.uk This chart was created by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader is a FREE application for advanced charting, market analytics, automated strategy development and trade simulation. Download it now at www.ninjatrader.com

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Forex Tradng MBT Announcement

2011-01-25T20:02:00.001Z

Notice all Forex Traders:

We just made the our announcement via Twitter and you can learn more here: http://microtrends.mbtrading.com/pricing.aspx

Effective January 30th, 2011 we will begin to pay 1.95 per 100,000 for executed limit orders.

If you’d like to email your customer base, here is an email we drafted for our IB’s and BA partners you can use if you’d like. Feel free to adjust the letter how you see fit.

Dear Valued Customers:

If you have been following MB Trading on Twitter, visited their website in the past 30 days, or seen the buzz in the many FOREX forums, you’ve probably been anticipating news of their big announcement. Well today, we finally have a better understanding of the changes they are bringing to the FOREX industry. Today, MB Trading announced that effective January 30th, 2011 they will begin to pay 1.95 per 100,000 for executed limit orders. The payment is credited immediately upon execution and applies to every non-marketable Limit order that is placed and filled.

As far as we know, MB Trading is the first Forex broker to pay their clients for adding liquidity to their system, and when exploring why MB Trading would offer such a great deal for clients, here is what they had to say.

“By incentivizing clients to add their limit orders to our system, we attract more liquidity, which in turn means tighter spreads. Tighter spreads mean lower trading costs for all clients. In our opinion, there is no better way to be perfectly aligned for our customers’ best interests than to create a system that improves for everyone as more people use it.”

So if you’re curious exactly how this can benefit you, we highly suggest you take a look at their new pricing pages that explain in great depths how the new program works. You can check it out here: http://microtrends.mbtrading.com/pricing.aspx

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Securities products are offered through Manhattan Beach Trading Financial Services, Inc. ("MBTFS"), member FINRA, SIPC. MB Trading Futures, Inc. (MBTF) is a CFTC registered RFED and member of NFA. MBTF offers execution and settlement services for futures based products and off-exchange foreign currency (forex) products. Trading in futures, options and forex is speculative in nature and not appropriate for all investors. Investors should only use risk capital when trading futures, options and forex because there is always the risk of substantial loss. MBTFS and MBTF are sometimes referred to collectively herein as "MB Trading." Account access, trade executions and system response may be adversely affected by market conditions, quote delays, system performance and other factors.

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Discretionary Trading Levels, Timing, ATR, Range, Divergence – Forex GBPUSD

2011-01-25T19:49:00.001Z

Let's take a view of the Chart and read it in terms of the indicators and price action:

Levels of Support & Resistance from weekly and daily historical horizontal levels, round numbers, Fibonacci. ATR for market speed and high energy times Time – hourly bar close 10AM – the morning session starts to end...
ATR Range higher time frame daily average is at an extreme - notice the yellow line and the green line intersect...

The ATR Showed acceleration from 7:00AM downwards, it broke an upward trend channel support line, broke the Fibonacci 61% previous week breaking 50% by 9am and 38% also daily support level..

Next stop weekly resistance/support (R1) 1.58352, then daily S1 – 1.58134

ATR Peaked and slowed at 10AM
Range maxed out at 250
Round number 1.5750
With Divergence through 9AM to 11AM If you missed all the signs on the way down this was a very easy long opportunity for those with the sense not to step in front of a train.. just let it slow and place a limit order to to long – stop under the round number – the daily low..

All indicators are free for sim trading and available as part of the The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Public Beta download which comprises all of the free and licensed NinjaTrader strategies and Indicators in one easy pack as part of V7.0.0.34 to be released this week!

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

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MicroTrends Easy Trader - NinjaTrader Dynamic Position Sizing and Advance Trade Management

2011-01-22T01:55:00.001Z

MicroTrends Easy Trader is the most powerful, sophisticated, NinjaTrader Ultimate Money Management Dynamic Position Sizing and Advanced Trade Management trade execution tool available only for NinjaTrader.

Pictured is the MT Easy Trader being used to trade alongside a mechanical strategy. The union of man and robot!

