{"id":42469,"date":"2019-01-09T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42469"},"modified":"2019-01-31T22:05:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T03:05:24","slug":"power-trendlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42469","title":{"rendered":"Power Trendlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/northmantrader.com\/2019\/01\/09\/power-trendlines\/\">Power Trendlines<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"entry\">Market action is heavily dominated by algorithmic trading and programs. Nothing new about that and it\u2019s a reality of the market environment. In December algos were blamed for the steep sell-off, nobody is blaming them during the massive bounce off of the December lows. Funny that.<\/p>\n<p>Irony aside knowing where these algos live and where they change direction is a critical edge to decipher in today\u2019s markets. One of the key tools we use to keep a tap on them are trend lines and in this brief video (recorded January 8) I highlight some of the fascinating ping pong action we\u2019ve come to observe and respect in markets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-8Do8LLv0-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/8Do8LLv0?hd=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1\" width=\"638\" height=\"358\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> News cycles and events may be triggers, but trend lines often give you a destination and potential key turning points of support and resistance. And finding these ahead of time can provide a significant edge.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Trendlines Market action is heavily dominated by algorithmic trading and programs. Nothing new about that and it\u2019s a reality of the market environment. In December algos were blamed for the steep sell-off, nobody is blaming them during the massive bounce off of the December lows. Funny that. Irony aside knowing where these algos live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13556,14155,400,401,570,23809,7542,23808],"class_list":["post-42469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-algorithmic-trading","tag-algos","tag-hft","tag-high-frequency-trading","tag-news","tag-news-cycles","tag-northman-trader","tag-sven-henrich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42470,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42469\/revisions\/42470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}