You would like to learn more about the Auction Market Theory (AMT) process we employ in our day-to-day trading? Our first recommandation is to read the books from Jim Dalton: Mind Over Markets and Markets In Profile.
MIND OVER MARKETS
This book is an examination of Market Profile(tm) charting concepts. The Market Profile principle is also used by knowledgeable and experienced day traders. This is the best available text on the subject. The key element that has long separated tremendously successful traders from all others is their intuitive understanding that time regulates all financial opportunities. In 1984, J. Peter Steidlmayer formally introduced the Market Profile as a way to graphically depict the acceptance or rejection of price over time. For the first time, what had once been the domain of the intuitve trader was not accessible to all traders.
MARKETS IN PROFILE
Fifteen years since publishing Mind over Markets—their seminal work on markets and investor behavior—Dalton, Jones, and Dalton have greatly expanded their scope, delving deeply into the ways in which the auction process reveals the actions of all investor time frames. They believe that by understanding timeframe behavior through developing market structure, it is possible to identify asymmetric opportunities that can ameliorate risk and help ensure financial dominance.
Jim Dalton has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade as well as a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Senior Executive Vice President of the CBOE during its formative years. Currently a full-time trader, Jim advises two hedge funds and several trading firms. Jim is a discretionary trader and long-time proponent of employing the Market Profile® to facilitate trading.
Alongside with the Private Banker Community you can learn and share your progress with this process. You can combine Dalton's book with our Premium Education to reach the next step in your trading business. The online community offers a home to professional traders to share ideas and learn from others, with an optional bespoke education study program resources accessible at a premium centered around AMT, sound approaches to risk management and business planning.
Learn to view the markets as a institutional trader rather as a retail trader with The Private Banker.
Friday, October 31, 2014
Feedback about The Private Banker
At The Private Banker honesty is what matters, read some feedback from the online community members.
Here is a feedback from Chris, San Jose, CA:
Thank you very much for your kind words Chris!
We hope our feedback page can give you a closer insight into our work, so feel free to read some more here: The Private Banker Feedback
Here is a feedback from Chris, San Jose, CA:
The Private Banker Forum is an awesome online community devoted to Auction Market Theory. It has stellar self study documents and webinars that can guide you through learning to approach the markets with a profession perspective. Additionally the community and forum administrators active commenting on individual journal posts with feedback and suggestions. There is also a chat box where the administrators and other traders are commenting on the market(mostly CL and some ES) as the day unfolds. Being new to AMT myself this is maybe the greatest feature as you can learn their thought processes during different market conditions. Its probably one of my best trading educational investments.
Thank you very much for your kind words Chris!
We hope our feedback page can give you a closer insight into our work, so feel free to read some more here: The Private Banker Feedback
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Risk Management - Psychological Risk - Emotional Trading
Here is an excerpt from our premium membership content about Risk Management. It is the 'Emotional Trading' part out of the Psychological Risk section:
Emotional Trading
As I've said before, emotions have no business in trading. This is an incredibly hard concept to overcome and a majority of traders battle with this forever. It doesn't have to be that way though. We can overcome this through some simple planning before and after each session while maintaining a logical perspective on what we're doing.
Some thoughtful ways to overcome this would be the following:
- Have a game plan before each trading session.
- Make sure your risk is clearly defined before taking the trade.
- If you make an impulsive trade, get out and collect yourself. No need to continue in the trade.
- If you make continued impulsive mistakes, keep a list of them in front of you so that you're always aware of them.
- Don't trade your PnL. There's no need to stare at your PnL all day. You need to focus on the process not the outcome. Trading is not about money.
- If you're having a bad day, have a cut off point. Shut everything down and come back later after the market is closed to analyze what happened and learn from it. You can then come back the next session fresh and educated.