MT Easy Trader allows you to automatically places trades with adaptive Technicals stops and targets, breakeven triggers, ATR Trailing, SMA Trailing, Trail Trigger, Time Based Exits and even self adjusting targets to optimise your expectancy . All the time it has never been easier to see in real-time automatically viewing the calculated instrument margin requirement, tick size, proposed stop size, lot power, adjusted margin and position size for any trade… you can also visualise the risk reward for each trade with the trade visualizer indicator to be released… In addition you can trade alongside a strategy and trigger stops ,trails and targets and use some proprietary MicroTrends order types such as take half, nudge 50, move in for kill - all order types are supported….

MT Easy Trade is free for sim and is free for live trading for a limited monthly credit which can be topped up when its reached - by PAYG trading or by yearly/ annual lifetime licenses….

The MT Easy Trader is 100% free for traders who sign up new accounts and trade live with Optimus Futures - They will pay your subscription!! Speak to Matt Zimmerman at Optimus: http://www.optimusfutures.com/

Available as part of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Public Beta version 7.0.0.34 due for release for 24th January 2011

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Download

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

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Higher Time Frame Support & Resistance Levels NinjaTrader Indicator

2011-01-17T13:49:00.001Z

The revamped MicroTrends NinjaTrader Higher Time Frame Support & Resistance Horizontal levels Indicator allows you to plot daily,weekly,monthly or yearly levels of support and resistance on a lower time frame chart for any asset class: CFDs, Commodities, Equities, ETFs, Forex, Futures & Options trading for any time frame chart.

Pictured is the MT Levels Horizontal SR HTF Indicator plotting “stepped” levels of daily High Low support and resistance on the Forex pair GBPUSD on a 60minute chart with 100days of data.

The indicator has 4 main modes allowing you to visualise Support & Resistance OHLC Levels as
Troughs & Peaks
Steps
Recent Levels
Any Levels The MT Levels Horizontal SR HTF indicator will be available as part of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework version 7.0.0.34 which is due for release 19th January 2011

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7 - Version 7.0.0.33 Released

2011-01-14T03:16:00.001Z

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7 - Version 7.0.0.33 has been released.
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

Future updates will auto download for all versions of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7.
to \My Documents\MicroTrends\NinjaTrader 7\MTNTF7\7.0.0.33\

There is a complete version of 7.0.0.33 in the following location:
https://www.micro-trends.co.uk/downloads/mtntf7/

Picture is the new revamped MT Levels Horizontal support and Resistance - Indicator has been reworked and is now extremely useful on any timeseries and any market... It functions on bar close or first tick and 2 second period..

This was quite a small release visibly - some of the filters in the strategy base have been removed. An issue with the proposed stop for adaptive and dynamic - has bee as far as testing goes fixed... there is an issue still with the MTScalper which enters trades due to persisted signals in the signal pipe... An issues with stops being placed in front of the price was also reported but unable to be replicated as yet...for this reason please oversee any live trade sessions...

7.0.0.34
will see the Higher Time Frame version - MT Levels Horizontal SR HTF and its incorporation as a filter within the strategy base and signals indicators.
The Silver Bullet will also get a fixup to the threshold mechanism - it is based on a 2 layer neural network - setups, entries and exit carry a weight for an compatble indicator over 3 time frames so that concurrent signals can be aggregated into one signal.. - the current release was to show those keen to look at it a glimpse of things to come.. :-)

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MT Levels Horizontal Support and Resistance Free NinjaTrader Indicator

2011-01-12T15:39:00.001Z

Trading Levels of support and resistance works for CFDs, Commodities, Equities, ETFs, Forex, Futures, Options and any other asset class. The MicroTrends MT Levels Horizontal SR indicator is extremely effective and simple to use and will plot the current support and resistance levels on any chart for you.

Pictured the MT Levels Horizontal SR indicators is plotting level on a daily chart – in mode 1 – which plots peaks and troughs as levels – there are other modes that let you plot the nearest prices above and below as well as sort by age. You can also set the number of levels you want to display and how far to look back. The MT Levels Horizontal SR Indicator has been re-written for the version 7.0.0.33 of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework - which comprises all of the free and licensed NinjaTrader strategies and Indicators in one easy pack.

Version 7.0.0.33 is due for release for the 13th January 2011 – you can download a free copy from
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

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MicroTrends Futures Broker Partnership - Optimus Trading Group

2011-01-05T20:51:00.001Z

MicroTrends new Partnership announcement.

