Deep Blue
Deep Blue
By Russ Horn
Forex Masonry
Disclaimer
High Risk Investment
TRADING FOREIGN EXCHANGE ON MARGIN CARRIES A HIGH LEVEL OF
RISK, AND MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL INVESTORS.
Before deciding to trade foreign exchange, you should carefully consider your
investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. The possibility
exists that you could sustain a loss of some, or all, of your initial investment,
and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. You
should be aware of all the risks associated with foreign exchange trading, and
seek advice from an independent financial adviser if you have any doubts.
DEEP BLUE
Deep Blue is the evolution of the Light Blue trading system. It builds upon the
basic concepts of Light Blue's already great system, giving you way more
options for your trading.
With Deep Blue, we will get earlier entry signals, ways to filter out trades, a
method of jumping into a missed trend, reducing the risk on each trade,
jumping to a break-even trade quickly, allowing a trade to run, and more.
These all compliment the Light Blue system in a very simple, exciting, and
profitable way.
If you have ever struggled to profit in the markets, this will help change that.
Enjoy the bonuses that are Deep Blue, everything you need to know about
trading profitably is here at your finger tips.
DEEP
BLUE
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Bonus Section 1
Section #1
TRADE FILTERS
The market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Because it's open around
the clock does not mean that all times are good times to trade.
There will be periods of time that the market juts isn't worth trading.
We want to take the trades that will give us the best chances of success, and
this means knowing when we should trade and when we should leave the
trades alone.
We will use a series of "filters" to limit the trades we take to the most suited for
trading.
We will look at 2 different ways to filter our trades.
The Higher Timeframe
Range-bound Markets
Taking both of these into consideration will limit the trade we take to the ones
that will give us the highest potential of winning.
We trade a timeframe like the 5 minute, the 15 minute, the hour and so on. The
timeframe we trade is the "current timeframe". When it comes to a higher
timeframe (HTF), we want to look at a timeframe that is roughly 4 times bigger
than the timeframe we are trading. For example, if we trade the 15 minute
timeframe, we would use the 1 hour as the higher timeframe.
The rules for this are very simple. We are looking for the same market
conditions on the higher timeframe as we see on the current timeframe.
In a long trade, we want both timeframes (the current timeframe the higher
timeframe) to have the trend up (13 EMA above the 34 EMA) and the RSI
above the 50 level.
If the current timeframe does not match the higher timeframe in its direction,
then we do not take the trade. The higher timeframe often carries more
momentum and that's the direction we want to trade.
When both timeframes are headed in the same direction, the trade is
considered a much safer and higher probability trade to take and has the
potential to move farther.
Current Timeframe
We found the setup:
- Price is under the 13 EMA.
- 13 EMA is under the 34
EMA.
- RSI is under the 50 level. CTF
- Price has moved up to touch
the 13 EMA.
Higher Timeframe
We confirm the direction:
- Price is under the 13 EMA.
- 13 EMA is under the 34
EMA.
- RSI is under the 50 level. HTF
Current Timeframe
We found the setup: CTF
- Price is above the 13 EMA.
- 13 EMA is above the 34
EMA.
- RSI is above the 50 level.
- Price has moved down to
touch the 13 EMA.
Higher Timeframe
We confirm the direction: HTF
- Price is above the 13 EMA.
- 13 EMA is above the 34
EMA.
- RSI is above the 50 level.
A ranging market is one that is moving sideways with very minimal up and
down. We can only make money in a trade if the market moves one way or the
other, and a ranging market isn't moving well in either direction.
Range-Bound
Bullish market
- Market is generally moving Nice for buy trades
upwards.
- Price is above the 13 EMA.
- 13 EMA is above the 34
EMA with notable separation.
- RSI remains above the 50
level for more than just a few
candles.
Bearish market
- Market is generally moving
downwards.
- Price is generally below the
13 EMA.
- 13 EMA is below the 34
EMA with notable separation. Nice for sell trades
- RSI remains below the 50
level for more than just a few
candles.
1. The market will not have a general direction to it, it will move more sideways
than up or down. Of course it will have small up and down movements, but
overall, it will be moving sideways not making any progress in either direction.
2. The candles will be mainly intermingled with the moving averages, the
market won't be clearly on one side or the other.
3. The EMAs will be very close together and even switching sides. There won't
be any clear separation between them, they do what's referred to as a "DNA
spiral".
4. The RSI will hug the 50 level and frequently move above and below it.
1 Sideways market
2 Intermingling candles
3 Tight EMAs 4 RSI hugging 50 level
Section #2
Additional Trades
The Ultra Blue trade type is a very good trade type, but suing the indicators we
have we can add more trade types.
These trade types are bonuses that we can plug into the existing system we
don't need to make any modifications to the indicators or the system itself.
These will give you a LOT of additional trading opportunities.
The ones we will look at are:
RSI Trade
Trendline Trade
Engulfing Trade
Inside Day Trade
The Light Blue features such as the stop loss and the targets can be used with
these additional trade types, these are a kind of plug-and-play.
