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[EquisMetaStock Group] how to determine momentum -question



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Just looking for a little advice and thoughts, I trade the future 
index's and I look for there things when I'm trading trend, timing, 
and momentum. I'm pretty good at determining a trend and timing but 
fall short with the momentum part. What I mean by this is sometimes 
when the markets go horizontal (flat or some same say low volume), my 
trades don't work out. The reason seems to be because there's not 
enough price change to carry thru on the trend. 

I have started to look at a few things to try to correct this. One is 
to apply a form of bands or channels (such as boiler bands or Dr. 
Elder's auto envelope). Then I wait for the price to break out above 
or below these indicators – by waiting for this it seems to show a 
possible breakout in that direction. 

What do you think of that? Is there a different indicator I might 
look at to determine this concept?

Second I'm thinking about looking a volume but I'm not sure what 
evaluate in this area. Any ideas so get me started on how to use 
volume to determine momentum within the market?

I'm not asking any one to give me all there trade secrets and an easy 
answer to my question. I enjoy the research to learn how the values 
work and how the markets work. Maybe I'm completely off when I think 
that volume and some type out breakout indicators could determine 
momentum but hopefully it will improve my trading and it just might 
be worth looking into, so hopefully someone can offer me some 
indicators to look at or a book / web article to read.

I could also post a jpeg if my question is not a clear as it should 
be.




 
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