Catching Boom and Crashe on Deriv Tradingview using TrendlinesCatching booms and crashes on Deriv using TradingView involves utilizing trendlines to identify potential reversal points and breakouts. Here’s a short guide on how to do this:
### 1. Understanding Boom and Crash Indices
- **Boom Index**: Represents a market where prices tend to spike upwards occasionally.
- **Crash Index**: Represents a market where prices tend to spike downwards occasionally.
### 2. Setting Up TradingView
- Open TradingView and ensure you have the Boom or Crash index loaded on your chart.
### 3. Drawing Trendlines
- **Identify Highs and Lows**: Start by identifying significant highs and lows on the chart.
- **Draw the Trendline**: Connect at least two significant highs for a downtrend line and at least two significant lows for an uptrend line.
### 4. Analyzing Trendline Breaks
- **Downtrend Breakout (Boom Index)**: Look for points where the price breaks above a downtrend line. This can indicate a potential upward boom.
- **Uptrend Breakout (Crash Index)**: Look for points where the price breaks below an uptrend line. This can indicate a potential downward crash.
### 5. Confirming the Breakout
- **Volume**: Higher volume during the breakout can confirm the validity of the trendline break.
- **Candlestick Patterns**: Look for reversal candlestick patterns near the trendline to increase the accuracy of your prediction.
### 6. Risk Management
- **Stop-Loss**: Set a stop-loss slightly below the breakout point for booms and slightly above for crashes.
- **Take-Profit**: Determine your target based on previous highs/lows or use a risk-reward ratio.
### Example:
1. **Boom Index**:
- Identify recent highs and draw a downtrend line.
- Wait for a candlestick to close above the trendline.
- Confirm with volume and possibly a bullish candlestick pattern.
- Enter a buy trade with a stop-loss below the trendline and a take-profit at a previous resistance level.
2. **Crash Index**:
- Identify recent lows and draw an uptrend line.
- Wait for a candlestick to close below the trendline.
- Confirm with volume and possibly a bearish candlestick pattern.
- Enter a sell trade with a stop-loss above the trendline and a take-profit at a previous support level.
By carefully analyzing trendlines and confirming breakouts with additional indicators, you can effectively catch booms and crashes on Deriv's Boom and Crash indices using TradingView.
Derivative
Trading 101 - What is a Derivative & why are they revolutionary?Derivatives trading!
What I believe has been the absolute market revolution since shares.
Derivatives might sound complicated and something you would hear from a professor or a know-it-all businessman – but they’re really not.
I am no academic or even remotely one of the smartest guy’s in the world. And if I can grasp the idea and understanding of derivatives, I pretty much guarantee you will too.
Also, if you want to take trading seriously and really make a living with it, you’ll need to understand derivatives trading sometime in your career.
Let’s start at the very beginning.
What is a derivative?
– Collins English Dictionary –
‘A derivative is an investment that depends on the
value of something else’
When it comes to trading, a derivative is a financial contract between two parties whose value is ‘derived’ from another (underlying) asset.
Let’s break that down more simply:
A derivative is a
financial contract (CFDs, Spread Trading, Futures, Forwards, Options &Warrants)
Between two parties (the buyer and seller)
Whose value (the market’s price)
Is derived (depends on or comes from)
Another underlying asset (Share, index, commodity, currency, bond, interest-rate, crypto-currency etc…)
You’ll find that the derivative’s market price mirrors that of the underlying asset’s price.
Why trade using derivatives?
The absolute beauty about trading derivatives is that they are a cheaper and a more profitable way to speculate on the future price movements of a market without buying the asset itself.
You don’t get all the benefits with derivatives
What’s probably important to note with derivatives, is this.
When you buy a derivative’s contract, you’re not actually buying the physical asset. You’re simply making a bet on where you expect the price to go.
EXAMPLE:
When you buy actual shares of a company, means you’ll be able to attend AGMs (Annual General Meetings), Vote and claim dividends from a company.
When you trade derivatives on the underlying share, means you’ll be exposed to the value of the shares and the price movements – and that’s it!
As a trader, when you buy or sell a derivative, you’re not actually investing in the underlying asset but rather just making a bet (speculation) on where you believe the market’s price will head.
This gives you the advantage and opportunity to:
Buy low (go long) a derivative of the underlying asset and sell it at a higher price for a profit or
Sell high (go short) a derivative of the underlying asset and buy it back at a lower price for a profit
Remember when I said it was cheaper and more profitable? You can thank margin
With derivatives, you’ll normally pay a fraction of the price of the total sum and still be exposed to the full value of the asset (share, index, currency etc…)
The fraction of the price paid is called ‘margin’.
EXAMPLE:
To buy and own 10 Anglo shares at R390 per share will cost you R3,900 (R390 per share X 10 shares).
To buy and be exposed to 10 Anglo shares using derivatives, and the margin of the contract is 10% per share, means you’ll only pay R390 (R390 per share X 10% margin per derivative X 10 shares).
I’m sure you can see that with derivatives, you’ll be exposed to more and pay less which will gear up your potential profits or losses versus when trading shares.
This is why we call derivatives, geared financial instruments.
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Adaptive Derivative AnalysisThe idea of a derivative is powerful and especially useful in trading. We often don't care so much what the price is, but how it moves. For that reason the velocity, acceleration, and rarely the jerk of price is valuable information. There are a lot of numerical issues with taking time derivatives of price, the biggest of which, in my eyes, is that all transforms and filters must be causal. Because we can't have have central differences, all current information about the future must come from the past. The obvious way around this is to focus on really long term moving average derivatives, as this minimizes the noise and provides some amount of certainty about the next few price bars. The obvious issue with this is that sometimes the price moves very quickly and enormous opportunities can be missed for focusing on the bigger picture. Likewise focusing on the local picture leads to whipsaws, over-trading, and really messy time derivatives. Currently to look into this I am working on a way to adaptively move through different averaging windows to give us information about the most useful derivatives. This is kind of a new momentum indicator. Here it is shown operating on the GBPUSD pair in the bottom window. I will not explain this indicator too much in this post, but I will be releasing it soon with more information on how to use it. Though briefly, the black line represents the momentum, and as the lines/clouds move through it it gives useful information about what happens next. Take a look at how red, orange, and yellow clouds move above, through, and under the black line before breakouts
More to come...
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