PRICE ACTION, VOLUME, ORDER FLOW, INTERMARKET & BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS

ParaCurve is a strategy, routine and idea repository for active traders and investors. Trading Futures, FX and Equities since 2008.

A List of Prop Trading Salaries: How Much Money You Can Expect to Make

I'm sure these sound familiar: “Top 10 trading methods to earning $1,000/day (#4 will shock you!)” “See how this welder earned an extra $3,000/week with only 5 minutes a day looking at charts!” “Everything you

$2.863 Billion Evaporated Due to Crypto Scams or Theft (In Only the Past 2 Weeks)

It's 2006 all over again. Just add a whoooooooooooooooole bunch of zeros. This is bad. And not just “kind of” bad. Really bad. The ones who suffer the most are writing the code that will

Ratio of Market to Limit Orders: Determining Liquidity Instrument by Instrument

This is a follow-up video based on questions received from this one: https://paracurve.com/2017/10/6834.html “Delta” varies instrument by instrument based on the ratio of market to limit orders. This is extremely important to note when flipping

Order Book Weight & Determining Direction With Cumulative Delta

Does not matter whether you are trend trading or mean reverting, transactions on the bid / ask offer a world of useful information, if you know what to look for.

My Notes, and Changing the Perceptions of Novice Traders

As with anyone else, as I get older, I get tired of nonsense and slightly impatient when it comes to progress. Despite the occasional silence on this blog, I take a large amount of calls

The Crypto Backdoor to Freedom of Leverage, Hedging Other Instruments?

Crypto currencies have been on my radar lately. Not because I like getting smoked in illiquid markets, but because creative, alternative uses for them have skyrocketed in the past 3 years, and I just really

Why a Swing Trading, “Hands-Behind-Your-Back Strategy” Never Worked for Me

Last night, I had a great conversation with a gentleman who has been following my work/this site for many years now and as a result, we have come to know each other casually via email,

Institutional Research Section Updated

Just a quick note to say that I went ahead and updated a number of links on the FX institutional research page, and added a format that was much easier to navigate / expand upon. My main

Fundamentals of Market Structure: For Noobs (and Experienced Traders Without Proper Footing)

One thing I can bet on 100% is that the majority of traders approach markets improperly because many times, they don't understand them at their root. There are a lot of online learning initiatives available,