I took a bit of break from trading as I found myself completely undisciplined and doing my same old, market and strategy hopping. I realized that how I view myself is a direct correlation to how I interact and view markets. So I did some work on myself to be able to vie myself as a professional trader. Then I asked myself "What market would you trade if you knew you couldn't fail?". My resounding answer was the Nasdaq Futures market. I am a professional Nasdaq Futures trader. My trading style is utilizing a 1 Minute Chart. I focus all my attention specializing on the 1 Minute Chart.

I have used TICKQ in the past but it did not improve my trading so I dropped it.
Maybe I was not reading it correctly.
I have used Ehlers Simple Decycler and it seems to do a decent job at trend detection. FWIW

DowDaddy 

I took a bit of break from trading as I found myself completely undisciplined and doing my same old, market and strategy hopping. I realized that how I view myself is a direct correlation to how I interact and view markets. So I did some work on myself to be able to vie myself as a professional trader. Then I asked myself "What market would you trade if you knew you couldn't fail?". My resounding answer was the Nasdaq Futures market. I am a professional Nasdaq Futures trader. My trading style is utilizing a 1 minute Nasdaq Chart with a 13 & 34 EMA and a 1 Minute TICKQ Index Chart with a 13 & 34 EMA. The EMAs just show me trend, the TICKQ index shows pressure of Nasdaq stocks rising or falling. All my attention is focused on the 1-Minute chart and make all decisions and risk parameters based off the 1-Minute chart.

p.s. I have asked the author of the indicator for permission to post here.
If he gives it I will post it in the downloads. You can also find it on the NT App Share website.

DavidHP 

I have used TICKQ in the past but it did not improve my trading so I dropped it. Maybe I was not reading it correctly. I have used Ehlers Simple Decycler and it seems to do a decent job at trend detection. FWIW p.s. I have asked the author of the indicator for permission to post here. If he gives it I will post it in the downloads. You can also find it on the NT App Share website.

Thanks I will give it a download and try it out and see what it does!

DavidHP 

I have used TICKQ in the past but it did not improve my trading so I dropped it. Maybe I was not reading it correctly. I have used Ehlers Simple Decycler and it seems to do a decent job at trend detection. FWIW p.s. I have asked the author of the indicator for permission to post here. If he gives it I will post it in the downloads. You can also find it on the NT App Share website.

From my experience, the TICKQ with 42/5 EMA works a lot better for identifying overbought/oversold conditions and trend direction with the Russell 2000 that the NASDAQ 100. I tried using the ticks for the ND 100 and there was just too much noise.

hummeljt 

From my experience, the TICKQ with 42/5 EMA works a lot better for identifying overbought/oversold conditions and trend direction with the Russell 2000 that the NASDAQ 100. I tried using the ticks for the ND 100 and there was just too much noise.

So you prefer the TICKQ with the Russell 2000 contract

1 Minute Man 

So you prefer the TICKQ with the Russell 2000 contract

The TICKQ index is very broad based as it considers the entire Nasdaq exchange stocks listings (over 3,300 stocks). The NQ contract is only representative of the top 100 NASDAQ stocks. The broad base representative of the TICKQ seems to correlate better to the broader based Russell 2000 than it does to the smaller based NASDAQ 100.

hummeljt 

The TICKQ index is very broad based as it considers the entire Nasdaq exchange stocks listings (over 3,300 stocks). The NQ contract is only representative of the top 100 NASDAQ stocks. The broad base representative of the TICKQ seems to correlate better to the broader based Russell 2000 than it does to the smaller based NASDAQ 100.

Wow looking over it now it does make price action much clearer on the Russell 2000 very interesting

hummeljt 

The TICKQ index is very broad based as it considers the entire Nasdaq exchange stocks listings (over 3,300 stocks). The NQ contract is only representative of the top 100 NASDAQ stocks. The broad base representative of the TICKQ seems to correlate better to the broader based Russell 2000 than it does to the smaller based NASDAQ 100.

Much appreciated this has me thinking the Russell 2000 is a very interesting day trading product