I define it as robust in that as the market changes through time, the region will more or less continue to outperform.  The primary assumption here is that the market price action characteristics will remain similar through time.

A region has to be a grouping of squares or it is not a region.  If you're looking at a single green square in a sea of red, you're looking at a system which happened to catch a single large price movement at the perfect time - which the neighboring cells did not catch.  By choosing this square, you would be "cherry-picking" a combination based upon a single trade which will never occur again.

You're looking for a profitable system which captures the general characteristics of the market.  Specific enough to give direction; vague enough to avoid curve-fitting.

thanks for the reply.

the general idea seems to make sense. but, the issue for me is in considering a green square in a sea of red...

if you:
- use a smaller scale (ex: hours instead of days)
- or exclude the points where the red region occurs
you can make the region really big (a scaling problem).


i assume you mean something like finding a formula for part of a line. i can see that being dangerous
- but would this include sine waves?

greetings

Quick question do any traders trade inflection points on EMA's?  BC although this is a good strategy it should be used in CONJUNCTION with others to have it trade correctly a higher percentage of the time.  I.E. we have 10/21 EMA lines when the slope of the 10 day EMA line becomes 0 after a bull run, it will either rise or fall.  I've looked at a substantial amount of bitcoin data and it seems that making a sell at this point, and a buy at a time inverse to this could prove to be more effective than when they cross.  The other option is to wait for the slope to reach a certain point after an inflection to make a more informed decision of where the price is headed.  Of course, this trade should only be made after due diligence of the trader, but can easily make money off of small changes in price from drops 2-5%, or give the trader a quick sell before a possible huge crash.

The '10' is basically an average of the closing price of the last 10 trading days.  Since it's an exponential moving average, the formula isn't a straight average.

More info:

http://stockcharts.com/help/doku.php?id=chart_school:technical_indicators:moving_averages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average

Is there a free program that makes a sound of any kind when the EMA lines cross because I keep missing it? Thank you!

Thanks! 

I sold around 820 when the lines crossed - but now they've crossed again but it didn't crash enough - don't want to buy in the 800's...just wondering - are you still following this method?
did you sell at 825ish and are you now buying back in?

Not to seem harsh, but why would you trust that much money to a bot you dont know how to work? 

I wonder about this to. I have never seen it tested but I suspect a crossover is just easier to implement and perhaps gives the same results

Hello Goomboo;

Thanks for all this info! Instead of asking that you lurk around for 4 hours and make 5 posts when you join this forum; they should make reading your thread mandatory! I'm slowly going through all the pages of this topic, both recent and past. Letting it all sink in 

Thanks again and keep it comin'!