- Balance. Having some sort of interest in your life beyond trading is so important. You need to have a balanced lifestyle and by doing that, your mind does not place too much emphasis on your day-to-day trading. What I mean by that is, if you're sitting at your workstation all day and putting all of your emphasis on trading, you will tend to have a hard time accepting when you're wrong. Alternatively, if you just follow through the daily process of trading but also have other things in your life, your emphasis becomes more balanced.
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Risk Management Overview:
- Financial Risk
- Technology Risk
- Settlement Risk
- Disaster Risk
- Opportunity Risk
- Event Risk
- Psychological Risk
- Tactical Risk Management
Learn more on our website.
Emotional Trading
As I've said before, emotions have no business in trading. This is an incredibly hard concept to overcome and a majority of traders battle with this forever. It doesn't have to be that way though. We can overcome this through some simple planning before and after each session while maintaining a logical perspective on what we're doing.
Some thoughtful ways to overcome this would be the following:
- Have a game plan before each trading session.
- Make sure your risk is clearly defined before taking the trade.
- If you make an impulsive trade, get out and collect yourself. No need to continue in the trade.
- If you make continued impulsive mistakes, keep a list of them in front of you so that you're always aware of them.
- Don't trade your PnL. There's no need to stare at your PnL all day. You need to focus on the process not the outcome. Trading is not about money.
- If you're having a bad day, have a cut off point. Shut everything down and come back later after the market is closed to analyze what happened and learn from it. You can then come back the next session fresh and educated.
- Balance. Having some sort of interest in your life beyond trading is so important. You need to have a balanced lifestyle and by doing that, your mind does not place too much emphasis on your day-to-day trading. What I mean by that is, if you're sitting at your workstation all day and putting all of your emphasis on trading, you will tend to have a hard time accepting when you're wrong. Alternatively, if you just follow through the daily process of trading but also have other things in your life, your emphasis becomes more balanced.
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Risk Management Overview:
- Financial Risk
- Technology Risk
- Settlement Risk
- Disaster Risk
- Opportunity Risk
- Event Risk
- Psychological Risk
- Tactical Risk Management
Learn more on our website.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
TWAP in action: EUR/USD
Twap is an abbreviation for the Time Weighted Average Price. This is just like VWAP only it is weighted upon time. This is also an order type that many institutional investors utilize to work in and out of significant positions. It behaves like an Iceberg order by only showing a certain amount of orders to be executed but continues to refresh the orders throughout the session until the position is complete.
With that said, let's take a look at today's EUR/USD action with TWAP. On the monthly TWAP we can observe a reaction at the developing value area high and a move down straight through the TWAP to the DVAL. This DVAH was also somewhat confluent with last month's VAL close level.
More interesting on the weekly TWAP is the confluence with last week's VAH close level. Amazing reaction at this level lead us to the other side and below of value.
With a elite membership on the Private Banker community you can read a more indepth top down analysis here: EUR/USD Top Down Market Analysis
And alongside with a premium membership you can learn to use tools like VWAP/TWAP properly. Also to mention is our Trading Glossary to better understand the various terms we use in our tweets and posts.
Stay happy,
Sebastian
With that said, let's take a look at today's EUR/USD action with TWAP. On the monthly TWAP we can observe a reaction at the developing value area high and a move down straight through the TWAP to the DVAL. This DVAH was also somewhat confluent with last month's VAL close level.
More interesting on the weekly TWAP is the confluence with last week's VAH close level. Amazing reaction at this level lead us to the other side and below of value.
With a elite membership on the Private Banker community you can read a more indepth top down analysis here: EUR/USD Top Down Market Analysis
And alongside with a premium membership you can learn to use tools like VWAP/TWAP properly. Also to mention is our Trading Glossary to better understand the various terms we use in our tweets and posts.
Stay happy,
Sebastian
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Crude Oil Top Down Market Analysis
All information is for educational use only and is not investment advice. There is a substantial risk of loss in trading commodity futures, stocks, options and foreign exchange products. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Yesterday we took a look into the higher time frame charts from the S&P 500 Cash Market. Today we will inspect some big picture charts on Crude Oil.
