Yearly Archives - 2012

Initial Balance Breakouts: By the Numbers

One of the questions we get asked time and again is how to play breakouts of the initial balance (IB) range. Of course, baked into those questions is the assumption that initial balance breakouts should be played. But is that true? If so, when and how? In an important way, this study...

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Using Rewindable and Dynamic Composites

If you've seen the screencast on creating intermediate-term volume composites, then you may have caught a bit at the end that showed so-called rewindable composites. Well here's a more in-depth look at setting up and using both Rewind- and Dynamic-mode composites.

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Configuring Split Profiles (ETH + RTH) – Euro FX

Chances are if you trade in instrument that has both ETH and RTH sessions, you're going to want to configure the Acme Volume and Acme TPO profile studies to split the profiles so you can have both of them on the same chart. Here we'll split profiles for the Euro...

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Configuring Split Profiles (ETH + RTH) – Gold

Chances are if you trade in instrument that has both ETH and RTH sessions, you're going to want to configure the Acme Volume and Acme TPO profile studies to split the profiles so you can have both of them on the same chart. Here we'll split profiles for the gold...

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Configuring Split Profiles (ETH + RTH) – Oil

Chances are if you trade in instrument that has both ETH and RTH sessions, you're going to want to configure the Acme Volume and Acme TPO profile studies to split the profiles so you can have both of them on the same chart. Here we'll split profiles for Light Sweet...

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Drawing Range-Based Volume Profiles

As volume profiliers advance in their knowledge and become more masterful in technique, often they realize that certain portions of the auction are worth examining on an ad hoc basis, more closely, separate from the session, day, week, etc.

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Volume and TPO Essentials

Updated for 2024! We’ve heard many times that all the acronyms and jargon used by volume profilers is, to the uninitiated, like another language. It can be intimidating because there really is a lot of jargon. Some of that jargon stands on some readily explained but not-so-obvious theory and once you begin...

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Importing and Updating Acme Packs

Often the hardest part of doing anything new is getting started. Well, even if you are a novice Ninja, this screencast should take both the fight and flight out of installing and updating Acme packs. It's really very easy... as the saying goes... when you know how.

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Adding Symbols to NinjaTrader

One of the great mysteries of NinjaTrader is how to create your own custom symbols. There are lots of reasons why you might need to do this, especially if you're using one or more specialized market internals symbols or indexes.

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