Trading Indicators
Videos and Guides on How to Trade With the 'Better' Indicators
‘Better’ Indicators for TradingView: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Decide
The ‘Better’ Indicators are now on TradingView. If you’ve been waiting for this, good – but don’t skip this article. TradingView compresses tick data by roughly 2x compared to TradeStation, doesn’t provide true uptick/downtick volume, and limits you to four tick chart settings. That doesn’t mean the indicators don’t work. ...
The Better Pro Am Indicator
Using Average Trade Size to identify Professional and Amateur activity is totally new – and I’ve never seen it mentioned anywhere before the introduction of Better Pro Am and it’s use on Emini-Watch. So if you want to get an edge in your trading, read on. Knowing what the Pro’s ...
Better Sine Wave Indicator: The Hilbert Sine Wave, Improved
The Better Sine Wave indicator is my adaptation of John Ehlers’ Hilbert Sine Wave – a cycle-based oscillator that uses digital signal processing to measure cyclical energy in market prices. Ehlers’ original version, published in Rocket Science for Traders, does something most indicators can’t: it distinguishes between cyclical and trending ...
Volume Momentum Indicator: Why Price-Based Momentum Is Obsolete
Traditional momentum indicators measure price. But price is the result, not the cause. A volume momentum indicator measures buying and selling volume – the actual driving force that moves markets. That’s why I built Better Momentum. Better Momentum is my most valuable trading tool. Jack B. You make volume as ...
Tick Charts Complete Guide: Settings & Platform Setup (2025)
Tick Charts are one of my “secret weapons”, and this article explains why. Tick Charts are not very well known and can be confusing. From time to time, I get questions about Tick Charts, and yesterday’s email from Ken was typical: I’ve been scouring the Internet for information on tick ...
How to Setup and Read the ‘Better’ Emini Charts
The ‘Better’ Emini charts look a little different – not your traditional moving averages, Fibonacci retracements, RSI and MACD. The video above runs through how to setup the ‘Better’ indicator charts with the 3 non-correlated indicators (Better Sine Wave, Better Momentum and Better Pro Am). Then the video further down ...
The ‘Better’ Indicators: The 5 Step Setup
OK, here it is. A little sneak-peak at the multiple timeframe setup. Same principles as always (exhaustion, divergence, price confirmation, Professional activity, etc.) but a more rigorous approach with 5 clear steps to the setup. And here’s an annotated screenshot: For a change in trend from uptrend to downtrend and ...
Forget Trading with Moving Average Indicators … They’re So 1956
OK, here it is. Moving averages aren’t that great – and you can do better! In short, here are a couple of reasons why moving averages aren’t great: But there is a better way. Let me explain. But first a little history. Exponential Moving Average first published in 1956 1956 ...
