Graph (FIO broker) is from big SPAD (EU – Czech Republic) market. My orders was placed on the small RMS market, where the price fluctuate heavy +-5 CZK around SPAD . At RMS I usually buy better than on the SPAD market, but I must sell quicker, when the price go up at the SPAD. If the price start falling down at the SPAD the RMS accepting only very low price .

Buy:

Firstly I draw red line under minimums and green line at the expected profit .

The minimum for 24. 9. 2008 was from  596 to +-597, the price go down to 593, i place order and bought at 591,3 .

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Sell:

Now I must little wait and look market very carefully, if it will go down i will sell! This is the most difficult part !!! I must be strong, and if market not return to usual limits, it’s regular breakout and price will FALL DOWN HEAVY!

Market go up for whole day, with large correction in 15-16 hours (as everyday…, everyone ending in this hour his positions).

Today 25. 9. 2008 I watch the USA market (USA storing lot of money in the CR market…), which fall down to -0.27% (NASDAQ 0%), so i can’t expect any large push up in price! At the 11 hours I meet my internal goal of +-400 (410 wasn’t realistic according to the USA results), so i placed sell order at the nice 399,7 and wait. If someone will buy it, or the price will go up (if go up, i will cancel the order and wait). Someone buy my stocks at the 401 and i realized nice profit .

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So this is way, how I’m today make some money

Today, I’m thinking about, what will indicate me the fastest way buy or sell signal .

I experimented with MACD seriously, and this indicator giving me right opposite signals , than i need. Last time i bought just in the oversold peek ! MACD indicate me the buy signal exactly in the place which was the best for sell . Funny, but very unprofitable way, how to trade stocks .

What i need is something without delay . "Something" without delay is trendlines .

Second problem is, that market moving very strongly for whole day and the best way, how to enter or exit it, is watch it for whole day , and this will consume a lot of time .

If you are holding some long-term position, will you relax somewhere in the nature, or watch your position at least every single hour… Maybe some small PDA device with stock SW monitor (my FIO broker support it) it’s the way…

Market is so fast in this days. Or at least if market falling, it is SO QUICK. It’s amazing. If market go up, it’s 1 % per day and if falling it’s 3-10 % per day. When market falling it is big opportunity to invest! When I’m in the long position only real-time monitoring if price cross or not cross (sell signal) my trendline will give me the best profit and i will exit in the higher price.

I experimented with MACD indicator to find some semi-automatic (which will put out my psyche from the game) trade system. MACD is very powerful indicator especially the divergences between the MACD and price is very strong signal to buy or sell.

This was my last experiment with standard MACD (12,26,9) (numbers are the days). I tried double the standard MACD to 24,52,18 . With this values MACD react slower. Standard MACD indicate new up-trend after 4 days and doubled MACD after the 10 days :

So I will not catch the start of trend, but the doubled MACD filter simple all false indications of new "trends" (next picture). In the MACD 12,26,9 the yellow line cross the orange line (buy signal) too often, which will cost me broker fee and spread "fee". I’m trying build some system, which will trade only few times per year, and will catch the biggest trends. Problem Is, when the market not trending (then the MACD generating tons of false signals and only some human may stop this madness). Last green indicator on next picture is MFI Money Flow Indicator . MFI is very useful too to buy oversold stocks (when it fall under 20) :

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I tried "half" MACD (6,13,4) too, it was crazy . This half MACD take no profit in back-test and trade too often .

Now I’m experimenting with something between standard and doubled MACD, it is MACD 18, 38, 13 (1.5* standard). It looking good .

Ironic is, that what working best is the trendline . It’s the red line on first picture in the up-trend, which I drew under the price. When the price cross down this line, it’s time to sell . Trading with trendlines is the best one, but it need a lot!!! of experiences (it’s my future project )…