Musashi_Katana=== Musashi-Katana ===
This tool was designed to fit my particular trading style and personal theories about the "Alchemy of the markets" and ''Harmonic Structure'.
Context
When following a Technical approach to to surf the markets, there are teachings that must be understood before reaching a confort-zone, this usually happen the possible worst way by constant experimentation, it hurts.
Here few technical hints:
- Align High timeframes with lower timeframes:
This simple concept relax a lot complexity of finding of a trend bias. Musashi-Katana allows you to use technical indicator corresponding to specific timeframes, like daily weekly or yearly. They wont change when you change the chart's timeframe, its very useful as you know where you're standing in the long term, Its quite relaxing.
- Use volume:
The constant usage of volume will allow you to sync with the market's breathing. This shows you the mass of money flowing into and out of the market, is key if you want to understand momentum. This tool can help here, as it have multi-period vwaps. You can use yearly, monthly for swing trading, and even weekly if you enjoy scalping.
Useful stuff:
- You have access to baselines, AMA and Kijun-sen with the possibility of adding ATR bands.
- AMAs come as two lines strategies for different approaches, fast medium or slow.
- You can experiment with normal and multi timeframe moving averages and other trend tools.
Final Note
If used correctly Musashi-Katana is a very powerful tool, which makes no sense as there is no correct usage. Don't add everything at the same time, experiment, combine stuff, every market is different.
Backtest every possible strategy before using it, see what works and doesn't. This gives you a lot of peace, specially while you're at the tip of the spear surfing the markets
--> I personally use this in combination with 'Musashi_Slasher (Mometum+Volatility)', as it gives me volatility and momentum in a very precise way.
Alchemy
Musashi_Slasher (Mometum+Volatility)--- Musashi Slasher (Momentum + Volatility ) ---
This tool was designed to fit my particular trading style and personal theories about the "Alchemy of the markets".
Velocity
This concept will be represented by the light blue and gray lines, a fast RSI (11 periods Relative Strength Index ), and a slow one ( RSI 14 periods as Wilder's half-cycle recommendation).
Note: Regular and hidden divergences will be plotted to help spot interesting spots and help with timing.
- Regular divergences will hint at a slowdown in price action.
- Hidden divergences will hint at a continuation as energy stored as some type of potential energy ready to be released violently. It is also referred ad 'The Slingshot'
Momentum
To understand Momentum, we must know that in physics Momentum = mass * velocity
We will understand mass as the mass of money of the market, which is found in the volume. To represent this concept a colored cloud will be plotted, this area will be given by MFI (13 periods Money Flow Index) and VRSI (Volume RSI ), when MFI is above VRSI will be colored dark blue, else red.
Note: Regular and hidden divergences on MFI will be plotted.
Volatility
The key to making this Alchemic theory work is to understand the "Transmutation" of the volatility which will be plotted by a multicolor line which will be blue in periods of low volatility and Red in periods of high volatility. I like to see these states as 'Ice' and 'Magma', as some periods the volatility just freezes, giving you hints that maybe a big move can be approaching, and at some points is just burning hot. Something I like about this indicator is that is trend agnostic. The line is named BBWP ( Bollinger Bands Width Percentile), as it calculates the width of the Bollinger bands (13 periods) and plot it as a percentile.
Finally, we will study the volatility of the volume, plotted as the red and purple mountains at the bottom of the indicator. This will complement and confirm the information provided by the Velocity-Momentum concepts.
Final Note
This indicator will only help identify interesting moments in the market, it's very powerful if used correctly, but it might be difficult to read in the beginning. It won't give "signals", as it is for understanding different dimensions in the market, I use it as it fits perfectly my trading strategies and tactics.
Best!
Musashi Alchemist
