Velocity Bars

A trading style based on Tick charts (Number of Trade charts) and marking those bars where the speed to complete the bar is 2.5x faster than the average of the previous 25 bars as a place of interest to possibly initiate a trade.

The concept and term being introduce to F.io by the late Olivier Terrier (aka member @Okina) who died 24 July 2016.

Okina's concept is covered fully (from 2015 to his death in July 2016) by him in numerous posts in his own threads here:

Trading Oil - "Velocity" system I based my system on a very basic and maybe naive assumption derived from basic physic: it is called velocity. I quote Wikipedia: Distinction between speed and velocity Speed describes only how fast an object is moving, whereas velocity gives both how …

The Old Tiger in the Snow "trading journal" (PS: The Old Tiger in the Snow is one of my favorite works of Hokusai I hope I will be able to purchase it someday. And I have it tattooed on my left shoulder). Hello everyone, As a personal introduction I am a little embarrassed about how to describe …

and in this shared thread:

The Scalper's Journey Well, it's time to step into the light. I've lurked around BMT and NexusFi for a couple of years now, wandering through the journals of others, sampling indicators, hearing stories of gains and losses and feeling quite at home. I came here as …