Project Freedom (9): Trading with the Mutiple-Time-Frames Moving Distribution Charts




























Above are few distribution charts that some financial analysts borrow from statisticians.  Usually, it is shown as a monthly, quarterly or yearly chart to describe the market performance over the state periods in terms of it percentage changes.  So, it is purely a statistic chart and has not much meaning for trading purposes.  For example, as shown in the chart, that a stock "WXYZ" is out perform the market over the last period of time, but it does not show the momentum and trending direction it is continue to move.


The following chart with New indicators - The Moving Distribution Curves, show a NEW way to trade the market.  Take for example, the following chart shows the XLE - Energy Sector ETF.  It's short term Momentum, mid-term Swing and long-term Trend are benchmarked within the whole database (in this case, all ETFs except leveraged ETFs). 

The Brownline show the Current Ticker Relative Strength, in this case is XLE, against all other ETFs in the database.  The Blackline shows the Market Reference Relative Strength, in this case is SPY (S&P500).  And, the Greyline shows the unchanged USD1 Cash Reference Relative Strength.

See...  In Bull market, stocks go up and cash reference line move down.  And, in Bear market, stocks go down and cash reference line move up. 




























Now, here is a better way to interpret the three color lines in the follow chart.  It shows the same chart, and added the distribution chart on the indicators.  View it as the ditribution charts are moving under the price chart over time, the Brownline shows the the ticker percentile in the database at the point of time.  One would like to BUY the ticker with 1, Stronger than the market reference, and 2, above 80 percentile.  Similar interpretation goes with the Blackline and Greyline.

See.  Stocks/ETFs don't move randomly...  if there is no special demand, it would not move above the 80 percentile.   Similarly, if without special supply, it would not move below the 20% either.



























Attached are just a few more daily chart with Moving Distribution Curve as examples: KOL, SLV, BRK-A, GLD and QQQ.

KOL

























SLV


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GLD



























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Attached are some Weekly Chart examples on: QQQ and BAL.

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BAL(Weekly)


























Note: 
* All the Charts can be Zoom to fit in 24 inch monitor for clearer display.

* The distribution shape illustrated here is for explanation purposes only, as the stock distribution over time does not necessary fit into this kind of shapes and varies over time.  And, some one had recommended me to see this article:  http://hanwangquant.blogspot.sg/2011/09/
And, I found that it helps to explain this concept, and also can be easily implemented in the moving distribution curve.

* This is a new kind of Market Breadth Indicator can be applied on single stock or ETF.

* At any one time, there are tickers fill up the full range from 0 to 100.  Choose to long or short according to th reference line position to have the edge.

* A much better way to "occupy the Wall Street" is to have the public to understand exactly how the game is played.






"Man belongs wherever man wants to go. 
He goes where his vision is!"
- Joseph Murphy







Project Freedom (8): Follow the Money


Follow The Money: When China Stimulates its Economy, Buy Coal!

When the world economy was running into trouble since the beginning of 2008, China announced the 4000Billion RMB Project (四万亿计划) on the 18 Nov 2008. Soon after that, the economy turned around, though it did not last for very long...


Figure 1: The Correlation between FXI and KOL
The above illustration shows the XinHua China 25 index, the Global Coal ETF Charts, and their correlation.
As China is the world Largest Coal Consumer, when they stimulate their economy they need more energy for their power plants, more material to built infrastructures and consumer products, therefore the demand for coal would increase.


Figure 2: One year after the China Economy Stimulation Plan

 
The above chart shows the Result a year after the stimulation.  Though the XinHua China 25 index rose for 85%, there were many other sectors/countries performed much better than that.
 
The Top Ranking was KOL (Global Coal ETF), follow by Metal, China Real Estate and other related material producing countries.

YES…   These are History.
Is there anything that we can learn from it???


Figure 3:  China market bound on 7 Sep 2012 with new stimulation plan
 

Of course!!! 
 
Now…  Let’s look at these news:

  (The analyst from China said that the government will invest more than 1000 Billion RMB to strengthen their infrastruture to simulate the economy)

2.  万亿项目获批股市“一阳指”  
   (China market bounds up on the news on new stimulation plan approval)

3.  China approves US$158b in infrastructure

Yes.  The history will repeat itself to high degree (provided there is no major war and natural disaster).

 

Notes:
1)   This is similar worldwide...  It follows the Pareto Principle, since the recorded history, that 80% of the wealth belongs to the 20% of the people (these numbers are just getting bigger in spread - 90% vs 10% or worst).   The more money the governments pour into their economy would only benefits to the minority who know how to get it.   Normal working class would normally working harder to keep their job, and therefore miss the opportunities and suffer from the aftermath through inflation.


2)   Even though the world economy is in deep trouble, and it will reveal the trouble later at a bigger scale when there is not way to cover up.  But, at the moment, these stimulus could help to prolong the grow before the final collapse.  Just like giving another heavy dose of drug to keep the already exhausted sport man to continue the game...  

Therefore, timing it with charting for proper entries and exits to ride the trend is important, never argue with the mass psychology that forms Mr. Market with logic using the conscious mind.