MicroTrends' is pleased to announce a synergistic partnership with Optimus Trading Group (OTG) for the best available service, margins, commissions for popular and mini US Futures contracts combined with an awesome data feed.

See the difference for yourself with a no obligation - 100% free demo account with real-time data...perfect for running MicroTrends strategies and back testing.

All MicroTrends products are free for simulator trading and testing with OTG - in addition discounts will apply off MicroTrends licenses for OTG traders - details to be released.

A word from OTG:

OTG specializes in low latency trading solution for independent traders and automated strategies execution. We maintain platform neutrality and match each trader with the most suitable trading platform and data feed. We carry NinjaTrader, MultiCharts, SierraChart, R-Trader, QST that are driven by Rithmic and CQG data feeds.

OTG maintains the highest of quality relationships with futures trading vendors, and that is why we have chosen to work with MicroTrends as a solution provider of automated strategies and indicators for NinjaTrader.

OTG will provide flexible margin to its MicroTrends clients along with deep discounted commission rates without having to meet any trade quotas.

Please visit our site at www.optimusfutures.com Please ask for Matt (Matt@Optimusfutures.com);

Just tell OTG that MicroTrends sent you to qualify for discounts off future MicroTrends purchases.

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Free NinjaTrader HiLo Divergence Trader

2010-12-23T04:07:00.001Z

Xmas wishes from MicroTrends to all Traders and Friends
Unwrap a free NinjaTrader Strategy today and save yourself paying through the nose with another vendor. :-) Pictured is version 7.0.0.29 of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader 7 Strategy MT3 HILO Range Trader for trading Forex Direct and Indirect Pairs and US Futures.

This is a 100% Free NinjaTrader Strategy for simulator and testing – and until we out of beta mode it is free for live trading too :-) Just download and use it. No Trials or catches – this is a free forever product for sim trading and testing. No need to get a license for live trading until January/Feb 2011... And it won't break the bank – much better than any other competing vendor without the heavy price tag...

This is a Range Trading Hi Low Divergence Strategy with a Higher Time Frame Directional Bias Filtering enabling it to trade pullbacks with reversal price action patterns in the direction of the trend... It has 31 Divergence filters with 31 modes each, 20 Moving Averages for the bias filter which can be set for minute, day, week or year – bias validation by 15 combinations of rise/fall slope. Money Management
Anti Martingale - Fixed Fractional Money Management and Dynamic Position Sizing – or Constant Static Position Sizing.
The strategy comes with 100% transparency and support – enables you to use it on any market for how you want to trade. You are encouraged to use it for how you see fit, back-test and optimise it to get the proof you need that this is a positive expectancy trading system.

It has a selection of growing filters, trailing stops, target units and many other standard options which are provided by the core functionality of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework.
Download it today – it comes with a sample default template setup for Forex GBPUSD

Install Guides and archive
https://www.micro-trends.co.uk/downloads/mtntf7/

MicroTrendsNinjaTraderFrameworkInstallationGuide.pdf

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/
You do not need to register unless you want it sent be email...

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World Cup Trading Championships: Compete or AutoTrade!

2010-12-22T22:00:00.001Z

Dear Trader,

MicroTrends is an authorized broker for the World Cup Trading Championships® and WorldCupAdvisor.com. Test your own trading skills in the 2011 World Cup Championships, with separate divisions for futures/forex and stock trading... or use World Cup AutoTrade™ service to automatically make the same trades as selected competitors, including past winners!

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Trading futures, forex and stocks involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. The material above contains statements of opinion. World Cup Championship (WCC) accounts do not necessarily represent all the trading accounts controlled by a given competitor. Accounts trading in the WCC may be subject to commission rates different from those following the AutoTrade program.

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Ultimate Divergence NinjaTrader Indicator

2010-12-15T18:23:00.001Z

The ultimate divergence NinjaTrader indicator would analyse a configurable combination of concurrent studies for Highest Peak to Peak, Highest Peak to Value, Peak to Peak, Peak to Value, Last value to value and the same for Valleys/Troughs.

It would work for any market in anytime frame. It would draw the study on a chart and plot peaks,valleys, highs and lows, arrows to show high price direction and low price direction vs the direction of the studies – can calculate and in real-time ticks by ticks , showing current data points analysis and optionally historical.