One of these trade types might strike you in a way that the others won't. You
will find one of these to be the style that fits you the best, and having these
options will allow for you to refine and specialize in the perfect method for you.
We are looking for the RSI to move across the 50 level in the opposite
direction of the trend and then back across the 50 level into the trending
direction. The trade signal will be at the close of the candle that has made
the RSI cross the 50 level in the trending direction.
Ideally, the candle the closes to trigger a trade is also beyond the 13
EMA. In a buy trade, it would close above the 13 EMA while a short
trade it would close below the 13 EMA. This is not a necessity, but it
does increase the odds of a successful trade.
Important Note
The RSI trades signal will be given at the CLOSE of the candle.
In the Light Blue trades, all we need is for the candle to move beyond support or
resistance by a pip, but with the RSI trade, we want the candle to CLOSE to give
us a signal.
1 Trend Is up
and remains up
4 Candle Close
2 RSI drops
below 50 Level
Note:
The signal candle closes above the 13 EMA which is preferable to a close below it.
1 Trend Is Down
and remains down
4 Candle Close
2 RSI moves
Above 50 Level
3 RSI moves back
Below 50 Level
Note:
The signal candle closes below the 13 EMA which is preferable to a close above it.
CONNECT
BULLISH TRENDLINE LOWER HIGHS
With the trend being upwards
(13 EMA above the 34 EMA),
BREAKOUT
we look for the price to make a (BUY)
lower high. We connect the
highs to form a downward
sloping trendline. When price
closes above the trendline
(breakout), we can buy.
BEARISH TRENDLINE
With the trend being
downwards (13 EMA below
the 34 EMA), we look for the
price to make a higher low.
We connect the lows to form
an upward sloping trendline.
When price closes below the CONNECT BREAKOUT
trendline (breakout), we can
HIGHER LOWS (SELL)
sell.
2 Lower High
4 Close Above Trendline
1 Trend Is Up
1 Trend Is Down
4 Close Below
Trendline
2 Higher Low
It's a pattern many traders look for, but like most candles patterns, it needs
some kind of reason to work. We want there to be a kind of "structure"
present, and for us, the structure we are looking for is a pullback to the 13
EMA.
Once price has pulled back to the 13 EMA, the market is likely to resume the
trend if it forms an engulfing candle. This show the market momentum has
picked up in the trending direction and the trade is a fairly safe trade to take.
Bar 2
"engulfs"
Bar 1 bar 1
1 Trend Is Up
4 buy at
Candle Close
Note:
The candle closes above the 13 EMA which is preferable to a close below it.
1 Trend Is Down
3 Bearish Engulfing
Second
opportuity
follows
2 4
Price pulls back Sell at
to 13 EMA Candle Close
Note:
The candle closes below the 13 EMA which is preferable to a close above it.
The setup is called Inside Day, and this goes back to the time when trading
the daily timeframe was the only option there was. The Inside Day is a
formation that works on whatever timeframe you like to trade, but I do prefer
the higher timeframes (1 hour and above) using this pattern.
The Inside Day is a 2 candle formation and happens when a candle forms
entirely inside the previous candle's high and low. The Inside Day candle can
be the same, or opposite, color of the previous candle. As long as the candle
forms inside of the previous candle's range, we have a potential trade.
BUYS
SELLS
Up / Down Trend
An uptrend is then the 13 EMA is above the 34 EMA and the RSI is above the
50 level.
A downtrend is when the 13 EMA is below the 34 EMA and the RSI is below the
50 level.
Step 4: The trade is triggered above the high of the Inside Day
candle
An entry order to buy can be placed 1 pip above the high of the Inside Day
candle. This can be placed manually as a market order, or set as a buy-stop
order.
2 Bullish Candle
1 Trend Is Up
3 Inside Day
Stop Loss
Stop loss can go below the low of the Inside Day candle or below the previous
candle's low.
Step 4: The trade is triggered below the low of the Inside Day
candle
An entry order to sell can be placed 1 pip below the low of the Inside Day
candle. This can be placed manually as a market order, or set as a sell-stop
order.
1 Trend Is Down
2 Bearish Candle
3 Inside Day
Stop Loss
Stop loss can go above the high of the Inside Day candle or above the previous
candle's high.
Section #3
Break-Even
One of the more important parts to trading successfully is keeping our money.
When we make a profit, we don't want to give it back if we don't have to. Of
course we will have to risk the money for each trade we take and the chance
we lose the trade is always there.
If, on the other hand, we can find a way to prevent a loss from ever happening,
we put the odds of making money much more into our favor. The less we can
give back, the better it is for us.
There is a saying:
Moving our stop loss to break-even means we will move the stop loss to the
entry price of the trade. When the stop loss is at the entry price, if we get
stopped out, we will get stopped out where we got in, resulting in no money
lost.
The only time we get an opportunity to move our stop loss to break-even is
when we are in profit. The market needs to move in our favor some distance.
We can't move to break-even until we get that room.
2. Isolated candle
I discovered this when I was looking for a unique and ultra-fast way to get my
trade to safety. It's an aggressive way to move your stop loss to break-even,
but I like this method very much. We will have a level drawn at the entry price,
and when a candle forms in its entirety beyond that level, we move the stop to
break-even.
