Noiseless trading has been the focus of my work in recent months. These are approaches different from the usual Renko, Kagi and Point and figure approaches, but use an approach that reduces or eliminates the confusing mini cycles of price movement in a large trend which typically cause whipsaws, much to a traders chagrin.

The effect of the approaches which include signal and amplitude modulation is improvement in trading efficiency. This knowledge is being shared with participants in the mentored training and trading programs.

After a gap of 10 months during which I was learning non trading skills such as Tennis and Bridge, I am back here.

WIll be beginning updation of the website with newer and interesting materials progressively, which you can track through the change tracker.

In the meanwhile, the markets continue to move from strength to strength. Once again, if you invested long term in blue chips that were hammered during the commodity crash/scam news period, you would have made significant gains. Examples - HINDALCO and TATA STEEL.

There are safe ways of investment trading - the simplest being invest long term. There are others that I cover in my mentoring sessions, which have continued through the period that I have not been active here.

After several years of offering trading services, I am now focusing all my time on providing Mentored services for trading here and Mentoring or Life Coaching through another site of mine. This enables me to maximize my productivity.

The technical analysis sections here will continue to be updated from time to time.

An interesting blog that I am copying and posting verbatim - (Jim Somers at www.join.me)  - this is my lifestyle since the last 5 years......

Having the ability to work from home has become the new norm across many industries and roles. Sometimes it’s by choice; other times it’s due to bad weather rolling through. Earlier this month, we shared new research on the behavior of the modern worker stuck at home due to Mother Nature.

You may have been surprised to see in the data that over 80% of workers felt they were equally, or even more productive, when working from home. However, once you dig into the reasons why they responded this way, that number doesn’t appear so shocking. Check out the word cloud below of the top responses:

People feel they can be more productive at home because they don’t have to deal with daily office distractions and co-worker interruptions. So whether they’ve got the TV on in the background or spent the whole day in their pajamas, they are still cranking away at their tasks — interruption free. And many said they end up working longer hours, because they didn’t have to commute.

Being in the office Monday-Friday isn’t necessarily a proof point of productivity anymore. Collaboration with colleagues is without a doubt valuable, but the need to meet in the same room or be in the same office space is no longer a limiting factor to that collaboration. Technology has made it possible to collaborate remotely, so when we get that snowy day, it doesn’t mean a halt in work for our 80% of our survey respondents.

The shift towards this trend of productive remote working is just beginning. With constraints on our time, money and quality talent in today’s workforce, far more than just bad weather will soon cause companies to move towards more flexible working hours and spaces.
You or your team might want to try WFH a day or two, bad weather or not, and see the impact it has on your productivity and even team morale.
I’ll leave you with some quotes of our favorite responses to the question, “Why do you feel more productive when working from home?”

• “Less interruptions; no ringing phones”
• “I’m more comfortable and at ease at home. I feel as if I’m not wasting time in traffic, at lunch, etc.”
• “Less Interactions from people ‘popping in’ ”
• “Less management”
• “No office drama”
  

Consider this as an option, if its feasible for you...! Good luck

Subsequent to my last post, a lot of time has past, during which the algorithms shown earlier have evolved and have become more effective than ever before. The end result of that can be seen in the performance for February 2016, where both intraday and positional strategy performance for NIFTY and BANKNIFTY futures (Indian Stock Market) is shown. Each point of NIFTY is worth about $1.1 and that of BANKNIFTY about 0.45 $ (US dollars). The significant improvement observed is that these algorithms display incredible consistency. See the LIVETRADING screen where these are implemented. Some of these are also shared with mentees who join the MENTORED TRAINING & TRADING programs.

The second last column of the table shown below shows the performance of the different systems following 4 different exit strategies. The last figure in that column is the number of trades..e.g. for serial 4, the monthly profit is 649 points for its first exit strategy with 27 trades on a rapid positional strategy. Details of the other columns are explained in the LIVE TRADING section of the website.

Thats what I call this new charting method thats been developed as it adapts to noise based on volatility. The results of the application of the method have been nothing short of spectacular. Its implementation for an Intraday system has given results that are better than any positional system that I have developed over the last 4 years. End result low risk and consistent performance. Its key characteristics are quick response and turnaround to trend changes.

And best part is that the benefit of this has been made available to the LiveScreen traders.  A sample of a trading screen shown here below :

With ranging periods accounting for 50% of the price movements in most markets, we developed a new way to draw charts without the noise using principles of ignoring inside and some outside bars.  No relevant data of highs and lows is ignored in the algorithm during the construction. Very interesting outcomes, which we are beginning to apply to our trading methods.

See below a 5 minutes interval chart of BankNifty futures for 2.5 days. On the same period, we applied our algorithm to redraw the charts, and one can now see 14 days of data with extremely clear trends, so much so that the application of a simple moving average crossover becomes practical for trading!

5 minutes plain chart.

And now the chart with the algorithm for redrawing applied on the same 5 minutes chart. Observe, how the downtrend from 11th August is captured very easily.

The non linear chart that develops compresses 10 days of data on a 5 minute chart. And for comparison the closest bar chart that shows the same chart space is the 30 minutes chart, shown below. That continues to be affected by ranging in that period, while the impact is far less in the algorithmically produced chart above.

We are already testing the results of this model on our other standard trading algorithms and will share some results once the tests are completed.

The algorithmic charts for 30 minutes time period (see below) show a complete absence of any ranging and show a period of 45 days versus the 10 shown in the uncompressed chart. Noise removal characteristics are better than any other methods like Point and Figure, Kagi and range bars.

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