Divergence direction be colour coded red for down and green for up.
Alerts are visual, audio, synthesised voice. The data series can be used as filters for other Indicators or strategies. The study would consist of price data series versus one of over 30 studies:

Indicator data series : CCI,CMO,DM,DMI,DMIndex,DoubleStochastics,FisherTransform,FOSC,LinRegSlope,MACD,MFI,Momentum,MicroTrendsSlope,PFE,PPO,PriceOscillator,ROC,RSI,RSquared,RSS,RVI,SMI,Stochastics D,Stochastics K,StochasticsFast D, StochasticsFast K,StochRSI,TSI,UltimateOscillator,WilliamsR,WoodiesCCI,

Or a 2nd Price DataSeries
such as Median,Typical,Weighted Best of all it would be 100% free for sim and testing...

This indicator is ready for beta release as part of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7.0.0.28 which is the release for this week...

Download from http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

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MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7.0.0.27

2010-12-10T18:25:00.001Z

If you want automatic fixed fractional position sizing for futures or for Forex Direct, Indirect Pairs
MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework 7.0.0.27 has the solution already built and ready to use.

It's a simple case of setting your desired maximum risk per trade and the strategy engine will work out the position sizing for each trade – it will filter trades that fall outside of the maximum.

Via performance stats you can also establish the best settings for drawdown limits, wins and losses.
With the v 7.0.0.28 it even trims and self adjusts it own stops and targets based on performance in real-time – and risk reward requirements based on daily atr, range or user defined self adjusting targets and stops.

There is simply too much too mention... online HTML help guides are being written.
The download will released this weekend in time for Monday.
http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

Pictured is the MT3 High Low trader – set to run on a schedule of Tuesday to Friday – between 07am and 11am GMT – filtering by maximum ticks per lot, current range >25% of 5 Day atr smoothed average, maximum risk per trade of 2.%, with position sizing on a $400 account, stops above the high + 5 pips or trimmed in to 2.5% risk Max 2 targets 1 for 50% of the usual 5 day range and 1 to let run through the rest of the day – with an automatic ATR trailing stop.

Trade Setup = new low or high
Trade entry – close above/below structure low/high setup candle

There are over 1024 candle and price action permutations that can be applied to the setup and entry and a growing number -provided the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Strategy Base Common Signals and filters.

This Ninjatrader Strategy is 100% free for sim trading and testing, it is also free for live trading until we are out of beta phase.

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NinjaTrader Strategy MT3 High Low Trader

2010-12-03T01:05:00.001Z

The MT3 High Low Range Trader is seen here being automatically traded by the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Strategy Execution Engine.
I am currently investigating what the minimum cash is required to trade 1 minilot and still have a viable result - while enforcing constant position size - but with a capped stopped of max risk factor 2.5% 10pips
The trades are filtered if the adaptive dynamic proposed stop is > than the 2.5%.

The High Low trader can be traded with or without CCI divergence, trend bias, time schedules, ATR Range filters, can scale in and out of positions of up to 4 seperate units of targets.
Here it is pictured using the built in ATR Trailing Stop.

This is one months trading based on a start of $400

View on screencast.com »

Guides and templates are avaialable soon - with the next download update.

This is 100% free for live trading for the next few weeks and 100% free for sim trading forever... why pay $499 per month when you can get it for $0?
Lcensing will be set to give the small account trader chance to get on the ladder... :-)

various options will exists
free with various brokers
monthly license
yearly
life
universal license.

I am hoping to release the MT3 Strategy before XMAS...

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NinjaTrader Indicator study of time, price and ATR

2010-11-27T15:10:00.001Z

Randomly picking tops and bottoms, trading against the move....or Intelligent entries?

You can buy the lows and sell the highs which to the outsider may look like simply picking the top or bottom of the market... of course it is not that at all if you use a trading system and methodology.
Getting in at the lows and highs has the most awesome risk reward potential...using levels not picking an arbitrary place, planning trades based on historical horizontal levels... I personally find this most effective by using the convergence of time and price and ATR.

A possible theory and pattern could be that during a pre market - current session range >= 25% of the normal daily average ATR at the pre market, or at 100% ATR has a tendency to bounce strongly if the open range close failed to drive it pass a historical level. If true this will allow you to get in with a small stop for example below the low and catch the whole move that expands the range to 75% / 125% of the average daily range. You can look for and identify patterns like this on NinjaTrader charts by utilising the MicroTrends levels and ATR study indicators which have been written for this purpose.