In this example, we are using a 1 to 1 ratio, but it can easily be any ratio you
prefer.
With the 1:1 ratio, if the initial stop loss is 50 pips away from the entry, we will
move our stop loss to break-even when the trade gets to 50 pips in profit.
Below is a buy example. All the criteria is met for a long trade and the stop loss
is 50 pips. When the price reaches up into profit by 50 pips, the stop loss is
moved to the entry level.
1 Trend Is up.
RSI is up.
2 Entry
level
Price hits 50
4
Market touches 13
EMA. pips, stop is
moved to BE
3 is 50 pips
Stop loss
When the market drops by the same number of pips the initial stop loss is
placed, the stop loss is moved to the entry price.
The candle does not have to close before the stop loss is moved, the market
simply has to reach a certain number of pips. In the example below, the initial
stop loss is placed 30 pips away form the entry. The instant the trade reaches
30 pips into profit, the stop is moved to break-even.
3 Stop is 30
pips
1 Trend Is down.
RSI is down.
Market touches 13
EMA. 2 Entry
level
What we are looking for is a candle to form in its entirety above or below the
entry level (depending if it's a buy or sell trade).
The entry level will be the price that the trade was taken. We want to wait for a
candle to form completely outside of the level. As the first few candles of a
trade develop, they will often move above and below the entry level as they
form, so we won't get the chance to move to break-even immediately.
This method will work the same if we are using the market swing highs or lows
as the entry level in the basic trade type, or if we are using the candle closes
as in the trendline or the RSI trade types.
In a buy trade:
We want a bullish candle to form with its low above the entry level.
In a sell trade:
We want a bearish candle to form with it's high below the entry level.
Bullish market
- We will have entered the
market, the stop loss below
Entry level
the most recent swing low.
- Move to break-even when
the first bullish candle closes
and the low of that candle is
Isolation
Candle
higher than the entry level.
1 Entry
level 2 Isolation
Candle Low is higher
than entry
level
Bearish market
- We will have entered the Isolation
market, the stop loss above Candle
the most recent swing high.
- Move to break-even when
the first bearish candle
closes and the high of that
candle is lower than the entry Entry level
level.
High is
Entry level lower than
Isolation entry level
Candle
Section #4
Trade Management
Limiting the risk on as many trades as we can is one of the greatest secrets to
success in trading.
I am not a huge fan of something dubbed as "set it and forget it". This means
we place our trade including stop and target, and one or the other gets hit. The
loss on these trades are the biggest loss we can have, but we would prefer to
have a loss that is smaller than the total loss.
Managing the trade is the way we limit the loss.
We may not get the opportunity to move the stop loss to break-even, but on
almost every trade, we can move the stop loss marginally closer to the entry
level. Through trade management, we can reduce the loss from potentially 100
pips, to 80, or 50, or to 25... and so on.
Our stop loss is a very powerful tool that can make us a lot of money if we use
it correctly. We have previously discussed methods to move the stop loss to
break-even, and in this chapter, we will look at how we can reduce the risk on
our trade and even GUARANTEE ourselves some profit by moving our stop
loss ahead of the entry level.
2. Locking in profit
We can use our stop loss to prevent any loss on the trade at all. We will be
looking to manage the trade in such a way that we eventually move the stop
loss ahead of the entry level. This will lock in profit guaranteeing money will be
made on the trade no matter what happens.
Trailing
- As each new candle opens,
move the stop loss to just
below the 13 EMA under the
new candle.
- This process continues until
the trade is closed by the Stop is moved
stop loss, the target, or a along 13 EMA
manual closure of the trade.
Section #5
Letting A Trade run
There are times when we want to get as much from a trade as we possibly
can.
The markets do have a tendency to trend, or move in one direction for a
relatively long period of time.
There is a way to catch quite a lot of that market movement while at the same
time limiting the loss on the trade.
We will be using the stop loss to secure profits as the trade runs, but we want
to be sure that the stop loss isn't too close to the market when we do make the
adjustment.
We will not use the 13 EMA as we would in trade management, but instead,
we will be using the market itself to show us where to position the stop loss.
We need a better way to let the trade run. we want to give the market the room
it needs to make the pullbacks along the way without stopping us out. The way
we do this is to use the market itself. we will use the market swings to tell us
how to place out stop loss.
3. Stop loss is moved when price drops below the next swing
low to the most recent swing high.
Once the market has moved lower than the recent swing low, it will have
created a new lower swing high. The Initial stop loss is moved from its original
position to just above the new lower swing high.
Entry
First Swing Low
3 Stop moves to
next swing high
Price moves lower
than swing low
Stopped out
The features of Deep Blue give you a distinct edge over the market, there
should be no reason why, if you stay focused and disciplined, you won't
become a profitable trader.
Stay consistent, stay focused, and stay disciplined. You will be amazed what
you can do as a trader. These methods are time and battle-tested, every wildly
profitable trader uses these methods in one variation or another. The simplicity
of Deep Blue will have you making money before you know it.