I have written before about the “grand plan” for the screensaver, and I’m pleased to announce that the final manifestation of the screensaver has now arrived.
What does the screensaver do?
Apart from the obvious: the screensaver uses your computer’s processing power when you are not using it, in order to:
How to use the screensaver
The best way of explaining is by example, and so here is an example of using the screensaver, using the S&P 500. I am going to try to make this as easy to read as possible, so I am going to use many pictures, instead of long dense explanations!
If your screensaver is processing some other data, and you want it to move straight on to this new data, simply click on:
Note that you can assign many charts to the screensaver. It will queue them.
Importing the trade histories
Now the fun begins. THT has been working as your trading research assistant, and has some interesting information about which cycles would have been best to trade over the time period that you specified as the analysis period (less the first 400 bars…)
There are two side-points worth noting here:
Note that you can import many trade histories, and THT will handle them all in the same chart, but in order to trade more than one cycle you will have to create a new chart for each cycle.
The Trading Reports
So how would we have performed, trading the 40-day and 40-week cycles?
First of all, a disclaimer: Please bear in mind that I am presenting hypothetical results here. I am not making any representation that your trading account would have experienced the same profit or loss. Also remember that past performance of a trading method is no guarantee of future performance.
And so, let me rephrase that : Hypothetically, how would THT have performed?
There is a lot of information there, which I will explain in webinars, tutorials, and on this forum in the fullness of time, but for now, a few points of interest:
The blue line is the actual equity for every day. The thin red line is the maximum intraday drawdown, and the thin green line is the maximum intraday gain.
Well that wraps up the use of the screensaver in THT. Two parting comments:
I keep writing all sorts of nonsense on this blog, but the one thing I haven’t got to yet is what the software is doing right now. That’s because I’ve thought I needed to prepare the ground, explain things, describe the trading theory at length … but instead I’m just going to take the plunge. Pictures say it all:
This is a chart of the Euro-USD exchange rate, produced by the software, analysing data up to Friday 30th May 2008.
I’m not going to explain at length what this chart means because that would take several pages of discussion. For now I just wanted to give a glimpse of what the software is doing. Having said that, here is the commentary generated by the software, which pretty much does that for me:
Updated Phasing Analysis reveals that the dominant cycle has a wavelength of 16.9w, or 118 days. This is assumed to be the 20w nominal wave, which implies that all waves will be (-14%) shorter than nominal. This cycle is approaching a TROUGH (and a medium degree nest-of-lows). The underlying trend to this cycle is currently FLAT, likely turning DOWN. The future FLD indicates that this cycle will influence prices to peak in a short while, and then to fall.
The sub-dominant cycle (next wave down from the dominant cycle) has a wavelength of 58.9d, or 59 days. This is assumed to be the 80d nominal wave. This cycle is overdue for a PEAK. This is probably the second of 2 sub-waves. The underlying trend to this cycle is currently FLAT, likely turning UP. The future FLD indicates that this cycle will influence prices to peak soon, and then fall.
The pre-dominant cycle (next wave up from the dominant cycle) has a wavelength of 33.9w, or 237 days. This is assumed to be the 40w nominal wave. This cycle is approaching a PEAK. The underlying trend to this cycle is currently strongly UP. The future FLD indicates that this cycle will influence prices very little because despite near-term volatility the FLD becomes range-bound.
Σ L is currently FLAT. (value of: 0.0)
The last phasing analysis was 4 days ago. In that time price has FALLEN by 244 to 15521.
Sequence #1 of the previous pattern: Price did move DOWN (for 3 days) as expected and has moved towards the target of 14954. The closest price has gotten to this target so far is 15394 (2.9% short) 1 day ago. This target is now 38 days away.
This brings the price movement up to date. From this point on:
Sequence #1 is expected to reach a LOWER target of 14808(-146 diff) 4 days EARLIER, on 2008/06/12 Recent price action has generated a new sequence (# 1). The target of this projection is 13624, expected by 2008/10/06.CURRENT PROJECTION PATTERN:
Price is currently range-bound (last close 15521), in an active FLD pattern cascading down. Price crossed below the 15 day FLD 1 bar ago, implying a price fall to 15467. This move would imply a price cross below the 29 day FLD (est: 2008/06/03 & level: 15498) projecting price to a CONGESTION PAUSE ZONE at approximately level 15436 Then price is likely to CONTINUE DOWN after a pause, towards fulfilling the 16 week cycle projection of 15402 taking price into a CONGESTION PAUSE ZONE at 15431 by about 2008/06/09 Then price is likely to CONTINUE DOWN after a pause, towards fulfilling the 59 day cycle projection of 15342 taking price into a CONGESTION PAUSE ZONE at 15429 by about 2008/06/09 . This price move breaks below the 33 week VTL implying that the peak on 2008/04/23 is the expected peak of the 15 month cycle. Then price is likely to CONTINUE DOWN after a pause, towards 14866 by 2008/08/09, attempting to fulfill the projection generated by the crossing of the 58 day FLD taking price into a CONGESTION PAUSE ZONE at 15257 by about 2008/07/03 . This price move breaks below the 16 week VTL implying that the peak on 2008/04/23 is the expected peak of the 33 week cycle. Then price is likely to CONTINUE DOWN after a pause, towards 14522 by 2008/11/09, attempting to fulfill the projection generated by the crossing of the 33 week FLD taking price into a CONGESTION PAUSE ZONE at 14782 by about 2008/10/05 . This price move breaks below the 15 month VTL implying that the peak on 2008/04/23 is the expected peak of the 46 month cycle. Then price is likely to CONTINUE DOWN after a pause, towards 13572 by 2009/07/15, attempting to fulfill the projection generated by the crossing of the 15 month FLD taking price into a FINAL REVERSAL ZONEThere is no cycle which provides an average potential of at least 20% per half-cycle, and so it is not recommended that you trade this stock unless you are trading on a leveraged basis, in which case you should change the Trading Settings by using the Tools|Trade Settings|Edit menu.
Having reviewed the entire projection sequence I am unable to find a move suitable for trading, and so no trades have been set up.
Well – that’s what the software is “thinking” about the Euro-USD as of the 30th May. It seems pretty likely that things are going down, and that the upcoming nest-of-lows will generate little more than a temporary upward correction to the downward move. However it is early days for the software, and so I am by no means making any kind of call on this, I merely put it up here to show what the software’s doing at the moment.