Pictured is:

NinjaTrader Forex GPBUSD 30Min Chart
used in this case to show many sessions but not generally as the trading time frame.

MT Signals MT3 high Low Trader Configured as:
Green Dots: Trade Setup Buy new low Green Triangles: Trade Entry Buy candle close above setup candle high
Red Dots: Trade Setup Sell new high
Red Triangles: Trade Entry Sell candle close below setup candle low

MT Range ATR HTF Plotting the current range against a percentage grid of Daily AVG ATR.
yellow plot 161.8%
grey 150%
blue 125%
black top of the grid is 100%
blue 75%
grey 50%
red 25%
green=current session range

MT Levels Fib HTF - plotting previous week fibonacci levels
See right hand side for plots %

MT Levels horizontal S/R HTF
Plotting monthly and weekly levels High and Low as red and green horizontal lines

Perhaps then planning to trade a level is a good time for the use of limit orders for entry. Allowing you to enter at a planned price controlling your stop distance/trade risk - and therefore position size- staying with that trade scaling out at % levels all the way to the 100% and sometimes beyond of the average daily ATR is the goal... the risk reward is so large on a frequent number of trades that even a 35% winning ratio is still very viable...and extremely profitable. I find that increasing the winning ratio and not lowering a single trade risk reward profile is possible by looking for confluence with other levels of support and resistance/dynamic/ projected/ trend channels/fibs on previous year,month,week,day - higher time frames etc. But conversely what happens with too many filters is decreases the number of trades taken but winners and losers which can decrease the profit opportunity over time...however by letting winners run past the mean it can actually display an increase in average risk reward and win ratio – so psychologically for me it is the best approach as I don't over trade and do trade counter trend and trade with trend.

Mathematically I have studied that on a selection of popular currency pairs and futures markets a 1 standard deviation study of current day range versus a 5 to 25 Daily AVG ATR falls within 75% and 125%, which makes perfect sense as 100% is the midpoint of 75 and 125. There is of course a few days which will fail or blow out of the range from 25% to 175%, these stay within 2 standard deviations mostly - wait and see days and strong trending days which fat tail. of course then a few price shocks which are the exception to all the averages and should be discounted as a skew of the normal patterns. The trending days then require an entry to enter at a pull-back coinciding with a level.

Perhaps that is really a mean reversion trend hybrid utilising a high low/ levels approach - which is quite complicated for many traders.... many prefer a high low with for example CCI divergence only – but for me I like to combine that with levels with trend for maximum effect or away from a moving average of unsustainable distance.

Food for thought:
What then if the daily ATR average has been hit within 1 hour?
What is the normal market actual distance.... not ATR but bar length + length?
Is there a relationship to the AVG ATR and the market AVG session travel...? What is the probability that we have a reversal/ range bound or trending day?

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NinjaTrader Trade Platform, Indicators and Strategies are 100% Free for Sims, development and Testing

2010-11-24T14:35:00.001Z

NinjaTrader FREE Trading Platform!!!

NinjaTrader is the best retail trading platform on the market, even better it is unlimited and free to use for testing.

NinjaTrader is a FREE Trading Platform when used for advanced charting, market analytics, system development and trade simulation.

Easy as ABC! Register, Download and Connect. Get Trading in minutes with a free real time data demo account!

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader/

MicroTrends is extremely pleased to offer the NinjaTrader platform to our clients for many reasons but one great reason is that you can get started with NinjaTrader for Free! You could easily pay hundreds of dollars per month for products with less functionality but with NinjaTrader all you need is access to a real-time or historical data feed based on your requirements and their advanced charting, market analytics, system development and trade simulation can be used for Free!

FREE REALTIME FOREX AND FUTURES DATA!!!!

Free Futures and Forex ECN Practice Account, free real time and historical Data. No funds required and no risk to try your strategy before trading your own capital. Global accounts welcome! Free Data for US Futures and Forex, US and Non US accounts welcome, Exchange Fee Waiver programs for non US data.

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/download_ninjatrader.aspx

FREE TRADING SYSTEMS SOFTWARE!!!

But it will then cost you may $100s or even $1000s to obtain and research some tradable systems, which will enable you to research and learn about mechanical or manual system discretionary trading - NinjaTrader Software vendors work on a principle that if they offer you a 30 day money back guarantee that you either forget to get a refund or you are still trying to work out how the heck to use the software for the best on which market, time frame and setting. This sucks as you might find after day 40 that you don’t want it. It also sucks as you might have to rush through the trial period..