On the monthly bars chart we can identify a one time framing lower market that occurs since three months. Also, last month's low got taken out from the current month. With the Price Retracement tool we can highlight a potential support area at the 50% level. Let's keep an eye on that if we moving lower.
The weekly chart showing us a more indepth market insight. Obviously we are one time framing lower here as well. The current week could end up as a inside bar but let's see what will happen on the last day of this week tomorrow. Also, it looks like the market found some support at the area we marked.
Moving forward to the daily bar chart we can see a bracket that means the market finding balance in this area here. The one time framing on this chart period ended with a outside bar. Today we opened below that bracket but well below 5EMA so, the probability for a rotation back to this weeks average was high.
Now to the last chart of this quick top down analysis, the 240 minutes chart. The market found support at the marked area and it looks like a double bottom now. Anyway, let's see what will happen at this trendline we drawn there. Currently it shows some resistance but we'll see.
We hope you enjoyed this post. Sometimes it is very important to keep things simple to better understand the market environment without to use complex indicators and tools. You can learn more about our analysis process with tools such as the VWAP we employ at The Private Banker with an elite or premium membership on our trading community.
Sebastian
The Private Banker, Co-Founder
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Week's Partner: Sierra Chart Trading Platfrom
Like any business it is important to have strategic partners in place that are crucial for the best execution of our business. With that said, here is our strategic partner of the week:
Sierra Chart is a solid professional quality software. Designed for efficiency and ease-of-use. It has an uncomplicated interface that can handle the most demending applications. It is developed by an experienced and competend team that stays on top of development. It has been proven and trusted by investors/traders/clearing firms for more than a decade.
Sierra Chart offers a Real-Time and Historical market data feed which is fully integrated with all trading services Sierra Chart supports. It is a top-quality and low latency data feed that provides tick by tick data.
And with an Elite Membership at The Private Banker you can download and use our Chartbooks we use in our day to day trading. VWAPs, Footprint, TPOs, Volume Profiles and other tools are ready to use with our regulary updated Chartbooks. Additonal you can register for the online premium trading education to use these numerous tools properly.
See you on the Private Banker Trading Community!
Sierra Chart is a solid professional quality software. Designed for efficiency and ease-of-use. It has an uncomplicated interface that can handle the most demending applications. It is developed by an experienced and competend team that stays on top of development. It has been proven and trusted by investors/traders/clearing firms for more than a decade.
Sierra Chart offers a Real-Time and Historical market data feed which is fully integrated with all trading services Sierra Chart supports. It is a top-quality and low latency data feed that provides tick by tick data.
And with an Elite Membership at The Private Banker you can download and use our Chartbooks we use in our day to day trading. VWAPs, Footprint, TPOs, Volume Profiles and other tools are ready to use with our regulary updated Chartbooks. Additonal you can register for the online premium trading education to use these numerous tools properly.
See you on the Private Banker Trading Community!
S&P 500 Cash Market Analysis
All information is for educational use only and is not investment advice. There is a substantial risk of loss in trading commodity futures, stocks, options and foreign exchange products. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Let's take a look at the bigger pictures of the S&P 500 Cash Index with some various tools we use at The Private Banker to better understand the overall market story.
We begin with a plain monthly chart:
What can we observe on this monthly chart? Firstly last month's low got taken out from this month and we see a somewhat of a balance bracket since the market found support. So the one time framing higher on the monthly chart has a end?
Now we zoom to the weekly chart:
We can cleary spot a reaction at the mean of this finer placed price channel. The current week took out last week's high and ended the one time framing lower that occured since several weeks.
On the daily chart we are actually one time framing higher. The market opened somewhat far away form the 5 EMA so, a rotation back to this week's average should be high. Also we see resistance at the longer term directional filter 50 EMA.
With a look on this year's VWAP we can identify a reaction at the developing value low which is confluent with the weekly price channel mean. The market moved stright to the other side of value. The likelihood of a rotational behavior in this year's developing value should be high.
