G4 Zones | NY (daytradederic)

kemarin dulu

Opening Range Retracement

When I began trading futures I didn't have much of an understanding of market structure nor a real trading plan. Where can I find seemingly risk-free entries? What is a good place to take profit? With so many possibilities I slowly learned that no trading system is more right than the next. What I also learned is that it is best to have a system that your mind can easily see and agree with so you are able to build an edge and grow confidence as a trader.

This indicator is the summation much failure, trial and error. I was manually computing these levels each day and storing them in the object tree on each asset I wanted to trade or examine for the day. It was time consuming and left me with less time to analyze multiple markets.

What is it:
If you are like me, you love when things add up and are willing to take risk if the source of your information is truly reliable. At the base of it, the G4 zones are Fibonacci projections based on the true opening range candles. They are individual arrays which collectively form "zones" or points of interest from the opening range candle characteristics. It is optimized for use on Nasdaq futures ( NQ1!) with less reliability on other futures instruments, but works well with ES as well. It has worked decently with liquid crypto assets too. The plan is for future versions to allow projections for individual equities. It works on all standard timeframes (except the hourly for whatever reason. I still need to fix that).

How should it be interpreted:
When I first started with this project I saw the each line as standalone levels.

Who doesn't like a good tick entry. Amiright?

But what happened is that I refused to stick to my risk parameters if my sizing was too aggressive or if my order was exactly at a line and price slipped past. That's when it clicked..they are best interpreted as ZONES rather than absolute levels. You will learn to read and interpret the differences in price action around each level and how significance changes in each zone throughout the trading session.

What's to come:
I plan to upload another version that gives the ability to set alerts based on high probability setups which will be determined by the candles OHLC in relation to a fib level/zone and the characteristics of the previous candles as well, including volume.

Please feel free to leave any comments about the capabilities or future features you may want to see. Thank you for your support!

Cheers,

DTD