DeMark Indicators

DeMark Indicators

DeMark Indicators

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Overview

Silver Medal Winner, Investing Category, Axiom Business Book Awards (2009)

Winner: Book Series Cover Design, The Bookbinders Guild of New York/2009 New York Book Show Awards

"Long a secret weapon for the hedge-fund elite," says Trader Monthly, the DeMark Indicators are now used by more than 35,000 traders.

This book provides an easy-to-follow system for using the indicators to identify market turns as they happen.

Author Jason Perl gives a concise introduction to thirty-nine of the DeMark Indicators, and then shows how to combine the indicators and time frames to achieve a higher probability of trading success.

Thomas R. DeMark, the creator of the DeMark Indicators and one of the most well-respected practitioners of technical analysis wrote the Foreword to this book.

This is the second book in the Bloomberg Market Essentials: Technical Analysis series, which covers the key elements of the most widely used technical analysis tools.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781576603147
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 10/01/2008
Series: Bloomberg Financial , #40
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jason Perl joined the Multi-Asset Sales Team at UBS in June 2009 to identify turning points in markets for the Bank's largest clients. He advises CIO's and Heads of Trading at macro hedge and sovereign wealth funds as well as tactical asset allocation teams on market timing, using the DeMark indicators exclusively. Previously he was Global Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Technical Strategy at UBS. He joined the group in 2000 and ran it from 2004-2009. Jason and his team provided both short-term and medium-term trading strategies to central banks, hedge funds, institutional investors and wealth managers around the world as well as general and specialist educational technical analysis training.

Prior to joining UBS, he was an independent consultant advising proprietary desks and hedge funds on short-term trading strategies as well as helping institutional investors with trading system design and development. He was also a technical strategy adviser to a number of large financial data vendors and a contributing editor for Futures & Options World, FX & MM, Petroleum Argos and the International Petroleum Exchange's (IPE), Pipeline Magazine. Jason's area of technical expertise is the DeMark indicators, which he has been using for the past nineteen years.

A portion of the proceeds received by the author for this book goes to the Robin Hood Foundation. Robin Hood changes fates and saves lives in New York City by applying investment principles to charitable giving and supporting the most effective poverty-fighting programs in all five boroughs of New York City. For more information, go to: www.robinhood.org

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Table of Contents

Foreword, by Tom DeMark xv

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction xxi

Author’s Note xxv

About DeMark Indicator Trademarks xxvii

1 TD Sequential: Defining the Trend and Identifying Exhaustion Points 1

TD Setup 2

Bearish TD Price Flip 2

TD Buy Setup 3

Interruption of a TD Buy Setup 4

Completion of the First Phase of TD Sequential 4

TD Sell Setup 4

Bullish TD Price Flip 4

TD Sell Setup 4

Interruption of a TD Sell Setup 4

Using TDST Levels to Determine the Underlying Trend Bias 5

TD Sequential vs. More Conventional Momentum Indicators 6

TD Setup Scenario I: Consolidation/Reversal 6

TD Setup Scenario II: Confirmed Trend Extension 8

TD Buy Setup “Perfection” 9

TD Buy Setup “Perfection” 11

Trading a TD Buy Setup 12

Perl’s Rules for Trading TD Buy Setups Objectively 13

Risk Management: Calculating the TD Risk Level for Trading a TD Buy Setup 14

TD Sell Setup “Perfection” 14

Trading a TD Sell Setup 14

Perl’s Rules on When to Initiate a Short Position Following a Completed TD Sell Setup 16

Risk Management: Calculating the TD Risk Level for a TD Sell Setup 17

TD Setup vs. TD Sequential Countdown 17

To Initiate TD Buy Countdown 17

To Complete a TD Buy Countdown 19

TD Buy Countdown Cancellation 21

Filters That Cancel a Developing TD Buy Countdown 21

TD Buy Countdown Cancellation and Recycle Qualifiers 21

TD Buy Countdown Cancellation Qualifier I 21

TD Buy Countdown Cancellation Qualifier II (a TD Buy Setup Within a TD Buy Setup) 22