On the weekly VWAP the market trading above last weeks value area. Also we see a good imbalanced market above the developing value but today we got back into value again. Test of DVAL could be probable in this case.
Anyway, this was a quick market analysis recap for the S&P 500 Cash Index. For a more indepth understanding we recommend to join our Trading Community with a seperated premium trading education section. Also, you can take look into our Trading Glossary to better understand the terms we use in our tweets and reports.
We hope you have a great week in the markets!
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Premium Trading Education: Periodicity Hierarchy
Here is an example of the premium content from The Private Banker Educational Section. It is the first article in the Top Down Technical Analysis section and we hope you can enjoy it:
Periodicity Hierarchy
When looking at the markets, its incredibly important to assign a filter process to better understand what the larger picture is showing vs. the smaller picture. This will obviously provide you with the path of least resistance but also help you understand what the market is attempting to do overall. For example, when determining the market's overall state, what would be best used to see that? An intra-day chart or a bigger picture chart such as a Monthly bar chart? Sure, an intra-day chart will give you immediate information but it won't tell you what the overall market is attempting to do. The important thing to remember is big money moves more in step with what the bigger picture is telling us which is why its so important to have a sense of what is happening on this level.
So the hierarchy I like to assign to my top down filter process just from a pure bar chart periodicity is the following:
1. Yearly Bars
2. Quarterly Bars
3. Monthly Bars
4. Weekly Bars
5. Daily Bars
6. Larger Time and Volume based bars such as 240 minute (4 hours), 500k volume and 100k volume. These vary based on each market but for this example, we will use the ES and SPX (cash index).
Here's a comparison of the hierarchy I've just outlined using the S&P 500 cash index:
Yearly Bars
Quarterly Bars
Monthly Bars
Weekly Bars
Daily Bars
240 Minute Bars
As you can see, the context of each period provides you with different references as you zoom in closer but it also helps you identify the path of least resistance. So with that being said, I will walk through in the coming sections, how I actually interpret this information and use these time frames in a top down analysis using various tools and concepts to gain a sense of what the market is doing. Although this first section is very general and short in explanation, the importance is key and I highly recommend you revisit this hierarchy going forward.
Learn more on the Private Banker Trading Community
Periodicity Hierarchy
When looking at the markets, its incredibly important to assign a filter process to better understand what the larger picture is showing vs. the smaller picture. This will obviously provide you with the path of least resistance but also help you understand what the market is attempting to do overall. For example, when determining the market's overall state, what would be best used to see that? An intra-day chart or a bigger picture chart such as a Monthly bar chart? Sure, an intra-day chart will give you immediate information but it won't tell you what the overall market is attempting to do. The important thing to remember is big money moves more in step with what the bigger picture is telling us which is why its so important to have a sense of what is happening on this level.
So the hierarchy I like to assign to my top down filter process just from a pure bar chart periodicity is the following:
1. Yearly Bars
2. Quarterly Bars
3. Monthly Bars
4. Weekly Bars
5. Daily Bars
6. Larger Time and Volume based bars such as 240 minute (4 hours), 500k volume and 100k volume. These vary based on each market but for this example, we will use the ES and SPX (cash index).
Here's a comparison of the hierarchy I've just outlined using the S&P 500 cash index:
Yearly Bars
Quarterly Bars
Monthly Bars
Weekly Bars
Daily Bars
240 Minute Bars
As you can see, the context of each period provides you with different references as you zoom in closer but it also helps you identify the path of least resistance. So with that being said, I will walk through in the coming sections, how I actually interpret this information and use these time frames in a top down analysis using various tools and concepts to gain a sense of what the market is doing. Although this first section is very general and short in explanation, the importance is key and I highly recommend you revisit this hierarchy going forward.