 
"A speculator must concern himself with making money out
of the market and not with insisting that the tape must
agree with him.  Never argue with it or ask for
reasons or explanations."
- Jesse Livermore


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Games that People Play(3):- Strategical Horse Racing by SunBin

Case 1:  Happened before 320BC:



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战国时候,齐国大将田忌很喜欢赛马。他每次和齐威王赛马,都要押上重金赌输赢。他们把各自的马分为上、中、下三等。比赛时,上等马对上等马,中等马对中等马,下等马对下等马。由于齐威王每个等级的马都比田忌的强,每次赛马,田忌都以失败而告终。

一次,田忌又比输了,正闷闷不乐地离开赛场,他的朋友孙膑对他说:“从刚才比赛的情形看,齐威王的马比你的快不了多少,下次比赛,你只管下重金和他赌输赢,我有办法让你取胜。”田忌疑惑地看看孙膑:“你是说给我换几匹好马吗?”孙膑摇头说:“不是。”田忌知道孙膑足智多谋,看着他胸有成竹的样子,没再多问。

等到比赛那天,孙膑向田忌面授机宜说:“第一场,用你的下等马去同他的上等马周旋;第二场,用你的上等马去对付他的中等马;第三场,你用中等马对付他的下等马。”结果,第一场比赛田忌输了,第二、三场比赛赢了,最终以2:1获胜。这下,齐威王目瞪口呆,只好眼睁睁地看着田忌得意地拿走了自己的千金。
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Brief Translation:

Strategical Horse Racing by SunBin:
SunBin(孙膑; died 316 BC), grandson of SunTzu(孙子) who is famous for his "Art of War", was a military advisor who lived during the Warring States Period of China history.

During that time, there was a military general of Qi State(齐国) - TianJi (田忌).  TianJi often invited to have horse racing competitions by his king - King Wei (齐威王).  Everytime, they both put heavy bet on the competition.  The competition consisted of 3 races.  So, they used their first class horses for the first race, second class horses for the second race, and third class horses for the third race.   Because King Wei had faster horses in all the three categories than TianJi had,   TianJi had always lost.

Once, SunBin was a guest of the Tianji and invited to attend the race.  Again, Tianji lost all the three races again and felt very upset.  SunBin spoke to Tianji:"I noticed that the horses that King Wei has in each category is not much faster than yours.  Next time, you can smiply put heavier bet, and I have a strategy for you to win the competition."
Wait until the next race, SunBin asked TianJi to use his 3rd class horse to race with KingWei 1st class horse in the first round.  TianJi's horse lost by far distance in the first round.  In the second round, SunBin used TianJi 1st class horse to win KingWei 2nd class horse.  And, in the final round, SunBin used TianJi 2nd class horse to win KingWei 3rd class horse.  KingWei was shocked to see the result and TianJi won BIG TIME during that race.



Case 2: Happening Now:

Pictures from Smart Money Magazine.



It was an old conspiracy that USA would keep most of their crude oil reserve untounched while promote gas-guzzler vehicles to use up other countries crude oil first....  Then, when it come to a time that other countries oil reserve is about to finish, they would anounce they just discover that they have many new oil fields at home...

Now, lets look that this month issue, August 2012, Smart Money magazine feature story: The Return of Fossil Fuels.  The headline says:
 "Enormous new oil and gas discoveries under American soil are having a game-changing impact on the entire economy - affecting everything from what we're putting in our portfolios to what we're parking in our driveways.  How to play the new energy boom."

So, is this news just a coincident?  Or, just another strategical game practised from The Art of War?

May be the above queations are not important.  What important is the implication?
So, US has surplus in their food supply, water supply, energy supply and strongest military advantage...  Why should they care about debt?   Therefore, print money and be happy.





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Questions From The Future.






The most valuable Natural Resource that we wasted is the DIVINE LOVE within us.  And then, in exchange, we replaced it with EGO, and keep expanding it...  That's the cause for all the world's problems we have today.



IMAGINE that if you were to invite by aliens to have a tour in to the galaxy and return to earth a 100 years later... Or, reincarnated onto earth plane few generations later.... 

What will the earth look like when you return?

Or If you have a choice,
What would you like to see?


The following diagram illustrates how material wealth is produced.  We can either grow it on earth or mine it from earth and process it. 



Gold Mining:


Satellite Photos on Amazon Deforestation:->

Photo on year 2000:

Photo on year 2009:

Dilemma for modern Economy:
Apparently, the modern society MAINLY measure wealth by counting how much toys can a person accumulate.  The more and faster it progress, the harder the earth will be squeezed.   And, Easter Island is just an example.




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Here is a relevant video by Professor Albert Bartlett :
"The Greatest Challenge" humanity is facing



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“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them.

At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”


“We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.” 

― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

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Relevant picture added on 7 Dec 2012 found in facebook -"Knowledge of Today"



“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” ~Cree Indian Proverb


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This is an Excellent documentary filmed based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning author - Jared Diamond.
The documentary explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization... and how to go about solving the problem Now.








































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Project Freedom (7): The Galaxy Chart

Deleted on 2016-4-11.

