BarroMetrics Views: The Evolution of the Market Profile
The ideas underpinning the Market Profile as well as the actual charting technique helped bring about my trading success.
Many are unaware that the Profile has undergone at least 3 stages:

Stage 1: Traditional Market Profile - fixed periods of 30-minutes that begin and end with the day’s ‘pit’ session.
Stage […]

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Flashback to the early 80s: I had spent over 5 years, over A$500,000.00 in losses, and some unknown amount spent on books, courses and systems BUT still success in my chosen field was a far off dream. At the time I was using traditional technical tools for my trading: moving averages, RSI etc. Clearly I […]

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BarroMetrics Views: FX Time of Day Trading
I was surfing the net and came across an interesting free webinar-video by Barry Craig.  You can find the webinar here:
http://www.compassfx.com/webinar/g2w/tnf/webinar_replay_110909.html
I’d agree with most of what he has to say, with one exception:
“that all pairs normally have 30 to 60 pips in the London and New York sessions, and […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Open-Gap Rule and The Death Zone
I received a barrage of mail asking that I explain the two topics. Before I get into that, a comment: for some reason, I seem to invite e-mails rather than comments. Folks I would be grateful for comments, questions or requests at the blog rather than e-mails. Thanks […]

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BarroMetrics Views: The Ray Wave
From time to time I get a request to write about the Ray Wave. For the most part, I have been reluctant to teach this subject: I withdrew both the video and the book from sale.  In my view it is a powerful tool for stock trading, forex trading and futures […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Swing Strength Comparison
I received a few e-mails asking why I keep saying that the 13-week swing direction is statistically overbought.
I have two reasons:

The LOG percentage changes and
Swing Strength

In Figure 1, I have shown the LOG percentage change of the larger 13-week impulse swings. Notice that even among the sample of 10, the current […]

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 BarroMetrics Views: Barros Swings and Re-labelling

Baz wrote:
Hi Ray,Would your A,B,C, (fig1)labels change/renamed, because the %20 extension was exceeded? I actually took this trade and what stood out to me,initially, was the doji but i had also in my mindseye relabeled it and figured it was in the buy zone if my relabeling was correct.But it […]

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BarroMetrics Views: The Pivot Point Formula
The Pivot Point Formula arose in the days when Pit Trading was in full swing and computers were still to be invented. The locals used it to provide some idea of resistance and support for the next day’s trading.
Many think there is only formula, the Classic (using the range of […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Linear Regression Bands
In yesterday’s blog, I introduced the subject. In this blog, I’ll show how I draw the bands, and show its use in the recent S&P price action.

FIGURE 1 S&P
Figure 1 shows the March 2009 low. I have overlaid two Linear Regression Bands: one marking the 18-day swing  price action (red) and […]

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BarroMetrics Views: Linear Regression Bands
Firstly, Ana, thank you for taking over the past two days; I really appreciate your efforts.
Secondly, my apologies to those whose e-mails I have yet to reply to; rest assured I shall be attending to replies and should answer all by the weekend.
I have received a ton of mail following this […]

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