The only time MicroTrends will ask for money is if you can make money first from using a product in anyway you see fit, it’s a measure of acceptance if traders buy – which is the fun part of writing and selling software– The bottom line is you only pay if you live trade…when you decide, this means everything is free forever for simulator, demo accounts, back testing and development. Only if you are trading on a live connection in live mode will you need a license – that’s not until the MicroTrends version gets out of beta mode, for now live trading is free too.

There are also many 100% free indicators and strategies that can be used to sim or live trade, one of these is pictured:

Even better MicroTrends Passport Licenses allow you to use any of the indicators or strategies…so you don’t have to keep on purchasing… e.g. you can use 1 license for any 1 indicator at a time or you can lease or buy a universal license and get t all for 1 month, year or life…

An ecommerce website is being setup to sell licenses but there is not any rush…everything is free for many weeks ahead. There is still much to do and release in stages, documentation and video guides will be released last… you can ask in the forum of helpdesk for advice on how to use…etc.

Support

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/support/

Help Desk

http://microtrends.zendesk.com/home

Forum

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/forum/

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework download comprises all the FREE & Licensed NinjaTrader strategies & Indicators. It is a completely new set of trading technologies for NinjaTrader 7.

Software you will find at MicroTrends is there because I (Tom) use it to trade with myself, or it is merely asked for by others or just the by product of on-going research and development which is great fun… Currently the software is aimed for NinjaTrader 7 and is in a beta release - still in development, listings, settings, guides & videos will follow soon.

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-framework/

MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework Download

http://www.micro-trends.co.uk/ninjatrader-downloads/

Free Double Moving Average Crossover NinjaTrader Strategy…

Here it is set to Stop and reverse on opposite signals and to trail the stop in along the slow MA…

The Crossover Moving Average strategy simple but can be made sophisticated by combining the library of methods such as Price Action rules, filtering order types, trailing stops, exit strategies, Risk and money and management which are provided free by the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework…

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NinjaTrader Slow Stochastics Mean Reversion Strategy with ATR Trailing Stop

2010-11-23T23:58:00.001Z

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework V7.0.0.24 undergoing a pre-release testing in the picture trading Forex with the NinjaTrader Slow Stochastics Mean Reversion Strategy with directional bias Trading Strategy on a 10Min GPBUSD chart, displaying 30days historical trades, with no filtering. With the latest version you can visualise the Stochastics extremes and see the correlated trades. This current parameter set waits for the extreme combined with a CCI threshold, the trade entry is a close above/below the set-up candle close. You can see the ATR Trailing Stop – graphical pink dots. This is one of the many standard features of the MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework – which if you did not know is 100% free for test and simulation.

You can see in the performance stats that the system model is one which looses more than 40% of the time, a positive risk reward of around 1:3.5 allows the strategy to post some viable results.

V7.0.0.24 is due for release for 24th November 2010. It will automatically download to your PC if you have version 7.0.0.23 installed.

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NinjaTrader RSI Mean Reversion Trading Strategy

2010-11-23T23:41:00.001Z

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader Framework V7.0.0.24 undergoing a pre-release testing in the picture trading Forex with the NinjaTrader RSI Mean Reversion with directional bias Trading Strategy on a 10Min GPBUSD chart, displaying 30 days historical trades, with no filtering or optimisation. With the latest version you can visualise the RSI extremes and see the correlated trades. This current parameter set waits for the RSI to go extreme and back again, the trade entry is a close above/below the set-up candle close. You can see in the performance stats that the system model is one which wins less than 50% of the time, a positive risk reward of around 1:3 allows the strategy to post some viable results using $1 per pip.

V7.0.0.24 is due for release for 24th November 2010. It will automatically download to your PC if you have version 7.0.0.23 installed.

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NinjaTrader Free MA Crossover Strategy

2010-11-22T23:42:00.001Z

The MicroTrends NinjaTrader MA Crossover is a free trend following stop and reverse with Price Action Strategy Red Dots Trade Setup Sell
Red Triangle Trade entry Sell
Pink Dots stop

Green Dots Trade Setup Sell
Green Triangle Trade entry Sell