Project Freedom (6): Back to Basics

Deleted on 2016-04-11.

Project Freedom (5): Using Multiple Time Frame for Trend Trending.

Deleted on 2016-04-11

Project Freedom (4): Understanding of the States of Market Trend and Rotational Trading Concept

Attached are a few charts aim to demonstrate the importance of understanding the State of Market Trend and the Rotational Trading Concept which could help one to handle his personal finance.

POINT I: Understanding of the States of Market Trend.

Fig 1.  ^STI Daily Chart (2 years)  (Click on the chart to Zoom in)

The above chart show a daily chart for ^STI from Apr 2010 to Apr 2012.  This particular period is selected to show that money put in the market (so call buy and hold investment) can ended up with zero percent return over years.
In the price chart, there are algorithms built-in to draw the trendlines (also act as dynamic support and resistance lines).  When the bar change color, it signal a possibility of change in trend. 
In the lowest pane, it is an indicator desgined specifically to measure the Vibrational Energy of the stock:
If the Energy is High and moving upwards, it signals a state of UPTREND MARKET.
If the Energy is High and moving downwards, it signals a state of DOWNTREND MARKET.
If the Energy is Low, it signal a state of SIDE WAY MARKET.
It also display the number of bars in the respective state of trend and its percentage over the period.  For example:

Over the two years period, when breakdown into percentage...
The UPTREND is      : 31.39%;
The DOWNTEND is : 18.05%;
The SIDE WAY is     : 50.56%.

Fig.2 ^STI Daily Chart (1997 Jan - 2012 Apr)
So, one may think that two years of data could be too short to make the point.  How about longer period of data? 

So, with the longer term of data, it show that the result is similar with the previous finding. And, lead to some basic understanding of the market trends structure...

Conclusions from Point I:
1) The Speed of UPTREND is SLOWER and DOWNTREND is FASTER.
2) BUY AND HOLD strategy is NOT WORKING in todays market.
3) One must be able to ride on the Trend in order to make profits from the market.

POINT II: Understanding of the Sector Rotational Trading Concept.

As the previous point illustrate that money put in one market/Stock/Fund are really productive about 30% of the time in UPTREND, 20% in DOWNTREND, and wasting time 50% of the time.
So, if one were to only LONG the market, does that mean 70% of the time he must wait???
Not true if he understand the concept of Sector Rational Trading.


Fig 3. State of Trends in S&P500(SPY)
and its 9 sectors(XLB,XLE,XLF,XLI,XLK,XLP,XLV,XLU,XLY) (Apr 2010 to Apr 2012)









See... 
The money in the market are of fix amount.  When the stock market is moving up strongly, people would pull money out of bond market and put into stocks and cause bond market to fall, and vice versa.  Similarly, the professionals would not put their funds in equal distribution into all sectors, they would pull the money out from the weak sectors to put them into the strong sectors.  And the sectors Relative Strength would keep changing over time.  In the picture, you can see the TREND is Out Of Phase from one another.

With the same token, one can then zoom into the individual stocks, in the strongest sector, to ride on the trend with the few strongest stocks

By the way, you may be interested to zoom into the chart and see the respective percentage of trends in various sectors.


Conclusions from Piont II:
1)  It illustrates a VERY IMPORTANT POINT that is IN CONTRADICTION with one of the popluar myth in the investment industry -->  That is DIVERSIFICATION the money into many sectors in equal portions as to reduce RISK.  As sectors trend pretty much follows the market (after all they are the components that create the market).

2)  In order to maximize the profit from the market and reduce risk.  One must always rotate money into the strongest few sectors when there is a trend.

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I found a picture on the web and it is Very True. 


There are certain risks in life one can simply choose to avoid it, such as if one don't know how to swim and he choose not to go near the sea... He may miss some fun for that but find more fun somewhere else.

On the other hand, there are some risks one cannot avoid, such as financial crisis... Then, the only logical answer in dealing with it is to master it. 
And,






if it is necessary...  Then, it doesn't matter how much time it may take.
Whether it may require 3 years, 6 years, 10 years or more,
something learnt is something gained. 

Time is ticking anyway regardless whatever nice phrases one may come out with. Such as:
"Only IF I have the time..."

With the current state of economy, which is full of potential for turbulences such as:
* Debts in certain countries in EuroZone building up,
* Energy Crisis due to Peak Oil,
* Over Population on earth,
* Aging of the Babyboomer in USA (in fact it is a worldwide problem, and more serious would be in China for its one child policy), and
* Increase in trend on Unethical issues exposed from corporation executives (worldwide)... etc.
I cautious myself not to be negative, but logically, it can only predict more financial crisis in local and global scale to continue happen in the near future...

So.  It is my simple idea that when more people willing to learn about it, then it would make market manipulation task more difficult for the minority and BALANCE IT.  Let's make it so! :-)


Bless You
KH Tang


A more throughout explaination on Sector Roation -> Back to Basics & The Galaxy Chart.