Demark indicators

    Posted by soldado1976 on 15th of Jun 2016 at 11:17 am

    Does anyone have an opinion on Demark indicators? I have been a user for a long time and find the trade ideas here and the Demark indicators are one powerful combination. 

    Have heard of them...

    Posted by stevieb294 on 15th of Jun 2016 at 11:20 am

    ...but never used them. Can you show an example?

    having trouble with adding an

    Posted by soldado1976 on 15th of Jun 2016 at 11:53 am

    having trouble with adding an image. But here is a link with some examples and information. https://community.tradestation.com/discussions/data/20080227134138tdsequential.pdf

     

    That DeMark count sequence is

    Posted by matt on 15th of Jun 2016 at 09:46 pm

    That DeMark count sequence is pretty cool, I've been aware of it but never really looked into it.  I think I could incorporate some of that into my systems eventually.  

    I have been a user

    Posted by soldado1976 on 16th of Jun 2016 at 09:26 am

    I have been a user for a long time. The setup and the countdown (the 9 and the 13 counts) are pretty awesome - but he has instituted a number of other indicators and I use a total of about 7. Extremely good stuff. nothing is perfect but it is the best way I have found for identifying high probability points for a change in trend. 

    yes from what I gathered

    Posted by matt on 16th of Jun 2016 at 09:35 am

    yes from what I gathered you used to be able to buy a to download a ton of DeMark indicators and systems, but DeMark and his aggressive legal team went on a tirade back in 2010 / 11 and shut down every blog and website that had them, well forced them to remove them, so they are hard to find now.  You can lease them for $500 a month from DeMarks website, whick is clearly institutional not for the average guy.  

    that said the basis stuff looks easy to code, the 9/13 stuff, it's simple logic, i.e. that I could have my programmer knock out quickly.  

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    In short the basic DeMark setup consists of the following:

    • A series of nine consecutive bars that close higher or lower than the close 4 bars earlier. (Bars are “period” candlesticks — periods can be minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc…).
    • 9 consecutive closes “higher” than the close 4 bars prior records a “sell setup” and 9 consecutive closes “lower” than the close 4 bars prior records a “buy setup.”
    • A “sell setup” is “perfected” when the the high of bars 6 and 7 in the count are exceeded by the high of bars 8 or 9 and a “buy setup” is likewise “perfected” when the low of bars 6 and 7 in the count are exceeded by the low of bars 8 or 9. A “perfected” setup tends to be a better indicator, as unperfected setups often are perfected at a later date.
    • After a setup records, a reaction in opposite direction has a higher probability during the next 1-4 bars.

    As I understand it people

    Posted by soldado1976 on 16th of Jun 2016 at 09:58 am

    As I understand it people were coding it on their own, and offering it up for sale. That was what they went after. They don't want to charge the money from Bloomberg, and in fact it used to be free on BBG about 10 years ago. But one time there was some bug and they said for everyone to ask the BBG help desk about it and the help desk was flooded with 30,000 requests at the same time. So BBG said they needed to charge for it. Regardless, its very good stuff. 

    He only has about 150

    Posted by a_l_ on 15th of Jun 2016 at 02:17 pm

    He only has about 150 indicators at this point, but the basic sequential indicators from the 70s are pretty good. Who's going to have access to them on this board, though? As the article points out, you need to understand them well. I've talked with Jason Perl before and have his book, but haven't had access to TD indicators for a while. You may recall that Demark has had at least one pretty big call fail in the latter part of this bull market. But are you proposing to share signals or what?

    Agree with Matt. I have

    Posted by soldado1976 on 15th of Jun 2016 at 02:53 pm

    Agree with Matt. I have a bloomberg terminal that i have the indicators on. But I find my style of locating patterns, etc and finding entries with demark to fit me. All I was asking was whether or not anyone else used them as I do not come across that many that do. 

     

    Got it. Used them in

    Posted by a_l_ on 15th of Jun 2016 at 05:35 pm

    Got it. Used them in the past with the terminal; don't now and have comparable approaches.

    yeah indicators smindicators. remember the

    Posted by matt on 15th of Jun 2016 at 02:29 pm

    yeah indicators smindicators. remember the discussion yesterday, find something that fits your style, a methodogy and stick to it, the traders who make money consistently all have a style and a methodology system, something that they do over and over again vs bouncing around like a ball from one thing to another.  For some people, they may use a Demark indicator, others use something else, some only look at patterns and volume, I've shown some things that I do that may work for you or they may not.  It's important to go through a discovery and try things, but eventually to be profitiable in the long term you have to find something that works for you and stick to it

    looks like you added it

    Posted by matt on 15th of Jun 2016 at 11:56 am

    looks like you added it just fine.  

    tip when you use the browse button to add an image, after you select the image, you will see it loading on the bottom left, wait for it to be loaded, troubles you had in the past, perhaps it was because you posted your message before the image was loaded

    As a long time advisor

    Posted by soldado1976 on 15th of Jun 2016 at 11:54 am

    As a long time advisor to Steve Cohen, SAC CAPITAL, its something I love to watch unfold.

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