TD Buy Countdown Recycle Qualifier 22

An R Will Appear 22

Entering a Long Position 24

Two Ways to Enter a Long Position 24

Alternative Strategy for Entering a Long Position 25

Requirements for a TD Camouflage Buy 25

Requirements for a TD Clop Buy Signal 25

Requirements for a TD Clopwin Buy Signal 26

Requirements for a TD Open Buy Signal 26

Requirements for a TD Trap Buy Signal 26

TD Buy Termination Count 26

Risk Management: For a TD Buy Countdown 26

Frequently Asked Questions 28

Requirements for Validation of a TD Sequential 9-13-9 Buy Count 29

Risk Management: For TD Sequential 9-13-9 31

TD Sell Countdown 31

Requirement for a TD Sell Countdown 31

To Complete a TD Sell Countdown 31

TD Sell Countdown Cancellation 34

Filters That Will Cancel a Developing TD Sell Countdown 34

TD Sell Countdown Cancellation and Recycle Qualifiers 34

TD Sell Countdown Cancellation Condition I 34

TD Sell Countdown Cancellation Condition II (a TD Sell Setup Within a TD Sell Setup) 35

TD Sell Countdown Recycle Qualifier 35

Entering a Short Position Following a Completed Thirteen TD Sequential Sell Countdown 35

Alternative Strategy for Entering a Short Position 36

TD Camouflage Sell Signal Requirements 37

TD Clop Sell Signal Requirements 38

TD Clopwin Sell Signal Requirements 38

TD Open Sell Signal Requirements 38

TD Trap Sell Signal Requirements 38

TD Sell Termination Count 38

Risk Management: For a TD Sell Countdown 39

Frequently Asked Questions 39

Requirements for Validating a TD Sequential 9-13-9 Sell Count 41

Risk Management: For a TD Sequential 9-13-9 Sell Count 41

Combining Time Frames for Additional Confidence 43

Frequently Asked Questions about TD Sequential 46

Risk Management for TD Sequential 49

TD Sequential: Recommended Settings 57

TD Aggressive Sequential 58

TD Aggressive Sequential 58

2 TD Combo 59

TD Combo Buy Setup 59

Requirements for a TD Combo Buy Setup 60

Differences in Buy Countdown: TD Combo vs. TD Sequential 60

TD Combo Buy Countdown 60

Requirements for a TD Combo Buy Countdown Version I (Strict Version) 60

Requirements for a Td Combo Buy Countdown Version ii (Less-Strict Version) 61

To Enter a Long Position 62

Risk Management: For Entering a TD Combo Buy Countdown Long Position 62

Requirements for a TD Combo Sell Setup Version I 62

Differences in Sell Countdown: TD Combo vs. TD Sequential 63

Requirements for a TD Combo Sell Countdown Version I (More Strict) 64

Requirements for a Td Combo Sell Countdown Version II (Less Strict) 65

Risk Management: Calculating the Risk Level of a Short Position Following a TD Combo Sell Countdown 65

TD Combo Version I: Recommended Settings 66

3 TD D-Wave 69

The Underlying Elliott Wave Principle 70

Elliott Wave Basics 71

DeMark’s Mechanized Version of Elliott Wave 73

The Time Aspect of the TD D-Wave Requirements 74

TD D-Wave Requirements for Wave 1 74

TD D-Wave Requirements for Wave 2 74

TD D-Wave Requirements for Wave 3 74

TD D-Wave Requirements for Wave 4 75

TD D-Wave Requirements for Wave 5 75

TD D-Wave Requirements for Wave A 75

TD D-Wave Requirements for Wave B 76

TD D-Wave Requirements for Wave C 76

Additional Qualifying Rules for the Application of the TD D-Wave Indicators for an Uptrend 76

Additional Qualifiers for the Application of the TD D-Wave Indicators for a Downtrend 77

Calculating TD D-Wave Projections 78

Bull Market Price Projections 78

The Ultimate Targets for TD D-Waves 5 and C 80

Upside Target for TD D-Wave 5 80

Downside Target for Downside TD D-Wave C 80

Bear Market Price Projections 80

Using Closing Prices for Price Projections 82

TD D-Wave 2: Shallow vs. Deep 82

To Calculate the Objective for TD D-Wave 5 82

To Calculate TD D-Wave C 82

To Determine the Eventual Downside Objective for TD D-Wave 5 83

To Determine the Upside Objective for TD D-Wave C 83

TD D-Wave Frequently Asked Questions 83

The Relative Strength Index 83

TD D-Wave: Recommended Settings 89

4 TD Lines 91

The Three TD Demand Line Qualifiers 94

TD Demand Line Qualifier Condition One 94

TD Demand Line Qualifier Condition Two 95

TD Demand Line Qualifier Condition Three 96

Calculating the Objective for a TD Demand Line Break 96

To Determine the Objective for a Qualified Downside Violation 96

Exiting a Short Position Using TD Demand Line 97

TD Supply Line Qualifiers 97

Initiation of a Fresh Long Position Qualifier One 98

Initiation of a Fresh Long Position Qualifier Two 99

Initiation of a Fresh Long Position Qualifier Three 100

Calculating the Objective for a TD Supply Line Break 100

TD Supply Line and Exiting a Long Position 100

TD Lines: Recommended Settings 101

5 TD Retracements 103

Determining References for Projecting TD Relative Retracements 103

Three Conditions for Validating a TD Relative Retracement Level: Only One Needs To Be Satisfied for a Qualified Break 106

