I didn't realize that Tradestation

    Posted by matt on 8th of Jan 2018 at 10:48 am

    I didn't realize that Tradestation now had these special Renko bar charts.  These are not traditional Renko, they are much more adaptive and easier to trade than traditional Renko bars.  They used to only be available in Ninja Trader where they have been very popular for the last few years, but I found out that TS has them which is really cool as I can make some strategies with them. Here's a couple chart examples, one is ES and one is Bitcoin.  Man trading Bitcoin futures is nuts, I added the futures data feed on Friday to play with it . You can make or lose some serious coin.  I like using either these Renko charts or a range chart for signals.  Note with Bitcoin you cannot use sell stop orders to protect a long, so when you are long you have to watch it like a hawk and sell manually limit orders.  You also cannot short Bitcoin and margin obviously is not 20:1 like standard futures, it's more like 1 - 3 only, which makes sense given how volatile it is. 

    Matt, what settings are you

    Posted by ruscitti on 8th of Jan 2018 at 11:02 am

    Matt, what settings are you using for the brick size (for ES)?


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