Learn more on the Private Banker Trading Community
Monday, October 6, 2014
Trading Presentation: MIDAS VWAP
We are pleased to announce a new Trading Presentation about a significant tool with the name MIDAS VWAP (Market Interpretation/Data Analysis System - Volume Weighted Average Price) or Anchor VWAP. The MIDAS Vwap Presentation walks through the basics of the tool's utilization as well as its applications to help in understanding the market's underlying order flow from balance to imbalance though algorithmic execution. The MIDAS Vwap tool is a unique and powerful way of looking at the markets that may help add an extra edge to a trading method when combined with other key elements.
Market Interpretation/Data Analysis System, or MIDAS, was developed by physicist and technical analyst Paul Levine, in the mid 1990s. It was originally conceived of as a method of analyzing market trends inspired by aspects of the popular Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) pricing method. Essentially, what Levine discovered was that he could accurately predict reversals in trader sentiment—and, therefore, market trends—using algorithms derived, in part, from VWAP pricing methods. Extending Levine′s insights from the daily charts on which the method was conceived, Coles and Hawkins have since expanded the fractal capabilities of the approach to apply to all time frames—from one–minute charts and swing–trading charts to charts of interest to the very long–term investor. Because Levine′s focus was on MIDAS purely as a forecasting tool, he failed to develop a framework for trading and investing management.
With your Premium Membership you can watch the presentation on The Pivate Banker Community now. Make sure also to read our recommended book about this topic to apply the tool in your own trading methodology.
See you in The Private Banker Trading Community!
Market Interpretation/Data Analysis System, or MIDAS, was developed by physicist and technical analyst Paul Levine, in the mid 1990s. It was originally conceived of as a method of analyzing market trends inspired by aspects of the popular Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) pricing method. Essentially, what Levine discovered was that he could accurately predict reversals in trader sentiment—and, therefore, market trends—using algorithms derived, in part, from VWAP pricing methods. Extending Levine′s insights from the daily charts on which the method was conceived, Coles and Hawkins have since expanded the fractal capabilities of the approach to apply to all time frames—from one–minute charts and swing–trading charts to charts of interest to the very long–term investor. Because Levine′s focus was on MIDAS purely as a forecasting tool, he failed to develop a framework for trading and investing management.
With your Premium Membership you can watch the presentation on The Pivate Banker Community now. Make sure also to read our recommended book about this topic to apply the tool in your own trading methodology.
See you in The Private Banker Trading Community!
Chartbooks for Sierra Chart
With the Elite Membership subscription level on The Private Banker Trading Community you are eligible to download and use the Chartbooks for Sierra Chart we utilize in our day-to-day trading. Sierra Chart provides various tools like the TPO profile, Footprints, VWAPs and other nuances to actually accomplish the Top Down Technical Analysis and Trade Methodology we employ to understand the overal market context as well as to identify the path of least resistance.
With The Private Banker Chartbook you will have the set-up included the tools and numerous timeframes that are crucial to learn our Trade Methodology and Risk Management strategy. The Charbooks for different markets like Crude Oil, E-Mini S&P 500 or EUR/USD are regularly updated to the most recent standard we use and our helpful Community is always there to facilitate you with the installation process.
We also offer a NinjaTrader Workspace version for our clients that prefer the NT platform included with MIDAS VWAP, Footprint and the other important tools.
With this Chartbooks and Workspaces you are ready to learn side-by-side with the Private Banker Trading Education.
With that said, we look forward to see you in our trading community!
With The Private Banker Chartbook you will have the set-up included the tools and numerous timeframes that are crucial to learn our Trade Methodology and Risk Management strategy. The Charbooks for different markets like Crude Oil, E-Mini S&P 500 or EUR/USD are regularly updated to the most recent standard we use and our helpful Community is always there to facilitate you with the installation process.
We also offer a NinjaTrader Workspace version for our clients that prefer the NT platform included with MIDAS VWAP, Footprint and the other important tools.
With this Chartbooks and Workspaces you are ready to learn side-by-side with the Private Banker Trading Education.
With that said, we look forward to see you in our trading community!
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