Conditions That Invalidate an Upside Break of a TD Relative Retracement Level 107

Conditions That Qualify a Downside Break of a TD Relative Retracement Level 107

To Exit a Short Position After a Qualified Downside Break of a TD Relative Retracement Level 108

TD Relative Retracement: Recommended Settings 108

More Retracement Scenarios Upside Violations 109

Retracement Scenarios Downside Violations 109

Another Reversal/Consolidation Pattern 109

TD Absolute Retracement 110

Recommended Settings for TD Absolute Retracement 110

Constructing the TD Retracement Arc for Upside Retracements 111

Constructing the TD Retracement Arc for Downside Retracements 112

6 TD Trend Factor and TD Propulsion 115

TD Trend Factor 115

To Determine a Top from Which to Calculate 116

To Determine a Bottom from Which to Calculate 118

Frequently Asked Questions 120

TD Trend Factor – Recommended Settings 121

TD Propulsion 121

Defining the Initial Thrust Level for an Advance 122

Defining the Initial Thrust Level for a Decline 122

TD Propulsion: Recommended Settings 123

7 TD Oscillators 125

TD Range Expansion Index (TD REI) 125

In Case You Need Prompting on the RSI 125

TD REI Formula 128

To Establish a Value for the TD REI 129

Using the TD REI to Identify Prospective Reversals 129

Using the TD POQ to Filter TD REI Signals Further 130

For the Mathematicians 130

TD REI: Recommended Settings 132

TD DeMarker I and TD DeMarker II 133

TD DeMarker I 133

Other Conditions That Must Be Satisfied for a Prospective Buy 134

Other Conditions That Must Be Satisfied for a Prospective Sell 135

TD DeMarker I: Recommended Settings 135

TD DeMarker II 136

TD DeMarker II: Recommended Settings 137

TD Pressure 137

The OBV Indicator 137

TD Pressure: Recommended Settings 139

TD Rate of Change (TD ROC) 140

To Determine the TD ROC 140

TD ROC: Recommended Settings 140

TD Alignment 141

TD Alignment 141

To Produce the Composite TD Alignment Indicator 142

TD Alignment: Recommended Settings 142

8 TD Moving Averages 145

To Identify a Prospective Bullish Trend 146

Plotting a Bullish TD Moving Average I 146

To Identify a Prospective Bearish Trend 146

Plotting a Bearish TD Moving Average I 147

TD Moving Average I: Recommended Settings 149

9 TD Range Projection, TD Range Expansion Breakout, and TD Channels 153

TD Range Projection 153

The Three Possible Scenarios and How to Calculate Them 154

TD Range Expansion Breakout (TD REBO) 157

To Apply TD REBO to Daily Price Bars and Use the Current Price Bar’s Open as the Base 158

TD Channels 160

TD Channel I 161

TD Channel II 162

10 Short-Term Indicators: TD Differential, TD Reverse Differential, and TD Anti-Differential 165

TD Differential 165

Conditions Necessary to Produce a TD Differential Up Arrow 165

Conditions Necessary to Produce a TD Differential Down Arrow 166

TD Reverse Differential 167

Conditions Necessary to Produce a TD Reverse Differential Down Arrow 167

Conditions Necessary to Produce a TD Reverse Differential Up Arrow 169

TD Anti-Differential Up Arrow 169

Conditions Necessary to Generate a TD Anti-Differential Up Arrow 170

TD Anti-Differential Down Arrow 170

Conditions Necessary to Generate a TD Anti-Differential Down Arrow 170

11 TD Waldo Patterns 171

TD Waldo Pattern Two 171

TD Waldo Pattern Three 172

TD Waldo Pattern Four for a Prospective Bottom 172

TD Waldo Pattern Four for a Prospective Top 173

TD Waldo Pattern Five for a Prospective Top 173

TD Waldo Pattern Five for a Prospective Bottom 173

TD Waldo Pattern Six for a Prospective Bottom 173

TD Waldo Pattern Six for a Prospective Top 174

TD Waldo Pattern Seven for a Prospective Short-Term Reversal 174

TD Waldo Pattern Eight 174

12 Putting It All Together 175

The UBS FX Risk Index Components 179

13 Learning the DeMark Indicators 181

Using TD Cursor Commentary 182

TDRS 183

Index 187 

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