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Hi everybody,

I'm always asking questions here and getting great answers. Today, I thought I'd give something back to the community. I've recently started using Renko Bricks as opposed to Candlesticks for trading. If you're not familiar with Renko bricks, they are a trend following aggregation method for monitoring price action, that helps eliminate the "noise" from traditional candlesticks. Unlike candlestick charts, Renko charts are time-independent, meaning that bricks (as opposed to candles) are only printed when price moves above or below your set tick value. The time stamps that you see in the screenshot below represent the times that new Bricks have formed. Since bricks are only printed when price moves, you could see huge gaps of time missing on the X-Axis. This is normal and it is incredibly helpful, because it gives you a sense of how much momentum there truly is in an underlying asset. If you see that an asset hasn't printed a Renko brick in awhile, it's safe to say that volume, momentum and liquidity is low. In Thinkorswim, your Tick Value represents the dollar value of each brick. As an example, a 10 Tick setting would print a new brick everytime price moves above or below $.10.

One of the things I've recently begun testing is multi-frame analysis with Renko Charts. Technically this is impossible, because as I mentioned earlier, Renko charts are time-independent and only print when price action changes. Multi-time frame analysis is incredibly helpful for providing confirmation based on short, mid-term and long-term time frames. If price action has a good setup on a mid or longer-term timeframe, it's likely a safe bet that you could enter on the smaller time-frame and capture a larger profit. As a workaround for traditional MTFA with Renko, I've tested multiple tick ranges.

In the screenshot below I have a 5 Tick ($.05) and a 10 Tick ($.10) chart. Here's how the entry and exit works:

Enter on the 5 Tick chart when:
  1. The 10 Tick chart is in an uptrend (Higher Swing Lows)
  2. A10 Tick brick closes Green above the 10 EMA line
  3. The 5 Tick chart is also in an uptrend (Higher Swing Lows)
  4. The 5 Tick MACD is in an uptrend
Exit when:
  1. A Red brick closes below the 10 EMA on the 10 Tick chart
I highly recommend you backtest this and give it a shot if you're like me and you find it nearly impossible to trade through the noise of candlesticks. This is a really simple system.

Also, in case you're wondering, Renko Charts are effective for intraday trading as well as swing trading. You'll have to play around with the Tick values to suit your trading style. You do not have to use 5 and 10 Tick values, especially if you're a swing trader.

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@GetRichOrDieTrying F-me. this is good.
So for entry, all Points 1-4 must happen?
I'm trading CL, where price jumps by $0.01. Do I have to switch to 1 tick and 10ticks value instead?

Yes. To have the highest probability entry, all 4 criteria must be met.

If you're trading a stock based on $.01 moves, I would recommend testing 1 and 3 tick values. 10 ticks will be too large and too slow of a move to provide correlation back to a $.01 move.

In case you're not super familiar with Renko charts, I would caution that you be careful with trading such a small tick size ($.01). Depending on how fast the stock makes $.01 moves, you could end up having trouble following the moves because 1 tick bricks could print incredibly fast. This also creates risk for stop losses, as you could be stopped out quite often. I'd recommend OnDemand trading or Paper Trading this strategy before using real money.
 
Yes. To have the highest probability entry, all 4 criteria must be met.

If you're trading a stock based on $.01 moves, I would recommend testing 1 and 3 tick values. 10 ticks will be too large and too slow of a move to provide correlation back to a $.01 move.

In case you're not super familiar with Renko charts, I would caution that you be careful with trading such a small tick size ($.01). Depending on how fast the stock makes $.01 moves, you could end up having trouble following the moves because 1 tick bricks could print incredibly fast. This also creates risk for stop losses, as you could be stopped out quite often. I'd recommend OnDemand trading or Paper Trading this strategy before using real money.

One other thing, this strategy works best when the stock you are trading is trending. If it's in a consolidation phase, you will get slapped around quite often, which will lead to frustration and stop outs. To be clear, I consider a stock to be trending intraday when it is consistently making higher highs and/or higher lows and is trading above its 9 EMA.
 
One other thing, this strategy works best when the stock you are trading is trending. If it's in a consolidation phase, you will get slapped around quite often, which will lead to frustration and stop outs. To be clear, I consider a stock to be trending intraday when it is consistently making higher highs and/or higher lows and is trading above its 9 EMA.
Thank you for the caution. I'm trying out 5 ticks vs. 15 ticks now. Seems to do okay with this strategy, although yes, the trending is important.
 
This helped me a lot and I already used it on /MES today to pick up a scalp in both BULL and BEAR directions. The BULL trending trade was of course the larger win. I realize it is written for BULL trending but have you checked to see if a reverse strategy would work for BEARISH trades? All I did was EXIT when the first red RENKO bar showed up after 10 Tick line and then watch for a minute to confirm the reversal and took a BEARISH trade and bailed out after picking up a few ticks on the way down. But Id like to see something that performs similar to your BULLISH indicator for a SHORT if you have it. Great job!
 

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